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19 junho 2020

The Limits of Altruism: A Global Scramble for the Coming Coronavirus Vaccine: A vast rivalry is developing between the U.S. and China in the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine. The health of billions of people depends on the outcome. How can the vaccine be fairly distributed?
How many of us are likely to have caught the coronavirus so far? Statistics are trickling in from cities and countries around the world, but the figures vary hugely. Some regions are reporting that less than 1 per cent of people have been infected, and others that over half the population has had the virus.

18 junho 2020

COVID-19: Aplicações de rastreio de contactos de Noruega, Bahrein e Kuwait entre as mais perigosas para a privacidade - Amnistia Internacional:“É improvável que seja necessário e proporcional no contexto de uma resposta de saúde pública. A tecnologia pode desempenhar um papel útil no rastreio de contactos para conter a COVID-19, mas a privacidade não deve ser outra vítima”
UK abandons coronavirus app in favour of Apple and Google model
Exscalate 4COV: Beyond COVID-19: enabling faster drug discovery for future pandemics
Hear, see, speak no COVID: Why the Trump administration is bungling the response to the pandemic
How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture: The research world has moved faster than many would have suspected possible in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In five months, a volume of work has been generated that even the most intensive of emergent fields have taken years to create.