:material-virus:{ .anim-fade } COVID-19 References

I’m keeping a diary of interesting links to track the COVID-19 epidemic.

Global links#

Archive of a good bunch of links on SSC .
A rationalist prepper . Articles like this helped me prepare about a month before shit hit the fan.
Why You Must Act Now - Nice comprehensive article that was doing the rounds in the early days.
Comprehensive arstechnica coverage .
Why the whole test kit availability thing was messed up in the early days: they were tainted .
Timeline of WHO’s response .
How New Zealand beat COVID-19 .
A nice summary of the Vaccine Protocols .

A paper that was doing the rounds on Whatsapp was retracted .
HCQ results after certain clowns made a big deal of it.
Lack of clarity on remdesivir’s effectiveness . It may be worse than doing nothing .
Social media scrambling as always, fighting misinformation .

Trying to predict the curve , way back in March.
Some more scenarios , from March.
Reasons for doubt: India under-reporting TB cases for years .
So cruel :( . Politicians and corporations put worker rights last.
India has an Integrated Disease Surveillance Program that is meant to handle epidemics like this. They had daily updates until COVID-19 hit, and ICMR stepped in instead.
How to make even a fucking epidemic about religion .
ICMR research that implies 7 lakh infected in a few districts, when the nation-wide count at that time was 3.4 lakhs (!!)