COVID-19 Updates
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Summary Strategies to Optimize the Supply of PPE during Shortages
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Considerations for Wearing Masks
CDC recommends that people wear masks in public settings and when around people who don’t live in your household, especially when other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain. Masks may…
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Optimizing Supply of PPE and Other Equipment during Shortages
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of Respiratory Protective Devices On February 4, 2020, the HHS Secretary declared that circumstances exist to justify the authorization of emergency use of additional respiratory protective…
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Infographic: Early Cases of MIS-C: Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in U.S. Children
The following infographic highlights key data from a CDC-authored study on MIS-Cexternal icon published in June 2020, in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study was conducted using Overcoming…
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Unlinked coronavirus cases haunt Asian governments as they seek to reopen
As countries across Asia-Pacific struggle with resurgences of the coronavirus, one data point is steering government responses: the share of cases with no clear indication of how infection occurred. These…
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Wuhan Diary: Chinese writer Fang Fang’s nuanced, personal account of life under quarantine
Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City by Fang Fang (translated by Michael Berry) Harper Collins 4/5 stars Wuhan Diary, or at least its recent English translation, is a work…
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China GDP: first major economy to show a recovery from coronavirus damage with 3.2 per cent growth in second quarter
China avoided a recession after its economy grew by 3.2 per cent in the second quarter of 2020, the first major economy to show a recovery from the damage caused…
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Chinese firms seeking Hong Kong listings amid US hostility may help buoy flagging office rental market as space the size of Lippo Centre abandoned
Companies are giving up their office space in Hong Kong at an almost unprecedented rate as the economy tanks in the wake of Covid-19, which piled further misery on top…
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Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus again
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has again tested positive for coronavirus, he told reporters on Wednesday in Brasilia, suggesting he has yet to recover from an infection first diagnosed last week.Since…
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On Twitter, fear of the coronavirus pandemic has given way to anger, sadness and hope, study finds
The fear that people had at the start of the coronavirus outbreak eventually gave way to anger, sadness and even joy over the course of the pandemic, according to the…