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Kids represent a small fraction of overall COVID-19 deaths in the US but 75% of them are children of colorFebruary 21, 2021 at 10:07 PM A temperature check is taken as students return to St. Joseph Catholic School in La Puente, California on November 16, 2020.
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There have been fewer than 250 children who have died from the coronavirus.
More than three-quarters of the deaths were in children of color.
Overall, kids make up about 13% of the coronavirus cases in the US.
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Children make up a small percentage of the overall COVID-19 d...Tags: Post, Science, Washington Post, Cdc, US, Trends, Alaska, Npr, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, University Of Michigan, Frederic J Brown, La Puente California, Preeti Malani, Coronavirus, Sarah Al Arshani, Kimora Kimmie Lynum 145 people like this. Like Fauci says it's 'possible' that Americans will still need to wear masks in 2022February 21, 2021 at 11:47 PM Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a White House Coronavirus Task Force meeting on November 19.
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Fauci predicts that Americans might still need masks in 2022, CNN reported.
He said how long masks are needed depends on the level of virus in the community.
He added that there will be a great deal of normality restored by the fall.
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Dr. Anthony Fau...Tags: Science, US, Trends, Cnn, United Kingdom, Biden, Anthony Fauci, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Dana Bash, Fauci, Johns Hopkins University, Tasos Katopodis Getty, Coronavirus, Sarah Al Arshani 96 people like this. Like FAA Ends Investigations Into Crashed SpaceX Starship Prototypes: ReportFebruary 21, 2021 at 8:10 PM The Federal Aviation Administration has ended its investigations into SpaceX’s last two Starship prototype tests, dubbed SN8 and SN9, according to CNN’s Jackie Wattles. News of the federal probes threw the launch of SpaceX’s SN10 prototype into legal limbo, but on Sunday CEO Elon Musk seemed confident that the matter…Read more...Tags: Spacex, Elon Musk, Science, Cnn, Faa, Federal Aviation Administration, Jackie Wattles 74 people like this. Like A Phishing Scam Targeting Postmates Drivers Pretends to Represent the Company to Empty Out Victims’ AccountsFebruary 21, 2021 at 8:36 PM As if gig workers didn’t have it hard enough already, they now have to be on the lookout for possible phishing scams from malicious actors that pretend to represent their company. Read more...Tags: Uber, Science, Crime, Fraud, Social Engineering, Phishing, Postmates, Spamming, Online Food Ordering, Deception, Meghan Casserly, Confidence Tricks 119 people like this. Like People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks, research suggestsFebruary 21, 2021 at 7:01 PM Cambridge University team say their findings could be used to spot people at risk from radicalisationOur brains hold clues for the ideologies we choose to live by, according to research, which has suggested that people who espouse extremist attitudes tend to perform poorly on complex mental tasks.Researchers from the University of Cambridge sought to evaluate whether cognitive disposition – differences in how information is perceived and processed – sculpt ideological world-views such as politic...Tags: Psychology, Science, Neuroscience, UK News, World news, US news, The far right, Counter-terrorism policy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge University, Far Right 22 people like this. Like WhatsApp: Users Who Don’t Accept Our New Privacy Policy Won’t Be Able to Read or Send MessagesFebruary 21, 2021 at 4:52 PM After causing a huge virtual meltdown with the announcement of its new privacy policy, and then postponing the implementation of said policy due to online fury, WhatsApp has spent the last few weeks trying not to stir up trouble. However, it has just revealed what will happen to users who do not accept its new privacy…Read more...Tags: Science 71 people like this. Like Check Out the Debris That Rained Down on a Colorado Suburb After a Plane's Engine ExplodedFebruary 21, 2021 at 5:08 PM On Saturday, residents of a Colorado suburb witnessed a scene straight out of a disaster movie: The sound of an explosion overhead followed by huge chunks of metal raining down from above. Read more...Tags: Science, Colorado, Transport, Aviation, Aviation Safety, Turbines, Aviation accidents and incidents, Human Activities, Disaster Accident, Turbine Engine Failure 124 people like this. Like The black-footed ferret was believed extinct until 18 were discovered on a Wyoming ranch. Now scientists have cloned one using 33-year-old DNA.February 21, 2021 at 1:09 PM Elizabeth Ann, the first ever cloned US endangered species at 50 days old.
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Elizabeth Ann was born using the frozen cells of a black-footed ferret called Willa that died in 1988.
She will be raised in the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in Colorado.
The species was considered extinct until seven were found in 1981.
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Scientists successfully cloned a black-footed ferr...Tags: Science, News, Colorado, Dna, US, Trends, Wyoming, News UK, Cloning, North America, Ferret, Wildlife Service USFWS, Willa, USFWS, Ryan Phelan, Association of Zoos 138 people like this. Like Quantum physics has the answer to making better hologramsFebruary 21, 2021 at 1:00 PM Once, holograms were just a scientific curiosity. But thanks to the rapid development of lasers, they have gradually moved center stage, appearing on the security imagery for credit cards and banknotes, in science fiction movies – most memorably Star Wars – and even “live” on stage when long-dead rapper Tupac reincarnated for fans at the Coachella music festival in 2012. Holography is the photographic process of recording light that is scattered by an object and presenting it in a three-dimensio...Tags: Startups, Science, Dennis Gabor 73 people like this. Like Enjoy the Outdoors (Someday, Hopefully) with $230 off Tacklife’s Beautiful Fire Pit TableFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:52 PM Tacklife Fire Pit Table | $270 | Amazon | Use code 40919XJ8 + Clip couponRead more...Tags: Science, Coupon, Fire Pit, Bond Valuation 144 people like this. Like Thousands of COVID-19 long-haulers have been crippled by months of physical pain and mental anguish, but recovery clinics are springing up, offering hopeFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:18 PM Amy Watson.
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Many COVID-19 long-haulers are still experiencing debilitating symptoms.
But new recovery clinics that are now opening up across the country are offering them hope.
Insider spoke to long-haulers and doctors running the programs to see how successful they've been.
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Amy Watson has had a chronic fever for 344 days. Almost a year after she was diagnosed with COVID-19, the schoolteacher from Portland, Oregon, is still...Tags: Facebook, Science, Cdc, New York City, US, Trends, Carp, Ptsd, United Kingdom, News UK, Watson, Portland Oregon, Facetime, Mayo Clinic, Mount Sinai, Brown 71 people like this. Like Cautious Johnson faces battle with own MPs over lockdown exitFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:31 PM Analysis: many on the Tory backbenches want Covid restrictions over by end of AprilCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen Boris Johnson stands at the dispatch box on Monday to deliver his roadmap for easing Covid restrictions for what he hopes will be the final time, there is likely to be a sigh of relief from his scientific advisers who will have won the most recent battle.Johnson is now gearing up for the next tussle, which will be with his MPs. There is a truce with ...Tags: Health, Politics, Science, Conservatives, UK News, Infectious Diseases, Health policy, Boris Johnson, Vaccines and immunisation, Johnson, 1922 Committee, Coronavirus 3 people like this. Like Enjoy the Outdoors (Someday, Hopefully) With $200 off Tacklife’s Beautiful Fire Pit TableFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:52 PM Tacklife Fire Pit Table | $300 | Amazon | Use code 40919XJ8 Read more...Tags: Science, Fire, Fire Pit, Fireplaces 124 people like this. Like The Poster for Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead Releases the Zombie CutFebruary 21, 2021 at 11:30 AM After years of everyone being all “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” about his Justice League cut, I almost forgot about Zack Snyder’s return to the zombie genre. But since everything’s coming up Snyder this month, we’ve got a poster and an upcoming teaser.Read more...Tags: Science, Films, Army, Justice League, Snyder, Zack Snyder, Marcia Marcia Marcia, Night of the Living Dead, Army of the Dead, Horror fiction, Army Of The Dead Lost Vegas, Creative Works, English Language Films, Draftarmy Of The Dead 98 people like this. Like Scientists say clinical trials for ‘variant-proof’ vaccines could start very soonFebruary 21, 2021 at 5:45 AM From immunity to blocking transmission of the virus, labs across the UK are hunting for second-generation jabs Scientists are developing a range of second-generation Covid vaccines aimed at expanding protection against the disease. Continue reading...Tags: Health, UK, Science, Biology, UK News, Medical Research, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Vaccines and immunisation, Coronavirus 16 people like this. Like After the Nobel, what next for Crispr gene-editing therapies?February 21, 2021 at 4:00 AM Hailed as the ‘molecular scissors’ that will allow us to rewrite our genes, the DNA tool is being trialled in treatments for everything from sickle-cell anaemia to cancerWhen last year’s Nobel prize for chemistry was awarded to biochemist Jennifer Doudna and microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier for their work in developing the technique of gene editing known as Crispr-Cas9 (pronounced “crisper”), headlines hailed their discovery as “molecular scissors” that would allow us to “rewrite the book o...Tags: Science, Biology, Cancer, Genetics, Medical Research, Crispr, Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Doudna, Sickle Cell Disease, Huntington's Disease, University of California at Berkeley Continue 14 people like this. Like Ten lessons from the virus crisisFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:00 AM A mixture of smaller countries led by New Zealand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, Cyprus, Rwanda and Iceland led the world 's Top 10 countries to manage their COVID-19 response well, according to a new study. In the study, published in The BMJ, lead researcher Flinders University's Professor Fran Baum joined experts from around the world to reflect upon the Global Health Security Index (October 2019) predictions for a public health emergency.Tags: Science, Iceland, Flinders University, New Zealand Vietnam Taiwan Thailand Cyprus Rwanda, Fran Baum Improving immunotherapies for blood cancers: real-time exploration in the tumorFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:00 AM Monoclonal antibodies are part of the therapeutic arsenal for eliminating cancer cells. Some make use of the immune system to act and belong to a class of treatment called "immunotherapies." But how do these antibodies function within the tumor? And how can we hope to improve their efficacy? Using innovative in vivo imaging approaches, scientists from the Institut Pasteur and Inserm visualized in real time how anti-CD20 antibodies, used to treat B-cell lymphoma, guide the immune system to attack...Tags: Science, Institut Pasteur, Inserm Psychological 'signature' for the extremist mind uncovered by Cambridge researchersFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:00 AM Study investigates ideological attitudes using an unprecedented number of cognitive and personality tests, and finds that people who lean towards "extreme pro-group action" have a similar type of mind.Tags: Science, Cambridge 19 people like this. Like A salt solution for desalinating brineFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:00 AM Solar-powered brine crystallization could alleviate the environmental impacts of seawater desalination.Tags: Science Colorful connection found in coral's ability to survive higher temperaturesFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:00 AM A coral's color can tell of its resilience to climate change, and a new study from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University has shed light on the underlying genetic factors that may be at work behind this.Tags: Science 23 people like this. Like Researchers demonstrate new method to track genetic diversity of salmon, troutFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:00 AM Scientists at Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service have demonstrated that DNA extracted from water samples from rivers across Oregon and Northern California can be used to estimate genetic diversity of Pacific salmon and trout.Tags: Science, Oregon, Pacific, Northern California, U S Forest Service, Oregon State University CovMT: Tracking virus mutations across the worldFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:00 AM An interactive platform helps users visualize where SARS-CoV-2 mutations start, how wide they spread and how infectious they are.Tags: Science Advancing understanding of hop genome to aid brewers, medical researchersFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:00 AM Oregon State University and U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers have significantly expanded the understanding of the hop genome, a development with important implications for the brewing industry and scientists who study the potential medical benefits of hops.Tags: Science, U S Department of Agriculture, Oregon State University Low-quality maternal diet during pregnancy may be associated with late-childhood obesityFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:00 AM Eating a low quality diet, high in foods and food components associated with chronic inflammation, during pregnancy may be associated with an increased risk of obesity and excess body fat in children, especially during late-childhood. The findings are published the open access journal BMC Medicine.Tags: Science 1 people like this. Like Bioengineered hybrid muscle fiber for regenerative medicineFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:00 AM Scientists regenerate damaged muscle tissue using cell reprogramming technology and natural-synthetic hybrid scaffold.Tags: Science 35 people like this. Like Sewage study shows which countries like to party hardFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:00 AM The Netherlands, United States, Australia and New Zealand are consuming the highest amounts of designer 'party' drugs, according to wastewater samples taken from eight countries over the New Year period.Tags: Science, New Zealand, Netherlands United States Australia Pioneering research reveals gardens are secret powerhouse for pollinatorsFebruary 21, 2021 at 12:00 AM Home gardens are by far the biggest source of food for pollinating insects, including bees and wasps, in cities and towns, according to new research.Tags: Science 15 people like this. 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The latest predictions for cancer deaths in the EU and UK for 2021, published in the leading cancer journal Annals of Oncology, show that pancreatic death rates are predicted to remain approximately stable for men, but continue to rise in women in most EU countries.Tags: Europe, UK, Science, Eu, Annals Of Oncology 33 people like this. Like |
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