—Voice of OC
Public health experts are increasingly worried the coronavirus case spikes are going to strain hospitals, while also exhausting medical staff, as hospitalizations continue to rise ahead of Thanksgiving.
“Parts of the country are already completely inundated with patients in ICUs and hospitals. They’re beyond the capacity to handle the number of patients. I think the fear is that we’re kind of heading toward that direction in Orange County and California, as well,” said UC Irvine epidemiologist Sanghyuk Shin.
Shin, who’s also director of the university’s infectious disease science initiative, said if the trends over the past couple weeks continue, then OC could end up looking like North and South Dakota, where the hospitals are quickly being overloaded with virus patients.
“If nothing is done, then we are likely to get to a place where people who get sick are not going to be able to be taken care of because our hospitals are beyond capacity,” he said….
But an overwhelmed hospital situation is a possibility, said UC Irvine epidemiologist Daniel Parker.
“The new cases are high now. It’s not good. So, weeks from now, we’re still going to see these cases and hospitalizations climbing — maybe even faster. And at the same time we don’t have any extra interventions to put in place (masks, physical distancing, etc.), so we have to rely on people’s behavior,” Parker said in a Thursday phone interview.
He said, at that point, that’s when more people die.
“That’s highly related to the hospitals being stressed and running out of necessary beds and that’s when you see people having to make difficult decisions. To make these triage decisions: Who to put on the bed, who to pull off. That’s when things get really bad,” Parker said….
The order, intended to deal with a worrying surge in coronavirus cases, requires most non-essential work, movement and gatherings to stop between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
—OC Reg
Thanksgiving is fast approaching. Many colleges still have no plans to test students before they leave.
—Inside Higher Ed
It's known that some policies help the rich get richer, while the poor get poorer. A new report shows the same pattern is affecting institutions of higher education.
—Inside Higher Ed
Study finds that half of the regional governors with Ph.D.s plagiarized them.
—Inside Higher Ed
Researchers have exposed widespread Ph.D. plagiarism among Russian regional governors, which they say is part of a broader culture of academic corruption in a country where ghostwriters are routinely hired to win the rich and powerful the prestige boost of a doctorate….
—Inside Higher Ed
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday recommended against travel for the Thanksgiving holiday and said college students returning home, and their hosts, should abide by extra precautions, including wearing masks, social distancing and improving ventilation….
—Inside Higher Ed
The groups also applauded President-elect Joe Biden’s plans to reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and urged the incoming administration to drop Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s position barring DACA and other students who do not qualify for federal student aid from receiving emergency grants under the CARES Act.
6 comments:
What does DuVos have to do with plagiarism?
I can tell who does. Joe Biden got caught at least 5 times stealing verbatim from a British leader, which he also admitted.
Why not caption and article Biden's academic fraud since it is factual and you are the anointed watchdog of all things academic?
I am aware of Biden's plagiarism scandal. I am also aware that it occurred 33 years ago.
Kinnock, the guy Biden plagiarized, now says that "Joe's an honest guy." —For what it's worth.
Biden certainly has his faults, but he is a known quantity, and we can expect him to surround himself with the usual (competent) suspects and to embrace an agenda much like Obama's. That's both good and bad. It's great compared to Trump and his "new" Republicans.
Biden represents the "establishment" wing of the Democratic Party—the hated and entitled Clinton crowd—which has no future (unless betraying the working and middle class and serving the complacent academic/professional elite is one's guiding light—and which seems determined to keep the Democratic base—Bernie's progressives mostly—from grabbing the reins. The progressives are the energy and future of the party. At some point, they'll outmaneuver the establishmentarians—Pelosi, et al.—and take over.
Can't be too soon, IMO
We await opportunity.
Re my recent comment: I'm speaking for myself here—not necessarily for Rebel Girl, though I suspect that her perspective isn't much different. She and I have long shared a low estimation of Joe, although one can't help but cheer him on as he vanquishes the odious Trump and his equally odious Republican enablers.
This country needs to finally DO things about our great national problems. That won't happen until the Sanders (or near-Sanders) Progressives (a kind of non-Trumpian populism) are on the ascendancy. I have high hopes, but not in the short run.
Short-term, I cheer on the anti-Trump team happily.
12:00 PM.."The leopard, never changes its spot".........
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