Fri. 03/13 - Everything Feels Like It’s Canceled; New Faster Test Gets FDA Approval

Everything feels like it’s canceled. Steps are taken to increase testing, but more stories of people denied testing surface every hour. People emit high levels of Coronavirus early, but are likely not infectious while recovering. And what you should actually do, in concrete steps, if you come down with Coronavirus.

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Where to Get a Coronavirus Test: Roche Speeds Delivery 10-Fold (Bloomberg) Scott Gottlieb, MD (Twitter) Danielle Paquette (Twitter) JetBlue Passenger Learns He Has Coronavirus While in Mid-Air (New York Times) Sick people across the country say they have been denied coronavirus test, despite doctor's advice (Washington Post) Here’s the Biggest Thing to Worry About With Coronavirus (New York Times) Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions for containing the COVID-19 outbreak: an observational and modelling study (medxRiv) Research finds huge impact of interventions on spread of Covid-19 (The Guardian) Clinical presentation and virological assessment of hospitalized cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (medxRiv) People 'shed' coronavirus early, but most likely not infectious after recovery (STAT) Symptoms of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (CDC) Prevent Others from Getting Sick (CDC) Coronavirus Resource Center (Harvard Health Publishing/Harvard Medical School)