Category «Health Care»

Email template: How to tell your boss and HR you have coronavirus

Business Insider “If you think you’ve contracted the coronavirus, you’ll need to notify your boss to get time off to recover. Do not go into work, especially if you’re working in person at an essential business or attending meetings. If your work hasn’t released a formal COVID-19 plan, refer to the federal and state governments’ …

Subjects: E-Mail, Health Care, Legal Research

Even Mild Covid-19 Infections Can Make People Sick for Months

Bloomberg via MSN: “Covid-19 patients who experience even the mildest illness risk suffering symptoms for months, researchers in France found. Two-thirds of patients who had a mild-to-moderate case of Covid-19 reported symptoms 60 days after falling ill, when more than a third still felt sick or in a worse condition than when their coronavirus infection …

Subjects: Freedom of Information, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine

COVID-19 at the White House – Contact Tracking

In the absence of any accountability, transparency or concern for public health, Peter James Walker – a concerned American – has posted this White House contact tracking data, by event, viz using the open source version of Tableau. “If you have information on contacts to add or adjust please use our Google form.” He has …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Courts, E-Records, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Genetic tracing could show how coronavirus spread through White House

Washington Post – “There’s a way for the White House to prove exactly how the outbreak traveled among its ranks: through gene-based contact tracing. But it doesn’t appear interested in doing so — even as the circle of President Trump’s associates infected with the virus expands by the hour. The Trump administration could, if it …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine

KFF Issue Brief – Comparing Trump and Biden on COVID-19

KFF – “The first cases of a novel coronavirus were reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) in early January. Since then, the COVID-19 pandemic has become the worst health crisis facing the global community in more than a century. It has also taken a particular toll on the United States. Although the U.S. only …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

US Elections Disinformation Tabletop Exercise Package

Ly, Oumou, and Jorhena Thomas. US Elections Disinformation Tabletop Exercise Package. Assembly: Disinformation Program, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2020. “Online foreign interference, coordinated influence operations, and disinformation have become the new normal for elections and other democratic processes. These problems overlay a difficult, dynamic, and ever changing political environment rife with contentious …

Subjects: Congress, Education, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Publisher’s Guide to Navigating COVID-19: Report Download

“What’s New in Publishing is proud to present The Publisher’s Guide to Navigating COVID-19, a special insight report sponsored by Sovrn and written by regular WNiP contributor and University of Oregon Professor, Damian Radcliffe. The report has also been made possible with the help of additional financial support for the author provided during summer 2020 by the School of Journalism and …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

America Is Having a Moral Convulsion

The Atlantic, David Brooks via MSN: “…The events of 2020—the coronavirus pandemic; the killing of George Floyd; militias, social-media mobs, and urban unrest—were like hurricanes that hit in the middle of that earthquake. They did not cause the moral convulsion, but they accelerated every trend. They flooded the ravines that had opened up in American …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Economy, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

10% of World’s People May Have Been Infected With Virus

AP – “The head of emergencies at the World Health Organization said Monday the agency’s “best estimates” indicate roughly 1 in 10 people worldwide may have been infected by the coronavirus — more than 20 times the number of confirmed cases — and warned of a difficult period ahead. Dr. Michael Ryan, speaking to a …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Medicine, Poverty

Being highly educated doesn’t mean you’re immune from falling for false information

BBC Future – Why smart people believe coronavirus myths – “..It is a sad truth that any health crisis will spawn its own pandemic of misinformation. In the 80s, 90s, and 2000s we saw the spread of dangerous lies about Aids – from the belief that the HIV virus was created by a government laboratory …

Subjects: Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Medicine, Social Media