While firms around the world are volunteering, lawmakers in the US have called for wartime legislation to force companies to help out, amid concerns about a shortage of ventilators and protective gear. Democrats are calling on Donald Trump to dust off the Defence Production Act, which can compel companies to make particular products. Such is the scale of the coronavirus crisis that even the world’s biggest economy is set to be placed on a war footing. … [Read more...] about British retailers and manufacturers in ‘wartime effort’ to fight Covid-19
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How the UK plans to source 30,000 ventilators for the NHS
Dyson has revealed the most detail about its progress, including pictures of its CoVent prototype. It hopes to begin producing within weeks, pending approval from the Medical and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which has been talking to Dyson during the design phase. … [Read more...] about How the UK plans to source 30,000 ventilators for the NHS
Albert Camus novel The Plague leads surge of pestilence fiction
Camus’s daughter Catherine was 14 when she read La Peste, two months before her father died in a car accident. “The message of La Peste rings true today as it did back then, as it will in the future,” she told the Guardian. “I’m glad to learn people are reading it again. If there’s a passage in the book that speaks to readers, that gives them hope, this is what is important.” … [Read more...] about Albert Camus novel The Plague leads surge of pestilence fiction
A letter to… my psychiatrist, who exploits me
I tried so often to raise this issue with you, but I was too embarrassed, and you made it difficult for me. It may be a difficult topic for you, too. I don’t know how to step out of this dark madness. Meanwhile my expenditure on you creeps up and up. I feel helpless, but you cannot see a problem. … [Read more...] about A letter to… my psychiatrist, who exploits me
Australia’s coronavirus toll: Covid-19 related deaths across the country
Four NSW Covid-19 deaths were elderly residents of the Dorothy Henderson Lodge aged care facility in Macquarie Park. A 95-year-old woman died on 3 March, followed by an 82-year-old man on 9 March, a 90-year-old woman on 14 March and a 91-year-old woman on 28 March. … [Read more...] about Australia’s coronavirus toll: Covid-19 related deaths across the country
