VaccinesPfizer’s Ultra-Cold Vaccine Could Be Difficult to Distribute By Michael Head Published 10 November 2020 The excitement that greeted the news of a vaccine candidate that may be highly effective against COVID-19 was indeed something to behold. One complicating factor will be the maintenance of the cold chain. Vaccines are fragile products: they need to

EpidemicsMore Economic Worries Lead to Less Caution about COVID-19 Published 10 November 2020 Workers experiencing job and financial insecurity are less likely to follow the CDC’s guidelines for COVID-19, such as physical distancing, limiting trips from home and washing hands. The researchers also found that state unemployment benefits and COVID-19 policies affected the connection between

VisasForeign Students Look Forward to Visa Stability By Madeline Joung Published 10 November 2020 International students in the U.S. whose studies and immigration status have undergone changes during President Donald Trump’s administration say they hope their stays will stabilize with President-elect Joe Biden. International students in the U.S. whose studies and immigration status have undergone changes

CybersecurityNew Tool Detects Unsafe Security Practices in Android Apps Published 10 November 2020 Computer scientists have shown for the first time that it is possible to analyze how thousands of Android apps use cryptography without needing to have the apps’ actual codes. Open-source CRYLOGGER is the first tool that detects cryptographic misuses by running the

Knife attacksNew Body Armor Offers Better Knife Protection Published 10 November 2020 The number of knife attacks in Britain has increased over the past few years, while police officers and correctional personnel must contend with an increasing threat from makeshift weapons, such as shanks and spikes. PPSS Group the other day announced a replacement for

Our picksTighter Spyware Export Controls | Cyberattacking Hospitals | Post-Trump Qanon, and more Published 10 November 2020 ·  QAnon Is Winning ·  “My Faith Is Shaken”: The QAnon Conspiracy Theory Faces a Post-Trump Identity Crisis ·  Militant Islamists “Behead More than 50” in Mozambique ·  We’ve Tracked Extremist Content on Facebook for Years: It Doesn’t Get Removed for Long

VaccinesPfizer, Biontech Announce COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Achieved Phase 3 Success Published 9 November 2020 Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis. The study enrolled 43,538 participants, with 42 percent having diverse backgrounds, and no

EpidemicsCoronavirus: Sweden Keeps Its Laid-Back COVID-19 Strategy By David Ehl Published 9 November 2020 Despite rising infection rates, Sweden is sticking to its relatively relaxed approach to managing the coronavirus pandemic. But not everyone in the country is pleased with this tactic. “The trends are quickly going in the wrong direction,” Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven

EpidemicsOdds and Evens: A Strategy for Safely Exiting Lockdown 2 By Laurence Roope and Philip Clarke Published 9 November 2020 Should lockdowns be reimposed, and, if so, for how long? A key difficulty for governments in finding the right answer is that they do not know with any certainty how transmission rates might increase if

Election securityElection Security 2020: Why Did Things Go Right This Time? By Adam Segal, Connor Fairman, Lauren Dudley, and Maya Villasenor Published 9 November 2020 In the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election, the U.S. government and technology companies took several steps to safeguard election security in cyberspace, focusing their efforts on disinformation