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This Day in COVID: June 12, 2020

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How women make protests more successful

Politico

People are going to protest George Floyd's death. Here's how to do so more safely.

Health authorities' advice to demonstrators has shifted from 'stay home to stop the spread' to tips on how to protest more safely during a pandemic.

ABC

A California county no longer requires masks after former health officer resigns over backlash

CNN

Mutation could make coronavirus more infectious, study suggests

CNN

CDC predicts 130,000 US coronavirus deaths by July 4, with more new cases as states reopen

CNN

willowbrook-scandal-hepatitis-experiments-hideous-truths-of-testing-vaccines-on-humans

Sixty years ago, a monstrous hepatitis experiment was performed on mentally disabled children at Willowbrook State School that raises serious ethical questions about vaccine challenge trials for Covid-19.

Forbes

Latin American scientists join the coronavirus vaccine race: ‘No one’s coming to rescue us’

Researchers fear that breakthroughs from abroad will be too slow or inequitably shared to benefit the global south.

Nature

Best way to reduce coronavirus transmission is by wearing a face mask, study finds

CNN

Why more coronavirus testing won’t automatically help the hardest hit

Noha Aboelata, the head of a community health centre in Oakland, California, tailors testing to suit communities of colour.

Nature

Coronavirus 2nd Wave? Nope, The U.S. Is Still Stuck In The 1st One

The nation still sees more than 20,000 new cases on average a day, a number that's barely budged for weeks. Forecasters say we're looking at tens of thousands more deaths this summer.

NPR

The Coronavirus Is Spreading Through Indigenous Communities In The Amazon

The governor of Amazonas, Colombia, says it was impossible to cut the area off from Brazil, even as the virus spiked. Now the Colombian border town of Leticia is a coronavirus hot spot.

NPR

Gendered effects of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Lancet

Southern Africa: Persons with albinism especially vulnerable in the face of COVID-19

Amnesty

COVID-19 and the banks

This is a lightly edited version of remarks Don Kohn delivered at a Hutchins Center event on May 27, “COVID-19 and the financial system: How resilient are the banks? How are they supporting the economy?”

Brookings

Clinical Trials For COVID-19: Populations Most Vulnerable To COVID-19 Must Be Included

Health Affairs

COVID-19 in patients with thoracic malignancies TERAVOLT: first results of an international, registry-based, cohort study

The Lancet

Why chronic stress and COVID-19 are a ‘perfect storm’ for the health of Black Americans

For months, the world has sat on edge while the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts life and takes lives, with no end in sight. In recent months, numerous killings of black Americans prompted passionate, sometimes volatile protests. Those pains are fresh, but the deadly perils of systemic racism, as well as the chronic stress that comes with it, are not.

PBS

Disaster looms for indigenous Amazon tribes as COVID-19 cases multiply

Indigenous communities in Brazil suffer from the virus on one hand and 'genocidal' interlopers on the other, rights groups say.

National Geographic

1st-Known U.S. Lung Transplant For COVID-19 Patient Performed In Chicago

A young woman in her 20s was healthy before the coronavirus struck her. After two months on a ventilator and ECMO device, her transplanted lungs are now working.

NPR

U.S. CDC warns that restrictions may be needed again if COVID-19 cases spike

Reuters

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 12, 2021

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What Kids Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic

'A year full of emotions'

Time Magazine

2. How the pandemic is still ruining our plans

Axios

Even if the coronavirus did leak from a Wuhan lab, that wouldn't necessarily mean it was engineered

Researchers in Wuhan collected samples of bat viruses closely related to the coronavirus prior to the pandemic.

Business Insider

Covid orphans are a tragic legacy of India’s pandemic | CNN

CNN

For many tribal nations, the pandemic also brought an increase in population | CNN

CNN

More screen time, more takeout, less ‘mom guilt’: How the pandemic changed parenting

Frayed moms are allowing their kids — and themselves — a break from the packed schedules they once had. Will it last?

NBC News

Pandemic Baking Just Got Weirder Published 2020

The New York Times

Pandemic Bakers Are Going Pro Published 2021

The New York Times

Venezuela faces a coronavirus outbreak a day before the start of the Copa América. Published 2021

The New York Times

We need more: UN joins criticism of G7 vaccine pledge

Reuters

Neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth: ‘Coronavirus has changed us all’

The neuroscientist and psychiatrist explains Zoom fatigue - and why the conditions of the pandemic can induce an ‘altered state’

The Guardian

Seeking clues to mysteries of coronavirus by studying a person’s ability to taste bitterness

Washington Post

Man gets 10-year sentence for attacking and coughing on person who asked him to pull up mask

Washington Post

TSA screens 2 million people for first time since coronavirus lockdowns began

Washington Post