Mosques, Mutations, and the Return of Banksy

A roundup of Covid-19 stories we’re reading today

Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog
1 min readApr 16, 2020

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  • A video from The Guardian takes an on-the-ground look at life inside a Birmingham mosque, where dedicated volunteers have rapidly transformed the space into a food bank and makeshift morgue for the area’s Muslim community.
  • While some researchers argue that it’s unlikely the coronavirus will mutate to become more difficult to control, it remains a possibility. In an opinion piece, the New York Times beautifully animates the ways mutation can wreak…

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Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.