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Now that's three CDC studies—from a Chinese restaurant, a Korean call center, and an American choir practice—all finding that talking, laughing, singing in close quarters, in unventilated interiors, for many
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The retail prediction that I feel most strongly about is also the one I feel most depressed about: The end of the golden age of the American restaurant. Let me
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Two CDC studies—from a restaurant, and a call center—suggest transmission from talking, laughing, breathing around other ppl in a closed space for hours is much more important for transmission than
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I was really fascinated by this data, so I asked Pew to pull out some cross tabs of white college-educated people, to identify the core of concern about Biden's oldness/whiteness.
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The PPP news cycle has been totally back-asswards.The business loan program was too small, everybody knew it, and a hunger-games scramble for money ensued. Then the money ran out (duh)
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OpenTable bookings had declined 70% before US restaurants were closed.Swedish movie theaters are open but revenues are down 90%.“When will government open up the economy?” is the wrong question. Open
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The next 6 months, per Morgan Stanley's head of biotechBy May: Peak in new cases nationally By June: Testing capacity hits 1M/day By July: Serology testing widely available By Aug:
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New @DataProgress poll:- 52% of Americans under 45 have lost their job, had hours reduced, or been furloughed-35% of Americans under 35 now say they don't have health insurancehttps://www.dataforprogress.org/memos/coronavirus-economic-impact &quo
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Half of these transitions were already happening—rise of remote work, decline of "traditional" TV and movie theaters, the EU being a shitshow—and the other half don't make much sense.Why would
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In the next few weeks, you're going to hear a lot about "test and trace" as a plan to get us from national quarantine to a semi-normal life.I wrote about
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I wrote about “test and trace" and the plan to return to normal before a vaccine.Most people understand what testing means. So, what is tracing?https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/contact-tracing-could-free-america-from-its-quarant
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Coronavirus projections for Washington, D.C.: local govt vs. UW's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (@IHME_UW)Peak in cases:DC govt: End of JuneIHME: Middle of AprilExcess ICU beds needed:DC govt: 2,705IHME:
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