Why is vaccine skepticism highest among health care workers?
DW investigates why COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is above average for health care and front-line workers, despite clear scientific evidence the vaccines are safe and effective
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COVID-19 Special: Vaccine skepticism among health workers | DW | 24.02.2021
DW investigates why COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is above average for health care and front-line workers, despite clear scientific evidence the vaccines are safe and effective
As surprising as the projection may be to some, such a surge in coal consumption is not that unexpected. India’s power generation is set to grow exponentially to 3565 TWh by 2037, more than double 2020’s figure. Electricity production will already exceed 2000 TWh from 2025 and is set to breach the 3000 TWh ceiling from 2034 as a result of an electrification boost and economic growth.
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Rystad Energy: India’s coal use set to boom a renewable wave cannot keep up with electrification growth
New data from Rystad Energy shows that, despite coal power generation hitting a 5-year low due to COVID-19, coal power is expected to remain important to India’s electricity production.
Sen. Tim Scott: ‘Woke supremacy is as bad as White supremacy’
Sen. Tim Scott called the current left-wing control of the culture, and its racial attacks on him and other Black conservatives, comparable to America’s history of racism.
New nation-state cyberattacks – Microsoft On the Issues
Today, we’re sharing information about a state-sponsored threat actor identified by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) that we are calling Hafnium. Hafnium operates from China, and this is the first time we’re discussing its activity. It is a highly skilled and sophisticated actor. His…
Nowadays, many relevant actors of the industry claim that mining is going through the first stages of a deep changeover from the hand of digital transformation. It is said that this process could change how mining is done, passing from human-run operations to autonomous or semi-autonomous remote-controlled mines. Independent if fully automated operations are achieved in the near future or not, the digital transformation is already impacting the industry and will continue doing so.
“U.S.-China tensions rise over investigation as group of scientists presses for fresh inquiry, including into lab escape theory”
WSJ News Exclusive | WHO Investigators to Scrap Plans for Interim Report on Probe of Covid-19 Origins
The World Health Organization team’s decision comes as tensions mount between Beijing and Washington over the investigation and one international group of scientists appeals for a new probe.
The problem with linear projection is tomorrow won’t be like yesterday. Politicians with hardcoded 5 or 50 year master plans will almost always get it wrong.
Abundant Rain Turns Namibia Green
The landscape has been transformed by the wettest rainy season since 2011.
Americans stuck in their homes have set off a surge of orders from factories in China, much of it carried across the Pacific in containers — the metal boxes that move goods in towering stacks atop enormous vessels. As households in the United States have filled bedrooms with office furniture and basements with treadmills, the demand for shipping has outstripped the availability of containers in Asia, yielding shortages there just as the boxes pile up at American ports. …
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Lars Mikael Jensen, head of Global Ocean Network at A.P. Moller-Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company. “All the links in the supply chain are stretched. The ships, the trucks, the warehouses.” …
Containers that carried millions of masks to countries in Africa and South America early in the pandemic remain there, empty and uncollected, because shipping carriers have concentrated their vessels on their most popular routes — those linking North America and Europe to Asia.
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The political response shipped masks to Africa and TV sets to the fat, old Western populations
The team examined mortality data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the World Health Organization (WHO) and found that of 2.5 million Covid-19 deaths reported by the end of February, 2.2 million were in countries where more than half the population is overweight. …
Vietnam had one of the world’s lowest Covid-19 death rates, with 0.04 deaths occurring per 100,000 people. The country’s overweight population comes in at 18.3%. Other countries on the low death rate list with similar patterns include Japan, Thailand and South Korea. …
n the US, where 152.49 deaths were recorded per 100,000 people, 67.9% of the adult population is overweight, according to the report.
I was mulling a New York Post report that half the employees at The New York Times are afraid to say what they’re thinking when it hit me. It’s time for Free Speech Insurance.
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Free Speech Insurance: An Idea That Could Even Help The Oscars
I was mulling a New York Post report that half the employees at The New York Times are afraid to say what they’re thinking when it hit me. It’s time for Free Speech Insurance. This is nothin…
Former New York Times Reporter Donald McNeil Responds To Controversy Over Remarks
Donald G. McNeil Jr., the veteran New York Times reporter who left the newspaper last month amid the controversy over his use of a racial slur, responded to accusations against him in a lengthy ser…
Green Energy Reality Check: It’s Not as Clean as You Think | Manhattan Institute
Policymakers have made a “green” energy shift a priority in economic recovery, but these visions ignore the dirty process of switching to “green” energy.
The extraordinary intervention, which came just as Mr. Cuomo was starting to write a book on his pandemic achievements, was the earliest act yet known in what critics have called a monthslong effort by the governor and his aides to obscure the full scope of nursing home deaths.
New York Times
Cuomo Aides Rewrote Nursing Home Report to Hide Higher Death Toll
The intervention was the earliest action yet known in an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that concealed how many nursing home residents died in the pandemic.
