For months, Uber has been providing health officials with data to help them with their contact search efforts, Reuters reports. The carpool company has designed a portal specifically for health officials to request user data. The new service received 560 applications from 29 countries in the first half of 2020. …
Read More »The euphoria of the Russian crown – POLITICAL
That is probably what the Kremlin intended. Muscovites are aware that their freedom from the crown came in anticipation of a July 1 vote on a new constitution that Putin needed to push to potentially extend his reign until 2036, but there has been little setback. Reports of mass electoral …
Read More »The United States records more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day for the first time since early June
FILE PHOTO: A refrigerated trailer that San Antonio health authorities purchased to store bodies, as morgues in hospitals and funeral homes reach capacity with deaths from coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is seen in Bexar, Texas, July 15, 2020. Photograph taken on July 15, 2020. City of San Antonio / Brochure via …
Read More »Fact check: In his first coronavirus briefing since April, Trump repeats a handful of classic false claims
Trump, reading the prepared comments, acknowledged a “troubling increase” in cases in the South (he had previously ruled out the sharp increase as mere evidence of how many people are being evaluated) and said the situation will worsen before it improves (he previously he had already stated in June that …
Read More »Civil War era smallpox vaccination kits offer new insights into how the virus was eradicated
A new study published in Genome Biology on Sunday, conducted by scientists and historians from McMaster University, the Mütter Museum, and the University of Sydney, identified five strains of vaccines used by Civil War-era doctors to protect people. smallpox. In particular, the viral genome was sequenced using traces found in …
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