COVID-19 Update for Sunday, March 29, 2020

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.

Cherokee, Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests temporarily shut down trailheads, access points to Appalachian National Scenic Trail [LINK]

Governor Roy Cooper Issues "Stay at Home" Order for the state to mitigate the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 [LINK]

The Town of Franklin and Macon County have added further restrictions to the State of Emergency currently in effect. [LINK]

COVID-19 Update for March 29th


The CDC website [LINK] reports 764 people in North Carolina are infected and that the infections are widespread, the NCDHHS website [LINK] also reports 935 cases, 87 hospitalized and 4 deaths in the state. The Johns Hopkins Dashboard [LINK] reports 1,063 people infected and 5 deaths.

Resources for Reliable Information about the Corona Virus (COVID-19) [LINK]

Good News

Volunteers sewing supplies for health care workers [LINK]

Blue ribbons popping up along streets in Abbotsford in praise of B.C. healthcare workers [LINK]

Parents Work on the Front Lines. Where Do Their Children Go All Day?
An experimental program attempts to fill the void of shuttered public schools. [LINK]

PlayStation Employees Working from Home Until 30th April, Will Receive Full Pay and Equipment Budget [LINK]

BBC Joins Netflix In Making $600,000 Donation To Coronavirus Emergency Relief Fund [LINK]



Research

Over 20,000 academic articles on Coronavirus are free for public access [LINK]

Donor's Blood May Help Recipient Fight COVID-19 [LINK]

Russia claims it produces drug to treat COVID-19 [LINK]

Coronavirus: pathogen could have been spreading in humans for decades, study says [LINK]

Coronavirus Video Briefings
(There were no video briefings on Saturday, so the Friday Briefings have been left up


World Health Organization Briefing

White House Coronavirus Taks Force Briefing


Governor's Coronavirus Briefing for North Carolina

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Spanish

General Articles

President Trump Delivers Remarks at Naval Station Norfolk Send-Off for USNS Comfort


More on Zoom and privacy [LINK]

How Russia is using authoritarian tech to curb coronavirus [LINK] 

How Taiwan Used Big Data, Transparency and a Central Command to Protect Its People from Coronavirus [LINK]

Canada turning to makeshift hospitals to house patients as COVID-19 pandemic stretches capacity [LINK]

Can Tesla, GM And Ford Help Solve The Coronavirus Ventilator Shortage?


How To Tell If We're Beating COVID-19


TED || How we must respond to the coronavirus pandemic


A 3D-printed ventilator designed for Spain's coronavirus patients. [LINK]

Virus Protection Basis [LINK]

March 28th Update from Dr John Campbell


2 arrested, 70 cited for violating stay-at-home orders, Honolulu police say [LINK]

Government Tracking How People Move Around in Coronavirus Pandemic [LINK]

‘Off the charts’: Virus hot spots grow in middle America [LINK]

Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Is an ‘Almost Meaningless’ Metric [LINK]

Politics
(The following section is presented to give the reader an idea of how people are attempting to report on this pandemic through the lens of their own political agendas)

Trump drops idea of New York lockdown as U.S. death count crosses 2,000 [LINK]

One-Worlders Exploit Pandemic For Global Government [LINK]

Trump backs down on NY quarantine threat after Cuomo slams president’s ‘anti-American’ coronavirus proposal [LINK]

The Mega-Bailout Leaves 4 Mega Questions [LINK]

Anarchy and the coronavirus [LINK]

The first casualty of war, even war against a virus, is truth [LINK]

Giuliani Urges Governors And Mayors Grovel To Trump For COVID-19 Help [LINK]

Dictatorship of the immunocompromised? [LINK]




Archive

Mach 28th Update [LINK]


March 27th Updates [LINK]

March 26th Update [LINK]


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Published at 6:20am on Sunday, March 29, 2020