A good, but sad, story about how this is hitting a small part of the world.  In this case the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans.

‘Wearing a mask won’t protect us from our history.’

Was reading about the history of the Polio vaccine on Wiki.  It seems promising vaccines with controversial results were available as early as 1935.  Even the vaccines that eventually had widespread use had several safety incidents, including the famous Salk vaccine.  I also learned that the vaccine used today was not the one developed by Salk but one with Soviet sponsorship by Sabin.  This isn’t my field, and experts seem to be confident that a COVID-19 vaccine will be forthcoming shortly.  One can’t help but think that there still isn’t a vaccine for, say, HIV, all these decades later.

We might want to have a look at their medical and insurance system.  Their unemployment insurance system too.

It was the saltshaker: How Germany meticulously traced its coronavirus outbreak