Mon. 04/27 - Behind the Headlines on Immunity

The lockdowns are starting to come down in New Zealand, and even Italy. New official symptoms of the disease from the CDC. A follow up on that story about stroke victims suddenly appearing. Parsing the headlines about immunity, or lack thereof. A rule of thumb for assessing true infection numbers. And how to save summer 2020.

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Young people with coronavirus are dying from strokes (Washington Post) Coronavirus Immunity: No Evidence That People Can't Be Infected Twice, WHO Says (BuzzFeed) Clarifying statement on immunity (WHO, Twitter) What the WHO actually means (Nate Silver, Twitter) Opinion | Who Is Immune to the Coronavirus? (New York Times) Antibody tests: 6% of Miami-Dade residents had coronavirus (Miami Herald) A Stanford Professor’s Wife Recruited People For His Coronavirus Study By Claiming It Would Reveal If They Could “Return To Work Without Fear” (BuzzFeed News) How to Save Summer 2020 (NY Times) CDC studies of restaurant and call center (Derek Thompson, Twitter) Coronavirus: Social distancing could require 'necessary renovations' to sports arenas (CNBC)

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