MarketWatch: Asymptomatic transmission “is the Achilles’ heel of COVID-19 pandemic control,” according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco published 2020-05-28 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Reuters: US property and casualty insurers have cast the COVID-19 pandemic as an unprecedented event whose massive cost to small businesses they are neither able nor required to cover.
NPR: Is the US at the start of a second wave of COVID-19? The short, unpleasant answer is that the US has not even gotten through the current first wave of infections. Nationwide, more than 800 people continue to die day after day.
USA Today: Rebekah Jones, formerly the head of Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard project and allegedly fired after refusing to manipulate COVID-19 data, has launched a new tracking site. “People have a right to know what’s going on in a straightforward nonpolitical kind of way.”
Associated Press: The largest wholesale food market in Beijing was shuttered behind police guard and the surrounding neighborhood locked down after more than 50 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the Chinese capital.
Associated Press: São Paulo cemetaries will exhume the buried remains of people who died at least three years ago and place them in bags, in order to make more room for COVID-19 victims. “People say nothing scares gravediggers. COVID does,” said a Brazilian cemetary worker.
ABC News: Hawaii grapples with Great Depression-level unemployment as tourism plummets because of the COVID-19 pandemic. One town has 35% unemployment, higher than the peak of the Great Depression.
Peer-reviewed and published by PNAS: The airborne transmission route is highly virulent and dominant for the spread of COVID-19. Analysis reveals that the difference with and without mandated face covering represents the determinant in shaping the trends of the pandemic.
Vice: Health experts said recently that Beijing is now in “wartime emergency mode” after detecting a new outbreak of COVID-19 that was linked to a food market.
BBC: New Zealand has confirmed two new cases of COVID-19, ending a 24-day streak of no new confirmed infections in the country. The cases relate to two people who had travelled from the UK and were given special permission to visit a grieving parent.
The Independent: Three months after the COVID-19 pandemic forced bars and restaurants to close in Florida, some businesses have shut within one week of reopening as coronavirus cases spike in the state.
Associated Press: As businesses reopen across the United States after coronavirus shutdowns, many are requiring customers and workers to sign forms saying they won’t sue if they catch COVID-19.
University of Copenhagen: In a new study, researchers have shown how recommendations to maintain social distancing affect people’s behavior. “We have found that reminders increase people’s intentions to stay home. But those who say they will stay home often go out.”
CNN: Beijing’s new outbreak is a reminder to the world that COVID-19 can return at any time. Similar cautionary tales have occurred repeatedly in recent months, with governments rushing to contain reemerging outbreaks after having seemingly brought initial infection numbers under control.
NY Times: California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered people to wear face masks in most indoor and some outdoor public settings, amid political controversy. “Simply put, we are seeing too many people with faces uncovered, putting at risk the real progress we have made in fighting the disease.”
USA Today: When Scott Krakower, a medical expert in the United States, tested positive for COVID-19, he prepared for two weeks of misery. Months later, he was still sick.
Global News: Some countries have been devastated by COVID-19, and others have escaped lightly. One major difference is that countries that quickly resorted to widespread mask-wearing had far lower death rates and shorter outbreaks, a new study argues.
NY Times: A draft list of countries from which travelers would be allowed into the European Union excludes Brazil, Russia, and the United States, because of their failure to contain COVID-19. A final decision is expected before 2020-07-01.
Sky News: Footage on social media showed young people in a stand-off with officers in riot gear during one of a number of recent illegal street parties in London. A Metropolitan Police Commissioner said police have a duty to disperse large gatherings while COVID-19 restrictions are in place.
Associated Press: Texas and Florida have reinstated some COVID-19 restrictions, as the daily number of confirmed infections in the United States surged to an all-time high of 45,300. Health experts said a disturbingly large number of cases are being seen among young people who are going out again.
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