Austin was ‘the biggest winner’ of COVID tech migration
One of the pandemic’s biggest relocations came in December, when Silicon Valley stalwart Oracle moved its headquarters from Redwood City to a new campus in Austin after 44 years in the Bay Area
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Waive intellectual property protection for COVID vaccines and related technologies urge over 100 IP academic experts
World Trade Organization (WTO) intellectual property rules for COVID-19 vaccines, medicines and diagnostics must be suspended to help low and middle-income countries tackle the pandemic says a statement, co-led by LSE intellectual property academic experts and signed by over 100 others from around the world.
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Covid Didn’t Kill Cities. Why Was That Prophecy So Alluring?
A distrust of urban life has persisted in America, finding expression in different ways over time.
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Why Is the Intellectual Dark Web Suddenly Hyping an Unproven COVID Treatment?
World Trade Organization (WTO) intellectual property rules for COVID-19 vaccines, medicines and diagnostics must be suspended to help low and middle-income countries tackle the pandemic says a statement, co-led by LSE intellectual property academic experts and signed by over 100 others from around the world.
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Zero New COVID Deaths in NYC, All-Time Low Positivity Rate as More Vaccine Prizes Debut
Also on Tuesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the statewide rolling positivity rate dropped to a new low (0.65%), marking 57 straight days of decline
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How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine.
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Trump’s COVID Advisers Are at Their Breaking Point
Even as the president was rushed to the hospital at Walter Reed, for what the White House said would be days of observation, rest, and testing, officials inside the administration said they didn’t anticipate much of a shake-up in their approach to combating COVID. There would reportedly be no official revised mask policy, which remained encouraged but not required.
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Hopes of 'herd immunity' wane in Manaus as city declares state of emergency to curb Covid resurgence
Hospitals and cemeteries are again overwhelmed, resembling the brutal outbreak last April. It comes as Brazil's death toll hits 200,000.
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‘Frustrated and fractured’ Congress remains at an impasse on COVID relief
They have been trying to figure out a deal, and they cannot get there. It is a real problem for overall COVID relief.
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Koreans Believed America Was Exceptional. Then Covid Happened.
These days in Korea, TV broadcasters talk about the U.S. with grim faces, flashing to B-roll of lines of Americans wrapped around buildings waiting for Covid-19 testing or graphs depicting an exponential growth of pandemic deaths. Newspaper headlines question the strength of U.S. democracy above pictures of demonstrators protesting mythical claims of voter fraud.