The Daily Populous

Sunday March 22nd, 2020 night edition

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We need an immediate five-week national lockdown to defeat coronavirus in America.

The fastest and even the only way to contain COVID-19 in the United States is a five-week national lockdown.

Our relaxed approach to social distancing is insufficient to stop the exponential growth of COVID-19.

Until Americans consistently adopt strong social distancing recommendations — a lockdown — the disease will continue to spread exponentially.

By the end of the lockdown, the number of infections will be a small fraction of what they are now.

The lockdown will give us time to dramatically scale up our supply of COVID-19 test kits and capacity to process them.

This policy was so successful that Wuhan is now much safer from coronavirus than New York City or Washington, D.C. »

J.K. Rowling grants open license for teachers reading 'Harry Potter' online during coronavirus pandemic

Authored by thehill.com
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J.K. Rowling granted an open license for teachers to post videos of themselves reading aloud from the “Harry Potter” books while students are cooped up at home and schools are closed due to the coronavirus outbreak.

“Delighted to help teachers reach kids at home by relaxing the usual licence required to post videos of themselves reading Harry Potter books,” Rowling posted on Twitter.

Delighted to help teachers reach kids at home by relaxing the usual licence required to post videos of themselves reading Harry Potter books. »

Starting school at 10am halves student illness and improves academic performance, finds study

Authored by independent.co.uk
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When students in their mid-teens started school at 10am instead of the usual 8:30am, rates of illness decreased by more than half over a two-year period, and got significantly better grades.

“It starts with physical illness, and then there’s mental illness, and last but not least academic performance.”.

“This is a big issue that isn’t just about sleep, but circadian rhythms, chronotypes and the mistiming of our society. »

Stopping COVID-19 could require eight months of 'aggressive social distancing,' outbreak modelling shows

Authored by nationalpost.com
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Wolfrom is a family doctor and former medical officer with the Canadian Armed Forces who completed two deployments to Afghanistan.

Long and dark days are ahead, he warned his colleagues in the message, published online this week by Canada’s top medical journal.

Wolfrom worries about the psychological fallout if our world is effectively shut down for months on end. »