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not to ask the people who oversaw battling the pandemic before: What the heck were you thinking?
More on that in a second.
As of Jan. 29, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that ~49 million vaccine doses had been shipped and ~28 million were administered, with ~23 million patients now having received at least one of two shots required.
That is a far stretch from what will be needed to get hundreds of millions of Americans vaccinated so the country achieves the long-sought herd immunity to allow normality to return.
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In 2017, Hurricane Harvey’s historic U.S. rainfall forced out over 30,000 people and ravaged 200,000 homes and businesses. In 2018, California experienced its costliest, deadliest and largest wildfires to date, costing over 25 billion dollars in damages. Also, in 2019, historic inland flooding in the Midwest inundated millions of acres of agriculture, cities and towns and widespread damage to infrastructure.
America’s new normal of fleeing from extreme weather in search of safety shows no signs of slowing. Last year, the United States experienced a record-breaking 22 billion-dollar disasters, displacing thousands of Americans from California to Louisiana.
But with the inauguration of President Biden
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VA Medical Facility Lease Wrongly Decided, GAO Says
Law360 (February 1, 2021, 2:28 PM EST) The U.S. Government Accountability Office agreed with a construction firm that the government s award of a facility development contract was defective because officials did not conduct meaningful discussions, but the GAO did not ultimately recommend canceling the contract.
General counsel Thomas H. Armstrong wrote in an opinion released Friday that the procurement process by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs should have included more substantive engagement about the offerors proposals, including any errors that would have needed correction. Where discussions have occurred, they must be meaningful; that is, they must lead the offeror into those areas of its proposal that require.
Ep 1259 | 1.29.21
Lebanon Cedar’s wide-ranging cyberespionage campaign. Lazarus Group said to be behind the social engineering of vulnerability researchers. Solorigate spreads. Social media and the short squeeze.
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Lebanon Cedar is quietly back, and running a cyberespionage campaign through vulnerable servers. Social engineering of vulnerability researchers is now attributed to the Lazarus Group. That “SolarWinds” incident is a lot bigger than SolarWinds. Notes on social media and the short squeeze. Verizon’s Chris Novak looks at the changing landscape of ransomware payments. Our guest Professor Brian Gant from Maryville University examines cybersecurity threats facing the new U.S. administration. And the GAO thinks the US State Department should use “data and evidence.”