Since the COVID-19 Updates have grown ever larger, Macon Media has decided to begin posting them as separate articles so people who do not want to wade through several dozen links and videos, don't have to do do. Several curated videos and links to articles are posted below to allow you to follow the course of humanity's response to this global pandemic. To start us off, Wikipedia has a list of known pandemics throughout history. [LINK]
The Town of Franklin and Macon County have added further restrictions to the State of Emergency currently in effect. [LINK]
Helping Others
Reading Rainbow Host LeVar Burton Wants to Read to Families for Free, Neil Gaiman Offers Entire Catalog [LINK]
LeVar Burton Podcast [LINK]
YouTube is reducing its default video quality to standard definition for the next month [LINK]
Texas Roadhouse CEO gives up salary to pay front-line employees during COVID-19 outbreak
In 2018, Louisville Business First reported Taylor's total compensation was $1.3 million with his base salary being $525,000 [LINK]
Elon Musk Purchases and Donates 1,200 Ventilators to Los Angeles [LINK]
COVID-19 Basics
How Coronavirus Kills: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) & COVID-19 Treatment
The Math Behind Modeling a Pandemic
Combating the coronavirus pandemic: Bosch develops rapid test for COVID-19 [LINK]
Coronavirus could kill 81,000 in U.S., subside in June -Washington University analysis [LINK]
COVID-19 Update for March 25th
North Carolina is reporting deaths from the coronavirus. A 70-plus-year-old Cabarrus County resident and a 60-plus-year-old person from Virginia who was traveling through North Carolina died on Tuesday of complications from COVID-19, the illness associated with the virus. [WRAL-TV]
The CDC website [LINK] reports 636 people in North Carolina are infected with 2 deaths and that the infections are spreading person-to-person, the NCDHHS website [LINK] https://www.ncdhhs.gov/covid-19-case-count-nc also reports 636 cases and 2 deaths in the state. The Johns Hopkins Dashboard [LINK] reports 755 people infected and 3 deaths.
Resources for Reliable Information about the Corona Virus (COVID-19) [LINK]
World Health Organization Briefing
White House Task Force Briefing
North Carolina COVID-19 Briefing
(no video of a briefing could be found for a briefing for March 26th, so I have left the videos from the 25th here)
English
Spanish
Governor closes K-12 schools for in-person instruction until May 15th [LINK]
NC local governments enact piecemeal stay-at-home orders [LINK]
Articles
Can We Really Ban In-Person Attendance at Board Meetings During the Coronavirus Emergency? [LINK]
COVID-19 SAFETY
Why Soap Is Still Our Best Weapon Against Coronavirus
PSA Safe Grocery Shopping in COVID-19 Pandemic – UPDATED!!!
1970: the future will have flying cars
2020: a Ph.D. has to make a 14-minute unironic video about washing hands
--swaglordYOLO, via Youtube
Coronavirus Pandemic Update 44: Loss of Smell & Conjunctivitis in COVID-19, Is Fever Helpful?
COVID-19 | Corona Virus: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Diagnostics
COVID-19 | Corona Virus: Treatment, Prognosis, Precautions
How Coronavirus Kills: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) & COVID-19 Treatment
Drone footage captures Boston emptied by coronavirus
Morgue Space in NYC Expanded With 45 Cooler Trucks [LINK]
US virus deaths may top 80,000 despite confinement: study [LINK]
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, March 27, 2020
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