COVID-19 mRNA vaccines can trigger the immune system to recognize and kill cancer, research finds ⌘ Read more

Even short school breaks can affect student learning unevenly across socioeconomic backgrounds
The COVID-19 pandemic affected people worldwide disproportionately, with economically disadvantaged households facing a heavier burden. Children were also affected since schools and classes were closed to contain the virus. ⌘ Read more

Pessoas da comunidade brasileira de #ProgramaçãoCriativa por muitos anos fizeram encontros sob o nome promovido pela Fundação Processing, os chamados #ProcessingCommunityDay, fizemos encontros em várias cidades e então depois de 2020, com a pandemia do COVID-19, fizemos três eventos nacionais muito inspiradores em 2021, 2022 e 2023 (vide https://compoetica.github.io/links/)

Ano passado não conseguimos fazer e este ano pretendemos retomar, só que usando outro nome: #Compoética. Vamos aos poucos divulgar mais sobre o encontro brasileiro de programação criativa em https://compoetica.github.io/CP2025/

Meus agradecimentos profundos ao @guilhermesv@guilhermesv que dedica generosamente um enorme esforço para organizar esses eventos da comunidade e cria o design e peças de comunicação sempre emocionantes de lindos.

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More than 40 drink drivers caught each day on average in Queensland
Police have undertaken more than 700,000 breath tests across the state since January, and are on track to conduct more than 2 million tests in a year for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. ⌘ Read more

Planning for Scotland, second try
My fiancée and I were in Scotland in 2023 on an Interrail trip. But with some bad luck, we got COVID-19 after half of the trip and had to go home and recover. We always said we wanted to finish our trip in one of the next years. ⌘ Read more

Urgent CDC influenza and bird flu data missing as outbreaks escalate
Amy Maxmen,  Public Health Local Editor and Correspondent  -  Kaiser Family Foundation Heatth News

_Stephan: ”King” Trump handled the Covid-19 so badly hundreds of thousands of Americans died. Maybe you knew one of the dead. It looks like he is doing it again. Our already bad illness profit system is being torn apart by Trump and his co-president Musk. Your healthcare is very probably goi … ⌘ Read more

Zuck Regrets Censoring Facebook at Request of Democrats
“The White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire.” ⌘ Read more

Four years ago on this day, the government decided to close all schools and universities because of Covid-19. It was hard to get toilet paper or pasta because people started hoarding. Crazy what happened in those four years. ⌘ Read more

Глава Disney о причинах провала «Капитана Марвел 2»: «Съёмки в период Covid-19 и недостаток контроля»
Боб Айгер признал, что в последнее время количество контента было важнее качества для Disney.

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Гейба Ньюэлла попросили вживую дать показания по делу Valve и Wolfire Games — хотя он опасается заразиться Covid-19
В суде считают, что разработчик дал «недостаточные доказательства того, что он может подвергнуться риску серьёзного заболевания».

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Catching COVID-19
So far, I had been spared from COVID-19. “Had,” focusing on the past, because now it has affected me, or us, after all. We had to cut short our vacation, which I used to share little glimpses of here on the blog. We quickly went back home, wearing masks the whole time and hoping not to infect more people. ⌘ Read more

Reading The Precipice & struck by the fact that it was released before GPT-3, just as COVID-19 was ramping up. Pretty insane

“The 20 months of battering negotiations have implications for health emergencies beyond COVID-19. “Clearly, there is a problem within the system,” said Luke McDonagh, assistant professor of law at the London School of Economics.”:
“The 20 months of battering negotiations have implications for health emergencies beyond COVID-19. “Clearly, there is a problem within the system,” said Luke McDonagh, assistant professor of law at the London School of Economics.”:

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Just got my second booster shot. 💉 Hoping to stay free of COVID-19 on vacation and beyond… ⌘ Read more

**We still didn’t have a (much needed) conversation about how to prepare for the next pandemic, so that next time we won’t end up with such ill-designed contact tracing apps.

But it seems that first we have other conversation we can no longer postpone:

https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-data-switch/**
We still didn’t have a (much needed) conversation about how to prepare for the next pandemic, so that next time we won’t end up with such ill-designed contact tracing apps.

But it seems that first we have oth … ⌘ Read more

**“This decision is not only a hollow response to Covid-19, but it sends the message that intellectual property rights outweigh the rights to health and life.”

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/06/covid-19-wto-ministerial-decision-on-trips-agreement-fails-to-set-rules-that-could-save-lives/**
“This decision is not only a hollow response to Covid-19, but it sends the message that intellectual property rights outweigh the rights to health and life.”

[amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…](https://www.amnesty. … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Using Elixir and WhatsApp to Fight COVID19

Discover the inside story of how the World Health Organisation’s WhatsApp COVID-19 hotline service was launched in 5 days using Elixir. At the beginning of March 2020, Turn.io launched the world’s first WhatsApp-based COVID-19 response for the South African Ministry of Health. The service was designed, deployed, stress-tested, and launched.

In 5 days. It scaled, before any kind of public launch, to 450K unique … ⌘ Read more

SUSE buys itself a “COVID 19 Hero” award. Not joking.
Also buys their CEO “Woman of the year” award. Also not joking. ⌘ Read more

How Docker containers are supporting the COVID-19 genomic monitoring effort
This is a guest blog post from Dr. Kelsey Florek and Curtis Kapsak. A video presentation of this post from Docker’s Community All-Hands can be found here. Dr. Kelsey Florek is the Senior Genomics and Data Scientist at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and a steering committee member of the State Public Health Bioinformatics […]

The post [How Docker containers are supporting the CO … ⌘ Read more

Rapid Test Results
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The effect of large-scale anti-contagion policies on the COVID-19 pandemic | Nature ⌘ Read more

Yay! Biden admin drops IP protection on Covid-19 vaccine patents. #TRIPSwaiver ⌘ Read more…

StarTalk Podcast: The COVID-19 Vaccines with Irwin Redlener ⌘ Read more…

Different utilitarian approaches to COVID-19 vaccination order, by order of complexity: Maximize {probability of infection*probability of counterfactual death, probability of infection*expected life years lost, probability of infection*expected severity of illness, probability of infection*expected severity of illness+probability of infecting n others*fudging for spreading}

Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders ⌘ https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/09/30/largest-covid-19-contact-tracing-study-date-finds-children-key-spread-evidence

A Supercomputer Analyzed #Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged ⌘ https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63

How Does COVID-19 Testing Actually Work? ⌘ Read more…

Karuna 2020: Using GitHub Actions in the COVID-19 response efforts ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-08-13-github-actions-karuna/

How can our COVID-19 response create a more equitable and collaborative society? ⌘ https://link.medium.com/kcvunnlGP8

Belgium : When Covid-19 Hit, Many Elderly Were Left to Die - The New York Times ⌘ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/world/europe/coronavirus-nursing-homes-elderly.html

Have been quite ill with Covid-19. Am slowly recovering. All is generally well.