A flood of coronavirus apps are tracking us. Now it’s time to keep track of them. So far we have documented 25 individual, significant automated contact tracing efforts globally, including details on what they are, how they work, and what policies and processes have been put in place around them.

Climate change

Coronavirus and climate change: How to deal with converging crises: What will happen, for example, when an extreme weather event happens in the middle of a pandemic? Then the virus will really hit the fan. And it’s only a matter of time.

Global Warming. Inequality. Covid-19. And Al Gore Is ... Optimistic? As vice president, he looked for big policy answers to hard global problems. Now he says all our crises are speeding us toward real solutions.

Is Your Business Ready for the 'Second Wave'? Lessons from the Chinese AI Industry's Fight Against COVID-1

How did WHO get here?

Pandemic failure or convenient scapegoat: How did WHO get here? Even critics of the WHO - from the red-baiting congressmen who nevertheless voted for it in 1948, to Reagan in the 1980s, to the many experts today who share concerns about future pandemics - ultimately acknowledge that if something like WHO did not exist, the world would have to invent it. What its inventors choose to do with it is the question.

Pandemic & money in health care

Health care after the pandemic: The pandemic is likely going to change where money gets invested in health care forever.

COVID-19 death in 17 million patients

OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19 death in 17 million patients: COVID-19-related death was associated with: being male (hazard ratio (HR) 1.59, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.53–1.65); older age and deprivation (both with a strong gradient); diabetes; severe asthma; and various other medical conditions. Compared with people with white ethnicity, Black and South Asian people were at higher risk even after adjustment for other factors (HR 1.48, 1.30–1.69 and 1.44, 1.32–1.58, respectively).

Victims of Covid-19 had a disability

Two in three victims of Covid-19 had a disability: The figures come from an analysis by the Office for National Statistics, which compared death certificates from March 2 to May 15 with data from the 2011 census.

They found that 30.3 per cent of coronavirus deaths were among people who said their daily activities were “limited a lot” because of a health problem