Public Health New COVID-19 Cases and Related Deaths Continue to Rise With shutdowns and movement restrictions in place across major metropolitan areas in China, the Omicron wave is wreaking havoc. New cases for the past month now total just over 1.05 million, while COVID-19 related deaths have risen to 6,078 from 5,622 for the previous 30-day period. The seven-day mortality rate has retreated from 284/day last week to 241/day, while the seven-day average case count is down to 18,376 cases from 27,291 cases from a week ago. This follows a typical trend with the novel coronavirus and its variant offspring, where daily cases peak and daily deaths reach their highpoint before receding as public health measures take effect. Still, the tr...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.