India has also reached 4 million cases, is still setting daily records, and is looking to take over the #2 slot from Brazil any minute now. The news is all over #4 Russia's "Sputnik V" vaccine, especially the Lancet paper that no one actually links to.
New Zealand has had their first COVID-19 death of the winter, a man in his 50's who was part of the Aukland community outbreak. An editorial out of Britain looks at the coronavirus moral panic (or failure of nerve, as the author puts it) from a non-crackpot perspective, not that crackpots haven't made the same arguments (when they're not talking about Bill Gates' microchips).
In the US, Salongate continues to entertain; PlagueBlog has heard rumors of constituents stringing up curlers and hair dryers outside her house. In New York City, there's now a $2 billion class action lawsuit against Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio over the ongoing ban on indoor dining in the city.
The New York Times reports on layoffs becoming permanent.
Bloomberg reports that stocks are down.
P.S. Massachusetts cases are up a sixth of a percentage point today.
Friday, September 04, 2020
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