Data are so more than just a bunch of numbers, especially when it's the data hospitals are reporting about COVID-19. Earlier this month, the Trump Administration made a sudden change to the way that information is shared. The process bypasses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, raising concern among some public health officials. NPR's Pien Huang explains the recent controversy, and why the way COVID-19 hospital data are reported is such a big deal.
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The NewsWorthy - HEALS Act Proposed, Pilgrimage in a Pandemic & MLB Season in Jeopardy- Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
The news to know for Tuesday, July 28th, 2020!
We have updates about:
- the latest progress in the race for a coronavirus vaccine
- what's included in the new GOP relief bill
- who from President Trump's inner circle tested positive for COVID-19
- why the Major League Baseball season is already in jeopardy, just four days in
- which big tech company expanded its work-from-home policy
- another new popular hobby: what Americans are buying up
Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!
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Sources:
WHO: “Most Severe Emergency” Ever: BBC, The Hill, WHO
U.S. COVID Deaths Rise: Johns Hopkins, Reuters, Axios
National Security Adviser Gets COVID: Bloomberg, Politico, AP, Axios
Moderna Trial Enters Final-Stage Testing: WSJ, CNN, NY Times, Reuters
Republicans Release Stimulus Proposal: WSJ, Axios, WaPo, AP
More Federal Agents to Portland: WaPo, FOX News, Reuters, NPR
Hajj Pilgrimage Begins: AP, Al Jazeera, National Geographic
Miami Marlins Outbreak: USA Today, CBS News, NBC News
Google Employees WFH into Next Summer: TechCrunch, CBS News, NBC News
Surge in Boat Sales: AP, Fortune, Fox Business
Fauci’s Baseball Card a Bestseller: CNN, USA Today, Sports Illustrated
Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College - Once Upon a Time… in the Valley S1 | Ep 5: Shooting (Porn) Star
The only thing wilder than Traci on camera, is Traci off camera. Also: Traci gets a rival; Traci gets a company; Traci gets a passport; and Traci gets busted.
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The Daily Signal - Why Mail-In Voting Is a Bad Idea, Even During a Pandemic
There is currently a debate raging over how elections are to be held in the fall amid the coronavirus. Is a pandemic reason to hold an election by mail? Would widespread mail-in voting lead to voter fraud and skew election results?
Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a former member of the Federal Election Commission, joins the podcast to discuss how states across America can hold a free and fair election while also protecting individuals' health.
We also cover these stories:
- Former Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., passed away July 17 and is lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda.
- Robert O’Brien, national security adviser to President Trump has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
- Google announced its employees will work from home through 2021.
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The Stack Overflow Podcast - You down with GPT-3? Yeah you know me!
If you're wondering why GPT-3 matters and how it compares to prior efforts in this area, here is a good summary.
If you want to dive deeper into the effect anxiety has on the interview process and hiring in tech, you can read up on the research here.
This week's lifeboat badge goes to PerformanceDBA, who left an incredbily long and detailed answer, complete with charts and code snippets, on the following question: how to organize a relational data model for double entry accounting?
Read Me a Poem - “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Amanda Holmes reads Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “A Psalm of Life.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
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Opening Arguments - OA407: Trump’s Illegal DHS Secretary
The very person in charge of Homeland Security is essentially "here illegally." The upside is, though, there is a one weird trick to undo everything he has done while overstaying his tenure! And by "trick" we mean a lengthy A. Torrez deep dive, so tune in!
Before that, we talk about updates in the Flynn case and how the government is LYING about a Federal Rule.
Links: DOJFlynnEnBancReply, 5 US Code § 3346 - Time limitation, 6 US Code § 551 - Transitional authorities, 22 US Code § 9685 - Transitional authorities, 5 US Code § 3348 - Vacant office, National Labor Relations Board v. SW General, The Vacancies Act: A Legal Overview, DHS Under Boss, Trump's New Acting AG Unconstitutional?, Acting Officers and the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, List of Bailfunds
Chapo Trap House - 440 – Arm the Emus (7/27/20)
We start off this week looking at the roll of bullying in Massachusetts politics & the inauspicious beginning of the MLB season. From there we kind of transition into the ongoing normalization of COVID and Trump’s federal police goon squad in America. Then, after TTRPG’ing contested 2020 election scenarios, we kind of take a left turn towards Brazil’s Looney Tunes fascism, and stick the landing by reflecting on Mormons as the Perfect Americans.
The Gist - Ignoring the Need Economy
On the Gist, the Republicans are misers.
In the interview, Zephyr Teachout is here to discuss her new book Break ‘Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom From Big Ad, Big Tech, and Big Money. She and Mike discuss how monopolies have come to dominate so many of our industries, the work that needs to be done to break them up, and why it’s a multi-pronged solution. They also touch on Gov. Cuomo’s response to the pandemic and how her team might have been different if she’d won office.
In the spiel, baseball tried.
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Pod Save America - “99 days to the election (with Mehdi Hasan).”
The Intercept’s Mehdi Hasan joins to discuss the state of the presidential campaign now that we’re less than 100 days out, how COVID reached deep into the White House and forced major changes to Trump’s campaign, the latest with COVID relief in Congress, how Trump’s message went from calling Biden soft on China to member of Antifa, and how the media can learn from the mistakes of 2016. Then Jon F. interviews Mother Jones' Ari Berman about voting during the pandemic.
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