Sharing information with public is important medicine in COVID-19 fight – Modern Healthcare

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Hearing a need among community members for clear information about best practices to mitigate risks of COVID-19, University Hospitals in early May launched a toolkit to help businesses navigate returning to work.

First the system heard from leaders of essential services, then more and more businesses and community members asked for help understanding safety practices: masking, distancing, cleaning protocols and more. As the requests grew, UH wanted to get information to a broader audience than just those who had reached out.

"I think we quickly realized that this needed to be content that stood up so it was available to everyone in the community, not just the people we were able to work with one-on-one," said Dr. Joan Zoltanski, UH's chief experience officer who has been leading the system's Healthy Restart efforts.

In the past three months, the UH Healthy Restart Playbooks free online, up-to-date resources for employers and schools have been downloaded thousands of times.

Cleveland Clinic was hearing similar requests for information from the community and launched its own support system for businesses shortly after UH. The Clinic's AtWork program offers COVID-19 response resources, including webinars, industry-specific guides and a hotline for advice.

"The top three things that people are asking of us that we're working for and working with is interpretation, clarification and translation," said Dr. James Merlino, the Clinic's chief clinical transformation officer.

Though the health systems may have offered advice here and there, consulting at this scale is new for them. The science behind mitigating risk of spreading disease, of course, is not. Hospitals have been masking and cleaning for infectious disease and viruses long before COVID-19. Pivoting the expertise that they implement in their own facilities to community education made sense, Zoltanski said.

In the absence of a vaccine or antiviral medication, the Cuyahoga County Board of Health is working with five tenants of non-pharmaceutical interventions, said Kevin Brennan, communications officer for the board. These are handwashing, social distancing, mask wearing, cleaning and disinfecting of commonly touched surfaces and health screenings.

Because health systems and the board of health can reach different audiences, hospitals amplifying the messaging about such practices is helpful, he said. While the health systems have been able to provide some level of proactive, individualized guidance to businesses, the board's business response is complaint-driven education.

"I think we can't be everywhere we want to be; we can't be everything to everyone," Brennan said. "So we're glad that an authority such as a hospital would be willing to step up and fill that void. We feel like there's reliability in the fact that they have expertise given the composition of their staff members and their history, so I think we're pleased to see that."

Summa Health has proactively reached out to local businesses to offer resources, such as webinars and Q&A sessions. MetroHealth has worked on protocols with Cleveland Public Library, Destination Cleveland and area schools, but the system isn't making direct consulting with businesses a big part of their response. Rather, its work as an essential hospital has been more in health equity and access during this pandemic, like ensuring essential workers get tested and know how to protect themselves, said Dr. Brook Watts, MetroHealth's vice president and chief quality officer.

The Clinic is working with nearly 150 entities around the world to help them think about and implement best practices. Some of these have taken the form of a more public relationship. For instance, Clorox Co. and the Clinic announced in mid-July a partnership they would collaborate to develop a free online guide for employers to help them train personnel, select effective products and develop robust cleaning and disinfection processes.

Some of the Clinic's partnerships support individual businesses, while others help push information to the public more broadly, such as working with Jones Day to help with webinars for clients or collaborating with the Adventure Travel Trade Association a network of travel agencies around the world to develop free guidelines for travelers.

UH, whose outreach focuses on Northeast Ohio, has also worked with convener organizations, like chambers of commerce or groups of mayors, to give them more information, answer specific questions and help them best communicate that.

Although the Clinic doesn't yet have an answer, it's starting to look at what the free services and these new relationships might mean in the future. But for now, the focus is on the reality communities and businesses are facing for at least the near future: living with COVID-19.

UH's playbooks and all data published online are available for free. When businesses are looking for a deep dive or would like an expert to review their back-to-work plans with an infectious disease doctor or specialist, UH has charged a bit to cover costs. The system doesn't see it as a money-making operation but a mission-driven effort to slow the spread, Zoltanski said.

"Our infectious disease, our clinicians were very motivated to get behind this," she said. "As you can fully well imagine, they couldn't possibly be busier than they are right now, but when I said to them, 'Hey, we want to help businesses,' they showed up on Saturday mornings to work through content in the little time off they had because we said we want to help the community, and that was really the why of this for us."

The Clinic's "powerful brand" around the world is part of why organizations have reached out, Merlino said.

Leveraging that brand could help to combat some of the misinformation, and in some ways mistrust, among members of the public. Merlino said the Clinic is working alongside UH and MetroHealth on how to educate and reinforce the message.

"We're starting to have these conversations. We need to be able to do more, to really conquer that," he said.

Though some parts of pandemic response are political, Zoltanski said UH sticks to the medicine, the science and the trusted partnership it has developed with the community. Beyond sharing the best medically sound advice, it's important to also be transparent, honest and admit what remains unknown, she said.

Merlino recognizes that there may always be people who don't accept or follow the basic guidelines agreed upon by the scientific and medical communities, but it's important to continue reinforcing their importance.

"Sharing information with public is important medicine in COVID-19 fight" originally appeared in Crain's Cleveland Business.

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MoceanLab and USC Keck School of Medicine Launch Program to Help USC’s Street Medicine Team Deliver Care to L.A.’s Homeless Residents – Business Wire

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MoceanLab, a new L.A.-based mobility laboratory developed by Hyundai Motor Group, is launching a program to help the USC Keck School of Medicines Street Medicine Team care for some of the citys most vulnerable and hard to reach residents: L.A.s unsheltered homeless population.

MoceanLab is providing low-emission hybrid vehicles from its growing Mocean Carshare service to be used by the renowned Street Medicine Team as they travel to serve homeless residents where they reside: in homeless encampments, under freeway overpasses and in other areas that seem a world away from conventional treatment settings. The effort is part of the companys commitment to create innovative mobility solutions that benefit residents, neighborhoods and communities throughout Los Angeles, including those most in need.

All of us at MoceanLab are inspired by the selfless, heroic work of USCs Street Medicine Team in caring for a population that faces unique challenges and is too often left behind, said MoceanLab Vice President Dave Gallon. Through collaborations with top-quality institutions like USC and others, we can deliver on our mission of improving the quality of life for Angelenos of all backgrounds.

Embracing a philosophy of radical humility, the USC Keck Schools Street Medicine Team provides a full spectrum of services to homeless Angelenos, all at no cost. They include treatment for chronic conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes, dispensing medications, obtaining blood work, delivering drug and alcohol counseling and basic mental health services, and providing basic survival supplies.

USCs team also informs the academic work of researchers seeking to better understand the challenges facing the unsheltered homeless population, develop more effective care, and help address the root causes of homelessness.

L.A.s large unhoused population faces a disproportionate burden of chronic and acute health challenges, particularly during the coronavirus outbreak, but often have few options for high-quality and compassionate care, said Brett Feldman, USCs Director of Street Medicine and Vice Chair of the Street Medicine Institute. Our motto on the Street Medicine Team is, Go to the people. Our collaboration with Mocean Carshare will help us improve the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of these vulnerable men and women directly in the environments where they are most comfortable.

MoceanLab was launched uniquely for Los Angeles one of the worlds most dynamic, diverse and transportation-challenged cities to develop equitable, environmentally sustainable new ways to move around safely and efficiently. As a laboratory for innovation, MoceanLab embraces a wide range of partners and collaborators to create forward-leaning mobility solutions. MoceanLab is backed by the global resources and expertise of its parent, the Hyundai Motor Group.

MoceanLabs first initiative, Mocean Carshare is a convenient car sharing service launched earlier this year that allows drivers to quickly and easily rent a low-emission hybrid electric car and return it anywhere in Downtown L.A.

Addressing the challenge of chronic homelessness is an urgent priority in communities throughout Los Angeles, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic slowdown place new burdens on families and individuals, said Aaron Gross, L.A.s Chief Resilience Officer. This collaboration with MoceanLab will expand the transformative power of USCs Street Medicine Team and have a profound impact on residents in need who deserve this excellent, humane medical care.

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Miner, man of medicine and Ohio University grad, played research role in 1918 epidemic – Athens NEWS

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Editors Note: This is the first installment of a two-part series detailing the Spanish Influenza and its ties to Athens County and Ohio. This first installment highlights the life and efforts of a man who lived in Athens for a time and had an unexpected role in the Influenza Pandemic of 1918. The next installment, to be printed in a future edition, will detail the responses Athens County had to the influenza pandemic in 1918 and 1919, as well as the responses of other leaders in the state during the time.

An Ohio University graduate of yesteryear played a role in identifying the aggressive virus that may have triggered the Influenza Pandemic of 1918.

Dr. Loring Miner is credited by many health officials and historians as the discoverer of the 1918 flu epidemic, more popularly known as the Spanish Flu.

The physician was practicing medicine in Haskell County, located west of Dodge City in Kansas. The Ohio University graduate began his practice in the Kansas county in 1885.

Haskell County was a far cry from his previous home of Athens, Ohio. His practice expanded hundreds of miles over the frontier. Miner seemed to have enjoyed the change in scenery, however, and became rather embedded in the community.

According to author John M. Barry, who wrote about Dr. Miner in his book The Great Influenza, Miner served as the countys coroner for a time, as well as county health officer and as a chair in the countys chapter of the Democratic Party.

Aside from that, he also was a businessman, owning a grocery store and a drug store, both of which he fully expected his patients to frequent.

Miner was described by author John M. Barry as being a large, gruff man with an affinity for alcohol, but a skilled physician nonetheless.

Miner witnessed an unforgiving virus overtaking young men in his area, with symptoms that included a severe headache, a high fever and a non-productive cough, with the first patient of this kind appearing in January of 1918. According to Barry, Miner ultimately diagnosed the virus as influenza, but the doctor soon noticed the virus was progressing rapidly, and patients who normally would have a speedy recovery healthy young men were dying. He saw cases of this severe flu pop up in different parts of Haskell County.

Miner was thorough in his approach to gaining an understanding of the aggressive virus he had witnessed in many of his patients, Barry wrote. He conducted lab studies, searched through medical journals and had consultations with colleagues to gain clarity. He also utilized available vaccines, such as the tetanus shot, in hopes of stimulating the immune system of infected people.

This time of intense research was tough on the doctor. Barry found in an interview published in a Kansas magazine that Dr. Miner often slept on his way home from his doctor visits for the day while his trusty horse pulled him along the quiet Kansas roads.

Miner ultimately was the first person to report this aggressive virus, thought to be an early strain of the Spanish Flu, to the U.S. Public Health Service.

No other reports were submitted to the U.S. Public Health Service in regards to this influenza of a severe type, as Miner described it, for another six months.

At the time, influenza was not considered a reportable disease, nor was it a disease that health officials tracked, Barry wrote. Diseases that were often reported to the U.S. Public Health Service included polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, scarlet fever and smallpox.

Kansas was also home to Camp Funston at Fort Riley, which housed roughly 56,000 troops at that time.

Nearly 500 soldiers were hospitalized in the span of a week as they started falling ill with symptoms identical to what Miner had seen earlier that year. The troops from this camp were later mobilized to Europe during WWI, where they likely brought the disease with them. In theory, troops who came home likely brought the virus back to the States, this time stronger and mutated, Barry wrote.

Miners former home of Athens County also saw deaths linked to the Spanish Flu. Oddly enough, an outbreak at a nearby military camp also was the root of many cases of the virus in Athens County.

Ohio History Connection curator Karen Robertson found in her recent research of Ohios various responses to the Spanish Flu that Ross County became a hotspot for the virus.

More than 1,000 men died at Camp Sherman before the epidemic ended in 1919, according to Ohio History Connection.

Ohios historical society also noted that Camp Sherman was affected more by the epidemic than any other training camp in the nation.

Robertson noted that nearly 6,000 troops at Camp Sherman, however, fell ill with the Spanish Flu. Super flu symptoms popped up in the camp beginning that summer, progressing rapidly into the fall of 1918.

As the death count rose locally, the nearby Majestic Theatre in Chillicothe was used as a temporary morgue, Robertson found. Nurses were reportedly stacking bodies on top of one another like cordwood, and the fluids from the corpses flowed into a neighboring alleyway. This alley is still referred to as Blood Alley, Robertson said.

In Athens County specifically, several families with relatives who were at Camp Sherman became infected with the Spanish Flu.

One Congress Run household was infected after the familys son returned from Camp Sherman on furlough but developed the disease as soon as he arrived at home and his condition was serious for several days, but was in recovery, according to the Oct. 8, 1918 edition of The Athens Messenger.

Other more isolated cases in the county were also reported in the Glouster area, in Bishopville and in Mountville, according to several editions of The Athens Messenger. The Messenger provided daily updates in regards to area residents falling ill to the Spanish Flu, recovering or dying.

In nearby Hocking County, a Murray City woman died of complications that resulted from the Spanish Flu. She had been at Camp Sherman weeks prior to her passing, and reportedly fell ill shortly after returning from the military camp in Ross County.

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‘Shift’ into healing through yoga and holistic medicine – Yes! Weekly

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A Winston-Salem yoga studio and a holistic health coach-in-training are teaming up to help their community heal through a weeklong virtual retreat at the end of this month.

Kris Neville, 20, is a yoga instructor, a holistic health coach-in-training, and the youngest son of John Neville, who died in December 2019 after being under the supervision of five former Forsyth County Detention Center officers and one nurse.

After learning of his fathers avoidable death, as characterized by District Attorney Jim ONeill, Neville and the rest of his family were left to pick up the pieces and silently struggle with grief. He said for the past three weeks, the #OccupyWSNC movement in Bailey Park demanding transparency and policy change from his fathers death has made him feel empowered, and it has inspired him to help others heal through the tools that helped him.

It really does suck, but I refuse to let that bring me down and tear me back from my own successonce I start to believe the reality that my fathers death is a reason for me to be depressed, sad, and have regrets, and have fears about anything that might happen in my life, it will immediately turn off any future of prosperity for me, he said. I refuse to be a failureI will be successful, I will fight for justice and make a change alongside the change I am trying to make in the health and wellness community.

Neville and Chlo Craver, 29, owner of Lotus Yoga Academy, are the hosts for the Shift Virtual Wellness Retreat, taking place from Aug. 23-30.

Ive had to switch everything for Lotus Yoga to an online platform because we are still closed, as we are technically a gym, Craver said. I think now we have a pretty good system fluidity in how to offer virtual things, so its been seamless.

Craver started doing yoga about 10-12 years ago because she felt disconnected from her body, which was causing her to struggle physically, emotionally and spiritually. About a year and a half ago, she opened Lotus originally as a yoga teacher-training program, but it eventually blossomed into a yoga studio. Neville started attending Lotus regularly in August 2019, and he got his yoga instructor certification this past February. He described yoga as something that was life-changing for him.

It is the decision that probably helped to heal so much of me, Neville said. My yoga teacher training healed so many parts of me just through January through March, because during that time, I was silently dealing with the death of my father. I was able to really reconcile and learn how to cope.

Neville is studying at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition to be a holistic health consultant, and he said he would be fully certified by September. Once he is certified, hell officially launch his business, Wellness Rising Health, which through the use of plant medicine, yoga, mantra, and meditation, would help connect people to the earth and to each other.

Both Craver and Neville have used yoga to help heal their trauma, and the two became good friends after Neville started practicing at Lotus. With Cravers knowledge of yoga and meditation coupled with Nevilles knowledge of holistic medicine and nutrition, the Shift Virtual Wellness Retreat blends their expertise into a program composed of daily hour-long video content with follow-up Zoom call sessions each evening for attendees to reflect, share and ask questions.

The theme of the whole week is Shift, Craver said. Shift means, to us, the process of slowing down, of healing, integrating, focusing and transforming.

Coming out of summer, it is a time of intense heat and growth, and going into the fall its time to prepare for harvesting the intentions, manifestations and reaping what you sowed at the end of the season, Neville said. I think we can help prepare people to shift into a new mindset to understand the value of their words, manifestations and thoughts to create the reality they want.

Craver and Neville have curated yoga practices, meditations, and oils that correspond to each topic over the course of five days. That weekend, they will tie in what was learned the past week, and attendees will make a commitment to themselves based on what they experienced.

You cant rely on anyone to do your inner work for you or to do your healing for you, but it helps to have a little nudge, especially from people who have experienced it and done it for themselves, Craver said. We are giving people the tools to take back their own health and take back their own power, especially in a time that feels so disempowering.

Additionally, 20% of the proceeds from the Shift Virtual Wellness Retreat will go directly to support the Triad Abolition Project, the organization spearheading the #OccupyWSNC movement.

Neville said donating to the Triad Abolition Project is special to him because he believes in practicing civil disobedience to make meaningful change. Anything we can do to help these people get back out there on the street and create that scene of uncomfortability for the people who need to make the change, I will do what I can for that, he said. Once these policy changes are made, it wont be the end of the workit will be the next step to an even better community in Winston-Salem.

To get people curious about the virtual retreat, Craver and Neville are hosting two donation-based yoga and essential oil classes on the Lotus Yoga Academy patio, Aug. 8 and Aug. 22 at 6 p.m. These classes are 45-minutes of slow-flow yoga accompanied by some of the essential oils used during the retreat, followed by a 20-minute discussion led by Neville on how the oils work.

Craver said no experience with yoga or essential oils is necessary to attend the retreat, and the only requirement is a willingness to learn.

The price for the entire retreat is $100, with $20 going directly to the Triad Abolition Project. Those who wish to attend need to register by Aug. 19 to receive the introduction package. In an effort to be more inclusive, Craver and Neville are seeking sponsors to help people in economic hardship to participate, and they hope to have at least 10 scholarship spots. Craver said those who sign up for the retreat would also get access to Lotuss patio classes.

I feel, weirdly with everything going on, this fire to make a change, Neville said. Ive done this work internally and its time to do it externallyto make people uncomfortable, and help other people heal.

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Gift to School of Medicine aims to alleviate inland Southern California’s physician shortage – UC Riverside

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The School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, has received a gift of about $2.6 million from the Inland Empire Health Plan, or IEHP, to provide Mission Awards for the schools students.

The gift to the schools Mission Award program will support up to 23 medical students with tuition and fees who will go on to practice in inland Southern California upon their graduation. The medically underserved region faces a critical shortage in both primary care and specialist physicians with only 35 primary care physicians per 100,000 people far short of the 60 to 80 per 100,000 recommended by the California Health Care Foundation.

Recipients of the four-year awards will need to commit to returning to Riverside, San Bernardino, or Imperial counties after completing their residencies to provide clinical care for at least five consecutive years; recipients of the two-year awards will need to commit to returning to one of these counties after completing their residencies to provide clinical care for at least 30 consecutive months.

Inland Empire Health Plan is a terrific partner to the UCR School of Medicine, and our organizations are aligned in our missions to improve access to health care in the Inland Empire, said Dr. Deborah Deas, vice chancellor for health sciences and Mark and Pam Rubin Dean of the School of Medicine. We are so grateful for this incredibly generous investment in our future physician workforce. The impact of this gift is tremendous because it will increase the number of physicians in the Inland Empire and improve the health care for a largely underserved population.

Students in good academic standing in the medical school are eligible for the Mission Awards, which are either for all four years of medical school or for two years, covering the third and fourth years. Each award covers 100% of tuition and fees. Currently, the first two years of medical school education at UC Riverside cost about $43,000 per year; the third and fourth years cost about $47,000 per year. Summer sessions in the third and fourth years incur additional costs.

UCR School of Medicines mission and commitment to serve and support Inland Empire communities is no secret, said IEHP Chief Executive Officer Jarrod McNaughton. We see this commitment in the framework of their programs and in the hearts of their students. It is our hope that these awards encourage local students to consider careers in medicine and further incentivize qualified students to remain and serve in the Inland Empire.

All Mission Award recipients must also agree to practice in one of the following specialties: emergency medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, general internal medicine, OB/GYN, general surgery, or psychiatry. Should an award recipient fail to meet these requirements, the award would convert into a loan that must be repaid upon graduation.

The UCR School of Medicine, which opened in 2013, trains a diverse workforce of physicians who seek to improve the health of the medically underserved in the region. About half of the enrolled students come from socioeconomically and/or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds. Approximately a quarter of the medical students are the first in their families to acquire a college degree.

To date, the medical school has graduated four classes totaling 198 students, of which 156 have remained in California. The class of 2020 graduated and took the Hippocratic Oath on May 29.

IEHP is one of the top 10 largest Medicaid health plans and the largest nonprofit Medicare-Medicaid plan in the country. With a network of more than 6,400 providers and more than 2,000 employees, IEHP serves more than 1.2 million residents in Riverside and San Bernardino counties who are enrolled in Medicaid or the Cal MediConnect Plan.

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TEHRAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that Iran is sending field hospital and medicine to Lebanon after two huge explosions in Beirut on Tuesday afternoon.

Reiterated #Irans strong and steadfast solidarity with people of Lebanon in call with FM Wehbeh. Iran is sending field hospital & medicine to assist with disaster relief. Iran stands with Lebanon, Zarif tweeted.

A warehouse at the Beirut Port caught fire on Tuesday afternoon, triggering a huge explosion.

The Lebanese Red Cross said in a statement that over 100 people were killed and more than 4,000 were injured.

Reportedly, hospitals, already struggling with the country's coronavirus outbreak, have been overwhelmed by the large number of injured people. Several hospitals were damaged in the blast.

Right after the tragic event, Zarif wrote, "Our thoughts and prayers are with the great and resilient people of Lebanon."

Zarif added, "As always, Iran is fully prepared to render assistance in any way necessary."

Irans chief diplomat asked the Lebanese to stay strong in the face of the calamity.

"Stay strong, Lebanon," Zarif said.

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Trump promotes doctor who claimed alien DNA is used in medicine and sex with tormented spirits causes reproductive issues – KTLA

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President Donald Trump vigorously defended his administrations handling of the coronavirus on Tuesday, but it was a series of questions from CNNs Kaitlan Collins about Dr. Stella Immanuel, a little-known Houston-based physician featured in a video the President retweeted, that caused him to abruptly end his press briefing.

Mr. President, the woman that you said is a great doctor in that video that you retweeted last night said masks dont work and there is a cure for Covid-19, both of which health experts say is not true. Shes also made videos saying that doctors make medicine using DNA from aliens, and that theyre trying to create a vaccine to make you immune from becoming religious, Collins asked.

The CNN reporter went on to press Trump: Its misinformation.

I dont know which country she comes from, but she said that shes had tremendous success with hundreds of different patients, Trump said. And I thought her voice was an important voice, but I know nothing about her.

When Collins asked a follow-up question about Immanuels dismissal of wearing face masks which Trump himself advocated last week the President walked away from the podium, though on Wednesday he continued to say he was very impressed by Immanuel.

Although Trump has frequently spread false and misleading information over the course of the pandemic while downplaying advice issued by the governments top medical experts his decision to amplify Immanuel raises fresh questions about the administrations messaging and pandemic response. It also gives her ideas a significant platform and risks lending credibility to someone who has made a number of dangerous claims in the past.

On her website and in sermons posted on YouTube, Immanuel who practices medicine at Rehoboth Medical Center, a clinic in Houston, and is the founder of the Fire Power Ministries church has, among other things, claimed that sex with tormenting spirits is responsible for gynecological problems, miscarriages and impotence.

Many women suffer from astral sex regularly. Astral sex is the ability to project ones spirit man into the victims body and have intercourse with it, she once claimed in a sermon. Immanuel has not responded to CNNs efforts to contact her for comment.

The Daily Beast also said that Immanuel has suggested in previous sermons that alien DNA was used in medical treatments and that scientists are plotting to develop a vaccine to make it impossible to become religious. The Daily Beast reported on her remarks on Tuesday, and, according to Immanuel, did a great job summarizing our deliverance ministry and exposing incubus and succubus.

Immanuel received her medical degree from a university in Nigeria in 1990, according to the Texas Medical Board database. On her Facebook page, Immanuel says she was born in Cameroon and describes herself as Gods battle axe and weapon of war.

In the video, which was livestreamed by the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News and shared by Trump on Monday, Immanuel makes claims about coronavirus that run counter to multiple studies and advice from public health officials, including the Trump administrations own health experts. Breitbart did not respond to CNNs request for comment.

This virus has a cure, its called hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax, Immanuel says, despite several high-quality studies that show the anti-malarial drug alone or in combination with others does not help Covid-19 patients.

She goes on to say, I know people want to talk about a mask. Hello, you dont need masks, there is a cure.

The video featured Immanuel among a group of people wearing white lab coats who call themselves Americas Frontline Doctors staging a press conference, organized by the Tea Party Patriots, in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC.

The video was removed from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter after amassing millions of views and thousands of shares.

While she has alleged that face masks are unnecessary, Immanuel appears to be wearing an N95 mask in a video shared on her clinics Facebook page and encourages visitors to the clinic seeking treatment to wear face coverings.

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By RYAN MCCRACKEN on August 5, 2020.

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Medicine Hat Police Service responded to 254 calls for service over the August long weekend a notable drop from both last summer and last month.

MHPS Insp. Brent Secondiak says that number is 53 fewer than the previous Friday-to-Monday (307), and 99 fewer than July 17-20 (353), while 316 calls for service were received during August long weekend in 2019.

It was down this weekend, said Secondiak, adding the only notable event was the death of a 31-year-old man who was swept away by the current of the South Saskatchewan River when he reportedly attempted to swim across it near downtown. It was just relatively calm. I went through the calls and there was nothing out of the ordinary. We did have, of course, resources tied up on that tragic death in the river Generally, I think some people were camping or just staying at home. We didnt have anything astronomically crazy that went out of hand other than that death in the river.

Secondiak says the 254 calls were mostly comprised of mental health calls for services, complaints of intoxicated and suspicious persons, driving and vehicle complaints and bylaw complaints relating to noise.

It seemed rather standard for a weekend in the summer, he said.

Secondiak added there have still been no charges laid under provincial or federal COVID-19 legislation in Medicine Hat, a trend he hopes continues as the fall approaches.

Weve still had no charges which is outstanding. Generally, people are very compliant with us, they seem to be understanding about the rules that are in place and generally the community seems to be doing quite well, he said. We just want the community to continue this kind of behaviour going forward. Its always a little busier during the summer for us but it seems to be manageable at this point.

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Environment Department Highlights Progress, Additional Work Needed On 5th Anniversary Of Gold King Mine Spill – Los Alamos Reporter

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New interest sparked in supporting local food system

On Aug. 5, 2015, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) crew doing exploratory work at the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, accidentally caused a blowout of impounded mine water. More than 3 million gallons of acidic mine water contaminated with heavy metals flowed into Cement Creek, a tributary of the Animas River. The plume reached the Animas River and flowed into New Mexico and the San Juan River, which runs through the Navajo Nation and Utah.

As a result, New Mexico sued the EPA, its contractors and mining companies for damages sustained by the state. That case is moving through federal court and is expected to go to trial in 2021.The lawsuit includes allegations of negligence, gross negligence, nuisance, and trespass, as well as violations of federal environmental laws. New Mexico seeks cost recovery, damages, injunctive relief, and attorneys fees.

Each and every day, we will aggressively pull every legal lever available to us to hold the federal government accountable and make New Mexicans whole again, said New Mexico Environment Department Cabinet Secretary James Kenney. We will not forget our people, their livelihoods and the impacts the spill had on our environment.

In the meantime, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) has worked closely with communities, tribes and neighboring states affected by the spill on several important efforts, including developing an improved communications plan for similar incidents in the future, ongoing monitoring for water contamination, and executing a public relations campaign to combat a stigma faced by farmers in the Animas Valley.

Although extensive testing indicates that water used to irrigate crops is well within irrigation standards and contaminants are not present in crops at dangerous levels, farmers continue to see lower sales due to a lack of consumer confidence.

The Healthy Food Grows Where Healthy Rivers Flowcampaign, a collaboration between NMED, New Mexico State University and the San Juan Soil and Water Conservation District, aims to educate the public about the safety of eating these crops and the health benefits of eating locally grown foods. As part of the campaign, project partners deliver local produce to northwestern New Mexico communities without ready access to a grocery store, leading to increased sales for farmers and better access to healthy foods.

Farmers are some of the hardest working people in our community, so it was really tragic to see their hard work go to waste after the Gold King Mine spill, when healthy crops were unable to be sold while some in our community went hungry, said Melissa May, district manager of the San Juan Soil and Water Conservation District. Luckily, this campaign has sparked renewed interest in supporting the local food system, and we are excited for our new Buy Fresh Buy Local chapter to carry this momentum into the future.

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Modernas COVID-19 Vaccine Is Making Good Progress but Valuation Is Too High, Says J.P. Morgan – Yahoo Finance

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Moderna (MRNA) is undoubtedly one of 2020s success stories. Its rise has rested on the hope it can be the one to solve the COVID-19 conundrum and bring to market the desperately needed COVID-19 vaccine.

Although several questions regarding its business practices - unrelated to its vaccine candidates progress - have come to the fore recently (including how execs are possibly profiteering off the stocks rise and an unsuccessful attempt to invalidate another companys patent), what concerns J.P. Morgan analyst Cory Kasimov at this point, is its fast accumulation of share gains.

Bigger picture, said the 5-star analyst, We remain constructive on the company overall (COVID-19 or otherwise) but are currently most comfortable on the sidelines given MRNAs $30B+ valuation.

That valuation has increased dramatically since the turn of the year (up by 306%) as investors have applauded each step in the progress of the biotechs COVID-19 vaccine candidate mRNA-1273. Modernas latest surge came earlier this week, after data published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that in a preclinical study evaluating mRNA-1273 in nonhuman primates, the vaccine elicited strong antibody and T cell responses.

With a Phase 3 study of mRNA-1273 initiated earlier this week, and management hopeful it can present data by Thanksgiving, the positive preclinical study results are a nice addition to the candidates progress. However, Kasimov wonders how much influence the data will have in the long run.

Kasimov said, We see the publication of Modernas data in non-human primates (NHP) as supportive of the potential for mRNA-1273 (COVID-19 vaccine), adding to the other encouraging pieces of early evidence, including Phase 1 results. That said, how results in monkeys ultimately translate to humans and whether the lack of an apparent CD8 T-cell response is relevant (especially when other vaccine candidates have shown CD8 T-cell involvement) are two (of admittedly many) outstanding questions.

Accordingly, Kasimov maintained a Neutral (i.e. Hold) rating along with an $89 price target, which implies nearly 15% upside from current levels. (To watch Kasimovs track record, click here)

Overall, theres still plenty of support for Moderna among Kasimovs colleagues. MRNA's Strong Buy consensus rating is based on 13 Buys and 3 Holds. Over the next 12 months, the Street is factoring in a 17% gain for the stock, considering the average price target clocks in at $90.67. (See Moderna stock analysis on TipRanks)

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Eyes on the Street: Progress on New Elysian Valley Walk/Bike L.A. River Bridge – Streetsblog Los Angeles

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The bridge itself isnt there yet, but the city of Los Angeles new Elysian Valley walk/bike bridge is taking shape. Theres a new central pier wall and falsework structures that show the future bridges alignment.

The Elysian Valley bridge will be the downstream-most of four new bridges in the L.A. Rivers central earthen-bottom stretch called the Glendale Narrows. Two of the other bridges are complete and open in North Atwater and Atwater Village. The fourth, which will connect Glendale to Griffith Park, is funded but not yet under construction.

Elysian Valleys bridge will span the L.A. River near the end of Altman Street. It will connect Elysian Valley (aka Frogtown) to Cypress Park and the planned large-scale river revitalization at Taylor Yard. Bridge project construction broke ground in June 2019 and is expected to be complete in 2021.

Streetsblog biked there last weekend and took a few photos.

On the Frogtown side of the river, the bridge on/off-ramp structure appears nearly complete.

In the middle of the river, the one central concrete pier wall is already built.

Spreading across the riverbed are a series of frames called falsework which will hold the bridge up during construction, and then be removed.

Some of the falsework will rest in cutouts in the sloped concrete channel walls.

Sitting in the river bed, theres an under-construction metal structure that appears to be part of the central bridge span.

Earlier Streetsblog posts reported that the river path remained passable, but this is no longer the case. To bypass construction, pedestrians and cyclists can fairly easy follow construction detour signage for an alternate route on quiet Elysian Valley neighborhood streets.

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New York State targets big tech with tougher antitrust bill – Engadget

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The bill would make criminal offenses by individuals punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Thats up from four years under the existing law. Its also more time than the current federal maximum sentence of 10 years. Corporations could be fined up to $100 million, up from the current maximum New York state penalty of $1 million. The proposed changes would also allow class action lawsuits, which could lead to an increase in private antitrust litigation.

This proposed legislation comes just after federal lawmakers grilled Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google over their business practices as part of a federal antitrust investigation. Apple and Google are under investigation in the EU, and New York and California are reportedly helping the Federal Trade Commission investigate Amazon. Apple and Amazon are under investigation in Italy, as well.

While there seems to be growing concern about the concentrated power Big Tech companies have, dont expect New Yorks bill to bring about immediate change. Most likely, the Twenty-First Century Anti-Trust Act will be discussed when New Yorks senate returns in August. Even if it is passed eventually, a vote probably wont happen until next year.

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As Tech Giants Face Congress, Heres What Americans Actually Think Of Big Tech – Forbes

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Congresss grilling of top Silicon Valley CEOs Wednesday on antitrust issues reflects the American publics broad distrust of big tech companies increasing powerbut polling released throughout 2020 shows that while Americans may be wary of big tech, theyre more conflicted when it comes to what action the government should take in response.

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72% of U.S. adults believe big tech companies have too much power and influence in politics, per a Pew Research survey conducted in June, while an Accountable Tech/GQR Research poll in July found 85% of respondents believe they have too much power in general.

A Morning Consult poll released in January found that 65% believe tech companies benefits to users arent worth the industrys becoming more powerful at the expense of smaller companiesbut a majority of those respondents still enjoy big tech products, using major social media and search tools and predominantly shopping online.

Americans who distrust big tech dont necessarily support government action: 69.8% of respondents to a July poll by the Center for Growth and Opportunity/YouGov said they somewhat or completely agree that tech companies are too big, but only 44.4% agree the government should break them up.

A Knight Foundation/Gallup poll conducted in December and released in March found 50% support government intervention to break up tech companies, while 49% oppose, and the Pew survey found only 47% support more government tech regulationdown from 51% in 2018.

88% of Knight/Gallup respondents said they do not trust social media platforms to make the right decisions about what users can post, but 55% still said the companies should be making those decisions anyway, rather than the government.

A July Morning Consult poll found only 46% of Americans trust Congress to best regulate big tech companies, as compared with 57% who trust the courts, 53% trusting federal agencies and 34% who trust the president.

A national survey by The Verge released in March found that 51% believe Google and YouTube should be broken up into two different companiesbut 66% dont have a problem with Facebook owning Instagram and WhatsApp.

CEOs of worlds most powerful tech companies on Wednesday defended themselves against lawmaker accusations that their companies have too much power and stifle smaller businesses, claiming that their practices are instead part of a thriving competitive economy and that their size is essential to their value. Just like the world needs small companies, it also needs large ones, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos argued in his opening statement to the House antitrust subcommittee, while Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebooks large size is an asset to its work to keep people safe on our platform, and to make sure were investing to fix our issues and get ahead of new risks.

Zuckerberg and Bezos, along with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook, appeared before the House antitrust subcommittee Wednesday, amid widespread scrutiny into the tech giants alleged anticompetitive practices. The companies are also facing antitrust investigations from the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general and the European Union. The antitrust struggles come amid broader distrust of big tech companies and their role in the coronavirus pandemic, racial justice protests and impending November election, as companies have struggled to respond to growing misinformation and address hate speech and extremist groups on their platforms.

Though Americans are increasingly suspicious of big tech companies, polls show that the coronavirus pandemic may be improving their standing in the eyes of Americans. A Harris poll released in April found that 38% of respondents view of the tech industry had become more positive over the course of the pandemic, while an April report by the National Research Group found a full 88% of Americans say the pandemic has given them a greater appreciation for technologys positive impact.

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In his opening statements, the chairman of Wednesdays historic tech hearing argued that regulating techs most dominant players is vital in the midst of the ongoing pandemic that has driven even more of American life online.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, these corporations already stood out as titans in our economy, House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee Chair David Cicilline said. In the wake of COVID-19, however, they are likely to emerge stronger and more powerful than ever before.

The argument that tech stands to benefit from the COVID-19 crisis is a smart one and a timely attack thats difficult to dispute. While many major companies in other industries are struggling, grappling with layoffs or filing for bankruptcy, many of techs largest companies stand to emerge from the economic storm largely unscathed if not better off.

In his own opening remarks, ranking member Jim Sensenbrenner also argued that because Americans are relying more on online companies than ever before, techs power must be examined in light of the pandemic.

That responsibility comes with increased scrutiny of your dominance in the market, Sensenbrenner said.

Its not the first warning about tech companies amassing more power in the throes of the coronavirus crisis. A handful of members of Congress have called attention to mergers planned during the pandemic, citing concerns about adequate scrutiny for deals that could make techs already huge companies even larger and more dominant.

In April, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) proposed the Pandemic Anti-Monopoly Act, which would freeze mergers during the crisis, calling out big tech specifically. The LEAST we should do is halt big mergers during COVID to slow the consolidation of sectors, Ocasio-Cortez said.

Cicilline also previously called for a freeze on mega-mergers and pushed for such a ban to be included in the economic stimulus package passed by Congress.

As hard as it is to believe, it is possible that our economy will emerge from this crisis even more concentrated and consolidated than before, Cicilline said. As American families shift more of their work, shopping and communication online, these giants stand to profit.

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) joined host Ben Domenech to discuss the danger of big tech censorship for the American public.Rep. Bucks new book, Capitol Freedom: Restoring American Greatness, is out now.

Many Republicans argue all private companies ought to remain unfettered by government intervention, but Buck argues that big tech companies such as Google dont use the extreme level of power they wield over free speech fairly. He debunked the idea that theres no relationship between privacy and size, saying that if these companies didnt have a monopoly on free speech, they couldnt get away with their actions.

There are 100 if not thousands of news sources that we can get information from and as we receive that information were able to filter it understanding the source. Thats not true when you go to google and you search for a particular item, the congressman said. Youre gonna find Don Jr. on page 23 of your Google search.

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Tech power player Rick Sherlund: ‘Software is not only eating the world, it’s leading the market higher’ – CNBC

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He hit No. 1 on Institutional Investor's all-star analyst list for software 17 times in a row.

Now as an investment banker, Rick Sherlund is a tech power player who believes the group's record run is in the early innings.

During Tuesday's exclusive interview on CNBC"s "Trading Nation," he delivered a bullish case for tech, emphasizing demand for cutting-edge software as the U.S. battles the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

"Software is not only eating the world, it's leading the market higher," said the Bank of America Merrill Lynch vice chairman of technology investment banking. "Covid has accelerated the momentum and the urgency behind digital transformation."

Big Tech has been crushing records on Wall Street. On Tuesday, the tech-heavy Nasdaq closed at its 30th all-time high so far this year. It's now up almost 22% in 2020, while the broader S&P 500has risen 2%.

Plus,the Nasdaq has soared 65% since the March 23 low.

"The sector offers phenomenal growth, and right now, the Street is valuing that growth because you can't find growth elsewhere," Sherlund said.

He suggests the record run is justified based on long-term potential.

"Software used to be the tail of the dog, and now it's become the head of the dog," he said. "People use this to not only work at home, but shop at home, to learn at home, to play, to entertain at home [and] to socialize. So, software is really becoming the business."

He also downplays comparisons with the 2000 tech bubble.

"We are nowhere near those kinds of levels, and we have good business models now," said Sherlund. "I took a look recently at a number of dot-com names where they were valued back then and where they are today. We are nowhere near those kinds of valuation levels."

However, Sherlund acknowledges the rally could see some temporary burnout due to the nature of the economic recovery.

"It's likely to be led by the cyclical sectors that have lagged behind, and that's going to require a vaccine," he added. "But the growth rates that we see in the sector are just getting started."

According to Sherlund, the softness should be temporary, and tech IPOs will heat up in 2021.

"We are seeing a new generation of technology emerging over the horizon, a new generation of visionary leaders. It's well funded and guided by experienced VC board members." said Sherlund. "There's an awful lot to be done in the space."

He expects innovation to overshadow risks including the presidential election and U.S.-China trade tensions.

"Companies are probably going to go out in an earlier stage," Sherlund said. "I have companies now that are doing about $100 million [in revenues] saying 'can we hit the window next year?'"

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Move Over Big Tech; This Week Is All About Blue Chips – Benzinga

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Following last week's waterfall of quarterly tech reports, the earnings season continues this week with blue chips leading the way, one being Walt Disney Co(NYSE: DIS) reporting later today. But we also see the earnings of pioneers such as Roku Inc(NASDAQ: ROKU), Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) and newly public companies such as Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE), Uber Technologies Inc.(NYSE: UBER) and Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND).

Nikola Corporation, the maker of battery-electric and hydrogen powered vehicles will report its first quarter since its June listing. Despite not having sold a single vehicle yet, its company's market capitalization already exceeded $10.8 billion last Friday.

The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) reported Monday and posted the highest sales growth the company has seen in its modern history. With a 24% increase in organic sales last quarter and a 10% increase in organic sales in its latest fiscal year, it followed its peer personal care companies including Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB), Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CL) and The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) that already reported strong results as home goods and personal health-care products are still enjoying a high level of demand.

Troubled travel companies crushed by the pandemic are also set to report, including Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NYSE: NCLH) and Wynn Resorts Limited (NASDAQ: WYNN). Just like airlines, these companies struggled to readjust their operations and slash costs as quickly as possible to be able to survive the severe reduction in demand. Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc (NYSE: HLT) and TripAdvisor Inc (NASDAQ: TRIP) are also set for a dismal performance as quarantine and travel restrictions are likely to have significantly impacted their top lines.

Pharmaceutical companies rank highly on our list these days and a few important players are also set to report this week. Regeneron Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ: REGN) just revealed it signed a $450 million contract with the U.S. government for its anti-coronavirus cocktail.Mylan Inc (NASDAQ: MYL) is a stock with a strong history of beating estimates and as it recently rolled out the branding for its giant generics combo that is being developed with Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE), it seems well-positioned to continue that trend. Although their merger is not official yet, it was approved by its shareholders on June 30th. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY), a biopharmaceutical giant, is expected to report a year-over-year increase in earnings on higher revenues for its quarter that ended in June.

On Thursday, we also have some very interesting players to look forward to such as Datadog Inc (NASDAQ: DDOG). For the quarter, the company expects to report a break-even at the very least, with revenues in the range between $134 million and $136 million. Management warned that coronavirus-led disruptions are expected to have hurt net retention rate and new customer additions as well as caused delays in completing deals. But Datadog's potential remains intact in any scenario. Moreover, its growing international presence is likely to have benefited its performance during the quarter.

We are far from being out of the woods, but each week we are getting closer to leaving the pandemic and the resulting economic crisis behind us. This week will also provide us with significant insights on how to live in a COVID-19 reality that has turned our world upside down.

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Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and the Big Tech reckoning: Rep. Ken Buck – Fox Business

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Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., says despite the big tech CEOs claiming they don't censor conservative voices online, he continues to see liberal viewpoints promoted on their sites and he believes that impacts elections.

Its morning in America and Silicon Valleys time of reckoning has come.

For years, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple have benefited from Americas free-market system to grow into four of the biggest power players in the global economy.

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These companies have connected people to information and products in a way that previous generations could have only imaginedbut Big Techs darlings have also used their monopolistic advantage to corner the market and stifle competition.

Its time they faced the music.

Congress cant sit idly by as Big Tech uses its outsized influence to unfairly shut companies out of the marketplace, cozies up to communist China, and silences conservative voices.

Let me be clear big is not necessarily bad. In fact, big is often a force for good.

However, Congress cant sit idly by as Big Tech uses its outsized influence to unfairly shut companies out of the marketplace, cozies up to communist China, and silences conservative voices.

President Trump also jumped into the fray, tweeting that Congress needs to bring fairness to Big Tech.

After a year of investigating Big Techs anti-competitive practices, I agree with President Trump.

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The House Judiciary Committees antitrust subcommitteehas reviewed more than 1.3 million documents and heard from hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses that have been negatively impacted by Big Techs harmful business practices.

After reviewing all this evidence, its clear that we cant allow the status quo to continue.

In fact, two examples from the subcommittees field hearing in Boulder, Coloradothis January, show just how far Big Tech will go to maintain their dominance.

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The CEO and inventor of PopSockets, the company that makes those useful devices to help you grip your phone, told the subcommittee how Amazon allowed thousands of counterfeit products to appear alongside PopSockets product and failed to remedy these problems until the company agreed to a nearly $2 million marketing deal with Amazon.

Genius Media Group Inc., a company specializing in detecting song lyrics, also told the subcommittee how it caught Google stealing its product red-handed.

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In fact, when Genius suspected this corporate theft was occurring, the company placed a digital watermark into its lyrics algorithm that spelled out red-handed in Morse Code.

When Googles lyric boxes contained the watermark in 43 percent of tested songs, it proved that the search behemoth was stealing what it couldnt or didnt want to produce itself.

I raised these examples during Wednesdays House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee hearing to help the American people understand the harm these tech giants are inflicting on startup businesses.

These brazen and anti-competitive moves were only possible because Big Tech holds a monopolistic advantage in the marketplace. Theres no other way an American company could get away with a move straight from the Chinese Communist Partys corporate espionage playbook.

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These arent the only values some of Silicon Valleys biggest players share with China though the same communist nation that imprisons Uighur Muslims, exploits slave labor, suppresses the freedom of Hong Kongs residents, and lied to the world about COVID-19.

The CEOs answers were telling they refused to distance themselves from China in an effort to stay in President Xi Jinpings good graces.

It was like pulling teeth to get all four CEOs to state on the record that their companies do not and will never use slave labor to manufacture or sell their products.

This shouldnt even be a question for companies that claim they stand for freedom and equality.

The United States is the greatest country on Earth because we have embraced capitalism as an instrument for freedom.

The American dream is built squarely upon the central tenet of capitalism freedom.

Unfortunately, Big Tech has abused that freedom and harmed countless Americans in the process.

Its clear that Congress needs to reexamine how it treats Silicon Valley to ensure these companies can no longer stifle competition and harm the next generation of American greatness.

Republican Ken Buck represents Colorado's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Heis a member of the House Judiciary Committee and theHouse Foreign Affairs Committee.

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Busting Up Big Tech is Popular, But Here’s what the US May Lose – Defense One

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The heads of Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon appeared before angry lawmakers Wednesday as Congress prepares to weigh new anti-monopoly regulations, including possibly breaking them up. Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg turned to a familiar argument, saying that breaking up the big tech companies would hurt U.S. competitiveness against China in developing new technologies and Americas ability to curb Chinese influence globally.

So are U.S. tech giants an asset to the U.S. in its competition with China or a hindrance?

Google CEO Sundar Pichai answered several questions about his companys loyalty to the United States by recounting its expanding work with the Defense Department. Ever more, he attempted to cast Google as an engine of U.S. innovation.

Our engineers are helping America remain a global leader in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, self driving cars and quantum computing, he said.

Zuckerberg contrasted between what he described as Facebooks American values and ideas with those of China. China is building its own version of the internet focused on very different ideas, and they are exporting their vision to other countries, he said in his prepared testimony.

He is not alone in this view. Daniel Castro, director of the Center for Data Innovation at the libertarian-leaning Internet Technology and Innovation Foundation, told Defense One, Breaking up U.S. tech firms would undercut American innovation. At a time when Chinese companies are growing more dominant in the global digital economy, U.S. policymakers should not hamstring successful tech companies.

Eric Schmidt, Googles former CEO who now chairs the Defense Innovation Board, has made similar statements, telling the Telegraph in May, Chinese companies are growing faster, they have higher valuations, and they have more users than their non-Chinese counterparts...Its very important to understand that there is a global competition around technology innovation, and China is a significant player and likely to remain so.

But not everyone agrees. David Segal, co-founder of the left-leaning group Demand Progress, took a categorically different view, telling Defense One, Far from stifling innovation, antitrust enforcement is necessary in order to enable it. He pointed to what he described as kill zones or areas of technology development that are too close to the products that the giants produce to attract venture capital.

Legal scholar Ganesh Sitaraman argues that conflating big tech with American innovation is part of the problem. Big tech, he says, is too intricately intertwined with China to be purely American.

The claim that big American tech companies are somehow an alternative to Chinese dominanceor, in the more extreme form, that they are competing with China on behalf of the United Statesis largely backwards he argues, in a January article for the Knight First Amendment Institute. Big techs integration with China thus supports the rise and export of digital authoritarianism; deepens economic dependence that can be used as leverage against the United States in future geopolitical moments; forces companies to self-censor and contort their preferences to serve Chinese censors and officials.

Lawmakers of both parties love to hate on big tech and its poster-child representatives, like those summoned to Wednesdays hearing. Conservatives routinely claim that Google is censoring their speech, a line they returned to repeatedly on Wednesday. Liberals argue that Facebook doesnt do a good enough job of calling out misinformation, especially if it might anger conservatives. Some observers worry that all of those resentments get in the way of a functional discussion about whether or not the companies are too big.

Im not confident that in the current environment you would see constructive solutions put forward that are not based on political retaliation, rather than a principled approach, said Mieke Eoyang, vice president for national security at think tank Third Way.

There is ample reason for lawmakers to be suspicious of how the big tech interacts with the Chinese government. A May report from London-based research firm Top10VPN shows that Amazon provides web services to Chinese companies on a Commerce Department sanctioned Entity list. Google has an AI research effort in China.

Facebook, which is effectively banned in the country, is arguably the least reliant on the Chinese market. Hong Kong-based TikTok is a major competitor to Facebook-owned Instagram. But that doesnt tell the whole story. Facebook is such a large gamer marketplace, it still makes money off of China from companies like Tencent that need Facebook's users to play their games.

From the Pentagons perspective, American tech giants do offer a unique technological resource, one that does produce innovation and that arguably would not exist if they were broken up. Consider the Pentagons JEDI cloud program. Smaller cloud providers complained that the programs requirements were tilted toward Amazon, the only company that many believed could meet them. Part of the reason that the JEDI contract came down to a race between Microsoft and Amazon (after Google pulled out) is because those are the companies with the largest cloud offerings, able to provide the highest level of security. It was only after visiting them that former Defense Secretary James Mattis realized that what Americans private big tech firms were doing with cloud computing was decades ahead of what the government was doing with smaller, patchwork capabilities. He also realized that cloud computing at enterprise scale was essential to real innovation in AI.

The size of that cloud capability and the amount of data available plays a big role in a companys ability to develop next-generation AI products. Googles compute power, and access to a massive dataset of online video footage via YouTube, was vital to the development of deep learning technologies. Facebooks compute power and its access to billions of biometric facial records pictures of faces allowed it to createunique facial recognition technology to rival the human brain.

These companies developed the worlds largest compute capabilities in order to become the worlds largest companies. Busting them up could eliminate something that doesnt exist anywhere else and actually is a driver for innovation, one that arguably requires more regulation and oversight but also that cant be replicated at a smaller scale.

The unique resource of big tech firms is what Congress is consideringin the context of these companies overall effects on the market, individuals, and tangled U.S. relations with China. How to do that? The answer is carefully and case by case. While Republicans and Democrats love to vilify big tech, these companies are very different from one another, even if they do have anti-competitive practices.

I think these companies are all differently situated based on their business models. So when it comes to discussions around breaking them up, the implications are all different, said Eoyang, as are the unintended consequences of doing so.

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Busting Up Big Tech is Popular, But Here's what the US May Lose - Defense One