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This Day in COVID: June 21, 2020

Maine has nation’s worst COVID-19 racial disparity

No other state has such a wide gap – more than 25 percentage points – between the size of the Black population and that community's share of infections.

Press Herald

Germany's coronavirus reproduction rate jumps, indicating rising contagion

Reuters

Approval of Trump's coronavirus response underwater, as he returns to campaign trail: POLL

A solid majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of the pandemic, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday finds.

ABC

Mask wearing sporadically enforced among nation's major police departments: Analysis

Anecdotal evidence from various cities suggests some portion of officers are choosing to forgo face coverings.

ABC

Women’s Job Losses From Pandemic Aren’t Good for Economic Recovery

WSJ

Smile! Could the pandemic lead to happier times?

What lessons can we learn from Laurie Santos, the professor whose ‘happiness’ course became a global hit? And could the current health crisis lead to a wellbeing revolution? By Josh Jacobs

The Guardian

Racial violence and a pandemic: How the Red Summer of 1919 relates to 2020

The wave of violence a century ago against Black Americans echoes how today, 'people feel they have little to lose, and so much at stake,' one historian said.

NBC

The Latest Pandemic Shortage: Coins Are The New Toilet Paper

In another sign of how the coronavirus crisis is disrupting commerce, banks are running short of nickels, dimes and quarters. The Federal Reserve, which supplies banks, is having to ration change.

NPR

On GPS: What can we learn from Wuhan's COVID response?

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 21, 2021

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Monoclonal antibody treatment available for early COVID-19 at Stanford Health Care

An infusion of monoclonal antibodies can ease COVID-19 symptoms and reduce complications in recently diagnosed, non-hospitalized people at high risk. Now people can refer themselves.

Stanford Medicine

I was made to wear a mask while giving birth to twins

I was shocked – it hadn’t even occurred to me that I’d have to go through the physical exertion of labour with my nose and mouth covered.

Metro.co.uk

‘We’ll all be dead by June!’ Jared Kushner screamed about mask shortage, according to new book

The Hill

Covid: 'It took me almost all day to get my coronavirus vaccine'

Ellie's Covid vaccination appointment was 20 minutes but getting it took her virtually all day.

BBC

Covid: Vaccines running out in poorer nations, WHO says

There are chronic shortages in some nations where Covid infections are surging, a key official says.

BBC

Pandemic pushes Medicaid enrollment to record high | CNN Politics

CNN

The pandemic cut annual FDI flows by one-third

They fell furthest in rich countries, but the poorest may suffer most

The Economist

Children not yet vaccinated against COVID-19? What to do - Harvard Health

Now that many people have been vaccinated against COVID-19, it feels like things are starting to return to something resembling normal. But because the vaccines have not yet been approved for those...

Harvard Health

The effect of COVID19 pandemic restrictions on an urban rodent population - Scientific Reports

Nature

What Will Become of the Pandemic Pets?

In a time of stress and isolation, we turned to them for comfort. Now it’s time to think about what owning animals really means.

The New Yorker

New York Faces Lasting Economic Toll Even as Pandemic Passes Published 2021

The New York Times

Opinion | Anthony Fauci on the Lab Leak Theory and Emailing Mark Zuckerberg Published 2021

The New York Times

What to Know About California’s Digital Vaccine Cards Published 2021

The New York Times

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

Politico

China’s Dongguan is latest southern city to be hit by COVID-19

Reuters

Turkey to further ease coronavirus restrictions from July

Reuters

Rubio Introduces Bill to Sanction China For Failure to Allow an Investigation Into COVID-19 Origins

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced the COVID Act of 2021 to authorize sanctions and other restrictions in the event that, 90 days after enactment, the Chinese Com

Senator Rubio .gov

New Coronavirus Variants Are Urgently Being Tracked around the World

Scientific American

‘Are you kidding me?’ Fauci responds to rightwing attacks over emails

Critics have seized on freedom of information release concerning official who initially advised against mask-wearing

The Guardian

Can Hawaii reset its stressed out tourism industry after the pandemic?

The islands has been feeling the weight of a tourism industry that has ballooned to what many believe is beyond the islands’ capacity

The Guardian

The Queer Quarantine

Washington Post

Analysis | Fox News and Trump are still pushing hydroxychloroquine. Here’s what the data actually shows.

The Washington Post

Eating Disorders Surged Among Adolescents in Pandemic

WSJ