COVID-19 :Determinants of Hospitalization, ICU and Death among 20,293 reported cases in Portugal: Older age stands out as the strongest risk factor for all outcomes specially for death as absolute is risk was small for those younger than 50. These findings have implications in terms of risk stratified public health measures that should prioritize protecting older people. Epidemiologic scenarios and clinical guidelines may consider the estimated risks, even though under-ascertainment of mild and asymptomatic cases should be considered in different age groups.

Covid-19: the ethics of clinical research in quarantine: Key messages
Quarantine is the confinement of people who have been exposed to a disease to prevent them from spreading it further

It has been used and will likely be used again to respond to covid-19

As a closed system, quarantine offers the possibility for highly controlled research into the development and transmission of covid-19

But quarantine is an infringement on individual rights, and thus raises ethical concerns and requires compelling justification to be used

Vietnam: How this country of 95 million kept its coronavirus death toll at zero

Inquérito sobre alimentação e atividade física em contexto de contenção social: Este estudo da Direção-Geral da Saúde teve como objetivo conhecer os comportamentos alimentares e de atividade física dos portugueses em contexto de contenção social, para combate à pandemia da COVID-19.

Trusting software in a pandemic: As concerns about the privacy and security implications of contract tracing apps for COVID-19 show, establishing trust in software is still a real challenge.

Access Now releases recommendations on privacy and data protection in the fight against COVID-19

COVID-19 Employer Information for Office Buildings (CDC)

Six deadly lockdown sins:
- Lockdowns will have a negative impact on mental health and lead to more suicides.
- With elective surgeries and routine screenings suspended, many diseases that would be treatable if caught in time will end up killing hundreds of thousands.
- People have been so terrorised by the propaganda unleashed by governments around the world that people requiring crucial care have refused to go to hospital, whether through fear of catching the virus, or because being good citizens they don’t want to trouble a badly over-burdened health system.
- The lockdowns reduced the amount of time people spent in the fresh air and sunshine, with some people being cooped up in high-risk environments like congested living complexes.
- Elderly hospital patients infected with COVID-19 were discharged into care and nursing homes to deadly effect, accounting for more than half of all Covid deaths.
- The deadliest impact of the lockdowns will be on the world’s poorest billion people over the next decade along multiple sub-pathways.

Webinar COVID-19 - Epidemiological monitoring and measurement of infectivity rates in key countries

Generation Coronavirus: Economic Scars for Decades to Come: Companies in Germany were practically begging 20- to 30-year-olds to come work for them. Then came the coronavirus, destroying health, lives and jobs. It will take decades for this generation to catch up economically.

UK suffers second-highest death rate from coronavirus: The UK has suffered the second-highest rate of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic after Spain, according to excess mortality figures. The UK has suffered the second-highest rate of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic after Spain, according to excess mortality figures.

CORD-19 Claim Verification: Our system is designed as a research tool to help scientists identify relevant findings in the research literature. It is NOT designed to detect misinformation or disinformation in the news...

Companies Are Trying to Plan for Two Different Futures Right Now, and It's Impossible: “We have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen; your guess is as good as ours.”

Rethinking Digital Platforms for the Post-COVID-19 Era: As long as COVID-19 is a global concern, many aspects of daily life will be mediated by platform companies that see human interactions as content to be moderated, and as sources of data to be monetized

How Some Countries Brought New Coronavirus Cases Down To Nearly Zero: Perhaps the greatest success story is New Zealand, which has stopped local transmission and has a plan to completely eliminate the virus from its territory.

COVID-19 spurs media and entertainment companies to transform: The media and entertainment (M&E) industry, which has provided us all with so much comfort during this time of sheltering in place, will never be the same again. Companies that can adjust quickly to the new realities of a post COVID-19 world will be the ones best positioned to thrive as the economy recovers.

European Data Protection Board Letter concerning the European Commission's draft Guidance on apps supporting the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic

Interoperability guidelines for approved contact tracing mobile applications in the EU: This document addresses the first follow-up action envisaged by the eHealth Network’s‘Mobile applications to support contact tracing in the EU’s fight against COVID-19, Common EU Toolbox for Member States Version 1.0’ (‘the Toolbox’), namely, ‘developing further the interoperability framework’ for mobile contact tracing apps.

The Coronavirus (Safeguards) Bill 2020: Proposed protections for digital interventions and in relation to immunity certificates: This Bill attempts to provide safeguards in relation to the symptom tracking and contact tracing apps that are currently being rolled out in the UK; and anticipates minimum safeguards that will be needed if we move on to a roll out of “immunity certificates” (commonly known as passports) in the near future. 

High level privacy and security design for NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app

Time out for torts: The time is ripe for immunity for COVID-19: On May 11, attorneys general from 21 states wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s chair and ranking member, requesting federal liability protection to help mitigate the threat of frivolous litigation related to COVID-19. I am a defender of Common Law state tort liability, but I firmly agree with the attorneys general that immunity is needed. They can provide it themselves, though. Here’s why. 

Coronavirus: Test and trace system kicks off in England and Scotland: Tracers will text, email or call people who test positive with coronavirus and ask who they have had contact with.

Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 | Science: Masks and testing are necessary to combat asymptomatic spread in aerosols and droplets

COVID-19: in the footsteps of Ernest Shackleton | Thorax: The majority of COVID-19-positive patients were asymptomatic (81%, 104 patients). We conclude that the prevalence of COVID-19 on affected cruise ships is likely to be significantly underestimated, and strategies are needed to assess and monitor all passengers to prevent community transmission after disembarkation.

Qué tendencias económicas ha acelerado la pandemia? La producción local, la apuesta por la sostenibilidad y la digitalización son aspectos que las compañías deben considerar en sus estrategias para abrirse camino en esta nueva realidad

No Country for Old People: Sweden did not set out to kill thousands of its older citizens. Nor did any country as COVID-19 swept across the globe. But Sweden’s unique and closely watched approach to the pandemic has spotlighted the tragic toll the coronavirus has taken on the elderly. It has cast a harsh light on the value that societies have placed on the freedoms of some to the expense of others.

COVID-19 Global Online Safety Advice for Parents and Carers: As parents and carers, you have the best opportunity to support and guide your children to avoid online risks and have safer experiences. Governments and industry also have a role to play in making sure the online world is a safe place to be.

Coronavirus tests the value of artificial intelligence in medicine: Albert Hsiao, M.D., and his colleagues at the University of California, San Diego (USCD) health system had been working for 18 months on an artificial intelligence program designed to help doctors identify pneumonia on a chest X-ray. When the coronavirus hit the U.S., they decided to see what it could do.

Comunicação Publicitária - Recomendações para os agentes económicos e alerta para os consumidores: A DGC e a ARP entendem, ao abrigo do Protocolo de Cooperação celebrado entre as partes, conjugar esforços para lembrar a todos os profissionais do setor a necessidade de a publicidade...

Regulation, misinformation and COVID19

Where The Latest COVID-19 Models Think We're Headed — And Why They Disagree: Models predicting the potential spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have become a fixture of American life. Yet each model tells a different story about the devastation to come, making it hard to know which one is “right.” But COVID-19 models aren’t made to be unquestioned oracles. They’re not trying to tell us one precise future, but rather the range of possibilities given the facts on the ground.

What You Should Know About Online Tools During the COVID-19 Crisis: in order to make informed decisions about what works best for you and your communities, and ways you can use security and privacy best practices to protect yourself and others.

What Happens Next? COVID-19 Futures, Explained With Playable Simulations

Workplace testing – guidance for employers

Projects using personal data to combat SARS-CoV-2: different approaches by government and private projects to use personal data to combat SARS-CoV-2

President Trump’s proposed guidelines for relaxing social distancing guidance

Portal todomundo.org é lançado para juntar esforços solidários

Portal Europeu da Justiça - Impacto da COVID-19 no domínio da justiça

Plano de Desconfinamento: O que implica a declaração de situação de calamidade?

Full Fact is the UK’s independent fact checking charity. We provide free tools, information and advice so that anyone can check the claims we hear from politicians and the media

FREE Digital Resources from the Freedom Forum: a list of resources for students, educators, parents and life-long learners

Free content, tools and funding to help your newsroom cover the coronavirus

Flattening the Curve on COVID-19

Fighting disinformation - EU official sources on COVID-19

FAQs: Disclosing Student Health Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a new white paper, available for download, that offers guidance to help K-12 and higher education administrators and educators protect student privacy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

FAQ on coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

Fake News: How To Spot Misinformation During The Coronavirus Crisis

FactCheckNI – Northern Ireland's first dedicated fact-checking service

SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in primary municipal sewage sludge as a leading indicator of COVID-19 outbreak dynamics: We report a time course of SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in primary sewage sludge during the Spring COVID-19 outbreak in a northeastern U.S. metropolitan area. SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in all environmental samples and, when adjusted for the time lag, the virus RNA concentrations were highly correlated with the COVID-19 epidemiological curve (R2=0.99) and local hospital admissions (R2=0.99). SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations were a seven-day leading indicator ahead of compiled COVID-19 testing data and led local hospital admissions data by three days. Decisions to implement or relax public health measures and restrictions require timely information on outbreak dynamics in a community.

NHS app paves the way for 'immunity passports': Facial recognition has been added as a way of logging in to an NHS app that lets people order prescriptions, book appointments and find healthcare data.
Initially, it will allow faster access to the services on the app, which is separate from the contact-tracing one.
But its developers say it could also be used for Covid-19 "immunity passports".

India’s contact-tracing app is going open-source: The app has amassed over 114 million users in less than two months — an unprecedented scale globally. The source code of Aarogya Setu’s Android app will be published on GitHub at midnight Tuesday (local time), and code of iOS and KaiOS apps would be released in a “few weeks.” Nearly 98% of the app’s users are on the Android platform.

CDC: Coronavirus antibody tests may be wrong 50% of the time: “Serologic test results should not be used to make decisions about grouping persons residing in or being admitted to congregate settings, such as schools, dormitories, or correctional facilities,” the CDC says.

France bans hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 amid safety concerns: The move, which takes immediate effect, is the first by a country since the World Health Organization said on Monday it was pausing a large trial of the malaria drug on COVID-19 patients due to safety concerns.

A Monday Is a Tuesday Is a Sunday as COVID-19 Disrupts Internal Clocks: A global natural experiment examines the time warp of life under quarantine

Some companies want employees to swear they have not had COVID-19 symptoms: Some companies want employees to swear they have not had COVID-19 symptoms.

Surveillance Was the Norm in U.S. Politics Long Before COVID-19: In U.S. Politics, Surveillance Was the Norm Long Before the Pandemic

European Commission proposes €750B EU recovery package: The European Commission plans to propose a Recovery Instrument of €750 billion to combat the impact of the coronavirus crisis, Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said on Twitter Wednesday.

Como fazer perguntas difíceis sobre COVID-19: os repórteres devem ter em mente que nenhuma entrevista é perfeita. "Fiz milhares de entrevistas nos últimos 30 anos e, inevitavelmente, a maioria delas não funciona da maneira que eu quero", disse [Julian Sher]. "O objetivo não é fazer uma entrevista perfeita, o objetivo é descobrir como fazer a melhor entrevista possível."rir como fazer a melhor entrevista possível."

Una guía para contar el covid-19 usando gráficos: pistas sobre cuáles son las evoluciones de datos clave para seguir el ritmo de la epidemia, cómo podemos representarlas gráficamente de manera nítida y eficaz y en qué errores suelen caer los periodistas al hacer visualización de datos.

Society will not be the same after lockdowns are lifted: The Economist coined the term “90% economy” to describe what will happen as lockdowns are eased across the world. Under strict lockdowns, economies tend to operate at about 60% capacity, analysis from Goldman Sachs suggests. But as they are eased, that figure rises to 90%. Many offices and factories reopen—but not all do, and people, scared of being infected, are likely to shun many social activities.

Can You Envision a World Without Pandemics? We can.

Why time seems to be going faster while we are in lockdown: One reason is that we create our own subjective experience of time in our minds and it doesn’t always match up with what we read on the clock or the calendar.

Europe Technology Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery calls for transparency, interoperability, privacy, and scrutiny in COVID contact tracing: essential principles and practices for the design and deployment of contact tracing technology

Our plan to rebuild: The UK Government’s COVID-19 recovery strategy: This document sets out a plan to rebuild the UK for a world with COVID-19. It is not a quick return to ‘normality.’ Nor does it lay out an easy answer. And, inevitably, parts of this plan will adapt as we learn more about the virus. But it is a plan that should give the people of the United Kingdom hope. Hope that we can rebuild; hope that we can save lives; hope that we can safeguard livelihoods.

Coronavirus: The Pandemic Is Exposing the Limits of Scientists: The 2008 financial crisis led the public to discover the limits of economics. The Covid-19 pandemic risks having the same effect on scientists and medical doctors.

Covid-Linked Wildlife Still for Sale on Facebook

Google - Ajudamos a proteger-se de fraudes online relacionadas com a COVID-19: Tipos comuns de fraudes relacionadas com a COVID‑19

How To Talk About Human Rights Under COVID-19

Portugal - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses: BuddeComm notes that the outbreak of the Coronavirus in 2020 is having a significant impact on production and supply chains globally. During the coming year the telecoms sector to various degrees is likely to experience a downturn in mobile device production, while it may also be difficult for network operators to manage workflows when maintaining and upgrading existing infrastructure. Overall progress towards 5G may be postponed or slowed down in some countries

EU Quest for COVID-19 Apps, A Blow to GDPR and Digital Sovereignty: Europe should focus on digital transformation by investing in the talent and technology necessary to emerge from the pandemic crisis more competitive and resilient, and with a regulatory environment that strikes a better balance between the individual benefits of privacy and the collective benefits of gathering and sharing data.

The pandemic has changed how we think about the privilege of mobility: Governments around the world have advised people to self-isolate, but who is able to follow this advice? In the United States, it is largely the richest 25 percent who can work from home. As the New York Times observed weeks ago, the middle class’ swift shift to virtual life has been striking. White-collar workers at large companies are likely to be some of the last to return to the office, if they do so at all. They may even be thriving at home, finding previously elusive downtime and investing in new hobbies.

Here’s how long coronavirus patients are contagious, according to multple studies: Researchers from Singapore say a patient isn’t infectious 11 days after the onset of symptoms, citing similar research from other countries.

Mapping the Proliferation of Human Rights Bodies' Guidance on COVID-19 Mitigation

Working in China in the Covid-19 Era: This article highlights the regime’s use of the media alongside the political and market logics specific to China.

How will globalization be affected by the coronavirus? Globalisation relies on complex links – global value chains (GVCs) – that connect producers across multiple countries. These producers often use highly specialised intermediate goods, or “inputs”, produced by only one distant, overseas supplier. COVID-19 has severely disrupted these links.

El filósofo Markus Gabriel: La ideología de la 'normalidad' a la que se quiere regresar es más peligrosa que el virus: Siguiendo a filósofos como Bruno Latour, juega con la idea de que la Tierra misma tal vez sea un ser vivo que en cierto sentido responde a nuestra conducta: "¿Es posible que el ecosistema de la Tierra sea un gigantesco ser vivo? ¿Es el coronavirus una respuesta inmune del planeta a la insolencia del ser humano, que destruye infinitos seres vivos por codicia?"

Control de temperatura e historial de residencia: la primera exposición ‘poscovid’ en China nos muestra el futuro de los museos: La muestra reúne 30 obras realizadas en los últimos 15 años por artistas tanto locales como internacionales. Según Phillip Tinari, director del museo, esas obras elegidas por un panel de cinco expertos tienen en común “la fe en la capacidad del arte para ofrecer respuestas y proporcionar esperanza y consuelo incluso en las peores circunstancias imaginables”. El título ha sido rescatado de una de las antologías del poeta estadounidense Frank O’Hara, fallecido en 1966, a los 40 años, tras sufrir un atropello de madrugada en la playa neoyorquina de Fire Island.

COVID-19 Imaging AI Resources: list of COVID-19-related imaging data and AI resources that was compiled together with colleagues around the world. Our goal is to support research and education efforts that are critical to better understanding and quickly diagnosing COVID-19.

El misterio de los ‘supercontagiadores’ del coronavirus: Algunos estudios calculan que el 80% de los casos en la actual pandemia proceden de un 10% de los infectados

Siete lecciones para lidiar con los datos de una pandemia

Coronavirus: How scared should we be? So coronavirus is, in effect, taking any frailties and amplifying them. It is like packing an extra year's worth of risk into a short period of time.

If your risk of dying was very low in the first place, it still remains very low.

What we'll need to find the true COVID-19 death toll: The COVID-19 death toll is a third of the way to matching U.S. fatalities from World War II

Covid-19 to send almost all G20 countries into a recession: The euro zone will be one of the hardest hit regions, posting a full-year recession of 8%. Germany (-6.1%), France (-8.8%), and Italy (-10.8%) will register full-year recessions. The depth of the crisis will expose tensions and political divides within the currency bloc. Monetary and fiscal policy levers are being used to the full across the bloc. The European Central Bank (ECB) is playing an important role in maintaining market sentiment, keeping access to financing open even for the more indebted members of the euro zone, and dampening the risk of a debt crisis.

What impact will the COVID-19 pandemic have on jobs? Researchers estimate that 42% of pandemic-induced layoffs will result in a permanent job loss.

Questões ético-jurídicas relativas ao uso de apps geradoras de dados de mobilidade para vigilância epidemiológica da Covid-19, por Alexandra Aragão, do Instituto Jurídico da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra

OurRisk.CoV | COVID-19 Phenomics: We recently used large-scale samples of NHS patient data to estimate the excess risk of mortality which may be associated with coronavirus (COVID-19). We wanted to develop this research to inform simple tools to allow interaction and exploration by policymakers, researchers and the public.
In the OurRisk.CoV tool, we provide our initial learning in relation to the implementation and development of policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We have provided some simple tools to allow interaction and exploration.

Foursquare Recovery Index: As COVID-19 stay-at-home orders begin to lift, shifting real world behavior will be a critical indicator of economic recovery. How people start returning to different places - and in what order, at what pace - will be necessary information for governments, journalists, researchers and brands alike in navigating the times ahead.

Studying the impact of COVID-19 on migrants and refugees: how refugees and migrants experience the psychosocial impact of COVID-19 and how they deal with any challenges that have arisen. The survey runs until 31 May 2020.

How Germany contained the coronavirus

Which animals are benefitting from coronavirus lockdowns?

American billionaires got $434 billion richer during the pandemic: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg had the biggest gains.
Bezos added $34.6 billion to his wealth and Zuckerberg picked up $25 billion.

A Former Labor Secretary’s Message to Essential Workers: When This Ends, “Threaten to Strike”: Essential workers have been heralded as “heroes” during the pandemic, cheered on by applause and music every night in some cities. While the symbolic appreciation is nice, the realities on the ground have been less so. The people who make our health care and food supply systems run, deliver packages and meals, and sanitize public spaces have been hit especially hard by the virus. And so far, these workers haven’t gotten much by way of increased pay and benefits. Congress expanded paid sick and family leave to workers through the Families First Coronavirus Response Act in March, but loopholes in the law left as many as 75 percent of workers without coverage.

Com a app StayAway Covid “ninguem fará ideia onde é que as pessoas se cruzaram”: A Apple e a Google terão acesso à informação, mas Rui Oliveira diz que vê hipóteses de lhe ser dado um uso indevido.

Data privacy: Is privacy being sacrificed in the global fight against COVID-19?

Temperature checks don’t work without testing infrastructure: In the coming weeks, months, years (eternity … ?), you might have to get your temperature taken at various junctures as you go about your routine outside your home.

Podemos’s COVID Tax Will Make the Millionaires Pay for Spain’s Recovery: In one of Europe’s most unequal countries, Spain’s working class is particularly suffering during the pandemic. Unidas Podemos’s “COVID tax” on millionaires’ assets will help rebuild long-neglected public services — and end decades of bipartisan tax giveaways to the rich.

Coronavirus: Leading economist warns of 10 years of depression and debt: Economist Nouriel Roubini has warned of a prolonged downturn and sluggish recovery from the coronavirus.

Did Japan Just Beat the Virus Without Lockdowns Or Mass Testing? Japan’s state of emergency is set to end with new cases of the coronavirus dwindling to mere dozens. It got there despite largely ignoring the default playbook.


No restrictions were placed on residents’ movements, and businesses from restaurants to hairdressers stayed open. No high-tech apps that tracked people’s movements were deployed. The country doesn’t have a center for disease control. And even as nations were exhorted to “test, test, test,” Japan has tested just 0.2% of its population -- one of the lowest rates among developed countries.

Partilha de dados individuais durante a pandemia: o novo normal? Uma vez que a população portuguesa que tem smartphones é de cerca de 70%, estamos a dizer que basicamente sete milhões teriam de

a) instalar a aplicação;

b) tê-la a funcionar;

c) ser testados;

d) decidir partilhar os resultados do seu teste;

e) o sistema de alerta funcionar e todos os meus contactos receberem um aviso; e

f) os meus contactos ficarem em quarentena e serem testados também. É importante notar que ficariam de fora os que não têm acesso a smartphones ou por razões financeiras ou por baixa adesão à tecnologia: os pobres e os idosos.

How did the Covidsafe app go from being vital to almost irrelevant? The PM told Australians in April the contact tracing app was key to getting back to normal but just one person has been identified using its data

Imperial College: State-level tracking of COVID-19 in the United States: Overall, we show that while all US states have substantially reduced their reproduction numbers, we find no evidence that any state is approaching herd immunity or that its epidemic is close to over.

Corona Watch: The latest violations of press and media freedom during the COVID-19 crisis

Sunday’s Heart-Wrenching New York Times Cover Marks Almost 100,000 Coronavirus Deaths in the US: The New York Times Sunday front page was given over entirely to a list of names of COVID-19 victims, stretching to two inside pages of the paper—a grim tribute to the the nearly 100,000 Americans who have perished in the months leading up to this Memorial Day weekend. The cover, which eschews graphics and photos for endless type, includes names, ages, towns, and a singular snippet about the life lost, curated by the Times staff from obituaries that ran around the country.

Scientists say new, lower CDC estimates of COVID-19’s severity are optimistic: The CDC document outlines five possible scenarios for the future of the pandemic, one “best guess” and two better-case and two worse-case versions. All of them are “unmitigated,” meaning they do not account for future social distancing, widespread mask usage or other efforts to contain the coronavirus.

COVID-19 Treatment and Vaccine Tracker | Milken Institute: 223 treatments in consideration; 141 vaccines in development

Publishing during a pandemic: Mapping a path through the Covid-19 crisis: from What’s New in Publishing

Responding to Coronavirus: Back to school: As the first shock passes, education authorities must thus prepare responses on two timescales: the immediate return to school; and the mid-term strategy for the next 18-24 months.

Como será o mundo pós-pandemia?

SOSvizinho

Google gives $6.5 million to fact-checkers, misinformation nonprofits: The donations will come via the Google News Initiative (GNI), a $300 million effort established in 2018 to help journalism thrive in the digital age, and will support fact-checking all over the world.

help4covid19: Plataforma comunitária onde se reunem pedidos de apoio de instituições e da comunidade em geral originados devido à pandemia do COVID19. O objetivo é encaminhar os pedidos de forma a ajudar e dar resposta.

Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis: In summary, this multinational, observational, real-world study of patients with COVID-19 requiring hospitalisation found that the use of a regimen con-taining hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine (with or without a macrolide) was associated with no evidence of benefit, but instead was associated with an increase in the risk of ventricular arrhythmias and a greater hazard for in-hospital death with COVID-19. These findings suggest that these drug regimens should not be used outside of clinical trials and urgent confirmation from randomised clinical trials is needed.

Lockdowns and Human Rights: A British Perspective: Human rights do not cease to exist during a crisis. Indeed it is on these occasions they become most important. The government had the right to act as it did based on the information available to it when the virus arrived in Britain. Since then the situation has changed, and the government’s policy must change accordingly. Every hour British citizens’ rights are curtailed is another affront to a proud tradition of balancing rights and protecting distinctly British values.

Do Lockdowns Work? Mounting Evidence Says No: The coerced economic "shutdowns" - enforced with fines, arrests, and revoked business licenses—are not the natural outgrowth of a pandemic. They are the result of policy decisions taken by politicians who have suspended constitutional institutions and legal recognition of basic human rights. These politicians have instead imposed a new form of central planning based on an unproven, theoretical set of ideas about police-enforced "social distancing."

If We're Not Careful, Tech Could Hurt the Fight against COVID-19: Here are four questions we need to ask ourselves

Lockdown Delays Cost at Least 36,000 Lives, Data Show: If the United States had begun imposing social distancing measures one week earlier than it did in March, about 36,000 fewer people would have died in the coronavirus outbreak, according to new estimates from Columbia University disease modelers.

Risco OFICIAL de Transmissibilidade em Portugal - Número Efectivo de Reprodução

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates are fighting on a daily basis for citizens to receive the most balanced and updated information on Covid-19 and inform journalists about their rights and precautionary measures they should take in these critical times.

Scientists Warn CDC Testing Data Could Create Misleading Picture Of Pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has acknowledged that it is mixing the results of two different kinds of tests in the agency's tally of testing for the coronavirus, raising concerns among some scientists that it could be creating an inaccurate picture of the state of the pandemic in the United States.

De 2005

Coronavirus: Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold: Time is running out to prepare for the next pandemic. We must act now with decisiveness and purpose. Someday, after the next pandemic has come and gone, a commission much like the 9/11 Commission will be charged with determining how well government, business, and public health leaders prepared the world for the catastrophe when they had clear warning. What will be the verdict?”

Para empresas

DGS: Saúde e trabalho: medidas de prevenção da COVID-19 nas empresas

ACT: Adaptar os Locais de Trabalho/Proteger os Trabalhadores

Crianças como repórteres: governo finlandês responde às perguntas das crianças sobre o coronavírus

COVID-19 Civic Freedom Tracker: monitors government responses to the pandemic that affect civic freedoms and human rights, focusing on emergency laws

Science|Business Database: Coronavirus Funding Opportunities | Science|Business

Science|Business Database: Coronavirus Funding Opportunities

The FBI monitoring your browsing history without a warrant might just be the beginning: While much of the world is focussed on the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Senate recently voted to expand its surveillance powers. As part of a reauthorization of the Patriot Act, law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and CIA can continue to look through the browsing history of American citizens without the need for a warrant.

Gulbenkian Soluções Digitais Covid-19

Valeu a pena o confinamento?

Covid-19 in Proportion? Whether the lockdown, with its huge costs to public health and the economy has been effective and proportionate is a huge question

Porquê os dois metros?

Government scientific adviser says Britain's two metre social distancing rule is unnecessary and based on 'very fragile' evidence: The World Health Organization recommends a minimum of one metre 

Two-metre coronavirus rule ‘will bankrupt businesses’: The Sage scientific panel has concluded a review into the two-metre rule and advised ministers that it should stay in the belief that blurring it would be confusing. Downing Street said yesterday that it had no plans to change the “sensible and safe distance”.

Can the EU survive this virus? This coronavirus has been cruel to the European Union. The supposed fraternity of member states was the first casualty of the virus, ascountries hoarded their medical equipment and banned exports to each other.

Desconfinamento com menos infecções