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Wikipedia and W.H.O. Join to Combat Covid Misinformation

Fri, 2020-10-23 19:57 — mike kraft

As part of efforts to stop the spread of false information about the coronavirus pandemic, Wikipedia and the World Health Organization announced a collaboration on Thursday: The health agency will grant the online encyclopedia free use of its published information, graphics and videos.

The collaboration is the first between Wikipedia and a health agency.

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CDC redefines COVID-19 close contact, adds brief encounters

Wed, 2020-10-21 17:58 — mike kraft

CDC redefines COVID-19 close contact, adds brief encounters NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials Wednesday redefined what counts as close contact with someone with COVID-19 to include briefer but repeated encounters. For months, the Centers for... AP NEWS

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials Wednesday redefined what counts as close contact with someone with COVID-19 to include briefer but repeated encounters.

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Another casualty of the coronavirus pandemic: Trust in government science

Mon, 2020-10-12 11:44 — mike kraft

Another casualty of the coronavirus pandemic: Trust in government science Top doctors say a toxic political culture has become a public health hazard. Joel Achenbach, Laurie McGinley Washington Post

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So frustrating': Doctors and nurses battle virus skeptics

Mon, 2020-10-12 11:28 — mike kraft

'So frustrating': Doctors and nurses battle virus skeptics MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Treating the sick and dying isn't even the toughest part for nurse Amelia Montgomery as the coronavirus surges in her corner of red America. It's dealing with patients... AP NEWS

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ANALYSIS Improving Pandemic Preparedness: Lessons From COVID-19 -- CFR Task Force recomendations

Fri, 2020-10-09 14:39 — mike kraft

The U.S. Must Learn From COVID-19 to Prevent the Next Disaster The United States must be better prepared when the next pandemic strikes Council on Foreign Relations

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TRACING: Efforts fall flat in Europe, the U.S.

Sun, 2020-10-04 13:54 — mike kraft

LONDON — As the coronavirus stampeded across Europe and the United States this spring, governments made their depleted citizens a tantalizing promise: Soon, legions of disease detectives would hunt down anyone exposed to the virus, confining them to their homes and letting everyone else get on with their lives.

Nearly eight months on, as a web of new infections spreads across Europe and the United States, that promise has nearly evaporated.

Despite repeated vows by Western nations to develop “world-beating” testing and tracing operations, those systems have been undone by a failure of governments to support citizens through onerous quarantines or to draw out intimate details of their whereabouts. That has shattered the hope of pinpoint measures replacing lockdowns and undermined flagging confidence in governments.

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Misinformation spikes as Trump confirms COVID-19 diagnosis

Sat, 2020-10-03 10:21 — mike kraft

Misinformation spikes as Trump confirms COVID-19 diagnosis CHICAGO (AP) — News Friday that President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 sparked an explosion of rumors, misinformation and conspiracy theories that in... AP NEWS

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CDC slowing pace on releasing new coronavirus health guidance

Thu, 2020-10-01 09:43 — mike kraft

CDC slowing pace on releasing new coronavirus health guidance For the last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stopped issuing new health information related to the novel coronavirus after altering the procedure by which that information was being shared with the American people, sources with direct knowledge of the change told ABC News. The YahooNews

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Washington state emergency responders first to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet in the field

Wed, 2020-09-30 16:56 — mike kraft

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/washington-emergency-responders-use-spacex-starlink-satellite-internet.html

The Starlink satellite internet network that SpaceX is developing has been used in the field by Washington state emergency responders in recent weeks, the first early application of the company’s service to be disclosed.

Washington’s state military, which includes its emergency response division, began employing Starlink user terminals in early August to bring internet service to areas devastated by wildfires. User terminals are the small devices on the ground that connect to the satellites. The emergency division has seven Starlink user terminals, which it is deploying with early success.

“I have never set up any tactical satellite equipment that has been as quick to set up, and anywhere near as reliable” as Starlink, Richard Hall, the emergency telecommunications leader of the Washington State Military Department’s IT division, told CNBC in an interview Monday.

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