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Nuance is big in the healthcare industry. It's more than just speech recognition. They also do documents, OCR, PDFs, etc. Basically all those medical archives converted into digital on Azure. Like LinkedIn and GitHub, MS will gain knowledge from all that data. This deal is all about Enterprise, not consumers

Beijing has distributed hundreds of millions of doses in other countries while also trying to promote doubt about the effectiveness of Western vaccines.

Chinese state media and popular health and science blogs also have questioned the safety and effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

What a propaganda

The rest of the article also states:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/12/china-coronavirus-vaccine-top-official-admits-low-effectiveness.html

The effectiveness of a Sinovac vaccine at preventing symptomatic infections was found to be as low as 50.4% by researchers in Brazil, near the 50% threshold at which health experts say a vaccine is useful.

They just made it barely above the minimum 50%

“Everyone should consider the benefits mRNA vaccines can bring for humanity,” Gao said. “We must follow it carefully and not ignore it just because we already have several types of vaccines already.”

What a 180

Health experts say Chinese vaccines are unlikely to be sold to the United States, western Europe and Japan due to the complexity of the approval process.

Complexity? Y'mean, opening the data to be scrutinized on a renowned peer-reviewed publication as a first step? Yeah, that must be so complex if you're so secretive

If anybody thinks this virus is nothing, look at Brazil

Should Iran show proof?

It's not as if they're a major power in it.

The US women are. The US men, not so much

Good luck any girl even getting close to her

There are no "piles of bodies" from the infection which hardly makes a blimp in the normal death rate in the population.

Yes, there is. Hospitals don't just haul out refrigerated "morgue trucks" everyday

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/covid-19-surge-banner-health-using-refrigerated-trucks-to-expand-morgue-capacity

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fema-is-sending-85-refrigerated-trucks-to-new-york-city-to-serve-as-temporary-morgues-2020-04-01

Why do people keep ignoring all these out-of-normal things that's been happening? Morgue trucks aren't normal hospital sight

No proof it came from China Sir. It did spread there though.

But China is not helping matters by restricting research

For one, it shouldn't have taken more than a year to have experts there

Then they should let in even more experts (while following safe Covid protocols)

That's the only way we can get to the bottom of this

But alas, they're so too secretive

The Thief and a Cobbler

I think most people are happy to buy from a single source knowing there are no risks.

But most people don't use iPhones or Macs

I think most people don't mind taking some risks in exchange for more freedom of options to choose from. That's why people like to window-shop to different places

Surely we should be doing with China?

China doesn't share technology

And that's why ya don't spread the virus

Not Cy Young candidates Snell nor Darvish, but a little known trade-in from a 3-team trade delivered the no-hitter for the last MLB team without a no-hitter

The theory, that a good guy with a gun will stop a bad guy with a gun, breaks down in real life because a good guy with a gun can't get there fast enough since the bad guy has the element of surprise

Thank goodness vaccinations work

RIP

That'd be one heckuva funeral family gathering - the Windsor brothers

The vaccines are safe - the incidences are quite low. One has a better chance at dying in a car crash - yet everyday billions of people freely take the chance to drive because they feel driving is safe enough. Think about that

And then there's Pfizer vaccine. Anybody has problems with that?

"Manila hospitals struggle as virus surges"

That just reflects on the under-equipped healthcare system in the RP, and not on any virus.

Then why hadn't other virus done the same thing? The Philippines has a lot of viruses, but no other viruses have put their under-equipped healthcare system to its knees like this Covid virus has done. Funny that

And that's the crux of this epidemic: the healthcare, the hospitals, the front-line workers getting overwhelmed

Unless someone has a solution to that problem that doesn't involve some degree of lockdown, then they cannot continue doing business as usual like there's nothing happening

I suggest we tell the hypocrisy crippled American political psychopaths to go away and leave the Olympics alone.

The Olympics itself is filled with hypocrisy crippled political psychopaths, so they're even

Maybe it is time for all professional sports to add a "roll model" clause, which doesn't allow any legal issues at all for them to be members in good standing?

There are already such clauses in contracts (e.g. domestic violence, see NFL), but golfers don't belong to teams (they're independent free agents)

the warmongering against Russia and in the Middle East is on again.

NATO was created not to be Trump-submissive to USSR/Russia after all

While the Middle East has been quiet lately - if anything, a deal with Iran would lead to de-escalations

Sinovax or Sputnik is an option too.

Not until they're submitted by the companies for approval and approved

Particularly the Chinese vaccines since they haven't published their final reports yet in peer-reviewed journals

One's free speech ends where another one's rights begins

As long as they stay in international waters, and not violate Taiwan's waters and airspace

US and other nations are allowed there too, so they shouldn't complain

The Trump administration had also backed Oracle.

Trump backed Oracle only because Trump and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison are buddies

There's crazy scoring in the all-Canadian division all year - must be something in the cold Canadian air

The Baylor University mens basketball team also had some Covid problems just a couple months ago; yet last night they won the college championship for the first time (beating the previously-undefeated Gonzaga, Rui Hachimura's old college team), so it is possible to overcome this adversity

Bloomberg News has a good article explaining it with graphics

"How a Chip Shortage Snarled Everything From Phones to Cars"

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-semiconductors-chips-shortage/

This is another key bottleneck. Just three or four foundries now account for the majority of global chip fabrication—TSMC and Samsung and their more distant rivals, California-based Globalfoundries Inc., controlled by Abu Dhabi’s investment arm, and United Microelectronics Corp. Looking at it another way, an estimated 91% of the contract chipmaking business is housed within Asia, the lion’s share of which is divided between just two regions: Taiwan and South Korea, home to TSMC and Samsung, respectively.

According to Bloomberg supply-chain estimates, 25% of all TSMC’s business comes from Apple, the highest-profile client it directly manufactures chips for. However, TSMC’s importance lies in the critical role it plays in the entire semiconductor supply chain; it also manufactures chips for other chipmakers or for fabless chip designers, such as Broadcom, Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD or Texas Instruments. They are in turn supplying the world’s biggest consumer electronics, communications equipment and auto parts companies.

It was snowing in Detroit, lol

Baseball outside in the snow!

Lockdowns don’t work. You need herd immunity.

Question: What is the purpose of a lockdown?

If your answer is about ending the virus, then you're wrong.

The purpose of a lockdown is to flatten the curve so that the healthcare and hospitals are not overwhelmed. That does not end the virus, but rather gives healthcare workers some relief to breathe and able to take care of their patients.

It is possible to achieve herd immunity without a lockdown as long as the healthcare and hospitals are not overcapacity. However, if on the way to achieving herd immunity, the healthcare and hospitals are overwhelmed, then a lot of extra unnecessary deaths will occur unless there's some degree of lockdown to flatten the curve back down to within healthcare/hospital capacity.

Achieving herd immunity with a lot of extra unnecessary deaths is a high price to pay that nobody would be willing to sacrifice.

The French are also not taking their vaccines

Fake news : there is vaccine shortage and waiting list

There's both a shortage and a lot of skepticism:

"France, Once a Vaccine Pioneer, Is Top Skeptic in Covid-19 Pandemic"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/france-once-a-vaccine-pioneer-is-top-skeptic-in-covid-19-pandemic-11610971051

An Ipsos poll conducted in December found that France ranked at the bottom of 15 countries on willingness to take a Covid-19 vaccine, with only 40% of the public saying they wanted the shot.

The resistance has historical roots in the 19th century, when antivaccination groups campaigned against modern inoculation techniques discovered by Frenchman Louis Pasteur.

Brazil trending in the wrong direction - Bolsonaro's policies ain't working