A 57-year-old man in Japan who contracted the new coronavirus and threatened to intentionally spread it in public spaces has died, according to multiple news reports from Japan. The infected man, who told family he was going to “spread the virus” by visiting bars in central Japan, died in a hospital on Wednesday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put his foot down against letting senators vote electronically.
“The coronavirus crisis has revealed, once again, that Donald Trump is dangerously unfit for office.”
The race is currently on to develop effective treatment and a vaccine against the coronavirus, whose outbreak has been causing a lot of panic and fear around the world. However, it seems that there might already be a medicine out there that could actually be rather effective against the coronavirus.
According to the Chinese government, they are claiming that an influenza medication developed by Japan by in 2014 has proven to be effective in treating the coronavirus. The medication, developed by a Fujifilm Holdings group member, is said to not only be safe, but also effective, where the Chinese government is planning on officially recommending the medication to be used in treatments of the coronavirus.
In a news conference, Zhang Xinmin, director of the science ministry’s China National Center for Biotechnology Development was quoted as saying, “It has a high degree of safety and is clearly effective in treatment.” During a clinical trial conducted in hospitals in Wuhan and Shenzhen, patients who received the medication tested negative for the virus in a shorter period of time, with pneumonia symptoms improving at a higher rate.
However, it should be noted that the trial only involved 200 patients, so we can’t say for sure how well it will scale up, so maybe we should approach this with cautious optimism. Also, this is not the first treatment found to have proven effective. Previously, there were some patients who were treated using HIV medication which was also found to have helped.
A 2014 Flu Medicine Developed By Japan Might Be Effective Against The Coronavirus
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Have you ever wondered why everyone who posts on TikTok looks so “attractive”? Could it just be a platform that only seems to attract good-looking people? If you’ve actually come to that realization, it seems that it might have been done on purpose, at least that’s according to a report from The Intercept.
According to the publication, they have managed to obtain internal documents that TikTok allegedly gave to its moderators, where they were seemingly instructed to suppress videos that featured “ugly” people as well as “poor” people in a bid to attract more users to its platform, presumably to try and make itself look like a hip and fun app for youngsters.
The reasoning behind these policies is that it would “decrease the short-term new user retention rate”, where they were apparently worried that videos that showed “ugly” people or “poor” people would make it difficult for the platform’s algorithms to recommend new videos for users to watch and to stay on its platform.
TikTok has since responded to the documents obtained by The Intercept, where company spokesperson Josh Gartner told the publication that “most of” the livestream guidelines are “either no longer in use” or in some cases, “never have been in place”. They also tried to justify it by claiming that this was done to prevent bullying on its platform, where they might be worried that these so-called “undesirable” videos could result in negative unwanted attention towards the original poster.
TikTok Reportedly Tried To Suppress Posts By ‘Ugly’ Users
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No one really relishes the idea of getting an injection. According to the statistics, it is said that roughly 10-20% of American adults suffer from trypanophobia, the extreme fear of hypodermic needles and injections, and this can create a problem because it means that it might be difficult for them to get tested for certain illnesses or to receive medication.
However, in the future it seems that maybe injections done via needles could no longer be necessary, thanks to the work of researchers led by scientists from the Wyss Institute, where they have refined laser-cavitation techniques that could help deliver medication into the bloodstream of patients without having to pierce the skin with a needle.
This technique isn’t new and has been inspired by nature, where mantis shrimp use similar techniques to deliver attacks to their prey. For those unfamiliar, cavitation involves the rapid change in a liquid’s pressure to create low-pressure bubbles of vapor. In the case of laser cavitation, it uses a pulse laser to collapse those vapor bubbles on a small scale, where it is capable of blasting vapor streams up to 850ft/s and five millimeters into the skin.
That being said, don’t expect to see this type of laser injections arrive anytime soon. The researchers are hoping that human trials will begin in the next two years. According to Alex Abramson, a postdoctoral fellow and chemical engineer at Stanford University, “We want to make sure that there isn’t any change to the pharmacokinetics or pharmacodynamics of the delivery. And we also want to make sure that there aren’t any proteins or enzymes present in the tissue that could be affecting the drug in any way.”
Lasers Could Soon Replace Painful Injections
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With social distancing measures being put into place, it means that more people are being sent home to work or to study. It also means that large gatherings have been cancelled or postponed, such as school graduation ceremonies. Graduations are a huge part of a student’s life, which is why over in Japan, students have come up with an interesting way around the issue.
Graduates from one elementary school, determined not to pass on this milestone in their lives, have opted to gather in order to graduate. However, this gathering was done virtually where the students met up in Minecraft where their graduation ceremony was held.
According to a translation of the tweet by SoraNews24, it appears that the students had fun taking part in their graduation ceremony, which we imagine is probably the first of its kind. The tweet reads, “They spent all day online together playing games and laughing. I’m glad they all had fun. The assembly hall is also really well made.”
会場もすごくよく出来ている。 pic.twitter.com/HKjVCaOmOf
— 柏原周平 (@backyennew) March 14, 2020
Switching to online gatherings is starting to become more popular these days as they act as an alternative to physical gatherings. Even companies like Apple and Google have announced that while their physical annual events won’t be taking place, they will be planning online events to help make up for it.
Students In Japan Hold Graduation Ceremony In Minecraft
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If you’re thinking about going to an Apple store to check out an Apple product, it looks like you will not be able to do so for the time-being. This is because in response to the coronavirus outbreak, Apple has decided to shutter all of its physical retail stores outside of China “until further notice”.
Apple did previously state that this closure will take place until the 27th of March, but it looks like that timeframe has been extended and currently there is no set time on when they will be reopening. On its website, Apple has advised customers who wish to purchase its products to do so through its online store or through the Apple Store app.
This decision does not come as a surprise as many countries around the world are now practicing lockdowns or restriction of movements, where businesses are forced to temporarily suspend their operations until this outbreak has been brought under control. This is part of an effort to socially distance the population from each other, where the idea is that if people were to stay apart from each other, it will reduce the potential spread of the virus.
With many countries starting to see a rise in the number of cases everyday, along with deaths, this makes a lot of sense, so if there are things you need to buy, perhaps consider purchasing it online instead.
Apple’s Physical Stores Will Be Closed Until Further Notice
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Fake news is a huge problem as it can lead to panic in certain situations. This is why many huge tech companies that have millions of users are trying to fight this misinformation by labeling articles that might be false. Now it looks like Google is also making some changes to its Discover Feed.
For those who are unfamiliar, Google’s Discover Feed is a feature that helps users find news and article topics that it thinks might be of interest to them. In a recent update to Discover Feed, Google has introduced the ability for users to flag articles that the user thinks could be potentially misleading.
All users need to do to flag an article is to tap the three dot icons towards the bottom right corner of an article, select Report Content, and they’ll be able to choose from several options, one of which is an article that might be “misleading or sensational”, indicating that maybe the article might contain information that is wrong or maybe even exaggerated.
Google has previously allowed users to send feedback regarding articles, but now with a specific flag for articles that are misleading, it should help Google narrow down all the submissions where presumably they’ll be reviewed.
Google Lets Users Flag Misleading Articles In Its Discover Feed
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The COVID-19 pandemic has done more than just lock people in their houses. It has also forced many businesses to rethink their workflows and discovering some of it can actually be done online at home. Working remotely, however, has always been one of the staples of those working in the IT industry. Many software developers, in particular, have been able … Continue reading
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