A New Study Shows Children Are Silent Spreaders Of Covid-19
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/mishagajewski/2020/08/20/a-new-study-shows-children-are-silent-spreaders-of-covid-19/amp
“During this Covid-19 pandemic, we have mainly screened symptomatic subjects, so we have reached the erroneous conclusion that the vast majority of people infected are adults. However, our results show that kids are not protected against this virus. We should not discount children as potential spreaders for this virus.”
In fact, last month a study published in JAMA, found that kids spread Covid-19 more efficiently than adults because they have a high viral load. According to the results of that study, children aged five and younger who developed mild to moderate Covid-19 symptoms had 10 to 100 times more of the virus in the their nose and throat than older children and adults.
Findings from these studies carry important implications for the reopening of schools and daycare centers.
“This study provides much-needed facts for policymakers to make the best decisions possible for schools, daycare centers and other institutions that serve children,” said Fasano.
“Kids are a possible source of spreading this virus, and this should be taken into account in the planning stages for reopening schools.”
For example, the authors, along with other experts, recommend not relying on body temperature or symptom monitoring to identify Covid-19 infection in the school setting.
Ruby Princess Inquiry Slams Health Officials Over Covid-19 Cruise: Australia US Deaths
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarathiessen/2020/08/14/ruby-princess-inquiry-health-covid-australia-us
A four-month inquiry has pointed the blame at government health officials for the Ruby Princess coronavirus “plague ship” fiasco, which caused 28 deaths, eight in the U.S.
The New South Wales government inquiry was launched in April to determine why 2,700 passengers, hundreds of them infected with Covid, left the cruise ship in Sydney on March 19, before results of tests on some passengers were known.
In a scathing report released Thursday, it finds state health officials made “inexcusable”, “inexplicable” and “serious mistakes” in the Ruby Princess handling.
Specifically by assessing the ship passengers as “low risk”, that is, “do nothing”, despite all the expert advice at hand. Also with delays in testing, amounting to "a serious failure by NSW Health.”
The probe, led by barrister Bret Walker, heard everyone on the ship should have been tested, then quarantined. Instead, they were let loose in the community, leading to Australia’s biggest single source of the coronavirus outbreak at the time.
“The report linked more than 900 Covid-19 cases and 28 deaths to the ship, including 20 in Australia and eight in the US,” reports 9News. It also found over 16% of the crew contracted the virus, and almost 40% of Australian passengers onboard.
“The passengers, some of whom had displayed respiratory symptoms, scattered widely, spreading the virus,” says Michelle Grattan, a professorial fellow at the University of Canberra.
Billionaires 2020
▻https://www.forbes.com/billionaires
The richest people on Earth are not immune to the coronavirus. As the pandemic tightened its grip on Europe and America, global equity markets imploded, tanking many fortunes. As of March 18, when we finalized this list, Forbes counted 2,095 billionaires, 58 fewer than a year ago and 226 fewer than just 12 days earlier, when we initially calculated these net worths. Of the billionaires who remain, 51% are poorer than they were last year. In raw terms, the world’s billionaires are worth $8 (...)
#Google #LVMH #Microsoft #Walmart #Amazon #Facebook #Zoom #WeWork #bénéfices
CBP Flew A Predator Drone Over Minneapolis Amid George Floyd Protests
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/krisholt/2020/05/29/cbp-predator-drone-minneapolis-george-floyd-aclu/#13d4fa5540fa
Customs and Border Protection flew a Predator drone, which is commonly used in overseas military operations, over Minneapolis today, drawing criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union and others. Protests against police brutality have broken out in the city in recent days following the death of George Floyd, in which law enforcement officers were involved. The use of the MQ-9 Reaper drone, which took off from Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, was first noted by Jason (...)
#CBP #capteur #CCTV #drone #activisme #aérien #vidéo-surveillance #BlackLivesMatter #surveillance (...)
##ACLU
TikTok, nouvelle victime de la dégradation des relations entre Washington et Pékin
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/08/01/tiktok-nouvelle-victime-de-la-degradation-des-relations-entre-washington-et-
Donald Trump a annoncé brusquement, vendredi 31 juillet au soir, son intention d’interdire le réseau social TikTok. Sur le chemin du retour d’un déplacement en Floride, où il s’était rendu en début d’après-midi, le président a déclaré : « En ce qui concerne TikTok, nous l’interdisons aux Etats-Unis. » « J’en ai l’autorité », a assuré le président, évoquant la signature d’un décret exécutif sans cependant donner plus de détails aux journalistes qui l’accompagnaient à bord de l’Air Force One. TikTok n’a pas réagi immédiatement à cette déclaration, qui n’a été appuyée par aucun communiqué officiel de la Maison Blanche.
Lire aussi Des élus américains craignent que TikTok ne soit utilisée pour interférer dans les élections
En quittant Washington, une dizaine d’heures plus tôt, Donald Trump s’était montré plus évasif. « Nous examinons TikTok. Nous interdirons peut-être TikTok. Nous ferons peut-être d’autres choses. Il existe plusieurs options. Mais il se passe beaucoup de choses, alors nous verrons ce qui se passe. Mais nous recherchons de nombreuses alternatives par rapport à TikTok », avait-il brièvement indiqué avant ce déplacement lié à la lutte contre la pandémie de Covid-19.
Selon le Wall Street Journal, l’une de ces options aurait été celle d’une reprise de la partie américaine de TikTok par une société nationale, en l’occurrence le géant Microsoft. Cette piste aurait permis à la Maison Blanche d’éviter deux écueils potentiels : une guérilla juridique et la désapprobation des utilisateurs de cette plate-forme de partage de vidéos essentiellement ludiques.
En annonçant abruptement l’interdiction de la plate-forme, vendredi soir, Donald Trump ne s’est pas appuyé sur d’éventuelles conclusions de l’enquête du comité interministériel. Deux jours plus tôt, le patron de TikTok, Kevin Mayer, arrivé en juin du géant Walt Disney, avait assuré : « Nous ne sommes pas politiques, nous n’acceptons pas de publicité politique et nous n’avons pas d’agenda. Notre seul objectif est de rester une plate-forme animée et dynamique appréciée de tous. »
« Nouvelle tyrannie »
Dans une note publiée le 14 juillet, James Andrew Lewis, chef du programme de politique des technologies au Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), un cercle de réflexion de Washington spécialisé dans les questions de sécurité, a émis des doutes sur le danger potentiel représenté par la plate-forme. « Il y a de bonnes raisons d’être profondément préoccupé par la Chine et l’espionnage, mais TikTok n’en fait probablement pas partie », a-t-il estimé.
Et toujours avec Trump : est-ce que c’est parce que le chef du shit-hole country n’a pas supporté de s’être fait ridiculiser, à Tulsa, par des usagers de Tiktok ?
Is This The Real Reason Why Trump Wants To Ban TikTok ?
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/08/01/is-this-the-real-reason-why-trump-wants-to-ban-tiktok
What exactly happened? In June, Trump announced he wanted to have a rally in Tulsa on June 19, a day celebrated as a holiday commemorating the end of slavery. Trump’s decision to have it that day—in a city with a painful, violent history of racism—angered people, and in the end, he relented, somewhat, moving it to the next day.
His decision did not stop a campaign that quickly formed on TikTok and Twitter in mid-June about a week before the rally. Its goal was straight forward: Flood the Trump website for reserving tickets with fake names, phone numbers and emails and then never attend the rally. Theoretically, it would give the Trump campaign false hopes for a large crowd leading up to the event and make them look foolish when it was sparsely attended.
On Twitter, fans of K-Pop spread the message far and wide. On TikTok, Laupp and others did the same thing. Laupp’s video was viewed almost 1 million times, one of the most widely shared of the calls to action on that app. “We had families in England reserving tickets to come to this rally, teenagers in Australia that saw the video and jumped on the bandwagon and found Oklahoma zip codes and U.S. phone numbers to reserve tickets with,” she says. “This thing went worldwide.”
Shortly before June 20, the Trump campaign said it had nearly 1 million people registered to attend. But when the big night came, the BOK Center in Tulsa filled to perhaps to a third of its total capacity. Televised broadcasts showed Trump at a podium framed by large swaths of empty blue seats. The online campaign against him had worked, though Laupp and other TikTokers are fully aware that their efforts aren’t the only reason that attendance was low. Surely the pandemic kept a few people home; the Trump campaign blamed it on protests in Tulsa, though reporters there that night identified few protests happening.
Prochaine étape : Interdire la K-pop
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The FBI Is Secretly Using A $2 Billion Travel Company As A Global Surveillance Tool
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/07/16/the-fbi-is-secretly-using-a-2-billion-company-for-global-travel-surveillance--the-us-could-do-the-same-to-track-covid-19/#7ceb1ac757eb
American border patrol already has significant surveillance powers and collects vast amounts of data on who is flying into and out of the country. But the U.S. has another tool to watch over travellers across the world thanks to a little-known but influential Texan business called Sabre. As the biggest of three companies that store the vast majority of the world’s travel information—from airline seats to hotel bookings — Sabre has been called on to hand over that travellers’ data and, on at (...)
#FBI #données #DataBrokers #surveillance # #PNR #Sabre_
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Black Lives Matter : U.S. Protesters Tracked By Secretive Phone Location Technology
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/06/26/secretive-phone-tracking-company-publishes-location-data-on-black-lives-matter-protesters/?ss=consumertech#6f5ebeef4a1e
Following Black Lives Matter protests in cities across the U.S., a marketing company that uses AI to categorize phone users by race, gender and even religion, has now published a report using phone location data secretly collected during those protests. In a presentation titled “George Floyd Protester Demographics : Insights Across Four Major U.S. Cities,” consumer insight firm Mobilewalla says it has published its report “out of a sense of social responsibility.” Mobilewalla buys mobile phone (...)
#Mobilewalla_ #algorithme #smartphone #GPS #activisme #géolocalisation #BlackLivesMatter (...)
Council Post: Newcomers Welcome: Why Immigration Is Fundamental To The Strength Of Toronto’s Real Estate Market
#Covid-19#canada#immobilier#migrant#migration
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesrealestatecouncil/2020/06/15/newcomers-welcome-why-immigration-is-fundamental-to-the-strength-of-torontos
Canada’s stance on immigration has long since set it apart from comparable economies. Compared to the U.S., Canada welcomes three times as many immigrants on a per capita basis. That translates to approximately 340,000 immigrants per year.
Visa Restrictions Will Worsen The Post-Covid Recession
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#US#politiquemigratoire#visa
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/adigaskell/2020/06/09/visa-restrictions-will-worsen-the-post-covid-recession
At the start of this year I wrote about a recently published paper from Harvard Business School bemoaning the strangling effect of the American political system on economic growth and prosperity.
Oracle BrandVoice : Ellison Institute Uses AI To Accelerate Cancer Diagnosis And Treatment
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/05/31/5-economists-redefining-everything--oh-yes-and-theyre-women
You get the same sense when you listen to the female economists throwing themselves into the still very male dominated economics field. A kind of collective ‘you’re kidding me, right? These five female economists are letting the secret out - and inviting people to flip the priorities. A growing number are listening - even the Pope (see below).
All question concepts long considered sacrosanct. Here are four messages they share:
Coca-Cola Named The World’s Most Polluting Brand in Plastic Waste Audit
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/10/29/coca-cola-named-the-worlds-most-polluting-brand-in-plastic-waste-audit/#2f1043f274e0
The audit, conducted by Break Free From Plastic, consisted of 848 cleanup events across 51 countries and six continents. In total, 72,541 volunteers combed through beaches, city streets, waterways and their neighborhoods picking up pieces of plastic.
The organization’s volunteers collected a total of over 475,000 pieces of plastic waste around the world. Of the plastic collected, the No. 1 brand was from Coca-Cola, with 11,732 items collected. As you can see from the figure below, the second was Nestle and the third PepsiCo.
Ça me fait penser à cette touriste néerlandaise qui se plaignait du pastique en Asie du SE et refusait les pailles dans les cafés parce que c’était vraiment le parangon de l’horreur !
Food and beverage industry: No plans to totally discard plastic | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific
▻https://www.eco-business.com/news/food-and-beverage-industry-no-plans-to-totally-discard-plastic
Plastic restrictions are sweeping Asia, but the sustainability chief of a regional food and beverage trade association says such measures are not the most effective solution. The industry cannot do without packaging, says Edwin Seah.
27 janvier 2020, Forbes : The Countries Best And Worst Prepared For An Epidemic [Infographic]
►https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/01/27/the-countries-best-and-worst-prepared-for-an-epidemic-infographic
The index analyzed preparation levels by focusing on whether countries have the proper tools in place to deal with large scale outbreaks of disease, with scores measured on a scale of 0 to 100 where 100 is the highest level of preparedness.
The United States has the strongest measures in place and it came first with a score of 83.5, ahead of the United Kingdom with 77.9 and the Netherlands with 75.6. China was further down the ranking with a score of 48.2, placing it 51st.
Les États-Unis, la Grande-Bretagne et la France sont les pays les mieux préparés au monde pour affronter une épidémie (notablement : mais pas l’Allemagne)…
Signalé par Moon of Alabama :
▻https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/04/exceptionalism.html
Octobre 2019 : GHS Index
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►https://www.ghsindex.org
Index de préparation en face d’un problème sanitaire de 195 pays publié en Octobre 2019 : les #états-unis venaient en tête avec un excellent score,
Two Doctors Explore The Physical – And Psychological – Science Behind Masks
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/coronavirusfrontlines/2020/04/16/two-doctors-who-fought-sars-theres-one-benefit-to-wearing-a-mask-but-its-not
We believe that mask wearing likely provides a very small health benefit, mostly in protecting healthy people from infected people. But a significant benefit of wearing any kind of mask in public is psychological
Coronavirus : Les femmes d’Etat gèrent-elles mieux la crise sanitaire que leurs homologues masculins, comme l’affirme un article de « Forbes » ? Pas si sûr
▻https://www.20minutes.fr/arts-stars/medias/2762875-20200418-coronavirus-femmes-etat-gerent-elles-mieux-crise-sanitair
#ESSENTIALISME Un article du magazine « Forbes » suggère que le faible nombre de morts du Covid-19 dans sept pays est lié au fait qu’ils sont gérés par des cheffes d’Etat
Par #Aude_Lorriaux. Le nom de la rubrique est énorme !
Ces pays ont obtenu de bons résultats, selon Forbes, parce que les femmes à la tête de ces pays ont fait preuve d’empathie, d’honnêteté, de détermination et de capacités de communication. « Il y a des années de recherche qui ont timidement suggéré que la façon de gouverner des femmes pourrait être différente, et être un atout. (…) Il est temps de le reconnaître, et de les mettre plus au pouvoir », en conclut l’article.
Au lieu de considérer que ce sont des femmes cheffes d’Etat qui permettent aux sociétés de mieux fonctionner, on ferait mieux de se demander si ce ne sont pas plutôt des sociétés plus égalitaires, soucieuses du bien commun, et où les femmes accèdent plus facilement au pouvoir, qui ne permettent pas tout simplement de mieux gérer ces crises. Autrement dit, le fait que des femmes sont au pouvoir dans ces sociétés où les crises sont bien gérées n’est qu’un symptôme, et non une cause. « La présence de femmes n’est peut-être que le révélateur de sociétés plus à même de gérer des crises comme celle que l’on traverse », résume Hélène Périvier.
Excellent !
#femmes #gouvernance
L’article évacue la Belgique, dirigée par Sophie Wilmès comme première ministre, alors que ce pays a, de très loin, la pire situation en nombre de mort par habitant. Même quand on la compare a ses voisins de population ou taille comparable (Pays-Bas, Suisse, Danemark, Irlande, Autriche)
▻https://observablehq.com/@fil/covid-19-derived-chart#%7B%22countryFilter%22%3A%5B%22Austria%22%2C%22
Oui, c’est vrai que Forbes a d’emblée écarté cet exemple, que @supergeante avait loué ici même !
Pour cet article, en Allemagne ce n’est pas parce que c’est une femme, mais parce qu’elle a un doctorat en chimie, et qu’elle réfléchit donc de manière plus scientifique et raisonnée que bien d’autres dirigeants :
▻https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/analyse-lallemagne-peut-dire-merci-sa-scientifique-en-chef-an
C’est multi-factoriel... On a un régime monarchique, qui est structurellement moins fichu pour prendre de bonnes décisions que des régimes basés sur le compromis. Merkel n’aurait jamais accédé au pouvoir en France, où il faut des bitasses arrogantes pour arriver jusque là.
On est latin·es et ça doit compter aussi (les trois pays les plus impactés en Europe sont l’Italie, l’Espagne et la France mais notre civisme douteux n’a été sollicité qu’à partir du 12 mars et la crise sanitaire s’est déployée avant).
J’aime bien cet article parce qu’il explore plein de pistes et qu’il est assez fin... Plus que l’autre, qui présentait l’Allemagne comme un paradis égalitaire !
How Some Rich Americans Are Getting Stimulus ‘Checks’ Averaging $1.7 Million
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharziv/2020/04/14/why-are-rich-americans-getting-17-million-stimulus-checks
“For those earning $1 million annually, a tax break buried in the recent coronavirus relief legislation is so generous that its total cost is more than total new funding for all hospitals in America and more than the total provided to all state and local governments,” said Doggett. “Someone wrongly seized on this health emergency to reward ultrarich beneficiaries, likely including the #Trump family , with a tax loophole not available to middle class families. This net operating loss loophole is a loser that should be repealed.”
The analysis by the JCT showed in just how skewed a fashion the tax provision benefits the wealthy. It found that, “82 percent of the benefits of the policy go to about 43,000 taxpayers who earn more than $1 million annually.”
If you take the report’s calculations at face value, that means that, on average, each of the eligible taxpayers would get a windfall of ~$1.7 million!
Boston University Is First To Announce It May Postpone Its Fall Term Until January 2021
Boston University appears to be the first American college or university to announce that it may not re-open its campus until January 2021. If public health officials deem it unsafe for students to congregate, the campus could remain closed until the start of next year.
BU, a private residential research university with 33,000 students that traces its roots to 1839, revealed its contingency plan on BU Today, a news site managed by its communications department. Since it closed its campus on Sunday, March 22, BU president Robert Brown has convened five working groups who are all contributing to a COVID-19 “Recovery Plan.” They include a group that is examining remote learning and another focused on residential life.
The BU Today article says the January start date would happen in the “unlikely event” that health officials advise that social distancing should extend through the fall. But it is still significant that a major U.S. university is making public the possibility that face-to-face classes could be delayed for as long as nine months. BU has also canceled all its in-person summer classes.
Richard Ekman, president of the non-profit Council of Independent Colleges, says that some of the 659 colleges in his group have begun quietly to consider whether they too will have to postpone campus openings. Some are discussing start date delays of a month. Others are looking at more extended closures. “They’re all waiting to get better health information,” he says.
Roughly one third of those small colleges have cash reserves that would be depleted in less than half a year if they were not able to collect tuition and other revenue from enrolled students. “If they had no income for six months, those schools would be in trouble,” he says.
Even if colleges can reopen in the fall, enrollments are likely to be down since many families have taken a huge financial hit and students may opt to delay college or to attend less expensive public or community colleges.
At BU, the working groups are also examining what will have to happen when on-campus classes can finally resume. “[T]his is not going to be as simple as flipping a switch and getting back to business as usual,” says BU President Brown. “Starting that planning now is a necessity.”
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2020/04/13/boston-university-is-first-to-announce-it-may-postpone-its-fall-term-until-january-2021/#1b030ce84bd5
#septembre_2020 #janvier_2021 #université #USA #Etats-Unis #ouverture #Boston #septembre_2020 #rentrée_2020 #rentrée_universitaire
Le #déconfinement... c’est pas pour tout de suite tout de suite...
Boston University admits classrooms may stay empty in fall
University sets focus on 2021 and ponders idea of overhauling residential experience.
Boston University (BU) is telling its community to prepare for the possibility of no on-campus instruction this fall, a blunt warning its president calls a necessary admission of reality, to allow for proper planning.
The mindset, said the BU president, Robert A. Brown, is helping his staff keep their focus on the preparations that matter most at a time of great uncertainty across higher education, the nation and the world.
“Facing up to that fact, I think, is important at this time,” Dr Brown, a former provost at the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has led BU since 2005, said in an interview.
It is nevertheless raising anxiety, he admitted, at a time when students, faculty and almost everyone in society is eager for a return to normalcy, while trying to assess the relative costs of a bunkered civilisation.
For the most part, US universities are still consumed by the unexpected challenges of moving their entire spring semester operations online, while perhaps talking in general terms about evaluating options for the fall.
A professor of chemical engineering, Dr Brown said he took a hard look at the realities of fighting Covid-19 and the necessary conditions for normal close human contact.
He concluded that the nation’s current progress against Covid-19 meant that BU could not realistically host on-campus courses this summer and possibly this fall. As a result, it is keeping classrooms closed through this summer while holding out a fall reopening as a possibility. That position clears the way, he said, for BU to seriously begin reimagining the concept of a residential campus once the pandemic eases enough to allow some in-person instruction, with promises to set out specific details.
In practical terms, Dr Brown said, BU’s assessment process means considering tactics such as reconfiguring classrooms to hold far fewer students, with course time divided into online components and smaller in-class periods.
In somewhat more abstract terms, he said, the process means gaining a greater appreciation for faculty-student interactions and considering how to take the best possible advantage of them when they can occur.
By examining details such as touching doorknobs and sharing bathrooms, Dr Brown said, BU’s planners will unavoidably have to ask themselves what level of ongoing infection rate is acceptable while awaiting a vaccine. “That really is the fundamental question,” he said, “because it’s not going to be zero.”
The pressures on higher education, as with much of the rest of the economy, are substantial. US colleges and universities are especially vulnerable, Moody’s Investors Service said in a global analysis, because they rely so heavily on state funding, foreign students and endowment investments that have been hurt by paralysed economies.
The US institution with the biggest endowment, Harvard University, has just joined the growing number of campuses that have frozen spending, announcing a hold on hiring, salaries and capital spending, with pay cuts for top executives. Its president, Lawrence Bacow, has acknowledged being consumed by the need to decide about the fall semester while “a tremendous amount of uncertainty” remains globally.
Dr Brown said he, too, cannot predict the shape of the fall semester, owing to major medical questions such as the future availability of widespread testing for Covid-19.
But he suggested that US colleges could be clearer to their communities about what simply isn’t possible at this point, and what some of their main choices look like, even while he admitted that broaching the idea of spending the fall semester outside classrooms appears to have amplified fears at BU in the short term.
“There’s a risk with it,” he acknowledged. “And I think a lot of universities say: ‘Well, there’s a real risk of giving uncertainty by saying you don’t know the answer and exposing yourself.’”
▻https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/boston-university-admits-classrooms-may-stay-empty-fall
Here’s a List of Colleges’ Plans for Reopening in the Fall
The coronavirus pandemic has left higher-education leaders facing difficult decisions about when to reopen campuses and how to go about it. The Chronicle is tracking individual colleges’ plans. Currently the vast majority say they are planning for an in-person fall semester.
Here’s our list of colleges that have either disclosed their plans or set a deadline for deciding. New additions include Abilene Christian, Arizona State, Bradley, Central Michigan, Coastal Carolina, Drake, Fairfield, Harding, High Point, Kansas State, McMurry, New Mexico State, Northern Arizona, Norwich, Tarleton State, and Willamette Universities; Bowdoin, Manhattanville, Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, and Roanoke Colleges; and the Universities of Buffalo, Massachusetts at Amherst, Nevada at Reno, and Toledo.
Tell us your college’s plans or if they are different than reported below. Use this form and provide a relevant link if you want your institution to be included.
▻https://www.chronicle.com/article/Here-s-a-List-of-Colleges-/248626?cid=wcontentgrid_hp_1b
#liste
What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Responses Have In Common ? Women Leaders
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/#318f56f53dec
From Iceland to Taiwan and from Germany to New Zealand, women are stepping up to show the world how to manage a messy patch for our human family. Add in Finland, Iceland and Denmark, and this pandemic is revealing that women have what it takes when the heat rises in our Houses of State. Many will say these are small countries, or islands, or other exceptions. But Germany is large and leading, and the UK is an island with very different outcomes. These leaders are gifting us an attractive alternative way of wielding power. What are they teaching us?
L’article parle de décisions prises en toute transparence, rapidement, avec l’aide de la technique (des tests, quoi) et des discours humains qui ne sentaient pas la com. Bon. Intéressant.
Le leadership féminin émerge contre le Covid-19
▻https://journaldeleconomie.com/2020/04/14/le-leadership-feminin-emerge-contre-le-covid-19
En attendant d’autres sources francophones...
Lutte contre le coronavirus : « Ce qui fait tenir la société, c’est d’abord une #bande_de_femmes », affirme #Christiane_Taubira
Christiane Taubira rend #hommage aux femmes, « majoritaires dans les équipes soignantes, aux caisses des supermarchés, dans les équipes qui nettoient les établissements ».
Le ton martial ("Nous sommes en #guerre") du président Emmanuel Macron, lors de son allocution télévisée du 16 mars dernier, n’était pas le bon, a jugé lundi 13 avril sur France Inter Christiane Taubira, ancienne ministre de la Justice. « Je pense que des femmes en situation d’#autorité, de #pouvoir, auraient abordé les choses différemment », a-t-elle ajouté. « Elles auraient vu plus facilement que ce qui fait tenir la société, c’est d’abord une bande de femmes », a salué Christiane Taubira, rappelant qu’elles sont « majoritaires dans les équipes soignantes, aux caisses des supermarchés, dans les équipes qui nettoient les établissements ».
« Je n’ai pas envie de sombrer dans la facilité et dire que le président s’est trompé de registre, a déclaré Christiane Taubira. Il a probablement intentionnellement voulu secouer les consciences et bousculer les emportements. Ceci étant, je pense très sincèrement que des femmes en situation d’autorité de pouvoir auraient abordé les choses différemment. Plutôt que d’avoir recours à ce corpus viril, martial, sans doute qu’elles auraient vu plus facilement que ce qui fait tenir la société, c’est d’abord une bande de femmes, parce que les femmes sont majoritaires dans les équipes soignantes - même si nous saluons aussi avec autant gratitude les hommes - parce que les femmes sont majoritaires aux caisses des supermarchés, parce que les femmes sont majoritaires dans les équipes qui nettoient les établissements qui travaillent encore, et qu’elles sont souvent majoritaires dans la fonction publique qui tient encore. »
« Tout ce qui tient la société, tout ce qui nous permet d’inscrire une temporalité dans nos têtes, d’envisager un après, de nous projeter, de ne pas sombrer dans la désespérance, tout cela, ce sont les femmes qui le font. »
Christiane Taubira
France Inter
« Et elles le font depuis longtemps ou presque. Depuis toujours, ce sont les femmes qui portent les métiers de soin, le soin en général, dans sa conception la plus large », a expliqué l’ancienne Garde des Sceaux.
« Il ne s’agit pas de révoquer les hommes » pour autant, a plaidé Christiane Taubira. « Mais c’est un effet de loupe tout à fait intéressant et qui doit interroger la société, qui doit interroger le pouvoir dans sa nature, dans sa masculinité et dans ses projections viriles. Qui doit nous interroger, nous, parce que la source du pouvoir, c’est nous, nous sommes encore une démocratie. Qui doit nous interroger aussi sur l’impact du regard sur la société », a développé l’ancienne ministre, qui a rappelé que « le patrimoine, le corpus culturel des femmes, historiquement, est différent que celui des hommes, qui ont été dans des positions, de génération en génération, de domination ».
▻https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/maladie/coronavirus/lutte-contre-le-coronavirus-ce-qui-fait-tenir-la-societe-c-est-d-abord-
Homepage - GHS Index
►https://www.ghsindex.org
Index de préparation en face d’un problème sanitaire de 195 pays publié en Octobre 2019 : les #états-unis venaient en tête avec un excellent score,
Or d’après la co-directrice même du site, dans l’épidémie actuelle de #covid-19 plusieurs pays dépassent les Etats-Unis en matière de préparation,
►https://daily.jstor.org/jennifer-nuzzo-were-definitely-not-overreacting-to-covid-19
Clearly, just given current experiences, there is no evidence that the United States is the most prepared. We are way behind other countries on a number of fronts. And even though the president held up our index at a press conference and said, “Look, you know, Johns Hopkins found that the U.S. is prepared,” that’s actually not what we found. What we found was that no country is fully prepared, and many countries have deficit in their health systems. That is very much playing out across the globe right now.
merci ! ce qui est remarquable aussi c’est que les pays « most prepared » sont parmi les premiers touchés et ceux qui merdent le plus : outre les USA, on a les Pays-Bas, la Suède, le Royaume-Uni, la France.
According to a survey of its members by an association representing 42,000 New York nurses, around 85 percent have already come into contact with COVID patients, but almost three-quarters do not have access to sufficient protective clothing.
Trump [...] claimed on Jan. 26 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, "We have it under control, it’s going to be just fine.”
Nothing could have been further from the truth. At the time, the CDC decided to develop its own test for the coronavirus rather than using a functioning one from the WHO. The test quickly turned out to be faulty, and as a result, weeks went by without anyone being able to determine how widely the disease had already spread in the U.S.
In early February, some state governors began requesting help from Washington, mainly in the form of protective clothing and ventilators from the Strategic National Stockpile. The national reserve was set up in 1999, overseen by some 200 employees at several secret locations. But the reserve has never been properly replenished since the H1N1 pandemic, the swine flu of 2009.
In one particularly disastrous move, [Trump] abolished the pandemic task force in the National Security Council that President Barack Obama set up after the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Both have tried to sign up for the Cares unemployment program relaunched by Congress to help people make ends meet over the next few months, “but the website keeps crashing,” says Karlin, "everything is totally overloaded.” They’ve also been trying to get through on the telephone hotline, but they’ve had no luck there either. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are going through similar experiences right now. They’re sitting at home in front of their computers trying to figure out what to do with their lives now that they are unemployed.
►https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-american-patient-how-trump-is-fueling-a-corona-disaster-a-024a5cc9-2c07-
After Anonymous Tip, 17 Bodies Found at Nursing Home Hit by Virus
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/843826
27 janvier 2020, Forbes : The Countries Best And Worst Prepared For An Epidemic [Infographic]
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/847445
►https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/01/27/the-countries-best-and-worst-prepared-for-an-epidemic-infographic
COVID-19 gives the lie to global health expertise - The Lancet
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Et non seulement l’épidémie est la plus forte chez eux du fait de leur incurie criminelle, mais ils maintiennent leur embargo criminel contre les pays récalcitrants les empêchant de recevoir le matériel médical qui leur permettrait de mieux faire face à l’épidémie de covid-19,
As the #coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak began spreading in Europe and the USA, a chart started circulating online showing ratings from the 2019 Global Health Security Index, an assessment of 195 countries’ capacity to face infectious disease outbreaks, compiled by the US-based Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health’s Center for Health Security. The USA was ranked first, and the UK second; South Korea was ranked ninth, and China 51st; most African countries were at the bottom of the ranking.
Things look different now. The US and UK Governments have provided among the world’s worst responses to the pandemic, with sheer lies and incompetence from the former, and near-criminal delays and obfuscation from the latter. Neither country has widespread testing available, as strongly recommended by WHO, alongside treatment and robust contact tracing.1 In neither country do health workers have adequate access to personal protective equipment; nor are there nearly enough hospital beds to accommodate the onslaught of patients. Even worse, by refusing to ease #sanctions against Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba, the US has crippled the ability of other countries to respond, continuing to block medical supplies and other humanitarian aid. 2