Alastair Gee, The Guardian Kaiser Health News Frank Gabrin knew the stakes of his job. What he found unsettling was having to reuse personal protective gear while caring for coronavirus patients. At about 5 a.m. on March 19, a New York City ER physician named Frank Gabrin texted a
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Andrew Sullivan has written an article about distancing ourselves from China. He starts by talking of the death of globalisation: The nation-state was beginning to reassert itself before, but COVID-19 has revealed its indispensability. Europeans realized, if they hadn’t already, that a truly continental response was beyond the E.
Driverless, contactless deliveries California’s Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday authorized autonomous technology startup Nuro to test two driverless delivery vehicles in nine cities, a decision that comes as coronavirus concerns lock down many in the state. U.S. companies that deliver groceries, household goods and take out food
Back in 1997, a family member returned from an extended stay in Britain just after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. He had an interesting take on the wave of hysteria which had recently gripped the country: “It was scary”. The social pressure to join in the mass weepin’
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As we are all confined to barracks, it is a great opportunity to try new things. How about a virtual tour of a world famous disaster site? No protective clothing is required. (Unlike a visit to your local supermarket.) Today’s tour is of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. Wikipedia tells
The Financial Times has a bunch of COVID-19 graphs in an article. Here is one. Note the blue, ‘Washington state’, now recording 50 daily deaths. What does the Washington state government site say? Well, that is curious. Washington state has never had a daily death count above 20. Is the
Jeff Jacoby PA Pundits – International Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe Did Sweden blunder? Or did everyone else? In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world’s governments have gone to unheard-of lengths to keep people apart and try to slow the spread of the
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As we are all confined to barracks, it is a great opportunity to try new things. How about a virtual tour of a world famous museum or art gallery? Maybe you have already visited this place or maybe it was on your bucket list? This time we are off to
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Those of us who are old enough can remember back to the 1980s when rare infections that typically only occurred in people with very weak immune systems started killing a growing number of young, otherwise healthy patients. Ultimately the US CDC began investigating. By 1983 the medical community had found
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