Daily #covid19 sitrep is up from @WHO with numbers as of 10am Geneva time:
China:
79394 (+435) cases
2838 (+47) deathsOutside of China:
6009 (+1318) cases
in 53 (+2) countries
86 (+19) deaths— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) February 29, 2020
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that Democrats are defending and Trump is sabotaging and suing to overturn, health insurers must cover federally-recommended vaccines at no cost for most people. #coronavirus #ACA #protectourcare
https://t.co/T6xJpkPc8N— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) February 29, 2020
This is good news. Just so there's no confusion, this means a vaccine is nearing the start of human tests. Long road ahead. At best 9 months–if this is easy virus to defeat and vax has no serious sidefx. https://t.co/Kpky07IUeZ
— Jon Cohen (@sciencecohen) February 29, 2020
UPDATE: Mike Pence will now appear on 3 Sunday shows (NBC, CNN, Fox Business)
Fauci is not scheduled to appear at all. https://t.co/NrQNb9MRsI
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 29, 2020
Somewhere in the White House, the briefing book we prepared after successfully stopping the spread of Ebola is being used to prop up a wobbly table
— Cody Keenan (@codykeenan) February 29, 2020
Excellent advice:
1. The novel #coronavirus #COVID19 is here in the US and circulating in the community. It can feel scary, and the pace of breaking news can feel overwhelming.
For your own mental wellbeing, if you are not tracking the disease in a professional capacity, consider the following.
— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) February 29, 2020
4. Pick a time to get your updates. I'd suggest once a day, maybe before work or maybe after dinner. For the rest of the day, don't get drawn in. You don't need to. Block the #COVID19-related hashtags if you have to.
Otherwise it can easily become an obsession.
— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) February 29, 2020
6. This all can feel very scary. But it's something that we can manage as a community. It's not going to go away quickly, so think now about how you can stay happy as well as healthy over the coming months. That means carefully managing your own interactions with the news.
/fin
— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) February 29, 2020
8. I'd like to add one personal detail: I'm writing from experience. I've dealt with anxiety for my whole life, almost debilitating at times. I've largely learned how to manage it, and I'm doing well now.
But I know what a struggle it can be, and it's nothing to be ashamed of.
— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) March 1, 2020
I’m no virology expert, but I am someone with anxiety issues. I do this update once a day so that I, and you guys, don’t obsess over possibilities for the other 23 hours a day. If I see a tweet or a story that seems significant, I consciously set it aside, on the reasonable theory that either it’ll still be significant the next morning or else I’ve saved everybody another unnecessary adrenaline spike. There’s a lot of stuff to worry about these days; we need to pace ourselves.
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