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Reading Time: 4 minutes While longer lockdowns will constrain economic activity, the IMF said quarantines and social distancing measures were vital.

It said: “Upfront containment measures are essential to slow the spread of the virus and allow health care systems to cope and to help pave the way for an earlier and more robust resumption of economic activity.

“Uncertainty and reduced demand for services could be even worse in a scenario of greater spread without social distancing”

Informed

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 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.

Informed

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.

Thrive

March 26, 2020 Confluence

Now This: Here’s a VERY Detailed Guide to Having Sex During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Reading Time: 2 minutes As the world grapples with how to contain the swift-moving virus, the guide also reminds readers to stay home and avoid contact with anyone outside of your direct household or “close circle.” If you do need to leave, try to stay 6 feet apart from other people. And remember, your safest sex partner is you.

Thrive

March 25, 2020 Confluence

Medium: I had no immune system for months after my bone marrow transplant. Here’s how I avoided viral illness

Reading Time: 11 minutes If you do the three things I’ve outlined here as though your life depends on it, then you don’t need to feel afraid. I know it sounds exhausting, but I promise you that you can do this. You just have to become consciously and constantly aware of your contact with things and people, at all times.

Informed

March 11, 2020 Confluence

VOX: The WHO just declared the coronavirus a pandemic. Here’s what that means.

Reading Time: 6 minutes “WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we’re deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and the alarming levels of inaction. We have therefore made the assessment that Covid-19 can be characterized by “pandemic,” Tedros said, going on to argue that the designation did not mean the situation was hopeless: “All countries can still change the course of this pandemic.”

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March 10, 2020 Confluence

Politico: ‘My phone’s been blowing up’: CPAC attendees rip the group’s virus messaging

Reading Time: 7 minutes In his own appearance at the conference a day later, Trump made similar comments about Democrats, but defended his handling of the crisis, saying his administration “has taken the most aggressive action in modern history to control our borders and protect Americans from the coronavirus.”