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2 min readApr 11, 2020
- Drug shows promise: One of the Covid-19 drugs under investigation, remdesivir, showed positive findings. It’s still very early and the study was only in 53 people. The researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine that 68% of the very sick people who got the drug experienced improvement in their symptoms. Here’s a good thread on the findings from a trusted expert:
- In praise of the clapping: Amanda Hess, a critic at large for the New York Times, writes about the “The Clapping,” a period of a few minutes where people all over New York open their windows and clap and cheer for workers on the front line of the pandemic. “The highlight of my day — every day — is opening my window and yelling at the sky,” she writes.
- Health workers find ways to show their smiles: A respiratory therapist named Robertino Rodriguez started a trend among health workers to paste photos of themselves on their PPE so the people they treat…
