Coronavirus News Items: Sat 28.Mar.2020
Miscellaneous News
- Twitter: @HoodlumRIP: You wanted a reality show host as a president, well now you’re on Survivor.
citynews1130: New Technology to improve COVID-19 testing
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CBC: Amid a critical shortage, pandemic ventilator inventor makes his design open source
John Strupat wants to make his design open source so it can be used by ‘anyone from anywhere’
The Guardian: The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life
The president was aware of the danger from the coronavirus – but a lack of leadership has created an emergency of epic proportions
It was hardly a morale-boosting gesture when Trump proposed a 16% cut in CDC funding on 10 February – 11 days after the World Health Organization had declared a public health emergency over Covid-19.
NYT: One Continent, Two Very Different Political Responses to the Pandemic
Leaders across the spectrum in Canada have generally set aside differences when it comes to the current health crisis.
Comparing Canada & the US, two countries in the same continent.
CBC: No more domestic travel by plane or train for those showing coronavirus symptoms, Trudeau says
It will be up to airlines and rail companies to enforce restrictions
Don’t forget these two sources of updated charts.
Maclean’s: Coronavirus in Canada: These charts show how our fight to ‘flatten the curve’ is going
Quebec faces fallout from an early March break; a modelling system in B.C. suggests social distancing is helping. Public health officials continue to urge caution. “Stay inside your bubble,” said Howard Njoo, Canada’s deputy chief public health officer.
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CBC: Tracking the spread of coronavirus in Canada and around the world
Stay informed with the latest data on the number of COVID-19 cases.
PBS: Citing outbreak, EPA has stopped enforcing environmental laws
The move was the latest, and one of the broadest, regulation-easing moves by the EPA, which is seeking to roll back dozens of regulations as part of President Donald Trump’s purge of rules that the administration sees as unfriendly to business. Civil and criminal enforcement of polluters under the administration has fallen sharply.
Former Obama-era EPA chief Gina McCarthy, now president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, called the announcement “an open license to pollute.”
Updated: Sat 28.Mar.2020 23:58