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Tue. 05/19 - Where Tests Abound, Why Aren't People Getting Them?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Testing is expanding in the US, but people aren’t showing up. More findings on people who test positive again after recovering. And "bumper tables" for social distancing. Plus, debunking misconceptions about the 1918 flu pandemic, why we might be seeing an animation renaissance, and is Etsy the new Grubhub? Links: Initial surge in news use around coronavirus in the UK has been followed by significant increase in news avoidance (Reuters Institute) Thinking of Buying a Bike? Get Ready for a Very Long Wait (NY Times) The COVID Tracking Project A.C.L.U. Warns Against Fever-Screening Tools for Coronavirus (NY Times) Shakespeare's Globe May Permanently Close (The Mary Sue) Ocean City Bar Buys 'Bumper Tables' For Socially Distant Dining (CBS Baltimore) US states see COVID-19 testing supply improvements, but challenges abound (Washington Post) Covid Patients Testing Positive After Recovery Aren’t Infectious, Study Shows (Bloomberg) Ten Myths About the 1918 Flu Pandemic | History (Smithsonian Magazine) Why You’re Going to See More Animation (Thanks, Pandemic) (Wall Street Journal) Listen to this mashup of Saturday morning cartoon themes (AV Club) If You're Jonesing for a Homemade Snack, Try Etsy (LifeHacker) 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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welcome to the good news ride home for tuesday may 19th 2020 i'm jackson bird testing is in the U.S., but people aren't showing up for it.

0:41.3

A new nationwide antibody study and more findings on people who test positive again after recovering.

0:49.1

Plus debunking misconceptions about the 1918 flu pandemic, why we might be seen in animation renaissance,

0:57.0

and is Etsy the new Grubhub?

1:02.0

Starting today with some numbers, the U.S. death toll has passed 90,000 with more than a million

1:10.0

and a half confirmed cases. India has just passed 100,000 with more than a million and a half confirmed cases. India has just passed

1:13.2

100,000 cases matching the number of ICU beds in the country, and death certificates in Mexico

1:19.7

City suggest the fatalities from coronavirus there may be three times higher than official reports.

1:27.1

Some better news out of Italy, though, their death toll has

1:30.9

dipped below 100 in a 24-hour period for the first time in 10 weeks. The U.S. Centers for Disease

1:38.5

Control and Prevention is planning a nationwide antibody study in 25 metropolitan areas to track how the virus is spreading.

1:47.1

The study will begin this summer and extend into next year.

1:50.6

While many people turned to the news more than usual at the outset of the pandemic,

1:55.3

trends have swung to the opposite end of the pendulum,

1:58.1

and now 22% of people in the UK say that they often or always

2:02.7

actively try to avoid the news, up from 15% in mid-April, according to a recent study by the Reuters

2:09.7

Institute at Oxford.

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