Study: Ineffective Blood Oxygen Readers Have Endangered Black and Latino COVID-19 Patients

Study: Ineffective Blood Oxygen Readers Have Endangered Black and Latino COVID-19 Patients
NBC News reported: Black and Latino patients experienced significant delays in obtaining life-saving COVID-19 treatments due to a popular medical device that inaccurately reads darker skin tones, according to a study released last week in JAMA Internal Medicine. The report shows that pulse oximeters, a device that clips onto a person’s fingertips and reads oxygen levels, is more likely to produce inaccurate results in Black, Latino and Asian Americans than in white patients.… Read the rest

Court Bans Expert From Alleging Cover-Up of COVID-19 Chinese Lab Origins

Court Bans Expert From Alleging Cover-Up of COVID-19 Chinese Lab Origins
Newsweek reported: A scientist who accused a COVID-19 expert of hiding that the virus originated in a Chinese lab has been banned from spreading “fake news” after a legal challenge. Hamburg-based nanoscience specialist Professor Dr. Roland Wiesendanger alleged in an interview with German magazine Cicero, published in February of this year, that Professor Dr. Christian Drosten from Berlin’s Charite Clinic was consciously refusing to tell people the truth about the origin of the COVID-19 virus.… Read the rest

Moderna Announces First Participants Dosed in Phase 3 Study of Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Candidate (mRNA-1010)

Moderna Announces First Participants Dosed in Phase 3 Study of Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Candidate (mRNA-1010)
AP News reported: A biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today announced the first participants have been dosed in a Phase 3 study of the Company’s seasonal influenza vaccine candidate (mRNA-1010). The trial is expected to enroll approximately 6,000 adults in Southern Hemisphere countries. “We are pleased to begin this Phase 3 study of our seasonal influenza vaccine candidate, mRNA-1010, our fourth mRNA vaccine candidate to begin a pivotal Phase 3 study.… Read the rest

Oracle Quietly Closes $28B Deal To Buy Electronic Health Records Company Cerner

Oracle Quietly Closes $28B Deal To Buy Electronic Health Records Company Cerner
TechCrunch reported on June 7: At the end of last year, just before Christmas, Oracle made a big move when it announced it was acquiring electronic health records company Cerner for $28 billion, thrusting it quickly into the top enterprise deal for 2021, just under the wire. Today, the company announced it has closed the deal, effective tomorrow. The announcement was anticlimactic in a way, full of corporate financial speak: “Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) announced that a majority of the outstanding shares (the “Shares”) of Cerner Corporation (Nasdaq: CERN) were validly tendered, and the other conditions to the tender offer have been satisfied or waived.… Read the rest

Will Anti-Abortionists Use ‘Uterus Surveillance’ Against Women in the U.S.? Weaponizing Fertility Trackers

Will Anti-Abortionists Use ‘Uterus Surveillance’ Against Women in the U.S.? Weaponizing Fertility Trackers
Will Anti-Abortionists Use ‘Uterus Surveillance’ Against Women in the U.S.? The Guardian reported: If you are looking for a cheerful column that will make you giggle and distract you from everything that is wrong with the world, click away now. This week I have nothing but doom, gloom and data trackers for you. If you are hoping to sink into a well of existential despair, maybe let out a few screams into the void, then you’ve come to the right place.… Read the rest

CDC Says You Should Wear a Mask While Traveling — for Monkeypox, Contact Tracing

CDC Says You Should Wear a Mask While Traveling — for Monkeypox, Contact Tracing
CDC Says You Should Wear a Mask While Traveling — for Monkeypox Gizmodo reported: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stepping up its guidance concerning monkeypox. While the risk of monkeypox is still thought to be low for the general public, the agency is now warning people to take more precautions while traveling. These precautions include avoiding contact with visibly sick people as well as wearing a mask.… Read the rest

Technocracy’s High Tech War Is Just As Effective as Rockets, Bullets, Tanks

Technocracy’s High Tech War Is Just As Effective as Rockets, Bullets, Tanks
Technocracy News reported: The object of war is to kill or maim as many people as possible, by whatever means. However, outright killing is often less efficient than wounding because more of the enemy’s resources are consumed in caring for the wounded than burying dead bodies. The overall goal of war is to conquer and subdue a people. In the process of conquering, the enemy must be psychologically and physically broken to the point that they give up their will to fight and their will to assert self-determination.… Read the rest

Our Country Moves Closer to a Federal Privacy Law, and I Move Closer to Losing My Mind

Our Country Moves Closer to a Federal Privacy Law, and I Move Closer to Losing My Mind
  Gizmodo reported: After years of fizzled talks and stalled negotiations on a federal data privacy bill, House and Senate committee leaders finally set aside enough of their differences to release a draft of a new bipartisan tech privacy bill this past Friday. The legislation, called the “American Data Privacy and Protection Act,” is being spearheaded by House Energy and Commerce Chair Frank Pallone (D-N.J.),… Read the rest

Big Tech Calls for Biden Administration To Let Foreign Workers’ Adult Kids Stay in the U.S.

Big Tech Calls for Biden Administration To Let Foreign Workers’ Adult Kids Stay in the U.S.
CNN Business reported: A backlog of U.S. green card applications has Silicon Valley giants calling on the Biden administration for new measures to keep adult children of high-skilled immigrant workers from being deported. Tech titans led by Google (GOOG) and including Amazon (AMZN), IBM, Salesforce (CRM), Twitter and Uber sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security on Monday urging the agency to extend the immigration benefits of green card applicants to the applicants’ children who are turning 21.… Read the rest