We discuss what's on everyone's mind: COVID-19 and the various responses to it around the world. We talk about the current timeline, talk about how states deal with pandemics, go over some some historical responses of socialist countries to various plagues and pandemics, and discuss a number of other plague-related topics.

Someday we'll all record in the same room, which will change the interpersonal dynamics and the audio quality, but until then, come along with us as we figure out this new project.

Sources:

• “How the Soviet Union coped with the epidemic of smallpox in 19 days” - http://csef.ru/en/politica-i-geopolitica/326/kak-sssr-spravilsya-s-epidemiej-chernoj-ospy-za-19-dnej-9106
• “40 years without smallpox” - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5762823/
• Murrey, Amber, ed. A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics, and Legacies of Thomas Sankara
• Foucault, Michel; History of Sexuality, Vol. 1
• Gillon, R; "Refusal to Treat AIDS and HIV Positive Patients"
• https://www.vox.com/2015/8/23/9191907/hurricane-katrina
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/us/puerto-rico-earthquakes-fema.htm
• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/us/fema-puerto-rico-maria.html
• Camus, Albert. The Plague
• Case report on first covid-19 case in the US: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191?fbclid=IwAR1osuo9jHmhMtt8FXpsh8iZ_ewvCC1dWPqzv5nSdXooYqLDQoGzixjGQDs
• Cuba MenB vaccine: https://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/americas/cuba/4086-cf200815
• More MenB vaccine info:https://www.liberationnews.org/cuba-not-britain-pioneered-meningitis-b-vaccinations/
• Interferon alpha 2b: https://www.liberationnews.org/cubas-contribution-to-combating-covid-19/
• Huoshenshan hospital: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-s-coronavirus-hospital-built-10-days-opens-its-doors-n1128531
• Covid timeline Brookings: https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-federal-governments-coronavirus-actions-and-failures-timeline-and-themes/
• Covid timeline Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-pandemic-timeline-history-major-events-2020-3#january-13-the-first-coronavirus-case-outside-of-china-was-reported-in-thailand-5
• Covid timeline Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_from_November_2019_to_January_2020#cite_note-243
• Covid timeline Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/07/timeline-trumps-coronavirus-response-is-increasingly-damning/
• WHO starts multinational covid drug trials: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/18/who-to-launch-multinational-trial-to-jumpstart-search-for-coronavirus-drugs/
• Covid 19 world map by Johns Hopkins University: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
• Cuba and China provide support to Italy: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/25/821345465/for-help-on-coronavirus-italy-turns-to-china-russia-and-cuba
• China donates medical supplies to New York: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/29/823543513/project-airbridge-to-expedite-arrival-of-needed-supplies-white-house-says
• What the US can learn from China’s covid response: https://www.barrons.com/articles/what-the-u-s-can-learn-from-chinas-response-to-the-coronavirus-pandemic-51584699300
• More actions China took to slow covid: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/china-s-aggressive-measures-have-slowed-coronavirus-they-may-not-work-other-countries
• Even more details on Chinese covid response: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00741-x