[This post will be regularly updated. I’ll be adding every single article I have read in order to have a concise record for when I want to refer to anything in future. There are going to be Twitter threads, infographics and reports on the new discoveries and observations that are made about this novel virus.]
An excellent AND accessible poster by Avesta Rastan on how COVID-19 affects your lungs.A paper by Dr. Nick Mark on ICU care for people with #COVID19
General: Fake Facts Are Flying About Coronavirus. Now There’s A Plan To Debunk Them by Malaka Gharib [x]
2019 Global Health Security Index (irony ends on this site) [x]
A thread by Peter Kolchinsky on ‘reinfections’ documented in Asia. [x]
Covid Crisis Lab is a social science research to understand the spread of #COVID19, and analyse its implications on the health of population, health care, society, and the economy at large. [x]
Are female leaders more successful at managing the coronavirus crisis? by Jon Henley and Eleanor Ainge Roy [x]
The role of labour activism in Vietnam’s coronavirus success by Joe Buckley [x]
Research:
Community Mitigation Guidelines to Prevent Pandemic Influenza — United States, 2017 [x]
Clinical Characteristics of 138 Hospitalized Patients With 2019 Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia in Wuhan, China [x]
Epidemiological Characteristics of 2143 Pediatric Patients With 2019 Coronavirus Disease in China [x]
Chinese police and and medical staff dealing with the Coronavirus in the Altai mountains
Patients’ accounts: Two Women Fell Sick From the Coronavirus. One Survived. by Sui-Lee Wee and Vivian Wang [x]
Thread by Shiraz Maher on his experience with COVID-19 [x]
‘Finally, a virus got me.’ Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from COVID-19 by Dirk Draulans [x]
Lost On The Frontline – Profiles of 115 health care workers who lost their lives while protecting others. [x]
A user from #Iran (@odmilov1 ) shares a picture of his uncle’s funeral. He lost his life to the #CoronaVirus. The relatives are performing the last prayer (نماز میّت) in front of the ambulance carrying the body. Socially distant, they stood under the rain “crying on their own.”
Social:
Coronavirus will also cause a loneliness epidemic by Ezra Klein [x]
How a Religious Cult in Korea Spread COVID-19 by Ryan Estrada and Kim Hyun Sook [x]
What It’s Like to Self-Quarantine With a Michelin-Starred Chef by Kaitlin Menza [x]
I’m an Undocumented Restaurateur — Who’s Going to Help Me? – as told to Chris Crowley [x]
This Is Not the Apocalypse You Were Looking For by Laurie Penny [x] “The people on the front line are not fighters. They are healers and carers. Emotional and domestic labor have never been part of the grand story men have told themselves about the destiny of the species—not even when they imagine its grave.”
“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anyone could ever want to own.” Andy Warhol.
A Newsboy, 1908
(“I sit with my coffee at my mother’s old desk, and at last I understand. The race may not be to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, and these, she says, are the reasons to fight.“) – Reasons to fight by Daphne Caruana Galizia [x]
How our home delivery habit reshaped the world by Samanth Subramanian [x]
The 2017 College Grad Who Got Attacked by a Horde of YA Authors Had No Idea What She Was Getting Into by Ruth Graham [x]
Bill Gates Goes After Warren on Wealth Tax, Won’t Commit to Backing Her Over Trump: Voting for Whoever’s ‘More Professional’ by Joe DePaolo [x]
The Seven Signs You’re in a Cult by Boze Herrington [x]
Please Stop Asking Me Why I’m Not Having Children by Lauren Strapagiel [x]
What happened? Sam Jordison on the best and worst of the Booker Prize experience [x]
The Hidden Challenges for Successful First-Generation Ph.D.s by Bailey B. Smolarek [x]
One Night at Mount Sinai Aja Newman went to the emergency room for shoulder pain. Her doctor was a superstar. What’s the worst that could happen? by Lisa Miller [x]
Kashmiri Women
Bernardine Evaristo: ‘These are unprecedented times for black female writers’ [x]
How to find the little-known ‘kill switch’ that lets you use Facebook with the maximum amount of privacy by Jim Edwards [x]
Letter from Karachi: For a place in the shade by Kevin Shi [x]
The Unimportance of Being Centrist by Kala Kawaa [x]
Medical Investigation: How Did 494 Children In 1 Pakistani City Get HIV? by Benazir Samad [x]
It’s always sunny in Lala land by Osman Samiuddin [x]
Why do so many mediocre men rise to the top? by Olive Burkeman [x]
How women and minorities are claiming their right to rage by Soraya Chemaly [x]
Hindu pilgrims climb the Chandragup mud volcano in Balochistan, Pakistan
Nike Told Me to Dream Crazy, Until I Wanted a Baby by Alysia Montaño [x]
Your House Is My House, Pakistan’s Rich Say to Its Poor by Mohammed Hanif [x]
Alex Wellerstein created a website where you can enter different combinations of places and nuclear bomb sizes to see the possible casualties, radiation, fallout and injuries with approximate scientific data. [x]
What Happens to Women’s Ambitions in the Years After College by Hana Schank [x]
The Dothraki Deserved Better From Daenerys by Danny Heifetz [x]
‘Lara Lappa girl’ Meena Shorey
When Did Popculture Become Homework? by Soraya Roberts [x]
Emotional Baggage – inside the toxic work environment at Away by Zoe Schiffer [x]
Naqeebullah Mehsud’s wife speaks out for the first time by Mirqadana [x]
Inside the world of intimacy coordinators, who choreograph sex scenes for HBO, Netflix and more by Travis M. Andrews [x]
Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden by Melanie Hamlett [x]
A girl I saw in the bus by Mina (Instagram: @mmmina.jpg)
The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over by Taylor Lorenz [x]
A thread on the instances when other state institutions trying to hold the army & intelligence agencies accountable have thrown up their hands in frustration by Tabinda Khan [x]
The Extraordinary ‘Cookbooks’ Left Behind by Prisoners of War and Concentration Camp Victims by Rohini Chaki [x]
A few months ago, Paris Zarcilla found cats under his bed. This is a Twitter thread recounting his experiences as he unexpectedly discovered fatherhood. [x]
Sinister ‘Hunger Stones’ With Dire Warnings Have Been Surfacing in Europe by Peter Dockrill [x]
Atoning for Sexual Assault in Comedy Ideas by Jenny Yang [x]
نئے پاکستان کے نئے وزیراعظم کا پہلا دن by Saleem Safi [x]
Dam Equivalents: The solution to Pakistan’s water crisis by Hassan Abbas [x]
First 100 days: Inciteful speeches amount to rebellion, warns information minister by ETribune [x]
The Loneliest Whale in the World – a Twitter thread [x]
A thread on the creative and beautiful ways that the artists of the past repaired the flaws in torn and damaged manuscripts. by Paul Cooper [x]
Nine women among fourteen plaintiffs seeking compensation from Radium Dial Company for asserted permanent injury suffered as a result of poisoning contracted through work painting radium on watch dials, Feb. 11, 1938. (AP Photo/Carl Linde)
Losing A Parent Is Hell, So Stop Telling Me To ‘Get Over’ My Grief by Christine Burke [x]
Kora Kaghaz 