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Unvaccinated, unmasked teacher spreads Covid-19 to elementary school students, CDC reports. The CDC said that some of the affected children at the Marin County, California, school went on to infect other students, their siblings and their parents.

An unvaccinated teacher who showed up to her elementary school classroom in Marin County, California, while experiencing symptoms such as "cough, subjective fever, and headache" ended up infecting half of her students with Covid-19 as well as some of their family members, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday.

Officials from the Marin County Department of Public Health initiated an investigation into the classroom outbreak on May 26, three days after the teacher reported testing positive for Covid-19. The teacher, who initially attributed symptoms to allergies, was one of only two staff members that had not been vaccinated at the elementary school.

Among the teacher’s 24 students, 22 who were ineligible for vaccination because of age were tested. Twelve tested positive for the virus, according to the report, written by county health officials and experts at the University of California's Berkeley, Davis and Santa Cruz campuses.

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This classroom seating chart shows the proximity of a Marin County teacher, to students who later tested positive for Covid. [Centers for Disease Control]

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Nicole Acevedo
August 28, 2021
NBC News

[Josef.Ulehla]

NGOs condemn trial in Austria of ‘Ibizagate’ whistleblower

Prosecution of Julian Hessenthaler will deter whistleblowing and risks infringing press freedoms, says group

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... s-freedoms

[Josef.Ulehla]

EU ‘seeking to turn migrant database into mass surveillance tool’

Campaigners from 31 NGOs urge MEPs to rethink plans to overhaul Eurodac database

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... lance-tool

[Josef.Ulehla]

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Online. Free. Register.

Opening event for Fiscal Matters, a week of debate on EU fiscal policy.

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[davkol]

The real climate and transformative impact of ICT: A critique of estimates, trends, and regulations

To avoid catastrophic consequences from climate change, all sectors of the global economy, including Information Communication Technology (ICT), must keep their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. We examine peer-reviewed estimates of ICT's GHG emissions, which put ICT's share of global GHG emissions at 1.8%–2.8%. We find pronounced differences and much debate concerning the underlying assumptions behind the peer-reviewed studies, which could suggest that global emissions from ICT are as high as 2.1%–3.9%. All study analysts agree that ICT emissions will not reduce without major concerted political and industrial efforts, and we provide three reasons for anticipating that ICT emissions are actually going to increase without intervention. Our analysis suggests not all ICT carbon pledges are ambitious enough to meet climate targets, and that policy mechanisms for enforcing sector-wide climate target compliance are lacking. Without a global carbon constraint, sector-wide regulations are required to keep ICT's carbon footprint aligned with the Paris Agreement. With a global carbon constraint, ICT would be a greater enabler of productivity and utility, creating opportunity for the sector to be financially successful as a critical part of a global net zero society.

Charlotte Freitag, Mike Berners-Lee, Kelly Widdicks, Bran Knowles, Gordon S. Blair, Adrian Friday
Patterns, Volume 2, Issue 9, 2021

[Martin.Stanek]

European Commission Report Declares Open Source Software and Hardware to be a “Public Good”

[Janka.Michailidu]

Data Librarianship: A Path and an Ethic
Vicky Steeves is the Librarian for Research Data Management and Reproducibility at New York University – a dual appointment between NYU’s Division of Libraries and Center for Data Science. Vicky contributes to ReproZip, is a co-founder of LIS Scholarship Archive, and developed Women Working in Openness – an effort initiated by April Hathcock. Vicky holds a BS in Computer Science and an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College.

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Revealed: exploitation of meat plant workers rife across UK and Europe

Thousands of outsourced workers on inferior pay and conditions to fulfil demand for cheap meat, Guardian investigation shows.

Ella McSweeney, Holly Young
September 28, 2021
The Guardian

‘The whole system is rotten’: life inside Europe’s meat industry

Unions are calling for a Europe-wide ban on the use of subcontracted workers, kept on lower pay and conditions.

Ella McSweeney, Holly Young
September 28, 2021
The Guardian

Less meat is good for us and the planet – why are politicians shy to say so?

A Guardian investigation reveals exploitation is rife in the meat industry, while also being a major source of greenhouse gases. Yet we still subsidise it.

Felicity Lawrence
September 30, 2021
The Guardian

[Josef.Ulehla]

Revealed: Czech PM used offshore companies to buy £13m French mansion

Pandora papers reveal Andrej Babiš financed purchase via secret loans through three overseas firms

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/o ... ch-mansion

[Janka.Michailidu]

Study about the impact of open source software and hardware on technological independence, competitiveness and innovation in the EU economy

The main breakthrough of the study is the identification of open source as a public good. This shows a change of paradigm from the previous irreconcilable difference between closed and open source, and points to a new era in which digital businesses are built using open source assets. This information is essential to develop policy actions in the field. The study also values the economic impact of open source commitments on the EU economy.