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🦠🧼 CORONAVIRUS THREAD🧼🦠

Here, we'll be collecting our journalism + recommended readings on #Covid19 in the one place so that you can read it, share it, and arm yourself with the most important context around the #coronavirus over the coming time. 1/
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The coronavirus has grown into a pandemic with far-reaching and long-lasting consequences.

As an #unbreakingnews platform, what we can do best is to help you understand developments by providing context for the news in a carefully considered, factual and constructive way.

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At the link below, we're sharing key insights from our own reporting on the pandemic when our correspondents have the appropriate expertise.

We'll also guide you to the most important and trusted resources that we encounter outside of our platform. 3/
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If you come across sources that provide important context for this pandemic, please let us know at the link below.

We’ll follow up and check the reliability of all suggestions, and add the best ones to the guide.

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We're doing this along with our Dutch sister-site, @decorrespondent. With them and with our members, we have a wealth of expertise across a broad range of topics.

Together, we can give you informed, collaborative, transnational context to get through this pandemic, together. 5/

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But, it’s crucial right now that all information is available to everyone, so everything we share here is, as always, open. 6/

1. Deciphering the pandemic: a guide to understanding the coronavirus numbers, by Numeracy correspondent @sanneblauw.

This article does exactly what the title suggests, and explains the most important numbers behind #coronavirus.
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2. What is herd immunity? By Numeracy correspondent @sanneblauw.

Understanding numbers is obviously important right now, so here, Sanne explains the basic concept behind something we’re hearing a lot about right now: #HerdImmunity.
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3. You’re likely to get the virus, by @jameshamblin, preventive medicine M.D., staff writer @TheAtlantic.

The paradox of #Covid19: Because it’s so difficult to identify, the virus can spread quickly and easily, wreaking havoc. Recommended by @riffyyyyy
theatlantic.com/health/archive…

4. The radical empathy of the coronavirus panic by @evefairbanks for @newrepublic.

The article shows how the #coronavirus puts a moral onus on us to care for others—a reminder that for better or worse, we are all connected. Recommended by @NesrineMalik
newrepublic.com/article/156943…

5. Don’t forget: disasters and crises bring out the best in people, by @RutgerBregman.

We see on our feeds people behaving horribly, but these people are the exception. The rule? Most people treat each other better in a crisis.
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6. Why outbreaks like the #coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to #FlattenTheCurve by @Harry_Stevens for @WashingtonPost – on how we can defeat coronavirus together by being alone. Recommended by @irenecaselli
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7. #Coronavirus will also cause a loneliness epidemic by @ezraklein for @VOX.

On how we need to take both social distancing and the “social recession” it will cause seriously. Recommended by culture and cliches correspondent @LynnBerger1984
vox.com/2020/3/12/2117…

8. The coronavirus lockdown isn't going away any time soon by @glichfield via @techreview. On why social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. Recommended by @EricHolthaus
technologyreview.com/s/615370/coron…

9. Keeping the lights on: Economic medicine for a medical shock by @BaldwinRE via Centre For Economic Policy Research, on why a unique recession is coming and it will be caused by a shortage of supply. Recommended by @MaxvLent
voxeu.org/article/how-sh…

10. The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence (or, how to make quarantine less stressful) via @TheLancet. Recommended by @MaxvLent
thelancet.com/journals/lance…

11. What we can learn from the Spanish flu, 100 years later, by @Gladwell via @NewYorker – a good introduction to the fields of virology and epidemiology. Recommended by Sports correspondent @michieldehoog:
newyorker.com/magazine/1997/…

12. Who to follow: The #coronavirus syllabus. The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social implications of the unfolding crisis. Recommended by @mauritsmartijn, deputy editor in chief, @decorrespondent:
covid19syllabus.substack.com

13. Who to follow: @OurWorldInData for a reliable source of data and good explanations of all the uncertainty surrounding the figures. Recommended by Numeracy correspondent @sanneblauw
ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

14. A @Twitter list of 45 scientists to keep your knowledge rooted in science, evidence, and facts, rather than hyperbole and conjecture. Recommended by conversation editor @lahnabee
twitter.com/i/lists/124065…

15. When will there be a drug to treat #Covid19? Big Pharma correspondent Ruben Mersch answers the most important questions about treating the #coronavirus with medicine:
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16. How the surgical face mask has become a symbol of our times, by @VVFriedman via @nytimes.

Confusion, fear, anxiety, misinformation – the surgical mask is the symbols of our times. Recommended by Clothing correspondent @Emydemkes:
nytimes.com/2020/03/17/sty…

17. Now is the time to overreact: On how overreacting to the #coronavirus is nothing to be embarrassed about, by @ibogost via @TheAtlantic.

Recommended by Mobility correspondent Thalia Verkade: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

18. We don't know much, but we know enough to take action (and social distancing is a good place to start) by @mlipsitch via @statnews and recommended by @decorrespondent deputy editor-in-chief @mauritsmartijn.
statnews.com/2020/03/18/we-…

19. How the virus become a pandemic. Where @jwf825, @dawncai624, Derek Watkins and @jamesglanz for @nytimes analyse the movements of 100s of millions of people to show how #Covid19 got out.

Recommended by @decorrespondent senior copy editor @JohVis.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…

20. Understand the #coronavirus in 8 minutes in this Youtube video by @Kurz_Gesagt. The final word? Wash your hands as though you've just cut up jalapeño and you want to put in contact lenses.

Recommended by Najib el Moussaoui, tech desk operator:

21. How #coronavirus works, and how it makes you sick by hijacking your cells. A clear explanation by @13pt and @carlzimmer via @nytimes.

Recommended by biologist Thomas Oudman:
nytimes.com/interactive/20…

22. Talk with the experts: what questions do you have about the #coronavirus pandemic? A transnational chat hosted by conversation editor @lahnabee, happening today, 10:00 EDT/15:00 CET, here:
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Want more context to help understand the #coronavirus pandemic? Read the full guide, here:
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23. You asked the experts questions about the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s what they said (in over 300 contributions!)
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24. WhY the Federal Reserve should give China a break in the pandemic, by historian @adam_tooze via @nytimes.

Recommended by @Westervangaal, Climate Economy correspondent, @decorrespondent.
nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opi…

25. It's worth following the important work being done by the @factchecknet via @Poynter which has gathered 100 fact-checkers from around the world to share knowledge and bust myths about the #coronavirus. Recommended by conversation editor @lahnabee
poynter.org/ifcn-covid-19-…

26. Will governments roll back their drastic measures when the pandemic ends? By @harari_yuval via @FinancialTimes on the world after #coronavirus. Recommended by @robwijnberg, Founding editor of The Correspondent and @decorrespondent
ft.com/content/19d903…

27. Remember: in quarantine, we’re all alone together by @olivialaing1 via @nytimes. And essay on how, even in our states of anxious isolation, we are not alone. Recommended by @LynnBerger1984, Culture and Clichés correspondent @decorrespondent
nytimes.com/2020/03/19/opi…

28. Viruses aside, loneliness due to isolation is a health hazard too, by Robin Wright via @NewYorker. On how the emotional toll of millions of lonely people is just as dangerous as the virus itself. Recommended by @riffyyyyy, editor at @decorrespondent
newyorker.com/news/our-colum…

29. In trying times humans really can show the best of ourselves. The @AP is collecting these positive stories, and giving us a space to celebrate humanity. Recommended by @irenecaselli, First 1,000 Days correspondent, The Correspondent.
apnews.com/OneGoodThing

Follow our living #coronavirus guide, where we're adding the best stories every day to help give you context to our global pandemic 🔻🔻🔻
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