Wednesday assorted links
2. Timeline of the federal government response to coronavirus.
3. Anti-price gouging laws mean masks leave America, I wonder if Alex is preparing a whole post on this link?
4. Holman Jenkins of the WSJ goes Straussian on the Straussian bloggers.
5. The culture that is Bengali priorities: sweet shops will stay open. And a short history of coronavirus in Japan. And Ezra Klein interviews Evan Osnos on coronavirus and U.S.-China relations.
6. Self-isolation proves a boon to rainfall project.
7. Why there are lags in scaling up California testing. A very good (and depressing) piece.
8. Mossad officer describes their battle for ventilators. And is the U.S. taking ventilators from Paraguay? (speculative)
9. The singing stops in southern Italy as tensions rise.
10. “Our infectiousness model suggests that the total contribution to R0 from pre-symptomatics is 0.9 (0.2 – 1.1), almost enough to sustain an epidemic on its own. For SARS, the corresponding estimate was almost zero (9), immediately telling us that different containment strategies will be needed for COVID-19.” Link here.
11. Hospitals that won’t let their doctors wear masks (NYT).
12. Economist Peter Sinclair has died from Covid-19.
13. Should very young countries such as Nigeria opt for suppression?
15. Our system of scientific funding is broken for rapid science (recommended).