“This is a very different kind of right wing. It’s not ideological right wing or public policy right wing. This is, tragically – and I say this with tremendous sadness – something that looks a lot like a gang of thugs.”
Archiv: University of California
#DPolGHH „In den #USA haben Mathematiker zum Boykott der Polizei aufgerufen. In einem gemeinsamen Aufruf fordern mehrere Wissenschaftlerinnen & Wissenschaftler dazu auf, die Zusammenarbeit mit der #US-#Polizei einzustellen.“ #PredictiveProfiling
States build contact tracing armies to crush coronavirus
State governments are building armies of contact tracers in a new phase of the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, returning to a fundamental practice in public health that can at once wrestle the virus under control and put hundreds of thousands of newly jobless people back to work.
California is already conducting contact tracing in 22 counties, and it eventually plans to field a force of 10,000 state employees, who will be given basic training by University of California health experts.
Column: The suspect science behind Trump’s chloroquine claims
(01.04.2020)
Chloroquine is dangerous when not taken under a doctor’s rigorous supervision, and its shortage can cause life-threatening consequences for lupus patients and serious health effects for rheumatoid or inflammatory arthritis patients.
The bottom line is that evidence for chloroquine’s effectiveness in COVID-19 is unsubstantiated. It derives heavily from the work of a controversial French expert in infectious diseases, Didier Raoult,