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<p>The podcast I mentioned at the virtual meeting last night as
possible help for those who are having trouble dealing with the
stress of the pandemic (or perhaps some of your family or friends
who are) is here:</p>
<p> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.schwab.com/resource-center/insights/content/choiceology-bonus-coping-amid-crisis">Interview
of Dr Laurie Santos with title "Coping Amid the Crisis"</a>.</p>
<p>And for those who yearn to get a handle on what's happening in
our country, here's the most intriguing (albeit unvetted) data
I've found (ignore the remark about Easter at the beginning:
undoubtedly for effect only). <br>
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<p> The Metric We Need to Manage COVID-19 <a
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href="https://systrom.com/blog/the-metric-we-need-to-manage-covid-19/">
</a><a
href="http://systrom.com/blog/the-metric-we-need-to-manage-covid-19/"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://systrom.com/blog/the-metric-we-need-to-manage-covid-19/</a></p>
<p>I came across this first person account of a doctor called into
Wuhan when the going was most rough and I found it extremely
informative (and her team's conclusions about proactive measures
seem to match up with the approach the Germans have been using to
keep their mortality rate so low):<br>
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<div class="moz-forward-container"> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005474/I%20Spent%20Seven%20Weeks%20in%20a%20Wuhan%20ICU.%20Here%E2%80%99s%20What%20I%20Learned#">"I
Spent Seven Weeks in a Wuhan ICU. Here’s What I Learned"</a></div>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">I was most impressed by the fate
of their 128 member team: "When we left over a month later, my
team had treated a total of 215 patients, 162 of them critical
cases, without having a single member infected." <br>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">Finally, for those who have a
keen interest in not getting infected or infecting others, here's
a talk a retired microbiologist gave to members of The Forge
Initiative recently: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSZOPH6Cw9Q&feature=youtu.be">John
Rock presents to TFI members about how he goes grocery shopping</a>
Please honor John's request to only forward the URL (with this
note), not snippets.<br>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">-Pete<br>
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