Unsealed bodycam footage reveals new details of George Floyd’s fatal arrest — Queenie’s Blog , LLC

MINNEAPOLIS – A court on Wednesday unsealed new police body-camera footage taken during the arrest of George Floyd, showing him being startled, apologetic and fearful before being pinned under an officer’s knee and ultimately dying. Footage from cameras worn by officers Thomas Lane and Alexander Kueng captured the struggle between Floyd and the police, leading up to officer Derek […]

Unsealed bodycam footage reveals new details of George Floyd’s fatal arrest — Queenie’s Blog , LLC

CDC director suggests masks for all as US tracks record 67,000 COVID cases | CIDRAP

“We are not defenseless against COVID-19,” Redfield said in a CDC press release. “Cloth face coverings are one of the most powerful weapons we have to slow and stop the spread of the virus — particularly when used universally within a community setting. All Americans have a responsibility to protect themselves, their families, and their communities.” In an interview with JAMA posted on YouTube, Redfield said that universal face coverings in public would help the United States get the pandemic under control within 4 to 8 weeks.

Source: CDC director suggests masks for all as US tracks record 67,000 COVID cases | CIDRAP

Corona Mutations: The Changing Virus – DER SPIEGEL

Scientists are suspiciously tracking every change in SARS-CoV-2, with dangerous looking mutations regularly appearing. On the long term, though, experts hope that the pathogen could prove less aggressive.

Using the mutation rate, the experts have at least been able to determine that the pandemic probably started between October 6 and December 11, 2019. This refutes speculation that the pandemic started last summer and was kept secret by the Chinese government.

More than anything, though, a better understanding of how the pathogen changes can be helpful in developing drugs to treat the disease it causes. “We need medications and vaccines that can’t easily be circumvented by the virus,” says Balloux. “We should therefore concentrate our efforts on the parts of the virus genome that show the least number of mutations.”

Source: Corona Mutations: The Changing Virus – DER SPIEGEL

Tokyo raises Covid-19 alert to highest amid spike in cases, East Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

Tokyo raised its Covid-19 alert to the highest on a four-tier scale yesterday, as the recent surge in infections in Japan’s capital city began to spill over from nightlife hot spots into other areas.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Source: Tokyo raises Covid-19 alert to highest amid spike in cases, East Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

Scott Morrison says Australia cannot shut down to contain second wave of Covid-19

He’s giving up and accepting death of Australians needlessly?

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Prime minister says trying to eliminate virus not the ‘right strategy’ as he moves to reassure people income support will remain

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Scott Morrison says the response to a second wave of Covid-19 infections cannot be shutting the country down to try to eliminate the virus, and he’s moved to reassure people his government will not be withdrawing income support “for those in need”.

With renewed debate around whether Australia should respond to the latest outbreak and a spike in community transmission with more forceful lockdowns, Morrison said on Wednesday elimination was impractical, but Victoria’s chief health officer Brett Sutton told reporters it was an idea “worthy of consideration”.

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Bella Hadid’s deleted Instagram post shows how Palestinians are silenced | Arwa Mahdawi | Opinion | The Guardian

The social media platform recently removed a post by the model Bella Hadid celebrating her Palestinian heritage. According to Hadid, Instagram deleted a photo she’d shared of her dad’s US passport, which listed his birthplace as Palestine; Instagram said it violated “community guidelines on harassment or bullying” and noted the platform doesn’t allow “hate speech”.

“Are we not allowed to be Palestinian on Instagram?” Hadid demanded. “This, to me, is bullying. You can’t erase history by silencing people.”

According to Facebook, which owns Instagram, the post’s removal had nothing to do with Palestine – rather, the platform doesn’t allow people to put personal information online. (That way, anyone could take your data, not just Facebook!) However, as the passport number was blurred out, Instagram acknowledged the post was mistakenly deleted.

 

Source: Bella Hadid’s deleted Instagram post shows how Palestinians are silenced | Arwa Mahdawi | Opinion | The Guardian