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This Day in COVID: July 6, 2020

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New Jersey Sees Highest Covid-19 Rate Of Transmission In 10 Weeks

Gov. Phil Murphy warned of several outbreaks linked to out-of-state travel to other hot spots across the country.

Forbes

Some US airlines will start operating full flights

Health officials, including Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading expert on infectious diseases, criticized the move.

Lonely Planet

Immunity to the coronavirus is ‘fragile’ and ‘short-lived,’ immunologist warns

Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College London, said it was not a 'safe bet' to rely on immunity to Covid-19 as a strategy for coping with the pandemic.

CNBC

Delaware COVID-19 contact tracers really need you to answer your phone

Delaware Online

US has 4% of the world’s population, but more than 25% of global coronavirus cases

The United States, which is home to approximately 4% of the world’s population, currently contains more than 25% of all the world’s coronavirus cases — a staggering disparity that health experts are warning could soon overwhelm the capacity of the U.S. health care system.

Fox5NY

In a Pandemic, Healthcare as a Right

Colby College

DeSantis blames expanded testing, younger Floridians for surge in COVID-19 cases

Jacksonville

Anti-mask shoppers at Costco and Target throw tantrums and tear down mask displays, revealing a growing crisis for retail workers

The coronavirus pandemic has created a new crisis for retailers, as anti-mask customers harass and — in some cases — assault workers.

Business Insider

Britain ‘lags way behind’ in wearing face masks, scientists say

Financial Times

Republican official apologises for cartoon comparing order to wear masks to Nazi extermination camps

‘It’s apparent I previously lacked an adequate understanding of the severity of [Holocaust victims’] experience,’ Dane Hicks admits

Independent

Washington’s ‘No Mask, No Service’ Rule Goes Into Effect Tuesday

Restaurants in Seattle will be required to refuse service to those who don’t wear face coverings

Seattle Eater

The Best Thing You Can Do for Your Dating Life? Wear a Mask

The simple act of wearing a mask on a first date speaks volumes about your values. Not wearing one can be an immediate deal breaker.

Voguue

Half of Nevada’s businesses failed to follow rules on masks, state investigators say

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak is threatening swift, decisive action against rule-flouters. Casinos are cracking down internally, warning employees will be fired for failing to follow regulations.

CNBC

The Cutest Face Masks For Kids They'll Actually Want To Wear

We found face masks that are kid-friendly, colorful and come in cute prints.

Huffpost

COVID-19 vaccine: the challenges of running a trial in the middle of a pandemic

The Conversation

How Israel’s COVID-19 mass surveillance operation works

Israel's reliance on Shin Bet's 'The Tool' for digital contact tracing is an unprecedented violation of privacy and blow to democracy and human rights.

Brookings

Reopening the World: Reopening schools—Insights from Denmark and Finland

Emiliana Vegas reviews the experiences of Denmark and Finland with reopening K-12 schools after COVID-19.

Brookings

Covid-19 cases are rising, but deaths are falling. What’s going on?

By the time coronavirus deaths start rising again, it’s already too late.

Vox

Lockdown-focused Facebook groups pivot to attacks on Black Lives Matter

A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders has become a hub of misinformation and conspiracy theories that have pivoted to a variety of new targets: Black Lives Matter and the nationwide protests of racial injustice.

CNBC

The pandemic has boosted freelance work — and hiring for these jobs is booming

The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc in the global jobs market, but a new report suggests freelance roles are booming as employers and employees look for more flexible positions.

CNBC

As Americans Avoided Restaurants And Doctors' Offices, Those Businesses Got Loans

The small business sectors that received the largest share of federal loans from the coronavirus relief package known as PPP include restaurants, doctors' offices, car dealerships and law firms.

NPR

13 million gig workers getting unemployment benefits, 41% of the total

There are about 13 million people getting unemployment benefits through a program meant for previously ineligible groups of workers, and the share is rising.

CNBC

WATCH: Fauci says state of virus in U.S. is ‘not good’

In an online conference call with National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins, Fauci said, 'we're still knee-deep in the first wave of this.'

PBS

Amid COVID-19 resurgence, fewer deaths. Dr. Fauci explains why.

White House coronavirus task force member Anthony S. Fauci, MD, examines the apparently lower death rate and tackles other pandemic hot topics.

American Medical Association

Pooling Coronavirus Tests Can Spare Scarce Supplies, But There's A Catch

Instead of running a coronavirus test on every specimen, a lab combines multiple samples. If the batch is negative, then everyone is in the clear. A positive leads to a second round of testing.

NPR

Evictions are likely to skyrocket this summer as jobs remain scarce. Black renters will be hard hit.

Washington Post

New York City’s Biggest Decision: How to Safely Reopen Schools

New York Times

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: July 6, 2021

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Unequal pandemic, fairer recovery

A comprehensive review of the factors that affected the UK’s devastating COVID-19 death toll.

The Health Foundation

Maternal outcomes and risk factors for COVID-19 severity among pregnant women - Scientific Reports

Nature

A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of 'Long COVID'

We need to plan for a future where millions of survivors are chronically ill

Scientific American

WHO recommends life-saving interleukin-6 receptor blockers for COVID-19 and urges producers to join efforts to rapidly increase access

The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its patient care guidelines to include interleukin-6 receptor blockers, a class of medicines that are lifesaving in patients who are severely or critically ill with COVID-19, especially when administered alongside corticosteroids. These were the findings from a prospective and a living network meta-analysis initiated by WHO, the largest such analysis on the drugs to date. Data from over 10 000 patients enrolled in 27 clinical trials were considered...

World Health Organization (WHO)

Cytokine adsorption and ECMO in patients with COVID-19

The Lancet

How Has Covid-19 Shaped Scientists—and the Future of Science?

The global pandemic has changed how researchers work. The impacts will be felt for years.

Kellogg Insight

Opinion | The consequences of Wuhan lab leak fearmongering could outlast Covid

An admission of uncertainty isn't a condemnation of science — in fact, that is how science works.

NBC News

Mounting evidence suggests Sputnik COVID vaccine is safe and effective

Russia’s vaccine is in use in nearly 70 nations, but its adoption has been slowed by controversies and questions over rare side effects, and it has yet to garner World Health Organization approval.

Nature

Prediction of individual COVID-19 diagnosis using baseline demographics and lab data - Scientific Reports

Nature

Delta Is Now The Dominant Coronavirus Variant In The U.S.

The CDC released new estimates showing the highly contagious delta variant now accounts for more than 51% of cases in the U.S. In some parts of the country, the strain is responsible for 80% of cases.

NPR

COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 6 July

The World Economic Forum

How political polarization broke America’s vaccine campaign

The US’s partisan divides have left much of the country vulnerable to Covid-19 — leading to unnecessary deaths.

Vox

Coronavirus questions answered: For the vaccinated, would exposure to covid-19 act as booster and strengthen their immunity?

The Washington Post

First molecular-based detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus in the field-collected houseflies - Scientific Reports

Nature

Coronavirus infections surging in immigration facilities

The Hill

England’s hasty lifting of coronavirus rules

Removing restrictions too quickly raises the danger they will have to be reimposed

Financial Times

More than 125 Covid-19 cases tied to South Texas church camp, pastor says | CNN

CNN

The world's biggest film festival makes its COVID-conscious comeback

The World Economic Forum

US Republican Rep Greene says ‘no one cares’ about Delta variant

Congresswoman’s allegations highlight how COVID-19 has been politicised in the United States.

Al Jazeera

Which airlines will soar after the pandemic?

Uneven recovery will boost big carriers in America and China, and cheap and cheerful ones in Europe

The Economist

As office life beckons again, the pandemic's digital nomads weigh benefits of a return

Covid-19 opened up the possibility of a nomadic lifestyle to entirely new groups of people. Now, many of them don't want to go back.

NBC News

How Mutations Have Shaped the Covid-19 Pandemic

WSJ

What polar researchers have learnt from the pandemic

Six scientists explain how COVID-19 has affected their fieldwork and research, as well as opportunities for junior researchers.

Nature

Authoritarianism and the Pandemic: An Overview

ISPI

Mask-wearing becomes a new battleground in England as Covid rules are eased

Since the start of the pandemic, millions of people have been forced to wear face masks. Now, as rules are eased, they are a highly contentious issue.

CNBC