The COVID-19 History Project

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This Day in COVID: September 19, 2020

Amid questions and confusion, these families impressed by educators' back-to-school efforts

With the first few days of school out of the way, Hamilton families are taking time to reflect on if the stress leading up to schools reopening coincides with the reality of their reopening.

CBC

Romanian families protest mandatory use of masks in school

San Diego Union Tribune

As infections ebb, Japan hopes it has cracked the covid code on coexisting with the virus

Washington Post

Even as infections rise, nations see protests against coronavirus restrictions

LA Times

Official: Toilet display mocking mail-in voting is a crime

KAKE

Fact check: Echoing Trump, Barr misleads on voter fraud to attack expanded vote-by-mail

The attorney general's remarks have worried civil rights advocates who fear the Justice Department will selectively enforce voting laws.

NBC

In Cumberland County, despite COVID-19, there are safe, secure ways to vote

Fay Observer

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s virus revisionism; Biden on the hoax

After months of mass death and sickness, what could possibly count as a success story against the pandemic? President Donald Trump would have you believe Americans are already living that success story, even as the death toll approaches 200,000 and infections spread by the tens of thousands a day.

PBS

Our Mission

The COVID-19 History Project is a curated archive of the events and policy decisions surrounding the emergence of COVID-19.

The pandemic era of 2020-2022 saw massive increases in restrictions on daily life—enforced by the government and by social stigma—accompanied social protests that roiled cities worldwide

In the United States alone, trillions of dollars were spent by the federal government to offset the forced closure of businesses and the devastation of normal life.

The impacts of these policy decisions are still being felt today.

Some would like us to forget the actions and people that played a significant role during the pandemic.

But we of the COVID-19 History Project don't want to forget. Through our work, we hope there will always be an archive to learn from and interpret this fascinating, disturbing, time in world history.

The Timeline

In order to learn from the mistakes of the past, and give COVID-19 decision makers the credit—both good and bad—they deserve, we have compiled a media timeline from every day of the pandemic.

We have endeavored to make the timeline comprehensive without being duplicative, following the major trends as they unfolded.

We provided analyses for each month highlighting major events, but encourage readers to make their own conclusions about these events as well.

This Day in COVID: September 19, 2021

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Covid-19 origins: Why the search for the source is vital | CNN

CNN

Fact check: Are Biden’s vaccine mandates ‘unlawful’? | CNN Politics

CNN

How ivermectin became the new focus of the anti-vaccine movement

Scientists are still studying whether the deworming medicine could have any effect on COVID-19. But the frenzy over the drug has far more to do with politics than science. Here's how that happened.

NPR

Horse owners can’t find ivermectin as Americans flock to unproven coronavirus cure

The Washington Post

Covid-19: 'Vaccine misinformation a dilemma for young people'

NI's mental health champion says it has left young people questioning if Covid jab is safe.

BBC

The Pandemic Gives the Movie Business a Chance to Reinvent Itself

Bloomberg

Fauci said a COVID-19 vaccine will be available to young children in the fall

It's likely that the Pfizer vaccine will get authorization for use in young children before the Moderna vaccine, he said.

Business Insider

Hostels, Havens for the Thrifty, Fight to Survive the Pandemic (Published 2021)

The New York Times

They Shunned Covid Vaccines but Embraced Antibody Treatment (Published 2021)

The New York Times

World leaders return to U.N. with focus on pandemic, climate

Reuters