• The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a steady increase of new cases around the US for weeks now.
• That might seem counterintuitive at first, when you consider that officials instituted draconian measures around the US to limit the spread of the virus, such as business closures and stay-at-home orders.
• Here’s a look at why the number of coronavirus cases has continued to climb.
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One of the things about the coronavirus pandemic that might surprise you, when you think about it, is the way cases have been on a pretty steady incline for weeks now, in spite of the fact that most of the US has been (and still is) subject to stay-at-home orders in order to clamp down on the spread of the virus. Moreover, the latest data shows that the COVID-19 virus is still growing at something like 2% to 4% every day.

To add some additional context to how much things are still increasing, a new report with data from the Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM) suggests that coronavirus cases in the US (which as of Thursday morning stand at more than 1.2 million) could reach 2.3 million by the end of June — even with current lockdown measures in place, which, of course, won’t happen since some of those are already being lifted. Again, though, you might be asking yourself why the numbers are steadily rising in spite of the draconian clampdown measures the US has taken in recent weeks.

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• Amazon’s best-selling face masks are finally back in stock this week, which is great news because the CDC recommends that we wear them anytime we have to go out.
• There’s another must-have to combat coronavirus though, and it’s much more difficult to come by: Hand sanitizer.
• Hand sanitizer like Purell is still almost impossible to find in grocery stores and drug stores in most areas around the country, but Amazon still has a few good options in stock including very strong sanitizer with 75% alcohol.
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Everyone out there should stop what he or she is doing right now and visit the CDC’s coronavirus page to refresh your memory. When it comes to protecting yourself and others from the novel coronavirus, there are a few things that you absolutely must do. First, you need to wear a face mask anytime you leave your house. It shouldn’t be a medical-grade N95 respirator since they’re still in such short supply in hospitals. All you need according to the CDC is a simple cloth face covering, which is more than good enough to do the job when combined with strict social distancing and good hygiene.

Some people use scarves or they make their own masks using DIY instructions shared online, but Amazon’s best-selling face masks are finally back in stock right now and they only cost $0.78 each. There’s no telling how much longer they’ll stay in stock, of course, so definitely order a box or three while you still can. But do you know what’s even rarer than face masks to see on Amazon these days? Hand sanitizer — and it’s somehow back in stock right now and ready to ship!

Hurry and you can pick up a 5-pack of BushKlawz 75% Alcohol Instant Hand Sanitizer for $23.99, which is actually a pretty decent price these days. This sanitizer came from out of nowhere and it’s definitely going to sell out fast, so hurry or you’ll miss this rare opportunity. It has 75% ethyl alcohol which is even more than the recommended amount, so you can be certain it’ll kill off all the bacteria and viruses that might be on your hands.

BushKlawz Eco Finest 5 Pack of 2 oz Rinse Free 75% Alcohol Instant Hand Sanitizer (5x Pack of 2…: $23.99 ($4.80 per 2 oz. bottle)

In addition to those 2-ounce bottles, you’ll find 8-ounce spray bottles of Zatural Waterless Hand Cleaner in stock and 2-packs are only $24.99 right now. They ship quickly compared to other options and they also have moisturizers mixed in so you don’t have to worry about drying out your hands. This hand sanitizer is a 62% ethyl alcohol mix, so it’s right in line with the CDC’s recommendations.

Waterless Hand Cleaner – 62% Alcohol – 4 Thieves Essential Oil Synergy (8oz Spray (2 Pack)): $22.99 ($11.50 per 8 oz. bottle)

8-ounce bottles of Natural Concepts Hand Sanitizer Gel are also available in 6-packs for $47.99, or $8 per bottle. This sanitizer is 65% ethyl alcohol, which is once again even stronger than the recommended amount.

Natural Concepts Hand Sanitizer Gel, 6-Pack, 8 oz Bottles, 65% Ethyl Alcohol, Protect Against G…: $47.99 ($8 per 8 oz. bottle

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• Coronavirus quarantine continues and people are watching TV and streaming content more than ever before.
• If you’re running low on content and looking for new series to check out, TV Time’s weekly list is a great place to start.
• This week’s list of the series people are binge-watching most has three new shows with seasons that were just released, and they’re unsurprisingly all Netflix originals.
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We have all been sheltering in place for so long at this point that the days all blend together. For many people, the only thing that differentiates one day from the next is the progress being made through streaming queues. Whether you still subscribe to pay TV or you only use streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video these days, there’s normally plenty to watch. When you’re averaging at least 3 hours of streaming per day, however, shows obviously come and go far more quickly.

If you’re among the many people out there who are looking for new series to watch, you’re likely running into one of two problems. Either there’s so much content out there right now that you don’t know where to start or you have already watched everything on your list and you don’t know where to go from here. Lucky for you, we’re here to help in either case with this week’s list of the 10 most binge-worthy shows out right now.

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• The CDC recommends that everyone should wear face coverings anytime they leave their homes, and police are actually issuing fines in some areas to people who go out in public without a mask.
• Amazon’s best-selling face masks are by far the most popular option, with tens of thousands of our readers buying them each week.
• There are other places online where you can buy face masks right now, and we’ll run through five of the best options in this article.
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Head over to the CDC website and you’ll see the recommendation clear as day: everyone should wear a face mask anytime they go out in order to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Of course, that doesn’t mean you should go out and spend $20 or more on a single N95 respirator mask that can’t even be reused. The CDC is NOT recommending that people wear medical-grade masks, after all. There is still a big shortage of face masks in hospitals and other healthcare facilities across the country, and you definitely shouldn’t reward unscrupulous sellers who are hawking precious N95 masks to the general public at ridiculous markups. In fact, you absolutely should report them.

The simple fact of the matter is you don’t need a medical-grade face mask to protect yourself because you don’t spend hours at a time treating coronavirus patients like doctors and nurses do. You’re smart, so when you go out you always make sure to practice social distancing and good hygiene. For those reasons, there is a wide range of face masks that will provide you with more than enough protection while shopping in a supermarket or making other quick essential runs out of your home.

The favorite options right now among our readers are the Jointown Safe Shield Face Mask, which costs just $0.78 each, and the LeadPro 3-Layer Face Mask, which is just $0.80. Boxes of 50 are in stock and ready to ship right now at Amazon from both brands, and they happen to be the best-selling face masks on the retailer’s entire site. If you’re handy, you can also make your own DIY coronavirus face masks quickly and easily using materials you already have lying around your home. If you’d rather just buy face masks and you want some options aside from the best-sellers we just told you about, you’ll find five great places to buy face masks listed below.

Amazon

Head over to this face mask page on Amazon’s site and you’ll find a wide range of face masks that are available right now, including the best-sellers we mentioned above. There’s a good mix of 3-layer masks and various types of cloth face masks, and several of the most popular options are ready to ship soon and will be delivered within a week.

Face Mask, Pack of 50: $38.99 ($0.78 / Mask)

Face Mask, Pack of 50: $39.99 ($0.80 / Mask)

Thick 4-Ply Face Shield with Elastic Ear Loop Cover Full Face Anti-Dust（1PCS): $14.99

Face Masks and Protective Face Covers: $8.99+

Amazon Handmade

Did you know Amazon has a whole like Etsy that’s full of handmade products? There are tons of handmade face masks available right now over at Amazon and you’ll be surprised at how affordable some of the options are.

Handmade Face Masks: $10.00+

Sun Lovin’ Roots

While Sun Lovin’ Roots is best known for its women’s wear, the store has pivoted a large portion of its business to protective face masks. You’ll find a very wide range of styles and prints, and the store donates one mask for every three purchased.

Sun Lovin’ Roots Face Masks: $18.00

Arm the Animals

Arm the Animals is another brand that doesn’t normally make face masks, but it’s making plenty of them right now. The shop will also donate one face mask to California hospitals for every mask purchased.

Arm the Animals Face Masks: $18.99

Swaddle Designs

Last but not least, Swaddle Designs has shifted some of its manufacturing capacity away from baby products so it can offer face masks. The company’s masks fit very well and they’re made of comfortable material that contours to the face.

Swaddle Designs Face Masks: $9.99+

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• Zoom announced the addition of end-to-end encryption to video calls.
• The security feature will be available in the near future, thanks to the acquisition of Keybase.
• Only paid Zoom accounts will be able to take advantage of it, with subscriptions starting at $14.99 per month.
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The novel coronavirus pandemic forced us to spend more time indoors than ever in recent history. Those who were able to study or work from home replaced their daily rituals with a different environment, one dominated that all sorts of video chat apps that made working from home possible. Zoom rose as the star video conferencing app during the early days of the pandemic, but the more popular it got, the clearer it was the software had some serious privacy and security issues. One of them concerned user data security, as people found out the end-to-end encryption that Zoom claimed protected each video call wasn’t exactly end-to-end encryption. Zoom was using its own form of encryption, which allowed it to access contents from video and audio calls, which is hardly reassuring.

In light of the revelations, Zoom promised to fixed its glaring security issues, and the latest move concerns end-to-end encryption. Your video calls will finally get it. But only if you pay, because end-to-end encryption will not be rolling out to free Zoom calls.

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• Animal Crossing: New Horizons is one of the defining pop culture byproducts of the coronavirus era, a game that has sold millions of units for Nintendo since its release in March and helped the video game maker, in turn, sell a growing number of Nintendo Switch consoles.
• New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not only a fan of the game — she’s now started visiting the game islands of her social media followers, posting about the interactions on Thursday.
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On the surface, a video game that Wired has described as “late-stage capitalism with talking squirrels” — in which players, among other things, borrow vast sums of money from the owner of a town shop to build out an island whose resources they plunder over time — doesn’t necessarily seem like it jives with the politics of New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Nevertheless, the freshman Democratic socialist has been spending her time like millions of gamers around the world during the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Nintendo’s massively popular game for the Nintendo Switch.

It’s a game that millions of people around the world are playing right now and interacting with each other about online, with the coronavirus quarantines giving Nintendo basically a captive audience for the title (which was released on March 20). It’s proven to be such a popular title for Nintendo, in fact, that data from the game maker shows that New Horizons sold more units in its first three days than any other title in the franchise — as well as any other Nintendo Switch title, period.

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• NASA’s InSight lander mole is digging into the surface of Mars once more, but progress is slow and complicated.
• The mole is designed to dig as deep as 16 feet, but it has repeatedly failed to make progress.
• With the robotic lander pushing on the probe, it is slowly catching a grip.
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A NASA instrument that has repeatedly failed to accomplish the task it was designed to do may finally be working. The self-hammering “mole” probe attached to the InSight lander on Mars has spent over a year trying and failing to dig into the planet. Now, as SpaceNews reports, it is making progress. Slow progress, but progress nonetheless.

If you haven’t been following the sad, strange saga of the “mole” that is part of NASA’s InSight Mars lander, let me get you up to speed: InSight landed on Mars back in early 2019 and it wasn’t long before the probe (just one of the lander’s many instruments) started to show signs of trouble.

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• Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made another guest appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, this time around attempting to explain some of his recent headscratchers and more bizarre moves of late.
• Those include the strange baby name he and partner Grimes gave to their new son, as well as Elon’s recent tweet that he’s selling almost all of his possessions and “will own no house.”
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If you were among those of us wondering what was going through Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s mind when he tweeted out that he’s in the process of selling most of his possessions three days before becoming a father again as his partner Grimes gave birth to a son, he went on the Joe Rogan podcast Thursday to explain himself.

He has plenty to explain regarding this as well as a number of other headscratchers from the billionaire businessman in recent weeks, which have included his rather vocal criticism of the US response to the coronavirus pandemic (including Musk’s belief that the virus’ real mortality rate is lower than what’s been reported).

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• A three-year project to create a detailed 3D ‘atlas’ of the brain of a lab mouse is now finished.
• The resulting model will help scientists better understand the effects of treatments and testing conducted using the rodents.
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You probably don’t think about mice all that often. If you have a few of them running around your house or apartment, that’s another story, but the modern mouse plays a larger role in your life than you may know. Mice are the test subjects of the scientific world, and whether they (or we) like it or not, countless drugs and treatments eventually made it to store shelves and pharmacy counters thanks to early testing conducted on tiny little mice.

Lab mice are bred specifically for the purpose of testing, and they are often the first animals to feel the effects of drugs used to treat everything from Alzheimer’s to back pain and everything in between. With that in mind, it makes sense that researchers would want to know as much about mouse brains as possible, and a three-year project just resulted in the most complete atlas of a mouse brain ever created.

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• COVID Explained is a website from researchers and students at Brown, MIT, Harvard, Mass General, and other institutions with answers to common questions about SARS-CoV-2.
• COVID Explained features a Q&A, a glossary of terms, and explainers for testing, immunity, and more.
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There are countless horrifying realities that we have to face on a daily basis due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, but one of the most frustrating elements of this crisis is how little we know. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused much of the world to shut down, had never been encountered before the outbreak began in China last year, and so, we are learning more about it every day. In fact, we are often told things about the virus that are entirely contrary to what we thought we knew the day before. Everything is in flux, and it can be exhausting.

There are valuable resources that you should be checking for guidance from health experts, such as the coronavirus hubs of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but neither are really as comprehensive as one might expect. If you just want useful answers to basic questions, a new site from “a team of researchers and students at Brown, MIT, Harvard, Mass General, and elsewhere” might be your best bet.

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