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Data Reveals the True Impact of the Coronavirus Outbreak

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Something was wrong with Malaysia’s internet. It was March 13, and the more Simon Angus looked at the data, the more he suspected that the country might be in the midst of a Wired UK This story originally appeared on asked Netflix to restrict high-definition streaming until the emergency is over.) Now, Angus’ scanning had detected that Malaysia’s internet had become allowed a religious mass gathering to go ahead in Kuala Lumpur. Once Covid-19 cases linked to the event started to emerge, the government scrambled to find all the attendees,…

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Coronavirus Is Scary Enough for Some People to Risk Deportation

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If Brenda, a 30-year-old agricultural worker in Goodyear, Arizona, suddenly comes down with symptoms of the undocumented immigrant, and asked that her last name not be used in the event that the government took an interest in her. This attitudeboth about being identified in general but also about coming forward with health problemsis fairly typical, according to Mariana Magaa Gamero, policy advocate for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles (CHIRLA). People fearand its a very valid fearthat if youre providing your information to any government entity, that…

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Chloroquine May Fight Covid-19and Silicon Valleys Into It

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The chatter about a promising drug to fight Covid-19 started, as chatter often does (but science does not), on Twitter. A blockchain investor named James Todaro Google doc he’d cowritten, explaining the idea. What Is the Coronavirus? Plus: How can I avoid catching it? Is Covid-19 more deadly than the flu? Our in-house Know-It-Alls answer your questions. nearly a dozen drugs to treat coronavirus are in clinical trials in China, just one—remdesivir, an antiviral that was in trials against Ebola and the coronavirus MERS—is in linked to Todaro’s Google document;…

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The Coronavirus Stock Market Rollercoaster Isnt Stopping Anytime Soon

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It may get a lot worse before it gets any better. Sales of face masks, hand sanitizer, and disinfectant may be spiking worldwide due to the cascading spread of 346 companies set to announce earnings results from 2019s fourth quarter on Friday; more than 1100 were expected to release quarterly earnings reports the first week of March. Any additional news of lower-than-expected sales, production, inventory, or profits will also drag down stock prices and related indexes. In the years after the car parts, computers, chemicals, clothing, plastic components and even…

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European Parliament moves to majority teleworking in response to COVID-19

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The European Parliament is instructing managers to prepare for all but a minority of staff to work remotely for 70% of the week as of next Monday — dialling up its response to Covid-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Full-time remote working may follow, it has also said. In an email sent today European Parliament staff have been instructed that teleworking will be introduced on March 16 — for “all colleagues whose physical presences in Parliament is not absolutely indispensable”. “At this stage it will be 70% teleworking.…

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Italians Share Information They Wish They Knew At The Beginning Of Coronavirus, So Others Can Prepare

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are behind them in the COVID-19 progression: don’t underestimate the virus and keep safe. The clips were then compiled together and published on YouTube, where they received nearly 6M views in just a few days. Hopefully, this is just the beginning and more people will see it and catch a glimpse of what their future might be if they don’t heed the warnings. Italy is the European epicenter of the pandemic. People of all ages and living all over Italy participated in the project Dr. Pavesi, an anesthesiologist at the…

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E3 2020 Is Canceled Due to Coronavirus

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Greetings all, and welcome to Replay, WIRED's rundown of all of the week's big videogame news. Today, we've got quite a few coronavirus-related updates and one very good recommendation of something you can play while you're at home. E3 2020 Is Canceled No surprises here: E3 2020 has been canceled due the coronavirus pandemic. The Entertainment Software Association made the decision last week as many other public gatherings around the world were put on hold in an attempt to slow down the spread of Covid-19. "Following increased and overwhelming concerns…

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Nurse Treating Coronavirus Patients In Italy Shares How Hard It Is With A Heartbreaking Pic

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Alessia’s post was immensely popular, getting over 817k likes on Instagram. Internet users expressed their support for the nurse and for everyone in Italy on the frontlines in the battle against the virus. alessiabonari_ alessiabonari_ alessiabonari_ According to The Local, hospitals in Italy, especially in the north, are overwhelmed. Doctors and nurses are exhausted and the number of patients keeps growing. “It’s sort of like house arrest.” in his blog Travel Addicts. According to Rick, the lockdown in Italy feels surreal. “It’s sort of like house arrest. Having to walk…

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Stanford cancels classes in response to novel coronavirus outbreak

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Following on the heels of several major cancellations of events the past few days, including the SXSW conference in Austin and the tech conference SaaStr, Stanford University, which is located in the heart of Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, California, announced late Friday that the school would cancel in-person classes for the final two weeks of the university’s winter quarter in response to the expanding outbreak of novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. In a statement posted by the university, Stanford’s provost Persis Drell announced that the university would cancel two weeks of…

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A Disease Tracker Backed by Gates and Zuckerberg Tackles Covid-19

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Jessica Manning had no experience with coronaviruses. The infectious disease researcher had lived and worked in Cambodia off and on since 2013, studying the mosquitoes of the Mekong Delta and how their saliva helps spread disease in humans. But in January, the country flagged its first Covid-19 patient, and the lab that delivered the diagnosis wanted to send samples from the patient and his family to Manning for further testing. Manning works at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research in Phnom Penh,…

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Amid Coronavirus Fears, Startups Rethink the Virtual Conference

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The first conference to go was Mobile World Congress. The annual gathering of electronics makers and phone geeks announced the cancellation just weeks before it was set to begin, in late February, for the sake of safety. Global concern over the new coronavirus was rising, and plus, exhibitors were dropping left and right. Next came Adobe Summit. Then Facebook F8. Within weeks, Google had canceled its annual developer conference, Google I/O, and Google Cloud Next, its cloud-focused conference. Microsoft called off its MVP Summit. IBM pulled the plug on Think.…

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Mike Huckabee’s defense of Trump’s coronavirus response will make you nauseous

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Amid criticisms of President Donald Trumps handling of the coronavirus outbreak, his proxies are resorting to increasingly bizarre ways to defend him. Trump has been criticized for letting politics, not science, dictate his administrations response to the virus thats quickly spreading across the globe. Trump has contradicted his own health officials in public statements about coronavirus and put (non-medical doctor) Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the outbreak and made him a gatekeeper for communications about it. Meanwhile, a whistleblower has claimed that federal health employees who interacted with…

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The TurboGrafx-16 Mini’s Launch Is Delayed Due to Covid-19

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The planned launch of the announced Friday. The plug-and-play retro console, originally set to launch with dozens of games on March 19, has been pushed back because "the manufacturing and shipping facilities in China have encountered an unavoidable suspension due to the current coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak … We deeply apologize for the significant inconvenience, and we humbly ask your understanding and patience while we keep our close attention on the situation." Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's…

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Is It OK to Make Coronavirus Memes and Jokes?

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A global outbreak that has killed thousands of people doesn’t seem like a likely source of humor, but the internet can’t stop cracking jokes about coronavirus. Since late last year, when China first alerted the world to the novel coronavirus, jokes, puns, and memes about it have been spreading even faster and wider than the virus itself. It doesn’t seem to matter that the virus that causes Covid-19 is now a far more tangible threat to English-speaking meme makers than it was three months ago. If anything, as anxiety and…

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