HBO | Real Time with Bill Maher | Fareed Zakaria: Ten Lessons for the Post-Pandemic World | “This is not the last pandemic”
Factory Farms are a Petri Dish for the Next Pandemic Source: HBO
October 2020
FAREED ZAKARIA | Larry Summers on his estimate of Covid-19’s $16T cost to the US–& why spending more on testing, tracing, & economic relief should be an easy call
From today's show: @LHSummers on his estimate of Covid-19's $16T cost to the US--& why spending more on testing, tracing, & economic relief should be an easy call pic.twitter.com/k0DRtAJpXB— Fareed [...]
PEW RESEARCH CENTER | A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents for the first time since the Great Depression
The coronavirus outbreak has pushed millions of Americans, especially young adults, to move in with family members. The share of 18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents has become a majority since [...]
MARKET INSIDER | The IMF says vaccine progress could add $9 trillion to global income by 2025 and stage a faster recovery
"Faster progress on medical solutions could speed up the recovery; it could add almost $9 trillion to global income by 2025," the International Monetary Fund's managing director Kristina Georgieva said [...]
PITCHBOOK | Private equity plays a starring role in 2020’s SPAC boom
For most of their existence, special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) were mostly unknown. But this year, they've become some of the hottest investment vehicles on Wall Street, offering companies an alternative [...]
JAMA NETWORK | Viewpoint | The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus
The SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) pandemic is the greatest threat to prosperity and well-being the US has encountered since the Great Depression. This Viewpoint aggregates mortality, morbidity, [...]
MEET THE PRESS | Bill Gates: ‘You don’t want politicians saying’ which covid drugs should be approved
In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, tells Chuck Todd that his foundation has worked with pharmaceutical companies to [...]
BBC NEWS | Covid: Care homes policies violated human rights, says Amnesty | AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL | REPORT | AS IF EXPENDABLE | SO SORRY
Sending thousands of older untested patients into care homes in England at the start of the coronavirus lockdown was a violation of their human rights, Amnesty International has said. A [...]
WEF | Why universal testing could help bring the pandemic to an end | The number of tests needed globally over a year to supply a weekly testing regimen would be equivalent to less than half the number of cans of soda consumed annually.
Across the world companies and government are consolidating their efforts on developing and distributing an effective vaccine against COVID-19. But is it the only way we can end the pandemic? [...]
JAMA | The risk of contracting COVID-19 during air travel is low.
From #Instagram #JNInsta https://t.co/0LbYilKGqw pic.twitter.com/jx1dAXQdRA — JAMA (@JAMA_current) October 9, 2020 The risk of contracting COVID-19 during air travel is low. The number of suspected and confirmed cases of in-flight [...]
