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#54 When people come together they surmount unfavorable odds. Saturday ended the most important national nurses week in my lifetime.
Introduction: Wow. On Friday, the C.D.C. formalized air-management recommendations as a means of containing infectious diseases. Interest groups connected to methane gas pipelines spent a lot of money funding activists who lobbied against anything merely acknowledging air transmission of COVID, such as masks. As I’ve read more history while producing this newsletter, it appears the rise of the industrial revolution in the 18th century introduced denial of air flow as a factor in disease containment or transmission. This tiny victory is one to savor:
May 12 CDC sets first federal target for ventilation of indoor air to lower transmission risk for Covid-19 (CNN) - “This is the first time a federal agency has set a target of five air changes per hour for how much rooms and buildings should be ventilated. Air quality experts cheered the updated recommendations.”
Contents:
Hospital Impacts
Select Nurses Now Required to Use & Train A.I.
Future Proof
What Happened in the 2018 A.I. Rollout
Facebook & Google Won’t Quit News, Won’t Pay For News
Stories That Didn’t Go Viral
A Hopeful Development in Understanding Long COVID
…But after COVID’s acute emergency phase and the painfully slow acceptance of vaccines and air-management containment controls, hospitals incurred some extra costs and revenue shortfalls as patients stayed away. Now they’re closing or cutting back the days in which they keep E.R.s open. Several institutions have already eliminated their labor delivery services as an expense their leaders decided to no longer carry. And some healthcare businesses are experimenting with A.I. nurse substitutes, CBS News reported.
Healthcare workers (HCWs) and public health advocates are probably tapped out on emotional labor with no remaining reserves. But that’s different from what negotiation Masterclass instructor Rick Voss calls “tactical empathy,” the “deliberate influencing of your negotiating counterpart’s emotions for the ultimate purpose of building trust-based influence and securing deals.”
HCWs may want to find time this week to engage their tactical empathy skills to learn what makes these A.I.-peddling CEOs tick.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee this Tuesday about what laws & regulations he and his peers who lead A.I.-producing corporations have decided upon.
May 07 Silicon Valley's Hail Mary moment | AI is Silicon Valley's last-ditch attempt to avoid a stock market wipeout (Business Insider) - “Silicon Valley has entered the Hail Mary phase of its business cycle—a desertic part of a tech-industry downturn where desperation can turn into recklessness.”
May 08 AI’s Ostensible Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage (Stanford's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)) - "Schaeffer began wondering if AI’s alleged emergent abilities were real while attending a lecture describing them. 'I noticed in the lecture that many claimed emergent abilities seemingly appeared when researchers used certain very specific ways of evaluating those models,' he says."
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Hospital Impacts
May 13 Carson Tahoe closures reflect changing landscape of health care (Nevada Appeal) - “Officials at Carson Tahoe Health and Carson City Health and Human Services believe a handful of forthcoming closures from Carson Tahoe Health reflect new realities in a post-pandemic world but will not negatively impact patient access and care.” “McKay pointed to a recent report by the American Hospital Association showing hospital expenses nationwide increased by 17.5 percent between 2019 and 2022.”
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