Patchwork of COVID-19 certificates to impede travel

Significance Despite this, there are no common standards for validating vaccination and COVID test results. This is hampering national-level disease containment efforts and also regional and international travel. Impacts Lack of state capacity to produce reliable health records is a major constraint for developing countries. The black market in fraudulent vaccination and test results will proliferate. Political divisions over vaccine mandates will intensify if digital certificates become mandatory in a wider variety of contexts.

From Black Market to Fake Bumper Harvest

Yuan-tsung blended further into village life, getting to know more villagers and their survival kit. One of them, a woman cadre named Winter Plum, initiated her into the black market, where she could get better food from a drunken butcher. Old Xu, the ever so complaisant village head, surprised her with his bitter resentment against his higher-ups and his bitterness over the loss of his family’s cohesion caused by collectivization. Wimpy Gu, the reticent and meek assistant to Old Xu, relieved himself occasionally with violent, emotional outbursts. Old Hong, renowned locally as the gloriously demobilized soldier, or Glorious Demob, amazed her with his web of deceit and lies for the sake of manufacturing a fake bumper harvest.

About Air Meal and Revival of the Black Market

Everyone is anxious that the form of eating and drinking will change drastically due to the pandemic. The immediate challenge is how to overcome the harsh reality of the rush of restaurant closures, but the chance of survival may be found unexpectedly in the black market. Large-capital sushi chains, izakaya chains, family restaurants, and First Foods are also shrinking. Privately owned restaurants have been forced to withdraw before the epidemic spread, but large capital has also been hit hard. Which is faster, to regenerate or restart? Private restaurants with weak capital will soon collapse, but the selling point is the lightness of the footwork that can be rebuilt immediately. It seems that minimalism is likely to become the standard in the post-Corona era

Biotechnological therapies and biosimilars for COVID-19: scarcities, poor regulation, and pharmaceutical black market: a case analysis in Ecuador

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ecuador was unprepared for the overwhelming number of COVID-19 cases. As the general population started to see the eff ects of the pandemic, unproven treatments and medications were sought by the population to try to ameliorate the impact of the pandemic. The growing demand for a cure, the fear of dying from COVID-19, and the lack of therapeutic rigour, pushed a signifi cant number of people to seek help outside the traditional healthcare system. Doctors, pharmacists, and patients started prescribing or selfmedicating pharmacological products that were later shown to be ineff ective, toxic or even contraindicated. In Ecuador, most people who developed the severe acute respiratory syndrome associated with infection by the coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, which causes COVID-19, used antibiotics (azithromycin), antiparasitic medications (hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin), dangerous chemical products (chlorine dioxide) and in some cases, biological medicines, to try to cure or protect themselves from COVID-19. The growing demand for therapies that were unavailable, as well as the rise in misinformation, created the perfect scenario for the misuse of medicines and enabled the appearance of a rampant black market of unregistered biological products. In this manuscript, we describe the Ecuadorian experience in relation to the off -label use of biological and biosimilar products during the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of the pharmaceutical black market, and the lack of national regulations to avoid dangerous practices. To the best of our knowledge this is the fi rst report that has aimed to describe the unapproved and even illegal sale and use of biologicals, biosimilars and related products, with or without approved therapeutic indications in the treatment of COVID-19.

Resilience of cloud services will rise as demand booms

Significance This, coupled with interdependencies among cloud services and growing sophistication of cyber criminals, is driving improvement in the operational resiliency of cloud services. While cloud computing at present is more reliable than not, the fact that cloud outages with a global impact still occur about a dozen times each year exposes continuing gaps, even among top providers. Impacts The black market for cybercrime related to cloud services will proliferate. A targeted attack against cloud infrastructure by a state-linked cyber actor would cause wide-ranging disruption. Large cloud services providers are likely to dominate the global market since they can lower costs while financing innovation.

Quantitative and qualitative analysis of anabolic androgenic steroids found on the black market – A protocol for a systematic review

Review question / Objective: With this systematic literature review we aim to assess published data on the quality and quantity of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) found on the black market to further determine the proportions of original, substandard, and counterfeit drugs. To our knowledge this is the first systematic literature review analyzing the quality and quantity of blackmarked anabolic steroids within the published literature. Condition being studied: AAS are synthetic, or human-made, variations of the male sex hormone testosterone that are widely abused by athletes for its anabolic effect on the muscle, thus are a convenient and easy method to improve body image and sport performance goals. Fake AAS, commonly acquired from the black market, pose a significant risk to individual and public health.

Pulling Teeth

<p>Pulling Teeth is a 13x half hour comedy series in the vein of 30 Rock and Green Wing ... New graduate Rob Hutchinson hates the global view that all dentists are money hungry sadists who would kill a kitten just for kicks. Rob strives to use the clinic to prove the world wrong, and maybe in the process he'll win the romantic attention of Kate. But it's going to be difficult with the staff he inherits. South African playboy dentist Joost Pint is too clueless to know that he is out of line when working on patients in nothing but socks and a plastic gold crown. Receptionist Kate Barker's need for superiority makes her blind to Rob’s awkward advances, but absolutely fine with selling clinic supplies on the black market ...</p>

Pulling Teeth

<p>Pulling Teeth is a 13x half hour comedy series in the vein of 30 Rock and Green Wing ... New graduate Rob Hutchinson hates the global view that all dentists are money hungry sadists who would kill a kitten just for kicks. Rob strives to use the clinic to prove the world wrong, and maybe in the process he'll win the romantic attention of Kate. But it's going to be difficult with the staff he inherits. South African playboy dentist Joost Pint is too clueless to know that he is out of line when working on patients in nothing but socks and a plastic gold crown. Receptionist Kate Barker's need for superiority makes her blind to Rob’s awkward advances, but absolutely fine with selling clinic supplies on the black market ...</p>