Dr. Stuart Weiss: COVID-19 Update Friday 28-August-2020
Dr. Stuart Weiss, FACEP, FAAP, CBCP August 28, 2020Today’s topics: More CoViD-19 craziness from President Trump President Trump announces a vaccine will be available in 4 months On the final night of the Republican National Convention, President Trump announced that…
Cayman: COVID-19 Testing Update 28 August 2020 – NO new positives
The Chief Medical Officer, Dr John Lee, reports 141 COVID-19 tests have been carried out since last reported on Thursday, 27 August. All were negative. The total number of people in isolation, either at a government facility or in their…
A simmering crisis between 2 allies could create a new headache for the US in a volatile region
By Stavros Atlamazoglou From Business Insider ANALYSIS Greece and Turkey are at odds over a disputed patch of the Mediterranean Sea and the rights to resources it may hold. The dispute isn’t new, but tensions are rising, and an armed…
New CDC study offers the strongest evidence yet that COVID-19 can spread in airplanes
By David Slotnick From Business Insider A study published by the CDC found that asymptomatic COVID-19carriers could spread the coronavirus on flights. The study found that on a flight with 290 passengers, one passenger appeared to catch the novel coronavirus from one of six asymptomatic…
WHO Director−General’s opening remarks at the Member State briefing on COVID−19 − 27 August 2020
Honourable Ministers, Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends, Thank you for joining us for this week’s Member State briefing. As we have a full schedule today, my remarks will be brief. Before I get into today’s briefing, I’d like to start…
UK PRA revisits pandemic measures
By Douglas Thomson From GBRR The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority will terminate a counter-cyclical emergency capital requirements policy adopted at the outset of the pandemic, while issuing new guidance on the treatment of deferrals under the IFRS 9 accounting standard….
US regulators pave way for higher capital distributions despite dissent
From GBRR US banking regulators have finalised a measure allowing banks to make higher capital distributions under stressed financial conditions, over the objections of the minority members of the Federal Reserve and FDIC boards. The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance…
Jamaica: JDC 2020 Finance and Economics Debate covers a wide range of issues
Kingston, Jamaica. August 27, 2020. A wide range of issues were examined by the Jamaica Labour Party, JLP and the People’s National Party, PNP in the Finance and Economics debate hosted under the auspices of the Jamaica Debates Commission, JDC…
The UK’s new opportunity to combat organ harvesting
From Freedom United We recently reached out to you about our new campaign to stop forced organ harvesting – a form of modern slavery in which victims have their organs forcibly removed, sold onto the black market and used in illegal organ transplants. The…
