Luckham said visitors to the islands will see a lot of messaging around water conservation.
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Several states report spikes in COVID-19 cases | CIDRAP
Young adults remain vaccine-hesitant New poll research from the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) shows that one in four unvaccinated people aged 18 to 25 said that they “probably will not” or “definitely will not” get the COVID-19 vaccination. The results, from the March 2021 Household Pulse Survey, included 5,082 respondents. Eighty-three percent reported that they had not been vaccinated, 10% said they definitely will not get the vaccine, and 14% said they probably will not. The results are published in the Journal of Adolescent Health today. Young adults have been one of the hardest groups to vaccinate in the United States, despite many outreach attempts by the Biden administration. Without this group, herd immunity will likely evade the country. Though young adults and adolescents rarely die or get seriously ill from COVID-19, they account for roughly 20% of all new cases. And growing evidence suggests this age group can get “long-COVID,” or persistent symptoms that follow an initial mild infection. “Young adults who have had COVID, regardless of symptoms, may be vulnerable to long-term complications and debilitating symptoms that may include respiratory diffic
Source: Several states report spikes in COVID-19 cases | CIDRAP
Capacidades e incapacidades
Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga
SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA
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Estamos rotos. Pertenecemos a la generación perdida. Hace años, durante postrimerías del siglo XX, escribí, una y otra vez, sobre mi percepción de un mundo fragmentado, antítesis del bien, dedicado más a satisfacer apetitos, caprichos y vanidades que a aliviar dolores y necesidades. Más que construir, la destrucción es una tendencia en las sociedades. El mundo agoniza. Naufragamos en una vorágine de personas que han perdido el sentido de la vida y que creen y piensan que la inmediatez, lo baladí, la estulticia y lo pasajero justificarán sus presencias nocivas, inserevibles y tóxicas. Muchos hombres y mujeres, en mayúsculas y en minúsculas, disponen de energía, dinero y tiempo para actuar cual marionetas cómicas y aberrantes que causan lástima. Hoy, somos capaces de pagar cantidades millonarias por el gusto y el placer de volar en lo que llamamos espacio y…
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COVID vaccine misinformation leads to 35,000% jump in Google searches about infertility – Study Finds
Study authors say all this started after a pair of physicians submitted a petition questioning the safety and effectiveness of Pfizer’s vaccine.
Opinion | Banning Abortion Doesn’t Protect Women’s Health – The New York Times
if concern for women’s health were truly driving this legislation, it would not be targeting abortion. A person is 14 times more likely to die by carrying a pregnancy to term than by legally induced abortion.
Black women bear the brunt of reproductive politicking in the United States. Nationally, they are over three times as likely to die because of pregnancy and labor complications as white women. That figure multiplies in states hostile to abortion rights. The 2019 Health of Women and Children Report ranked Mississippi 50th among the states overall in promoting the health of women, infants and children. Using abortion surveillance data compiled nationally, it quickly becomes clear that it is far more dangerous for Black women to give birth in Mississippi than it is for them to terminate a pregnancy.
US COVID-19 cases rising again, doubling over three weeks (Me: No going back to old normal – vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate or watch more needless deaths of friends, relatives, spouses, kids!)
Confirmed infections climbed to an average of about 23,600 a day on Monday, up from 11,300 on June 23, according to Johns Hopkins University data. And all but two states — Maine and South Dakota — reported that case numbers have gone up over the past two weeks.
“It is certainly no coincidence that we are looking at exactly the time that we would expect cases to be occurring after the July Fourth weekend,” said Dr. Bill Powderly, co-director of the infectious-disease division at Washington University’s School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Source: US COVID-19 cases rising again, doubling over three weeks
Hunger sweeps India in Covid’s shadow as millions miss out on rations | Global development | The Guardian (Me: Modi failures: Covid-19 and now hunger)
Their 40 sq metre (400 sq ft) home in Kurla East stands huddled among the 800 or so brick, tin sheet and tarpaulin houses of Qureshi Nagar, the entire shanty town trembling when a train roars past on a nearby railway line.
Once on the housekeeping staff at a hospital and later a domestic help who washed utensils and floors, Khan is now without work, income or savings. To keep tensions and arguments in her overcrowded home to a minimum, she waits every morning and evening for a small package of food from a community kitchen operated by a women’s savings group.
Khan has been entirely dependent on food aid since the kitchen was launched in April to supply free meals to the slum’s impoverished, jobless residents. She comes every day, for lunch and dinner for herself and her two daughters, aged 10 and 11 months.
Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian
Growing trees and plants have taken up about a quarter of all fossil fuel emissions since 1960, with the Amazon playing a major role as the largest tropical forest. Losing the Amazon’s power to capture CO2 is a stark warning that slashing emissions from fossil fuels is more urgent than ever, scientists said.
The research used small planes to measure CO2 levels up to 4,500m above the forest over the last decade, showing how the whole Amazon is changing. Previous studies indicating the Amazon was becoming a source of CO2 were based on satellite data, which can be hampered by cloud cover, or ground measurements of trees, which can cover only a tiny part of the vast region.

The scientists said the discovery that part of the Amazon was emitting carbon even without fires was particularly worrying. They said it was most likely the result of each year’s deforestation and fires making adjacent forests more susceptible the next year. The trees produce much of the region’s rain, so fewer trees means more severe droughts and heatwaves and more tree deaths and fires.
Source: Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian
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