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This COVID-19 summer’s must-watch show is… an NBA rookie’s YouTube page? (Ars Technica) Published on: August 23, 2020 | Category: Global Response, Leadership

In early videos, Thybulle demystifies bubble policies and experiences as much as any traditional media.
Even if players will ultimately come into contact early and often during games, Welcome To The Bubble shows they must stay apart in fixed-position chairs during breaks on the practice court. Disney park wristbands that might normally FastPass a ride on Space Mountain instead help a player’s health data travel with them seamlessly for instant clearance.
And Thybulle walks the audience through this process: after arriving to the bubble and quarantining in their rooms until passing a consecutive number of COVID-19 tests, players then must take their temperature daily and head to a ballroom regularly for nose swabs.

Nearly 70,000 U.S. lives could be saved in the next 3 months if masks are worn, researchers say (CTV News) Published on: August 23, 2020 | Category: Global Response

Another 134,000 people could die in the U.S. from COVID-19 by December if no further safety measures are mandated — and the actual number probably would be much worse if mandates are relaxed, researchers say.
If governments ease current social distancing restrictions and mask mandates, daily death rates could reach 6,000 daily by December, up from his current prediction of 2,000 daily, Murray said.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield said earlier this week he expects deaths to begin declining by next week as a result of continued mitigation measures.
The CDC director expressed concern that while parts of the country are reporting improvement in new cases, states in middle America like Nebraska and Oklahoma seem to be “stuck” and cases aren’t falling.

Many Companies Planned to Reopen Offices After Labor Day. With Coronavirus Still Around, They’re Rethinking That. (WSJ) Published on: August 23, 2020 | Category: Global Response, Leadership

Expecting the virus to be under control by Labor Day, many employers had hoped to bring white-collar workers back to the office next month.
In an August survey of 15 major employers that collectively employ about 2.6 million people, 57% said they had decided to postpone their back-to-work plans because of recent increases in Covid-19 cases.
As they postpone back-to-the-office plans, many are adjusting safety protocols and thinking ahead about new quandaries—from how much legal immunity employers have if workers get sick to whether they can require Covid-19 inoculations when a vaccine becomes available.

Runny nose? Keep them home from school, Etches advises (CBC) Published on: August 22, 2020 | Category: Canadian Business, Global Response

Ottawa’s medical officer of health says parents should err on the side of caution once classes resume.
Vera Etches, Ottawa’s medical officer of health, is urging people to get tested for COVID-19 if they display any symptoms of sickness at all, and not return to school or work until the test comes back negative and their symptoms subside.
“Even if it’s not COVID, it’s still going to cause a lot of strife and challenge if other people pick up a virus, and then they have to go get tested. It’s really best to stay home when you’re sick, whatever that sickness is,” Etches said.

How does coronavirus spread at a concert? Germans do a test (AP News) Published on: August 22, 2020 | Category: Global Response

Germany held a pop concert Saturday to see how those attending could spread coronavirus if they had it.
German researchers studying COVID-19 packed part of a Leipzig arena with volunteers, collecting data in a “real life” simulation of a pop concert but one with strict health and safety controls.
Researchers equipped each volunteer with contact tracers to record their routes in the arena and track the path of the aerosols — the small particles that could carry the virus — they emitted as they mingled and talked.

Pandemic triggers wave of billion-dollar US bankruptcies (FT) Published on: August 22, 2020 | Category: Economic Impact

Large US corporate bankruptcy filings are now running at a record pace and are set to surpass levels reached during the financial crisis in 2009.
In total, 157 companies with liabilities of more than $50m have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this year and many believe a lot more will follow.
Multimillion dollar corporate defaults have been led by oil and gas companies this year as low crude prices have crippled many businesses. There have been 33 filings to date, including Chesapeake, Whiting Petroleum and Diamond Offshore Drilling. There were only 14 last year.

The Coronavirus Generation (NY Times) Published on: August 22, 2020 | Category: Economic Impact

The virus doesn’t sicken kids as much as adults. But it can still destroy their futures. A child allowance would help.
The Great Smoky Mountains Study is part of a trove of evidence that has reshaped expert views of child poverty, and it is ripe with lessons today, when the number of needy children is soaring.
While the coronavirus was initially said to spare the young, that no longer appears to be true medically, and economically it never was — certainly not for the 10 million children below the poverty line and even larger numbers just above it.

New Safety Standards for Moviegoing as U.S. Theaters Reopen (NY Times) Published on: August 21, 2020 | Category: Global Response

For the first time since March, when the pandemic brought much of American life to a halt, the nation’s major multiplex chains are selling tickets and serving popcorn again — although not in six states (New York, California, New Jersey, North Carolina, Maryland and New Mexico) where government officials say it remains too dangerous.
To help convince the rest of the country that moviegoing is safe, Ms. Colligan and the chief executives of the four largest theater chains in the United States — AMC Entertainment, Cinemark, Marcus Theaters and Regal Cinemas — appeared together via Zoom on Friday to announce uniform health protocols: mask requirements, limited capacity, no condiment stations, plexiglass partitions and enhanced air-filtration systems (or at least in top working order).
“It’s pretty similar to the time on a short-distance flight, which a lot of America is doing at this point,” said Dr. Joyce L. Sanchez, an infectious-disease expert at the Medical College of Wisconsin, at the news conference which was organized by the National Association of Theater Owners, a trade group.

U.S. Economic Recovery Gains Steam While Others Stutter (WSJ) Published on: August 21, 2020 | Category: Economic Impact

The U.S. economy picked up momentum this month as companies shook off the effects of the pandemic-induced downturn, though recoveries in other parts of the world slowed, according to new surveys of purchasing managers.
The data released Friday suggest U.S. firms are seeing demand return as they reopen from the lockdowns imposed in the spring and early summer.
They also indicate the economy has so far managed to weather July’s sharp rise in new coronavirus infections and business closures that threatened to knock the recovery off course.

Why the economic value of a face mask is $56.14 (The Economist) Published on: August 21, 2020 | Category: Economic Impact, Global Response

The thinking goes that masks can, in part, substitute for lockdowns. People wearing them need not be discouraged as much from using public transport. More shops and offices might be able to reopen, albeit while practising social distancing.
Calculations from Goldman Sachs, a bank, suggest that a 15 percentage-point rise in the share of the population that wears masks would reduce the daily growth of cases by about one percentage point.
These economic benefits suggest that governments should do even more to nudge the minority of people who still forgo masks.

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