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This Day in COVID: June 17, 2020

Cows Help With COVID-19 Treatment, No Bull

Cattle may turn out to be of help in the coronavirus pandemic. A South Dakota biotech company is using cows to create antibodies that could then be used for disease prevention or treatment.

NPR

Latin America Faces a Critical Moment in the Battle against COVID-19

Scientific American

China says it must improve hygiene in markets after Beijing outbreak

Reuters

Why protesting racism during a pandemic is important – an epidemiologist explains

The Conversation

A COVID-19 vaccine will work only if trials include Black participants, experts say

“The reasons I hear African Americans will not participate are heartbreaking and disappointing. I have heard about the Tuskegee experiment a lot.”

NBC

Mask mandates may have prevented hundreds of thousands of coronavirus cases

Axios

Self-cleaning mask can kill viruses with heat from phone charger, researchers say

Reuters

Since Some Republicans Still Refuse to Wear Masks in Congress, Now Nancy Pelosi Is Requiring It

“It’s part of the dehumanization of the children of God,” one GOP congressman explained.

Slate

Mandatory mask laws are spreading in Canada

Governments across the country are starting to make mask wearing mandatory in certain situations to curb the spread of COVID-19. Here’s a closer look at why some advocates are calling for that to be more widespread, and why others have reservations.

CBC

Trump says U.S. will not lock down again amid rising coronavirus cases

Reuters

Mink at Danish farm to be culled after catching coronavirus

Reuters

Coronavirus misinformation, and how scientists can help to fight it

Bogus remedies, myths and fake news about COVID-19 can cost lives. Here’s how some scientists are fighting back.

Nature

Could services drive globalization in the post-COVID-19 world?

A growing chorus of expert opinion predicts that COVID-19 will slow down the forces of globalization, with obituaries being written for its impending death. The pandemic, many say, will be the final straw in a long chain of events that have dented the momentum of global integration, including the China-U.S. trade war, Brexit, and economic […]

Brookings

Dexamethasone shows promise as a Covid-19 treatment

Scientists still want to see the data behind the clinical trial.

Vox

How COVID-19 is changing the gun debate

Rashawn Ray and Rebecca Shankman write that in more liberal but gun-permitting states, protests against COVID-19 lockdowns have increased more than in conservative states. Applications for gun permits have also increased in liberal states.

Brookings

Criteria for releasing COVID-19 patients from isolation

Scientific Brief

WHO

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Washington Post

The dangers of tech-driven solutions to COVID-19

An effective, responsible response to the pandemic cannot include privatizing essential functions of public institutions or continuing to allow platform business models to go unregulated.

Brookings

How ‘vaccine nationalism’ could block vulnerable populations’ access to COVID-19 vaccines

The Conversation

Dexamethasone: what is the breakthrough treatment for COVID-19?

The Conversation

10 states are seeing their highest average of daily new Covid-19 cases since the pandemic started

CNN

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: June 17, 2021

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Why the Pandemic Has Disrupted Supply Chains | CEA | The White House

By Susan Helper and Evan Soltas These are times of rapid transition for the U.S. economy. With the winding down of the worst of the pandemic, businesses have added jobs at a rate of 540,000 per month since January. Many consumers are making large purchases with savings accumulated during the pandemic, sending new home sales…

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Causation or confounding: why controls are critical for characterizing long COVID - Nature Medicine

Nature

COVID Vaccines In Teens And Myocarditis: What You Need To Know

Health officials have been investigating an extremely rare side-effect of vaccination with the mRNA vaccines in young people: heart inflammation that's mostly mild and temporary.

NPR

Study: Higher COVID-19 Mortality Among Black Patients Linked to Unequal Hospital Quality

Penn Medicine

Covid’s Entrepreneur Explosion

It’s a critical moment for small business USA—blindsided by Covid, it remains our most powerful and reliable economic engine and field of dreams.

Forbes

A Pill to Treat Covid-19? The U.S. Is Betting on It. Published 2021

The New York Times

Five priorities for universal COVID-19 vaccination

The Lancet

Persistent symptoms and lab abnormalities in patients who recovered from COVID-19 - Scientific Reports

Nature

Distorted, Bizarre Food Smells Haunt Covid Survivors Published 2021

The New York Times

Cell-mimicking nanodecoys neutralize SARS-CoV-2 and mitigate lung injury in a non-human primate model of COVID-19 - Nature Nanotechnology

In this paper the authors show that nanovesicles coated with lung spheroid cell membranes expressing angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 can bind the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, neutralizing the virus and preventing lung cell infections in murine and non-human primate models. The nanodecoys could represent a potential therapeutic agent to treat COVID-19.

Nature

Antiviral effect of high-dose ivermectin in adults with COVID-19: A proof-of-concept randomized trial

The Lancet

What to Know About COVID Rash

Learn what COVID-19 rashes look like, how they can be treated, and when it’s important to see a doctor.

Healthline

COVID-19 vaccine success enables a bolder vision for mRNA cancer vaccines, says BioNTech CEO

Uğur Şahin, an oncologist and mRNA pioneer, discusses his firm’s development plans for cancer vaccines, mRNA-encoded proteins and more.

Nature

Multivariable mortality risk prediction using machine learning for COVID-19 patients at admission (AICOVID) - Scientific Reports

Nature

Neighborhood-level disparities and subway utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City - Nature Communications

Neighborhood disadvantage and capacity to socially distance have been discussed as factors involved in COVID-19 disparities. Here, the authors develop an inequity index on zip code-level infections, and examine differences in neighborhood utilization of subways in New York City.

Nature

After a Year of Denying Covid-19, Tanzania Orders Vaccines

WSJ

Alaska Tourism Officials See an Opportunity in Coronavirus Published 2020

The New York Times

Brazil registers 74,042 coronavirus cases in 24 hours, 2,311 deaths

Reuters

Davos is dead, and the coronavirus killed it

The addictions and the contradictions that lie at the heart of the circus that is the World Economic Forum.

Financial Times

Slovakia's Vavro tests positive for coronavirus at Euro 2020

Slovakia coach Stefan Tarkovic says defender Denis Vavro and a member of the team’s coaching staff have tested positive for the coronavirus ahead of the European Championship match against Sweden.

AP News

These twins are 5 years old. They lost both parents to covid-19.

Washington Post

UK government hid sick pay scheme for workers isolating with coronavirus

UK Treasury instructed government officials to conceal a little-known provision that granted sick pay to people isolating with the coronavirus.

POLITICO.eu

How do we learn to live with Covid in the UK?

Analysis: Lockdown extension brings questions on when and how UK can draw a line under social distancing

The Guardian

Covid: All adults able to book coronavirus vaccination in England

People aged 18 and over are being invited to make an appointment for their first vaccination.

BBC

After Pandemic and Brexit, U.K. Begins to See Gaps Left by European Workers Published 2021

The New York Times

The science around the lab leak theory hasn't changed. But here's why some scientists have.

Five virologists said few conclusions can be drawn based on the available scientific evidence, but they noted that the context and circumstances of the debate have changed.

NBC News

New coronavirus pandemic could strike in 2028, scientists warn - but 'we will be ready'

The team is working to develop a drug that would be effective against any strain in the coronavirus class.

Yahoo Life UK

AstraZeneca vaccine price pledge omits some poor countries, contract shows

Exclusive: firm could charge more in places such as Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka once Covid pandemic is over

The Guardian

Humanising epidemiology: non-medical investigations into epi/pandemic phenomena

This Collection welcomes research that examines the role and contributions of the social sciences in shaping the global response to public health crises.

Nature

We archived 84 million tweets to learn about the pandemic – each one is a tiny historical document

The Conversation

‘The next pandemic’: drought is a hidden global crisis, UN says

Countries urged to take urgent action on managing water and land and tackling the climate emergency

The Guardian

U.S. jobless claims tick up to 412,000 from a pandemic low

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week for the first time since April despite widespread evidence that the economy and the job market are rebounding steadily from the pandemic recession.

PBS

4 ways companies can avoid post-pandemic employee turnover

The Conversation

Post-pandemic return to work is a perfect opportunity to move to a four-day week

The Conversation

I remember it very well': Dr. Fauci describes a secret 2020 meeting to talk about COVID origins

USA Today

The quest for a pill to fight viruses gets a $3.2 billion boost

Washington Post

What It’s Like to Work at the Now Entirely Maskless Disney World: “We’re Not Getting Paid Enough”

The guests cannot be trusted.

Slate

Over 300 cases of heart issue after Covid vaccination reported in young people, CDC says

A CDC panel of experts will meet next week to review the cases.

NBC News