[Article] “Essential Facts and Figures – COVID-19” by Arden Koehler, the 80,000 Hours team

Summary of our understanding of the current science on key questions about COVID-19 (as of 3 April, 2020), as best we can given the state of the evidence and the fast moving situation.

Narrated by AI.

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Outline:

(00:28) Symptoms and severity

(02:29) Who is most at risk?

(03:22) How is the virus spread?

(04:51) How many will be infected?

(06:31) Reducing the risk of infection

(07:48) Treatments

(08:50) How can you help the world tackle COVID-19?

The original text contained 25 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
April 3rd, 2020

Source:
https://80000hours.org/articles/covid-19-key-facts

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