💥BIG TAKE💥 There are more small gun manufacturers than ever before. Here’s how they work around state laws to turn a profit through deadly AR-15 style rifles. Bloomberg @bbgvisualdata read the full investigation: bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-… w/ gfx by squad Kyle Kim 김용진 Paul Murray and me

The Biden administration wants to better detect and destroy biological weapons. The US intelligence community already has some ideas...

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Biden’s latest National Biodefense Strategy for the next deadly pandemic calls for the US to produce a test for a new pathogen within 12 hours of its discovery and enough vaccine to protect the nation within 130 days, Riley Ray Griffin reports:

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President Biden’s strategy for the next deadly pandemic calls for the US to develop a test to detect the pathogen within 12 hours of its discovery, produce enough vaccines to protect the nation within 130 days, Riley Ray Griffin reports for Bloomberg Politics
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Go figure: Inspectors found unsanitary conditions at an Abbott Laboratories plant months before the company issued a massive baby-formula recall. Not long after, MSCI gave the company an even better ESG score. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

📰From today's newsletter: As the Earth warms and climate disasters occur with greater frequency, experts are concerned that insect-borne diseases will become more common, including in regions of the world where they’re not currently a threat.
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Last fall, I learned about a terrifying scam where hackers tricked homebuyers into sending them their down payments. That's evolved into a wild story about a tiny secret service team racing to track down the stolen funds. Hope you'll give it a read! Businessweek

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Scoop: The US will begin redirecting travelers from Uganda to five airports to screen for Ebola, as the East African country grapples with an outbreak of the Sudan ebolavirus, for which there is no approved vaccine available. Bloomberg
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“Folks, what century are we in?” President Biden says in White House task force on reproductive rights.

“My Lord, we’re talking about contraception here.”

My story for Businessweek: Pulse oximeters - small devices that clip onto the end of your finger to measure oxygen levels - are more likely to give false readings when used by people with darker skin, studies say.

I spoke to scientists trying to address the issue bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW: Two men, two decades apart. Two fatal shoves onto the subway tracks. Both were homeless, living with serious mental illness. Both had countless people try to help them.

My investigation into New York's continuing failures to help its most vulnerable.
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In 2020, Verily, the Google sister company, opened an opioid addiction clinic in my home state. I went to visit and wrote about it for Businessweek bloomberg.com/news/features/…

It's also, let's be clear, a weird time. For many people (and govts), they're moving on from the pandemic. While folks IN the pandemic world, they're looking at the same panic-neglect cycle they always warn about. And there's climate, a war, etc.