Exposure notification and contact tracing are two related but distinct measures many public health authorities are either considering or already implementing. Contact tracing is a practice almost as old as epidemiology itself, but today’s technology means the way that we go about tracking the spread of a contagious illness within and between communities is changing … Read more
A Staten Island tanning salon owner fed up with New York’s coronavirus shutdown defiantly reopened Thursday as demonstrators cheered — but was quickly shutdown by police, he told The Post. Bobby Catone, who runs three Sunbelievable salons in the borough, was hit with a $1,000 ticket for opening a non-essential business, prompting him to close … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs an executive order regarding social media companies while Attorney General Bill Barr watches in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., May 28, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he is directing Attorney General … Read more
BOGOTA (Reuters) – A coronavirus quarantine will continue in Colombia’s capital Bogota until at least June 15, the mayor said on Thursday, even as other parts of the country begin re-opening. Bogota was one of the first areas of the Andean nation to put lockdown measures in place in late March. It is home to … Read more
TikTok’s poaching of Disney’s Kevin Mayer to be its CEO was just the most visible part of a broader strategy by its Chinese owner to shift its center of power away from China at a time of rising global tensions, several people familiar with the plans said. The short video app’s parent company, ByteDance, has … Read more
An Uber spokesperson told CNBC: “We explored donating the remaining, older-model bikes, but given many significant issues — including maintenance, liability, safety concerns, and a lack of consumer-grade charging equipment — we decided the best approach was to responsibly recycle them.” Bike Share Museum shared a photo of Seattle’s Jump fleet: dozens upon dozens of … Read more
The number of “secret” coronavirus carriers — people displaying no symptoms — could be much higher than previously thought, according to new research. Researchers in two new studies published Wednesday found that as many as 80% of patients had asymptomatic cases of the virus, NBC News reported. The first study, which was published in Thorax, … Read more
FILE PHOTO: A patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the hospital in Vannes during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in France, May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe PARIS (Reuters) – France’s coronavirus death toll rose by less than a 100 for the sixth day running … Read more
Amazon.com was down for many people in the US for a short while Thursday afternoon. A number of Report Door staffers were unable to access the site, and countless user reports of an outage across the country poured in on Downdetector. It’s exceedingly rare for Amazon’s main e-commerce site to have an outage that was … Read more
Bullets rang out Thursday at an afternoon memorial for rapper KJ Balla in East New York, leaving one man shot in the leg, cops said. The gunfire erupted at 790 Eldert Lane around 1:30 p.m., cops said. The injured man was taken to Brookdale Hospital and expected to survive, cops said. An armed suspect was … Read more