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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

COVID cases increase in Ohio for first time in a month

Southwest Ohio, which is made up of Butler, Warren, Hamilton, Adams, Brown, Clermont and Clinton counties, reported a 4% decrease in COVID ICU patients in the last week and a 77% increase in the past 60 days.

Of the 1,091 people hospitalized with COVID in Ohio Thursday, 86 were in west central Ohio and 149 were in southwest Ohio, according to OHA.

Source: COVID cases increase in Ohio for first time in a month

Covid-19 Vaccines — Immunity, Variants, Boosters | NEJM

The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has claimed an estimated 15 million lives, including more than 1 million lives in the United States alone. The rapid development of multiple Covid-19 vaccines has been a triumph of biomedical research, and billions of vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. Challenges facing the Covid-19 vaccine field include inequitable vaccine distribution, vaccine hesitancy, waning immunity, and the emergence of highly transmissible viral variants that partially escape antibodies. This review summarizes the current state of knowledge about immune responses to Covid-19 vaccines and the importance of both humoral and cellular immunity for durable protection against severe disease.

Source: Covid-19 Vaccines — Immunity, Variants, Boosters | NEJM

Deadly bird flu returns to Midwest earlier than expected | News, Sports, Jobs – Marshall Independent

Across the country, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 414 flocks in 39 states have been affected since February, costing producers over 40 million birds, mostly commercial turkeys and chickens. The disease has struck 81 Minnesota flocks this year, requiring the killing of nearly 2.7 million birds.

Minnesota produces more turkeys annually than any other state.

Source: Deadly bird flu returns to Midwest earlier than expected | News, Sports, Jobs – Marshall Independent

Street Art für die Nachbarschaft — Senioren um die Welt

Noch vor nicht allzu langer Zeit hätten diese kleinen Kunstwerke keine Chance gehabt, den nächsten Tag zu überdauern. Auch ohne Regen wären sie verschwunden, von Menschenhand entfernt worden. Desgleichen hätten die kleinen Pflänzchen in den Fugen keine Möglichkeit gehabt, sich zu entfalten. Das alles entsprach nicht dem Ordnungssinn der früheren Nachbarin, der auch nicht vor […]

Street Art für die Nachbarschaft — Senioren um die Welt

Most U.N. Inspectors Leave Embattled Nuclear Plant – The New York Times

“It is obvious that the plant and physical integrity of the plant have been violated several times,” he said. “By chance or by deliberation? We don’t have the elements to assess that. But this cannot continue to happen.”

The five members of the team who remained behind were “unloading the equipment they brought and will continue working at the plant” until Saturday, the company said in a statement. It was not immediately clear what equipment they had brought or what tasks they would carry out in the coming days.

The I.A.E.A. had said earlier that the monitors, who braved heavy shelling on their journey across the front line in southern Ukraine, were going to the plant “to conduct indispensable nuclear safety and security and safeguards activities.” Their mission included checking on safety systems, assessing damage to the plant and evaluating the staff’s working conditions.

Among the main concerns the agency has raised is that fires or other damage from shelling could cause cooling systems to fail and lead to a nuclear meltdown.

Hours before they arrived, artillery shells struck the sprawling complex and caused damage, Energoatom said, highlighting the safety risks the team had come to assess. Russia and Ukraine traded accusations about which side had fired the shells.

It took weeks of delicate negotiations for Russia and Ukraine to agree to the I.A.E.A. visit, but it remained unclear how much the experts would be able to do during a short visit to the nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, which lies in an intensifying combat zone and has been repeatedly struck by shelling.

We can Do Better Wednesdays, & Expired vs. Extinguished Debts — Educating for Future Democracy Collaborative

Originally posted on Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story: This is a topic I’ve written about before, but not in detail, as part of Project Do Better’s Phase I piece, Public Financial Knowledge Infrastructure. In most states, expired is merely ‘unenforceable’ except that you have to defend by showing the court…

We can Do Better Wednesdays, & Expired vs. Extinguished Debts — Educating for Future Democracy Collaborative