Welcome to the newly revamped Key Developments, now twice weekly and with non-COVID news. Right now, it’s actually still just COVID news, but we’ll be slowly morphing it into something broader as we go. There are over 27.7 million global cases. Cases have grown around the world by over 1.9 million since last week; global
Disinfectants have been hard to come by all year. Once COVID-19 reared its ugly head, things like Lysol spray and disinfectant wipes vanished from the shelves. Manufacturers promised things would get back to normal by the summer, but summer has come and gone, and they’re still hard to come by. So finding anything that’s effective
Welcome to the newly revamped Key Developments, now twice weekly and with non-COVID news. Right now, it’s actually still just COVID news, but we’ll be slowly morphing it into something broader as we go. The world has over 26.4 million cases. The world has added about 1.8 million cases since last week, as has for
Those readers who’ve been with us since our January coverage of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Wuhan, China, know that The Prepared has consistently predicted the twists and turns of this pandemic. Our blog has been early on many stories, and our COVID-19 scenario guide has been accurate in detail about how many aspects of the
Welcome to the newly revamped Key Developments, now twice weekly and with non-COVID news. Right now, it’s actually still just COVID news, but we’ll be slowly morphing it into something broader as we go. There are over 25.8 million global cases. Cases have grown around the world by over 1.8 million since last week; global
Welcome to the newly revamped Key Developments, now twice weekly and with non-COVID news. Right now, it’s actually still just COVID news, but we’ll be slowly morphing it into something broader as we go. The world has over 24.6 million cases. The world has been adding 1.8 million cases per week, and this rate of
I’m fortunate enough to have full-time work-from-home privileges, a comfortable house, and other factors that make me more able to quarantine than most people. And I’m very concerned about the pandemic and very conscious of the medical benefits of social distancing (see my State of the Pandemic series). As a result, I’ve been following a
Coronavirus cases at colleges might be exploding, but in the United States as a whole, the COVID case counts are actually falling. That’s right. We bring you (tentatively) good news for perhaps the first time since this pandemic began. After a massive resurgence in June and July, the majority of American states and the United States
News recently broke that the Russian government had approved a COVID-19 vaccine, appearing to give it bragging rights over the USA and other countries developing vaccines. They’ve even announced that members of President Putin’s family have been inoculated with the new vaccine. However, this Sputnik V vaccine is, like its namesake space probe, more a
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, fewer people have been diagnosed with cancer. Good news? Nope. The lack of cancer diagnoses just means that many cancers are going undiagnosed. Those cancers are still there. They just haven’t yet been discovered. Now, they’ll pop up at a more advanced stage. They’ll start to cause noticeable problems and
Welcome to the newly revamped Key Developments, now twice weekly and with non-COVID news. Right now, it’s still mostly COVID news, but we’ll be slowly morphing it into something broader as we go. The world has over 22.8 million COVID-19 cases. We’ve added about 1.8 million cases since last week, as we did the week
There’s a new app in town, and it might be able to help you accurately evaluate your risk of contracting COVID-19 without violating your privacy. It’s called Hunala, and it was designed by Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, a physician and professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale. The idea behind Hunala is to leverage Dr.
Welcome to the newly revamped Key Developments, now twice weekly and with non-COVID news. Right now, it’s still mostly COVID-related news, but we’re slowly morphing these posts into something broader as we go. There are over 22.2 million global cases of COVID-19. Cases have grown globally by over 1.8 million since last week, which is
If you or someone you know is about to leave home — whether for college, school, work, or any other reason — it might be time to pack a “quarantine go-bag.” In fact, if you live with other people at all, it makes good sense to have a quarantine bag packed for yourself and your
Welcome to the newly revamped Key Developments, now twice weekly and with non-COVID news. Right now, it’s actually still just COVID news, but we’ll be slowly morphing it into something broader as we go. The world has over 21 million cases. The world has added about 1.8 million cases since last week and this case
