Wednesday, April 15, 2020


The impact continues...
Equifax settles Indiana case over massive data breach for $19.5 million
Nate Raymond reports:
Equifax Inc will pay Indiana $19.5 million to resolve claims it failed to protect residents whose personal information was exposed in a data breach that affected 147 million people, the state’s attorney general said on Monday.
Read more on Reuters.




Aside from antibodies, what other requirements might there be for a “passport?” Would we ever stop using them?
The US government is in talks with UK AI startup Onfido to roll out immunity passports for people who recover from COVID-19
On Friday, Dr Anthony Fauci said the federal government was considering issuing Americans with immunity certificates.
In documents seen by Business Insider, Onfido said its immunity passport would “include test results tied to a person’s identity”, and claimed it could rapidly scale up to nationwide distribution.


(Related)
Harvard Researchers Say Some Social Distancing May Be Needed Into 2022
Bloomberg: “People around the world might need to practice some level of social distancing intermittently through 2022 to stop Covid-19 from surging anew and overwhelming hospital systems, a group of Harvard disease researchers said Tuesday. Lifting social-distancing measures all at once could risk simply delaying the epidemic’s peak and potentially making it more severe, the scientists warned in an article published Tuesday in the journal Science. The course of the pandemic will depend on questions not yet answered: Will the virus’s spread change with the seasons? What immunity will people have after they’re infected? And does exposure to coronaviruses that cause mild illnesses confer any protection against the pathogen that causes Covid-19?…”




For my students.
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Wish I had thought of this first!
A 93-year-old woman got a massive Coors Light delivery after a viral plea for more beer
Thanks to Coors Light, Olive Veronesi now has 150 ice-cold beers -- and she doesn't have to pass them around to anybody.
The 93-year-old went viral last week after CNN Pittsburgh affiliate KDKA shared her photo with a Coors Light in hand and a plea written on a white board: "I NEED MORE BEER!!"
The photo, taken by one of Veronesi's family members, was shared more than 5 million times.



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