With Russia clamping down on media, both domestic and international, BBC is reverting to a medium that hasn't seemed so necessary since the Cold War: shortwave radio to broadcast into Russia. Part of our coverage tonight on The National.
CANADA ⚽️🇨🇦 IS GOLDEN!
CANADA WINS IN PENALTY KICKS!
22 Canadian women have made history. They’ve changed the colour of the medal.
It’s the first time a Canadian women’s team has won gold at the Olympics.
They’re Olympic champions. #Tokyo2020
King County epidemiologists discovered that 97% of all COVID cases during April and May were among the unvaccinated. That isn't enticing enough for people to get a shot, so we're trying a million-dollar cash giveaway, writes columnist Danny Westneat. https://t.co/JmJTlFdcjq
The AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccine will now be available to those 40 years & older in Ontario, starting April 20 (previously for 55+ years).
There are ~1400 pharmacies in the province & Family Docs administering this vaccine.
Smart move. This will help.
https://t.co/RqYNHwvZ8E
FUNDSTRAT: The # of daily US vaccinations is now 45x the # of daily confirmed cases. “As long as the US has this prodigious ratio .. this is pointing to a future decline in the pervasiveness of COVID-19 pandemic. .. vaccinations are a leading indicator.” @fundstrat
WOW—The world’s largest #P1 variant outbreak surge outside of Brazil has now solidified with 480 total cases in British Columbia 🇨🇦
Famed ski resort @WhistlerBlckcmb has 1120 #COVID19 cases Jan-March—**83.2% are young adults aged 20-39**🧵
HT @AndreaWoo
https://t.co/2LoBDYRYv1
It’s many patients in that 20 to 50 year old group. Most do not seem to have co morbidities. This will go very badly if people don’t wise up. Don’t travel right now. At this pace of admissions our covid unit will be over capacity before Tuesday.
🚨 CIRCUIT BREAKER IN B.C. 🚨
For the next three weeks, the provincial government is banning indoor dining, group fitness activities, indoor worship services, and shutting down Whistler ski resort.
Key is to keep investing in expansion of manufacturing capacities of the vaccines that are most likely to allow us to expand them to cover more strains and to redose with boosters. That means investing in massive scale-up of protein-based vaccines.
By far one of my favorite charts from the quarterly Morgan Stanley CIO survey: currently only 26% of application workloads are run in the cloud. This is expected to grow to 42% by the end of 2023. Still sooooo much room to run in cloud markets
Health Canada has authorized Pfizer-BioNTech’s #COVID19 vaccine. After a thorough and independent review of the evidence. Health Canada has determined that the vaccine meets its stringent safety, efficacy and quality requirements.
https://t.co/mhFcspCpTi
#COVIDvaccines