Big Questions

How do you sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine in your state?

What were you doing on July 25, 2020?

Who do we save first with the vaccine?

• How will COVID inpatients be prioritized based on a survivability score?
• A novel severity score to predict inpatient mortality in COVID-19 patients

Will you take the vaccine?

• If “yes,” then why?
• If “no,” then why not?
• Or, will you go to the back of the line so others can go first?

What can science learn from the COVID-19 Pandemic? How will COVID-19 shape and advance our society?

What could go wrong with self-spreading vaccines?

Can it be made safe to go back to school?

• University of Illinois

Why was the U.S. not prepared for COVID-19?

Trump knew.
Trump lied.
Americans died.

Wurth

Long term, how is the U.S. economy going to recover from this disaster?

• Are we caught in a looming moral disaster trying to balance the number of lives lost against damage to the economy?
• Long-term, will the cure be worse than the virus?
• Will Illinois and/or other states have to ultimately launch a real (or simulated) bankruptcy?
  • Illinois Needs a Moon$hot (sp)
• The Four Rules of Pandemic Economics by Derek Thompson
• A Debt Jubilee is the Only Way to Avoid a Depression by Michael Hudson

 Transmission suspicion.
COVID-19, you've caused a fright.
Transmission suspicion.
I'm not feeling just right.

First come the sniffles.
Then I got the chills.
Followed by fever.
Head for the hills!
sp 

Big Picture

Big Picture / Human Life / Human Diseases / Coronavirus

Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.

• art imitates life: The End of October by Lawrence Wright
• conspiracy theories:
  • infomemic
  • students on lock-down use their data skills
• crowd sourcing anti-viral: FoldIt
• data: COVID Tracking Project
• economic recovery redux:
  • quietly helping others: Suspended Shopping
  • The Four Rules of Pandemic Economics by Derek Thompson
  • Paying the Price by Mark Zandi
• flatten the curve:
  • herd immunity
  • intervention
• guidance:
  • CDC
  • global dashboard
• HEALTH & WELLNESS
• herd immunity: Great Barrington Declaration (Focused Protection)
• infection control best practices: Infection Control Today
• kids: daily schedule
• lives vs livelihoods:
  • Striking the Balance Between Lives and Livelihoods (sp)
  • Thou Shalt Go Back to Work and School (sp)
• lockdown poems:
  • And the People Stayed Home by Kitty O’Meara
  • Pandemic by Lynn Ungar
• masks: 3D
• math+human behavior: Panic never helps.
  • killer germs: Deadliest Enemy by Michael T. Osterholm
  • Pandemic by Sonia Shah
  • The Rules of Contagion by Adam Kucharski
  • The Great Influenza by John M. Barry picture gallery: COVID-19
• photo gallery: COVID19
• safety & health:
  • lessons of history: Epidemics and Society by Frank M. Snowden
  • Do the Five
  • talk to someone: Talkspace
• super-forecasters:
  • we were warned:
    • global pandemic exercise: Event 201
    • Bill Gates
    • from animals: Spillover by David Quammen
• a Black Swan world: Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • sci-fi: The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz
• truth and transparency: False Advertising

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COVID-19 Gallery