Could this COVID-19 ‘health passport’ be the future of travel and events?

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/covid-19-passport-app-health-travel-covidpass-quarantine-event/

  • Rising COVID-19 infection rates pose a threat to global tourism.
  • A new app acts as a health passport for travellers who are virus-free.
  • Using blockchain technology, it provides an encrypted record of test results.
  • Its creators say it could allow healthy travellers to avoid quarantine.
  • The app could also allow sports and entertainment venues to reopen safely, as well as the global conference and exhibition industry.

Thousands of summer holidays are now up in the air, following a series of COVID-19 flare-ups around the world, with trips cancelled and travellers forced to quarantine when they return home.

In mid-July, the number of confirmed cases globally jumped by a million in just four days. The UK imposed a 14-day isolation on holidaymakers returning from Spain after infection rates spiked there, prompting the UK’s biggest tour operator to cancel all holidays to that country.

After recording its first cases since April, Viet Nam closed the tourist hotspot of Da Nang to tourists and evacuated 80,000 tourists from the city.

Now, a new health passport app promises to restore confidence to the travel industry, which has been badly hit by the pandemic. Global tourism shrank by 97% in April, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization.

CovidPass is the brainchild of one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders, Mustapha Mokass. It also involves other YGLs across 5 continents, including Muna AbuSulayman and Peggy Liu. CovidPass uses blockchain technology to store encrypted data from individual blood tests, allowing users to prove that they have tested negative for COVID-19.

Unlike contact tracing apps, CovidPass will not track users’ movements. Non-mandatory contact tracing apps have met with only limited success so far due to privacy concerns.

Germany, regarded as one of the most successful nations in rolling out a voluntary app, currently has only 16 million users out of 83 million citizens. Experts say at least half the population needs to use a contact tracing app to make it effective in fighting the virus.

Meanwhile, governments are faced with a variety of different testing regimes to validate the health of travellers. “This isn’t enough to reassure tourists or health authorities”, says Mokass.

Mokass hopes his app, which is launching in September, will become a standardized solution for airlines, airports and border agencies, and eliminate quarantine for healthy travellers. CovidPass could also allow hotels, cinemas, theatres, sporting and concert venues to reopen safely.

Another possible use would be to help restart the worldwide conference and exhibition industry, which has contracted by 60%, at a cost of $180 billion in lost revenues and impacting 1.9 million jobs, according to the industry’s global association, UFI.

CovidPass commits to mandatory carbon offsetting for each flight passenger, to preserve the environmental benefits of reduced air travel during the crisis.

Tulsa Innovation Labs Looking to Create the Nation’s Most Inclusive Tech Community – Next City

LOOK OUT

TULSA, OKLAHOMA

The NEXT PUMP and DUMP ECONOMY is BEING SETUP – NOW

NEW WORLD ORDER PROMOTOR – Kaiser Family Foundation – McKinsey and Company – Holberton

Tulsa to be the Newest Tech Hub

Virtual Health, Energy Technology, Drones, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics and So Much MORE

The Enemy WITHIN is Offering JOBS in the Wake of a Jobless Covid Economy

GKFF will pay a portion of monthly payment as long as YOU stay in Tulsa

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/tulsa-innovation-lab-looking-create-nations-most-inclusive-tech-community?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue:%202020-07-31%20Smart%20Cities%20Dive%20Newsletter%20%5Bissue:28834%5D&utm_term=Smart%20Cities%20Dive

Tulsa Innovation Labs Looking to Create the Nation’s Most Inclusive Tech Community – July 30, 2020

Staci Aaenson-Fletcher, a Tulsan previously working as an accountant, recently took a career turn. “I was working in an accounting job with a large corporation — great benefits and culture,” she says, but there was a catch. “With the work experience I had, I was pretty capped in my salary. I was going to have to be a traveling regional manager,” Aaenson-Fletcher says, if she wanted to earn more. “But I want to stay local and be with my family.”

Instead, in January of this year, Aaenson-Fletcher joined the first cohort of students from the newly opened Tulsa campus of the Holberton School, a San Francisco-based software engineering academy. The Tulsa campus is one part of the Tulsa Innovation Labs, an initiative that has set out to make Tulsa not only the nation’s newest tech hub, but its most inclusive as well.

The lab is an initiative of the Tulsa-based George Kaiser Family Foundation, which seeks to end intergenerational poverty in its city. By working with McKinsey & Company to analyze the areas of opportunity in the city, the initiative identified five focus areas that will anchor its efforts: virtual health, energy technology, and drones, as well as cybersecurity and data analytics.

“We landed on these five in particular because they scored highly in terms of impact, feasibility, and inclusivity. Together they represent an interconnected set of opportunities to transform Tulsa into a tech hub,” says Nicholas Lalla, the co-founder and managing director of Tulsa Innovation Labs.

The George Kaiser Family Foundation is investing $50 million in Tulsa Innovation Labs to create local growth in these specific areas and take a diversity-focused approach along the way.

One way the lab has set out to spark this growth is through its partnership with Holberton. Once the school reaches its intended scale, the plan is for a diverse crop of 500 software students to graduate from it each year. Aaenson-Fletcher’s inaugural cohort is a group of 25 people between the ages of 19 and 55, with backgrounds ranging from welders and customer representatives to rock climbers and musicians. Half of the group are women or people of color.

“Having diverse backgrounds and experiences in the workplace makes for better business decisions, more responsive products, and a more inclusive ecosystem,” Libby Wuller, executive director of Holberton School in Tulsa, said in a press release.

To help foster that diverse workforce, Holberton offers a living assistance program so students can afford to go to school full time and also pay their bills. Holberton also offers a deferred tuition model, meaning that graduates don’t have to pay for the program until they graduate and earn at least $40,000, at which point they’ll start making monthly payments to the school. The intention of these programs is “to create pathways to the software engineering profession regardless of an individual’s circumstances,” Wuller added.

The George Kaiser Family Foundation is currently offering assistance with tuition repayment, as well. “If I get a job after graduation, GKFF will pay a portion of that monthly payment as long as I stay in Tulsa,” says Aaenson-Fletcher.

In terms of inclusivity, “it’s obviously the right thing to do and it’s mission-aligned to GKFF,” says Lalla. “Especially during the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, we recognize that not all Tulsa neighborhoods have had access to the same opportunities. We’ve built inclusivity in through research and analytics. We prioritized looking at what share of jobs are accessible with associate degrees or certifications and built that in to land on our top five [focus areas.]”

Clay Holk, the senior policy advisor for small business, entrepreneurship and economic innovation for the City of Tulsa, sees Tulsa Innovation Labs as being a big piece of the economic diversification puzzle the city is trying to piece together.

“We’ve had an interesting experience here, not just with COVID but longer-term declines in energy prices given how much of our local economy is tied to the oil and gas industry,” he says. “Tulsa has been through a lot of booms and busts. When we’re building out these [tech] ecosystems, the idea is that some things are booming while others are busting, but altogether we’re continually rising.”

Holk is already impressed with Tulsa Innovation Labs simply for their sharing of the results of the McKinsey analysis — a source of subject matter information that is “hard to replicate [in] the public sector” — but he realizes that the city has to be accountable to all of its nearly 400,000 residents.

“Something we have to think about a lot actually

[are]

the distributional consequences of taking part in something like this,” he says. “We have to be thinking about the second and third order effects… You can look at housing prices in [larger] cities and see those second and third order effects,” while adding that those problems are a long way off for Tulsa at the moment.

Right now, he sees opportunities for the city’s low cost of living as a draw for the remote workforce that has grown in the wake of COVID-19. “People can be wherever they want to be and that’s a very interesting opportunity for us.”

The ones selling the panic. Are the same ones selling the vaccine.

COVID – The ones selling the panic – Are the same ones selling the vaccine.

– Gates invests MILLIONS into GAVI and the W.H.O.

– Gates and Microsoft invented ID2020.

– Gates owns patent for a biometric system that turns your body into a cryptocurrency mining rig that monitors all of your bodily functions.

Patent WO2020060606 – CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA

ALL of these are included within the so called “vaccine” injection for the pandemic fraud.

Covid-19 vaccines may cause mild “side effects”, experts say

Covid-19 vaccines may cause mild “side effects”, experts say

and

Patent WO2020060606 – CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA

Look this patent up which ties to the Vaccine

Covid-19 vaccines may cause mild side effects, experts say –

July 27, 2020

Helen Branswell

Vials
Adobe

While the world awaits the results of large clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccines, experts say the data so far suggest one important possibility: The vaccines may carry a bit of a kick.

In vaccine parlance, they appear to be “reactogenic,” meaning they have induced short-term discomfort in a percentage of the people who have received them in clinical trials. This kind of discomfort includes headache, sore arms, fatigue, chills, and fever.

As long as the side effects of eventual Covid-19 vaccines are transient and not severe, these would not be sources of alarm — in fact, they may be signals of an immune system lurching into gear. It’s a simple fact that some vaccines are more unpleasant to take than others. Think about the pain of a tetanus shot, for instance.

But experts say it makes sense to prepare people now for the possibility that Covid-19 vaccines may be reactogenic.

“I think one of the things we’re going to have to realize is that all of these vaccines are going to be reactogenic…. They’re all going to be associated with reactions,” said Kathryn Edwards, scientific director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program in Nashville, Tenn.

“I think if you were to point out that, look, this is going to be a little bit painful, but there’s an end to it, and there’s a greater good to be gained here, I think that that’s probably worthwhile,” agreed Brian Southwell, senior director of the science in the public sphere program at the Center for Communication Science at RTI International, a think tank located in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

At least two manufacturers, Cambridge, Mass.-based Moderna and CanSino, a Chinese vaccine maker, stopped testing the highest doses of their Covid-19 vaccines because of the number of severe adverse events recorded among participants in their clinical trials.

Ian Haydon, one of the volunteers who received the highest dose in the Moderna Phase 1 clinical trial, ended up seeking medical care after he spiked a fever of 103 Fahrenheit 12 hours after getting a second dose of the vaccine. (Most Covid-19 vaccines will likely require two doses to work.)

The side effects are being seen across a number of different vaccines, made in different ways. This does not appear to be a problem linked to a specific type of Covid-19 vaccine.

The Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine, which uses a harmless-to-humans virus that infects chimpanzees as its backbone, saw adverse events reported by 60% of recipients in its early phase trial, reported last week in the journal The Lancet. Half of patients who got the highest dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine — which like Moderna’s is a messenger RNA vaccine — reported side effects.

Even after abandoning study of its highest dose, CanSino saw nearly three-quarters of the people in the vaccine arms in its Phase 2 trial report side effects, though none was severe. The CanSino vaccine uses a human adenovirus as its backbone.

Getting people prepared for the fact that the Covid-19 vaccines may be reactogenic lets them know what to expect when vaccine becomes available, said Kathleen Neuzil, director of the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

“As with many vaccines, we have found that if we let people know what to expect, then they have fewer concerns if side effects happen,” Neuzil said.

There’s plenty of evidence that people will accept reactogenic vaccines — will virtually rush to get them — if they are concerned enough about the condition the vaccine is designed to prevent.

Edwards said GSK’s shingles vaccine, Shingrix, which reportedly makes people feel pretty miserable for a short period after injection, is a perfect example. Despite the possibility of discomfort, from the moment the vaccine was brought to market, the company could not keep up with the crush of demand for it. (GSK recently announced the vaccine was no longer in short supply.)

Most people know someone who has had shingles; they’ve heard how painful the condition — a reactivation of latent varicella virus, a late side-effect of chickenpox infection — is for people who develop it.

But the behavior of many Americans suggests they don’t see Covid-19 as a particular threat, with many resisting wearing masks and following the social distancing recommendations that have successfully driven down transmission in a number of other parts of the world.

A variety of polls suggest between half and 70% of Americans plan to be vaccinated when Covid-19 vaccines become available, figures that raise concerns in some quarters about the ability of vaccines to trigger herd immunity in the U.S. population.

Noel Brewer, a professor of health behavior at the University of North Carolina, isn’t worried at this point about those polling numbers. At present, it’s not even clear if vaccines will work, he said, which means pollsters are asking people about hypothetical decisions they may have to make at some unknown point in the future.

“It’s all just a bunch of question marks,” said Brewer, who actually thinks the polling numbers look pretty good under the circumstances. “Once folks are faced with a specific vaccine and a particular effectiveness profile and so on, they can then make a decision based on a thing, as opposed to an idea of a thing.”

For most people right now, Covid-19 is invisible “unless you are in an ICU,” he said. “For most of us every day, we don’t see people who are really sick.”

Brewer, who is on a World Health Organization subcommittee on Covid-19 vaccine safety, said people do expect some discomfort from getting vaccinated.

“The real question is: How much discomfort compared to what other things they may be facing? So, if you’re 70 years old and you can’t leave your house at all, you’re going to have one calculus as compared to if you’re someone who’s 20 years old,” he said.

Conditions at the time vaccine becomes ready for use will be a big influencing factor when the public is offered vaccines, said Southwell. In the meantime, though, he thinks it is critical to communicate with the public about issues like how vaccines are made and that the Covid-19 vaccines may be reactogenic.

People are paying attention to these issues, he said, arguing that members of public has a greater capacity to understand than they are generally given credit for.

“There might be a much greater case for acceptance if we do our work in building trust now and laying the groundwork now,” said Southwell. “But we’re not necessarily as focused on that as we could be.”

About the Author Reprints

Helen Branswell

Senior Writer, Infectious Disease

Helen covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development.@HelenBranswell   

Cyber Torture

Insider Contribution to StopTheCrime.net

It’s the same Cabal folks that run the UN that set up Bolshevism, Nazism, Maoism and all the ‘isms. They also started and run the UN. Can you say “Nephilim hybrids of the Cain bloodline”?

Yes, this has gone on since the mid 1950s, developed in Soviet Russia first using their captured Nazi doctors.

Synthetic Telepathy. Neuro Weapons. Targeted Individuals.

Synthetic Telepathy. Neuro Weapons. Targeted Individuals.

Elk Hoof Disease . . . .

https://www.gohunt.com/read/news/california-asks-public-for-help-identifying-cases-of-elk-hoof-disease#gs.d33cq6

Elk Hoof Disease

GoHunt.com (July 31) 2020

California asks public for help identifying cases of elk hoof disease

Elk hoof disease is creeping into California after two cases were confirmed in April in Roosevelt elk in Del Norte County. While treponeme-associated hoof disease (TAHD) has been a known issue within WashingtonOregon and Idaho elk, the recent cases in California’s resident herd has sparked a new effort from wildlife biologists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to track the disease’s presence in the Golden State, the Del Norte Triplicate reports.