COVID-19 - Where Are We Now?

Outbreak/Origin

Timeline of The Virus - https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-timeline.html

Arrival

First Known Case in the US - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191

Issues Tracking the Virus - https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/24/842025982/why-the-warning-that-coronavirus-was-on-the-move-in-u-s-cities-came-so-late

Death Toll

Cases and Death Toll - https://www.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/index.html

What We Know So Far…

What is the Coronavirus?

How does it kill? - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes

Misinformation

Hydroxychloroquine - https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/24/health/fda-warns-against-chloroquine-to-treat-covid/index.html

Bleach and Lysol Injections - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/politics/trump-inject-disinfectant-bleach-coronavirus.html

Bleach Baths - https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-04-24/coronavirus-cristina-cuomo-chris-cuomo-clorox-instagram

Testing

Lots of controls & regulations, little support https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/testing-laboratories.html

A Vaccine

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/nih-clinical-trial-vaccine-covid-19-now-enrolling-older-adults

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/health/coronavirus-vaccine-trial-uk-gbr-intl/index.html

Phases of a Vaccine Trial http://www.euvaccine.eu/vaccines-diseases/vaccines/stages-development

BARDA

The Next Year

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/health/coronavirus-america-future.html

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