Fauci interview. highlights - less concern about outdoor well-ventilated situations, surface transmissions; primarily person-to-person.
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Might be worth making sure you’re getting enough zinc. You don’t want to end up like the people in this study, who had either low-end-of-normal or very lower zinc levels respectively. On average, the former ended up in the hospital for a bad case a covid and the latter ended up dead.
Researchers then examined the zinc levels recorded in 249 of the patients, including 21 who succumbed to the illness. And they found a stark difference between them: Survivors had 63.1 micrograms per deciliter of zinc in their blood, while those who died from COVID had only 43.
Zinc, long suspected to be helpful against covid for its antiviral and immunomodulatory effects (especially in conjunction with HCQ), has been correlated to better covid outcomes. Average zinc blood levels are around 65-70 mcg/dL, and the recommended range is something like 65-110 with the higher end of this being thought to be healthier.
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I can’t watch a football game in person due to Covid restrictions. But Denver was able to let an entire town attend their game Sunday?
Link to the very unfair attendance policy
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And they’re not wearing real masks either! WTH! 
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It may be a result of the limitation in settings where it’d make a difference. At gym, restaurant, bar, you’d have to have your mask off for a while so it’d make sense that mask wearing general adherence would have little impact. Same for home settings.
The other reason may be that wearing a mask is more effective at preventing you from infecting others compared to providing you with protection against infection from others.
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Those creators, Trey Parker & Matt Stone, stole the show at Mile High Stadium. Yesterdays game had a jam packed arena & I loved the appearance.
Way to go gang! 
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FYI, Google Maps has an overlay (layer) that shows new covid19 cases in past 7 days by areas (at multiple zoom levels) and increasing/ decreasing trend.
I don’t know when they added it, but just noticed it.
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"The CDC report confirmed what many public health experts have long warned: Infections in young adults lead to infections in older people who are much more likely to be hospitalized and die from COVID-19 than people in their 20s and 30s.
In Southern states over the summer, rising infections among young adults preceded increases in COVID-19 — by four to 15 days — among people over the age of 60."
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Another reason to check out bing maps. 
Leave it to NPR to state the obvious. Why didn’t they say and the reverse is true. I guess they’ll wait a week and spend another million of public dollars to explain that part of the story. 
Those dollars are not as public as you think.
No kidding. They have tons of ads during their broadcasts. Was listening to Planet Money podcasts and they have 3 ads in a 10 minutes segment. 
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A good article on how variable degrees of social interactivity in the population can lead to sooner levels of herd immunity.
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overlooked variable? According to Cornell study:
Trump Misinformation Virus.
" The study states that when individuals are misled by false assertions about the nature and treatment of Covid-19, they are less likely to follow the advice of medical experts and health officials and, consequently, contribute to the spread of the virus."
Can we just stop with this? At this point, everyone except Trump is to blame for this asinine claim. He suggested that they (scientists) may develop a type of disinfectant you could inject to treat the virus, and only in the context of the uncertainty of what an eventual treatment may look like.
“Inject bleach” is purely a creation of the media and vocal "never-Trump"ers.
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Also good insight on better tuning the contact tracing strategy which seems to be only forward currently. Thanks for sharing that article.
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Well it wasn’t overlooked by me, since I posted a study about this back in May showing that herd immunity levels could be reached a lot sooner assuming heterogeneous behavior and social network connectivity, but it thought it was a nice layout and update on the topic for people who don’t like reading academic papers.
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