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This Day in COVID: July 9, 2020

No revisions to school reopening guidelines despite Trump demand, just 'additional information': CDC director

CDC Director Robert Redfield said Thursday guidelines for schools to reopen were not being revised as President Trump and Vice President Pence said they would be.

ABC

COVID-19 and Low Carbon Electricity: Lessons for the Future

International Atomic Energy Agency

COVID-19 Cases Are Rising, So Why Are Deaths Flatlining?

The gap between soaring cases and falling deaths is being weaponized by the right to claim a hollow victory in the face of shameless failure. What’s really going on?

The Atlantic

COVID-19 and Black Communities

National Academies

‘It’s all on hold’: how Covid-19 derailed the fight against plastic waste

Pandemic prompted states to temporarily ban reusable grocery bags and stalled legislation aimed at reducing plastic packaging

The Guardian

The Lancet COVID-19 Commission

The Lancet

Fauci: ‘I Don’t Think You Can Say We’re Doing Great. I Mean, We’re Just Not.’

For this week’s episode of PODCAST-19, we interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and a leader…

Five Thirty Eight

Americans made ‘tremendous sacrifices.’ The great reopening of the pandemic summer still got derailed

CNN

With coronavirus science still iffy, U.S. schools hope to reopen for 56.6 million K-12 students

Washington Post

NIAID Launches COVID-19 Clinical Trials Network for Vaccine Research

Government CIO Media

‘Broken heart syndrome’ has increased during the Covid-19 pandemic, small study suggests

CNN

The end of small business

Washington Post

Independent evaluation of global COVID-19 response announced

WHO

What N.Y.C. Schools Will Look Like in September

New York Times

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: July 9, 2021

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Quarter-dose of Moderna COVID vaccine still rouses a big immune response

Using only one-quarter of the usual amount of Moderna’s vaccine in each of two jabs triggers lasting production of antibodies and T cells.

Nature

China ‘cannot relax Covid-19 controls’ amid threat from Delta variant

Health official says authorities will continue to focus on preventing imported cases from spreading locally after recent outbreaks.

South China Morning Post

Spectator ban at Tokyo Olympics as coronavirus resurges | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

The Japanese government has announced it will impose a fourth coronavirus state of emergency for the capital starting next week and covering the duration of the Tokyo Olympics. This has prompted Olympic organizers to ban spectators from venues.

NHK

Coronavirus: Hospital visiting at two Derry hospitals paused

Altnagelvin and Waterside hospitals are in the area with the highest Covid infection rate in NI.

BBC

Euros: England team to donate prize money to NHS coronavirus heroes

England have said they will donate a chunk of their winnings from the Euros to the NHS

BBC

Pfizer says it’s time for a Covid booster; FDA and CDC say not so fast | CNN

CNN

Fully vaccinated people don't need Covid boosters, health agencies say

"We are prepared for booster doses if and when the science demonstrates that they are needed," the FDA and the CDC said.

NBC News

But ‘it’s break!’: Thousands of D.C.-area kids head to summer school, sometimes reluctantly

The Washington Post

Hayes: Right-wing engineers outrage over vaccine ‘coercion’

“This is an active choice by an almost incalculably cynical set of political actors to harness the power of backlash politics in pursuit of more sickness and more death,” says Chris Hayes on the right-wing mobilization against the vaccine.

MSNBC News

POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Americans believe Covid leaked from lab

Politico

CDC issues guidance on masks in classrooms, but here’s what California schools will do

Sacramento Bee

Virginia woman recounts 'massive brain bleed' from COVID vaccine, as Fauci tells hesitant folks 'Get over it'

Barbara Orandello told "The Ingraham Angle" she was rushed to two different hospitals only 18 hours after receiving the second installment of her vaccine and underwent an emergency craniotomy.

Fox News

Masks don't need to be on the back-to-school supply list for fully vaccinated students

The new guidance from the CDC falls in line with its previous advice on masks for vaccinated adults.

NBC News

American Airlines flight disrupted by teens who refused to wear masks

Flight crew were forced to reschedule the flight after high school students flouted federal mask rules.

CBS News

Tomi Lahren is latest to compare pandemic rules to Nazism in critiquing flight attendants’ mask enforcements

The Washington Post

How great is the threat of a new vaccine-resistant Covid variant?

Experts voice fears over England’s lockdown-lifting ‘experiment’

The Week

Covid-19 pandemic: 'Everything you should not do, Brazil has done'

Brazil has the second highest Covid death toll in the world, with pressure growing on its leader.

BBC

COVID-19: Eleven people dying from hunger a minute as pandemic fuels starvation crisis, warns Oxfam

The economic fallout of the public health emergency, conflict and climate change has deepened the plight in existing hotspots and established "new epicentres of hunger", a report finds.

Sky News

Telehealth: A quarter-trillion-dollar post-COVID-19 reality?

Telehealth has helped expand access to care for patients restricted from seeing their doctors. Actions taken today will determine if its full potential is realized after the crisis is over.

McKinsey & Company

mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against the B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 variants and severe COVID-19 disease in Qatar - Nature Medicine

A matched test-negative, case-control study using real-world data from a predominantly working-age population demonstrates efficacy of the mRNA-1273 vaccine to be 100% and 96.4% against the B.1.1.7 (Alpha) and B.1.351 (Beta) SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, respectively.

Nature

How COVID taught America about inequity in education — Harvard Gazette

This installment of the Unequal series looks at the how the pandemic called attention to issues surrounding the racial achievement gap in America.

Harvard Gazette

Where Are The Newest COVID Hot Spots? Mostly Places With Low Vaccination Rates

As the delta variant takes over in the U.S., new, localized outbreaks are emerging. Those surges are likely driven by pockets of dangerously low vaccination rates.

NPR

Pfizer, BioNTech to seek authorization for COVID booster shot as Delta variant spreads

Reuters

Managing the uncertainty of COVID-19 | NIH MedlinePlus Magazine

The COVID-19 pandemic has created mental health challenges for people of all backgrounds.

NIH MedlinePlus Magazine (.gov)

Public mental health problems during COVID-19 pandemic: a large-scale meta-analysis of the evidence - Translational Psychiatry

Nature

Body composition predictors of outcome in patients with COVID-19 - International Journal of Obesity

Nature

Indonesia to widen coronavirus curbs to 15 locations

Reuters

Cameroon: Conflict and COVID won't keep these children from school

“I want all children to go to school, especially girls who are told that they should stay home.” Meet 10-year-old Anastasie and other children now back in class.

International Rescue Committee

Coronavirus Delta variant throwing NI a curveball

The Delta variant is now the dominant form of the virus in NI, with cases on the rise.

BBC

Coronavirus: Iran is locking down amid the fear of a fifth wave

Egypt manufactures vaccine doses of China’s Sinovac and Oman announces lockdown for Eid Al Adha.

The Jerusalem Post

Malaysia Reports Record Daily Coronavirus Cases Amid Lockdown

Bloomberg

Coronavirus: 'Personal responsibility needed to live with Covid'

NI's first minister also questions the "logic" for wearing face masks in settings where people are seated.

BBC

How Mask Guidelines Have Evolved (Published 2021)

The New York Times