From Our Weekly Note and More
On Understanding Our Immune System
Excerpts from Ed Yong’s article in The Atlantic “because we really need to understand how the immune system reacts to the coronavirus.”
On Reopening US Schools
Selected views from California, Florida, Nevada, New York City, Texas and Virginia are shared - as the 2020-2021 school year approaches.
On Vaccines, Treatment and Public Trust
Recent comments by Merck CEO Ken Frazier, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and a Johns Hopkins lead research team focusing on COVID-19 vaccines are presented.
Four Books for Summer 2020 - and Other Ideas
As summer 2020 arrives, we present four books to consider, comments from Ray Dalio and a Bell Telephone ad from the early 1900s.
On Obesity and COVID-19
This week's comments address obesity: its relationship to COVID-19, its global prevalence and the need for better prevention.
On Fitness Trackers, COVID-19 and more
On research projects using fitness trackers such as Apple Watch, Fitbit, Oura Ring and WHOOP to provide early alerts about diseases such as COVID-19. (Stanford, UCSF, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, Scripps Research)
For the Class of 2020: Guidance from the Past & Present
As 2020 graduation celebrations continue (often virtually), consider views shared last week (Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey) as well as several from the past (Steve Jobs, JK Rowlings and US Navy Admiral William H. McRaven.
On Treating COVID-19: Gilead Sciences' Remdesivir and more
Remdesivir is a treatment, not a vaccine, but there are over 100 vaccine candidates in development worldwide (eight are in early clinical trials.)
Was CES in Las Vegas (Jan 2020) a "Super-Spreader" Event?
Comments from American Public Media’s report “A Covid-infected attendee emerges from CES, a massive tech conference in January” January 7-10, over 170,000 attendees from 160 countries including business representatives from Wuhan, China
On Resilience, Knowledge of the Future, a Typhoon and a Fragile Success
Comments by Angela Merkel (German Chancellor), Madeleine Albright (former US Secretary of State), Charlie Munger (vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway) and Howard Marks (co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management).
To Inspire, Educate and Entertain
During this profoundly uncertain period, we share links to: 1) an insightful discussion about public health, 2) a streaming video about gene-editing and 3) music by Sting, Jimmy Fallon and others - and a distributed performance of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy".
On Telehealth Innovation, Economic Impacts and the Pandemic
Comments from World Health Organization, International Monetary Fund, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Federal Communications Commission.
Thoughts, Prayers, Data - and the Virus
Comments by Dr. Fauci (CDC), Bill Gates, Pope Francis and John Chambers (former Cisco Systems CEO); along with top 20 countries impacted and the spread among US counties.
On Books, Mushrooms and a Cow-Milking parody of Queen's "We Will Rock You"
Amid global uncertainty, this week we recommend two books to inspire, a film about mushrooms to enlighten and milk-focused parody based on “We Will Rock You” to entertain.