Sars-cov-2 resources, as of today

On the seasonality of the flu:

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/health/research/05flu.html

A couple nice articles about the good and the bad of the modeling of the virus: https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/covid-19-pandemic-infectious-disease-transmission-sir-seir-icmr-indiasim-agent-based-modelling/
and
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/coronavirus-pandemic-infectious-disease-transmission-modelling-kermack-mckendrick-theory-seir-model/


Why we need a lockdown:

https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1239159256034750464

Why 'more testing!' isn't a panacea - and why we need to ban gatherings:
https://necsi.edu/systemic-risk-of-pandemic-via-novel-pathogens-coronavirus-a-note


Where the UK's 'official' modeler's models was (is still?) wrong:

https://necsi.edu/review-of-ferguson-et-al-impact-of-nonpharmaceutical-interventions-version-2

Japanese flu drug clearly effective, says China:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/japanese-flu-drug-clearly-effective-in-treating-coronavirus-says-china

The virus probably ain't from a secret Chinese weapons lab:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30418-9/fulltext



A new website: covid-gyan.in

Yay: it seems to've been hurriedly put together by an outreach department in NCBS, but it has some nice content on the front page. Boo: if you look under "external websites" you'll soon hit stuff like this: "Mass gatherings, public events, whether social, religious, sports related, cultural or political, could be dissuaded for some time more but should not be banned" followed by some fluff about trade unions and how capital accumulation is hurting the working class. Like that's gonna work.

Why Singapore _didn't_ have a lockdown

https://theprint.in/world/why-singapore-isnt-in-a-coronavirus-lockdown-as-told-by-a-doctor-of-the-country/384784/
backed up here
You can't say theprint.in ain't funny.