Obviously, the virus isn’t racist, but the systems we have in place are
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Vox: Lockdowns work against coronavirus. But they take a few weeks to show they’re working.
Reading Time: 6 minutes The thing we’re trying to reduce — new coronavirus infections — is invisible at first. It takes between 2 and 14 days for a newly infected person to start showing symptoms. After symptoms begin to show, it can take more than a week for them to be eligible for testing (many people are not eligible at all). And then, thanks to backlogs in testing availability, it can take days for them to learn they tested positive.
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Vanity Fair: Burning Down the House
Reading Time: 6 minutes There was what Harry called a “ruthless campaign” of “relentless propaganda” against her by the British tabloids, and bald gestures, like Princess Michael of Kent’s blackamoor brooch. “The royal family is ground zero for a history of white supremacy and imperialism that they’ve never acknowledged, let alone apologized for it,” Hirsch said.
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