Corona Virus Daily Information Update: 4 March 2020

HERE ARE TODAY'S links to what seem the most reliably informative (and therefore presumably useful) Internet reports on the rapidly spreading Coronavirus epidemic: 

Feds investigate nursing home as U.S. death toll hits 11
AP reporting with its usual scoop-the-world excellence.

 

High cost of health care, lack of paid time off, leave US workers vulnerable to coronavirus outbreak

 Unsparingly truthful analysis, vital despite its ideological context.

In Italy and beyond, virus outbreak reshapes work and play 

Another AP report, its headline self-explanatory.

Virus death rate still uncertain as mild cases are missed 

And more: this AP report is a vital antidote to fear-mongering.  

Capitalism’s disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic 

More unsparingly truthful and therefore vital analysis, this time on a global scale.

(As always, headlines are reproduced in their original up-style and down-style formats.)

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Why do I so often link to AP reports? Because as a near-lifelong professional journalist I know that while it is U.S.-based, it is also a non-profit news media co-op with an international organization that leaves it notably better able to escape the mandatory censorship and  disinformation that define the U.S. Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine (MMPM), which in the most bitter of truths is in fact the world's first privately owned, for-profit copy of Josef Goebbels' infamous Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. 

LB/4 March 2020 21:57 PDT

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