Topics:

  • Update on numbers
  • Update on models
  • Let's check in about excess deaths
  • Comparing COVID to Flu: How do they compare and is 1918 a useful comparison?
  • Novavax vaccine phase 1 data
  • The Russian Vaccine (or, Cutting Corners)
  • Study found racial bias in distribution of COVID related aid from CARES act to hospitals
  • How is reopening going? Examples from GA and New Zealand
  • The universal human experience of being at the mercy of a microbe

Links:

  • NYT on Excess Deaths
  • WaPo, Researchers Publish Comparison between 1918 and 2020
  • Healthline, Flu vs COVID
  • STAT, Novavax Phase I Vaccine Trial
  • WaPo, Russian Vaccine
  • PLOS ONE Real World Efficacy of Social Distancing
  • STAT, Study finds racial bias in distribution of COVID aid
  • NYT, GA School Reopening
  • CNN, New Zealand