July 13, 2021
The Pandemic Hasn’t Stopped the Rise of the Women’s Movement

Digital tools have multiplied collective power around the world. Leaders must invest in sustaining it.
Foreign Policy
What happens when a patient cannot consent to a COVID-19 vaccine?

Kennedys Law
The Covid-19 Pandemic Is a Lousy Natural Experiment for Studying the Effects of Online Learning

Focus, instead, on measuring the overall effects of the pandemic itself
Education Next
This is how COVID-19 has affected world hunger
The World Economic Forum
This 13-year-old has designed a doubled-sided mask for children and also started an online thrift store during the pandemic

Aahana Jain, a student of Vibgyor High, Mumbai, has designed double-sided masks called DOMA, especially for children, and also started an online thrift store, Thrift.fit_co.
YourStory.com
Has the Fed's Ongoing COVID Response Been an "Epic Mistake"?

Peter R. Fisher spent more than a decade working at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Now, citing what he calls “financial mania,” he has a warning about the Fed system of which he was once part.
PBS
A longitudinal analysis of COVID-19 lockdown stringency on sleep and resting heart rate measures across 20 countries - Scientific Reports

Nature
South Africa after COVID-19—light at the end of a very long tunnel

Wolfgang Fengler, Marie-Francoise Nelly, Indermit Gill, Benedicte Baduel, and Facundo Cuevas explain how the South African economy can come out of the COVID-19 pandemic stronger.
Brookings
Will COVID-19 change science? Past pandemics offer clues
Science | AAAS
Early influenza vaccination rates decline in children during the COVID-19 pandemic
ScienceDirect.com
Fauci’s Truths and Half-Truths About Gain-of-Function Research

As recently as 2018, Fauci celebrated the lifting of the “pause” on such research. With government in “upstream” control of funding, guidance, and publications, he argued, what could go wrong?
The Nation
From transmissibility to severity: Everything you need to know about the lambda variant
The World Economic Forum
Covid rules: How can the clinically vulnerable stay safe?

As social-distancing and other Covid rules end in England, how can people who were shielding stay safe?
BBC
What I learned teaching in China during the COVID-19 pandemic
Globalized higher education requires fresh cross-cultural approaches.
Nature
‘Don't Fauci My Florida': Gov. Ron DeSantis Selling Koozies, Spoof Merchandise

From a koozie emblazoned with the message “How the hell am I going to be able to drink a beer with a mask on?” to a T-shirt reading “Don’t Fauci my Florida,” the products show a clear disdain for Dr. Anthony Fauci.
NBC 6 South Florida
Teens Are Rarely Hospitalized With Covid, but Cases Can Be Severe (Published 2021)
The New York Times
After vaccination burnout, Delta variant spurs countries to speed up shots
Reuters
TikTok Sounds used to spread COVID vaccine misinformation - think tank
Reuters
WHO warns individuals against mixing and matching COVID vaccines
Reuters
Countries making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory
Reuters
Stalking rises during Covid pandemic - police

Over 80,000 incidents are recorded in 2020 in England and Wales - but arrests struggle to keep up.
BBC
Solidarity in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Chatham House
Fauci says he would be 'astounded' if Pfizer, Moderna and J&J Covid vaccines don't get full FDA approval

"The data are about as good as it gets," Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNBC, saying he expects Pfizer, Moderna and J&J's vaccines to receive full FDA approval.
CNBC
I tried the cooling rubber face mask that’s all over Instagram

It’s made with hyaluronic acid, one of the best hydrating ingredients on the skincare scene
The Independent
KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: In Their Own Words, Six Months Later | KFF

This report features a second round of interviews with a nationally representative sample of adults six months after they first shared their vaccine intentions in January to assess whether or not they got a COVID-19 vaccine, the reasons behind their choice, and how they feel about their decision.
KFF
Clinical features and prognosis of COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 infections in persons with spinal cord injury: a review of current literature - Spinal Cord Series and Cases

Nature
Malaria vaccine wows and seeds COVID-19 vaccine effort - Nature Biotechnology

A malaria vaccine not only has achieved record-setting protection in a large trial, but also spurred the UK’s COVID-19 vaccine effort.
Nature
COVID-19 long haulers - Nature Biotechnology

With the risks of drug development prohibitive, repurposed or repositioned medicines appear the best hope against long-COVID, a condition that still raises many unanswered questions.
Nature
COVID-19 mitigation by digital contact tracing and contact prevention (app-based social exposure warnings) - Scientific Reports

Nature
Masks On, Masks Off

I missed seeing people’s faces; I missed showing mine, too. I knew that, in the grand scheme of things, this was trivial, but it also, somehow, mattered.
The New Yorker
Tennessee abandons vaccine outreach to minors — not just for COVID-19
Tennessee halted all vaccine outreach to minors, not just for COVID-19, amid pressure from Republican lawmakers. A vaccine expert was also fired.
The Tennessean


