Meet the parents using Trello to plan their kids’ coronavirus homeschooling

People with coronavirus may be most infectious in the first week of symptoms

Sponsored by Adobe The Download Your daily dose of what’s up in emerging technology 04.02.20 Good morning! Today: parents are using business software to organize their kids' lockdown schedules, and new research suggests people with coronavirus are most infectious in the first week. Get your friends to sign up here to get The Download every day. Meet the parents using Trello to plan their kids’ coronavirus homeschooling What’s happening: As shelter-in-place mandates stretch indefinitely and school years are increasingly canceled, families are scrambling to instill a sense of order into lives turned upside down as they spend days—weeks—within the walls of their homes. Enter planning apps like Asana and Trello. Both have seen an uptick in people signing up from non-corporate email addresses. A revelation: Parents are discovering that the software they use to organize their workdays might also help manage their kids while they’re quarantined at home. In this “new normal”, families are isolated within the same space, and what was once just home has now become a school and workplace. A planning tool can help working parents approach family dynamics during the pandemic as a business task to solve. Read the full story. —Tanya Basu People with coronavirus may be most infectious in the first week of symptoms The news: People with coronavirus appear to be most infectious within their first week of experiencing symptoms, according to research published in Nature. The study: Researchers analyzed data from nine patients with “relatively mild” coronavirus symptoms in Munich, Germany, to see how infectious they were across a 14-day period. Specifically, they checked the viral load in samples from throat and lung swabs, sputum (coughed-up saliva and mucus), stool, blood, and urine. What did they find?: They found covid-19 was replicating in the throat, with concentrations of the virus peaking during the first five days after symptoms started—although it was still possible to detect it after symptoms stopped.  Recommendations?: The researchers suggest that we should focus more on preventing transmission from droplets from people’s mouths, rather than objects or surfaces. That could lend more weight to the argument in favor of wearing a mask in public. The current official advice in the US is that it’s unnecessary, but officials are currently assessing whether it’s time to revise that stance. We can still have nice things A place for comfort, fun and distraction in these weird times. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line or tweet 'em at me.)   + Remember those goats in Wales? Turns out they’re much funnier with a West Side Story soundtrack.   + The Getty Museum is challenging people to recreate paintings with things they’ve got at home.   + Well, what a month March was.   + Jack Black has joined TikTok. Sponsor Message Think outside the silo Unlike other departments, IT works across business units, not in its own silo. That gives CIOs a unique advantage in leading digital transformation efforts, says Adobe CIO Cynthia Stoddard. Get her take on the changing CIO role in this new article. The top ten must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Trump’s still leaving it up to states whether they shut down The vast majority have done so. (AP)   + Some states are still resisting social distancing measures though. (Wired)   + It would make sense to close New York’s streets. (Vice) 2 The “should we all be wearing masks?” debate rumbles on Meanwhile much of Asia looks on, baffled. (The Atlantic) 3 Antibody tests for coronavirus will be available soon This is how they work. (The Economist) 4 Social distancing might stop and start until we have a vaccine 💉 The aim is to keep infections at a level that doesn’t overwhelm hospitals. (Buzzfeed) 5 Hospitals are threatening to fire healthcare workers who talk to the press Yeah, sure. (Bloomberg) 6 A researcher found yet more security problems with Zoom Two bugs can be used to tap into a Mac’s webcam or microphone. (TechCrunch)   + Oh, and there’s a Windows vulnerability too. (Ars Technica)   + Zoom is facing questions about how private or security it really is. (TR)   + SpaceX has banned employees from using Zoom. (Reuters)   + Zoom has promised to fix the issues. (The Verge) 7 As many as a third of “negative” coronavirus tests could be positive In case you thought testing wasn’t enough of a quagmire already. (NYT $)   + There’s yet more evidence that people with no symptoms can spread coronavirus. (ABC) 8 YouTubers are thriving during lockdown 🤳 They’re offering escapism for a captive audience. (NBC)   + YouTube is planning a short video feature called “Shorts” to rival TikTok. (NBC) 9 How the UK’s “herd immunity” plan completely unravelled in days It’s now joined the global tussle for tests, with countries trying to outbid each other. (The Guardian) 10 People are hanging out with their friends in massive online worlds It’s no real substitute for face-to-face contact, but it’ll have to do for now. (Wired $) Support independent tech journalism.  MIT Technology Review delivers insights on today's technologies and their impact upon our collective future through a trustworth lens you won't find anywhere else. Subscribe today.  Quote of the day "It should go down as a poster child of how not to lay people off.” —A former employee at e-scooter startup Bird tells dot.LA how the company fired 406 people in two minutes on a Zoom webinar. 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