Covid online symptom checker ‘may delay treatment’
A study suggests the NHS online Covid service tells some seriously-ill people to stay at home. Source link
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Is your office Covid-secure? Free online tool can calculate risk of virus spreading in poorly-ventilated places – ET HealthWorld
LONDON: Researchers have developed a new online tool that can calculate the risk of Covid-19 transmission in poorly-ventilated places, showing that when two people are in such spaces and neither is wearing a mask, prolonged talking is far more likely to spread the novel coronavirus than a short cough. The research, published in the journal … Read more
Covid-19: Stop anti-vaccination fake news online with new law says Labour
Coronavirus: How soon can we expect a working vaccine? Source link
Dating During the Pandemic: Online and Restless
Abraar Karan, MD, internal medicine and global health doctor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dolores Albarracin, PhD, professor of psychology, business, and medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Sara Heimerl, senior director of matchmaking, Selective Search, Chicago. Rachel DeAlto, chief dating expert, Match Lisa Bonos, dating and relationships writer, The Washington Post Style Section, … Read more
Woman with interfaith marriage, who supported Tanishq ad, files FIR in Pune over online harassment, threats
Zara Parwal, a Pune resident who shared pictures from her marriage to a Hindu man, to voice support for the Tanishq advertisement that landed in a controversy, has now filed an FIR with Pune Police over online harassment. The Tanishq ad was removed after severe backlash on social media. (Video grab: Twitter) Zara Parwal, a … Read more
IPL 2020: Minor, who hurled online abuses at MS Dhoni’s family, brought to Ranchi for interrogation
Chennai Super Kings’ series of humiliating defeats in the IPL 2020 gave birth to numerous memes and trolls on social media but some people took it too far by abusing and threatening MS Dhoni’s family. MS Dhoni has been subjected to social media trolls because of CSK’s poor run in the IPL 2020 (BCCI Image) … Read more
IPL 2020: Minor arrested for directing online abuse at cricketer’s daughter after CSK defeat
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection for issuing online threats to a cricketer’s daughter on social media after Chennai Super Kings’ loss against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Saturday. The boy was picked up by the police from Mundra’s Namna Kapaya village in the Kutch region of Gujarat. The juvenile is a student of … Read more
Social media flashbacks: Reminder of the good times
As per the study, themes such as animals, celebration, celebrity content, good deeds, family, food, humour, nostalgia, romance and sports drove joyful conversations on Twitter in 2019. By Shriya Roy It’s been a while since conversations and events around the world moved online. The Covid-19 pandemic, with its stay-at-home and social distancing guidelines, further intensified … Read more
Digital fever outpaces coronavirus as fear, convenience weigh
For years millions of individuals carrying the plastic card in their wallets for payment didn’t even know they could just tap their cards on the black brick-like machine at the shop as they walked out with merchandise. As fear-stricken people looked out for ways to avoid touching even their door knobs, they learnt that payments … Read more
18,000 Covid-19 test results put online by mistake
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The information was online for 20 hours before being taken down The details of more than 18,000 people who tested positive for coronavirus were published online by mistake by Public Health Wales. The health body said the data of 18,105 Welsh residents was viewable online for 20 hours on … Read more