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UPDATED 07/03/2021 AP, WHO decision challenges West to recognize Chinese vaccines and AP, Experts question if WHO should lead pandemic origins probe
...opacity, nationalism and claims of victimization will slow ending the current pandemic, discovering its origin(s) and preventing ☣ preparing or responding to the next one...
☣ Preventing implies pandemics are predictable, which is highly likely wrong...that is the prior pandemic is independent of the next...think earthquakes...preparing for the next pandemic is highly likely right...
UPDATED 03/15/2021 NYMag, How did so many rich countries get it so wrong? How did others get it so right?
...read and weep over our nation's choices that turned a small viral cluster into a ginormous clusterf#%k...hopefully when the next potential pandemic strikes our nation the sociopaths, incompetents and sycophants will not impede our public health professionals' prompt response...
UPDATED 10/16/2020 Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now
"...Any pandemic management strategy relying upon immunity from natural infections [oft incorrectly referred to as herd immunity] for COVID-19 is flawed..."
UPDATED 07/24/2020 Assessing the US government response to the coronavirus Article by Daniel M. Gerstein; published in the Journal Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (article access is free until Oct 1, 2020)
"...Unfortunately, the federal government’s response to the coronavirus makes it seem as though we are participating in a come as you are pandemic with a “bring your own” approach to resources, rather than a well-coordinated and resourced global and national response..."
UPDATE 07/20/2020 ReutersInstitute, Types, Sources, and Claims of COVID-19 Misinformation
"...In terms of sources, top-down misinformation from politicians, celebrities, and other prominent public figures made up just 20% of the claims in our sample but accounted for 69% of total social media engagement. While the majority of misinformation on social media came from ordinary people, most of these posts seemed to generate far less engagement...In terms of formats, most (59%) of the misinformation in our sample involves various forms of reconfiguration, where existing and often true information is spun, twisted, recontextualised, or reworked. Less misinformation (38%) was completely fabricated. Despite a great deal of recent concern, we find no examples of deepfakes in our sample. Instead, the manipulated content includes ‘cheapfakes’ produced using much simpler tools. The reconfigured misinformation accounts for 87% of social media interactions in the sample; the fabricated content 12%... " --Reuters Institute, Brennan et al, 2020--
...affordable comprehensive healthcare for all our citizens will need regulators to cut market distortions that enable healthcare providers to substitute rent-seeking for creative behavior (keeps Ezekiel hopeful)...
...a world-class healthcare system for all our citizens is on the transition path from plantation nation to preeminent nation...
...a world-class healthcare system for all our citizens is on the transition path from plantation nation to preeminent nation...
APNews, China delayed releasing coronavirus info, frustrating WHO...and thus the global community's ability to speedily respond...a
discovering country or person is never justified in failing to
immediately carry out its absolute duty to immediately and continuously
let know of a potential novel infectious disease outbreak...it is
irrelevant that another nation's leadership is so inadequate or incompetent that it
does no or cannot act on the notification...
WSJ, Doctors Are Tweeting About Coronavirus to Make Facts Go Viral and ProPublica, “Immune to Evidence”: How Dangerous Coronavirus Conspiracies Spread ...repeated posting and reposting of the facts is a vaccine against the CoVid-2 misinformation and disinformation, which the unfit occupant of our White House et al. are propagating ...sadly during this period when our "ship of state" has capsized our doctors are caring for the victims of both the epidemic (pandemic) and infodemic...
...dogma and doctrine are ingredients of disjointed decision making....
(NYMag, Georgia Risks Second Coronavirus Wave With Sudden Reopening)
...the disjointed response by doctor Birx to the criminally insufficient federal government CoV-2 testing (viral and antibody) is laughable...speaking of laughable, don't forget to laugh during these challenging times...
"...While scientists are trying to share facts about the epidemic, the administration either blocks those facts or restates them with contradictions...I don’t expect politicians to know Maxwell’s equations for electromagnetism or the Diels-Alder chemical reaction (although I can dream). But you can’t insult science when you don’t like it and then suddenly insist on something that science can’t give on demand...A vaccine has to have a fundamental scientific basis. It has to be manufacturable. It has to be safe. This could take a year and a half—or much longer...But do us a favor, Mr. President. If you want something, start treating science and its principles with respect..."
Sorry, the pathological lying sociopath clown occupying the White House is incapable of treating anyone with respect, including himself.
Economist, The Virus is Coming and WP, Live updates: New Coronavirus Cases Indicate Virus is Spreading in U.S.; FDA Expands Testing and NYT, We’ve Ignored the Warnings About Global Pandemics and ScienceMag, The United States Badly Bungled Coronavirus Testing—but Things May Soon Improve
"...A pandemic is more than a disease. It tests a society’s health systems, its government and politicians, and its economy..." --Economist, Editor-In-Chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes--
...the nation's clown in chief and his Court Jester Mick Mulvaney et al. are clueless about governance and balefully clueless about governance during a probable pandemic...prevarication and perversity are not helpful in containing a probable pandemic...maybe the clown in chief's obsequious sycophantic senators can "help" him contain the probable pandemic...
Independent, Coronavirus: 12 Myths About the Deadly Virus and WP, World Health Organization: China Not Sharing Data on Health-care Worker Coronavirus Infections and WP, Live Updates: Coronavirus
...designated researchers and infectious disease professions have a need and duty to continuously access and share the best available data on an infectious diseases, including applicable long term antibody data for a population... (anonymized when appropriate)...
ScienceMagazine, Scientists ‘Strongly Condemn’ Rumors and Conspiracy Theories About Origin of Coronavirus [CoVID-19] Outbrea... the buffoonery of United States Senators like Tom Cotton (R–AR) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) are unhelpful and harmful...
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