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Saving Ourselves from Big Car
\"Cars are killing people and making the planet uninhabitable. Crashes take the lives of more than a million people around the world each year. Air pollution linked to motor vehicles contributes to even more untimely deaths. Highways and unsafe streets have devastated cities, yet traffic congestion still swallows up countless hours. And carbon emissions from transportation are a key driver of climate change, which now threatens to make the world unlivable. Why do we still worship at the altar of the car? How can we find alternatives that are healthier for the planet and ourselves? Streetwise exposes how \"Big Car\"-the complex of companies in the automobile, oil, insurance, media, and concrete industries that promote and entrench car dependence-has pursued profit at the expense of the common good. David Obst explores how Big Car gained almost immeasurable influence over our lives, weighing the benefits and the costs of reliance on private automobiles. He details how industry covered up the harms of lead additives, fought against seatbelts, and continues to fund climate-change denialism. Obst considers the future of mobility, surveying how cities-from Taipei to Tempe, Copenhagen to Chicago-are experimenting with forms of transportation that offer alternatives to the dominance of cars. Provocative and comprehensive, Streetwise is a powerful wake-up call for us to change how we use cars before it's too late\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Un mese nei tweet Per conoscere, per riflettere, per costruire reti
ICU beds come next. @DrMCecconi | Maurizio Cecconi | 7.01.2021 The new banner headline we will never forget. Anecdotes are powerful, but I prefer to change minds with data, so I struggle with anecdotes in media coverage of science. @VPrasadMDMPH | Vinay Prasad | 30.12.2020 Why a SARS-CoV-2 variant that’s 50% more transmissible would in general be a much bigger problem than a variant that’s 50% more deadly. By above, we’d expect 10000 x (1.1 x 1.5)^5 x 0.8% = 978 eventual new fatalities after a month of spread. 4/ The above is just an illustrative example, but the key message: an increase in something that grows exponentially (i.e. transmission) can have far more effect than the same proportional increase in something that just scales an outcome (i.e. severity).
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Death toll in Buffalo blizzard rises to at least seven
On Dec. 25, officials in Erie County, N.Y., reported at least seven total deaths attributed to the catastrophic snowstorm.
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Case-Fatality Risk Estimates for COVID-19 Calculated by Using a Lag Time for Fatality
We estimated the case-fatality risk for coronavirus disease cases in China (3.5%); China, excluding Hubei Province (0.8%); 82 countries, territories, and areas (4.2%); and on a cruise ship (0.6%). Lower estimates might be closest to the true value, but a broad range of 0.25%-3.0% probably should be considered.
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