https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/at-va-facility-where-virus-kills-40-doctor-blames-societys-willing-to-warehouse-elders/2020/04/10/afd329d4-7b85-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html
This article highlights the fact that black and Latino people are twice as likely to die from coronavirus than white people in NYC, based on data released this past week by the NYC DOH. One possible explanation for this, according to the article, is that 75% of “front-line workers” are minorities in addition to general … Read more
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/its-not-september-12-anymore/609502/ The former deputy national security advisor to Barack Obama explores United States’ war on terror and contrasts it with the new world reality in 2020 in the midst of a global pandemic. He suggests that ‘us versus them’ U.S foreign policy that emerged (perhaps remerged with consideration to the cold war) is no longer … Read more
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/tech/whatsapp-misinformation-forward-limit/index.html What’s App, a Facebook owned platform, has been one of the popular sources of misinformation about the pandemic. This article introduces the recent restriction the platform has introduced to stop the prevent the spread of the misinformation. The most recent policy prevents individuals from simultaneously forwarding a message to more than one group chat.
A great example of how powerful individuals deny science when its conclusions threaten the income streams of those whose paychecks depend on the denial of reality. Think climate change, as well.
Dana White, the president of the UFC, has rented a private island so that the fights may resume. He states that fighters, who at this time cannot fly into the U.S., can land on this island instead. His motivation for continuing the fights during the pandemic is so that the UFC can provide entertainment for … Read more
https://news.joins.com/article/23750232 2020.04.08 The article states that since an Indonesian (40-years old) did not abide to the self-quarantine standard, he/she was forcefully deported back to Indonesia. This is the first case of forced deportation in Korea due to the violation of self-quarantine. The article also adds that a Vietnamese couple who violated self-quarantine on April 4th … Read more
Recently, I have been hearing people discussing whether or not the covid-19 virus is “airborne”. Of course we know at this point that the virus can easily be spread through respiratory droplets released by coughs and sneezes, but questions are arising about possible transmission through simply breathing or talking, i.e. the virus being airborne (by … Read more
Researchers at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil are studying the replication of the virus and while using a transmission electron microscope, were able to image the exact moment when the virus infects and invades a healthy cells. The link below leads to an article with three of the images captured during this discovery. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/moment-coronavirus-infects-healthy-cell-captured-pictures/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2223-y While most of the focus is currently on finding a vaccine for COVID-19 to prevent new infections, there is also a lot fo work being done to discover and create drugs that can treat it. If it truly is going to become endemic, and it is going to continue mutating, there needs to be … Read more
