Carlos del Rio, executive associate dean at the Emory School of Medicine, told POLITICO the CDC guidelines do not make sense because individuals who have been in close contact with a confirmed case of Covid-19 for at least 15 minutes could potentially be infected and should be tested.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo slammed the change as “political propaganda.” Officials in several other states, including California, Connecticut and Washington, said Wednesday that they would not alter their testing approach to match the new CDC guidelines.
"Suggesting that people without symptoms, who have known exposure to COVID-positive individuals, do not need testing is a recipe for community spread and more spikes in coronavirus," American Medical Association President Susan Bailey said.
The abrupt — and unannounced — changes have already intensified scrutiny of the CDC's independence, and the administration's broader coronavirus response ahead of the November election.
experts are cautioning against going overboard with the “good vibes only” trend. Too much forced positivity is not just unhelpful, they say — it’s toxic
people who habitually avoid acknowledging challenging emotions can end up feeling worse.
so it's easy to see Microsoft's new Flight Simulator as the first truly "next-generation" digital experience in a long time.
This year’s titles intertwine themes of corporate culture and leadership — and a few will help readers prepare for a Covid-shaped world
"Culturally, we encourage boys and men to adhere to rigid notions of masculinity that emphasize stoicism, self-sufficiency, and control. Men lose their emotional voices early in their lives."
"the flat universe remains the leading model of our cosmic surroundings"
Scientists think the universe is flat, but new observations suggest that we might actually be living in a gigantic sphere. Whoa.
In current quantum field theory, causality is typically defined by the vanishing of field commutators for spacelike separations. Two researchers at the University of Massachusetts and Universidade Federal Rural in Rio de Janeiro have recently carried out a study discussing and synthesizing some of the key aspects of causality in quantum field theory. Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, is the result of their investigation of a theory of quantum gravity commonly referred to as "quadratic gravity."
One of the great counterintuitive puzzles of quantum mechanics is wave-particle duality. This is the phenomenon in which objects behave both like particles and like waves. Numerous experiments have shown that a single particle—an electron or a photon, for example—can interfere with itself, like a wave. The double slit experiment, in which a particle passes…
"The President of the United States is sabotaging a basic service that hundreds of millions of people rely upon, cutting a critical lifeline for rural economies and for delivery of medicines, because he wants to deprive Americans of their fundamental right to vote safely during the most catastrophic public health crisis in over 100 years," Andrew Bates, a spokesperson for Joe Biden's campaign, said in a statement reacting to Trump's comments.
it's another right-wing smear job to deligitimise what "may be the largest movement in U.S. history, as four polls suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations"
The attack has been made in recent weeks by Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer; Ben Carson, Trump’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development; conservative talk show host Mark Levin; and PragerU, which has more than 4 million Facebook followers.
Black Lives Matter’s "emphatic support for gender identity politics sets it apart from historical Marxism," and the goals listed on its website "do not appear to be expressly anti-capitalist, which would arguably be a Marxist identifier," Berman added.
"I am fairly convinced these are mostly attempts to smear anti-racist activists. I think in some media, ‘Marxist’ is dog-whistle for something horrible, like ‘Nazi’, and thus enables to delegitimize/dehumanize them," Miriyam Aouragh, a lecturer at the London-based Westminster School of Media and Communication, told PolitiFact.
Black Lives Matter "is not an organization, but a fluid movement; it doesn’t actually matter if one of its founders was a liberal, Marxist, socialist or capitalist."
the market is almost 'littered' by games designed and marketed on the lines of instant gratification and dopamine boosts. It's no one's fault, it's the times we live in.
For example, for all households 35-44, the median net worth is ~$60,000. If you are a college-educated 35-44 with $100,000 you might feel a sense of entitlement at how good you are at managing your finances given you are so far above the median.
This is until you realize that the median college-educated 35-44 year old household has a net worth of $180,000.
Now, there is nothing wrong with being above or below the median, but, if you want to know if you are keeping up with the Joneses, make sure you have the right Joneses.
If you had beaten the market by 5% a year from 1960-1980, you would have made less money than if you had underperformed the market by 5% a year from 1980-2000.
many retail investors worship at the temple of alpha when they really should be praying for beta.
Japan is the winner for the greatest asset bubble of all time because of how well it scores on the three criteria (Market Cap, Price, and Recovery Time) relative to all other bubbles in market history.
To be precise, the Japanese stock market lost over $2 trillion and Japanese land values have declined by $8 trillion since the late 1980s/early 1990s.
More importantly, in the 30 years since the peak, both Japanese stocks and residential real estate have yet to recover.