COVID-19 Global Economic Downturn not Affecting CO2 Rise: May 2020 Update: The Mauna Loa atmospheric CO2 concentration data continue to show no reduction in the rate of rise due to the recent global economic slowdown. This demonstrates how difficult it is to reduce global CO2 emissions without causing a major disruption to the global economy and exacerbation of poverty.

SARS-CoV-2 is mutating slowly, and that's a good thing: Viruses evolve over time, undergoing genetic changes, or mutations, in their quest to survive. Some viruses produce many variations, others only a few. Fortunately, SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, is among the latter. This is good news for scientists trying to create an effective vaccine against it.

Tracking the coronavirus pandemic, by the numbers: 131,296 new coronavirus cases were recorded worldwide on Wednesday, per data from the World Health Organization.

By the numbers: Compare that to 87,729 one month ago, or 4,589 on March 11 — the day the pandemic was declared. 51.9% of new cases are being recorded in the Americas, while Europe's share of new cases is down from nearly 80% in mid-March to 13.3%.

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Use of apps in the COVID-19 response and the loss of privacy protection

Geofence warrants: How police can use protesters' phones against them: The searches, sometimes known as reverse location requests, increased fivefold from 2018 to 2019.