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April 28, 2020 Confluence

Forbes: The Dr. Fauci of the 1918 Spanish Flu

Reading Time: 7 minutes A public health official getting fired over unpopular social distancing measures during a pandemic has an eerie echo today, when business leaders and politicians are chafing against restrictions urged by authorities to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. But it was precisely these restrictions that enabled Seattle and other cities in Washington to protect themselves from the Spanish flu—and similar actions helped Kansas abate another influenza wave in the fall of 1919.

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April 24, 2020 Confluence

This Should Not Come as a Surprise

Reading Time: 4 minutes The really, really unsettling thing about this “news” is that if the United States government were to falter, the majority of Americans don’t freaking want the most corrupt, racist, incompetent, dangerous, selfish, greedy, power-hungry, science-averse, lying, deliberately obtrusive Administration in the entire history of the United States to be the administration that survives whatever chaos unfolds. Who wants the administration that has worked harder to erode this government and its institutions than any group of Americans in history to be in charge of reconstituting the US if everything goes to crap?

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April 21, 2020 Confluence

Obviously, the virus isn’t racist, but the systems we have in place are

Reading Time: < 1 minute Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. ‘Obviously, the virus isn’t racist, but the

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April 15, 2020 Confluence

Huffpo: Navajo Nation Reports More Coronavirus Cases Per Capita Than All But 2 U.S. States

Reading Time: 3 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. Only New York and New Jersey have more

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April 14, 2020 Confluence

Vox: This study on flower resilience is the most beautiful thing I’ve read during the pandemic

Reading Time: 10 minutes It’s not often I find the text of an academic article to be riveting and even beautiful. Here, I was hooked: “Virtually no research has addressed response to accidents involving flowers,” ecologists Scott Armbruster and Nathan Muchhala write. “Yet flowering stalks are often subject to accidental collapse, as when a scape blows down in the wind or coarse litter falls onto a stem …” Great Darwin’s ghost! This is a scientific oversight.

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April 9, 2020 Confluence

Vox: Why New York has 12 times as many coronavirus deaths as California

Reading Time: 10 minutes California, the nation’s most populous state, was among the first to report cases. The first possible case of community transmission in the US was reported in California on February 26; the state reported its first death on March 4. New York lagged by days, reporting its first community transmission case on March 3 and first death on March 14.

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April 8, 2020 Confluence

Pope says coronavirus pandemic could be nature’s response to climate crisis

Reading Time: 3 minutes In an email interview published Wednesday in The Tablet and Commonwealth magazines, the pontiff said the outbreak offered an opportunity to slow down the rate of production and consumption and to learn to understand and contemplate the natural world.

“We did not respond to the partial catastrophes. Who now speaks of the fires in Australia, or remembers that 18 months ago a boat could cross the North Pole because the glaciers had all melted? Who speaks now of the floods?” the Pope said.

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April 8, 2020 Confluence

NPR: Bernie Sanders Is Suspending His Presidential Campaign

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sanders suspended his campaign after voters went to the polls Tuesday in Wisconsin. The state controversially forged ahead with its primary, despite public health concerns. Results for the state’s contest are expected on Monday.

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April 1, 2020 Confluence

Vox: “Shelter in place” is impossible if you can’t afford a home

Reading Time: 8 minutes If people want to do something more immediate and closer to home, call your local homeless shelter and ask them what they need and then do your best to give it to them. Some might need cash. Some might need food. Some may say it again to call your member of Congress but they’ll know best what the local need is, and they could certainly use help right now.

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March 31, 2020 Confluence

CNN: How to coronavirus-proof your home

Reading Time: 2 minutes Life under coronavirus means staying at home as much as possible — but you’ll likely need to make a trip to the grocery store or pharmacy at some point. Download or print this tip sheet to make sure you don’t bring the virus back home with you.