News for May 11 — Economic Pain Grows

Sweden’s COVID-19 approach is not avoiding economic pain: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/coronavirus-sweden-economy-to-contract-as-severely-as-the-rest-of-europe.html .

This study disputes most of the information out there about the utility of ventilators and other standard care: https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/harvard-doctors-find-this-is-how-most-critical-covid-19-patients-are-beating-it?ltm=mYWEvytc58ZH3E94lSPzipzgpM6T4ee%2BUs%2BwZFllecg%3D&subscriber_type=member&utm_source=member&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter&utm_term=dnl-5-11-20-norton&utm_content=dnl-5-11-20-norton&utm_medium=email .

The “Chinese lab” theory of COVID-19’s start does not hold up: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/05/anthony-fauci-no-scientific-evidence-the-coronavirus-was-made-in-a-chinese-lab-cvd/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=SpecialEdition_20200508&rid=0E04D5187958FAC015ABAB0A9ACC44CE .

https://apnews.com/9c4d5284ba4769d3b98aa05232201f88 .

The above story references a 17-page document  released by the AP: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6883734-CDC-Business-Plans.html .

US hospitals pushed to brink of financial ruin: https://www.ft.com/content/3bbb4f7c-890e-11ea-a01c-a28a3e3fbd33 (link replaced 5/16/21).

Detailed, disturbing analysis of the early black deaths in Chicago: https://features.propublica.org/chicago-first-deaths/covid-coronavirus-took-black-lives-first/ (link replaced 11/8/20).

https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/cornell-study-uncovers-why-the-coronavirus-is-so-contagious?ltm=lioQlx3jbmoGptyxCR9FlBfqvhcHae0gerPi9HJBRYg%3D&subscriber_type=member&utm_content=sunday-DNL-5-10-20-nolo&utm_term=sunday-DNL-5-10-20-nolo&utm_medium=email&utm_source=member&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter .

The coronavirus is indeed mutating: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/05/the-coronavirus-mutated-and-appears-to-be-more-contagious-now-new-study-finds.html?recirc=taboolainternal .

WSJ: Hopes dim for a quick economic recovery: https://www.wsj.com/articles/factories-close-for-good-as-coronavirus-cuts-demand-11589122800 .