Gordon Parks Muhammad Ali in training 1966 There are times when you think: now things must be easy to comprehend, but as it turns out, they are still not. Let me try once more. See, I was thinking it must have become much easier to gauge the impact in the US of COVID19 when I published the graph below from TheNewAtlantis.com a few days ago. That the stories about seasonal flu etc. at least should be dead and buried,
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Ben Shahn “Scene in Jackson Square, New Orleans” 1935 • Coronavirus’s Ability To Mutate Has Been Vastly Underestimated (SCMP) • WHO Warns That Few Have Developed Antibodies To COVID19 (G.) • LA Infections 40 Times Greater Than Known Cases In Antibody Tests (R.) • Getting A Handle On Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection (Scripps) • Coronavirus Attacks Blood Vessel Linings All Over The Body (SCMP) • Through No Fault of Their Own (Ben Hunt) • US Economic Shutdown Too Tight For
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Paul Caponigro Backlit Sunflower, Winthrop, MA 1965 • 20 Million COVID19 Tests Per Day Needed To Fully Open US Economy (ABC) • Without More Tests, America Can’t Reopen. And We’re Testing The Wrong People (Atl.) • Trump To Use Defense Production Act To Increase Swab Production (CNBC) • Israel Launches New ‘Contactless’ Roadside COVID19 Testing Booths (DM) • US Coronavirus Study Warns Sick Children Could Overwhelm Health System (SCMP) • Testicles May Make Men More Vulnerable To Coronavirus
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Unknown A couple wearing smog masks, London 1953 • Did COVID19 Outbreak Start Months Earlier And Not In Wuhan? (RT) • New Wave Of Infections Threatens To Collapse Japan Hospitals (AP) • Florida Prison System Begins To Reveal Ravages Of Coronavirus (MH) • UK Care Home Deaths ‘Far Higher’ Than Official Figures (BBC) • Anger In Sweden As Elderly Pay Price For Coronavirus Strategy (O.) • A Scam To Enrich Execs: COVID19 Bailouts Fuel More Share Buybacks (Feierstein) •
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Edward Hopper Cat boat 1922 • Antibody Study Suggests Coronavirus Far More Widespread Than Thought (G.) • No Evidence COVID-19 Survivors Have Immunity – WHO (Sky) • Double Warning Over Antibody Tests (BBC) • Existing Drugs ‘May Prove Effective On Coronavirus Before Vaccine Comes’ (SCMP) • Emirates First Airline To Conduct On-Site Rapid COVID-19 Tests (Em.) • US Seeks Access To Wuhan Virology Lab, Trump Questions China Death Toll (SCMP) • US, China and WHO Are All Keen To
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Dorothea Lange American River camp, Sacramento, CA. Destitute family. 5 children, aged 2 to 17 years 1936 • China Didn’t Warn Public Of Likely Pandemic For 6 Key Days (AP) • US Alerted Israel, NATO To Disease Outbreak In China In November (ToI ) • Wuhan Death Toll Up By 50% As 1,290 ‘Delayed & Omitted’ Fatalities Added (RT) • Men Are Much More Likely To Die From Coronavirus. Why? (G.) • France Summons Chinese Envoy Over Criticism Of
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Dorothea Lange Richmond, California 1942 • Coronavirus Testing Hits Dramatic Slowdown In US (Pol.) • Antibody Tests For Coronavirus Can Miss The Mark (NPR) • The Coronavirus Is Particularly Unkind To Those Who Are Obese (LAT) • New York Taps Mckinsey To Develop ‘Trump-Proof’ Economic Reopening Plan (R.) • New Zealand PM: Many Restrictions To Be Kept In Place When Lockdown Ends (R.) • Investors Are Underestimating The Economic Shock The World Is Facing (AEP) • Trump Threatens To
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Henri Cartier-Bresson A visitor to the Forbidden City, Beijing 1948 Today, I’m going to try to show you how and why we know that in the case of a pandemic like the one we’re in, surrounded by doubts and uncertainties, there are still a series of measures that we can and, more importantly, must take. But also, how these measures are hardly ever taken, and if they are, not in the correct fashion. This has to date led us
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Harris&Ewing National Press Club Building newssstand, Washington DC 1940 • First, The People Die; Then, The Stories (Rusty Guinn) • Trump Announces ‘Halt’ In US Funding To WHO Amid Pandemic (USAT) • WHO Urges China To Close ‘Dangerous’ Wet Market As Stalls In Wuhan Reopen (Ind.) • COVID19 Twice As Contagious As Previously Thought – Los Alamos Lab (SCMP) • New Coronavirus Outbreak Hotspots Emerging Across US (SCMP) • Universal Screening for COVID19 in NY Women Admitted for Delivery
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John M. Fox Garcia Grande newsstand, New York 1946 • Getting A Coronavirus Test In Wuhan: Fast, Cheap And Easy (R.) • South Korea Confirms 111 Cases Of Coronavirus Reinfection (KT) • How Coronavirus Almost Brought Down The Global Financial System (Tooze) • US Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 23,000 (R.) • New York, California, Other States Plan For Reopening As Crisis Eases (R.) • 30 Union Members Die, Rest Risk Their Lives So Americans Can Eat Meat (HuffPo) •
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