insert_link Health & Wellness CDC reverses course (again) and says asymptomatic people should get tested for COVID-19 after all The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that individuals who don’t have coronavirus symptoms should get tested, reversing guidance that stirred controversy last month. The reversal follows a report published last week by The New York Times which revealed that the initial guidance was pushed by non-scientists in the Trump administration against the objections of public health officials and experts. The new guidance, issued on the CDC’s website on Friday, now clarifies that […] todaySeptember 22, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple TikTok confirms it will sue the Trump administration TikTok confirmed Saturday that it will file a lawsuit against the Trump administration over an executive order demanding parent company ByteDance divest its TikTok operations in the US. It’s the first time the company has confirmed it will pursue legal action, a move that has been rumored for several weeks. Reports began surfacing Friday that a lawsuit was likely imminent. “Even though we strongly disagree with the administration’s concerns, for […] todayAugust 25, 2020
insert_link Health & Wellness The CDC’s “Decision Tools” for Safe (and Healthy) Reopening The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last Thursday evening released new guidelines for schools, workplaces and other venues throughout the United States to reopen safely as the country continues to wrestle with the coronavirus pandemic. The direction comes after calls from lawmakers and state officials mounted for the CDC to weigh in on how regions should reopen their economies. and come following uproar after The Associated Press reported […] todayMay 18, 2020
insert_link Health & Wellness Number of Uninsured Children Rises… Again For decades, getting more children to have health insurance was a cause with strong bipartisan support, and the uninsured rate has steadily declined. Now that trend is reversing. For the second year in a row, there was an uptick — 5.5% of children under age 19 did not have health insurance last year. And according to data just released from the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly half a million more kids […] todaySeptember 13, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple What’s the Beef between the US Government and Huawei? After months of speculation, President Trump signed an executive order giving the federal government the power to block US companies from buying foreign-made telecommunications equipment deemed a national security risk. Under the order, which gives the secretary of commerce power to determine which transactions may be potential risks, no single company is immediately marked as a threat. But the plan is largely seen as a move against China-based Huawei, which […] todayMay 22, 2019
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