Wed. 03/11 - WHO Declares Pandemic; U.S. Cases Top 1,000; How Far Are We From A Vaccine?

The World Health Organization has officially labeled the Covid-19 crisis a Pandemic. Why are children seemingly less susceptible to the Coronavirus? Is China beginning to win the battle against the disease? And what is the status of a vaccine?

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World Health Organization declares the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic (CNBC) 70 of 92 coronavirus cases in Massachusetts linked to Biogen employees after biotech firm's Boston meeting (CNN) Marc Lipsitch (Twitter) San Jose: Three TSA agents test positive for COVID-19 (San Jose Mercury News) FT chart (John Burn-Murdoch on Twitter) Kids Can Get Covid-19. They Just Don't Get That Sick (Wired) Why doesn't coronavirus make kids sick with covid-19? (Washington Post) Christopher Mims (Twitter) Clinicians' Biosecurity News (Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security) David Paulk (Twitter) Wuhan Closes 11 Makeshift Hospitals for COVID-19 Patients (Sixth Tone) Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (PDF - World Health Organization) Evolving Epidemiology and Impact of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on the Outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Wuhan, China (medRxiv) Face masks in national stockpile have not been substantially replenished since 2009 (Washington Post) Washington state requests N95 respirators from Strategic National Stockpile to fight coronavirus (Washington Post) Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Set to Begin This Month (Bloomberg) A coronavirus vaccine will take at least 18 months—if it works at all (MIT Technology Review)