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What are we reading? March 27, 2020

Each week, BIV staff will share with you some of the interesting stories we have found from around the web.
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Timothy Renshaw, Managing Editor

Some Federal Trade Commission guidance on separating accurate coronavirus information from social media hysteria mongers and other bilge merchants 

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2020/03/thinking-critically-about-coronavirus-news-and-information?

More dire warnings from the global airline industry as it takes a direct hit to bottom lines and future viabilty from COVID-19 – International Air Transportation Association

https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/pr/2020-03-26-02/

https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/speeches/2020-03-24-01/

The OECD's war room plan for defeating COVID-19  http://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/en/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=See%20the%20OECD%E2%80%99s%20response%20to%20COVID-19&utm_campaign=Stats%20Flash%2C%20March%202020&utm_term=demo


 

Mark Falkenberg, deputy managing editor

E-commerce colossus Amazon struggles to keep up with demand during the pandemic, with some orders being delayed by a month – International Business Times

https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-news-amazon-orders-delayed-long-month-during-covid-19-pandemic-2944901

 

The federal government expects four million applications to its new relief fund aimed at helping people thrown out of work by the COVID-19 pandemic  – Globe and Mail

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-trudeau-says-new-merged-benefits-will-help-workers-affected-by-covid/

 

Hayley Woodin, reporter

Some of the world’s biggest tech companies have partnered with the World Health Organization on a global hackathon that attacks problems caused by COVID-19. – CNBC

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/24/facebook-microsoft-and-other-tech-companies-partner-with-who-for-coronavirus-hackathon.html

The Global Wellness Institute has assembled eight wellbeing leadership strategies for managing, responding to and leading through COVID-19. – The Global Wellness Institute

https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/positivelywell/8-wellbeing-leadership-strategies/