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This Day in COVID: June 24, 2020

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The COVID-19 Crisis: An Opportunity To Build A Fairer, Healthier Nation

Health Affairs

Well-being and mental health amid COVID-19: Differences in resilience across minorities and whites

Carol Graham, Yung Chun, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, and Stephen Roll examine COVID-19's effects on mental health and well-being across racial groups.

Brookings

Trump promised to pay for Covid care. But patients with long-term symptoms see huge bills.

Doctors are discovering life-threatening and costly long-term health effects ranging from kidney failure to heart and lung damage.

Politico

Tocilizumab in patients with severe COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study

The Lancet

Conservationists warn Covid waste may result in ‘more masks than jellyfish’ in the sea

CNN

The Big Bad Wolf moves south: How COVID-19 affects higher education financing in developing countries

We observed how privately and publicly funded systems, especially those that rely heavily on fees from international students, have come under pressure due to the coronavirus. Is the crisis playing out in a similar way in developing countries?

World Bank

What’s Really Behind the Gender Gap in Covid-19 Deaths?

New York Times

What’s behind the surge of Covid-19 cases in Florida

CNN

Hospital chief talks Texas's rising coronavirus cases: 'People have completely let their guard down'

The head of one of the top hospitals in Houston told Good Morning America that people are letting their guard down as COVID-19 cases rise in the state.

ABC

Ontario to allow some COVID-19 positive employees into workplaces

Reuters

U.S. senators question meatpackers over exports to China during pandemic

Reuters

Migrant workers need support, jobs at home after pandemic disruption: ILO

Reuters

New Google default wipes users' location, web history after 18 months

Reuters

Are coronavirus contact tracing apps doomed to fail in America?

USA Today

Latin America's COVID-19 deaths seen hitting nearly 390,000 by October

Reuters

The D.C. National Guard Will Send Unarmed Troops To Help Guard Monuments

The guardsmen are currently on standby at the National Guard Armory.

DCist

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Seattle Times

On different planets: how Germany tackled the pandemic, and Britain flailed

From health spending to test and trace, the German response to coronavirus has many lessons for the UK, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian

Going to School Amid a Pandemic

US News

What will post-pandemic jobs look like?

The Hill

Survey: Women Are Rethinking Having Kids As They Face Pandemic Challenges

A survey from the Guttmacher Institute finds that roughly one-third of women say they plan to delay having children, or have fewer, even as they are experiencing difficulty obtaining contraception.

NPR

Why some people can't resist crowds despite the pandemic

Blame evolution for our compulsion to socialize even with the risk of COVID-19.

National Geogrpahic

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Could Be Messing With Your Sleep

Your internal clock comes unsprung

Time

The Pandemic and the Limits of Realism

The foundational international relations theory has been revealed to be far less realistic than it claims.

Foreign Policy

Europe’s pandemic politics: How the virus has changed the public’s worldview

New research reveals that the crisis has revolutionised citizens’ perceptions of global order – scrambling the distinctions between nationalism and globalism…

ECFR

Timing is everything: how Canada got into a pandemic economy — and how it might get out

The pandemic is a real-time laboratory for testing the economic and political limits of government deficit spending in a crisis. One lesson learned so far is that the governments that stepped up quickly with big rescue packages have tended to be the ones keeping the damage done by job losses to a minimum.

CBC

Trump’s first foreign visitor amid pandemic is Poland’s nationalist president

CNN

DC protests roll on despite fencing, barricades

Protesters gathered at Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C., despite fencing and a line of guards placed at Lafayette Square.

WTOP

Angry residents erupt at meeting over new mask rule

CNN

Trump administration says it will no longer directly run COVID-19 testing sites

The Trump administration said Wednesday it will no longer directly run virus testing sites.

ABC

As Americans celebrate Pride month during the coronavirus pandemic, Stonewall Inn struggles to stay open

The Hill

COVID-19 antibodies may fade in as little as 2 months, study says

A new study suggests that antibodies may fade in as little as two months after infection in certain people who have recovered from the coronavirus.

ABC

Florida reports another record spike in coronavirus cases, up 5.3% in a day

The Florida Department of Health reported another record spike in coronavirus cases as the state continues to grapple with an expanding outbreak.

CNBC

WHO warns coronavirus still hasn’t ‘reached its peak’ in Americas as global cases near milestone

Many countries in the Americas, which includes North, South and Central America, are still suffering sustained community transmission, the WHO says.

CNBC

Why the Coronavirus Is Winning

New York Times

Despite surge warning from top health officials, Trump repeats coronavirus 'going away,' uses racist description

President Donald Trump continues to insist the virus is 'going away' and to use racist terms in describing it as he shifts his focus to the campaign trail.

ABC

Fauci warns young people they are not immune to adverse effects of the coronavirus

The Hill

Coronavirus: Human trial of new vaccine begins in UK

Over the coming weeks, 300 healthy people will each be given two doses of the jab.

BBC

Britain's Prince William visits Oxford COVID-19 vaccine developers

Reuters

Stop wearing face masks incorrectly

The Hill

Washington Makes Not Wearing a Face Mask a Misdemeanor Crime

Newsweek

Mounting clues suggest the coronavirus might trigger diabetes

Evidence from tissue studies and some people with COVID-19 shows that the virus damages insulin-producing cells.

Nature

Disney faces pushback on Walt Disney World reopening

Reuters

New York City retailers welcome back shoppers but challenges loom

Reuters

NY, NJ and CT require travelers from states with high coronavirus rates to quarantine for two weeks

CNN

Parties — Not Protests — Are Causing Spikes In Coronavirus

Erika Lautenbach, director of the Whatcom County Health Department in Washington state, says protests against police violence aren't among the catalysts for the spread of COVID-19.

NPR

Black Lives Matter protests have not led to a spike in coronavirus cases, research says

CNN

Our Mission

The COVID-19 History Project is a curated archive of the events and policy decisions surrounding the emergence of COVID-19.

The pandemic era of 2020-2022 saw massive increases in restrictions on daily life—enforced by the government and by social stigma—accompanied social protests that roiled cities worldwide

In the United States alone, trillions of dollars were spent by the federal government to offset the forced closure of businesses and the devastation of normal life.

The impacts of these policy decisions are still being felt today.

Some would like us to forget the actions and people that played a significant role during the pandemic.

But we of the COVID-19 History Project don't want to forget. Through our work, we hope there will always be an archive to learn from and interpret this fascinating, disturbing, time in world history.

The Timeline

In order to learn from the mistakes of the past, and give COVID-19 decision makers the credit—both good and bad—they deserve, we have compiled a media timeline from every day of the pandemic.

We have endeavored to make the timeline comprehensive without being duplicative, following the major trends as they unfolded.

We provided analyses for each month highlighting major events, but encourage readers to make their own conclusions about these events as well.

This Day in COVID: June 24, 2021

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