All posts by nedhamson

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

Canada To Ban Production, Import Of Single-Use Plastics Starting In December | HuffPost Latest News

The new guidance covers checkout bags, eating utensils, food containers, ring carriers, stir sticks and straws.
— Read on www.huffpost.com/entry/canada-single-use-plastic-ban_n_62b2fcf9e4b06594c1ddc742

For some desperate COVID patients, lung transplants are the best chance at survival | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Mr. Franklin is one of a growing number of patients who need transplants after having their lungs ravaged by the coronavirus. UPMC has so far performed six lung transplants on COVID-19 patients, including Mr. Franklin, and is evaluating several more patients. Most of them need double-lung transplants because both lungs get infected and suffer profound damage.

Nationally, about 10% of lung transplants now go to COVID-19 patients, according to data provided to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from the United Network for Organ Sharing, or UNOS. Last year, 268 out of 2,524 total lung transplants performed in the United States were due to COVID-19. In all, around 400 people across the country have received lung transplants because of the virus since the pandemic began.

A transplant is a last-resort option for patients whose lungs are irreversibly damaged. The procedure is risky and involves a lifetime of taking anti-rejection drugs that suppress the immune system. But without it, these patients would die from COVID-19 complications.

With more patients in need of lungs than there are organs available, such transplants also raise questions about how donor organs should be allocated, especially since some people who need them were unvaccinated by choice. Mr. Franklin didn’t get the COVID-19 vaccine because he had questions about its safety and effectiveness.

“It might be one of the biggest mistakes I’ve ever made,” he said.

Source: For some desperate COVID patients, lung transplants are the best chance at survival | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Avian Flu Diary: EID Journal: Early SARS-CoV-2 Reinfections within 60 Days and Implications for Retesting Policies

During the first two years of COVID, reinfection – while it was well documented – was fairly rare. But after antigenically highly divergent Omicron variant(s) emerged in late 2021, reinfections – and vaccine breakthrough infections – have soared.
As a result, some of the assumptions about reinfections and the duration of immunity following infection (and vaccination) that worked reasonably well with the first 3 COVID variants (D614G, Alpha & Delta) may no longer apply.

Source: Avian Flu Diary: EID Journal: Early SARS-CoV-2 Reinfections within 60 Days and Implications for Retesting Policies

Plant-based spray promises to replace plastic packaging – Mágica Mistura を

In order to produce ecologically friendly alternatives for food packaging, a group of scientists from Rutgers and Harvard universities in the USA developed a biodegradable herbal coating. It can be sprayed on food, protecting it from microorganisms and possible damage during transport.

“We knew that we needed to get rid of oil-based food packaging and replace it with something more sustainable, biodegradable and non-toxic” , account Philip Demokritou, one of the research participants , published last Monday (20) in the scientific journal Nature Food.  “And we ask ourselves at the same time:‘ We can design packaging that extends the useful life and reduces food waste, improving food security.”‘?

Source: Plant-based spray promises to replace plastic packaging – Mágica Mistura を

Why Long Term Thinking is Crucial, on Day 17/67

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

               All I can think of as I schedule this is “the faith that the dark past has taught us” and the need for  far better education of various types, on this 17th Lesson Plan Day.   (Lift Every Voice and Sing)
Especially in this country.
   And remembering Toni Morrison’s admonition toni_morrison_2008-2 not to succumb to this world’s malevolence.
    I look forward to your impressions, Thoughtful Readers.
Shira

*****************

Click here to read, if you like:

B5, Hakan: Muhafiz/Protector & Sihirli AnnemLupin, or La Casa de Papel/Money Heist Reviews

Holistic College Algebra & GED/High School Lesson Plans,

Thoughtful Readers, please consider reading about #ProjectDoBetter.

Shira Destinie A. Jones, MPhil, MAT, BSCS

Shira

Creative Commons License
Shira Destinie Jones’ work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike…

View original post 3 more words

Florbela Espanca

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

A mocidade esplêndida, vibrante,

Ardente, extraordinária, audaciosa,

Que vê num cardo a folha duma rosa,

Na gota de água o brilho duma diamante;

Essa que fez de mim Judeu Errante

Do espírito, a torrente caudalosa,

Do vendavais imã tempestuosa,

– Trago- a em mim vermelha, triunfante!

No meu sangue rubis correm dispersos:

– Chamas subindo ao alto nos meus versos,

Papoilas nos meus lábios a flor!

Ama- me doida, estonteadoramente,

Ó meu Amor! que o coração da gente

É tão pequeno…e a vida, água a fugir…

Florbela Espanca. MOCIDADE

Florbela Espanca. Vol.2/ zlivro de Soror, Saudade, Charneca em flor, Reliquae. Porto Alegre: L&PM, 2018

Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Imagem: pinterest/ Portugal.explores, e Lisboa.travel lisboa/ Instagram

Santarém, Pá 26 de junho de 2022

View original post