Here's a thread with a selection of great journalism on #COVIDー19 published this week worldwide. Please share and feel free to add suggestions at the end #Covid_19
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@OhTimehin explains at @The_Corres why social distancing won't work for Nigerians
https://thecorrespondent.com/378/why-social-distancing-wont-work-for-us/50043118356-4fbed697
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https://thecorrespondent.com/378/why-social-distancing-wont-work-for-us/50043118356-4fbed697
"In Lagos, daily power cuts are normal... Sourcing water is arduous and expensive, so people are unlikely to prioritise frequent hand-washing. Public transportation consists mostly of privately owned vehicles in which intense proximity is inevitable" https://thecorrespondent.com/378/why-social-distancing-wont-work-for-us/50043118356-4fbed697
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At immigration detention camps across the US, unrest is growing as detainees warn that dirty conditions and a disturbing lack of soap could allow coronavirus to run rampant, report @nachoaguilar from @texastribune & @Perla_Trevizo from @propublica https://www.propublica.org/article/as-coronavirus-infections-spread-so-have-clashes-between-ice-detainees-and-guards

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Czech news site @Aktualnecz mapped the route of hundreds of thousands of masks confiscated by the Czech police last week. They ended up in the hands of a Czech reseller, who then tried to sell them to the Czech government for an excessive price https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/domaci/confiscated-face-masks-imported-by-an-influential-representa/r~560650326f6611ea842f0cc47ab5f122/

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Who are our dead? Local newspaper in Tuscany honors the many lives cut short by #COVID19.
"Our dead are not only numbers. They are people", writes editor @fbrancoli here
https://iltirreno.gelocal.it/regione/toscana/2020/03/25/news/la-costruzione-di-una-nuova-memoria-1.38636267
Front page in this tweet https://twitter.com/iltirreno/status/1244157354498838529?s=20


https://iltirreno.gelocal.it/regione/toscana/2020/03/25/news/la-costruzione-di-una-nuova-memoria-1.38636267

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"As India enters 21-day lockdown, the transgender community will be pushed further to the margins," @anniebanerji reports at @scroll_in. "Most of them make a living on the streets and don’t have the privilege to move to online spaces." https://scroll.in/article/957204/as-india-enters-21-day-lockdown-the-transgender-community-will-be-pushed-further-to-the-margins

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@dailymaverick's @Poplak on lockdown in South Africa
"Even in more established townships, the phenomenon of backyard shacks means that people are jammed into dense areas where diseases thrive. Three weeks is an eternity under such conditions" https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-03-25-locked-loaded-south-africa-enters-the-age-of-corona/

"Even in more established townships, the phenomenon of backyard shacks means that people are jammed into dense areas where diseases thrive. Three weeks is an eternity under such conditions" https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-03-25-locked-loaded-south-africa-enters-the-age-of-corona/
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Inside the Wuhan lockdown. An exclusive interview at @Storyhunter with a prominent Chinese freelance filmmaker who's worked for Western news organisations. It provides a glimpse to life in the birthplace of the pandemic https://blog.storyhunter.com/inside-the-wuhan-lockdown-17398d88e5b6

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Misinformation, hoaxes, and snake oil cures have all been rampant online since the outbreak of the coronavirus. @BuzzFeedNews's @JaneLytv is keeping a running list of debunked stories in this link https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/coronavirus-fake-news-disinformation-rumors-hoaxes

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Clinical psychologist @BarnwellGarret explains at @Bhekisisa_MG how the outbreak can affect mental health
"We cannot avoid suffering and we’re not guaranteed happiness in difficult times, but there are small acts of purpose to be found" https://bhekisisa.org/opinion/2020-03-23-coronavirus-south-africa-mental-health-support-how-to-cope-social-solidarity-covid19/

"We cannot avoid suffering and we’re not guaranteed happiness in difficult times, but there are small acts of purpose to be found" https://bhekisisa.org/opinion/2020-03-23-coronavirus-south-africa-mental-health-support-how-to-cope-social-solidarity-covid19/
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Thousands of casual Bollywood workers have been left jobless after shoots were suspended to tackle coronavirus, @Rolionaroll reports for @TRF
"There are more than 500,000 Bollywood workers on daily wages and most now face an uncertain future" http://news.trust.org/item/20200323091426-ael6v/

"There are more than 500,000 Bollywood workers on daily wages and most now face an uncertain future" http://news.trust.org/item/20200323091426-ael6v/
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"Spain purchased 640,000 tests, which arrived on Monday, but four Madrid hospitals that used them found that the tests gave back negative results on patients who were known positives", @elenasevillano & @anaalfageme report for @el_pais https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-03-27/unreliability-of-new-tests-delays-effort-to-slow-coronavirus-spread-in-spain.html

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An important investigation from @propublica's @jeffykao & Mia Shuang Li
"Our research tracked how the government-linked influence accounts that had targeted political dissidents and the HK protests turned their focus to the coronavirus outbreak" https://www.propublica.org/article/how-china-built-a-twitter-propaganda-machine-then-let-it-loose-on-coronavirus

"Our research tracked how the government-linked influence accounts that had targeted political dissidents and the HK protests turned their focus to the coronavirus outbreak" https://www.propublica.org/article/how-china-built-a-twitter-propaganda-machine-then-let-it-loose-on-coronavirus
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The most-read story in Washington Post history explains how an outbreak like coronavirus spreads and what it takes to “flatten the curve.”
Graphics reporter @Harry_Stevens explains in this video how he created it https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/showing-how-a-disease-spreads--how-to-be-a-journalist-covering-coronavirus/2020/03/24/5e528e53-acd8-47b3-b00e-f7f1ae64f931_video.html


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A long piece on the parallels between #COVID19 and 1918 influenza by @honigsbaum, who's been writing about pandemics for 15 years.
"How deadly the outbreak will prove to be, no one can yet say but the echoes of 1918 are growing louder by the hour" https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/03/17/a-once-in-a-century-pathogen-the-1918-pandemic-this-one/

"How deadly the outbreak will prove to be, no one can yet say but the echoes of 1918 are growing louder by the hour" https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/03/17/a-once-in-a-century-pathogen-the-1918-pandemic-this-one/
Here you can read @risj_oxford work on #COVID2019
How journalists can stop the pandemic
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/how-journalists-can-help-stop-spread-coronavirus-outbreak
Findings from our past research on misinformation
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/covid-19-has-intensified-concerns-about-misinformation-heres-what-our-past-research
What it may mean for the business of news https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/what-will-coronavirus-pandemic-mean-business-news

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/how-journalists-can-help-stop-spread-coronavirus-outbreak

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/covid-19-has-intensified-concerns-about-misinformation-heres-what-our-past-research

This suggestion from @AlexaBorchardt https://twitter.com/alexaborchardt/status/1244227043698581505?s=21 https://twitter.com/AlexaBorchardt/status/1244227043698581505