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U.S. efforts to counter bird flu reportedly hampered by Trump administration's anti-immigration tactics

Fri, 2025-04-11 20:22 — mike kraft

Trump’s immigration tactics obstruct efforts to avert Bird Flu pandemic, researchers say Aggressive deportation tactics have terrorized farmworkers at the center of the nation’s bird flu strategy, public health workers say. Ariel Carmona Lake County Record-Bee

Aggressive deportation tactics have terrorized farmworkers at the center of the nation’s bird flu strategy, public health workers say.

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Analysis: Five years on from the pandemic, how has Covid changed our world?

Mon, 2025-03-03 22:12 — mike kraft

Five years on from the pandemic, how has Covid changed our world? | The panel We asked a group of experts on politics, trade, literature, psychology, work and more: what has been the most surprising or shocking consequence of Covid-19 in your field? The Guardian

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Long-COVID symptoms distinct from other respiratory infections in study among U.S. Marines

Tue, 2024-10-29 19:18 — mike kraft

Studies show long-COVID symptoms distinct from other respiratory infections, common in Marines A total of 191,710 eligible participants identified since March 1, 2020, were included in the study. Of those, 1,153 were hospitalized with COVID-19, 1,304 were hospitalized with other LRTIs, and 189,253 uninfected patients were used as a reference group. CIDRAP

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COVID can seriously damage vision, even without symptoms --study

Tue, 2024-06-11 18:59 — mike kraft

COVID could damage your vision, new study says. Keep an eye out for these symptoms Extended exposure to SARS-CoV-2 may harm your retinas in particular. Fortune

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Health Workers Warn Proposed Loosening Mask Advice in Hospitals Would Harm Patients and Providers

Tue, 2023-09-19 04:48 — mike kraft

Health Workers Warn Loosening Mask Advice in Hospitals Would Harm Patients and Providers - KFF Health News Clinicians, researchers, and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines on face masks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens in hospitals. khnkit KFF Health News

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Biden administration grants $90 million to help buildings withstand climate disasters

Thu, 2023-07-13 19:56 — mike kraft

Why a $90 million push could help U.S. buildings withstand climate disasters Funding from the infrastructure law comes as floods and heat waves batter the nation and gives Biden another chance to use climate carrots instead of sticks. Maxine Joselow Washington Post

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Problems in communicating and sharing data blunts U.S. response to outbreaks

Wed, 2022-09-21 19:14 — mike kraft

'Very Harmful' Lack of Data Blunts U.S. Response to Outbreaks ANCHORAGE, Alaska — After a middle-aged woman tested positive for COVID-19 in January at her workplace in Fairbanks, public health workers sought answers to questions vital to understanding how the virus was spreading in Alaska’s rugged interior. The woman, they learned, had existing conditions and had not been vaccinated. She had been hospitalized but had recovered. Alaska and many other states have routinely collected that kind of information about people who test positive for the virus.

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Climate change: large forest trees lost to drought and fire are not returning

Sun, 2021-03-14 05:19 — mike kraft

Is this the end of forests as we've known them? Trees lost to drought and wildfires are not returning. Climate change is taking a toll on the world’s forests - and radically changing the environment before our eyes the Guardian

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Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests

Tue, 2021-01-26 20:35 — mike kraft

Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher. Yereth Rosen U.S.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher.

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OVERVIEW : U.S. and overseas developments

Sat, 2020-12-19 04:14 — mike kraft

The Latest: 2nd reported severe reaction to COVID-19 vaccine FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A second healthcare worker has experienced a severe reaction after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, officials said Friday. Both cases were in Alaska. In the latest,... AP NEWS

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A second healthcare worker has experienced a severe reaction after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, officials said Friday.

Both cases were in Alaska.

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