....Gates said the foundation would end up picking only one or two of the seven, meaning billions of dollars spent on manufacturing would be abandoned.He said that in a situation where the world faces the loss of trillions of dollars to the economy, wasting a few billion to help is worth it....
Google at its best! “Community Mobility Reports aim to provide insights into response to #COVID19– charts movement trends over time by geo, across diff retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, & residential.” https://t.co/tVgKDprockpic.twitter.com/QYEMw5eDEr
I'm pretty much anti-death penalty, but if there's going to be one, killing a doctor in the midst of a pandemic lacking sufficient medical personnel should certainly qualify. Especially if the perp is a stupid underage punk, as maybe the message will get around to his buddies.
A teenager has been arrested in connection with the slayings of a University of Wisconsin-Madison doctor and her husband, authorities say https://t.co/xszeXXYP5Z
saw videos of this on CNN a few minutes ago, extremely striking, including that people on the docks came running from all around. Stars and Stripes now featuring it is significant too:
The Paycheck Protection Program is a critically-needed lifeline for American small businesses. EIG's @LettieriDC summarizes the program and explains why Congress may need to do more: https://t.co/FEkDnuRDql
The European Parliament has offered the city of Brussels the use of one of its buildings, as well as its vehicles, to help in the fight against coronavirus. https://t.co/8K3RrWsxOM
⚠️Epic fail- #COVID19 testing backlog in California remains at a staggering 59,000 — far more than any other state that is publicly reporting numbers for pending test results. 65% of all tests backlogged and unprocessed!! https://t.co/vTyTFMqnY0
Twitter deletes 20,000 fake accounts linked to Saudi, Serbian, Egyptian, Honduran governments in latest purge of state disinformationhttps://t.co/bzUfA1odHm
A group of about 70 students from the University of Texas at Austin celebrated spring break in Mexico, then returned to find that dozens had tested positive.
In one picture, after the jump. Something to keep in mind. This is where we were at, Obamacare's effects were no longer making serious care accessible for anyone living paycheck to paycheck. Only a few basics were mandated fully covered. Everything else went absurdly sky high "asking price" and then the insurers negotiated things down in contracts. Constantly playing contractual games with providers. (So much so that sometimes even doctors didn't know if they were in plan or not. day to day, maybe the clinic he's at on Tuesday is under contract with Cigna while the one he's at on Thursday is not.) The patient still left with huge co-pays and/or deductibles:
Normally I would be skeptical, but this is Brett McGurk Payne Distinguished Lecturer @Stanford. Foreign Affairs Analyst @NBCNews/@MSNBC. Former Presidential Envoy. Served under Bush, Obama, Trump. Dad. @CarnegieMEC.
