Has anyone else heard about the teenager in India who bicycled 1200 km to her home village with her injured father in tow after India imposed its lockdown? Her father was a migrant laborer and fractured his leg on the job in January, so he couldn't walk home like so many Indians are currently doing. The whole story has the making of a Slumdog Millionaire-esque plot line.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/world/asia/india-bicycle-girl-migrants.html
The Lancet published a vaccine trial yesterday that is a little promising, but still too early to tell how it will do on larger populations and over time. They have to do more tests are larger groups. It was done in Wuhan. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31208-3/fulltext
For those who haven't seen this, Gov. Cuomo has been running a contest inviting New Yorkers to submit a 30 second PSA encouraging people to wear masks. Attached below are the finalists. You can also see some of the honorable mentions, contained within the text of this article.
https://abc7ny.com/face-masks-psa-ads-cuomo/6206747/
https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/wear-mask-new-york-ad-contest-cast-your-vote
Saw this quote today and thought someone might appreciate it here in our community.
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. - Peter Marshall (American Preacher, not the game show host).
I love thinking of things as opportunities.
I loved this story! This man just emerged from a 75 day silent meditation retreat at a hut in Northern Vermont. He missed the whole Covid lockdown thing. He's a modern day Rip Van Winkle. He basically missed the most significant event in modern history (so far). His impressions on how things have changed are interesting.
Here is a great story on educators in Detroit who have been relentless in tracking down missing students during the pandemic. Talk about going the extra mile to help students, wow.
This study is encouraging -- a cheap steroid is found to save one-third of Covid patients who are on respirators.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/16/coronavirus-update-us/?
Covid has brought out the best in people who turn a difficult situation into a way to help others. In Boston, writer Meg Wilcox shows how fishermen have been donating their excess catch to foodbanks to help people. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/16/lifestyle/doing-lot-goodwith-haddock-chowder/
@michele-b. The writer, Meg Wilcox, is a friend of mine with a life time history of activism. I was happy to see this article.