Annual Reviews response to the COVID-19 pandemic



5 Comments

  1. mg said,

    March 14, 2020 @ 6:27 am

    Thank you Annual Reviews.
    Props to the many medical/science journals that have dropped paywalls on COVID-19 info, as well as the following popular sources:
    The Atlantic
    STAT
    The Seattle Times
    ProPublica (never has a paywall)

  2. Chips Mackinolty said,

    March 14, 2020 @ 8:23 am

    Here is a piece I have written, which among other things, calls for information to be delivered in Australia First Nations languages: https://croakey.org/urgent-calls-for-more-resources-to-protect-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-communities-from-covid-19/

  3. Philip Taylor said,

    March 14, 2020 @ 8:41 am

    A first-class proposal, Chips, and one which I hope will be echoed wherever there are indigenous or other ethnic minority groups who might otherwise not be able to access this much-needed information.

  4. Chips Mackinolty said,

    March 14, 2020 @ 8:51 am

    @Philip Taylor

    Thanks, we are working on it, and hope to keep Language Log in touch within the next few days. Some of the material in language that has been produced has been pretty average, thus far, both in content and coverage of languages.

  5. Bob Ladd said,

    March 14, 2020 @ 9:18 am

    I seem to recall a LgLog post about how the Chinese authorities were disseminating information in different non-putonghua varieties, but I can't find it now. In Italy there are places where information is being disseminated in "dialetto" in addition to Std Italian —

    Sardo:

    Veneto:

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