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

Study: Farmworkers at 4 times risk of COVID-19 | CIDRAP

study today in JAMA Network Open that found quadruple the risk of COVID-19 in California farmworkers reveals risk factors for current or previous SARS-CoV-2 infection in the group, including outdoor work exposures, crowded living conditions, and high body mass index (BMI).

A team led by University of California at Berkeley researchers analyzed the data of 1,107 adult farmworkers undergoing testing for COVID-19 infection and immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies at federally qualified community clinics and community sites in the Salinas Valley from Jul 16 to Nov 30, 2020.

Source: Study: Farmworkers at 4 times risk of COVID-19 | CIDRAP

Alaska, Idaho using crisis standards of care over COVID-19 | CIDRAP (Me: Where’s the uproar from GOP about GOP states “rationing” medical care?)

Alaska now joins Idaho in establishing crisis standards of care as its largest hospital is now prioritizing treatment to patients most likely to survive COVID-19 infections.

“While we are doing our utmost, we are no longer able to provide the standard of care to each and every patient who needs our help,” Kristen Solana Walkinshaw, MD, chief of staff at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, wrote in a letter addressed to Alaskans and published yesterday.

“We have been forced within our hospital to implement crisis standards of care,” Walkinshaw said. “We have been required to develop and enact policies and procedure to ration medical care and treatments, including dialysis and specialized ventilatory support.”

According to the Associated Press, at Providence, more than 30% of the adult patients who are hospitalized have tested positive. Statewide, 202 patients are hospitalized for COVID-19, including 33 on ventilators.

Last week, Idaho announced similar measures in the northern part of the state after it faced a deluge of COVID-19 cases due to the Delta (B1617.2) variant. Now, some hospitals in southern Idaho announced they will also be rationing care. Idaho has one of the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the country.

Source: Alaska, Idaho using crisis standards of care over COVID-19 | CIDRAP

State Supreme Court Overturns Mohamed Noor Murder Conviction (Me: Friends and family of murdered Australian woman who had called for help from police will not be happy with this)

Now, the state supreme court has rejected that decision and ordered that the case go to district court where Noor will be sentenced for second-degree manslaughter. Since Noor has no criminal history, he is likely to be sentenced to about 4 years, the Tribune notes. He has already served 30 months. Source: State Supreme Court Overturns Mohamed Noor Murder Conviction

Mycoremediation brings the fungi to waste disposal and ecosystem restoration

  • Mycoremediation is the process of harnessing fungi’s natural abilities to break down materials for a beneficial effect.
  • Recent projects look to restore habitat marred by wildfires, or manipulate fungi in a lab to break down toxic waste and other human-created pollutants.
  • Research continues looking at the broad ways fungi can possibly regenerate soils and keep moisture in the ground, which are necessities for creating wildfire-adapted lands.

We see disposable masks everywhere these days. Littered on the street and sidewalks, hanging out of garbage cans, floating through the neighborhood on a windy day. Unfortunately, the ubiquitous face coverings aren’t the easiest to dispose of or recycle, but what if they could sprout a mushroom? For Joanne Rodriguez, this is a far better use of a mask after it’s provided its humanly function.

“The masks? The mycelium loved it. They were fully grown out in two weeks,” she said. Rodriguez is the CEO of Illinois-based Mycocycle, a new company rethinking how fungi can clean up waste streams.

The oft-used adage of “mushrooms can save the world” takes on a new meaning when applied to the flourishing realm of mycoremediation, the idea of harnessing fungi to break down toxins or waste.

Recent studies, and new projects in the past few years, have cast new light on an old (a very old) natural process, with innovations and research continuing to bring more people into the work of drafting the humble fungi in the fight to clean up the world.

Source: Mycoremediation brings the fungi to waste disposal and ecosystem restoration

Illegal logging reaches Amazon’s untouched core, ‘terrifying’ research shows

  • Satellite imagery shows that logging activity is spreading from peripheral areas of the Amazon toward the rainforest’s core, according to groundbreaking research.
  • The satellite-based mapping of seven of Brazil’s nine Amazonian states showed a “terrifying” pattern of logging advance that cleared an area three times the size of the city of São Paulo between August 2019 and July 2020 alone.
  • At the state level, lack of transparency in logging data makes it impossible to calculate how much of the timber production is illegal, experts say.
  • Evidence of cutting in Indigenous reserves and conservation units — where logging is prohibited — make clear that illegal logging accounts for much of the activity, according to the report.

One of the main fears about the Brazilian Amazon is beginning to materialize: logging is starting to move from the periphery of the rainforest toward the core of the biome, groundbreaking new research shows.

Source: Illegal logging reaches Amazon’s untouched core, ‘terrifying’ research shows

Maine Man Sentenced for Committing and Conspiring to Commit Federal Hate Crime | OPA | Department of Justice

According to Leo’s guilty plea and evidence presented at Diggins’s trial, on April 15, 2018, Diggins attacked a Sudanese man without provocation outside of a bar in Portland, Maine. The assault, which broke the victim’s jaw, was immediately followed by an attack on another Black man who was standing on the street nearby.

In a second incident, which occurred approximately an hour later and approximately 20 miles away in Biddeford, co-conspirators Diggins and Leo drove in Leo’s truck into a parking lot of a convenience store, where Diggins got out of the truck and approached a Black man who was walking toward the store’s entrance. Diggins directed a racial slur at the man and distracted him while Leo got out of the truck and sucker-punched the victim in the jaw, knocking him to the ground. The unprovoked attack broke the victim’s jaw in several places.

Leo was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen. The Biddeford Police Department and the FBI investigated the case. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheila Sawyer and Civil Rights Division Trial Attorney Tim Visser.

Source: Maine Man Sentenced for Committing and Conspiring to Commit Federal Hate Crime | OPA | Department of Justice

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