Monthly Archive: March 2020

Are a Third of Infected Asymptomatic Spreaders?

From The Daily Beast: Classified Chinese government data suggest “silent carriers” could make up at least one-third of the country’s positive cases of the 2019 novel coronavirus, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post recently reported. Approximately...

The Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 1973

From The Atlantic: It started with an unsubstantiated rumor. “You can laugh now,” Johnny Carson said on The Tonight Show on December 19, 1973, “but there is an acute shortage of toilet paper.” There wasn’t—but it...

#RichFolkLockdownProblems

Not knowing which bottle to have with dinner #RichFolkLockdownProblems pic.twitter.com/ICM0BYzi2j — B.J. (@brob2268) March 28, 2020 #RichFolkLockdownProblemsCan't work the helicopter pic.twitter.com/HuwuUfDQZK — Jerry Chacon (@chaconkie) March 28, 2020

Telemedicine Supply Glitchy: “Major Lag Times”

Becker’s Hospital Review: Telehealth services have seen a 312 percent increase in demand from New York patients amid the coronavirus outbreak, Amwell spokesperson Holly Spring told CNBC News. “The rate of use of telehealth …...

Senate Meltdown

As the only reporter in the Senate chamber for all that – let me just say WOW. I’ve seen a lot, never seen anything quite like that. Need to send notes to my newsroom,...