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US to Suspend New Foreign-Scholar Visas: Nature

Nidhi Subbaraman and Alexandra Witze June 24, 2020
The US president issued a proclamation expanding limits for foreign workers, including a suspension on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign scholars and employees for tech firms. The block will not extend to current visa holders, but that does not ease their uncertainty. “The Trump administration characterized the decision as a plan to stave off the economic impact of the coronavirus...

Capitalism as Victim of Covid-19? Salon

Matthew Rozsa June 18, 2020
The pandemic and climate change demonstrate that survival depends on the ability to learn while relying on best evidence. Political leaders who downplay or deny the consequences of Covid-19 and climate change – trying to protect economies for the short term, rejecting early warnings and refusing to adapt – actually risk more economic damage. Such disasters also show that the free-market...

Sewage Reveals Covid-19 Totals: New Haven Register

Ed Stannard and Justin Papp May 28, 2020
Analysis of human waste could become a Covid-19 surveillance tool, providing early warnings about increases in cases and hotspots. An analysis of solid waste from a New Haven waste-treatment facility over 40 days shows that the amount of SARS-CoV-2 found in samples correlates with testing totals and hospitalizations, reports a multidisciplinary team of researchers with Yale University and the...

Proposal to Ban Chinese From STEM Studies? Newsweek

Benjamin Fearnow April 27, 2020
The spread of Covid-19 has put economies on hold, alarming the world, and leaders look for scapegoats. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton has accused China of releasing inaccurate data on confirmed Covid-19 cases, and called it a “scandal” that US colleges and universities train so many Chinese. China is the leading source of international students for US colleges and universities. On a television news...

World After Covid-19: The Economist

Kishore Mahbubani April 23, 2020
Kishore Mahbubani, founding dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, has long observed that the era of Western domination is ending. The Covid-19 pandemic hurries the demise and marks the start of an Asian century. “The crisis highlights the contrast between the competent responses of East Asian governments (notably China, South Korea and Singapore) and the incompetent responses of...

Covid-19 Effects on Body: Medical News Today

Hilary Guite April 22, 2020
Researchers concede Covid-19 as a new virus presents many unknowns. Hence, community leaders and individuals should practice caution. Hilary Guite reports on studies that monitored subjects day by day. About 80 percent of patients report mild or no symptoms, yet the disease is infectious during the presymptomatic phase, and she writes, “SARS-CoV-2 can bind 10 times more tightly to insert its RNA...

China Passes US in Global Patent Race: WIPO

April 21, 2020
The World Intellectual Property Organization reports that China filed more applications for international patents in 2019, surpassing the United States, which held the lead since the organization began in 1978: China filed 58,990 applications, and the United States filed 57,840. The organization received more than 265,000 applications, most from Asia. Patents signal innovation, economic strength...