Month: May 2020
-
3.9 million Filipino workers might lose jobs
In this article for The Manila Times, author William Depasupil says that 78% of businesses affected by COVID-19 will remain closed for months, hence leading to the loss of some 3.9 million jobs. The figure included both local and overseas Filipino workers. Editor’s Note: Will the Philippines have the capacity to ensure that basic needs of the…
-
World Bank: Pandemic could push 60M into extreme poverty
In this May 21, 2020 report written for the Agence France-Presse, the World Bank said that 60M people around the world could fall into extreme poverty. This pronouncement comes after the World Bank has began financing aid programs to 100 countries. World Bank president says that this will reverse the progress made by poverty alleviation programs…
-
JP Morgan Research: Lockdowns failed to alter the course of the pandemic
Here is another research conducted by physicist and JP Morgan strategist Marko Kolanovic showing the lockdowns had no effect in controlling the spread of the coronavirus. Two of the most glaring results in the research had something to do with infection rates and transmission rates. The report showed that most areas studied exhibited a fall…
-
UNDP: Human development to decline this year for the first time since 1990
In this report published by the United Nations Development Program Administrator Achim Steiner expressed concern for the decline in the fundamental areas of human development across many countries today. COVID-19 did not only impact health, it has also caused disruption in education and income. Steiner says that the combined impact of these shocks could lead…
-
Japanese firm says its deep UV light deactivates coronavirus by 99.9%
This article from Kyoto News highlights the results of the joint experiment conducted by the University of Miyazaki and Nikkiso Co. which involved the use of a deep ultraviolet LED. According to the experiment, the Deep UV-LEDs developed by Nikkiso caused the drop in the virus’ infection capacity by 99.9%. Researchers say that this technology will be…
-
Results of the European lockdown experiment are in
In this article for Bloomberg, author Elaine He looks at the effectiveness of the lockdowns in Europe. He compares the reaction time (time it tool for a country to decide an intervention), stringency of each intervention, death outcomes, and economic impacts of chosen interventions in various European countries. He says that the strictness of containment measures…
-
Experts: The code that led to lockdowns was a “buggy mess”
The model that has led the UK to change its COVID-19 strategy and has caused many more countries to implement lockdowns was based on a buggy and messy code. Experts have finally seen the original code following Neil Ferguson’s resignation, and some developers are saying that it is unreadable. But the problem isn’t just with…
-
Full lockdowns had no impact on COVID-19
Did full lockdowns help slowdown the spread of the coronavirus in Italy,France, Spain, and the United Kingdom? This was the question Thomas A.J. Meunier set out to answer in his new article published by medRxiv. Using a phenomenological method based on the official statistics of the four countries above, Meunier says that lockdowns did nothing to…
-
What are the implications of the CDC planning scenarios?
The following article written by Daniel Horowitz takes a closed look at the CDC document [see CDC Confirms Very Low COVID-19 Death Rate In The US]. Horowitz says that with the current estimates (which are based on actual data submitted by hospitals to the CDC until April 29, 2020), we are now seeing that COVID-19 is…
-
Why you haven’t caught COVID-19 yet
Update 5/30/2020: We just checked the video today and found that it has been taken down [In a previous press release, YouTube CEO said that any video that presents viewpoints that challenges WHO will be banned from the platform. This is not a new experience. To know more, read The Pandemic Of Censorship]. We have…
