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This Day in COVID: June 22, 2020

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In person, online classes or a mix: Colleges' fall 2020 coronavirus reopening plans, detailed

USA Today

As New York reopens, a $1000-per-cut hair salon has waitlist of 1,200

Reuters

Spain to decide this week which non-European tourists can visit

Reuters

Saudi Arabia Announces This Year's Hajj Will Be 'Very Limited'

Officials announce on Monday that this year's pilgrimage to Mecca will be restricted in size and limited to Saudi residents. In a typical year, millions of Muslims would make the journey.

NPR

Traffic jams signal return to normal in New York but COVID-19 cases jump elsewhere

Reuters

No second wave of coronavirus: U.S. White House adviser Kudlow

Reuters

How the Coronavirus Recovery Is Changing Cities

Bloomberg

Mini organs reveal how the coronavirus ravages the body

The virus can damage lung, liver and kidney tissue grown in the lab, which might explain some severe COVID-19 complications in people.

Nature

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Washington Post

White House Defends Trump's Use Of Racist Term To Describe Coronavirus

The president over the weekend used a racist term to describe the deadly coronavirus pandemic during a campaign rally, to cheers from those in the audience.

NPR

Young people in the US South and West are increasingly getting coronavirus

CNN

Covid-19 or migraine? Here’s how to tell and what to do about it

CNN

Initial COVID-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported

A new study from Penn State tracked excess influenza-like illness data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to estimate that the number of early COVID-19 cases in the U.S. may have been more than 80 times greater and doubled nearly twice as fast as originally believed.

PSU

California Hits New High In COVID-19 Hospitalizations

Officials attribute at least part of the rise to a decline in social distancing as people venture out into the world again. The majority of new cases are in Southern California and the Central Valley.

NPR

Use of aerosolised medications at home for COVID-19

The Lancet

Going back in time for an antibody to fight COVID-19

An antibody that neutralizes SARS-CoV-2.

Nature

Black Medicare Patients With COVID-19 Nearly 4 Times As Likely To End Up In Hospital

An analysis of claims data shows stark racial disparities among Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with COVID-19.

NPR

California urges people to wear masks amid record Covid-19 hospitalizations

More than 3,700 people hospitalized on Sunday in state, which has seen more than 178,000 cases and 5,500 deaths

The Guardian

Florida Passes 100,000 COVID-19 Cases

Florida is one of a handful of states that's seeing a surge of record daily high cases. The governor says the jump is because of increased testing for the coronavirus.

NPR

The Great Pause Was an Economic Revolution

Governments stopped the world in its tracks during the pandemic—and our relationship to the economy will never be the same again.

Foreign Policy

Steve Bannon’s COVID Podcast Is Being Distributed by a Convicted Crook

The network that distributes “War Room: Pandemic” is run by Colorado-based Robert Sigg, who has a criminal background and has historically donated to Democratic candidates.

The Daily Beast

Graph shows stark difference in US and EU responses to Covid-19

CNN

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Washington Post

What happens when coronavirus and Lyme disease intersect? It's a scary time for patients

USA Today

Prominent Researchers Say a Widely Cited Study on Wearing Masks Is Badly Flawed

'Masks matter. So does good science. Let's do both.'

Reason

Man without mask shoves Walmart employee trying to enforce rule, video shows

The mask-less man shoves the Walmart employee several times, and even falling on the ground during one of his attempts.

Fox News

Mask shaming men won’t work. Here’s what will

LA Times

Four potential consequences of wearing face masks we need to be wary of

The Conversation

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 22, 2021

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Almost 900 Secret Service employees were infected with COVID

Records obtained by a government watchdog show that roughly 900 U.S. Secret Service employees tested positive for the coronavirus.

AP News

Fed's Powell says high inflation temporary, will 'wane'

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that he expects recent price spikes will soon subside and reduce inflation to a sustainable level.

AP News

Watchdog: Nursing home deaths up 32% in 2020 amid pandemic

A government watchdog says that deaths among Medicare patients in nursing homes soared by 32% last year amid the coronavirus pandemic.

AP News

Coronavirus: Delta variant now represents 20% of new US cases, Fauci says - as it happened

Financial Times

Doctors Debunk Popular COVID-19 Vaccine Myths and Conspiracy Theories

Medical experts break down 9 of the most common COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories and myths to explain the science that proves why these claims are false.

Healthline

Delta coronavirus variant: scientists brace for impact

The rapid rise of the highly transmissible strain in the United Kingdom has put countries in Europe, North America and Africa on watch.

Nature

Acute macular neuroretinopathy following COVID-19 vaccination - Eye

Nature

‘Super-antibodies’ could curb COVID-19 and help avert future pandemics - Nature Biotechnology

Companies are designing next-generation antibodies modeled on those taken from unique individuals whose immune systems can neutralize any COVID-19 variant—and related coronaviruses, too.

Nature

Mobility-based real-time economic monitoring amid the COVID-19 pandemic - Scientific Reports

Nature

Delta variant is 'greatest threat' to eliminating Covid in U.S., Fauci says

Cases of the more contagious variant have doubled in the United States in the past two weeks.

NBC News

NIH study suggests COVID-19 prevalence far exceeded early pandemic cases

Researchers estimate nearly 17 million undiagnosed cases in the U.S. by mid-July 2020.

National Institutes of Health NIH .gov

Opinion: Vaccine Hesitancy In The U.S. Is A Peculiar Privilege

That's Dr. Junaid Nabi's perspective as an immigrant when he hear Americans say they're going to 'watch and wait' — while his family and colleagues abroad are desperate for a COVID-19 vaccine.

NPR

Fauci Warns Dangerous Delta Variant Is The Greatest Threat To U.S. COVID Efforts

More contagious than other variants, and maybe more likely to cause severe disease, Delta is spreading so fast in the U.S. it could cause another surge this summer or fall, according to new research.

NPR

Virus May Have Arrived in U.S. in December, but Didn’t Spread Until Later Published 2020

The New York Times

U.S. Nears 600,000 Virus Deaths Despite Progress From Vaccines Published 2021

The New York Times

Virus Cases Surge Again in Russia, Many From Delta Variant Published 2021

The New York Times

The pandemic changed how we vote. These states are making the changes permanent.

Politico

Mandatory mask rules extended in Sydney as COVID-19 cluster grows

Reuters

How the pandemic has reshaped collaboration — and competition — in science

The pandemic showed the world what’s possible when scientists put collaboration first.

STAT

Wuhan lab’s classified work complicates search for pandemic’s origins

The Washington Post

Opinion | Are Covid Vaccines Riskier Than Advertised?

WSJ

Opinion | Dr. Fauci and the Mask Disaster

WSJ