Press links

Selected COVID Media:

BBC2 TV News, September 29, 2020
Jennifer Dowd reflects on the milestone of 1 million official COVID-19 global deaths.

BBC More or Less - 'Record Covid Cases'
Jennifer Dowd discusses the data around COVID-19 deaths in America

BBC World Service- October 15, 2020
"Should we learn to live with COVID-19?"

Print:

• Europe in Meltdown as Covid Death Toll Soars and Progress Unravels, CNN
• Fauci says no one wants to "Shut Down" Christmas over COVID, but this is a "Critical Time," Newsweek
• Christmas should be "postponed" to to avoid record number of Americans dying, Newsweek
• America's COVID deaths may be equivalent to a 9/11 everyday by Christmas, Newsweek
• As Americans Prepare to Gather for Thanksgiving, the World Watches with Dread and Disbelief, The Washington Post
• Despite Coronavirus Surge, European Schools Stay Open, The Wall Street Journal
• What Two Studies With Very Different Findings Can Tell Us About Voting in a Pandemic. Five Thirty Eight
• Opinion: Why distancing and handwashing won't stop the spread of COVID-19 in schools, The Guardian
  
• Central Europe, Spared in the Spring, Suffers as Virus Surges, The New York Times
• Sweden-style herd immunity approach to Covid-19 would be a "dangerous fallacy" with no basis in science, 80 experts warn in scathing letter. The Daily Mail
• Opinion: England's New Measures Aren't Enough to Prevent Soaring Covid-19 infections, The Guardian
• The Sturgis Bike Rally Did Not Cause 266,796 Cases of COVID-19. Slate
• Central Europe Largely Avoided the First Coronavirus Wave. Why Are Cases Spiking Now? Time Magazine

• New Zealand's "Bubble Concept" is slowly letting people socialize again. Would it Work in America? Slate

• Italian coronavirus pressures and flattening the curve- an epidemiology expert explains, Word Economic Forum
• Are adults living with parents making the pandemic more deadly? New York Times
• Why the Coronavirus Hit Italy So Hard, Wired
• You Should Already Be in Lockdown, The Atlantic
• Why social distancing might last for some time, BBC Future
• Social distancing works but epidemic influenced by demographics, Euronews
• Lockdown of Recovering Italian Town Shows Effectiveness of Early Action, Wall Street Journal
• Coronavirus: UK's 'hospital deserts' that could be overwhelmed by cases, Sky news
• The Coronavirus is Sending Lots of Younger People to the Hospital, Buzzfeed
• Vuelta a una nueva normalidad segregada por edades, National Geographic
• The puzzle of coronavirus: a huge variation in rates of death and severe disease across the globe, The Sydney Morning Herald
• New analysis breaks down age-group risk for coronavirus--and shows millennials are not invincible, Stat News
• Why are more men than women dying of COVID? FiveThirtyEight
• What COVID-19 patients young and old can teach us about the coronavirus, Los Angeles Times
• Fixing Nursing-Home Death Traps Is Key to Europe’s Virus Fight, Bloomberg
• What Will the 2020 NFL Season Look Like? Super Rugby Might Give Us Clues, Newsweek
• How many have really been infected with coronavirus? I pricked my finger to help find out., Philadelphia Inquirer
• Europe Is Seeing a Surge in Coronavirus Cases. Are Tourists the Cause of the Increase? Time
• How many people has the coronavirus killed? Nature
• Coronavirus death toll reaches 1 million- how did we get here? New Scientist
• Tracking Patterns in the Pandemic, Washington and Lee Alumni Magazine

Additional Press:

• Exploring the Social Epidemiology of the Microbiome (Neuroscience News)
• The Death of the White Working Class Has Been Greatly Exaggerated (Pacific Standard)
• PTSD may accelerate the aging immune system

• Crunching the numbers on cancer's financial toll: On average, patients see a 20% drop in income within two years (Washington Post)
• This is how much cancer will cost you - in lost income (L.A. Times)
• Early obesity linked to disease later in life, but not for the reason you think (Huffington Post)
• Severe obesity in middle age linked to BMI at age 25 (Nature World News)

• It's never too late to lose weight and improve your health: Study finds it's current weight - not how long you've been fat - that matters (Daily Mail)
• Antimicrobials may compromise the immune system (Onion)
• New Questions Raised on Chemicals in Soaps, Plastics
• Can overuse of antibacterial soap promote allergies in kids?
• 1918 flu left heart disease legacy
• People with less education and income could be more susceptible to the flu
• Health & Society Scholar Team Finds New SES/Health Link
• Poor people suffer disproportionately from chronic infections
• Low income kids have more infections