Tag: Covid-19
Liz Cheney, the President, and the Civil Servant
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Liz Cheney, the congresswoman from Wyoming, is the chair of the House Republican Conference. Many of her colleagues want her to step down...
Health: Chancellor Merkel Wears a Mask in Public
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Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, entered the Bundesrat, the upper house of Germany's bicameral legislature on Friday July 3 wearing a black face mask....
Health: Workers Still Out from Sioux Falls’ Smithfield Plant
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The Smithfield meat-packing plant in Sioux Fails, South Dakota, has received increasing attention of late as a vector in the spread of Covid-19....
Health: “Flattening the Curve”?
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For more than two months now, the phrase "flatten the curve" has been ubiquitous. Most people have only a vague idea of what...
Health: Bill Gates, Politics, and a Conspiracy Theory
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Bill Gates, the co-founder of tech giant Microsoft, ended his active role in that corporation in 2006 and has since devoted himself to...
Health: The Unintended Consequences of a Biogen Meeting
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In late February, the biopharm giant Biogen held a conference in Boston that researchers into the ongoing pandemic now see as a "superspreader"...
Hydroxychloroquine and the Presidential election
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For much of the period during which the prevalence and danger of the Covid-19 virus was rising to be the dominant public issue...
Health: Bottom-Up Covid Testing on the Way
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The trajectory of the Covid-19 outbreak may change drastically as testing methods change. Ideally, people (at any income level) who are concerned about...
Health: Tom Hanks Becomes the Celebrity Face of Covid-19
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Tom Hanks, the Hollywood superstar know for the '80s sitcom "Bosom Buddies," the movies "Philadelphia" and "Forrest Gump," his voice-over as Sheriff Woody...
Health: Newly Identified Virus Spreading Rapidly
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In December 2019, a cluster of cases of what was then identified as pneumonia were reported to health authorities in Wuhan, China. Investigators...