A man delivers flowers to 10 Downing Street after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care after his coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms worsened. (Simon Dawson/Reuters)
UK prime minister is in intensive care
- UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in intensive care, with worsening COVID-19 symptoms. The British leader is not on a ventilator, but was moved as a precaution in case he needs one. The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, is standing in as head of the government. (BBC | 8 min read)
- Canada is beginning the world’s largest clinical trial of a COVID-19 treatment that uses the antibody-laden blood plasma of people who have recovered from the disease. The study will involve 1,000 patients in at least 40 hospitals across the country. The convalescent-plasma approach dates back to the 1890s, but even the trial’s leader, haematologist Donald Arnold, calls it a “Hail Mary” plan with only a small chance of success. (The Globe and Mail | 5 min read)
- The coronavirus dashboard put together by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has become a cornerstone of our knowledge about the outbreak. Ensheng Dong, a first-year graduate student in civil and systems engineering, and his thesis advisor Lauren Gardner share how they built the website in just a few hours that now receives more than a billion hits per day. (Nature Index | 6 min read)
- Early in the spread of COVID-19, before it had an official name, many news outlets — including this newsletter — labelled the virus after Wuhan or China. I apologize, and so does a Nature editorial. The outdated practice of associating a virus and the disease it causes with a specific place is irresponsible and needs to stop, argues the editorial. (Nature | 4 min read)
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