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California 2020 Utopia in Dystopia- Extremes of wealth, sky high housing prices, wildfires and the pandemic
08/27/2020
The California in the early postwar years during the presidency of Truman and Eisenhower when different values prevailed, when Jerry Brown says his mother studied "basically for free", and the California of 2020. A struggle for the lost soul of America- its lost values for what Carl Sandburg called "The People, Yes." The ideas that led to the shipping overseas of America's manufacturing industry with disastrous results were created in some pockets of California such as San Jose and San Francisco.
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Heat, Smoke and Covid Are Battering the Workers Who Feed America
NYTimes.com 08/28/2020
A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America
The Guardian 12/15/2017
Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/17/2015
Wildfires around San Francisco Bay Area grow to larger than Rhode Island – live
The Guardian 08/24/2020
California ‘never should have re-opened’ as Covid-19 cases surge to record high
France 24 07/17/2020
How Success Against the Coronavirus Turned to Crisis in California
WSJ 07/01/2020
Loan funds fending off distressed debt investors in 2020- signs of the changes underway after coronavirus
06/30/2020
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Lenders to Ailing Companies Circle Wagons to Fend Off Distressed-Debt Investors
WSJ 06/26/2020
The vision of the European Union alive and well - Macron and Merkel in June 2020 responding to the pandemic
06/06/2020
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Europe’s big two kiss and make up for pandemic rescue deal
The Guardian 06/06/2020
Germany- low tech coronavirus contact tracing that works for reopening the country
05/27/2020
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Human contact tracing provides valuable clues to COVID-19 infections | DW | 27.05.2020
DW.COM 05/27/2020
The first wave: How Germany’s coronavirus contact tracers helped to ease its lockdown
The Times 05/26/2020
"Total" contact tracing's key role in controlling the coronavirus pandemic
05/26/2020
The case of Germany, South Korea, Kerala state in India, Taiwan, show it works to limit spread and helps reopening. Britain after some errors is back to contact tracing as the No. 1 mission, India depends on contact tracing to limit clusters and close them off. France and the U.S. are fumbling with the use of apps and discussions on privacy, where Germany moved ahead with only the phone and no app, low tech as in Kerala, but good health systems which the state has invested in. Britain and France, and the U.S. suffered from neglect of their health systems during the years when tech was "cool" and money got misallocated away from essential public services.
Grouped Articles
The first wave: How Germany’s coronavirus contact tracers helped to ease its lockdown
The Times 05/26/2020
Human contact tracing provides valuable clues to COVID-19 infections | DW | 27.05.2020
DW.COM 05/27/2020
Dr. Redfield, head of the U.S. Centre for Disease Control
05/20/2020
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C.D.C.’s Dr. Robert Redfield Confronts Coronavirus, and Anger
NYTimes.com 03/13/2020
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
French and British preparation for pandemics after SARS and H1N1 and letting austerity policy ditch the preparations by 2019
05/16/2020
France abandoned its effort first ramped up by the SARS pandemic, and utilized in H1N1 pandemic, and ditched this after H1N1 never happened. Britain's effort first ramped up SARS pandemic, continued through H1N1 right into the Cygnus exercize as a rehearsal preparation for a pandemic right into 2016, and lost interest after 2016 with the Brexit struggles in the country. By 2019 both countries were woefully short, China's underreporting, the lack of transparency, added to lack of enough awareness of danger in cruc1al weeks of January and February 2020.
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Pandemic disarmament: Why France was ready for Covid-19 a decade too soon
France 24 05/17/2020
Problem in U.S. coronavirus effort- the lack of a well funded centralized institution for data on the virus
05/15/2020
Inconsistent data with different chronologies and rules being pulled together from disparate sources by private individuals and organizations without adequate funding. This data used by decision makers for vital reopening decisions- is no way to tackle the threat of coronavirus. The need for a well funded institution setup by the U.S. government for this purpose to act as a centralized source of information, as is the practice in many other countries.
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States Are Reopening With No Clear Picture of U.S. Coronavirus Cases
WSJ 05/15/2020
How a Johns Hopkins Professor and Her Chinese Students Tracked Coronavirus
WSJ 05/09/2020
Supply chain relocation by France, Britain and the U.S.
05/15/2020
France, Britain and the U.S. remain highly dependent on China for critical infrastructure related supplies. Action is being taken for complete reassessment of the supply chain and relocation back to the home countries and to other locations.
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Covid-19 forces France to look at relocating its pharmaceutical industry
France 24 05/15/2020
Britain's response to coronavirus
05/12/2020
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Unlimited outdoor activity, U-turn on masks: UK unveils lockdown lifting strategy
France 24 05/12/2020
05/11/2020
How will the UK lockdown be eased? Johnson will take it slow tonight. He knows he has just one shot
The Times 05/10/2020
NHS faces waiting list of 7.2 million after coronavirus lockdown
The Times 05/10/2020
Coronavirus: 100,000 dead if UK eases lockdown too fast, scientists warn
The Times 05/10/2020
Millions of Europeans Are on Paid Leave. Governments Are Picking Up The Tab.
WSJ 04/22/2020
France's preparation for the 2002 SARS and 2009 H1N1 influenza with 1 billion masks, speedy response protocol- the lack of any preparation in 2020
05/08/2020
The financial crisis of 2009 and the eurozone crisis shifted attention, led to austerity cuts and abandonment of earlier preparation for epidemics.
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Pandemic disarmament: Why France was ready for Covid-19 a decade too soon
France 24 05/17/2020
Lessons from the coronavirus crisis- big needs in health services, supplies and infrastructure that were neglected
04/22/2020
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Coronavirus brings two Chinas together
The Times 02/03/2020
UK coronavirus testing and contact tracing to isolate clusters
04/22/2020
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Wanted: a big hitter to get a grip on contact tracing
The Times 04/21/2020
The Critical Variable in Keeping Coronavirus in Check
WSJ 04/20/2020
Coronavirus testing too slow, Sir Patrick Vallance admits amid mounting criticism
04/14/2020
Five tests that will guide us out of coronavirus lockdown
The Times 04/30/2020
Irresponsible behaviour of youth and young people that fueled the surge in the pandemic in July 2020
07/31/2020
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Coronavirus cluster in western France pits youth against authorities preaching caution
France 24 07/30/20
California ‘never should have re-opened’ as Covid-19 cases surge to record high
France 24 07/17/20
Signs of V shape U.S. recovery
06/13/2020
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Signs of a V-Shaped Early-Stage Economic Recovery Emerge
WSJ 06/13/20
The World Health Organization in the crucial early weeks in January and February 2020- failure of the early warning system for coronavirus
06/03/2020
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China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal
The Guardian 06/02/20
Why Trump Is Taking On the World Health Organization - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 05/23/20
Harsh Vardhan takes over as WHO executive board chief
Hindustan Times 05/24/20
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/20
The coronavirus response in Uttar Pradesh, India
05/27/2020
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Uttar Pradesh is setting an example, dealing with pandemic with efficiency, firmness
The Indian Express 05/27/20
Who is Dr. Harlem Brundtland? Compared to her does the WHO today flunk, and even Dr Fauci, Dr Redfield fall short
05/20/2020
Dr. Harlem Brundtland was head of the WHo during the SARS crisis which originated in China in 2003. Her swift action included questioning China's suppression of the openness of its scientific and medical community at the time, alerting the world to take action to control the epidemic. The U.S. clearly brings up Dr. Brundtland as the model that was not followed in its letter to the WHO of May 18, 2020. Dr. Redfield, head U.S. CDC was alerted by Dr. Gao Fu head of China's CDC and its medical scientific community on Dec. 31, 2019, and through Dr. Redfield the American medical scientific community including Dr. Fauci, in an early warning of what was to happen. Dr Brundtland is a three time prime minister of Norway starting with the first term in 1981 and ending with the third term in 1996. She was head of the Labor Party and had a distinguished record including her work in climate change, sustainable development and other issues. The WHO earned much respect under her leadership of the organization.
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‘The only way forward for WHO is...’: Full text of Trump’s letter to WHO chief
Hindustan Times 05/19/20
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/20
Trump gives WHO ultimatum over virus handling
BBC News 05/19/20
India's experience tackling pandemics and the bold effort with coronavirus setting a path for the future
05/18/2020
The bold effort with "AtmanNirbhar Bharat" and the $280 billion economic package combined with past experience in tackling pandemics gives India an opportunity to forge a path to the future for a billion people in Asia.
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The Indian Express 03/29/20
The coronavirus slayer! How Kerala's rock star health minister helped save it from Covid-19
The Guardian 05/14/20
Coronavirus lockdown: Is India flattening the COVID-19 curve? | DW | 24.04.2020
DW.COM 04/24/20
Amid Coronavirus Lockdown, India Post Still Delivers—Because Nobody Else Can
WSJ 05/03/20
PM Modi address to nation: Lockdown 4.0, Rs 20 lakh crore Covid-19 package and more
The Indian Express 05/13/20
The World Health Organization (WHO) and cuts in U.S. funding
05/16/2020
Cuts in U.S. funding over the WHO's handling of coronavirus. Questions are being raised about the transparency, and the competence of the WHO in its handling of coronavirus including its early warning and preparation capabilities that members including Europe and the U.S. relied on in the crisis to their regret.
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Trump Says U.S. Is Considering Restoring Some WHO Funding
WSJ 05/16/20
China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal
The Guardian 06/02/20
Why Trump Is Taking On the World Health Organization - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 05/23/20
Harsh Vardhan takes over as WHO executive board chief
Hindustan Times 05/24/20
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/20
Finance ministries around the world with trillions of dollars of aid packages for coronavirus and digital taxes
05/15/2020
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Analysis | Why Digital Taxes Are the New Trade War Flashpoint
Washington Post 05/15/20
France's response to coronavirus
05/12/2020
Grouped Articles
Exiled Parisians face bittersweet homecoming as France eases Covid-19 lockdown
France 24 05/08/20
Face masks: France adjusts to a new way of life - Focus
France 24 05/08/20
Pandemic disarmament: Why France was ready for Covid-19 a decade too soon
France 24 05/17/20
Key points of France’s strategy for lifting its nationwide Covid-19 lockdown
France 24 04/29/20
European Countries Move Closer to Reopening Continent
WSJ 04/28/20
France in lockdown: A groundswell of solidarity - Focus
France 24 04/25/20
How underreporting of coronavirus created a false sense of security in the U.S. and Europe, leading to complacency and unpreparedness till it was too late
05/09/2020
Grouped Articles
How a Johns Hopkins Professor and Her Chinese Students Tracked Coronavirus
WSJ 05/09/20
Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks
NYTimes.com 05/07/20
Millions of coronavirus infections left undetected worldwide – study | DW | 08.04.2020
DW.COM 04/08/20
The Robert Koch Institute and the reproduction ratio in Germany- key to reopening the economy
04/30/2020
Grouped Articles
Five tests that will guide us out of coronavirus lockdown
The Times 04/30/20
Human contact tracing provides valuable clues to COVID-19 infections | DW | 27.05.2020
DW.COM 05/27/20
The first wave: How Germany’s coronavirus contact tracers helped to ease its lockdown
The Times 05/26/20
France coronavirus testing and contact tracing to isolate clusters
04/22/2020
Grouped Articles
Apple and France in stand-off over coronavirus app
BBC News 04/21/20
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