General
Data and Other Sites
"COVID-19 Tracker," Bing, updated regularly (data, charts: world, countries, states, counties)
World Health Organization
[Chart: Increase in Iowa COVID-19 cases March 8-April 21: 3,643 confirmed, 83 fatal; Chart credit: Bing COVID-19 Tracker. It took one month to reach 1048 cases, 26 deaths; 2 more weeks added twice that many cases and tripled the deaths.]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Iowa Department of Public Health
The Gazette's "Rolling Updates on COVID-19 and its Impact," regularly updated stats and stories
Des Moines Register "Health News," links to COVID-19 stories
Neeltje van Doremalen, et al, “Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1,” New England Journal of Medicine, March 17, 2020
David Cyranoski, "Did pangolins spread the China coronavirus to people?; Genetic sequences of viruses isolated from the scaly animals are 99% similar to that of the circulating virus — but the work is yet to be formally published," Nature, February 7, 2020
Josephine Ma, "Coronavirus: China’s first confirmed Covid-19 case traced back to November 17; Government records suggest first person infected with new disease may have been a Hubei resident aged 55, but ‘patient zero’ has yet to be confirmed; Documents seen by the Post could help scientists track the spread of the disease and perhaps determine its source," South China Morning Post, March 13, 2020
"Coronavirus Business Resources,"The Gazette, regularly updated
Gregory Johnson, "Strategic Response," Facebook
Gregory Johnson, "The Smartphone App That Could Stop COVID-19 Already Exists," March 23, 2020
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"The Coronavirus Outbreak; News, Maps," New York Times, regularly updatedNew York Times
Mitch Smith, Karen Yourish, Sarah Almukhtar, Keith Collins, Danielle Ivory, Allison McCann, Jin Wu and Amy Harmon, "The Coronavirus Outbreak; Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count," New York Times, regularly updated (includes sources of cases; cases and deaths by state and county)
"The Coronavirus Outbreak; We're Sharing Coronavirus Case Data for Every U.S. County; With no detailed government database on where the thousands of coronavirus cases have been reported, a team of New York Times journalists is attempting to track every case," The New York Times, March 28, 2020, data regularly updated; this data is available here
"The Coronavirus Outbreak; Coronavirus Map: Tracking the Global Outbreak," New York Times, interactive, regularly updated
Sarah Mervosh, Denise Lu and Vanessa Swales, "See Which States and Cities Have Told Residents to Stay at Home," New York Times, regularly updates
Testing
Luigi Zingales, "Why Mass Testing Is Crucial," City Journal, March 27, 2020
Jason Horowitz, Emma Bubola and Elisabetta Povoledo, "Early Missteps Set Italy's Path to Catastrophe; The country’s experience shows that steps to isolate the coronavirus and limit people’s movement need to be put in place early, with absolute clarity, then strictly enforced," New York Times, March 22, 2020, p. A1
United States
General"What You Need to Know About the Coronavirus, The Atlantic’s Guide to understanding COVID-19,” The Atlantic
Ed Yong, “Why the Coronavirus Has Been So Successful,” The Atlantic, March 20, 2020
Derek Thompson, “All the Coronavirus Statistics Are Flawed; Are we winning the war against COVID-19? In the fog of pandemic, we simply don’t know.” The Atlantic, March 26, 2020
Holshue ML, DeBolt C, Lindquist S, Lofy KH, et al, "First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the United States," New England Journal of Medicine 382 (10): 929–936 (quoted in "2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States," wikipedia.org)
Amy Julia Harris, John Leland and Tracey Tully, "Nearly 2,000 Dead as Coronavirus Ravages Nursing Homes in N.Y. Region; The facilities knew that frail and aging residents were especially vulnerable to the outbreak, but they were unable to stop it," [print edition headline: "In Regions' Nursing Homes, 'Residents Are Sitting Ducks'"], New York Times, April 12, 2020, p. A1.
BlundersFor President Trump's desire to have the country "opened up" by Easter (April 12), see Annie Karni and Donald G. McNeil Jr., "Trump Wants U.S. ‘Opened Up’ by Easter, Despite Health Officials’ Warnings; 'You can’t just come in and say let’s close up the United States of America,' the president said, insisting again that he did not view the coronavirus as any more dangerous than the flu," New York Times, March 24, 2020 (for audio see the Times' "The Daily" on the page with this story, e.g., "I'd love to have it open by Easter," President Donald Trump).
Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller, "The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged; From the Oval Office to the CDC, political and institutional failures cascaded through the system and opportunities to mitigate the pandemic were lost," Washington Post, April 4, 2020
Steve Eder, Henry Fountain, Michael H. Keller, Muyi Xiao and Alexandra Stevenson, "430,000 People Have Traveled From China to U.S. Since Coronavirus Surfaced; There were 1,300 direct flights to 17 cities before President Trump’s travel restrictions. Since then, nearly 40,000 Americans and other authorized travelers have made the trip, some this past week and many with spotty screening," New York Times, April 4, 2020 [print edition headline: "430,000 Flew from China to U.S. After Virus Report," New York Times, April 5, 2020, p. 1]
Tom Frieden, “Former CDC head on coronavirus testing: What went wrong and how we proceed; Who should seek a test? Should we test everyone? How much will that even help? Let's clear a few things up,” USA Today, March 31, 2020
Michael D. Shear, Abby Goodnough, Sheilla Kaplan, Sheri Fink, Katie Thomas and Noah Weiland, "Testing Blunders Cost Vital Month in U.S. Virus Fight; Aggressive screening might have helped contain the corona virus in the United States. But technical flaws, regulatory hurdles and lapses in leadership let it spread undetected for weeks," New York Times, March 29, 2020, p. A1
Laurie Garrett, “Trump Has Sabotaged America’s Coronavirus Response; As it improvises its way through a public health crisis, the United States has never been less prepared for a pandemic,” Foreign Policy, January 31, 2020
Laurie Garrett, "Grim Reapers; How Trump and Xi Set the Stage for the Coronavirus Pandemic," The New Republic, April 2, 2020 (history of evolution of pandemic from roughly November 2019 through February 2020)
Donald G. McNeil Jr., "Did Federal Officials Really Question W.H.O. Tests for Coronavirus?" New York Times, March 17, 2020
Bethania Palma, "Did US ‘Refuse’ COVID-19 Testing Kits from the World Health Organization?" Snopes, March 17, 2020
Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, "Trump Is Faced With Crisis Too Big for Big Talk," New York Times, March 22, 2020, p. A1
Early Warnings IgnoredRem Rieder, "Contrary to Trump’s Claim, A Pandemic Was Widely Expected at Some Point," FactCheck.org, March 20, 2020
Jonathan Lemire, Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, "Signs Missed and Steps Slowed in Trump's Pandemic Response," Associated Press, Washington, D.C., April 12, 2020 ("Interviewed at Davos ... the president on Jan. 22 [said] 'It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.' ... When Trump spoke in Switzerland, weeks’ worth of warning signs already had been raised .... In the ensuing month ... key steps to prepare the nation for the coming pandemic were not taken.")
Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger, Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear, Mark Mazzetti and Julian E. Barnes, "He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus; An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response," [print edition headline: "Despite Timely Alerts, Trump Was Slow to Act; Pandemic Warnings Were Set Aside"], New York Times, April 21, 2020, p. A1 ("Throughout January, as Mr. Trump repeatedly played down the seriousness of the virus ... an array of figures inside his government ... identified the threat, sounded alarms and made clear the need for aggressive action.")
Michelle Goldberg, "Lawrence Wright Saw a Pandemic Coming; The journalist’s new thriller is eerily prescient. Too bad our leaders lack his foresight," New York Times, March 29, 2020, p. SR9
Nicholas Kristof, "2 Scenarios For Covid-19: Best and Worst," New York Times, March 22, 2020, p. SR2
"Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S. Extends Social Curbs After Estimate of 200,000 Deaths," The Coronavirus Outbreak, New York Times, live updates
Cruise Ships
"COVID-19 quarantine of cruise ship may have led to more infections," Medical News Today, March 3, 2020
Smriti Mallapaty, "What the cruise-ship outbreaks reveal about COVID-19," News, Nature, March 26, 2020
Other Countries’ Approaches
Katrin Bennhold, "A German Exception? Why the Country’s Coronavirus Death Rate Is Low; The pandemic has hit Germany hard, with more than 100,000 people infected. But the percentage of fatal cases has been remarkably low compared to those in many neighboring countries," New York Times, April 5, 2020, p. 9 [online April 4 and 6; print headline: "Testing, Tracking and Trust: Why a Death Rate Is So Low"]
Meghna Chakrabarti and Hillary McQuilkin, "Lessons From Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea's Response to Coronavirus," On Point, WBUR, March 25, 2020
Oeindrila Dube and Katherine Baicker, "Lesson From Ebola: Collective Action is a Must; How an epidemic was curtailed by community involvement," New York Times, March 29, 2020, p. BU8
Vò, ItalyVò, wikipedia.org
Lorenzo Tondo, "Scientists say mass tests in Italian town have halted Covid-19 there; A study in Vò, which saw Italy’s first death, points to the danger of asymptomatic carriers,” The Guardian, March 18, 2020
Michela Nicolussi Moro, “Coronavirus, ora sono 43 i contagiati veneti. Il focolaio resta Vò; Parte dei positivi al test sorvegliati a casa Tende davanti a tutti gli ospedali. «Paziente zero», falso allarme,” Corriere Del Veneto, February, 25, 2020
Rosie McCall, "Coronavirus Mass Testing Experiment in Italian Town Appears to Have Halted COVID-19 Outbreak,"> Newsweek, March 19, 2020
Andrea Crisanti and Antonio Cassone, "In One italian Town, We Showed Mass Testing Could Eradicate the Coronavirus; By Identifying and Isolating Clusters of Infected People, We Wiped Out Covid-19 in Vo'," The Guardian, March 20, 2020 (audio file)
"Coronavirus, 50-75% casi a Vo’ Euganeo asintomatici: “Fonte di contagio, errore isolare solo malati.”, fanpage.it, March 16, 2020
Nicole Winfield, Colleen Barry and Trisha Thomas, "Italy hopes virus is easing but fears new onslaught in south," Associated Press/Washington Post, March 27, 2020
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