<story><title>Coronavirus Declared Pandemic by World Health Organization</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-coronavirus-cases-top-1-000-11583917794</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>waterfowl</author><text>I am on the east coast and all of the universities have closed -- but people are still acting strange about WFH at my product company(which has full remote devs and other employees, regular WFH days, etc).&lt;p&gt;It is disheartening to be made to feel &amp;#x27;tinfoil hat&amp;#x27; for staying home. The stuff coming out of italy(&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en_us&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;k7ex4a&amp;#x2F;coronavirus-has-northern-italys-hospitals-on-the-brink-of-collapse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en_us&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;k7ex4a&amp;#x2F;coronavirus-has-no...&lt;/a&gt;) is very scary.</text></comment>
<story><title>Coronavirus Declared Pandemic by World Health Organization</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-coronavirus-cases-top-1-000-11583917794</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dustingetz</author><text>Yesterday article that is relevant:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Critics take aim at ‘failure’ of bond designed to fight disease \ Instruments issued by World Bank have yet to pay out to combat the coronavirus&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;a6239e12-5ec7-11ea-b0ab-339c2307bcd4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;a6239e12-5ec7-11ea-b0ab-339c2307b...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>