Week in Review - How big tech is responding to COVID-19

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Saturday, March 21, 2020 • By Lucas Matney

Hey everyone, hope you’re all staying healthy and social distancing as much as possible. TechCrunch has been covering COVID-19 extremely throughly, both in terms of how it relates to startups and big tech and how it relates to everyone. This week, I’m dropping a whole lot of links related to some of our best coverage. One quick note, I think it’s important to also remind everyone that you don’t have to read every update or tweet or investigation about this pandemic. I know it’s all emotionally taxing and especially during a period where some people are adjusting to new work schedules, the temptation to scroll Twitter endlessly can be hard to resist. So, stay informed enough that you can stay healthy and safe, but also acknowledge that sometimes being hyper-informed can put you in a rough place mentally.

Testing, potential treatments and prevention Hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine and other potential COVID-19 treatments explained FDA testing coronavirus treatments, including chloroquine, plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients French study finds anti-malarial and antibiotic combo could reduce COVID-19 duration Japanese flu drug appears 'effective' in coronavirus treatment in Chinese clinical trials Pfizer and BioNTech announce joint development of a potential COVID-19 vaccine New study of COVID-19 patient's immune response could inform future treatment Scanwell aims to launch at-home 15-minute coronavirus test, but it still needs FDA approval

How tech is responding MIT Solve launches global challenge around health security and pandemics Google cancels I/O developer conference in light of COVID-19 crisis Netflix announces $100M relief fund after TV and film production halted Instagram founder launches gift card site for quarantined restaurants NYC mayor pleads with Elon Musk to start producing ventilators Uber says rides down by as much as 70% in cities hardest hit by coronavirus, looks at delivering meds Twitter broadly bans any COVID-19 tweets that could help the virus spread Bill Gates addresses coronavirus fears and hopes in AMA Virtual reality scales back its real world presence Apple now says its retail stores are closed 'until further notice' Facebook announces $100M grant program for small businesses San Francisco's shelter-in-place order does not apply to gig workers Amazon is looking to hire 100,000 employees to keep up with demand

Extra Crunch Manage remote teams with a transparent culture Many companies have been designed to optimize productivity when everybody is in the office. As offices close due to the coronavirus outbreak, many people are experimenting with remote work at scale for the first time. Employees have to learn what it means to work remotely — but managers also have to learn how to keep their teams on track. That's why it's interesting to talk about what it's like to manage a remote team.

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