COVID Update 02/11/2020

Weekly overview of the latest development around COVID-19

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New cases for the last month. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

New confirmed deaths for the last month. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

Vaccine & Drugs

Promising results for AstraZeneca

Operation Warpspeed — how is the US government funding the development of vaccines

FDA approval might come in January or even later

What is the value of a vaccine?

Regeneron antibody treatment gets some more positive results but they can’t produce enough doses

Testing

12-minute test in UK’s Boots

On the benefits of screening tests

Epidemiology

Analysis of France’s second wave

Vaccine-mask interaction

We find that COVID-19 has likely become the leading cause of death — surpassing unintentional overdoses — among young adults aged 25–44 in some areas of the United States during substantial COVID-19 outbreaks.

Virology

Virus replication has increased during the pandemic

New COVID strain came out of Spain

Politics and Society

Japan to test new tech solutions that might allow baseball stadiums to go back to full capacity

A new app alerting people for cases around them (this one doesn’t give your data to the police)

Covid sniffing dogs in Finland

The US might need to repair diplomatic ties with China in order to get access to it’s vaccine

The great COVID redistribution of happiness