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I started yawning, and that was it. That was the sign a migraine was beginning, that I was rolling slowly down that padded cliff. It was inevitable that this would happen half an hour before my interview with neurologist Dr Peter Goadsby, the man forcing the world to take migraines seriously, inevitable but not ideal, so I sipped my water and watched as he scrolled through his Zoom backgrounds. Beach scene? Too casual. Meeting room with framed certificates? Too formal. Home study, with heaving bookcase? Just right.
How much do I know about migraine, Dr Goadsby asked politely, and I took a moment to consider. On one hand, too much. I have one now, I said. I’ve had them regularly since I was a child, an early memory being the evening I found I could no longer read a book and thought, oh well, nice while it lasted. A couple of years ago I was diagnosed as having had a series of strokes when I developed a blind spot in my right eye and later found that blind spot to be a “persistent aura”, the scintillating light that typically arrives at the beginning of a migraine, but in my case, never left. I have become so accustomed to breathing through headaches that I was reassured when I first felt labour pains – I knew this agony, I had survived it monthly. But on the other hand, I know very little. Something to do with blood vessels? Chocolate?
“Everything you’ve said so far,” he replied, “is unfortunately a very common experience. And that’s what is extraordinary to me. I mean, it’s extraordinary, isn’t it? That you, who seem like not a completely crazy person at all,” thank you, “have managed to go through life not really being focused on that pain. People accept their own normality, is my conclusion.”
He tells a story. Aged 17 in Sydney, Goadsby went to get his learning permit before starting driving lessons, but when asked to read the chart on the wall, he couldn’t make out even the largest letters. His mum told him he’d hurt his eyes from studying too hard and a few weeks later he returned, but still couldn’t read the letters. “I always thought I was normal, and then I got glasses. I wouldn’t consider myself stupid, maybe a bit… self-contained. But I realised it’s easy to have something that’s profoundly not normal and not really notice. So I was never surprised when people with headache didn’t recognise what was going on.” Though a billion people suffer from migraine (190,000 migraine attacks are experienced every day in England alone), it often takes a drastic change, like my sight failing, for them to seek treatment.
“It doesn’t matter how severe someone says a headache is – from a broad societal perspective, the thing that really counts is what the headache stops them doing. It’s the disability side of things, because people with migraine are in a very productive demographic. I remind my colleagues and any funders who care to listen, that migraine is a disorder of taxpayers.” It’s an argument that works. “Migraine is finally having its time.”
Though he brushes off the claim with gentle modesty, this is in a large part due to Goadsby’s pioneering research. “It’s due to technology really,” he insists. Two hundred years ago, he offers as an example, people with epilepsy would have been burned at the stake as witches. “So when you think about migraines, which are more complex than most other neurological problems in the sense that there’s no apparent marker – I can look at you, but can’t tell you’ve got migraine – brain imaging is crucial. You can image people’s brain during an attack and it shows differences. That focuses the mind. And specific treatments have been helpful in this regard. If you’ve got a treatment that’s for migraine, that implies migraine must be a thing. Whereas if the treatments are nonspecific,” because in the recent past, people with migraine have been prescribed drugs created to treat other things, like depression or epilepsy, “perhaps it’s not. As that technology has evolved – imaging, genetics, pharmacology, research time – that’s given migraine a leg up.”
As, of course, has he. Goadsby first became interested in migraine as a medical student in Australia. “The appeal was the challenge and the frustration. It seemed so neglected. It was seen as a ‘silly subject’.” Many doctors believed it was a psychosomatic condition related to stress. And pain disorders are difficult to research, as pain is subjective. Plus, there’s the gender thing. Goadsby sighs. “Go back 40 years. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to work out that, if three out of every four people with migraine are women, and there’s a comorbidity, a biological problem of anxiety and depression, and there are periods involved, what is that going to produce? Some stupid interpretations from doctors, who say they’re crazy.” He seems really quite cross. “But there’s such profound biology going on, with circulating oestrogen levels, I’ve never understood why they would think it was anything other than biological. You don’t need a craziness explanation, because you’ve got biology sitting in front of you. I think there was a protective mechanism for a long time, where physicians hate to say they don’t know, hate to accept that they’re impotent in something. So the alternative to ‘I don’t know,’ is, ‘The person in front of me is crazy.’ So it’s a disorder of women. So what? Get a grip and move on!”
In 1985, Goadsby met a Swedish physician named Lars Edvinsson who shared his interest in a molecule called “calcitonin gene-related peptide” (CGRP), which neurons use to communicate. Edvinsson suspected it had a key role in migraine; Goadsby agreed. They formed a partnership that continues today. And this year, along with Edvinsson and two other scientists, Goadsby won the prestigious Brain Prize. Their discovery that a biological mechanism triggers an attack, where blood vessels surrounding the brain open up causing pain, led to a new group of drugs that stop CGRP getting to its receptor, either by blocking the receptor or binding to CGRP itself. Goadsby had long suggested that there were “nerve-based mechanisms that might be important. But this was resisted by the mainstream for some time, because it didn’t fit with the narrative.” Migraine had long been considered to be a vascular disease, linked to the regulation of blood flow in the brain, rather than neurological in origin. “We turned out to be correct. And fortunately, in science, correct still wins.” Previous treatments had debilitating side-effects and only relieved the symptoms, never actually preventing the migraine, but these new drugs – they’re called Gepants – have been shown to improve the quality of life of many sufferers.
When Goadsby got a message that the foundation behind the Brain Prize wanted to speak to him, he avoided calling back, certain he must have filled in a grant form wrong. Migraine, he says, is a “Cinderella problem”. Not all diseases are treated equally – just as Cinderella could only watch from the kitchen as fabulous clothes and marvellous invitations were delivered for her stepsisters, some diseases miss out on research funding, celebrity-led campaigns and public awareness. Upon calling, and being awarded the prize (worth more than £1m) Goadsby said, “Cinderella has arrived at the ball as a welcome guest – and got the glass slipper.”
And since then he has found a niche sort of celebrity. “The Daily Mail interviewed me,” he chuckles, “and I said, ‘Can I ask, why do you do so much on migraine’? And they said, ‘Because it’s common! We do common!’ I felt like such an idiot. One in three adult females in the country are interested in it, so there’s a chance that someone who picks up the Daily Mail, or indeed the Guardian is too. But having come through neurology in an era when ‘common’ was not what neurologists did – they tended to do abstruse and rare – it was an important thing to hear.”
Common. When he said my experience – the pain, the blindness, the ignorance – was common, I was taken aback, slightly hurt. I got over it. But I realised migraine has become as much a part of my identity as my voice or taste in desserts, and oddly personal with it. I am not alone in carrying around a sort of migraine mythology, the feeling that these are not exactly headaches, instead some sort of painful portal, a kind of poem. The author Siri Hustvedt wrote about a migraine aura phenomenon called Alice in Wonderland syndrome, where the “migraineur” (a word suitably pretentious for the community I find myself in) feels parts of their body ballooning or shrinking.
For me it’s usually my hand. I get periods of intense déjà vu, and the yawning, and a kind of quick, swaddling depression. It’s not just a headache, is what I’m saying. Which makes it ripe for artists to play with. In Joan Didion’s 1968 essay In Bed (which she said received a bigger response than anything else she’d ever written), she describes both a “pleasant… euphoria” and the slightly uncanny horror of it all. “I had no brain tumour,” she wrote, “no eyestrain, no high blood pressure, nothing wrong with me at all: I simply had migraine headaches, and migraine headaches were, as everyone who did not have them knew, imaginary.” That no one dies of migraine, she adds, “seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing”. Afterwards, purified, “I notice the particular nature of a flower in a glass on the stair landing. I count my blessings.”
It’s partly because these migraine side-effects are so blousy and cryptic that I found Goadsby’s findings on the “premonitory phase” particularly interesting. “People might get some neck discomfort, or some brain fog, like they’re just off their game. They can get some mood change, and they might feel fatigued, they might yawn, they might pass more urine, they might crave sweet things, all before the pain actually starts. What it always sounded like to me,” and what he went on to prove, “was that the attack had already begun.” Previously we might have thought sugar triggered a migraine, but his work showed that the migraine, already slithering its way through the brain, had dragged the migraineur to a sweet shop. “People would have light sensitivity, and say bright lights trigger their attack. But some of this must be that they noticed the light because their attack had already started. The horse had already long since bolted. So to understand migraine, you’ve got to push back even further.”
Goadsby holds a particular respect for the people who willingly acted as his guinea pigs, consenting to attacks being triggered for their experiments. “Frankly, the only reason to do that is because you want to do something good for society. It’s the only logical reason for it, so that never ceases to amaze me. I was talking to someone earlier today who’d had a dreadful 30-odd years of migraine, nothing worked, then went on one of these antibodies and has had, he said, nearly three years of feeling just ‘normal’.” He grins. “And you think to yourself, well? What can I say? ‘Great.’” He laughs. “It’s not a very long conversation.”
What he’s talking about is the end of migraine, a major debilitating disease, one that led a doctor to recently advise me to “come to terms with my disability”. “Yes, this is just the beginning,” he promises. Even those who don’t respond to these new medications will benefit from the increased focus. And eventually the tablets will come off patent, so generic manufacturers will be able to make them for pennies, something he’s particularly excited about. “That’s not just going to change the developed world, but impact poor people who, of course, are just suffering as much, but with many different problems, too – you know, they have to go out and get water – they don’t need the misery of migraine on top. You can’t help but be optimistic when you realise that the world will be a better place. It’s just a matter of being patient.”
He talks about the moments that have led to his breakthroughs, and those that came after, with a fizzing enthusiasm that makes me briefly believe I understand the science, and a little breathless, too. “One thing that was pretty spectacular – it was the first time that people have done something called ‘immunopharmacology’. So instead of using antibodies to manipulate the immune system, what you’re doing is using the antibody as a drug…” He dashes off to get a parcel from the front door and returns midsentence, casual, “…so to speak.”
An important moment occurred recently, when, in a consultation with a migraine patient, he realised he was about to write his first prescription for one of the drugs he had created. “There are few examples in my life where I would use the word surreal, but that would be one of them.” Did the patient know that he was responsible for the drugs that would save him? “No.” He looks up, with a very small smile. “And I didn’t think there was any reason to tell him.”
Because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, BTS canceled their planned 2020 Map of the Soul Tour. As the band waits to perform in front of ARMY again, BTS collaborated with Coldplay on the single “My Universe.” In a documentary called Coldplay X BTS Inside ‘My Universe’ Documentary, RM of BTS shared his hopes that BTS will “reunite with ARMY” soon.
Coldplay and BTS released “My Universe” on Sept. 24. After the song dropped, Big Hit Music, BTS’ label, released a documentary titled Coldplay X BTS Inside ‘My Universe’ Documentary.
In the documentary, fans can see Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook of BTS work with Coldplay’s Chris Martin to record the song.
“I think it’s very special to me that the most popular artist in the world speaks Korean and is like a group of brothers not from the West. And it just feels very hopeful to me in terms of thinking of the world as one family,” Martin said of BTS in Coldplay X BTS Inside ‘My Universe’ Documentary.
The Coldplay singer continued, “Then of course, when you see who they are as people and their songs. It’s really a message of togetherness and finding, being yourself. All the stuff I agree with.”
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During the documentary, RM shared that he hoped to make the song special for ARMY since the lyrics involve making the listener the center of BTS and Coldplay’s “universe.”
“Chris said that this is a very personal song to him. A part of him is frustrated by the fact that Coldplay can’t play live, in a concert,” RM said. “I thought about how to make this relevant to BTS. Since the lyrics go ‘You are my universe,’ this song should definitely be dedicated to ARMY.”
The BTS rapper also explained his thought process behind writing some of the lyrics for “My Universe.” Not only did RM want to give the song a special meaning for ARMY, but he also wrote the lyrics for the single while thinking about performing for ARMY again.
“I wrote the lyrics while picturing the day we reunite with ARMY,” RM said.
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It turns out ARMY will not have to wait that long to see BTS in person again. On Nov. 27, Nov. 28, Dec. 1, and Dec. 2, BTS will perform four concerts at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. The concerts are known as Permission to Dance On Stage – LA.
A press release about the concerts reads:
“… BTS have announced their additional show dates for 2021 in North America with four special nights at LA’s SoFi Stadium on November 27, November 28, December 1, and December 2. The in-person concert will proceed under the national and regional health regulations and circumstances. This concert will be the first time ever for BTS and ARMY to meet face to face since the 2019 BTS WORLD TOUR ‘LOVE YOURSELF: SPEAK YOURSELF’ [THE FINAL].”
There are multiple presales for BTS’ upcoming concerts on Ticketmaster, and tickets will go on sale for the general public on Oct. 9.
European Council President Charles Michel, President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and US President Joe Biden meet within EU -USA Summit in Brussels, Belgium on June 15, 2021.
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LONDON — The European Union needs to bolster its defense and security policies as the United States steps back from the region, according to the former vice chancellor of Germany.
The EU has been on a soul-searching exercise since the withdrawal of U.S. and allied troops from Afghanistan in August. Shortly thereafter, Australia cancelled a submarine deal with France in September and announced a partnership with the United States instead. French and EU officials described this agreement as a “stab in the back.”
Tensions between Europe and the U.S. have prompted calls within the EU for a stronger defense policy, one that is less reliant on the United States.
“Europe has to learn to think strategically,” Sigmar Gabriel, a former German vice chancellor and foreign affairs minister, told CNBC on Thursday. “We didn’t need to do that in the past as this job had been done by the Brits, a bit by the French but especially by the Americans. That is what we now need to learn to do by ourselves.”
The EU is a group of 27 nations, where powers are distributed at the national and the wider EU level. When it comes to security and defense — just like for health and fiscal policy — decisions are still taken by national governments.
In addition, the EU has thus far not felt the need to have strong coordination in this field given that most of its members are represented at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a security alliance.
“The Europeans anyway have to learn that Joe Biden’s slogan ‘America is back’ does not mean that the old America is back, which has represented international European interest for more than 70 years,” Gabriel said.
Biden’s administration has been particularly focused on China when to comes to foreign policy. Statements at the G-7 and NATO level have demonstrated that.
“The U.S. wants a leading role in the defense of democracies against the advent of authoritarian regimes, but it will be much more concentrated on the Indo-Pacific region and the transatlantic alliance will have many things to care about — but the smallest of [them] all is the Atlantic,” he added.
This geopolitical re-positioning of the United States, however, opens opportunities for the European Union to strengthen its role elsewhere.
“Europe has to think about how the vacuum will be filled [now] that the U.S. is leaving behind in the southern Mediterranean Sea, in north Africa and in the Middle East. At the moment the vacuum is only entered by authoritarian countries, Turkey, Russia, Iran and [United] Arab Emirates — even China, all want to spread their influence in the region. The only ones who don’t have a lot to say there are the Europeans,” Gabriel said.
He thinks the EU does not need to become militarily active but needs “a common security and defense policy.”
Electric vehicle maker Tesla is poised to expand its controversial FSD Beta program with a long-awaited download button that would allow customers to get new, unfinished versions of the company’s driver assistance software to test on public roads even though that software hasn’t been debugged yet.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who called a previous version of FSD Beta software “not great,” cautioned Friday evening that FSD Beta now seems so good it can give drivers a false sense of security that they don’t need to pay attention to driving while FSD Beta is engaged, even though they do have to remain attentive and at the wheel.
Tesla and CEO Musk didn’t immediately respond to CNBC for comment.
Tesla markets its driver assistance systems in a standard package called Autopilot, and a premium package called FSD, short for Full Self-Driving in the U.S. Neither of these systems make Tesla’s cars autonomous, according to the company’s users’ manuals and website.
Musk has been promising his fans an FSD Beta button for at least six months. On March 9, 2021, he wrote: “Build 8.3 of FSD should be done QA testing by end of next week, so that’s roughly when download button should show up.”
The CEO also revealed Thursday that Tesla will require owners who use the forthcoming Beta button to prove they are good drivers first, before getting access to their FSD Beta download.
Musk wrote: “Beta button will request permission to assess driving behavior using Tesla insurance calculator. If driving behavior is good for 7 days, beta access will be granted.” (The company began selling insurance in its home state of California in August 2019.)
Tesla board member, Hiromichi Mizuno, shared Musk’s announcement and touted the company’s approach, writing on Friday: “You must be a good driver not to drive, which may become a new norm.”
Musk replied to Mizuno Friday night:
“Ironically, yes at this time. FSD beta system at times can seem so good that vigilance isn’t necessary, but it is. Also, any beta user who isn’t super careful will get booted.2000 beta users operating for almost a year with no accidents. Needs to stay that way.”
Musk’s tweet contradicts facts about the FSD Beta program conveyed in the California Department of Motor Vehicles Autonomous Vehicles Branch memo written in March 2021.
The DMV’s Autonomous Vehicles Branch Chief Miguel Acosta, who wrote the memo, spoke with Tesla employees on that date, including associate general counsel Eric Williams and Autopilot software director CJ Moore.
Acosta wrote that they informed him the FSD Beta program as of March 9, 2021, included 753 Tesla employees and 71 non-employees — less than half of the 2,000 FSD Beta users Musk alluded to in his tweet on Friday.
CNBC directly obtained the memo and other correspondence between Tesla and the California DMV, which were published earlier by Plainsite, a legal transparency website.
In their correspondence, Tesla characterized even their newest FSD Beta features as a Level 2 driver assistance system, rather than fully driverless technology.
Hall of Famer Michael Irvin believes Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ poor performance in the 38-3 Week 1 loss to the New Orleans Saints was due to him mulling possible retirement.
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Rodgers completed 15 of 28 passes for just 133 yards, with two interceptions.
Irvin believes Rodgers’ retirement talk during the offseason led to his lackluster play.
“This game is too hard,” Irvin told TMZ Sports on Friday. “That’s why you hear people say, if you’re talking about or thinking about retiring, you’re already retired.”
Irvin continued: “Aaron was thinking about not playing. And it showed up, man.”
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The Dallas Cowboys legend says he expects the reigning NFL MVP to “play much better” against the Detroit Lions on “Monday Night Football.”
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Rodgers and the Packers had quite the offseason. The star quarterback had issues with the team’s general manager and he fought with the franchise over contract and personnel decisions. Rodgers didn’t attend a single team practice or workout over the summer. Instead, he took time out to host “Jeopardy!” and traveled around the world with fiancee Shailene Woodley.
Despite his sub-par performance in Week 1, Irvin believes Rodgers will return to form.
“You’ve got to hope that he is ready,” Irvin told TMZ. “Because there’s nothing that you can say.”
President BidenJoe BidenOregon’s COVID-19 vaccination rate hits 70 percent Biden names nominee for US ambassador to Germany Equilibrium/Sustainability — Presented by NextEra Energy — Grasshoppers are winning the heat wave MORE said Saturday that “initial thinking” is that the Russian government is not behind a ransomware attack targeting a tool provided by Miami-based IT software management company Kaseya.
Speaking to reporters in Traverse City, Mich., Biden said he’s directed the “full resources of the federal government” to investigate the attack, according to a pool report.
Biden said that he’s also told Russian President Vladimir Putin
“The initial thinking was it was not the Russian government, but we’re not sure yet,” Biden said.
Kaseya warned on Friday that was experiencing a “potential attack against the VSA that has been limited to a small number of on-premise customers” as early as 2 p.m. EDT.
The potential attack may have effected 200 of Kaseya’s clients.
The company said it was “investigating the root cause of the incident with an abundance of caution,” but advised customers to immediately shut down the VSA server until further notice.
Huntress Labs, an independent security firm, told Reuters that it believed that the Russia-linked group blamed for the recent attack on meat producer JBS USA is responsible for the attack.
The FBI attributed the hack on JBS to REvil and Sodinokibi, and experts say both names represent the same group.
The attack on Fourth of July weekend follows a series of high-profile ransomware attacks like the one on JBS and an earlier attack on Colonial Pipeline which proved disruptive in the U.S. The Colonial Pipeline hack resulted in a temporary halt in the company’s operations which led to a shortage in gas in parts of the United States.
During a summit in Geneva last month, Biden said he and Putin agreed to work together to address cybersecurity concerns, such as ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure.
From the seemingly endless staircase to the infamous ‘The Dress’, many optical illusions have left viewers around the world baffled over the years.
Now, a new class of illusion has been created that tricks your brain into thinking a spinning wheel is shimmering.
The illusion, dubbed the ‘Scintillating Starburst’, is made up of several concentric star polygons that rotate.
This movement prompts viewers to see bright fleeting rays emanating from the centre of the wheel – but they are not actually there.
The team behind the illusion says it illustrates how our brains ‘connect the dots’ to create a subjective reality of what we see.
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The illusion, dubbed the ‘Scintillating Starburst’, is made up of several concentric star polygons, which rotate clockwise
The new illusion was developed by researchers from New York University and Recursia Studios – a multidisciplinary art and fashion production company.
Michael Karlovich, founder and CEO of Recursia Studios, and first author of the study, explained: ‘Studying illusions can be helpful in understanding visual processing because they allow us to distinguish the mere sensation of physical object properties from the perceptual experience.’
The Scintillating Starburst is superficially similar to several previous grid-based illusions, according to the researchers.
However, unlike these previous illusions, the Scintillating Starburst evokes a number of newly discovered effects.
Among them, it that fleeting illusory lines diagonally connect the intersection points of the star polygons.
The new class of optical illusion tricks your brain into thinking a spinning wheel is shimmering
To understand the neuroscience behind the illusion, the team tested 162 version of the Scintillating Starburst on 100 participants.
The versions varied in shape, complexity and brightness, according to the team.
After viewing the illusions, the participants were asked a series of questions about they saw.
This included ‘I do not see any bright lines, rays, or beams,’ ‘I maybe see bright lines, rays, or beams, but they are barely noticeable,’ and ‘I see bright lines, rays, or beams, but they are subtle and weak.’
The results revealed that several factors, including contrast, line width and the number of vertices had an effect on how the participants viewed the illusion.
Dr Pascal Wallisch, who led the study, explained: ‘In particular, a large number of prominent intersection points leads to stronger and more vivid rays, as there are more cues to indicate the implied lines.’
Overall, the research highlights the constructive nature of perception, according to Dr Wallisch.
He added: ‘The research illustrates how the brain ‘connects the dots’ to create a subjective reality in what we see, highlighting the constructive nature of perception.’
The research found that by the end of 2020, global coronavirus death tolls were more than 10 times higher in nations where over half the adults are overweight, compared to those where fewer than half are overweight.
Using mortality data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the World Health Organization (WHO), the team discovered that of 2.5 million Covid-19 deaths reported by the end of February, 2.2 million were in countries where more than half the population is overweight. Mortality rates also increased along with countries’ prevalence of obesity. The researchers also noted that the link persisted even after adjusting for age and national wealth.
The authors of the World Obesity Forum report have called for people living with obesity to be prioritized for coronavirus testing and vaccination. “Covid-19 is not the first respiratory viral infection exacerbated by overweight. Data from the last two decades on the impact of MERS, H1N1 influenza and other influenza-related infections show worse outcomes linked to excess bodyweight,” the study added. “An overweight population is an unhealthy population, and a pandemic waiting to happen.”
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The vast majority of these infections, 2,506, are caused by the more contagious strain known as B.1.1.7, which was originally detected in the UK. In addition, 65 cases have been reported of a variant initially seen in South Africa, called B.1.351. Lastly, 10 cases of the P.1 variant first found in Brazil have been discovered in five states.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Oates and his wife Aimee are reviving the Oates Song Fest 7908 to fundraise for Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger-relief organization.
The economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic is driving up food insecurity across the US. Feeding America estimates that one in six Americans could face food insecurity as a result of the pandemic.
“The reality is that when you’re out of sight, you’re really out of mind. And a lot of remote workers feel like they miss out on a lot of these opportunities because they’re not getting access to the projects and opportunities that would help get them promoted.” — Andrew Hewitt, senior analyst at Forrester