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We are delighted to learn of the appointment of Tony Haymet PhD as Australia's new Chief Scientist.

We are excited for this new chapter for Australian science!

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January 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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February 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Great to see #TuringInstitute #ChiefScientist Mark Girolami visiting the @metoffice.bsky.social to discuss our growing collaboration in applying data sciences to weather and climate prediction #Turing2.0
February 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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I’d say the same about this type of person but thankfully they can’t get jobs

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July 10, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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Truly unbelievable. A lot of people showed how horrible they are today. I understand why so many non-devs hate our industry.

https://x.com/chiefscientist/status/2075440121093193808?s=46
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July 10, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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#OpenAI’s former #chiefscientist is starting a new #AI #GenAI corporation:

#IlyaSutskever launching #SafeSuperintelligence Inc. (#SSI), an #AIstartup that will prioritize safety over ‘commercial pressures.’

(Ed : So whose joining 🤖 poor Skynet/OpenAI😉)
Source : www.theverge.com/2024/6/19/24...
OpenAI’s former chief scientist is starting a new AI company
The startup’s goal is to build a safe and powerful AI system.
www.theverge.com
June 20, 2024 at 4:12 AM
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»#OpenAI cofounder #IlyaSutskever says the way #AI is built is about to change: “We’ve achieved #peakdata and there’ll be no more,” OpenAI’s former #chiefscientist told #AIresearchers.« https://www.theverge...
December 14, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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RPS unveils new chief scientist

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RPS unveils new chief scientist
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has appointed Professor Amira Guirguis as its new chief scientist.
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October 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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In what alternative universe does @RogerCookMLA live in where rising emissions from polluting gas extractive mega projects are good for West Australians let alone the world? Consult your #chiefscientist more often about the #ClimateCrisis @ChiefSciWA
disruptburruphub.bsky.social DISRUPT BURRUP HUB @disruptburruphub.bsky.social · Nov 17
This is really obscene and sinister.

While Matilda addressed hundreds of school kids blockading Perth to strike for their futures, the WA Premier was selling their futures to Woodside by GASLIGHTING THE WORLD that rising WA emissions are a *good thing*!?!

Absolutely COOKED
November 26, 2023 at 12:28 PM
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OpenAI chief scientist warns on AI safety as scrutiny grows over uncontrolled development

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https://akerix.com/article/ai-safety-resignation?5w=1
September 9, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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I’d say the same about this type of person but thankfully they can’t get jobs

https://x.com/chiefscientist/status/2075444251945521402?s=46
July 10, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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Truly unbelievable. A lot of people showed how horrible they are today. I understand why so many non-devs hate our industry.

https://x.com/chiefscientist/status/2075440121093193808?s=46
theo-mir-rt.selfhosted.social Retweeted by Theo - t3.gg [UNOFFICIAL] @theo-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · Jul 10
RT @ChiefScientist: An engineer and a child has a lot in common.
July 10, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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RT @ChiefScientist: Yeah bun rewrite comms were really shitty.
July 10, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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RT @ChiefScientist: An engineer and a child has a lot in common.
July 10, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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SA’s #chiefscientist Dr Leanna Read opening #MikeBullSymp @flinders
November 18, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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The Chief Scientist’s Group says we need to change the way we think about the value and benefits of clean and plentiful water...

www.watermagazine.co.uk/2025/05/12/t...

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The Chief Scientist’s Group says we need to change the way we think about the value and benefits of clean and plentiful water - Water Magazine
The Chief Scientist's Group has said we need to change the way we think about the value and benefits of clean and plentiful water.
www.watermagazine.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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EFTA00151417 | EFTA00151426 Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 18 Filed 07/10/20 Page 10 of 26 prior detention order based in part on the risks brought on by COVID-19. At the time, COVID19 had only begun to take its devastating toll on New York, and there was no known outbreak in the prison population. Nevertheless, the Court noted that "inmates may be at a heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 should an outbreak develop," and, based in part on this changed circumstance, ordered the defendant released. Id. Since the Court issued its opinion in Stephens, the COVID-19 risks to inmates have increased dramatically, as there have been significant outbreaks of COVID-19 in correctional facilities. In the last month alone, the number of prison inmates known to have COVID-19 has doubled to 68,000, and prison deaths tied to COVID-19 have increased by 73 percent.' Indeed, as of July 2, 2020, nine of the ten largest known clusters of the coronavirus in the United States are in federal prisons and county jails.2 As this Court noted last month, "the `inability [of] individuals to socially distance, shared communal spaces, and limited access to hygiene products' [in correctional facilities] make community spread all but unavoidable." United States v. Williams-Bethea, No. 18-CR-78 (AJN), 2020 WL 2848098, at *5 (S.D.N.Y. June 2, 2020) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). The risks are further enhanced by the possibility of a second wave of coronavirus cases.; In particular, COVID-19 has begun to spread through the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), where Ms. Maxwell has been housed since the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) transferred her there on July 6, 2020. According to the MDC's statistics, as of April 3, 2020, two inmates and I Timothy Williams, et al., Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply in Prisons Even as They Plateau Nationwide, N.Y. Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/uskoronavirus-inmates-prisons-jails.html (last updated June 30, 2020). Coronavirus in the U.S: Latest Map and Case Count, N.Y. Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive./2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.htmlliclusters (last updated July 2, 2020). 2 3 See, e.g., Audrey Cher, WHO's ChiefScientist Says There's a "Very Real Risk" ofa Second Wave ofCoronavirus As Economies Reopen, CNBC, June 9, 2020, available at httns://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10Avho-says-theres-realrisk-of-second-coronavirus-wave-as-economies-reopen.html. 6 EFTA00151426
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EFTA00104625 | EFTA00104634 Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 18 Filed 07/10/20 Page 10 of 26 prior detention order based in part on the risks brought on by COVID-19. At the time, COVID19 had only begun to take its devastating toll on New York, and there was no known outbreak in the prison population. Nevertheless, the Court noted that "inmates may be at a heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 should an outbreak develop," and, based in part on this changed circumstance, ordered the defendant released. Id. Since the Court issued its opinion in Stephens, the COVID-19 risks to inmates have increased dramatically, as there have been significant outbreaks of COVID-19 in correctional facilities. In the last month alone, the number of prison inmates known to have COVID-19 has doubled to 68,000, and prison deaths tied to COVID-19 have increased by 73 percent.' Indeed, as of July 2, 2020, nine of the ten largest known clusters of the coronavirus in the United States are in federal prisons and county jails.2 As this Court noted last month, "the `inability [of] individuals to socially distance, shared communal spaces, and limited access to hygiene products' [in correctional facilities] make community spread all but unavoidable." United States v. Williams-Bethea, No. 18-CR-78 (AJN), 2020 WL 2848098, at *5 (S.D.N.Y. June 2, 2020) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). The risks are further enhanced by the possibility of a second wave of coronavirus cases.; In particular, COVID-19 has begun to spread through the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), where Ms. Maxwell has been housed since the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) transferred her there on July 6, 2020. According to the MDC's statistics, as of April 3, 2020, two inmates and I Timothy Williams, et al., Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply in Prisons Even as They Plateau Nationwide, N.Y. Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/uskoronavirus-inmates-prisons-jails.html (last updated June 30, 2020). Coronavirus in the U.S: Latest Map and Case Count, N.Y. Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive./2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.htmlliclusters (last updated July 2, 2020). 2 3 See, e.g., Audrey Cher, WHO's ChiefScientist Says There's a "Very Real Risk" ofa Second Wave ofCoronavirus As Economies Reopen, CNBC, June 9, 2020, available at httns://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10Avho-says-theres-realrisk-of-second-coronavirus-wave-as-economies-reopen.html. 6 EFTA00104634
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EFTA00102661 | EFTA00102670 Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 18 Filed 07/10/20 Page 10 of 26 prior detention order based in part on the risks brought on by COVID-19. At the time, COVID19 had only begun to take its devastating toll on New York, and there was no known outbreak in the prison population. Nevertheless, the Court noted that "inmates may be at a heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 should an outbreak develop," and, based in part on this changed circumstance, ordered the defendant released. Id. Since the Court issued its opinion in Stephens, the COVID-19 risks to inmates have increased dramatically, as there have been significant outbreaks of COVID-19 in correctional facilities. In the last month alone, the number of prison inmates known to have COVID-19 has doubled to 68,000, and prison deaths tied to COVID-19 have increased by 73 percent.' Indeed, as of July 2, 2020, nine of the ten largest known clusters of the coronavirus in the United States are in federal prisons and county jails.2 As this Court noted last month, "the `inability [of] individuals to socially distance, shared communal spaces, and limited access to hygiene products' [in correctional facilities] make community spread all but unavoidable." United States v. Williams-Bethea, No. 18-CR-78 (AJN), 2020 WL 2848098, at *5 (S.D.N.Y. June 2, 2020) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). The risks are further enhanced by the possibility of a second wave of coronavirus cases.; In particular, COVID-19 has begun to spread through the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), where Ms. Maxwell has been housed since the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) transferred her there on July 6, 2020. According to the MDC's statistics, as of April 3, 2020, two inmates and I Timothy Williams, et al., Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply in Prisons Even as They Plateau Nationwide, N.Y. Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/uskoronavirus-inmates-prisons-jails.html (last updated June 30, 2020). Coronavirus in the U.S: Latest Map and Case Count, N.Y. Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive./2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.htmlliclusters (last updated July 2, 2020). 2 3 See, e.g., Audrey Cher, WHO's ChiefScientist Says There's a "Very Real Risk" ofa Second Wave ofCoronavirus As Economies Reopen, CNBC, June 9, 2020, available at httns://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10Avho-says-theres-realrisk-of-second-coronavirus-wave-as-economies-reopen.html. 6 EFTA00102670
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EFTA00093044 | EFTA00093099 cSst:26:67-60936-AutlibbNaiiiitAgs WW2efF'alitefe eF 2§1 prior detention order based in part on the risks brought on by COVID-19. At the time, COVID19 had only begun to take its devastating toll on New York, and there was no known outbreak in the prison population. Nevertheless, the Court noted that "inmates may be at a heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 should an outbreak develop," and, based in part on this changed circumstance, ordered the defendant released. Id. Since the Court issued its opinion in Stephens, the COVID-19 risks to inmates have increased dramatically, as there have been significant outbreaks of COVID-19 in correctional facilities. In the last month alone, the number of prison inmates known to have COVID-19 has doubled to 68,000, and prison deaths tied to COVID-19 have increased by 73 percent.' Indeed, as of July 2, 2020, nine of the ten largest known clusters of the coronavirus in the United States are in federal prisons and county jails.2 As this Court noted last month, "the `inability [of] individuals to socially distance, shared communal spaces, and limited access to hygiene products' [in correctional facilities] make community spread all but unavoidable." United States v. Williams-Bethea, No. 18-CR-78 (AJN), 2020 WL 2848098, at *5 (S.D.N.Y. June 2, 2020) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). The risks are further enhanced by the possibility of a second wave of coronavirus cases.3 In particular, COVID-19 has begun to spread through the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), where Ms. Maxwell has been housed since the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) transferred her there on July 6, 2020. According to the MDC's statistics, as of April 3, 2020, two inmates and Timothy Williams, et al., Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharp& in Prisons Even as They Plateau Nationwide, N.Y. Times, available at httnslAvww.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/uskoronavirus-inmates-prisons-iails.html (last updated June 30, 2020). Coronavirus in the U.S: Latest Map and Case Count, N.Y. Times, available at https://ww.w.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/uskoronavirus-us-cases.html#clusters (last updated July 2, 2020). 2 3 See, e.g., Audrey Cher, WHO's ChiefScientist Says There's a "Vey Real Risk" ofa Second Wave ofCoronavirus As Economies Reopen, CNBC, June 9, 2020, available at https://www.cnbc.com./2020/06/I0/who-says-theres-realrisk-of-second-coronavirus-wave-as-economies-reonen.html. 6 EFTA00093099
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EFTA00083324 | EFTA00083333 Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 18 Filed 07/10/20 Page 10 of 26 prior detention order based in part on the risks brought on by COVID-19. At the time, COVID19 had only begun to take its devastating toll on New York, and there was no known outbreak in the prison population. Nevertheless, the Court noted that "inmates may be at a heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 should an outbreak develop," and, based in part on this changed circumstance, ordered the defendant released. Id. Since the Court issued its opinion in Stephens, the COVID-19 risks to inmates have increased dramatically, as there have been significant outbreaks of COVID-19 in correctional facilities. In the last month alone, the number of prison inmates known to have COVID-19 has doubled to 68,000, and prison deaths tied to COVID-19 have increased by 73 percent.' Indeed, as of July 2, 2020, nine of the ten largest known clusters of the coronavirus in the United States are in federal prisons and county jails.2 As this Court noted last month, "the `inability [of] individuals to socially distance, shared communal spaces, and limited access to hygiene products' [in correctional facilities] make community spread all but unavoidable." United States v. Williams-Bethea, No. 18-CR-78 (AJN), 2020 WL 2848098, at *5 (S.D.N.Y. June 2, 2020) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). The risks are further enhanced by the possibility of a second wave of coronavirus cases.; In particular, COVID-19 has begun to spread through the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), where Ms. Maxwell has been housed since the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) transferred her there on July 6, 2020. According to the MDC's statistics, as of April 3, 2020, two inmates and I Timothy Williams, et al., Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply in Prisons Even as They Plateau Nationwide, N.Y. Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/uskoronavirus-inmates-prisons-jails.html (last updated June 30, 2020). Coronavirus in the U.S: Latest Map and Case Count, N.Y. Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive./2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.htmlliclusters (last updated July 2, 2020). 2 3 See, e.g., Audrey Cher, WHO's ChiefScientist Says There's a "Very Real Risk" ofa Second Wave ofCoronavirus As Economies Reopen, CNBC, June 9, 2020, available at httns://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10Avho-says-theres-realrisk-of-second-coronavirus-wave-as-economies-reopen.html. 6 EFTA00083333
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EFTA00066317 | EFTA00066326 Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 18 Filed 07/10/20 Page 10 of 26 prior detention order based in part on the risks brought on by COVID-19. At the time, COVID19 had only begun to take its devastating toll on New York, and there was no known outbreak in the prison population. Nevertheless, the Court noted that "inmates may be at a heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 should an outbreak develop," and, based in part on this changed circumstance, ordered the defendant released. Id. Since the Court issued its opinion in Stephens, the COVID-19 risks to inmates have increased dramatically, as there have been significant outbreaks of COVID-19 in correctional facilities. In the last month alone, the number of prison inmates known to have COVID-19 has doubled to 68,000, and prison deaths tied to COVID-19 have increased by 73 percent.' Indeed, as of July 2, 2020, nine of the ten largest known clusters of the coronavirus in the United States are in federal prisons and county jails.2 As this Court noted last month, "the `inability [of] individuals to socially distance, shared communal spaces, and limited access to hygiene products' [in correctional facilities] make community spread all but unavoidable." United States v. Williams-Bethea, No. 18-CR-78 (AJN), 2020 WL 2848098, at *5 (S.D.N.Y. June 2, 2020) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). The risks are further enhanced by the possibility of a second wave of coronavirus cases.; In particular, COVID-19 has begun to spread through the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), where Ms. Maxwell has been housed since the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) transferred her there on July 6, 2020. According to the MDC's statistics, as of April 3, 2020, two inmates and I Timothy Williams, et al., Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply in Prisons Even as They Plateau Nationwide, N.Y. Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/uskoronavirus-inmates-prisons-jails.html (last updated June 30, 2020). Coronavirus in the U.S: Latest Map and Case Count, N.Y. Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive./2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.htmlliclusters (last updated July 2, 2020). 2 3 See, e.g., Audrey Cher, WHO's ChiefScientist Says There's a "Very Real Risk" ofa Second Wave ofCoronavirus As Economies Reopen, CNBC, June 9, 2020, available at httns://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10Avho-says-theres-realrisk-of-second-coronavirus-wave-as-economies-reopen.html. 6 EFTA00066326 Epstein Web iOS app on the App Store.
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EFTA01653624 | EFTA01653633 Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 18 Filed 07/10/20 Page 10 of 26 prior detention order based in part on the risks brought on by COVID-19. At the time, COVID19 had only begun to take its devastating toll on New York, and there was no known outbreak in the prison population. Nevertheless, the Court noted that "inmates may be at a heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 should an outbreak develop," and, based in part on this changed circumstance, ordered the defendant released. Id. Since the Court issued its opinion in Stephens, the COVID-19 risks to inmates have increased dramatically, as there have been significant outbreaks of COVID-19 in correctional facilities. In the last month alone, the number of prison inmates known to have COVID-19 has doubled to 68,000, and prison deaths tied to COVID-19 have increased by 73 percent.' Indeed, as of July 2, 2020, nine of the ten largest known clusters of the coronavirus in the United States are in federal prisons and county jails.2 As this Court noted last month, "the `inability [of] individuals to socially distance, shared communal spaces, and limited access to hygiene products' [in correctional facilities] make community spread all but unavoidable." United States v. Williams-Bethea, No. 18-CR-78 (AJN), 2020 WL 2848098, at *5 (S.D.N.Y. June 2, 2020) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). The risks are further enhanced by the possibility of a second wave of coronavirus cases.; In particular, COVID-19 has begun to spread through the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), where Ms. Maxwell has been housed since the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) transferred her there on July 6, 2020. According to the MDC's statistics, as of April 3, 2020, two inmates and I Timothy Williams, et al., Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply in Prisons Even as They Plateau Nationwide, N.Y. Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/uskoronavirus-inmates-prisons-jails.html (last updated June 30, 2020). Coronavirus in the U.S: Latest Map and Case Count, N.Y. Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive./2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.htmlliclusters (last updated July 2, 2020). 2 3 See, e.g., Audrey Cher, WHO's ChiefScientist Says There's a "Very Real Risk" ofa Second Wave ofCoronavirus As Economies Reopen, CNBC, June 9, 2020, available at httns://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10Avho-says-theres-realrisk-of-second-coronavirus-wave-as-economies-reopen.html. 6 EFTA01653633 Epstein Web iOS app on the App Store.
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EFTA00018515 | EFTA00018524 Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 18 Filed 07/10/20 Page 10 of 26 prior detention order based in part on the risks brought on by COVID-19. At the time, COVID19 had only begun to take its devastating toll on New York, and there was no known outbreak in the prison population. Nevertheless, the Court noted that "inmates may be at a heightened risk of contracting COVID-19 should an outbreak develop," and, based in part on this changed circumstance, ordered the defendant released. Id. Since the Court issued its opinion in Stephens, the COVID-19 risks to inmates have increased dramatically, as there have been significant outbreaks of COVID-19 in correctional facilities. In the last month alone, the number of prison inmates known to have COVID-19 has doubled to 68,000, and prison deaths tied to COVID-19 have increased by 73 percent.' Indeed, as of July 2, 2020, nine of the ten largest known clusters of the coronavirus in the United States are in federal prisons and county jails.2 As this Court noted last month, "the `inability [of] individuals to socially distance, shared communal spaces, and limited access to hygiene products' [in correctional facilities] make community spread all but unavoidable." United States v. Williams-Bethea, No. 18-CR-78 (AJN), 2020 WL 2848098, at *5 (S.D.N.Y. June 2, 2020) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). The risks are further enhanced by the possibility of a second wave of coronavirus cases.; In particular, COVID-19 has begun to spread through the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), where Ms. Maxwell has been housed since the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) transferred her there on July 6, 2020. According to the MDC's statistics, as of April 3, 2020, two inmates and I Timothy Williams, et al., Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply in Prisons Even as They Plateau Nationwide, N.Y. Times, available at https://vnvw.nytimes.com12020/06/16/uskoronavirus-inmates-prisons-jails.html (last updated June 30, 2020). Coronavirus in the U.S: Latest Map and Case Count, N.Y. Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive./2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.htmlitclusters (last updated July 2, 2020). 2 3 See, e.g., Audrey Cher, WHO's ChiefScientist Says There's a "Very Real Risk" ofa Second Wave ofCoronavirus As Economies Reopen, CNBC, June 9, 2020, available at htnos://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10Avho-says-theres-realrisk-of-second-coronavirus-wave-as-economies-reopen.html. 6 EFTA00018524
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