The Trump administration is looking to block billion of dollars allocated to contact tracing from the next Coronavirus relief package, it was revealed by The Washington Post yesterday.
Contact tracing is the process by which states trace places an …
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Google’s parent company Alphabet announced yesterday that it will bar websites running its advertising technology from running ads that include what it considers “dangerous content” about the Covid19 pandemic.
Content considered dangerous include the theory that Covid19 originated in a …
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A Florida man in his 20s who died recently in a motorcycle accident was labeled as a Coronavirus death according to an investigation conducted by FOX 35.
The network talked to Orange County Health Officer Dr. Raul Pino about …
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The UK is mandating people wear masks before entering shops starting on July 24. Anyone not observing the mask mandate will be subject to a fine of £100.
The law states that cloth masks, scarves or other wraps that don’t …
Continue ReadingTesting is soon to begin in parts of Africa for a biometric ID system that will include vaccine records, and also, notably, payment systems.
The systems are being backed by the GAVI vaccine alliance, which is largely backed by …
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This week Costco, Starbucks, Best Buy and Panera Bread all announced regulations requiring customers to wear masks to enter their stores. Up until now most other major retailers were giving customers the option to wear a mask while shopping their …
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Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is banning his state’s cities and counties from mandating mask wearing in public. He voided orders of at least 15 local governments across the state because he says such orders are unenforceable by authorities.…
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Smart cameras that can track pedestrians’, motorists’ and cyclists’ movements are being installed in Australia, and will allow traffic patterns to be stopped and allowed automatically.
The technology is part of a research program at Melbourne University, called Australian …
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The Trump administration is telling hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and report Covid19 numbers directly to the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS which overseas the CDC.
The move comes amid the increasing dissatisfaction …
Continue ReadingThe World Health Organization announced this week that it will not investigate, or even visit, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan’s bio-safety level 4 lab, where many believe the Coronavirus originated as part of it’s inquiry into the virus’ beginnings.…
Continue ReadingThe State of Florida reported an eye-opening 15,000 new Covid19 positive cases over the weekend, prompting fears of a deadly resurgence of the virus spreading throughout Florida.
It seems that there is more than meets the eye with the new …
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Google parent company, Alphabet Inc., is planning to enter the food delivery business. The scoop is being reported by The Economic Times, India’s largest English-language newspaper.
The news was first revealed on the Times’ twitter account.
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The Kroger Company has stopped giving coins back to cash-paying customers because of a nationwide coin shortage. The remainders can be donated to charity or are being transferred to loyalty cards, the company says.
“At Kroger, we are implementing …
Continue ReadingThe higher education “bull market” is over. Forecasters predict 20% of colleges and universities will shut down or merge within the next ten years.
Covid19 has exacerbated already declining enrollment numbers and deteriorating finances.
Education costs had reached unsustainable levels …
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Hollywood box office earnings will drop by as much as 70% this year according to analysis by Eric Handler of research firm MKM Partners.
Handler cites delays to wide releases of films such as Disney’s Mulan and Christopher Nolan’s Tenet…
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The White House has grown increasingly concerned with the “number of times Dr. Fauci has been wrong on things.”
Fauci is ““never in the Oval [Office] anymore,” and the President last spoke with him at the beginning of June according …
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As of now official Covid19 stats record just three basic metrics: positive cases, recoveries and deaths. Maybe being missed is an additional metric that may help us gain a better idea of the true effect of the pandemic: morbidity.…
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