Day: March 11, 2020

Pandemic

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Coronavirus

The World Heath Organization has finally designated COVID-19 a pandemic.[1] I think the only surprise here is that it took them so long to do so.

My previous post on this topic remains useful.

Erin B. Logan, “World Health Organization deems COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, a ‘pandemic,’” Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2020, https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-03-11/coronavirus-pandemic-world-health-organization

Taylor Telford and Thomas Heath, “Dow enters bear market after coronavirus declared pandemic,” Washington Post, March 11, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/11/markets-economy-today-oil-coronavirus/

War crimes

Marjorie Cohn, “Team Trump Tried to Bully the ICC Into Dropping War Crimes Probe But Failed,” Truthout, March 10, 2020, https://truthout.org/articles/team-trump-tried-to-bully-the-icc-into-dropping-war-crimes-probe-but-failed/

  1. [1]Erin B. Logan, “World Health Organization deems COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, a ‘pandemic,’” Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2020, https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-03-11/coronavirus-pandemic-world-health-organization↩

Hope for coffee?

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Coffee

Naturally, there are caveats. The headline includes one of them: The snail is invasive, bad for forms of agriculture other than coffee. Also it’s undetermined whether coffee rust fungi survive being consumed and excreted.[1]

Forest Ray, “How this invasive snail could save your coffee from destruction,” National Geographic, March 10, 2020, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/03/how-this-invasive-snail-could-save-coffee-from-destruction/

  1. [1]Forest Ray, “How this invasive snail could save your coffee from destruction,” National Geographic, March 10, 2020, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/03/how-this-invasive-snail-could-save-coffee-from-destruction/↩