Tuesday, September 01, 2020

Day 214: Pinteresting

Russia (at #4) has hit one million cases, while #2 Brazil is nearing 4 million. Belgium has taken over China's #37 spot. In the US, #14 Alabama is creeping up on Massachusetts and may beat us tomorrow if they're unlucky. (Massachusetts' cases are up about a quarter of a percentage point again today.)

Pinterest has eaten the $90 million fee to get out of their future lease of a future office building in San Francisco, the latest in an ongoing flight from the city not paralleled in similar markets elsewhere.

On the drug front, a paper in Clinical Medicine Journal extols the virtues of heparin against COVID-19. Although they merely speculate about its benefits, they do cite a preprint of a retrospective study that provides some evidence of its antiviral and anti-inflammatory effects in the wild.

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