Coronavirus contact tracing apps aren’t worth the health risk to Black and Latinx people: Given the current social climate — in which issues of inequity are cojoined with a public health crisis — we particularly push back on the unmitigated trust given to companies to assure us that they will not allow law enforcement to use contact tracing apps for punitive or surveillance purposes, even for apps that do not purport to disclose user identity and location. The stakes are too high, especially at a time when police involvement in the coronavirus pandemic response in Black communities is so much higher than in white communities.

US buys up world stock of key Covid-19 drug remdesivir: The US has bought up virtually all the stocks for the next three months of one of the two drugs proven to work against Covid-19, leaving none for the UK, Europe or most of the rest of the world.

The line is forming for a COVID-19 vaccine. Who should be at the front? the prioritization issue comes down to a tricky balancing act between best helping society versus protecting an individual’s health.

COVID-19 trilemma tradeoffs: Much of the COVID-19 pandemic has turned into a shared experience involving a trilemma of concerns. People across the US are worried about their:

(1) personal health and safety;

(2) economic future and job security; and

(3) individual privacy and liberty. And, based on an ongoing study by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV)—which has surveyed more than 40,000 respondents since April—there doesn’t seem to be any relief in sight.

While society begins to slowly open up, two-thirds of individuals are concerned about a second wave of COVID-19 hitting later in 2020. More than 60 percent expect to see more global pandemic events like COVID-19 in months and years to come.

Coronavirus: How is the pandemic impacting the gender gap? COVID-19 is depressing global economic growth and causing mass unemployment, especially among women.

Women are more vulnerable, not only because of their jobs, but also because of gender inequalities within housework division, education, and healthcare.

Scientist reveals how masks stop coronavirus from spreading in viral photos: ‘Masks keep your respiratory secretions to yourself’

Draft landscape of COVID-19 candidate vaccines (WHO)