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Poynter – “Led by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute, the #CoronaVirusFacts / #DatosCoronaVirus Alliance unites more than 100 fact-checkers around the world in publishing, sharing and translating facts surrounding the new coronavirus. The Alliance was launched in January when the spread of the virus was restricted to China but already causing …
Bumper Mobility Study: Weekly Driving Returns to Pre-Pandemic Levels While Public Transport Drops 60%: “As the United States entered lockdown, Americans turned to their cars. Weekly average driving remains flat compared to pre-pandemic life, but walking and public transit use declined, according to a Bumper analysis of 2020 Apple Maps data. As Americans lean more …
CDC – Association of State-Issued Mask Mandates and Allowing On-Premises Restaurant Dining with County-Level COVID-19 Case and Death Growth Rates — United States, March 1–December 31, 2020 Early Release / March 5, 2021 / 70 – “…Increases in COVID-19 case and death growth rates were significantly associated with on-premises dining at restaurants after indoor or …
Vox – Retail pharmacies are now giving out Covid-19 vaccines, and some of them are using it as an opportunity to profit off your information. “… If you schedule a Covid-19 vaccine appointment with major pharmacy chains such as Walgreens or CVS, your data may be used to bulk up those companies’ own significant marketing …
Wired: “…More than half the old folks in the United States have been vaccinated against Covid-19—65 percent of people 75 years of age or older. That’s great news. It also means that more and more people are trying to figure out what happens next. Earlier this week, news leaked that the Centers for Disease Control …
STAT: “When experts envision the future of the coronavirus, many predict that it will become a seasonal pathogen that won’t be much more than a nuisance for most of us who have been vaccinated or previously exposed to it. But how long that process takes — and how much damage the virus inflicts in the …
Mashable – “The stats on the CDC’s vaccine data website are cause for both hope, and — for Black and brown communities — sadness-tinged outrage. The CDC added a vaccine stats section to its COVID data hub at the beginning of January. It includes counts of vaccine doses distributed to states, those administered to people …
The New York Times – Wirecutter: “Since the start of the pandemic, N95 respirators and surgical masks have been reserved for frontline workers—and many still are. But in recent months, medical-style disposable designs have cropped up online and in a dizzying number of stores, and some people are trading in their cloth face masks for …
Freedom House – “As a lethal pandemic, economic and physical insecurity, and violent conflict ravaged the world, democracy’s defenders sustained heavy new losses in their struggle against authoritarian foes, shifting the international balance in favor of tyranny.As a lethal pandemic, economic and physical insecurity, and violent conflict ravaged the world in 2020, democracy’s defenders sustained …
Collections Include Photographs of Community Impact, Web Archiving of Public Health Data and Artist Responses to the Health Crisis – “As the world marks the one-year anniversary of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Library of Congress has been collecting materials and documenting this time in history through a variety of initiatives. The Library’s rapid-response collecting …
Banking Policy Issues in the 117th Congress, March 2, 2021: “Over the past 14 years, banking has experienced significant events and changes and has regularly been the subject of policymaker initiatives and debates. In response to the 2007-2009 financial crisis, Congress—primarily through the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act; P.L. …
bioRxiv preprint – Meta-Research: Citation needed? Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic, Omer Benjakob, Rona Aviram, and Jonathan Sobel. “With the COVID-19 pandemic’s outbreak at the beginning of2020, millions across the world flocked to Wikipedia to read about the virus. Our study offers an in-depth analysis of the scientific backbone supporting Wikipedia’s COVID-19 articles.Using references as …
