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US Domestic passenger flights could shutdown because of lack air traffic control staff and lack of passengers could shutdown air travel. US airlines are struggling to keep aircraft flying with...

Everyone needs to monitor your temperature, be sensitive to coronavirus symptoms. Spain’s Coronavirus deaths has passed China’s. Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland and other European...

India has locked down the entire country of 1.38 billion people. The slums and shantytowns of India are high-density populations that would be very vulnerable to the disease. There is no way to...

Today, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned that the coronavirus curve hasn’t been “flattened,” and “is actually increasing.” He then cautioned that the apex of the virus could be as many as 14 to 21...

The World Health Organization had a Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Routes of transmission COVID-19 is transmitted via droplets and fomites during close...

There is a pre-peer review study of about 2100 Coronavirus patients in China and almost 3000 healthy people. (Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility). They found...

The coronavirus pandemic has forced many localities across the globe to declare quarantines and lockdowns. Due to these restrictions to physical activity, users are now turning to digital services...

There is a wonderful 157 part series of short 3 minute or so videos of a few hours of interviews of Freeman Dyson. Dyson talks about his interactions with the giants in physics and science. You get a...

During WW2, Four Kaiser Shipyards built 747 fourteen thousand ton Liberty ships. One ship was completed one in five days. In February, China built a new hospital in ten days. The 645,000-square-foot...

The John Hopkins dashboard reports that the US has 42,817 official coronavirus cases and the world count is nearing 400,000. The Worldometers has an official coronavirus case count for the USA at...

Giorgio Gori, mayor of Bergamo, told NBC News on Monday that the total deaths in Bergamo are three to four times higher than during an average year, signaling that the virus is killing many more...

There is some advice from Bergamo Italy which is the worst-hit town in Italy. Nextbigfuture received it via email. Bergamo had a population of 120,000. Stay home with your immediate family members...

Worldometers has the latest official undercounts of confirmed coronavirus cases. Worldometers corrected the US count to 32,000 and John Hopkins also has 32644. There are 14,611 official COVID-19...

Doctors have made four-way and now nine-way valve system to enable one ventilator to service 9 people. Elon Musk and others are working to help them get each with individual valve controls per...

Financing programs to help the U.S. economy pull out of the coronavirus crisis could be worth $4 trillion, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday. The Federal Reserve would likely put up...

The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship (SHS) will switch from 301 steel alloy to 304L steel alloy for some parts and then a new custom steel alloy. The 304L steel is a lower carbon version and it will...

The US has had over 182,000 coronavirus tests and 25,000 confirmed cases. New York has had over 45,000 tests and has over 11,000 confirmed cases. As of the afternoon of March 19, there have been...

Databrew data analysis indicates having over 150 cases in any region is when coronavirus COVID-19 reaches critical mass. There are still officially about 30 US states that do not have over the 150...

Tomas Pueyo makes the case that far stronger coronavirus measures are needed today and they should only last a few weeks. There shouldn’t be a big peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be...

The window to where the US will be with coronavirus in 12 days is where Italy is now. The US has five to six times the population of Italy. The US has far more cases than the 18,500 that are the...

Aslak Stubsgaard, CTO of Copenhagen Atomics provided an update to Nextbigfuture on their development of a Molten Salt nuclear fission reactor. They are a molten salt reactor company developing a...

Throughout your life, you’re going to face a number of different crises, including both small-scale and large-scale events. You may have to deal with the aftermath of a critical car accident or a...

California Governor Newsom has placed a shelter in place (stay at home) order for the entire state. If there was no mitigation like the shelter in place then California was heading to 25 million...

The first news about a mysterious illness in Wuhan started emerging in December 2019. Taiwan and other Asian countries were impacted by SARS in 2003 acted first. Those countries had measures built...

Trump is invoking the Defense Production Act, which allows the administration to expedite and expand the supply of resources. This is enabling whatever wartime mobilization of production is needed to...

SpaceX has successfully launched and deployed another batch of 60 Starlink satellites. SpaceX is a couple of launches from a minimum operational constellation of Starlink satellites. There are 300...

The most common reason for COVID-19 patient admission to the ICU is severe hypoxic respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. A recent AHA estimate for COVID-19 projected that 4.8 million...

SpaceX is continuing testing and develop of Starship prototypes and Raptor engines. Elon Musk indicates that there will be short flights with the third prototype Starship and longer flights with the...

JapanesecChemical product maker Kurabo Industries will import and sell in Japan COVID-19 test kits developed by a Chinese firm that can detect new coronavirus in 15 minutes. This is much faster than...

Are You Safe 14 Days Without Symptoms After a COVID-19 Exposure?

Dr Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins estimates that the US had 50,000 to 500,000 coronavirus cases on March 13, 2020. The cases tend to double over 5-10 day periods. Khan Academy walks you through the...

Passive antibody therapy is where the blood of patients who have just survived and are recovering from coronavirus is taken and given to the most at-risk people (old but healthy enough to take the...

San Francisco has ordered everyone to shelter in place starting at Midnight. This will spread as we follow what Wuhan did. This is good in that it is our best shot at mitigating COVID-19 but bad in...

Tomas Pueyo has an excellent article about how early shutdowns reduce the spread of coronvirus COVID-19. Each day earlier action on social distancing can a 40% reduction in disease spread. Hourly...

I missed Ethanol production in the supply chain for yesterdays article. It is the way to get alcohol for sanitizer. There are fewer supply chain issues for the wide-scale adoption of WHO local...

SpaceX had an abort of today’s launch of Starlink satellites.

Problem: Hand sanitizer supply is critical for reducing the spread of coronavirus but we are massively short on supply. Hourly hand sanitizer usage would reduce disease spread by 70% reduction...

Coronavirus deaths outside of China are over 2000 and China has 3062 Coronovirus deaths. It seems that in one or two days the Coronavirus deaths outside of China will pass China levels. The official...

Elon Musk indicated that the SpaceX Starship is designed to be relaunched within one hour of landing. SpaceX Starship could have three launches in one day. Elon also described the 20-millisecond...

President Trump suspended travel Europe for 30 days. American citizens can return will need more screening and temperature checks. The Europe ban includes shipping goods. Tom Hanks and his wife have...

The piling and foundation work of the new phase of the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory is expected to be completed this month. It appears to be larger than the first phase of the Shanghai Gigafactory...

One SpaceX Starship will cost about $5 million as SpaceX will mass-produce nearly one hundred in 2021. Each Starship and Super Heavy booster will cost less than about $40 million. The development...

Nuclear physicists at the University of York are putting forward a new candidate for dark matter – a particle they recently discovered called the d-star hexaquark. Up to 80% of the Universe could be...

1. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) are working together on a small modular reactor – at TVA’s Clinch River site near Oak Ridge, Tennessee....

University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA’s...

The problem in US is not that the Coronavirus is out of control, It is that we have no idea because of lack of tests. The US is rolling out new test kits and will be doing 10,000 tests per week at...

Within the next three months, Honeywell will bring to market the world’s most powerful quantum computer in terms of quantum volume, a measure of quantum capability that goes beyond the number of...

There were critical elements for the speed of China’s coronavirus response. 1. Everyone needed to know the first symptoms. These are a fever and a dry cough. 2. China had a giant network of...

Italy reports 1835 are the people who test positive for the coronavirus. 149 people have recovered. There are 742 patients hospitalized with symptoms, 166 are in intensive care, while 927 are in home...