United states

A second class of about an equal number of Foreign Service specialists is equally affected, bringing the total to roughly 175. It didn’t have to be this way. The Office of Personnel Management has advised federal agencies how the “on-boarding process” for new employees can be conducted virtually or remotely. But the State Department maintains their new employees would have to start working a 40-hour week immediately and that it would be illegal to have them do less. This, despite the fact that the first several months of every new diplomat’s career is always spent in training, learning the intricacies of the government they are about to represent and the countries to which they are being dispatched. … [Read more...] about State Department is failing its staff at a critical time

"Every day we get new information that informs our modeling. We now think it's probably around the 9th of April before we exceed our ventilator capacity based on the current number on hand and that we're a couple of days behind that on ICU bed capacity being exceeded," he told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." "As we achieve success in slowing the rate of spread, we also push out that date. And critically important is the number of people who will present to the hospital and not be able to get a (ventilator) or a bed, it's a smaller number." … [Read more...] about Louisiana governor says state could run out of ventilators by end of the week if coronavirus cases continue to rise

“I think there is kind of a herd mentality. If one person does it then everyone does it ... it is definitely different times. People have never gone through anything like this. There was how life looked before COVID-19 and then life after COVID-19.” … [Read more...] about Coronavirus sparks run on chicks, agricultural products

Lesh pins the blame mainly on the statist bureaucracy mentality of Public Health England (PHE). When the need arose for rapid testing, other developed countries rose to the occasion by encouraging private laboratories to compete to produce as many test kits as they could: as a result in Germany, South Korea and the U.S., the testing capacity rapidly increased. … [Read more...] about Delingpole: Britain’s Bloated Health Bureaucracy Is Making a Pig’s Ear of This Crisis

Already, the coalition has put together a website where residents can tip service industry workers and delivery drivers directly using money transferring apps like Venmo and Cash App. Thanks to techies across the state, businesses can now contact the coalition to set up a VPN so their employees can work from home. Volunteers have arranged a medical supply drive at UW today, April 1, and they’re in the process of creating a GIS map with up-to-date information on coronavirus cases in Wyoming. … [Read more...] about Wyoming techies team up, take on challenge of coronavirus