The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week that people who test positive for COVID-19 but remain asymptotic can cut their quarantine time in half, from ten days to five. This shift comes in part due to major disruptions causes by rising Omicron cases, with hospitals and airlines in particular struggling to stay fully staffed.
This moment in the pandemic feels a little like living in a contradiction. Cases are rising, yet guidance on certain restrictions is loosening. Hospitals are filling up, yet many infections are mild.
Prof. Gaurav Suri, computational neuroscientist at San Francisco State, and Dr. Leana Wen, emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University, discuss how to live with the threat of Omicron right now.
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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 12/28/21
The CDC shortens COVID isolation periods. A deadly shooting spree in Denver. New questions in the police crossfire death of a Los Angeles teen. Correspondent Peter King has the CBS World News Roundup for Tuesday, December 28, 2021:
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Cato Daily Podcast - Health Policy Innovation in a Waning Pandemic
Charlie Katebi of Americans for Prosperity argues that some of the policy innovations driven by the pandemic have shown significant benefits and ought to continue even after the threat abates.
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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 12/28
The CDC shortens COVID isolation periods. A deadly shooting spree in Denver. New questions in the police crossfire death of a Los Angeles teen. Correspondent Peter King has the CBS World News Roundup for Tuesday, December 28, 2021:
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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - The Movies of 2021
The podcast’s hosts discuss their favorite movies of 2021 and why they found them particularly moving, interesting, visually exciting, or just not as bad as what they were expecting.
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Headlines From The Times - The Chinese Communist Party and me, Part 2
This year, the Chinese Communist Party kicked off its 100th anniversary by celebrating China’s economic success and ambitions to create a new world order. The festivities, of course, are carefully choreographed. For decades, the Communist Party has crushed any counter-narratives to promote a whitewashed version of Chinese history. Those who deviate from the party’s official narrative suffer retribution — and in recent days, records of that punishment have been expunged as well.
Today, we focus on a newly revised volume of Communist Party history that aims to airbrush its past for a younger generation who have come of age in a tightly controlled social environment. And we highlight the young activists who are trying to bring attention to this whitewashing — and are getting jailed or exiled for doing so. Our guest is L.A. Times Beijing bureau chief Alice Su.
An earlier version of this episode was published July 2, 2021.
More reading:
As Communist Party turns 100, China’s Xi rallies his compatriots and warns his critics
He tried to commemorate erased history. China detained him, then erased that too
China offers a minority a lifeline out of poverty — but what happens to its culture?
CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Travis Kling on Why Elon’s BTC Buy Was the Biggest Story of the Year
Plus how institutional involvement in the space has changed.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On this episode of “The Breakdown’s” “End of Year Extravaganza”, NLW is joined by Travis Kling. Travis is the co-founder and chief investment officer of Ikigai Asset Management, and discusses the shift in institutional involvement in the crypto space.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 12.28.21
Alabama
- Severe weather predicted for this coming Wednesday in North and Central Alabama
- Governor Ivey grants 950 thousand dollars to Heflin Industrial Park
- Russell County authorities investigate woods near where missing child's body found
- Birmingham Bowl being held today, 40 thousand expected to fill Protective Stadium
- Gas prices fall under 3 Dollars per gallon in the state of Alabama
National
- Biden says to Governors in meeting that solution to Covid must happen at state level
- Republican National Committee responds with Video montage of Biden saying opposite
- Protest of vaccine mandate occurred this past Monday in New York City
- Another protest planned for January 23rd in Washington DC
- Republican primary challenger in Alaska senate race promises to reject Mitch McConnell as Party leader
- PA congressman is demanding answers to "ghost" flights into Scranton with illegal aliens
- 5 Michigan defendants say FBI agents plotted to kidnap Michigan governor not them
- New Jersey settles with families of veterans who died with Covid 19 at veteran homes
- Missouri 7 year old girl who survived tornado gets Christmas gifts from the Trumps
The Intelligence from The Economist - You bet your dollar-bottomed: Erdogan’s next gambit
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s idea for saving the lira by backing deposits with dollars means the Turkish taxpayer will end up bailing out the Turkish depositor. Our correspondent finds striking insights in 40 years’-worth of humdrum submissions to a unique sociology project. And Saudi Arabia’s multi-billion-dollar push into the cinema industry it outlawed for decades.
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