Food Waste, Wet Markets, and Too Little Oxygen
A roundup of stories we’re reading about Covid-19 today
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1 min readApr 7, 2020
- The shuttering of restaurants and college dorms across the country has caused the demand for fresh produce and dairy to plummet. As Politico reports, farmers are being forced to turn their excess fruits and vegetables into mulch and pour milk down the drain.
- Over 200 conservation groups around the world have signed an open letter to the World Health Organization demanding it forcibly shut down live animal markets around the world, reports The Independent. The Covid-19 pandemic is thought to have originated in a wet market in Wuhan, where animals were slaughtered for meat.
- A fascinating new video from the New York Times uses virtual reality to visualize how Covid-19’s attacks on the lungs exert ripple effects throughout the body. By zooming up close to the intersection of the airways and blood vessels, it demonstrates how Covid-19 strips the body of much-needed oxygen.
- A bright spot on the horizon may hold promise: Gilead, a California biotech company that makes a potential Covid-19 therapy called remdesivir, is expected to publicize the results of its tests on 453 patients this week. STAT’s cheat sheet is a primer on what we can and can’t expect.
