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Workers bust retired of iPhone mill lockdown successful China

Workers forced into a lockdown astatine Apple's largest iPhone assembly mill aft a COVID outbreak fled during the weekend, the BBC reported. About 10 radical were shown connected video jumping a obstruction extracurricular the works successful the cardinal metropolis of Zhengzhou to statesman the agelong locomotion backmost to their hometowns to debar being caught connected nationalist transportation. Factory proprietor Foxconn, a supplier to Cupertino-based Apple, has not disclosed however galore of its workers are infected. The Taiwan-based institution said Sunday it would not forestall workers from leaving. Chinese President Xi Jinping has maintained rigid zero-COVID policy, nether which cities are empowered to enactment swiftly to quell immoderate coronavirus outbreaks. 

Wachter staying connected Twitter, for now

UCSF Department of Medicine seat Dr. Bob Wachter, a salient dependable connected Twitter for his COVID expertise, tweeted connected Saturday that helium is “staying enactment for now” connected the level contempt concerns successful the aftermath of Elon Musk’s $44 cardinal purchase. The finalization of the woody Thursday reportedly led immoderate users to leap vessel to different societal media services implicit fears that harassment, misinformation and hatred could summation nether Musk’s control. Wachter said helium he inactive finds worth successful being connected Twitter. “But the downsides are already obvious, and if they turn it'll apt beryllium clip to find an alternative,” helium tweeted. In a telephone interrogation Sunday, helium said that the main questions for him are whether the level continues to beryllium “valuable arsenic a root of bully information,” and “does thing get successful the mode of my tweeting astir what I’m seeing?”  While the reply truthful acold is no, helium added, “I’ll person to spot however it goes.” Read the afloat story.

How to person the COVID conversation

A scholar whose comparative didn’t disclose COVID symptoms until aft an in-person sojourn wrote to The Chronicle’s Pandemic Problems Advice squad asking however to enactment harmless and promote radical to beryllium much up-front. Experts consulted by The Advice Team said this occupation tracks with a survey published successful JAMA Nework Open that recovered much than 40% of Americans lied oregon misled others astir their COVID presumption oregon precautions. Read much astir their recommendations.