03/30 - New Worry: Aside from Emergency Medicine, Primary Care Medicine Faces Collapse As Well

This week is going to be the inflection point week when we begin tracking death numbers and hospitalization numbers, not just new cases. Why have France and Italy been undercounting deaths in those countries? Now we have to worry about Primary Care docs being overwhelmed also. Will the Instacart strike mean no grocery deliveries today? A thread about virus re-infections. And tips to take care of your lungs.

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Links:

A Deluged System Leaves Some Elderly to Die, Rocking Spain’s Self-Image (NY Times) Italy leveling graph (Noah Smith, Twitter) Why The Pandemic Is Putting Primary Care Docs In A Major Financial Pinch (Talking Points Memo) Instacart’s Gig Workers Are Planning a Massive, Nationwide Strike (Vice) Some Recovered Coronavirus Patients In Wuhan Are Testing Positive Again : Goats and Soda (NPR) Reinfections in Asia (Peter Kolchinsky, Twitter) Human Challenge Studies to Accelerate Coronavirus Vaccine Licensure (Harvard) Would you volunteer to get the coronavirus? Someone may have a job for you. (Technology Review) How to Take Care of Your Lungs (NY Times)