Dr. Anthony Fauci and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Suzanne Clark discussed best practices for business leaders and the path forward to beating coronavirus and fully reopening America. Below is a selection of quotes from today’s event. If you use the following comments, please mention the discussion was from a U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation […]
Randall Bolten, author and finance executive with more than 30 years of experience, talks about how the assertion that the U.S. leads the world in COVID-19 testing is flatly dishonest, especially when the real cause of the increase in reported cases is a raging pandemic. “When you’re up to your rear in alligators, it’s hard […]
The UK is getting back into business. Gradually, sector by sector, we are beginning to embrace the ‘new normal’, and businesses are once again raring to go. After the most recent loosening of lockdown measures, many pubs, bars, and restaurants are due to open their doors to the public again from this weekend. The likelihood […]
Almost 1 500 innovators from 44 countries applied for the EIT’s € 60 million Crisis Response Initiative. The funds have now been unlocked by the EIT Governing Board to ensure critical support swiftly reaches entrepreneurs. This will allow high-impact start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs to benefit from additional funding under the ‘Venture Support Instrument’; and will […]
COVID-19 cases have surged tremendously in the U.S. in the last couple of weeks. The latest excuse cited by some federal and state government officials is that the increase is the result of more testing. This note challenges those assertions as flatly dishonest. Below is a graph comparing the total testing done by about 40 […]
The 2020 COVID-19 Computational Challenge has resulted in significant data-driven solutions to assist with the transition to re-open Los Angeles. Team ANRG from University of Southern California with other 5 winner teams produced the COVID-19 infection risk score visuals in different communities within the L. A. County and recommendations on risk mitigation. And data science and tech was an […]
The nations of the wealthy west are coming out of their pandemic foxholes and reopening their economies, even as some developing nations are seeing explosive growth in new cases. This is a good moment to take stock and evaluate the U.S.’s response to-date to the pandemic. Only a comparison of the U.S. to other nations […]
Global Mayors Launch COVID-19 Economic Recovery Task Force News release Mayor of Milan to chair C40 Cities task force providing mayors with knowledge and tools for designing an economic recovery that improves public health, reduces inequality and addresses the climate crisis Virtual meeting of 40 mayors and city leaders from 25 countries uniting to collaborate […]
How businesses should prepare for a post-COVID world From cashflow to growth, getting businesses back to work after lockdown News release The government is taking “modest” steps in easing lockdown restrictions, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said. From today in England primary schools will start to reopen and people can meet in groups of up […]
R&D Collaboration Across Oxford-Cambridge London Arc Offers Hope In An Age of Uncertainty News release While economists sought to rejig their models following the financial crisis, adjusting for a pandemic, the likelihood of a cure and a whole range of science and tech related variables in between presents a far greater challenge. Delving into how […]