CV02. Humor: Onion's Coverage, CV03. Information: Patients Fighting Viral Misinfo, CV10. Spirituality, Philosophy: Rich Powerful Special Access, CV15. Death: Running Out of ICU Beds, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Beyond Medical Impact, CV20. Communication: The Medical Neutrality Problem, CV25. Movement: Lost Air Routes, CV27. Learning: In Person School Retreat, CV28. Logistics: SNS Failure, CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Sweden’s Continued Roller Coaster, CV33. Legal: Organ Trafficking
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CV02. Humor: Looking Back on the Onion’s First 15,000 Years of Coronavirus Coverage. As the mainstream media squanders its journalistic integrity by ignoring a devastating global pandemic, America’s Finest News Source has provided the most insightful, accurate, and truly divisive reporting on Covid-19.
CV03. Information: When False Information Goes Viral, Covid-19 Patient Groups Fight Back.
CV10. Spirituality, Philosophy: Bioethicists Worry the Rich and Powerful Will Get Special Access to Experimental Covid Treatments. Ironically it is in many cases these same people who made the pandemic worse.
CV15. Death: As Covid-19 Soars, Hospitals Hope to Avoid an Agonizing Choice: Who Gets Care and Who Goes Home. Hospitals Pushed to the Brink, Governors Warn of Health Care Shortages. 201111-CV04A, 201026-CV15.
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: The Social Impact of the Pandemic, the people impact goes beyond the medical disease. #Book Apollo's Arrow. The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live. Have not read this but from the description I already have several disagreements. Probably worth reading and then comparing with the actual aftermath years from now.
CV20. Communication: WHO Frustrated by Member Nations' Handling of Pandemic, Leaked Recordings Show. Health agency undermines its own authority by not speaking up when nations do questionable things, expert says. All due respect to the expert, but the agency is designed not to interfere with national politics, medical neutrality being a long established principle of international law. This is a basic conflict CV10 between the Red Cross and Doctors without Borders. Red Cross neutrality aids corruption but they can at least help to a certain extent. MSF more direct approach confronting corruption means they get kicked out, no medical is allowed in, and what little help was arriving completely disappears.
CV25. Movement: A Third of The World’s Air Routes Lost Due to Covid-19.
CV27. Learning: Virus Surge: Schools Abandon Classes, States Retreat.
CV28. Logistics: The Strategic Stockpile Failed – Experts Propose New Approach to Emergency Preparedness.
CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Sweden’s “Dry Tinder” Accounts for Many Covid-19 Deaths. The high death toll has been attributed to the soft lockdown, but Sweden had a remarkably mild flu season in 2018/19 and 2019/20. Many vulnerable souls who normally would have died of the flu survived to April 2020 and, then, sadly died from Covid-19 instead. This buildup of a stock of vulnerable persons has been called “dry tinder”. The “tinder” metaphor is that more forest fires this year can be explained by fewer fires in previous years. Dry tinder accumulated, awaiting a spark. Though likely a contributing factor, this sounds more like a way to excuse a policy choice that had deadly consequences. 201107-CV18B.
-A. Norway Recall Home Guard to Patrol Border as Swedish Covid-19 Cases Surge. Stockholm Rushes to Stem Nursing Home Covid Surge with Visit Ban, Quick Tests. Sweden to Ban Sale of Alcohol after 10 Pm to Slow Spread of Coronavirus. Sweden Plays down Immunity Hopes as Second Covid-19 Wave Gathers Force. Swedish Surge in Covid Cases Dashes Immunity Hopes. A Tale of Two Pandemics, the Nordic response to Covid-19 reveals a dark side of consensus politics. 201107-CV18B.
-B. ADDED Sweden Reports Record 5,990 New Covid-19 Cases as Second Wave Strikes. Sweden Introduces Tighter Restrictions to Halt Surging Coronavirus Cases.
CV33. Legal: Covid-19 a Perfect Storm for Organ Trafficking Victims.
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