Trump's lies and incompetence have cost us lives.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) June 29, 2020
America's coronavirus cases are skyrocketing even as other major countries have controlled its spread.
Congress must step up. We need to act urgently to guarantee robust testing, tracing, masks, and medical treatment for all. pic.twitter.com/DtQLpJUaOy
Coronavirus and floods destroy China’s Dragon Boat Festival holiday plans Tourism revenues down nearly 70 per cent with only half of last year’s number of trips taken during three-day break New wave of infections in Beijing, severe flooding in southern provinces and sluggish income growth combine to keep people at home ............ “When I thought about the procedure – from making a test appointment to get tested and waiting for the test result for days and possible mistreatment at the destination – I felt anxious,” he said. “In the end, I decided to just stay at home, going nowhere, and sleep 10 hours a day.” ........ Weeks of torrential rain and heavy flooding have affected 14 million people across the country, including in Guangxi, Guizhou, Guangdong, Hunan and Jiangxi.
THE US MIGHT NOT HAVE ENOUGH GLASS VIALS TO DISTRIBUTE THE CORONAVIRUS VACCINES THE COVID-19 VACCINATION PLAN MAY HIT A SERIOUS SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUE. ......... making up the deficit on such a short time frame would vastly exceed what manufacturers are currently capable of doing. ......... Medical glass needs to be made from a particular kind of sand — its jagged edges make vials that are resilient against both physical damage and temperature changes, all while not interacting with the sensitive chemicals stored inside. Wired reports that this particular sand is in high demand, as it’s also used in things like concrete and solar panels, so the pharmaceutical industry may not be able to scrape together enough to send out a vaccine.
CHINA IS PROVIDING A CONTROVERSIAL COVID-19 VACCINE TO ITS MILITARY "THEIR BET IS THAT EVEN A PARTIALLY PROTECTIVE COVID VACCINE IS GOING TO BE SUFFICIENT TO RESTORE CONFIDENCE AND RESTART ECONOMIC ACTIVITY." ...... Chinese officials are officially planning to give an early COVID-19 candidate called CanSino to China’s military ...... The drug, called Ad5-nCoV, is one of eight Chinese vaccines approved for human trials. ........ starting to hand out such a vaccine is “a huge risk given the unknowns about not just efficacy, but safety.”
PROFESSOR: LOOMING COVID SURGE ON “VERGE OF BEING APOCALYPTIC” THIS IS DARK. ......... Unfortunate news for those hoping the coronavirus pandemic was fading away: models suggest that an “apocalyptic” resurgence could be coming in the near future. .......... Houston is on track to be the most coronavirus-ravaged city in the U.S. — but that other Texas cities aren’t far behind. ....... The three states hitting record numbers right now are also the most populous in the country. Combined, their new surges put more than 27 percent of the U.S. population at risk ........ “You get to the point where you overwhelm ICUs and that’s when the mortality goes up.”
New-Onset Brain Complications in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients — Altered mental states more common in young patients than expected ............ Brain complications of hospitalized COVID-19 patients included both neurologic and psychiatric conditions .......... Among 125 hospitalized coronavirus patients selected by specialist physicians in the U.K., complications ranged from stroke (77 people) to altered mental states including brain inflammation, psychosis, and dementia-like symptoms (39 people) ............ "About 26% of patients with new-onset neuropsychiatric causes of altered mental status were in their 20s, 30s, and 40s" ............... Researchers classified broad clinical syndromes as cerebrovascular events (acute ischemic, hemorrhagic, or thrombotic vascular event involving the brain parenchyma or subarachnoid space), altered mental status (an acute alteration in personality, behavior, cognition, or consciousness), peripheral neurology (involving nerve roots, peripheral nerves, neuromuscular junction, or muscle), or other.
Your Personal Data Is Worth Money. Andrew Yang Wants to Get You Paid what many of us seemed to forget during conversations about contact tracing is that we’re already living under a digital microscope, with multiple companies following and recording our every move. .......... just going about our daily routines can generate hundreds of data points, from where we went to how much time we spent there to what we bought, ate, or drank. Essentially, we’re freely giving away all kinds of data to companies that analyze, package, sell, and profit from it—not just every day, but every hour. ......... Yang’s ultimate goal is for Americans to be able to claim their data as a property right and get paid for it if they choose to share it. ...... data brokering is a $200 billion industry. “We are completely outgunned by tech companies” ....... A philosophy called dataism, first described in 2013, takes the opposite stance: dataists advocate for handing over as much information and power as possible to data-driven algorithms, thus allowing the free flow of data to unlock unprecedented innovation and progress. .......... “psychometric profiles” exist for you, me, and all of our friends. The data collected from our use of digital services can be packaged in a way that gives companies insight into our habits, preferences, and even our personalities. With this information, they can do anything from show us an ad for a pair of shoes we’ll probably like to try to change our minds about which candidate to vote for in an election. ......... we have a long, increasingly automated and digitized future ahead of us, and data is only going to become more important, valuable, and powerful with time. There’s a line (which some would say we’ve already crossed) beyond which the amount of data companies have access to and the way they can manipulate it for their benefit will become eerie and even dystopian.
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