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Tue. 05/26 - What We Know & Don't Know About COVID-19

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Young people are getting sick with COVID-19 in very high numbers in Brazil. A rundown on what we know and don’t know at this point. And an argument against immunity passports. Plus, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon launches tomorrow. A new space tax proposal. The world’s oldest living cat celebrates his birthday. How to get free pizza if you’re a graduating senior. And Catholic priests’ new weapon to fight coronavirus. Sponsors: OurCrowd, info.ourcrowd.com/goodnews Beachbody on Demand, Text "GOODNEWS" to 303030 Links: In the developing world, the coronavirus is killing far more young people (Washington Post) What We Know and Don't Know (Megan Ranney MD, Twitter) Ten reasons why immunity passports are a bad idea (Nature) World's oldest living cat celebrates his 32nd birthday (Animal Channel) How to Watch SpaceX Launch Astronauts to the ISS (Wired) 'Orbit tax' proposed to tackle growing problem of space junk (Sky News) Space Force (Netflix) Priests now baptizing kids and blessing food with water guns (A/V Club) 2020 grads can get free Pizza Hut pizza (ABC Chicago) Here's A Clever Trick To Make A Pizza Box Walk Down A Ramp (Digg) 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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Young people are getting sick with COVID-19 in very high numbers in Brazil. A rundown on what we

0:50.0

know and don't know at this point, and an argument against immunity passports.

0:56.3

Plus, SpaceX's crew dragon launches tomorrow, a new space tax proposal.

1:02.9

The world's oldest living cat celebrates his birthday, how to get free pizza if you're a graduating

1:08.6

senior, and Catholic priest's new weapon to fight coronavirus.

1:16.1

On Friday, New York State's death toll dropped below 100 for the first time since March.

1:23.5

It was back up to 146 on Saturday, but has since remained below 100.

1:28.6

Ireland on Monday had their first day with zero deaths since the end of March,

1:34.1

which their chief medical officer says is consistent with their pattern of reduction.

1:39.2

Italy, too, had good news reporting their lowest number of new cases since February. Meanwhile, however,

1:46.4

the virus continues to rampage through much of South and Central America, and a new

1:51.4

worrisome trend is emerging. More young people are dying than in other nations, quoting

1:57.9

the Washington Post. In Brazil, 15% of deaths have been people under 50, a rate more

2:04.8

than 10 times greater than in Italy or Spain. In Mexico, the trend is even more stark. Nearly

2:11.0

one-fourth of the dead have been between 25 and 49. In India, officials reported this month that nearly half of the dead were

2:19.4

younger than 60. In Rio de Janeiro state, more than two-thirds of hospitalizations are for people

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