Disease Prevention

COVID-19 wastewater efforts confront long-term questions

Mon, 2022-05-16 09:50 — mike kraft

COVID-19 wastewater efforts confront long-term questions - Roll Call Public health experts hope the technology will help monitor threats beyond COVID-19 — like opioids and the flu. Roll Call

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Public health experts hope the technology will help monitor threats beyond COVID-19, like opioids and the flu, but the strategy requires resources and political buy-in. And while Congress has enacted billions in pandemic funding for states, only a handful have used the money to establish wastewater surveillance.

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How COVID pandemic affected different age, ethnic and political affiliation groups--3 articles

Mon, 2022-05-16 09:41 — mike kraft

COVID pandemic exposed inequities involving age, race, political affiliation The United States has hit a grim milestone: 1 million COVID-19 deaths. During the past two years the virus has posed a deadly risk, but it hasn’t affected every person the same way. The pandemic has highlighted inequalities that have already existed -- and exposed new disparities between age, race and political affiliation. Yahoo

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Federal judge rules against Hanford workers opposed to vaccine mandates

Fri, 2022-05-13 20:23 — mike kraft

Judge tosses COVID-19 vaccine objections of Hanford workers RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by several hundred Hanford nuclear reservation and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory workers in Richland, Washington, over COVID-19 vaccine requirements. AP NEWS

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Biden urges cities to spend earlier Covid relief money on police, crime prevention

Fri, 2022-05-13 20:14 — mike kraft

Biden urges cities to spend Covid relief money on police, crime prevention President Joe Biden urged states and cities to use unspent money from the $1.9 trillion Covid relief package to fund crime prevention programs and hire police. YahooNews

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Analysis: The US is running a fever. Which way will it go?

Fri, 2022-05-13 11:10 — mike kraft

The US is running a fever. Which way will it go? This moment in time, like so many during the last two-plus years of the pandemic, is a confusing one for our country. Mixed signals make it hard to accurately gauge risk and act accordingly. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent CNN

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Afica's only Covid vaccine plant is struggling because of lack of customers

Fri, 2022-05-13 10:47 — mike kraft

Covid in Africa: Why the continent's only vaccine plant is struggling Aspen Pharmacare says it may have to stop producing the jabs in South Africa unless demand rises. BBC News

The global organisations that buy Covid vaccines for poorer countries "need to step up" and order doses from Africa's only Covid vaccine maker in order to save the production line, the company's senior executive told the BBC.

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