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I Found That Many Articles About Coronaviruses Were Difficult To Digest, So I Made An Easy Infocomic (17 Pics)

March 5, 2020March 5, 2020 NewsEditor#covid-19, comic, corona, corona epidemic, corona precaution, coronavirus, coronavirus disease, coronavirus epidemic, coronavirus outbreak, coronavirus precaution, educational comics, full-page, health education, health education comics, infocomic, infographic, Prevention from Coronavirus disease, webcomic, Weiman Kow

This is the first comic about the coronavirus that I published. In January, I was on sick leave for three weeks due to a respiratory illness. While I was ill, I spent a lot of time researching respiratory illnesses. At that time, news about the Wuhan virus, now known as COVID-19, had just broken. As an illustrator, I made a summary of what I’ve learned about coronaviruses in general. I found that many informative articles about the topic were difficult to digest, so I tried to simplify the comic as…

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A Cruise Ship Quarantine, a Hunt for Cheaters, and More Car News This Week

February 24, 2020February 24, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, future of cars, helicopters, Uber

Turns out transportation angles lurk in every story. This week, the global reach of the coronavirus was top of mind, so we investigated how cruise ships—and one cruise in particular—helped spread the virus worldwide. Then, for a change of pace (pun intended), we looked into how digital footprints helped one data obsessive track down (we did it again) marathon cheats. Meanwhile, in California, a labor law is changing the way Uber and its drivers do business, which may end up affecting the price of a ride. Plus, check out this…

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GSMA cancels Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus concerns

February 24, 2020February 24, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, Mobile World Congress, mwc

The GSMA, the organization behind MWC, the world’s largest mobile trade show, has announced that it is officially canceling the show. MWC usually attracts more than 100,000 attendees from 200 countries to Barcelona. This year’s show was supposed to take place on February 24-27. Several publications received a statement about the cancellation. “The GSMA has cancelled MWC Barcelona 2020 because the global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel concern and other circumstances, make it impossible for the GSMA to hold the event,” GSMA CEO John Hoffman told Bloomberg and the…

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Four Planeloads of Americans Leaving China as Global Coronavirus Cases Surge

February 20, 2020February 20, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus

A new wave of airplane flights carrying hundreds of Americans stuck in China amid the worsening killed nearly 500 people in that country, will arrive at four locations. They include Travis Air Force Base in Sacramento, California; the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California; Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas; and Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska. This could be the beginning of what could be a long response, Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, told reporters.…

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One Person City: Photographer Captures Shanghai During Coronavirus Outbreak And The 24M Metropolis Looks Unrecognizable (32 Pics)

February 12, 2020February 12, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, coronavirus in china, coronavirus outbreak, full-page, Nicoco, Shanghai

confirmed cases out of the 43,104 global ones, and 1,016 deaths out of the total of 1,018. One Person City is a photo series that documents Shanghai during the coronavirus outbreak. It does an excellent job of revealing the ghostly emptiness, isolation, and fear that the virus has inflicted on the 24-million-people metropolis, giving us a better understanding of what the locals are actually going through. This post may include affiliate links. Unfollow 7 hours ago I get chill bumps looking at these empty photographs. I’d love to be there,…

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The Virus, the Vote, and the Very Long Week

February 8, 2020February 8, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, Elections, Gadget Lab Podcast, Podcasts

This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED digital director Brian Barrett joins us to talk about the app that derailed the Iowa caucus—and what it means for elections to come. Then, a conversation with WIRED staff writer Megan Molteni about how the spread of the coronavirus is claiming lives, disrupting the economy, and creating chaos in the global supply chain. Sex Education on Netflix. Brian recommends The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon. Mike recommends the podcast MeganMolteni. Brian Barrett is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone…

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Wuhan Coronavirus ‘Super-Spreaders’ Could Be Wildcards

February 2, 2020February 2, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, epidemics, public health, viruses

Stopping the spread of a rapidly emerging disease takes masterful medical detective work, including tracing the people who have been infected and figuring out their web of contacts, steps that are vital to understanding how it’s being transmitted. US public health officials are following those trails to quickly detect new cases of the Wuhan coronavirus, including the report on Thursday of a sixth US infection—the husband of a woman who became ill after traveling from China back home to Chicago—which was followed by a seventh, in California, on Friday. Yet…

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Downloads of a Pandemic-Themed Game Surge As Coronavirus News Spreads

January 29, 2020January 29, 2020 NewsEditorArs Technica, coronavirus, videogames

Interest in the continued spread of the coronavirus has had an unintended side effect for UK-based Plague Inc. The eight-year-old game—which asks players to shepherd a worldwide pandemic that destroys all of humanity—has seen a spike in popularity in recent weeks, becoming the most-downloaded iPhone app in China on January 21 and in the United States on January 23, ARS TECHNICA This story originally appeared on issue a statement urging players not to rely on the app for information on staying safe from the coronavirus' current spread. "Please remember that…