RIPTIDE: Health & Medicine

Manolo Fernandez, El Granada (NextDoor)

The Costco Shuffle

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BETTER SIX FEET APART THAN SIX FEET UNDER

Many public activities, programs, and venues are still closed, but gradual reopening is occurring. Click links below for coronavirus pandemic information. Some links are updated daily:

Trump lies cost lives

Help save Via Uno

Local virus stats

No dockside fish sales

No small-biz evictions

Isolation & quarantine

NPR: maps & graphs

Don't eat wildlife

Masks mandatory

Recipes for hard times

Landlord waives rents

China: masks required

Citizen scientists

Pump gas safely

How pandemic ends

Online stress reducer

1st Responders Fund

Social distance helps

Dr. Brilliant interview

If you have symptoms

Pacifica mayor speaks

Fight COVID-19

Safe shopping

Gun sales surge

Safely clean inside car

COVID-19 simulator

USA Today explainer

Johns Hopkins updates

NE Journal of Medicine

Florey's Books online

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Singapore Straits Times

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SAN MATEO COUNTY GOES ROGUE ON REOPENING

news story

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WHY IT FEELS LIKE TIME FLIES

essay

Ty Wright, Bloomberg

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CORONAVIRUS MUTATES, GETS MORE CONTAGIOUS

news story

Associated Press

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GOV. NEWSOM TO COVIDIOTS: STAY THE F--- HOME

Cops order 900 off beach

Hundreds of tickets given

Pacifica PD enforces order

Dan Stegink

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ISRAELI OPERA SOLOISTS SING TRAVIATA CORONA

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DR. MORROW, SM COUNTY'S STRAIGHT SHOOTER

N.Y. Times profile

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COVID-19 DATA: JUST THE FACTS, MA'AM

Dan Stegink op-ed

Riptide correspondent proposes wider virus testing and analysis to get a clearer picture of where we stand in this global health crisis.

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TAIWAN'S CORONAVIRUS SUCCESS STORY

Taiwan is a democracy with prudent, proactive, coordinated, well-resourced public health policies and practices that place protecting human lives as a priority. Taiwan, despite being just 100 miles from mainland China with regular flights to and from Wuhan, has successfully staved off the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. How did Taiwan do it? “Aggressive action,” says Dr. Jason Wang, the former project manager for Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Reform Task-force. He is now the director of the Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention and associate professor of pediatrics and medicine at Stanford University.

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