The Coronavirus Crisis: Additional Reading and Resources
StateAbbott put politics before science, and Texas is paying the price, San Antonio Express-News, June 26, 2020
The Coronavirus Surge That Texas Could Have Seen Coming, the New Yorker, June 26, 2020. In the weeks leading up to the state’s reopening, there were plenty of signs, but not the will to read them.
Gov. Abbott calls coronavirus surge ’unacceptable,’ urges Texans to wear masks in public, San Antonio Express-News, June 22, 2020. “As other states continue to see their cases dwindle, Texas is skyrocketing because of Gov. Abbott’s weak leadership and botched reopening of the state.”
As Problems Grow With Abbott’s Fast COVID Test, FDA Standards Are Under Fire, Kaiser Health News, June 22, 2020
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Request for an opinion regarding facial covering mandates in courtrooms, courthouses and other county buildings during the COVID-19 disaster, County Attorney, Harris County, Texas, to the Attorney General of Texas, June 12, 2020. This is a request from Harris County to the Texas Attorney General for an opinion regarding facial covering mandates in courtrooms, courthouses and other county buildings during the COVID-19 disaster. It is a useful summary of the confusion created by the weak guidance issued by the governor for general management of the virus in public. The Harris County Attorney points out that the governor's guidance "....appears to be inconsistent with the Judicial Branch’s orders and directives on the face covering issue."
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UNSANITIZED: THE COVID-19 DAILY REPORT, The American Prospect. Daily articles with in-depth analyses of the science, culture, economics and politics of COVID-19. A good source for current legislative action/non-action by Congress.
NIH’s axing of bat coronavirus grant a ‘horrible precedent’ and might break rules, critics say, Science Magazine, April 30, 2020. " "The agency axed the grant last week, after conservative U.S. politicians and media repeatedly suggested—without evidence—that the pandemic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, that employs a Chinese virologist who had been receiving funding from the grant. The termination, which some analysts believe might violate regulations governing NIH, also came 7 days after President Donald Trump, asked about the project at a press conference, said: “'We will end that grant very quickly.'” The (American and Chinese research) alliance’s grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, titled “Understanding the risk of bat coronavirus emergence,” was launched in 2014 and renewed for 5 years in 2019 after receiving an outstanding peer-review score
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