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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Future heatwaves will knock nuclear, gas and coal power plants offline

via aleksey godin

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Power plants are shutting down in the northern hemisphere due to a lack of cool water, and the problem will only get worst in a warming and drier world

Moscow police on May 28 detained seven journalists and a writer who were holding single person pickets in solidarity with another journalist detained for holding a similar protest. https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/29/russia-journalists-held-over-peaceful-pickets …pic.twitter.com/TeVm5SsyPI

via aleksey godin

Moscow police on May 28 detained seven journalists and a writer who were holding single person pickets in solidarity with another journalist detained for holding a similar protest.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/29/russia-journalists-held-over-peaceful-pickets … pic.twitter.com/TeVm5SsyPI

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“Get Over It!” — In Saner Thought

It is the “real” Memorial Day and as a Vietnam veteran I have often wondered why all the films made about that war feature mostly white guys….Blacks came home to worse things than us whites….and no one has ever cared….. Spike Lee will change that…..finally the story of black Vietnam veterans will be told. When […]

“Get Over It!” — In Saner Thought

Trump swipes at DC mayor, accuses police of refusing to help at White House protest | TheHill (Another lie)

Bowser pushed back on Trump’s remarks later Saturday morning in a series of tweets and during a press conference, saying D.C. police officers were “were doing their jobs from the start” and were assisting Secret Service “like we have done literally dozens of times in Lafayette Park.”

The Washington Post and CNN both reported that D.C. police were on hand on Friday night, along with other law enforcement agencies, as officers pushed back on protesters in Lafayette Park. The Secret Service later confirmed that D.C. police officers were on scene at the protest.

Source: Trump swipes at DC mayor, accuses police of refusing to help at White House protest | TheHill

England risks COVID-19 resurgence by ending lockdown too soon, scientific advisers say – Reuters

Van-Tam said the more than 50 members of SAGE, which includes scientists, medics and academics, often held differing opinions but they all agreed that any easing must be painstakingly slow and extremely cautious.

“This gets out of control quite quickly if you allow it to, and it then takes many weeks to get the brakes on it,” he said, adding that the track and trace system would take time to bed down and people must not “tear the pants out” of the new guidance.

Source: England risks COVID-19 resurgence by ending lockdown too soon, scientific advisers say – Reuters

‘No Blame?’ ABC News finds 54 cases invoking ‘Trump’ in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults. – ABC News

Reviewing police reports and court records, ABC News found that in at least 12 cases perpetrators hailed Trump in the midst or immediate aftermath of physically assaulting innocent victims. In another 18 cases, perpetrators cheered or defended Trump while taunting or threatening others. And in another 10 cases, Trump and his rhetoric were cited in court to explain a defendant’s violent or threatening behavior.

Source: ‘No Blame?’ ABC News finds 54 cases invoking ‘Trump’ in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults. – ABC News

Covid-19 – Reopening schools requires more testing, tracing, funding – Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Supt. Austin Beutner and San Diego Supt. Cindy Marten — whose combined districts represent 915,000 children and workers — issued a public warning: Either their school districts get more funding and assertive health department intervention or they can’t consider reopening campuses in the fall.

“Opening our schools will not be as easy as separating desks or placing pieces of tape on the floor,” Beutner and Marten said in their statement. “A robust system of COVID-19 testing and contact tracing will need to be in place before we can consider reopening schools. Local health authorities, not school districts, have to lead the way on testing, contact tracing and a clear set of protocols on how to respond to any occurrence of the virus.”

Source: Reopening schools requires more testing, tracing, funding – Los Angeles Times

Taiwan approves Gilead’s remdesivir to treat Covid-19

This probably has more to do with seeking US approval than with medical need.

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TAIPEI (REUTERS) – Taiwan’s government said on Saturday (May 30) it had approved Gilead Sciences’ potential Covid-19 treatment, remdesivir, to treat the illness caused by the novel coronavirus.

Governments are racing to bolster supplies of remdesivir, which US regulators this month approved for emergency use.

California-based Gilead has said it will donate 1.5 million doses of remdesivir, enough to treat at least 140,000 patients, to combat the global pandemic.

Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Centre said the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration took into account “the fact that the efficacy and safety of remdesivir has been supported by preliminary evidence” and its use is being approved by other countries.

On that basis, the centre said the conditions had been met for approval of the drug for use in patients with “severe” Covid-19 infection.

Taiwan has been successful at preventing the coronavirus from spreading, thanks to early detection and prevention work and a first rate public health system.

It has recorded 442 cases and only 7 deaths. The vast majority of people have recovered, with just 14 active cases.

There is currently no approved medication or vaccine for Covid-19, but EU countries are already administering remdesivir to patients under compassionate use rules.

Japan and the United Kingdom have both cleared the drug for use and moved to begin supplying it to patients.

The United States, the world’s biggest pharmaceutical market, this month granted emergency use authorisation for remdesivir in Covid-19, but has yet to approve the broader use of the drug.

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