How surprising are the vaccinated Yankees’ COVID-19 cases? Experts explain the implications Hannah Keyser
A coronavirus outbreak among vaccinated players and staff has “rocked” the New York Yankees and attracted the attention of the CDC this week. So far, eight people, including shortstop Gleyber Torres, have tested positive more than 14 days after being fully vaccinated.
Because the team has a high level of vaccinated personnel, the Yankees have not missed any games while weathering this outbreak, and seven of the eight cases have been asymptomatic. Still, the accidental case study of post-vaccine positives could have implications for the remainder of the baseball season as well as the broader public.
A recent study published in the journal
Sleep Health calls into question the efficacy of Apple s Night Shift feature in iPhones. The study tracked the sleep of 167 people, ages 18 to 24, to see if filtering out blue light had any discernable effect on rest. The results can be extrapolated to the Windows 10 Night light feature and Night Light on Android, which rely on the same underlying assumptions about filtering out blue light.
The study itself is fascinating, if only because it is one of the only large-scale investigations to address the subject. The experiment had three randomly assigned conditions which involved 60 minutes of iPhone use before bed with Night Shift (set to max), without Night Shift, and a third group told to abstain from the iPhone usage (and all light-emitting devices) before bed. Participants had their phones monitored using an app called Moment, sleep outcomes were measured using Actigraph GT3X+ wrist-worn accelerometers, and participants were instructed
Elizabeth Holmes faces moment of reckoning for Theranos blood testing scandal
The Theranos founder, whose trial is due to begin in August, faces criminal fraud charges that could land her in prison for up to 20 years
12 May 2021 • 9:00am
When Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes came walking through the office, employees would mutter “E is coming”, under their breath.
“We didn’t want to say her name out loud,” says Cheryl Gafner, a former receptionist at the biotechnology company. “It was like
Beetlejuice - if you said it three times then s would happen.”
Perhaps workers were onto something. Holmes, who Gafner once joked was “hatched out of a pod” due to her cold demeanour, could face up to 20 years in prison for allegedly lying to investors, doctors and patients about the limits of Theranos’ technology.