Covid-2019 - 2020-08-16

Date: 
Monday, August 17, 2020
Summary: 

It's amazing what you can get used to, but with 169 thousand new cases yesterday worldwide, it seems like a good day, because the day before there were 201 thousand. But things really are getting better. In the US, 40 states are now in declining two-week trajectories for new cases. And see "Recommended Reading" for a sudden effusion of new studies showing that patients once infected don't tend to get infected a second time.