MEDNEWS: COVID-19 vs. Saudi Arabia

[dewline]

I think the leadership of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be wanting a solution to COVID-19 before the end of July of this year.

What say you?

Comments

[cmcmck]

While Iran decides that it's all the will of Allah.........

[dewline]

Both countries have their own reasons for wanting a quicker and happier ending to this mess, to be sure.

[thewayne]

Contrary to what Our Beloved Leader thinks, we're not close to a vaccine to Covid-19, and you don't develop cures for coronviruses as they tend to mutate. So the Saudis are going to be pissadointed if they want a cure or vaccine by the end of July of this year. It's unlikely a vaccine will even be in human-stage testing by that time!

[dewline]

Duly noted.

Recommendations for web news sources to watch?

[thewayne]

Here’s a BBC article that has a good summary of where we stand with a Covid-19 vaccine: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51665497 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51665497

Daily news sources: HuffPo, Slate, BBC, Slashdot

Frequent news sources, i.e. usually weekly: Ars Technica, The Atlantic, Politico, Der Spiegal International/English edition, NPR, CBC

[dewline]

I think I've got most of those bookmarked for continuing reference already.

[thewayne]

I also like Salon, but their app turned to crap. I don’t know if their web site is any better. I’m very fond of The Atlantic and Der Spiegel, I like long-form journalism. Another good one is Pro Publica, VERY long-form, but because of that it doesn’t update very often and isn’t very current.

I’ve got some others that I’ll mention later.