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Scientists find secret 'back door' flu viruses use to enter cells

Flu viruses that can use a second cellular entry point may move more effectively between animals and humans, scientists say.

LiveScience

This Overlooked Bank Stock Offers Income and Growth

After dividend payouts were banned during the pandemic, Spanish bank Santander is making up for lost time. It pledged to pay out half of its 2023 profits, which totaled nearly $12 billion. This means roughly $6B in buybacks and dividends is heading back to shareholders - but the stock still…

Barchart

How Harris could change American hunger

Here's what Harris' record tells us about her views on food insecurity, essential workers and labor

Salon

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A former Microsoft Software Engineer explains CrowdStrike's digital pandemic that left over 8.5 million Windows devices with annoying BSoD errors

Dave Plummer (aka Dave's Garage), a former Microsoft software engineer, recently shared a YouTube video explaining the digital pandemic caused by CrowdStrike.

Windows Central

New Analysis Finds Lasting Impact for Students Affected by COVID School Lockdowns

According to a new report, the average eighth-grader needs over nine months of extra school time to catch up with pre-COVID achievement levels.

Reason

Pandemic effects linger, and art invites us to pause and behold distance, time and trauma

When I finished the manuscript for my book The Pause, which looked at the COVID-19 pandemic through the idea of “pausing,” a notion frequently invoked in pandemic discussions of suspended and cancelled activities, I was happy to be done and not to think about the pandemic anymore.

The Conversation

Pinpointing bird flu mortality rate

Avian flu is reported to kill more than half the people it infects. The reality is much more complicated

Salon

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Covid inquiry report proves that lessons have not been learned

Letters: Edward Rosen, Jabeer Butt and Edward Lyon respond to the first report of the official Covid inquiry

The Guardian - UK

The past, present and uncertain future of the UK’s steel industry

The last few years have been troubling for the British steel industry. High energy costs, a wave of cheap Chinese imports, plant closures, the COVID pandemic and financial struggles have all taken their toll.

The Conversation

COVID-19 devastated teacher morale − and it hasn’t recovered

Kansas faces the worst teacher shortfall in its history. The 4,000 teaching vacancies Florida faces as the new school year approaches “is more than the population of teachers in 19 of Florida’s smallest counties combined,” the state’s teachers union says. In Vermont, there are days when whole grades of students…

The Conversation

UN Report: Progress Slows In Global AIDS Pandemic

Explore UNAIDS report on global HIV/AIDS trends, challenges, and efforts to improve treatment accessibility.

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The Independent UK

Self-professed ‘Wolf of Airbnb’ jailed for over four years

Konrad Bicher, 32, of Hialeah, Florida, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court

The Guardian - UK

Reeves to appoint Covid corruption tsar to claw back billions of waste

Chancellor understood to believe £2.6bn of public money lost to fraudsters during pandemic could be recouped

International Business Times

UN Urges Gilead To 'Make History' With Game-changing HIV Drug

Gilead could bring the AIDS pandemic towards an end if the US pharmaceutical giant opens up access to its game-changing new HIV drug, the head of UNAIDS told AFP. Winnie Byanyima urged Gilead to "make history" by allowing generic manufacturing of Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injectable antiretroviral medication used to treat…

The Independent UK

Dementia diagnoses in England hit a record high, NHS data reveals

Diagnosis rates recovering after slump during pandemic with figures close to hitting national target

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Jeremy Hunt apologises for Covid failings and admits being part of ministerial ‘groupthink’

The former health secretary said he was one of many who ‘over prepared for pandemic flu’ and ‘didn’t think about other types of pandemic’

The Guardian - UK

Aircraft industry high-flyers touch down at Farnborough airshow amid supply chain turbulence

Fears about keeping up with demand have replaced post-pandemic concerns about a slump in the aviation sector

Windows Central

Elon Musk blames diversity efforts for the widespread CrowdStrike digital pandemic that stunted Microsoft services

While Microsoft and CrowdStrike have issued statements indicating the issue has been fixed, Elon Musk used the opportunity to attack the latter's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Tom’s Hardware

39 million motherboards expected to be sold in 2024 — shipments recover to pre-pandemic levels

Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock expect to sell 38.8 million motherboards in 2024, surpassing the 2019 record of 37.6 million units.

Al Jazeera

India’s hidden COVID deaths: Was the toll in 2020 eight times higher?

India had nearly 1.2m excess deaths in 2020, new data shows. The life expectancy of Muslims fell more than five years.

The Guardian - UK

UK in ‘worse state’ to deal with pandemic than before Covid, say experts

Health professionals argue inequalities, crisis in NHS and pressure in care homes leave Britain vulnerable

The Conversation

What a ‘right to disconnect’ from work could look like in the UK

The UK’s new government has promised to take action to “promote a positive work-life balance for all workers”, and to prevent homes “turning into 24/7 offices”. The risk of “always on” working has grown since the pandemic, with technology meaning that work is often within easy reach.

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