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from BBC News (UK)
Coronavirus: Mexicans demand crackdown on Americans crossing the border
Residents in Sonora, south of the US state of Arizona, have promised to block traffic into Mexico for a second day after closing a checkpoint for hours on Wednesday. They wore face masks and held signs telling Americans to "stay at home". Mexico has fewer than 500 confirmed Covid-19 cases and the US over 65,000. The border is supposed to be closed to all except "essential" business, but protesters said there has been little enforcement and no testing by authorities.
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from BuzzFeed News
LEFT BIAS, MIXED, Media/News Company in New York
A Health Care Workers Union Found A Supplier With 39 Million Masks For Doctors And Nurses Fighting The Coronavirus
The Service Employees International Union's United Healthcare Workers West started looking for vendors who could supply masks and other protective equipment five days ago, after "pleas from frontline health care workers that they need more protection and feel unsafe on the job," they said in a statement on Thursday. Union staff tracked down the supplier with 39 million masks available, along with another who they say can make 20 million masks per week. The union also found another who can deliver millions of face shields. SEIU-UHW spokesperson Steve Trossman told BuzzFeed News he had no idea why the supplier had such a large quantity of masks on hand. He declined to name the company, but it has warehouses in Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Turbulent Gas Clouds and Respiratory Pathogen Emissions
Potential Implications for Reducing Transmission of COVID-19
The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak vividly demonstrates the burden that respiratory infectious diseases impose in an intimately connected world. Unprecedented containment and mitigation policies have been implemented in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19, including travel restrictions, screening and testing of travelers, isolation and quarantine, and school closures. A key goal of such policies is to decrease the encounters between infected individuals and susceptible individuals and decelerate the rate of transmission. Although such social distancing strategies are critical in the current time of pandemic, it may seem surprising that the current understanding of the routes of host-to-host transmission in respiratory infectious diseases are predicated on a model of disease transmission developed in the 1930s that, by modern standards, seems overly simplified. Implementing public health recommendations based on these older models may limit the effectiveness of the proposed interventions.
from MarketWatchA Health Care Workers Union Found A Supplier With 39 Million Masks For Doctors And Nurses Fighting The Coronavirus
The Service Employees International Union's United Healthcare Workers West started looking for vendors who could supply masks and other protective equipment five days ago, after "pleas from frontline health care workers that they need more protection and feel unsafe on the job," they said in a statement on Thursday. Union staff tracked down the supplier with 39 million masks available, along with another who they say can make 20 million masks per week. The union also found another who can deliver millions of face shields. SEIU-UHW spokesperson Steve Trossman told BuzzFeed News he had no idea why the supplier had such a large quantity of masks on hand. He declined to name the company, but it has warehouses in Pennsylvania and Georgia.
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from DW News (Deutsche Welle)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany
US set to upgrade controversial nukes stationed in Germany
The US has stored nuclear bombs across Europe as a deterrent against Russia — including in Germany, where parliament voted in 2010 to withdraw the bombs. But for now, they are here to stay — and set to be modernized.
US set to upgrade controversial nukes stationed in Germany
The US has stored nuclear bombs across Europe as a deterrent against Russia — including in Germany, where parliament voted in 2010 to withdraw the bombs. But for now, they are here to stay — and set to be modernized.
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from JAMA
Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of the American Medical Association
Potential Implications for Reducing Transmission of COVID-19
The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak vividly demonstrates the burden that respiratory infectious diseases impose in an intimately connected world. Unprecedented containment and mitigation policies have been implemented in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19, including travel restrictions, screening and testing of travelers, isolation and quarantine, and school closures. A key goal of such policies is to decrease the encounters between infected individuals and susceptible individuals and decelerate the rate of transmission. Although such social distancing strategies are critical in the current time of pandemic, it may seem surprising that the current understanding of the routes of host-to-host transmission in respiratory infectious diseases are predicated on a model of disease transmission developed in the 1930s that, by modern standards, seems overly simplified. Implementing public health recommendations based on these older models may limit the effectiveness of the proposed interventions.
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Opinion: ‘There is no gold.’ Bullion dealers sell out in panic buying
If you think gold GC00, -1.24% has jumped about 10% in a couple of days to $1,638 an ounce, the official price quoted on Wall Street, think again. The real price? Nearer $1,800. If you can get it. “There’s no gold,” says Josh Strauss, partner at money manager Pekin Hardy Strauss in Chicago (and a bullion fan). “There’s no gold. There’s roughly a 10% premium to purchase physical gold for delivery. Usually it’s like 2%. I can buy a one ounce American Eagle for $1,800,” said Josh Strauss. “$1,800!”
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from The Roman Anglican (blog)
An Anglican review on art and history, based in Rome.
A BRIGHTER DAWN: A REFLECTION DURING THE LOCKDOWN
Almost three weeks have passed since the beginning of the quarantine lockdown here in Italy, over a month has passed since the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak in Europe. Albeit the situation in Italy is improving, the North of the country is still seeing a considerable amount of casualties day by day - life in Rome is pretty much the same, we only go out for groceries, everyone is very respectful and civilized. Silence reigns supreme, only sometimes the noise of public transport breaks that eerie sense of calm and for a moment it seems as if normality has come back, but really it has not.
A BRIGHTER DAWN: A REFLECTION DURING THE LOCKDOWN
Almost three weeks have passed since the beginning of the quarantine lockdown here in Italy, over a month has passed since the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak in Europe. Albeit the situation in Italy is improving, the North of the country is still seeing a considerable amount of casualties day by day - life in Rome is pretty much the same, we only go out for groceries, everyone is very respectful and civilized. Silence reigns supreme, only sometimes the noise of public transport breaks that eerie sense of calm and for a moment it seems as if normality has come back, but really it has not.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Time to Downsize State Government
Government has continued expansive growth far disproportionate to population growth over the past few decades. This bloat has become a tax-burden. In good times, the taxpayers can carry the burden. However, we are in a critical economic crisis (which is going to long outlast the temporary health crisis of the Wuhan/Corona Virus). It will be critical for hard decisions to be made quickly in order to mitigate the impacts of this financial decline. Here are some suggestions where we can start.
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from UPI News Agency (United Press International)
Media/News Company
First launch for Space Force lifts off from Florida
The first official mission for the new U.S. Space Force lifted off from Florida at 4:18 p.m. EDT on Thursday into a virtually cloudless sky with a military communications satellite aboard. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket emblazoned with the Space Force chevron logo carried the satellite toward orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Stations Complex 41.
First launch for Space Force lifts off from Florida
The first official mission for the new U.S. Space Force lifted off from Florida at 4:18 p.m. EDT on Thursday into a virtually cloudless sky with a military communications satellite aboard. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket emblazoned with the Space Force chevron logo carried the satellite toward orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Stations Complex 41.
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from We the Governed
Time to Downsize State Government
Government has continued expansive growth far disproportionate to population growth over the past few decades. This bloat has become a tax-burden. In good times, the taxpayers can carry the burden. However, we are in a critical economic crisis (which is going to long outlast the temporary health crisis of the Wuhan/Corona Virus). It will be critical for hard decisions to be made quickly in order to mitigate the impacts of this financial decline. Here are some suggestions where we can start.
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