Pandemic

I want to talk about malignant incompetence on the part of our elected officials, and this isn’t even about the pandemic. Rather, it’s about the spectacularly misguided, counterproductive, expensive, and overbearing approach to end-to-end encryption by the USA along with Australia, Canada, the UK, and New Zealand — the so-called…

It’s a bit gauche to talk about positive economic impacts of what may become a global pandemic, but the novel coronavirus hasn’t been bad news for every company. Video conference provider Zoom appears to be one beneficiary; after going public in 2019, its share price rose from around $68 at…

Image: Getty Images By Morgan Sung2020-02-29 23:40:21 UTC Please wash your damn hands.  It's 2020 and yes, full grown adults still need to hear it.  Health officials in Washington confirmed the first death from the new coronavirus, officially named COVID-19, on Saturday. The virus is highly contagious, and as of…

CDC Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat and US Secretary of Health Alex Azar listen to President Donald Trump as he speaks during a news conference on the COVID-19 outbreak at the White House on February 26, 2020. Photo: Eric Baradat (AFP via Getty…

The point person for the government (who will be reporting to Vice President Pence) is Deborah Birx, a longtime leader in the U.S. government’s efforts to contain the HIV/AIDS pandemic. From her position within the State Department as the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Special Representative for Global Health Policy,…

The merch machine can’t be stopped, even for coronavirus or COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Coronavirus merch has arrived, and it’s somehow worse than I anticipated. The themes generally seem to be: jokes about China; the idea of survival against the virus; and general stock imagery of…

A worker wearing protective gear sprays disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 27, 2020. Ahn Young-joon/The Associated Press No country should make the “fatal mistake” of assuming it will be spared the coronavirus, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, as governments from…

TORONTO -- As the list of countries dealing with COVID-19 grows, a Toronto infectious disease expert says the virus outbreak is already likely at pandemic level – but that’s not clear because some countries are hiding the extent of their outbreak. “People are kind of dancing around the word pandemic,”…

Photo: Johnannes Eisele (AFP via Getty Images)On Tuesday, health officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a dire warning: The U.S. will almost certainly not be spared from the outbreak of a new pneumonia-causing coronavirus that threatens to sweep across the globe. It’s only a matter of…

From the black death to the coronavirus, this is what we need to think about in order to tackle pandemics.#Health #Coronavirus #BriefHistory--------Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/Bloomberg?sub_...Bloomberg is the First Word in business news, delivering breaking news & analysis, up-to-the-minute market data, features, profiles and more: http://www.bloomberg.comConnect…