More Americans travelled Wednesday than on any other day in the last eight months — 1.1 million Americans — continuing the country’s long-standing annual tradition of gathering to give thanks. The same week the Pope apparently felt compelled to publish an opinion piece in one of the country’s largest newspapers to share his own thoughts about the pandemic. First, the Pope…
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Showing Cold Symptoms, Elon Musk Tests Positive – and Negative – for Covid-19
“Elon Musk predicted in March, at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, that there would be ‘probably close to zero new cases’ in the United States by the end of April,” reports the Washington Post. “Now, the Tesla chief executive is trying to figure out whether he has a virus that has killed at least 242,000 Americans.” The billionaire said early…
Learn more about what motivates current Michigan Public Health online students
Michigan Public Health students come from a variety of backgrounds, but all are driven by a collective mission to help people and improve overall public health. Michigan Public Health students are innovators and collaborators; they come to Michigan knowing the School of Public Health provides its students with the knowledge and training that will allow […]
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Ratched review: Netflix show fails with stereotypes of mental health
Ratched review: Netflix show fails with stereotypes of mental health Netflix’s thriller about Nurse Ratched does well to remove much of the misogyny present in the book and film that created her, but it also peddles harmful stereotypes about mental health Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24733000-400-ratched-review-netflix-show-fails-with-stereotypes-of-mental-health/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Addicted To Losing: How Casino-Like Apps Have Drained People of Millions
NBC News spoke to 21 people who said they were hooked on casino-style apps and had spent significant sums of money. The industry is almost entirely unregulated. From a report: Shellz, 37, a nurse from Houston, spends at least two hours a day with her husband playing a casino-style smartphone game called Jackpot Magic. The app offers a variety of typical…
Researchers Build a Low-Power Radar on a CMOS ChIp
The international R&D hub Imec has made a millimetre-wave motion detection radar integrated in a standard 28nm CMOS chip, reports Electronics Weekly, adding that it consumes just 62 mW,”making the sensor integrable into small, battery-powered devices…” The radar operates in the frequency band around 60 GHz, a license-free ISM band that can be used for new IoT applications for industrial and…
Emergency Preparedness: How Much Food & Water Per Person
Dr. Michael Beach is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, who teaches and practices disaster preparation and response. He’s a member of disaster medical assistance teams and has helped respond to Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti—and most recently, those on cruise ships during the COVID-19 […]
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Boston Dynamics Open-Sources Health Care Robotics Toolkit, Sends ‘Spot’ Robot To Help Hospitals Remotely Treat COVID-19 Patients
watha2020 writes: Spot, the four-legged robot made famous by its YouTube dance video, is being tested as a remote triage system at Boston’s Brigham Women’s Hospital. A Spot robot carrying an iPad allows doctors to interview possibly infected patients at a safe distance. [Spot is also carrying a pouch near the robot’s “tail,” which allows it to deliver small items such…
IBM is Deploying Its Watson AI to Help Governments Answer People’s Covid-19 Questions
Digital Trends reports:
IBM’s question-answering Watson A.I. is most famous for whooping the butt of human champions on quiz show Jeopardy. Now, IBM has repurposed its famous creation to help government agencies, health care organizations, and academic institutions around the world cope with the massive overload of questions that citizens have about the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the first time that Watson…
Hospitals Tell Doctors They’ll Be Fired If They Speak Out About Lack of Gear
schwit1 shares a report from Bloomberg, commenting: “And the claim that this is about protecting ‘patient privacy’ is b***shit.” From the report: Ming Lin, an emergency room physician in Washington state, said he was told Friday he was out of a job because he’d given an interview to a newspaper about a Facebook post detailing what he believed to be inadequate…