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March 12 Video on COVID by Me, Dr. Brandt, and Chrystal Woller (Health and Wellness)

Dr. Fauci’s Keynote the the American Society for Microbiology (August 17)

Things We Still Need Better Data On As of July 5: (And still don’t know at the end of August)

• How easily does the virus spread by aerosols vs by larger droplets?
• Why do some people without underlying conditions have relatively mild disease and others have serious, even fatal disease?
• How good is the immunity derived from infection?

Popular Press Articles

• Johns Hopkins Tracker
• NPR Tracker by State
• Global Health Now
• Good (But Dated) Charts
• American Society for Microbiology Page (Geeky)
• Potential Treatments as of March 2
• Viral Origins (Technical)
• Efficacy of Hand Sanitizers (Technical)
• Analysis of Virus (Technical)
• Basic Disease Progression Video
• Good NYT Review of Viruses in Plain Language (June 2)
• Somewhat Geekier Review from ASM (June 18)
• Rating Treatment Options (July 16)
• Opening Schools Considerations (July 17)
• How the Virus Spreads (July 27)
• Yes, Coronavirus Is Spread by Aerosols (July 30)
• Vaccine and Immunity (July 31)
• Explanation of the Immune System (The Atlantic (August 6)
• How To Achieve Herd Immunity (WP August 7)
• Superspreader Modeling (NYT August 7)
• How Susceptible at Children to COVID? (WP August 8)

• COVID 19 – SARS Comparison
• R0 (Jan 28)
• How Bad Will It Get? (Feb 27)
• Risk Factors (National Geographic, March 10)
• Early Testing Troubles (March 10)
• Dr. Brilliant (real name) on COVID 19 (March 19)
• Mild to Moderate Cases Are Neither (March 25)
• Epidemiology, Ethics, and Economics (March 27)
• Why Mortality Estimates Are Always Low (March 27)
• The Dangers of Misinformation (April 5)
• Why Mortality Rate Is Hard to Calculate (April 17)
• False Equivalency in Information (April 17)
• Silent Pneumonia (April 20)
• Infection Fatality Rate vs Case Fatality Rate (April 29)
• Comparing Influenza Deaths to COVID Deaths (May 2)
• Pathology (May 11)
• Testing in Indiana (May 13)
• Calling COVID Positive Patients (May 14)
• General Review, MJS (May 16)
• When 511 Epidemiologists Plan to Do Normal Things (June 7)
• Long-Term Symptoms (June 11)
• Why Does COVID Kill Some and Not Others? (June 17)
• COVID Progress in Wisconsin (June 19)
• How Masks Help (June 22)
• COVID Surge is Real and Widespread (June 25)
• How the Virus Spread Throughout the US (June 25)
• Why People Deny Scientific Evidence (June 29)
• D614G Mutant (June 29)
• How to Navigate the Flood of COVID News (August 4)
• Things We Know and Don’t Know 8 Months In (August 18)

Peer Reviewed Articles

• Viral Origins
• Estimating Mortality Rate (Feb)
• Immune Response Time Course Single Recovered Patient (Feb)
• Immune Response to Coronaviruses (Feb)
• Effects of Travel Restrictions on Spread (March 24)
• Analysis of Virus (March 25)
• Neutralizing Epitope (March 25)
• The Pathologist Overview (March 28)
• Effects of Interventions in Europe (March 31)
• Vaccine Development (April 20)
• Cell Types Expressing COVID Receptors (April 23)
• Pathology (April 24)
• Immunity Review (April 25)
• ACE2 Levels As Severity Mechanism (April 28)
• Immunology Review (May 12)
• Superspreader Events (May 20)
• Immunomodulation as Treatment (May21)
• Estimated Effect of Government Actions (June 7)
• Better IFR (June 17)
• D614G Mutant (June 29)
• Immune Markers Longitudinal (June 29)
• Open Questions (Nature, July 5)
• Moderna Vaccine Trial (NEJM July 14)
• Symptom Clusters Predictive of Severe Disease (July 27)
• The Effect of School Closings on Virus Spread (JAMA July 30)
• SARS-CoV-2 Reactive T-Cells (Nature August 3)
• Failure to Learn From Pandemic Simulations (Nature August 5)
• Modeling 2021 (Nature August 6)
• Modeling Droplet Transmission (JPC August 11)
• T-Cell Responses to COVID-19 (Nature August 11)
• Male and Female Immune Responses to COVID-19 (Nature August 27)
• How We Got to COVID-19 (Nature Sept 8)
• IL-17A and IFN-g Are Higher in Children With COVID-19 (Science TM Sept 23)
• IL-33 (Oct 18)