covid-19 testing

Chengdu, China Locks Down 21.2 Million People

In order to prepare for four days of citywide Covid-19 testing, Chengdu, a major city in southwest China with a population of 21.2 million, declared a lockdown on its citizens. This comes as some of the nation’s most populated and economically significant cities are dealing with outbreaks.

Lockdown 

Residents of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, were ordered to stay home from 6 p.m. on Thursday, with households allowed to send one person per day to shop for necessities, the city...

https://mfame.guru/chengdu-china-locks-down-21-2-million-people/

Analysis: Can the Postal Service deliver on at-home COVID tests?

The White House chooses the Postal Service to deliver hundreds of millions of at-home COVID-19 test kits

Nothing ever really comes for free. “Free” food samples, credit appraisals, tarot card readings –– all of them incur costs somewhere down the line.

That includes COVID-19 tests. On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that the U.S. government had launched a website to deliver free at-home COVID-19 rapid antigen tests via the U.S. Postal Service. But facing slowing delivery speeds and tens of thousands of omicron-infected workers, can the agency deliver?

According to Postmaster...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/analysis-can-the-postal-service-deliver-on-at-home-covid-tests

Biden vaccine mandate may worsen low driver retention rates

An emergency rule being developed by the U.S. Department of Labor mandating vaccines or weekly testing for workers at companies with 100 or more employees is likely to exacerbate the already low driver retention rates in the trucking industry.

“Some of the biggest companies are already requiring this — United Airlines, Disney, Tyson Foods and even Fox News,” said President Joe Biden in announcing the new requirement at the White House late Thursday. “The bottom line: We’re going to protect...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/biden-vaccine-mandate-may-worsen-low-driver-retention-rates

Affinity Empowering takes the ‘visit’ out of ‘doctor’s visit’

Affinity Empowering launching new services eHome and eCare bolstering direct to consumer healthcare

No one likes visits to the doctor, and for good reason: It usually means that you’re sick, you’re missing work or you’re going to be stranded in the waiting room. But what if you could take the visit out of your doctor’s visit?

Affinity Empowering has a simple mission: provide excellent health care without the throes of sitting in a waiting room for who knows how long. The company, which specializes in occupational, behavioral and direct-to-consumer health services, announced on Thursday that it...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/affinity-empowering-takes-the-visit-out-of-doctors-visit

Exclusive: UPS pilots detained in Hong Kong while awaiting COVID test results

A white UPS jumbo jet with brown tail coming in for landing over water by Hong Kong Airport.

UPS pilots disembarking for rest in Hong Kong report they are being forced to wait in government facilities for COVID-19 test results rather than proceed to their hotel, a situation that could escalate tensions with the U.S. over restrictive COVID-19 health measures on aircrews arriving in the semiautonomous city.

The U.S. Department of Transportation earlier this week retaliated against Hong Kong’s aggressive quarantine measures for pilots that are impacting cargo flights by FedEx Express...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/exclusive-ups-pilots-detained-in-hong-kong-while-awaiting-covid-test-results

Pilots ask FedEx to halt Hong Kong layovers over COVID rules

A white FedEx cargo jet with blue tail climbing through a bright blue sky.

Pilots for Federal Express (NYSE: FDX) are directly appealing to Chairman, CEO and founder Frederick Smith to stop layovers in Hong Kong because of onerous quarantine conditions they say force crews to be hospitalized against their will in substandard quarters and put their well-being at risk.

In a letter posted to Twitter on Friday, Joe DePete, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, repeated calls for the express delivery company to suspend brief rest stays “until these egregious layover...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/pilots-ask-fedex-to-halt-hong-kong-layovers-over-covid-rules

Unmet Financial Needs Making Britain’s Poorest Areas Suffer Worst in COVID

  • Top secret UK government analysis reveals the poorest parts of the country having the biggest covid outbreak.
  • Socioeconomic inequality is cited as a reason for this.
  • Low wages, cramped housing making it difficult for people to self isolate.
  • In areas such as Blackburn people seeking financial help to self isolate are being denied help.
  • Areas with more public service workers like taxi drivers, supermarket workers etc are more prone to infection.
  • Deprivation and ethnicity have been marked as risk...

https://mfame.guru/unmet-financial-needs-making-britains-poorest-areas-suffer-worst-in-covid/

News alert: Biden names supply chain coordinator to COVID-19 response team

President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Tim Manning to coordinate supply chain management as part of his administration’s COVID-19 response team.

Manning is the former deputy administrator for protection and national preparedness at the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President Obama.

The supply coordinator will organize the federal effort focused on securing, strengthening and ensuring a sustainable pandemic supply chain, working with departments and agencies to ensure there is sufficient...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/news-alert-biden-names-supply-chain-coordinator-to-covid-19-response-team

The Daily Dash: A 25% driver pay increase; dumping the Tesla Semi

The Daily Dash is a quick look at what is happening in the freight ecosystem. In today’s edition, C.R. England became the latest carrier to announce a large pay increase for its drivers. Plus, analysts debate the value of the Tesla Semi program and industry groups push for transportation workers to be among those with early access to a COVID vaccine.

Driver pay increases keep coming

Citing a multimillion dollar investment in its driver workforce, C.R. England announced that it has provided its...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/the-daily-dash-a-25-driver-pay-increase-dumping-the-tesla-semi

Two FMC Commissioners seek rapid testing and priority vaccination for maritime labor

Two Federal Maritime Commissioners, Carl W. Bentzel and Daniel B. Maffei, are urging that rapid COVID-19 testing be made available as soon as possible to the essential U.S. maritime labor force, whose members should also be prioritized for early vaccination .

In a letter to Maritime Administrator Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby and CDC Director Robert R. Redfield, MD, they note that “within the last month there have been at least three major COVID-19 outbreaks (Charleston, Philadelphia, and Los...

https://www.marinelog.com/shipping/federal-maritime-commissioners-seek-rapid-testing-and-priority-vaccination-for-maritime-labor/

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