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This Day in COVID: September 11, 2020

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Deborah Birx brings coronavirus team to Tuscaloosa

Tuscaloosa News

Covid-19: Fauci says US life won’t return to normal until deep into 2021

Expert says no return to ‘a degree of normality’ until ‘well into 2021’ and believes current data on virus deaths and cases ‘disturbing’

The Guardian

Why San Diego State offers a model for how to approach a rise in campus Covid infections

San Diego State took a different path than Chico State, as the first of the CSU campuses to end in-person classes following increases in coronavirus infection.

Ed Source

Yes, you can have Covid-19 and the flu at the same time. Here’s what that could do to your body

CNN

Astonishingly risky': COVID-19 cases at colleges are fueling the nation's hottest outbreaks

USA Today

India has one of the world’s lowest Covid-19 mortality rates. But the numbers don’t tell the whole story

CNN

Trump heads into flu season amid pandemic mocking masks, holding packed campaign rallies

Thousands jam together at President Donald Trump's campaign rallies, mostly without masks, cheering for a candidate who mocks precautions against the novel coronavirus.

ABC

How to handle COVID-19 conspiracy theorists in the family

If a friend or loved one believes a COVID-19 conspiracy theory, it’s best to approach them from a place of curiosity rather than confrontation, suggests social worker Gary Direnfeld.

CTV News

New ads urge minorities to participate in coronavirus vaccine trials

Clinical trials to find a vaccine for COVID-19 have struggled to get Black and Latino participation.

NBC

COVID-19 has killed dozens of 9/11 first responders

As America marks the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, one activist calls Trump pandemic response 'atrocious.'

NBC

Even children with no symptoms can spread Covid-19, CDC report shows

CNN

Trudeau, Tam defend Canadian response times to COVID-19 pandemic

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government began preparing for a possible pandemic as soon as it received the first alert about a mysterious cluster of pneumonia cases in China on New Year's Eve.

CTV News

Comparing Trump and Biden on COVID-19

This issue brief compares President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden on their records, actions and proposals related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes a general overview of their respective approaches, followed by a detailed side-by-side.

KFF

Ivanka Trump Tells Joy Behar She’ll Get A COVID-19 Vaccine On ‘The View’ To Prove It’s Safe

Ivanka Trump Tells Joy Behar She’ll Get A COVID-19 Vaccine On ‘The View’ To Prove It’s Safe (ET) is the authoritative source on entertainment and celebrity news with unprecedented access to Hollywood's biggest stars, upcoming movies, and TV shows.

ET Canada

The Covid-19 vaccine gamble: where bets have been placed and why

Wealthy nations have ordered millions of doses of unproven candidates, but equal access is the key to beating virus

The Guardian

What Happens When Children’s Covid-19 Symptoms Won’t Go Away

Some parents say their kids have been sick for months, and experts aren't sure what's going on

Smithsonian Magazine

Trump supporter on not wearing a mask: It's a fake pandemic

CNN

Is it safe for athletes to wear masks while exercising?

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order clarifying that masks are required for sports in which social distancing isn't possible.

MLive

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: September 11, 2021

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Pope Francis Encourages Covid Vaccines in Media Campaign (Published 2021)

The New York Times

Biden’s Vaccine Push Aligns Him With a Fed-Up, Vaccinated Majority (Published 2021)

The New York Times

Berlin Clubs Return With a Vengeance (Published 2021)

The New York Times

Behind the masks: Inside the studios of the artists who give goalies their game faces

Designing goalie masks is a niche business. The client list is long, and some goalies can be particular about the details.

The New York Times

Thousands protest new Turkish vaccine and test rules

Reuters

How has the pandemic changed the way you’ll learn?

As students gradually return to campus, many universities will be offering blended learning – mixing face-to-face lectures with the best of digital teaching

The Guardian

What Is Causing All These New Coronavirus Variants? Is It the COVID–19 Vaccines?

SciTechDaily

Refugees fear COVID risk in Australian immigration detention

Concerns raised for health, safety of those held in overcrowded Melbourne facility after a guard contracted the virus.

Al Jazeera

‘This pandemic is our World War II.’ How a Florida hospital fights to save Covid-19 patients | CNN

CNN

A big study in Bangladesh finds simple ways to encourage mask use

Symptomatic infections of covid-19 went down as the use of masks went up

The Economist

The pandemic has refashioned corporate dress codes

Suits v sweatpants

The Economist