Top eight CNS stories for today including the House Judiciary Committee asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to testify about claims that his employees used sensitive business information from third-party sellers to develop competing products; The Food and Drug Administration gave emergency-use approval to the antiviral drug remdesivir; Georgia officials reported over 1,000 new Covid-19 cases as the governor lifted the state’s shelter-in-place order, and more.
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Top eight CNS stories for today including the House Judiciary Committee asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to testify about claims that his employees used sensitive business information from third-party sellers to develop competing products; The Food and Drug Administration gave emergency-use approval to the antiviral drug remdesivir; Georgia officials reported over 1,000 new Covid-19 cases as the governor lifted the state’s shelter-in-place order, and more.
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1.) The House Judiciary Committee asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Friday to testify about an explosive report that his employees used sensitive business information from third-party sellers to develop competing products.
2.) Under normal circumstances, with malpractice suits and doctors’ Hippocratic oaths in mind, hospitals take great lengths to prevent patient infection. During a pandemic, concern over liability is heightened.
5.) Georgia public health officials reported over 1,000 new Covid-19 cases on Friday, the same day Republican Governor Brian Kemp lifted the state’s shelter-in-place order for most residents.
6.) Officials offered few answers as New York City and the state each tackled the perplexing question Friday of why stay-at-home orders have failed to halt Covid-19 infections.
8.) Canada will ban assault rifles in the aftermath of one of the country’s deadliest rampages, in which a gunman killed 22 people over two days in Nova Scotia last month.
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