Biden gets to work on the pandemic, the CDC adjusts vaccine guidelines, and death tolls rise worldwide. Here’s what you should know: Want to receive this weekly roundup and other coronavirus news? Sign up here! Headlines Biden institutes sweeping pandemic measures during his first days in office Joe Biden has wasted no time when it […]
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Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, the US’ testing strategy has failed over and over again to provide an accurate picture of how fast and how far the disease is spreading. State and city officials are often left flying blind, not knowing how bad things are until hospital beds start filling up. The evidence
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“In my view, hydroxychloroquine should not be used in the hospital setting,” says Martin Landray, a physician and researcher in the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Population Health and one of the heads of Recovery. “Outside the hospital setting it would be reasonable to use it in the context of a randomized controlled trial,
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Last week, a British research team announced that a cheap, safe, widely available drug called dexamethasone makes a huge difference in saving the lives of people severely ill with Covid-19. Perhaps no one was more surprised than the people on the research team. That group, the United Kingdom’s Randomised Evaluation of Covid-19 Therapy (Recovery) Trial,
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Forced to adapt The impact on the retail sector has been dramatic and touched every part of retailers’ business models—an overnight shift to full reliance on digital channels, disruption and lags in supply chains, and a completely new way of working for teams. Alibaba is working with many businesses across Asia-Pacific as they navigate the
The Coronavirus pandemic has brought about disruptive technology solutions to slow the spread of the virus and minimize its impact. Contact tracing utilizing mobile technology is one promising but controversial solution that has been tested in some countries and proposed in the United States. The Washington Post reports that millions of people around the globe
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President Trump Monday signed an executive order temporarily suspending many nonimmigrant visas, including temporary H-1B visas popular among tech companies. Industry executives say the move will push highly skilled tech workers and prospective innovators to other countries. The executive order also suspends for the rest of the year most J-1 visas, designed for research scholars
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Coronavirus cases around the world continue to rise. James Martin/CNET For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. The World Health Organization recorded 183,020 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, the largest increase in a single day since the beginning of the pandemic. The increasing case numbers are
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After months of work, the UK has ditched the way its coronavirus-tracing app works, prompting a blame game between the government and two of the world’s biggest tech firms. So what went wrong? At the end of March, I got a text from a senior figure in the UK’s technology industry. This person said they
Porter says that using algorithms to check whether workers are following Amazon’s workplace rules fits with a management catchphrase of Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos: “Good intentions don’t work, but mechanisms do.” Some Amazon workers say the company’s intentions and mechanisms are both failing to keep them safe. Those workers have talked with WIRED and other
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