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How ProMED Crowdsourced the Arrival of Covid-19 and SARS

March 24, 2020March 24, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, COVID-19, diseases, epidemiology, public health

It was about 8:30 pm on December 30, and Marjorie Pollack, a physician and epidemiologist, was working in her home office in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Her email pinged. In her inbox was a note from a frequent and reliable contributor to ProMED, an email list of disease alerts for which Pollack serves as deputy editor. The contributor, who speaks and reads Chinese, wanted her to know about a new post that was getting some attention on Weibo, a within-China social media network. The post said that a few hours earlier,…

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WIREDs Video Guide to Extreme Indoor Activities

March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, COVID-19

Though it’s necessary to stay home and minimize person-to-person contact during a pandemic, the inescapable reality of “sheltering in place” is: It’s boring. The trick is to defeat the dullness. At WIRED, we’ve always loved a good indoor activity, and we’ve made lots of videos over the years of master-class practitioners doing everything from building world-record airplanes to Rube Goldberg-style kinetic art projects. Now you can find them all in one place—here! Whether you’re a restless kid, a stretched-thin parent, or just another citizen doing their part to slow the…

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Data Reveals the True Impact of the Coronavirus Outbreak

March 22, 2020March 22, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, COVID-19, Data, Wired UK

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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Chloroquine May Fight Covid-19and Silicon Valleys Into It

March 20, 2020March 20, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, COVID-19, diseases, medicine, public health

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

March 19, 2020March 19, 2020 NewsEditorBelgium, Brussels, coronavirus, COVID-19, european commission, European Parliament, European Union, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, telecommuting, United Kingdom, video conferencing, World Health Organization

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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E3 2020 Is Canceled Due to Coronavirus

March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, COVID-19, e3, PC Games, playstation, Replay, videogames

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

March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, COVID-19, outbreak, public health, whole-genome sequencing

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

March 8, 2020March 8, 2020 NewsEditorArs Technica, coronavirus, COVID-19, Gaming

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…