Kim-Mai Cutler
Partner at @initialized. Previously @techcrunch. When life hands me lemons, I make tarte au citron.
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Where Is the Federal Government?
Local officials and health-care workers are losing faith in the national response, and struggling to improvise their own solutions.
Muni to stop running nearly every route in SF — more than 70 lines
COVID-19 has claimed another victim: Muni.
Boris Johnson admitted to hospital with coronavirus
Move follows rumours that prime minister’s condition had been worsening
Lessons for the Coronavirus Crisis From Six Other Disasters
From Spanish flu to Japanese tsunami, governments grappled with the trade-off between public health and economic stability. Crippling uncertainty has been a common theme throughout.
Kim-Mai Cutler
@rabois “The 1957, 1968 and 2009 flu pandemics were highly contagious but much less lethal than the Spanish flu and, it appears, Covid-19.”
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The new coronavirus funding battle over the November election
A vote-by-mail push by Democrats sets up new clash over coronavirus relief.
George W. Bush in 2005: 'If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare'
In the summer of 2005, President George W. Bush was on vacation when he began flipping through an advanced copy of a new book about the 1918 flu pandemic.
Q&A: CDC director on the coronavirus, masks, and an agency gone quiet
STAT spoke with CDC Director Robert Redfield about Covid-19, the agency’s muted role, and how he sees the pandemic unfolding.
A German Exception? Why the Country’s Coronavirus Death Rate Is Low
The pandemic has hit Germany hard, with more than 91,000 people infected. But the percentage of fatal cases has been remarkably low compared to those in many neighboring countries.
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Kim-Mai Cutler
Having a competent state and bureaucracy and thriving private sector aren’t mutually exclusive. See South Korea or Germany, which may likely have a fraction of our deaths per capita because of the former. nytimes.com/2020/04/04/wor… twitter.com/sriramk/status…
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USPS warns it might have to shutter by June as $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package provides no funding
"Without immediate action by Congress and the President, the Postal Service—a vital staple of American society since 1775—could cease to exist by this summer."
'We do expect an outbreak': SF warns of increased coronavirus threat at Laguna Honda Hospital
San Francisco’s director of the Department of Public Health, Dr. Grant Colfax, said Friday that “We do expect an outbreak” of the coronavirus at Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco’s 780-bed nursing home. The number of coronavirus infections...
Instead of just flattening the COVID-19 curve, can we 'crush' it?
Could we defeat COVID-19 in 10 weeks, rather than letting the pandemic beleaguer us for 18 months?
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China.
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How the Bay Area got a jump start on the coronavirus - and the country missed a chance
A small survey in early March of Santa Clara County residents found that a significant number had the coronavirus — striking findings at the time that helped trigger an aggressive public health response and eventually the Bay Area shelter-in-place...
Estimates for the relative impact of different COVID-19 control measures in the UK
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CMMID) is conducting crucial work on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coronavirus: Orinda nursing home has 27 people test positive, including elderly patients
Contra Costa County health officials expanded testing at an Orinda senior home after two people tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this week, and on Friday they announced 24 patients and three staffers have tested positive for the coronavirus.