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...on r/superstonk on Reddit where a lot of these people congregate....
...Markets are more vulnerable to herd behaviour and changes in trading conditions....
...Syngenta spent 6.6 per cent of sales on R&D last year; not far off 7.6 per cent at Corteva. But it is well behind Germany’s Bayer....
...Like many of his peers he is downsizing his herd, from 5,000 sows to about 3,800. “Today each producer loses from R$200 to R$350 [$43 to $75] for each hog he resells,” he said....
...It also holds back R&D, scientists warn. “Plant breeders are hesitant to add breed varieties using genome editing if they’re not going to be able to sell it,” says Raffan....
...On average one in 1,969 people in the UK have symptomatic Covid-19, the report released on Thursday said, bringing the R value to 0.8....
...We have tracked r/WallStreetBets’ rise from 2015....
...“The majority of us others will stay down here to grow potatoes, herd livestock and keep sending provisions to the climbers, because you can’t grow rice on Mount Everest.”...
...This herd behaviour is unusual in the way that investors move into one asset category and out of another extremely quickly, Patel said....
...Herd immunity would be even better....
...should be allowed to flow through the country’s population once the most vulnerable groups in society have been vaccinated against coronavirus, in comments which may reopen the contentious debate around herd...
...An unhappy combination of imperfect vaccine efficacy, suboptimal take-up and super-infectious variants could derail attempts to reach the herd immunity threshold, when R falls below one and the virus begins...
...Brazil’s Senate on Thursday voted to support a fresh aid package worth R$44bn ($7bn)....
...“The herd has learnt how to use the technology of Wall Street against them,” said David Nadig, chief investment officer at ETF Trends....
...Welcome and please sign up here Get the latest worldwide picture with our vaccine tracker Latest news Infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci has said the US should reach ‘herd immunity’ from Covid-19...
...Coronavirus cases are dropping sharply in India, indicating that parts of the country are nearing herd immunity. The essentials Should Covid-19 vaccines be made mandatory at work?...
...It estimates that R is between 1.2 and 1.5 both for England and for the UK as a whole. This is slightly lower than last week’s estimate of R by Sage....
...Both were the partial fruits of federal R&D. Today’s Sputnik moment is the rise of Xi Jinping’s increasingly ebullient China....
...The strategies differ in whether they aim to reduce the reproduction number, R, to below 1 (suppression) – and thus cause case numbers to decline – or to merely slow spread by reducing R, but not to below...
...Some think a Swedish-style stampede towards herd immunity, a touted advantage of shielding, is the way to go....
...Anyone who hasn't yet had the disease is just as susceptible to catching it now as they were before, and no country in the world has yet achieved herd immunity, where so many of the population have been...
...Mathematically, rapid testing and isolation acts like herd immunity: by reducing the chance that a susceptible individual comes into contact with an infected one it can drive the basic reproduction or “R...
...This is inconsistent with recent government statements that R, the reproduction number that indicates transmission, is rising slightly (R must stay below 1 for the epidemic to be controlled)....
...“We have plans to invest in both R&D and manufacturing in the United States....
...One of the most infectious germs known causes measles, with R as high as 20 in a fully susceptible group — which is why vaccination rates above 95 per cent are required to achieve sufficient herd immunity...
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