🚨 What Happened on COVID-19 Twitter Last Week - Mar 9

🇺🇸 The worst is yet to come, 😷 How to stay safe during the pandemic, 🛠 Helpful resources, 🚨the market is looking ugly, and more!

Yo! It’s Brett. With COVID-19 reaching pandemic status this week, Tech Twitter has transformed into Coronavirus Twitter. As a result, I’ll be sharing a few one-off COVID-19-specific newsletters to keep everyone up to date on the most important news and discussions relating to the virus.

This story is changing dramatically every day, so this newsletter covers only the last few days. Be sure to also check CDC’s website for the most up-to-date information.

Sam Altman @sama

There are going to be entire history books written about this coming week. Everything happens so much.

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📉 Asia begins to contain the virus

China, South Korea, and other asian countries have been making huge strides containing the virus.

Hannah Nam MD @HannahNamMD

031020 South Korea's daily positive case load for #COVID2019 has finally fallen into the 100s. Here's a photo log/thread of the aggressive social distancing measures that were taken to get to this point. /1 Source: m.hankookilbo.com/News/Read/2020…

Ezra Klein @ezraklein

How Taiwan, which is much closer to the epicenter of the outbreak than we are, stopped the coronavirus in its tracks — and what we can learn from their response:

vox.comTaiwan has millions of visitors from China and only 45 coronavirus cases. Here’s how.Aggressive measures starting in December saved Taiwan. Can we learn from them?

🇺🇸 The worst is yet to come for the west

Italy and Denmark go on full lockdown as cases in Europe skyrocket. Experts suggest that the US is about two weeks behind in terms of number of infections.

Silvia Merler @SMerler

📊 France, Spain and Germany are about 9 to 10 days behind Italy in #COVID19 progression; the UK and the US follow at 13 to 16 days. In Italy we waited too long, these countries should really start implementing aggressive containment measures now.Y

Sam Sweeney @SweeneyABC

BREAKING: A D.C. priest has Coronavirus. He offered communion and shook hands with more than 500 worshippers last week and on February 24th. All worshippers who visited the Christ Church in Georgetown must self-quarantine. Church is cancelled for the first time since the 1800's

People seem to agree that March 11th was pivotal in shifting public (and government) perception of the virus as a very real, serious problem.

Philip DeFranco @PhillyD

HOLY SHIT. In just the last 30 minutes we learned that: Travel from Europe is going to stop for 30 days. Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson have tested positive for coronavirus. The NBA season has been suspended.

There’s a pretty good chance that Trump himself is infected… oh boy.

Matt Rivers @MattRiversCNN

Fabio Wajngarten, the press secretary for Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, two sources tell @CNN. Here he is posing with President Trump and VP Pence over the weekend #coronavirus

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

We’re gonna need a lot more tests.

jason@calacanis.com @Jason

This is what incompetence looks like. @VP @realDonaldTrump are unfit for service

😷 Take action now! Here’s how.

We all need to start taking action today. If you still need to be convinced, read this article and consider the risk to your loved ones that are older.

Trisha Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh

This is the best article I've read on #COVID19. "Countries that are prepared will see a fatality rate of 0.5-0.9%. Countries that are overwhelmed will have a fatality rate of 3-5%". Let's act to flatten the curve.

medium.comCoronavirus: Why You Must Act NowPoliticians and Business Leaders: What Should You Do and When?

Bobby Goodlatte @rsg

How I explained coronavirus risk to a relative Skydiving: 0.0007% odds of dying per jump Base Jumping: 0.043% Wingsuit Base Jump: 0.2% Catch COVID19—age 60-70: 3.6% odds of dying 5100X deadlier than skydiving 82X base jump 18X wingsuit She was far more worried when I skydived

Here’s how to avoid exposure:

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

CORONA TRICKS Friends pls add suggestions No fasting >20h No bread (can't disinfect) unless you bake it yslf No sushi/raw meat No intense exercise. DL 80% max, at risk of detraining No public transp., no valet parking No Thaler/Nudge Unit No bars; if you must No nonalchlc bev

william ⚡️ @neoncloth

🎶 I made a little site in 24h that generates hand washing instructions accompanied by lyrics from a song of your choice instantly - check it out! 🔗 https://t.co/JKAQRYy5Y6C

In the event parts of the US get locked down like Italy, be sure to stock up on food and supplies.

Austen Allred @Austen

Since (none of) you asked, Mormons keep ~a year of food storage on hand without buying much extra food. Here’s how: Buy the same food, but rotate through by storing the new stuff and eating the older stuff. Most families have something like this in the “storage room.”

If you’re an engineer, you may be able to help the cause.

brianbehlendorf @brianbehlendorf

A friend is recruiting for 2-3 devs for a COVID19 home-to-lab-test initiative. He says he has 1M test kits being prepped. Needs a web site ASAP for taking orders, tracking shipments & diagnoses, and app for couriers. DM if interested.

🚨 Don’t check your 401K

Saudi dropping oil prices coupled with poor management of the Coronavirus pandemic (especially in the US) sent the the market into a nosedive.

Heather Long @byHeatherLong

BREAKING: The Dow has hit the bear market level -- a loss of 20% from the recent record high. If Wall Street closes at this level, it will mean the of the 11-year bull market that began on March 9, 2009. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/… #stocks

Not even crypto was spared.

Kyle Russell 🎮📲 @kylebrussell

Crypto bloodbath

Ali Velshi @AliVelshi

BREAKING: in a MAJOR intervention into financial markets, the Fed will inject $1.5 TRILLION dollars. It’s a move designed to prevent a sharper economic contraction than what may already be underway.

wsj.comFed to Inject $1.5 Trillion in Bid to Prevent ‘Unusual Disruptions’ in MarketsThe Federal Reserve said it would inject more than $1.5 trillion into short-term funding markets on Thursday and Friday to prevent ominous trading conditions from creating a sharper economic contraction.

🛠 Resources

Here are a few resources for information on the virus. Be sure to also check CDC’s website.

Danielle Ivory @danielle_ivory

The @nytimes has dropped its paywall for its coronavirus coverage. Readers will have free access to all news about the outbreak.

nytimes.comU.S. to Suspend Most Travel From Europe; N.B.A. Season Paused After Player Gets VirusFinancial markets plunged and Italy ordered nearly all businesses to close as the World Health Organization declared a pandemic.

Our World in Data @OurWorldInData

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is a new global problem. We have published our overview of the early research and data on the outbreak and will extend it in the days ahead. You can find our latest work here: ourworldindata.org/coronavirus #COVIDー19 #coronavirus

ourworldindata.orgCoronavirus Disease (COVID-19)Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is a new global problem. This is our overview of the early research and data on the outbreak. We will extend this page in the days ahead.

Newspeak House @nwspk

The Coronavirus Tech Handbook The ultimate collection of tools, websites and data relating to the Coronavirus outbreak. If you're building a project, please submit it! #CoronaOutbreak #Coronavirus #COVID_19

coronavirustechhandbook.comCoronavirus Tech HandbookA crowdsourced set of tech, tools and data relating to the Coronavirus Pandemic.

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🙏 Thanks and stay safe!

Here’s something to lighten the mood. Wash your hands y’all!

graves @wearegraves

as soon as covid-19 dies down they gonna hit u w the covid-19S and the covid-19S+

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