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Morning Headlines 4/13/20
Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology
Apple and Google will enhance their mobile devices with an API that will use Bluetooth to perform coronavirus contact tracing to help detect outbreaks.
Bankruptcy judge OKs sale of St. Vincent hospital to Patrick Soon-Shiong
A federal judge approves the $135 million sale of St. Vincent Medical Center (CA) to health IT, life sciences, and publishing mogul Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD who plans to turn it into a COVID-19 research facility.
Doctors at UCLA, UCSF create registry to study coronavirus effects on pregnancy
Researchers at UCLA Health and UC San Francisco launch the PRIORITY study and national data registry to better understand the effects of COVID-19 on pregnant and post-partum women.
so much irony
How Biogen Became a Coronavirus ‘Superspreader’ https://nyti.ms/3egDOwZ