General news
No Race or Religion Can Prevent Coronavirus – Don’t Fall for these Hoaxes. (The Poynter Institute, Feb. 27)
From a Scare in Shanghai to a Quarantine in Georgia: March 4, Georgia Health News: (Example of a local angle on the outbreak)
Your Pets Unlikely to Get or Give Coronavirus: March 3, WebMD
Mystery deepens over animal source of coronavirus: Feb. 26, Nature.com
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I Lived Through SARS and Reported on Ebola. These Are the Questions We Should Be Asking About Coronavirus. — ProPublic
News about testing
University of Washington gets emergency green light to test for coronavirus
Scientists at the University of Washington’s Virology Lab were given emergency approval to begin testing for COVID-19. The lab has the capacity to test 1,000 specimens a day and is working to increase that number to 4,000 or 5,000 specimens as the epidemic worsens.
Private Labs Are Fueling a New Coronavirus Testing Crisis, Alexis C. Madrigal, Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, March 31
Test makers are moving fast, but the coronavirus may be moving faster, Matthew Herper, Stat, March 31.
Medical Companies Win Approval for Rapid Coronavirus Tests. Brianna Abbot, Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, March 31.
“The Numbers Are Staggering.” Why New York Doctors See No End In Sight, Julia Ioffe, GQ, March 29
Testing blunders crippled US response as coronavirus spread, Michael Biesecker, Mike Stobbe, Matthew Perrone, AP, March 23.
How the CDC’s Restrictive Testing Guidelines Hid the Coronavirus Epidemic, Jessica Wang, Lindsay Huth, Taylor Umlauf, Wall Street Journal, March 22.
Coronavirus Testing Chaos Across America, Dan Frosch, Ian Lovett, Deanna Paul, Wall Street Journal, March 19.
Special Report: How Korea trounced U.S. in race to test people for coronavirus, Chad Terhune, Dan Levine, Hyunjoo Jin, Jane Lanhee Lee, Reuters, March 18.
U.S. Lags in Coronavirus Testing After Slow Response to Outbreak, Larry Buchanan, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Allison McCann, NY Times, March 17
Everything You Need to Know About Coronavirus Testing, Megan Molteni, Adam Rogers, Wired, March 16.
Diagnostic Testing for the Novel Coronavirus, Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD; Scott J. Becker, MS; Michelle M. Mello, JD, PhD, JAMA Viewpoint, March 9.