Stay Home and Read This! - A Coronavirus Reading Sampler (April 6, 2020)

We are offering our top 10 selections, probably daily, of the best articles and podcasts on COVID-19 and American policy responses.

Overall our reading leads us to think there ARE and SHOULD BE "libertarians in a pandemic," and that indeed non-libertarian policies are what make responses to the pandemic inadequate.

1) WHO and public health bureaucrats encourage local officials to code all death by anyone who is positive for coronavirus as caused by COVID-19.

2) The IMHE model governments are using is predicting the number of deaths (but given the over-coding mandating, see #1 ?) but over-estimating the number of hospital beds needed.

3) Italy begins mass treatment with hydroxychloraquine.

4) Socialized medical systems decide to let older patients die: Spain.

5) Socialized medical systems decide to let older patients die: France.

6) Eighty percent of COVID-19 test kits donated by China are faulty.

7) Tigers and lions now infected with coronavirus.

8) A clinical immunologist calls the response to COVID-19 and anti-American panic.

9) How Democrats planning for climate change missed preparing for a pandemic.

10) Calls continue to re-open economy.