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Fri. 05/29 - Did COVID-19 Outbreaks Actually Start Later Than We Thought?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Today we’re looking at the different ways the virus spreads and what measures can be taken to prevent spread in different contexts. A new study shows coronavirus epidemics may have started later than originally thought. Plus, the grad student who solved a problem that had stumped experts for half a century. Why Sweden celebrates Taco Friday. And a round-up of Star Wars-related media to check out this weekend. Sponsors: Beachbody on Demand, Text "GOODNEWS" to 303030 OurCrowd, info.ourcrowd.com/goodnews Links: Monkeys steal coronavirus blood samples in India (Reuters) Tyson Pork Plant In Iowa Shuts After Hundreds Of Workers Test Positive for COVID-19 (HuffPost) To Beat Covid-19, You Have to Know How A Virus Moves (Wired) Coronavirus Epidemics Began Later Than Believed, Study Concludes (NY Times) Graduate Student Untangles Decades-Old Math Problem in Less Than a Week (Smithsonian Magazine) Taco Friday in Sweden (Mental Floss) How 'Taco Friday' Became a Swedish Tradition (Atlas Obscura) Listen to the original NPR radio drama adaptations of the first STAR WARS trilogy (Boing Boing)  A Modern Trailer for The Empire Strikes Back (Neatorama)  Star Wars Game Show Trailer Is Here: Jedi Temple Challenge (Gizmodo)  Disney+ Accessibility Subtitles Can Make Everything Comics Sans (Gizmodo) “Baby Yoda (This Is The Way)” (Blue Milk Run, Bandcamp) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.3

Today, we're looking at the different ways the virus spreads and what measures can be taken to prevent spread in different contexts.

0:50.3

Also, a new study shows that the coronavirus epidemics in various countries may have started later than we originally thought.

0:58.7

Plus, the grad student who solved a problem that had stumped experts for half a century.

1:04.6

Why Sweden celebrates Taco Friday?

1:08.6

And a roundup of Star Wars-related media to check out this weekend.

1:14.8

Cases are surging in Iraq, where all travel between provinces has been stopped for a second time,

1:22.1

and several parts of Baghdad were shut down and issued with stay-at-home orders.

1:27.8

Moscow's municipal health department has recalculated the tally of deaths in the city due to

1:33.2

coronavirus, finding that twice as many people have died of COVID-19 related causes than

1:39.3

originally thought. Over a hundred scientists have questioned the legitimacy of the recent study that indicated

1:46.6

hydroxychloroquine is ineffective in treating COVID-19. In an open letter to The Lancet,

1:52.0

the scientist asked for more information about the hospital database used in the study and called

1:56.9

for the study to be independently validated by the World Health Organization or another

2:01.3

institution. Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania has now also tested positive for coronavirus

2:07.7

antibodies after Senator Tim Kane announced the same earlier this week. A Tyson Foods pork

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