How America Lost the COVID-19 War
The United States government has decided it is time to declare a formal end to the Covid-19 public health emergency. The end of the emergency is a time to reflect on what we have experienced and where we go from here.
For over two years, I have led the Covid Crisis Group, a group of 34 experts originally formed with the goal of helping to lay the groundwork for an inevitable (we thought) National Covid Commission. We interviewed nearly 300 people. We organized task forces. We mapped out agendas. We shared insights across our different backgrounds and did a substantial amount of research.
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Source: TIME: Health - April 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Philip Zelikow Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 freelance Source Type: news
Pandemics and suicide rates in Spain: from the Spanish flu to COVID-19 - Sanz-G ómez S, Alacreu-Crespo A, Fructuoso A, Perea-González MI, Guija JA, Giner L.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine suicide rates in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic and the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920. METHODS: Data on deaths by cause for the periods 1910-1925 and 2016-2020 were obtained from the National St... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
Workplace aggression against healthcare workers in a Spanish healthcare institution between 2019 and 2021: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic - D íaz A, Utzet M, Mirabent J, Diaz P, Ramada JM, Serra C, Benavides FG.
OBJECTIVES: Describe the incidence of first aggressions among healthcare workers (HCWs) before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Spanish healthcare institution, according to workers' socio-occupational characteristics and analyze the impact of the pand... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
From bad to worse: How avian flu must change to trigger a human pandemic
The victims are varied, from thousands of sea lions off the coast of Peru to mink farmed for fur in Spain to grizzly bears in Montana and harbor seals in Maine. For months, the avian influenza virus that has been
decimating birds across the world
has also sickened and killed a menagerie of mammals, raising fears it might evolve to spread more efficiently between these animals, and ultimately between people.
For that nightmare to unfold, however, the virus, a subtype known as H5N1, would have to undergo a major transformation, changing from a pathogen efficient at infecting cells in the guts of birds and spr...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 6, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Bird shots: Is vaccinating poultry the best defense against a deadly bird flu?
Lakeside, California—
Hilliker’s Ranch Fresh Eggs in this San Diego suburb has 30,000 chickens in three “cage-free,” open-air barns, where birds crowd the floor like rush-hour riders on a big city subway. “A cage-free aviary is a very interesting science experiment,” says Frank Hilliker, who runs the farm his
grandfather started
in 1942. He worries mightily about infections spreading through the massed birds. On his iPhone, he pulls up a list of the vaccines his chickens get: against Newcastle disease, infectious laryngotracheitis, coryza, colibacillosis, salmonella, infectious bronchitis, and fo...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 6, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
The Persistent Myth About Planetary Alignments
History does not record who the weeping woman was who joined the giant crowd at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles on Feb. 4, 1962. But she was inconsolable.
“I know it’s silly to carry on this way,” she said with a hitching breath to a reporter from the Griffith Observer magazine. “But I can’t help myself.” The cause of her profound distress: On that day, the Sun, the moon, and all five non-Earthly planets from Mercury to Saturn were arranged in a cosmic conga line within a tiny 17-degree patch of the sky. The alignment foretold terrible things, said many: earthquakes, floods, a d...
Source: TIME: Science - March 29, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Space Source Type: news
The Next U.S. Presidential Election will be a Battle Over Pandemic Memory
When Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor and 2024 presidential hopeful, was inaugurated for a second term in February, DeSantis centered his vision for the next four years on the idea that “freedom lives” in the Sunshine State. Baked into DeSantis’ speech was an emerging battle for the public memory of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Over the past few years,” he said, “as so many states in our country grinded their citizens down, we in Florida lifted our people up. When other states consigned their people’s freedom to the dustbin, Florida stood strongly as freedom’s lin...
Source: TIME: Health - March 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jacob Steere-Williams and Gavin Yamey Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 freelance Source Type: news
The Next U.S. Presidential Election will be a Battle Over Pandemic Memory
When Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor and 2024 presidential hopeful, was inaugurated for a second term in February, DeSantis centered his vision for the next four years on the idea that “freedom lives” in the Sunshine State. Baked into DeSantis’ speech was an emerging battle for the public memory of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Over the past few years,” he said, “as so many states in our country grinded their citizens down, we in Florida lifted our people up. When other states consigned their people’s freedom to the dustbin, Florida stood strongly as freedom’s lin...
Source: TIME: Health - March 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jacob Steere-Williams and Gavin Yamey Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 freelance Source Type: news
Explainer: H5N1 Bird Flu in Mammals Sparks Fears of Virus Spreading Among Humans
An avian influenza — bird flu — outbreak with the H5N1 strain that began in 2020 has hit record levels, affecting millions of animals. As the virus mutates genetically and spreads geographically, the normal ebb and flow of infection has given way to a persistently elevated level in wild birds.…#avian #nonavian #eurasian #ecuador #cambodia #cdc #spanish #peru #montana #geese (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Hidden hydrogen: Earth may hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel
IN THE SHADE
of a mango tree, Mamadou Ngulo Konaré recounted the legendary event of his childhood. In 1987, well diggers had come to his village of Bourakébougou, Mali, to drill for water, but had given up on one dry borehole at a depth of 108 meters. “Meanwhile, wind was coming out of the hole,” Konaré told Denis Brière, a petrophysicist and vice president at Chapman Petroleum Engineering, in 2012. When one driller peered into the hole while smoking a cigarette, the wind exploded in his face.
“He didn’t die, but he was burned,” Konaré continued. “And now we had a huge fire. The color of the ...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 16, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Bird Flu Isn ’t a Danger to Humans … Yet
Bird flu appears to be on the move. A particularly nasty strain of the H5N1 virus is currently causing the worst outbreak of the disease among birds since it was first identified in China in 1996. Europe is deep into its second commercial season of widespread contagion, and the U.S. is seeing its deadliest 12-month period for poultry in recorded history, with 58 million animals affected so far. Records are also being broken in Japan, where a plan to cull 10 million poultry was announced in mid-January amid the appearance of a different but similar subtype, H5N2.
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Source: TIME: Health - February 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized Disease Explainer healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Spanish PM urges end to EU reliance on imported food, energy
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday urged the European Union to “reindustrialize” to end its reliance on energy, microchips and food from outside the bloc and to learn the lessons of shortages provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine. Shortages triggered by dependence on…#spanish #pedrosánchez #ukraine #russian #sánchez #spain #eucouncil (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Young northern Europeans flock to Spain's Malaga to work remotely
The Spanish city of Malaga and its Costa del Sol surroundings are seeing a surge in people moving in from the rest of Europe as lifestyle and working habits change after the COVID-19 pandemic, according to two of Spain's largest homebuilders. Aedas Homes said its sales to foreigners in Costa del…#spanish #malaga #costadelsol #spain #aedashomes #neinorhomessa #andalusia #davidmartinez #poland #czechrepublic (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Davos elites need to wake up to megathreats the world is facing | Nouriel Roubini
A host of interconnected “megathreats” is imperilling our future. While some of these have been long in the making, others are new. The stubbornly low inflation of the pre-pandemic period has given way to today’s excessively high inflation. Secular stagnation – perpetually low growth owing to weak…#spanish #greatdepression #davos #spain #holocaust #thomasmann #worldeconomicforum #magicmountain (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Americans are blowing up the brand new 998 mental-health helpline as pandemic depression issues burrow deep
When Jamieson Brill answers a crisis call from a Spanish speaker on the newly launched national 988 mental health helpline, he rarely mentions the word suicide, or “suicidio.” Brill, whose family hails from Puerto Rico, knows that just discussing the term in some Spanish-speaking cultures is so…#indians #coder #substanceabuse #montana #nativeamericans #spanish #maryland #alaskanative #newyearseve #tonycoder (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
