Health Editor’s Note: What more can I say? This gets tiring……Carol Trump Demanded Schools Reopen, His Experts Warned of ‘Highest Risk’ By Eileen Sullivan and Erica L. Green/NY Times WASHINGTON — Federal materials for reopening schools, shared the week President Trump demanded weaker guidelines to do so, said fully reopening schools and universities […]
Carol Duff, MSN, BA, RN
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The Far-Reaching Consequences of Siberia’s Climate-Change-Driven Wildfires by Theresa Machemer/Smithsonianmag.com Higher temperatures and drier surface conditions are providing ideal conditions for these fires to burn and to persist for so long over such a large area,” European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts fire specialist Mark Parrington says in a statement, […]
Mars Had Landslide-Powered Tsunamis That Put Earth’s Mega-Waves to Shame by Nola Taylor Redd/Smithsonianmag.com Billions of years ago, a giant landslide cascaded down the slopes of the largest mountain in the solar system—Mars’ Olympus Mons. When all this material fell into the water of Mars’ (probable) ancient ocean, it created […]
This Month, Three Countries Are Heading Off to Mars by Tony Reichardt/Smithsonianmag.com. June 2020 Every 26 months or so, when the planets are favorably aligned, spacecraft can be sent to Mars at a discount—in terms of the rocket fuel required. NASA, which has a lot of experience in this area, […]
Notre-Dame Cathedral: Volunteer carpenters aim to settle reconstruction debate A group of volunteer carpenters are hoping to settle the debate over how Paris’s fire-ravaged Notre-Dame Cathedral should be rebuilt by constructing a replica of part of the structure’s roof entirely by hand using traditional techniques and materials. Armed with axes […]
Hummingbirds Learn to Count to Find Their Favorite Flowers By Theresa Machemer/Smithsonianmag.com New research suggests that wild hummingbirds can keep count as they forage and use their counts to keep track of the sweetest flowers. The new paper, published on July 8 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that […]
Snail Shells Date England’s Cerne Abbas Giant to Medieval, Not Prehistoric, Era by Alex Fox/Smithsonianmag.com The earliest recorded mention of the Cerne Abbas Giant, a 180-foot-tall chalk drawing of a nude man wielding a club, dates to 1694. But archaeologists and locals alike have long speculated that the towering figure in […]
Father and Sons Charged in Miami Federal Court with Selling Toxic Bleach as Fake “Miracle” Cure for Covid-19 and Violating Court Orders It was an email to Trump from Grenon that sent Trump on his bleach sucking breakdown. United States Attorney’s Office/Southern District of Florida Miami, Fl. – Federal prosecutors […]
A Spike in People Dying at Home Suggests Coronavirus Deaths in Houston May Be Higher Than Reported by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News HOUSTON — When Karen Salazar stopped by to check on her mother on the evening of June 22, she found her in worse shape than she expected. […]
Mexico border towns try to stop Americans crossing amid Covid-19 fears David Agren in Mexico City/The Guardian As he campaigned for the presidency, Donald Trump promised to build a “big beautiful wall” along the US-Mexico border, claiming it would keep migrants out of the country and stop everything from drugs […]
NIH launches clinical trials network to test COVID-19 vaccines and other prevention tools NIH News Release The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has established a new clinical trials network that aims to enroll thousands of volunteers in large-scale clinical trials […]
Coronavirus strains Florida health system as some hospitals run out of ICU beds in largest counties by Noah Higgins-Dunn/CNBC More than 40 Florida hospitals in multiple counties across the state have maxed out their ICU capacity or are close to running out of intensive care beds, according to the state’s […]
Health Editor’s Note: While the number of cases of COVID-19 are increasing daily, actually by leaps and bounds, Trump and his administration still downplay the absolute seriousness of this pandemic. How horrific that they work off of the premises of: ‘Tell the public what they want to hear, during an […]
Health Editor’s Note: I am with Fauci in this prediction/statement of medical/scientific fact. We have reached astronomical numbers of coronavirus cases and with that, even though we are not hearing so much about it, the deaths. People are still dying. Some hospitals are daily being pushed to their limits to […]
Health Editor’s Note: I was informed by our Paris VT affiliate, Jane Rosenstein, that buses in Paris will not move unless all passengers are wearing a mask. How could the issue of wearing a mask in order to use the bus system in Paris, have resulted in this death? Are […]
Half of Nevada’s businesses failed to follow rules on masks, state investigators say by Contessa Brewer/CNBC Nevada is among the states with the fastest rising rates of coronavirus infection, and state investigators have reported less than 50% of the businesses observed on July 2 complied with the governor’s order requiring face masks in […]
Whale Sharks Have Tiny Teeth on Their Eyeballs by Nora McGeevey/Smithsonianmag.com Whale sharks are known as gentle, bespeckled giants that swim in tropical seas and scoop up plankton with their cavernous mouths. According to new research, they also have a sharp eye—literally: their eyes are covered in tiny teeth. The “dermal denticles” […]
NIH ACTIV vaccine working group weighs role of human challenge studies for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development NIH News Release In a Perspective for the New England Journal of Medicine(link is external), members of the National Institutes of Health’s Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) Vaccines Working Group assess practical considerations and prerequisites […]
Complexity of human tooth enamel revealed at atomic level in NIH-funded study NIH News Release Scientists used a combination of advanced microscopy and chemical detection techniques to uncover the structural makeup of human tooth enamel at unprecedented atomic resolution, revealing lattice patterns and unexpected irregularities. The findings could lead to […]
Health Editor’s Note: I am not sure what the issue here is all about. What we have known all along is that coronavirus can travel through the air, when someone coughs, sneezes, breaths hard, exhales air from the lungs, sings, talks, etc. and while the virus is in the air […]
Trump claims 99% of US Covid-19 cases are ‘totally harmless’ as infections surge By David Smith in Washington/theguardian Donald Trump has celebrated independence day with a string of false and misleading claims attempting to play down the coronavirus pandemic and warning that China will be “held accountable”. The US president staged […]
Debates turn emotional as schools decide how and if to open By Patrick Whittle and Carolyn Thompson/apnews.com PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — School districts across America are in the midst of making wrenching decisions over how to resume classes in settings radically altered by the coronavirus pandemic, with school buses running […]
youtube.com Rare case of brain-destroying amoeba confirmed in Florida by CBS News The Florida Department of Health confirmed a case of what is commonly referred to as a brain-eating amoeba in the Tampa area. According to the department, one person in Hillsborough County contracted Naegleria fowleri, which is a single-cell amoeba that […]
NIH study finds out why some words may be more memorable than others NIH News Release Thousands of words, big and small, are crammed inside our memory banks just waiting to be swiftly withdrawn and strung into sentences. In a recent study of epilepsy patients and healthy volunteers, National Institutes […]