One of my friends posted on Facebook that she was setting aside an hour every day for people to sign up to meet with her kids and have an interview, read a book, or teach them something. I signed up to teach a short lesson on the drug development process (i.e. "how medicine is made"). It went really well and I think they learned something - I know I had fun 🙂 There's probably a couple little tweaks I would make and changes to make it more interactive, but if any of my other friends set up something similar, I will definitely give my talk again, or I might just schedule a meeting on my own for people to join if they're interested.
The lockdown in Wuhan ended today - I haven't talked to any of my colleagues there yet, but hopefully they have good news the next time we meet!
Deaths from COVID-19 passed 3000 in New York today - that's more than in the 9/11 attacks. The US is leading globally in cases, and NY is the epicenter here. Other states, including California, are actually sending them ventilators, with the understanding that they'll send them back when the crisis spikes back there.
The question on everyone's mind is still "when can this end," and I read another article in The Atlantic today about how other countries are handling contact tracing via cell phone apps. Of course, besides the obvious privacy concerns brought up in the article, there's also the fact that not everyone has a smart phone, or a cell phone at all. What about kids? My 92 year old grandmother who can't work technology? Homeless people and people in poverty who just can't afford one?
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