Posts Tagged ‘x78retwee’

The Coronavirus Economic Reopening Will Be Fragile, Partial and Slow – WSJ

April 17, 2020

Lots of thoughts on a PPE oriented future – with masks & plastic dividers

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Some firms may bring office workers back in alternating groups to allow for social distancing in open-plan offices. Restaurant chains may operate at half capacity, installing plexiglass shields between booths, while stores may do away with tester cosmetics and sanitize items after customers try them on.

Employees sit behind protective screens at a Hyundai Card cafeteria in Seoul. …
Cushman’s Amsterdam office is testing a workplace setup designed for social distancing. In the “Six-Feet Office,” transparent shields divide desks, markers direct foot traffic and disposable desk pads catch germs and can be discarded when a worker leaves for the day. “In the next four to six to eight weeks as people begin going back to work, companies aren’t going to have the time or the ability to remodel offices,” Mr. White said.

Cushman & Wakefield offices in Amsterdam dispay a new design concept called ‘Six-Feet Office.’
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-coronavirus-economic-reopening-will-be-fragile-partial-and-slow-11586800447

Where Have All the Heart Attacks Gone? – The New York Times

April 15, 2020

Great article & observation by @hmkyale. One wonders if some of the people labeled as dying from #covid19 were, in fact, dying from these missing heart attacks, while simultaneously having serious coronavirus disease (CC @MLevitt_NP2013)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/well/live/coronavirus-doctors-hospitals-emergency-care-heart-attack-stroke.html

Hopes of pandemic respite this spring may depend upon what happens indoors | YaleNews

April 15, 2020

New research from @VirusesImmunity indicates “cold, dry air as a factor in spread of viruses such as the novel coronavirus causing”
#COVID19. https://news.YALE.edu/2020/03/30/hopes-pandemic-respite-spring-may-depend-upon-what-happens-indoors Great to remember next year. Unfortunately, buildings @Yale tend to be exceptionally freezing & dry in the winter!

Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second | Science | AAAS

April 14, 2020

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Some languages were clearly faster than others: no surprise there. But when the researchers took their final step—multiplying this rate by the bit rate to find out how much information moved per second—they were shocked by the consistency of their results. No matter how fast or slow, how simple or complex, each language gravitated toward an average rate of 39.15 bits per second, they report today in Science Advances. In comparison, the world’s first computer modem (which came out in 1959) had a transfer rate of 110 bits per second, and the average home internet connection today has a transfer rate of 100 megabits per second (or 100 million bits).
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https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/human-speech-may-have-universal-transmission-rate-39-bits-second

Where Have All the Heart Attacks Gone? – The New York Times

April 13, 2020

Where Have All the Heart Attacks Gone? – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/well/live/coronavirus-doctors-hospitals-emergency-care-heart-attack-stroke.html

COVID-19 Kills Renowned Princeton Mathematician, ‘Game Of Life’ Inventor John Conway In 3 Days | Mercer Daily Voice

April 12, 2020

https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/mercer/obituaries/covid-19-kills-renowned-princeton-mathematician-game-of-life-inventor-john-conway-in-3-days/786461/#.XpOVTkfogwU.twitter

Covid-19 : LaVision imaging technique shows how masks restrict the spread of exhaled air – YouTube

April 11, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYJvU81DKgk#action=share

Most New York Coronavirus Cases Came From Europe, Genomes Show – The New York Times

April 9, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/science/new-york-coronavirus-cases-europe-genomes.html ]

The Coronavirus, by the Numbers – The New York Times

April 2, 2020

nice discussion of R & DOTS

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/health/coronavirus-deaths-rates.html

Dr. Tom Frieden: There’s a long war ahead and our Covid-19 response must adapt – CNN

April 1, 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/health/coronavirus-response-must-adapt-frieden-analysis

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Massively scale up telemedicine. We need to reduce the number of people attending health care facilities while at the same time preserving and improving health.

Adapt to a new normal. The Covid-19 pandemic will change our world forever. Until it is controlled, we will all need to change how we wash our hands, cover our coughs, greet others and how close we come to others. We will rethink the need for meetings and conferences. We will need broadband for all as a public utility like mail or water. We will need to support the vulnerable, even if only because their illness can risk our health.
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