Stocks panic-bid off EU close after Biden-induced breakdown (SPY +0.6%). Amazon has made as much profit during pandemic as previous three years of earnings in total.
The Market in Perspective
Here are the headlines moving the markets.
Chinas Shale Industry Faces Numerous Challenges China has bet on developing its vast shale gas resources to boost its natural gas supply as demand surges. Despite recent shale production surprises to the upside, China still has several major challenges to overcome if it were to replicate, at least partially, the American shale boom. China is estimated to have a lot of shale gas resources, even higher than those in the United States. China actually has the highest technically recoverable shale gas resources in the world, as per EIA estimates. However, Beijing has struggled to develop those huge
The Health 202: CDC s mask guidance is still too strict for the vaccinated, some experts say Paige Winfield Cunningham
with Alexandra Ellerbeck Virtually everyone was vaccinated at the joint session of Congress this week. Yet it still looked like a pandemic scene as President Biden addressed masked and distanced lawmakers in the House chamber.
The approach frustrated a number of public health experts, who are starting to question the Biden administration’s conservative approach to public health guidance despite highly effective and now widely distributed coronavirus vaccines. “Everyone could have been in that room,” said Monica Gandhi, professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. “If we’re all fully vaccinated, we could all be unmasked and distanced in that room.”
IASâLancet Commission on Health and Human Rights
IAS–Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights
“This newly formed Commission seeks to interrogate the key questions facing both global health and human rights in a world of complex transnational threats and challenges, from climate change to COVID-19, equity in access to healthcare and the ways to address the many communities excluded from current health and development debates. We feel the time is now to develop a more inclusive vision that can embolden efforts to realize the right to health for all.”
~ Adeeba Kamarulzaman & Chris Beyrer – Commission Co-Chairs
Charged with being bold, fresh, innovative and challenging to advance thinking on health and human rights, the Commission will explore the following key questions:
The emerging data confirms what many of us thought would be the case that
not only do the vaccines stop symptomatic COVID, but they also make it highly unlikely that someone can even be infected at all. I think the
preponderance of the evidence supports the fact that vaccinated individuals are not able to spread the virus.
- Amesh Adalja, MD, is a senior scholar at the Center for Health Security
Think about that quote above. It’s posted on the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health website. Yet extensive limitations or recommended restrictions remain for vaccinated people, from the Center for Disease Control and many state or local health authorities.