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News reports about the COVID-19 pandemic can be overwhelming and lack context. I write this at the end-of-day from the Seattle-area. Everything is fact-based; all reported cases have links. My goal: protect your time & your psyche...
(“did I miss something??!?”) by providing relevant daily news about coronavirus/SARS-CoV-2 that you might not see/hear/watch otherwise. Although I make use of the Johns Hopkins dashboard, I visit every state department of health site to source those data. So my “state stats” are almost always a teeny bit less than Johns Hopkins, at least for “today’s” stat. But it’s the trends - and the cases/million - that are key, despite news focus on the day’s scary-big number.
I’m a journalist and educator (and economist by education more than practice) who has been involved with public policy since high school, with a historic emphasis on environmental and agricultural policy. This newsletter started as a “cheat sheet” to help me create context about this pandemic for my own understanding. Friends said it was helpful, so I’ve made it public. And launched my first SubStack newsletter.
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It has lots of data -- both US and global. I like that it comes daily; it's a summary (with links to everything) that I can look forward to...and it saves me a lot of my own research & time.
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Coronavirus Memo from a News Hound, by Kathy Gill