america's crisis culturally- magniminous in victory eg world war 2 un san fran 1945 bitter in defeat

Diane Klein

Apr 13 · 5 min read

A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t.

This is a message to all high school seniors (and their parents). If you were planning to enroll in college next fall — don’t.

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on positive side if gm never gets another subsidy fine

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trumps war on ny Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and his administration have been criticized over the rate of coronavirus testing in the US, but on Wednesday, he claimed the US had done more testing than any other nation.

At a press briefing a day earlier, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House's coronavirus response coordinator, told reporters, "We now have 370,000 tests that have been done. The majority of those -- over 220,000 in the last eight days, which, those of you who have been tracking the South Korea numbers, put us equivalent to what they did in eight weeks that we did in eight days."

Less than a day later, the President tweeted: "Just reported that the United States has done far more 'testing' than any other nation, by far! In fact, over an eight day span, the United States now does more testing than what South Korea (which has been a very successful tester) does over an eight week span." He reiterated this claim multiple times in a press briefing Wednesday evening.

Facts First: While the US has overtaken South Korea in total numbers of coronavirus tests administered, it has conducted far fewer tests per capita given the US population is more than six times larger than South Korea's.

"Yes, it is true that South Korea has run less tests as an absolute number. However, it is important to point out the huge difference in the population sizes," Aubree Gordon, associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan, told CNN.

As of Wednesday, South Korea, which has a population of 51 million, had conducted 357,896 tests, based on reports from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Comparatively, the United States, with a population of 329 million, had administered at least 418,810 tests, according to the Covid Tracking Project, a group led by Alexis Madrigal, a staff writer for The Atlantic magazine, with more than 100 volunteers that compiles coronavirus testing data from state government websites and government officials.

But because, as the Kaiser Family Foundation reported, several states are not reporting the numbers of negative test results or pending tests, it's hard to get a complete count of how many people have been tested for coronavirus in the US.

Based on the available data and the population of each country, 1 in 142 South Koreans and 1 in every 786 Americans have been tested for the coronavirus.

50 days too late many times less per capita

Jennifer Horney, founding director of the University of Delaware's epidemiology program, told CNN that epidemiologists generally use rates only like tests per capita to make comparisons.

"I think the important clarification is that we should be considering the number of cases per 1 million population and considering a rate of people tested and not the absolute numbers," Horney said. "The absolute number of tests is not very meaningful."

Until recently, the US was behind South Korea in terms of total tests, despite the fact that the two countries reported their first confirmed cases on the same day. Experts attribute South Korea's recent decline in new coronavirus cases to its early testing efforts, a successful example of what is now commonly referred to as "flattening the curve."

the impacts of bezos in india are very interesting https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bezos+india he is complicated- he now spends 90% of his time in dc or new yotk not seatlle- he owns washington post as well as purpose of many types of us retail channels  and will soon dictate the economics of us post offices- he previously has no experience of 60% plus people who are asian at the small enterprise level- of course his experience gets shaped fast by whom he chooses as big businees partners- -timely would be discussing a tata-amazon university- by which i dont mean huge campuses but micro-thinktanks eg starting with bezos 3 cities and 3 cities tata chooses- in india's case a map of how the 3 cities fly around the country to include cultures of everyone matters- schwab model interesting - he has his r&d led out of 5 capitals delhi tokyo beijing geneva san francisco but youth hubs grown out of 15 years of his investments in social entrepreneurs through 300 global shapers - some analysis of this at www.goodhubsguide.com - right now those hubs that are just co-working spaces can be bought for pennies in dollars but having maintained good hubs guide since 2006 i can tell you some hub owners have very big egos and are not transparent about how the hub is really their own political power- another concept if fonders club around the world could remarket intangibles valuation then bezos and which india founders he trusts could be absolutely critical- mark goyder could tell you if there are any uk founders left- its gets complicated the sainsburys a family i know ell are now divided into 2 halves - one as deep as sdgs gets in uk, the other the opposite- the other family  i knew were the cadburys- with deaihs of adrian the patriach and paul judge who he hoped would set up new business school in cambridge i dont know where they are- many uk founders including cadburys and unilever were quakers- the origin of quakers supported local regions unite their people staying out of the way of what the king ordered- how britain mediated kings in a different way to france cutting off their heads is one of the hidden agendas of the english speaking world- bezos is very weak on microfinance- alternatively his prime loyalty club effectively acts as a new currency- you buy 100 dollars of prime currency a year to get free deliveries and various entertainment packages which also depend on how amazon operates clouds ai and 5g

Amazon buying former Lord & Taylor for NYC HQ - report

Mar. 12, 2020 6:12 PM ET|About: Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)|By: Jason Aycock, SA News Editor 

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is paying $1.15B cash to buy the former Lord & Taylor flagship store in Manhattan, the New York Post reports.

That 660,000-square-foot building was set to be headquarters for WeWork (WE) before that company's scandal-plagued fall.

Now, Amazon will pick up $750M in construction loans that had been taken out for remodeling, with some $350M in equity left for building owners. WeWork waives economic interest in the building in exchange for getting out of its lease.

It will become Amazon's NYC headquarters, housing about 4,000 employees who will move in in about 18 months, according to the report