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This Day in COVID: September 10, 2020

New York City Public Transit Riders Who Don't Mask Up Will Face Fines Starting Monday

Riders are already required to wear face coverings on subways, buses and railroads. Officials hope the new penalty will improve compliance and bring hesitant would-be passengers back on board.

NPR

I led treatment of the first confirmed COVID-19 case in the US. We need universal mask wearing — here's how we can get everyone to wear one.

'As human beings, we take cues from people around us. If almost everybody is wearing a mask, some people who currently resist them will mask up, too.'

Business Insider

Does a face shield protect against COVID-19? We’re not sure — so a mask is probably a safer bet for now

The Conversation

Dude, Where’s Your Mask?

I was sick of asking men to wear masks, so I made one that asks them for me.

Glamour

One team, one fight: Wearing masks after the 9/11 attacks and during COVID-19

USA Today

Hackensack Meridian fined for COVID-19 mask violations at nursing home

North Jersey

School mask exemption 'badge' making children target for bullies

'It's basically a badge saying she's got something wrong with her'

Hull Daily Mail

Fauci gives Jennifer Garner 'practical' parenting advice amid pandemic: 'You can traumatize a child really trying to make them be a hermit'

The '13 Going on 30' actress and mom of three asked Fauci questions about kids during the pandemic.

Yahoo

Dr. Fauci said Trump's attention span is 'like a minus number' and the president's 'sole purpose is to get reelected,' according to Woodward's book

Dr. Anthony Fauci disputed the quotes in Bob Woodward's book and said he did not 'recall' making those statements.

Business Insider

Trump Lied, Americans Died

This presidency is America’s preexisting condition. Until it is ended, Donald Trump will continue to lie, and Americans will continue to die.

The Nation

Scientists are seeing an 'acceleration of pandemics': They are looking at climate change

USA Today

Bye, ‘SNL at Home’: ‘Saturday Night Live’ returning to the studio for new season

LA Times

Trump Is Living in Denial

From the coronavirus to Russian electoral interference, the president keeps trying to paper over problems instead of addressing them.

The Atlantic

Historian says Trump responsible for 'greatest dereliction of duty' of any U.S. president

A leading American historian best known for successfully predicting every U.S. election for more than three decades says newly published revelations that U.S. President Donald Trump knew COVID-19 was deadly in the early days of the pandemic but publicly downplayed the virus will go down in history as 'damning.'

CTV News

Trump says everyone knew the coronavirus was airborne in February: It’s ‘no big thing’

'This is stuff that everyone knew. There's a report that I have here someplace where China said it was airborne earlier than the statements I made. People knew it was airborne. This was nothing,' Trump said Thursday.

CNBC

Most Adults Wary of Taking a Coronavirus Vaccine Approved Before the Election

US News

Adults with Covid-19 about ‘twice as likely’ to say they have dined at a restaurant, CDC study suggests

CNN

Coronavirus vaccine: How the approval process works

There are many questions about a potential COVID-19 development, including a lack of diversity among volunteers, and a rushed approval in a politicized atmosphere.

ABC

Trump's on defense once again and he's running out of time to change that

First Read is your briefing from 'Meet the Press' and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

NBC

Inside Harvard’s COVID tracing effort

A look at COVID-19 contact tracing efforts at Harvard.

Harvard

University of Missouri chancellor blocks students who tweeted about lack of COVID protections on campus but then backtracks when threatened with lawsuit

Chancellor Mun Choi's personal account - @munychoi4545 - appeared to be blocking students who spoke critically of the school.

Daily Mail

‘No going back’ to racist past, L.A. civic leaders say of post-COVID future

LA Times

The coronavirus pandemic reveals painful, ugly truths about our democracy

To understand racism as a public health issue, we must connect our physical health to community safety.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Judge issues COVID restraining order against defiant MacArthur and church

Baptist News

Comparing COVID-19 with previous national crises such as Vietnam War, Spanish flu: Historians weigh in on the similarities and differences

Already, COVID-19 has killed more Americans than World War I and Vietnam — combined. Coronavirus has pushed the unemployment rate to levels not seen since the Great Depression. A national pol…

Chicago Tribune

Emotional Labor Is a Store Clerk Confronting a Maskless Customer

Scientific American

Americans splurged over Labor Day weekend. That's the good news

Reuters

All The Times Trump Compared Covid-19 To The Flu, Even After He Knew Covid-19 Was Far More Deadly

'We lose thousands and thousands of people a year to the flu. We don't turn the country off,' Trump said in March.

Forbes

Student Assessment During COVID-19

A comprehensive approach to testing and gathering critical student data next year can support all students.

American Progress

Whatever Happened To ... The Instant Hospitals Built For COVID-19 Patients In Wuhan?

Two hospitals were built in a matter of days to house the growing number of patients. Existing facilities were converted to health care centers as well. And now, what happened to them?

NPR

Fact check: Bill Gates is not responsible for COVID-19

Reuters

Dr. Deborah Birx praises UofSC response to COVID-19 during visit to Columbia

Birx has become a household name during her time on the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

WISTV

Which Hospital Workers Face Least COVID Risk? Depends on Whom You Mask

Observational study from Britain suggests risk differences but with caveats

Medpage Today

97% Of Executives Say Covid-19 Sped Up Digital Transformation

Forbes

How is COVID-19 transforming global value chains? Lessons from Ethiopia and Vietnam

Global value chains (GVCs) have powered economic transformation but COVID-19 poses unprecedented challenges to global value chains.

World Bank

The Important Role of Women Peacebuilders in COVID-19 Pandemic Response

News and Press Release in English on World and 1 other country about Gender, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding and Epidemic; published on 10 Sep 2020 by IPI

Relief Web

Inside Twitter’s Response to the Covid-19 Crisis

Jennifer Christie, Twitter’s chief HR officer, speaks to HBR about her organization’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, including the shift to remote work, the support Twitter is providing its employees, and the future of office spaces.

HBR

Unemployment among young workers during COVID-19

This blog examines the labor market impacts of COVID-19 on young workers. We find that young workers have been especially hard hit by the current economic downturn; for example, the unemployment rate for those aged 16-19 increased by 20.9 percentage points between February and April of this year.

Brookings

Child’s play in the time of COVID: screen games are still ‘real’ play

The Conversation

Heidi Larson: shifting the conversation about vaccine confidence

The Lancet

VERIFY: Yes, states can legally mandate a vaccine, and fine or jail you for refusing it, but context is needed

The Verify team looked into a viral post claiming that states have the authority to mandate a vaccination under a 1905 legal precedent.

WUSA9

Senate defeat of 'skinny' coronavirus aid bill puts it on 'dead-end street'

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: September 10, 2021

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Diet could affect coronavirus risk according to MGH study

Massachusetts General Hospital study links healthy plant-based foods with lower risks of getting of COVID-19 and of having severe disease after infection.

Harvard Gazette

On forecasting the community-level COVID-19 cases from the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater

ScienceDirect.com

COVID lessons from the global south – Face masks invading tourist beaches and recommendations for the outdoor seasons

ScienceDirect.com

Boys more at risk from Pfizer jab side-effect than Covid, suggests study

US researchers say teenagers are more likely to get vaccine-related myocarditis than end up in hospital with Covid

The Guardian

Would you get a COVID-19 booster shot if offered?

The World Economic Forum

How ivermectin became a false cure for the coronavirus

The Washington Post

Vietnam approves Hayat-Vax coronavirus vaccine for emergency use

Reuters

U.S. Suicides Declined Over All in 2020 but May Have Risen Among People of Color (Published 2021)

The New York Times

Millions of workers, businesses to face Biden’s new coronavirus vaccine and testing rules

The Washington Post

NY Edges Closer to Pre-Covid Life, as City Workers Return

The New York Times

Yes, Gov. DeSantis, Studies Do Show Masks Curb Covid-19 In Schools

Several studies over the past year and a half have arrived at the same conclusion: mask wearing significantly limits transmission of the coronavirus in schools.

NPR

Face mask waste generation and management during the COVID-19 pandemic: An overview and the Peruvian case

ScienceDirect.com

How COVID is derailing the fight against HIV, TB and malaria

The pandemic’s effects on efforts to thwart other infectious diseases could exceed the direct impact of COVID-19.

Nature

COVID in kids and fossil-fuel limits — the week in infographics

Nature highlights three key infographics from the week in science and research.

Nature

COVID-19 impact on global maritime mobility - Scientific Reports

Nature

Continued need for non-pharmaceutical interventions after COVID-19 vaccination in long-term-care facilities - Scientific Reports

Nature

Unvaccinated People Are 11 Times More Likely To Die Of COVID-19, New Research Finds

The COVID-19 vaccines continue to provide powerful protection, even against the delta variant, the CDC said. It also found that vaccinated people were 10 times less likely to be hospitalized.

NPR

Coronavirus FAQs: A Vaccinated Person's Guide To COVID Exposure And Elevator Etiquette

Should you quarantine? Get tested? Mask up? Insist on masks for others? There are many tricky situations to navigate in our delta variant, semi-vaccinated world. Here's advice from experts.

NPR

DeSantis' ban on school mask mandates to remain in effect during appeals process

The most recent decision in the back-and-forth legal battle means schools can be penalized for enforcing mask mandates.

NBC News

Biden’s pandemic plan overlooks mask mandates and vulnerable populations

President Biden outlined a six-point strategy to confront the pandemic. But two public health scholars believe it would work better with help from states.

The Conversation

Has the Pandemic Changed Cities Forever? (Published 2021)

The New York Times

Analysis | The inescapable overlap of pandemic and politics

The Washington Post

Anxiety and depression are increasing as the pandemic goes on. Here’s what you can do | CNN

CNN

French ex-health minister Buzyn under formal investigation over handling of pandemic

Former French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn has been put under formal investigation on Friday over her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, after investigators at a special court in Paris concluded…

France 24

Biden announces COVID-19 vaccine mandates that will affect 100 million Americans

The Department of Labor is developing an emergency rule requiring vaccinations at workplaces with 100 or more employees.

CBS News

COVID lessons from the global south – Face masks invading tourist beaches and recommendations for the outdoor seasons

ScienceDirect.com

Monitoring changes in COVID-19 infection using wastewater-based epidemiology: A South African perspective

ScienceDirect.com

Non-intrusive wastewater surveillance for monitoring of a residential building for COVID-19 cases

ScienceDirect.com

7 Lessons Learned About Vaccines During the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic, including the rapid development and distribution of safe and effective vaccines, has changed how we think about vaccination.

AARP

Walmart and Disney Join a Growing Group of Businesses Requiring Vaccines (Published 2021)

The New York Times

‘Maybe the guy’s a masochist’: how Anthony Fauci became a superstar

The US diseases expert has been spoofed by Brad Pitt and lauded as the ‘sexiest man alive’. Now the pop culture phenomenon is the focus of a documentary

The Guardian

What Happens When the Supply of ICU Beds Runs Out

With COVID-19's Delta variant continuing to dominate new cases, ICU capacity is at or headed towards zero in hospitals around the country.

Time Magazine

Will vaccine mandates slow the pandemic? Yes, scientists say — but not immediately. (Published 2021)

The New York Times

Pandemic increasing risk factors for suicide, UN health agency warns

Suicide prevention must be prioritized after 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Americas office of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day, commemorated annually on 10 September.

UN News

As Covid-19 hospitalizations spike, some overwhelmed hospitals are rationing care | CNN

CNN

Vaccines beat natural immunity in fight against COVID-19

The best protection against COVID-19? Getting vaccinated, not waiting for illness to create natural immunity, says infectious disease expert Anna Durbin

Johns Hopkins University