🦠 COVID-19 References

I'm keeping a diary of interesting links to track the COVID-19 epidemic.

Global links

Archive of a good bunch of links on SSC.
A rationalist prepper. Articles like this helped me prepare about a month before shit hit the fan.
Why You Must Act Now - Nice comprehensive article that was doing the rounds in the early days.
Comprehensive arstechnica coverage.
Why the whole test kit availability thing was messed up in the early days: they were tainted.
Timeline of WHO's response.
How New Zealand beat COVID-19.
A nice summary of the Vaccine Protocols.

A paper that was doing the rounds on Whatsapp was retracted.
HCQ results after certain clowns made a big deal of it.
Lack of clarity on remdesivir's effectiveness. It may be worse than doing nothing.
Social media scrambling as always, fighting misinformation.

Trying to predict the curve, way back in March.
Some more scenarios, from March.
Reasons for doubt: India under-reporting TB cases for years.
So cruel :(. Politicians and corporations put worker rights last.
India has an Integrated Disease Surveillance Program that is meant to handle epidemics like this. They had daily updates until COVID-19 hit, and ICMR stepped in instead.
How to make even a fucking epidemic about religion.
ICMR research that implies 7 lakh infected in a few districts, when the nation-wide count at that time was 3.4 lakhs (!!)