Kasey and Mat dive into the coronavirus timeline and talk China, early assumptions, masks, the flu, and vaccines. Be sure to check out Covid Part 2 when they dive into the economic side of the issue and analyze the government response. 

Articles and Research: 

On mask efficacy, meta analysis from The Lancet.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31142-9/fulltext

A little Covid Q&A with UCSF

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent

Research on efficacy between 3 types of masks 

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.20069567v2.full.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417132/

“Wear a mask, save your life”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mask-1918-flu-pandemic-controversial/

Overview of 1918 mask mandates

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-1918-americans-were-asked-to-wear-masks-some-refused--and-paid-the-price/2020/07/01/748d3fde-bbb5-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

Assumptions changed.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03141-3

The confusion 

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/10/829890635/why-there-so-many-different-guidelines-for-face-masks-for-the-public

Last ten years, flu data 

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html

Covid deaths international 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

USA 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Differences between the two 

https://www.qps.com/2020/10/05/covid-19-versus-the-seasonal-flu-facts-and-figures/