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RT @bmj_latest: “For the world to recover faster, it has to recover together," warned @DrTedros @WHO recently. This week's #BigPicture shows a man having his blood pressure taken in the Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, one of the world’s largest refugee camps
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OpenCovid-19: World “has to recover together” and help vulnerable states
Credit: Fabeha Monir / Age International A doctor tests the blood pressure of a man in the Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, one of the world’s largest refugee camps. The impact ...
#NewOnKHN: As the virus has pinched the industry’s lifeblood, bar owners in a handful of states are fighting in court against government orders that they stay closed.
📝: @WStoneReports https://t.co/DKjIxOlt6K
OpenDeadly Mix: How Bars Are Fueling COVID-19 Outbreaks
In some states, bars and taverns have brought legal challenges to the coronavirus restrictions that have slowed sales and business.
A number of universities have asked students to sign mandated #COVID19 agreements. Grad students are pushing back. “We don’t … understand the extent of how this could impact us legally; we’re just scared because we know it could," one student says. https://t.co/2qmJgzt1cs
OpenGrad students challenge university-mandated COVID-19 agreements
“We don’t … understand the extent of how this could impact us legally; we’re just scared because we know it could,” one student says
In an op-ed, @joefigs2, @ml_barnett, and Fabiola Molina argue that the public charge rule will enable further spread of #COVID-19. https://t.co/t1mYaDEdox
OpenThe Trump administration’s ‘public charge’ rule and Covid-19: bad policy at the worst time
Immigrants' fear of the revised public charge rule will perpetuate the spread of Covid-19 in cities and towns across the country.
Just when Europe thought it had Covid-19 cases under control, the disease reemerged. Here's what countries are doing about it. https://t.co/8CuA7z3CTu
OpenCovid-19 Appeared to Be Under Control in Europe. Now It’s Surging Again.
Infections are surging again across much of Europe and governments are racing to prevent a full-fledged second wave—without resorting to the kind of broad lockdowns that devastated their ...
RT @AriadneLabs: Why businesses must help build trust in a #COVID19 vaccine, by Ariadne Labs' Rebecca Weintraub and Julie Rosenberg and colleagues in @HarvardBiz. Read → https://t.co/AVvzwd1pWC https://t.co/OfevKcPsQB
OpenWhy Businesses Must Help Build Trust in a Covid-19 Vaccine
Mastercard, Apple, and Google are already educating their employees.
The UK's gathering Covid-19 autumn storm
Boris Johnson faces turmoil as Britain returns to work amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus and economic chaos
The Office for National Statistics is to expand its infection survey to 150 000 people a fortnight in England by October, up from the current 28 000, in order to provide more information about the spread of covid-19 and help identify local outbreaks https://t.co/KNBhVYIbsq
OpenCovid-19: England to test 150 000 people every two weeks to track local outbreaks
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is to expand its infection survey to 150 000 people a fortnight in England by October, up from the current 28 000, in order to provide more ...