March 2020 – Link(s) of the Day

Social distancing may have helped California slow the virus and avoid New York’s fate

The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration

Isaac Chotiner interviews Richard A. Epstein, a professor at N.Y.U. School of Law and the author of two articles published on the Hoover Institution Web site that dispute proposed modelling of the coronavirus pandemic and its W.H.O. designation.

The coronavirus may hit rural America later — and harder

Rural communities “tend to be older, with more chronic illness,” making people more at risk of severe Covid-19.

Covid-19 Social Distancing Scoreboard — Unacast

Social distancing is seen as the most effective way of slowing the spread of the virus causing COVID-19, and is strongly advised by the World Health Organization and the CDC. At Unacast, we wanted to understand which areas of the country are best at exhibiting social distancing behavior. Our hope is…

Kentucky vs. Tennessee on coronavirus may be the best example of ‘elections matter’ in decades

Last November, voters in Kentucky handed the governorship to Democrat Andy Beshear in a narrow victory of incumbent governor Matt Bevin. Bevin, a Donald Trump favorite, had done his best to undermine Kentucky’s successful deployment of the Affordable...

Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How.

A crisis on this scale can reorder society in dramatic ways, for better or worse. Here are 34 big thinkers’ predictions for what’s to come.