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Czech Republic has lifesaving COVID-19 lesson for America: Wear a face mask

Despite pressure from Trump, major districts say schools will stay closed in fall

FDA fast-tracks vaccines as California leads charge toward second lockdown

Coronavirus crisis may get "worse and worse and worse," WHO chief warns

CBS NEWS  July 14, 2020

The World Health Organization warned Monday that there could be no return to normality any time soon as too many countries were bungling their response to the coronavirus pandemic. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that if public health guidelines are not followed, the crisis will get "worse and worse and worse."

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Leaving The Pandemic Response To States Doomed The Country To Fail Together

We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn't We?

Coronavirus updates: Trump RTs tweet saying CDC 'lies' about COVID; NYC reports zero deaths for first time since March

No one is safe until everyone is safe': Vaccine nationalism threatens global coronavirus effort

Pittsburgh Seemed Like a Virus Success Story. Now Cases Are Surging.

PITTSBURGH — A little more than three weeks ago, officials in Pittsburgh announced a milestone enviable for almost any major city in America: A day had gone by without a single new confirmed case of the coronavirus. It was good news for a city that had seen only a modest outbreak all along, even as the virus raged through places like Philadelphia and New York.

That was then.

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As US grapples with virus, Florida hits record case increase

Study of 17 Million Identifies Crucial Risk Factors for Coronavirus Deaths

US Covid-19 cases are climbing but some state and local leaders clash over moves to curb the spread

How Coronavirus Cases Have Risen Since States Reopened

Daily Virus Death Toll Rises in Some States

What the US can learn from other countries using phones to track Covid-19

           

A person in China scans a QR code with a smartphone to register their real name before getting off a bus in Wuhan, China. Zhang Chang/China News Service via Getty Images

The US is rolling out digital contact tracing. How has it been working in other countries?

vox.com - by Shirin Ghaffary - April 18, 2020

If and when lockdown restrictions are lifted in the US, would you agree to let the government anonymously track your interactions with people within a 6-foot radius to control the spread of Covid-19?

That’s an increasingly urgent question as President Trump and state governors debate how and when to safely reopen the US economy — and as technology is being touted as a solution that would help people reenter public life.

And tech giants are stepping up. Last week, Apple and Google announced a plan to turn phones into opt-in Covid-19 tracking machines that would, if all goes as planned, make it easier for health officials to identify and alert people if they’ve been exposed to the virus.

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