Black and Hispanic Adults and Those Under Age 30 Remain Most Likely to Want to “Wait and See;” Roughly One in Four Among “Wait and See” Say They Would Be More Likely to Get Vaccinated if Only One Shot Were Required While Enthusiasm Rises, a Persistent Minority Say They Definitely Will Not Get Vaccinated; Republicans,…More
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Experts: 3-foot rule in schools problematic in light of COVID variants | CIDRAP (Me: TYS – told you so)
At the same time that CDC officials were updating school policy, they were also warning that B117, a variant strain 50% more transmissible than the wild-type virus, would likely become the dominant strain in the United States by April. In some states, such as Florida and California, the variant, which was first detected in the United Kingdom, already accounts for 25% of cases.
Now several experts are concerned that schools may be opening during an inflection point in the pandemic and are being misguided about how to do so.
Source: Experts: 3-foot rule in schools problematic in light of COVID variants | CIDRAP
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Facebook has been autogenerating pages for white supremacists | Ars Technica
Researchers at the Tech Transparency Project found that Facebook created dozens of pages for groups like the “Universal Aryan Brotherhood Movement” when a user did something as simple as listing it as their employer. Some of the autogenerated pages garnered thousands of likes by the time they were discovered by researchers. TTP also discovered four Facebook groups that had been created by users. The researchers shared their findings with Facebook, which removed most of the pages. Yet, two of the autogenerated pages and all four Facebook groups remained active when the group published its findings. Source: Facebook has been autogenerating pages for white supremacists | Ars Technica
‘Misleading and wrong’: South African experts condemn ‘abortion pill reversal’ | openDemocracy (Me: Christian Rightists are “selling” this unapproved – unproven method globally)
The New Humanitarian | Myanmar’s post-coup healthcare collapse
The public health system has come to a near standstill following the military’s 1 February coup, which ousted Myanmar’s elected government. Security forces have responded to widespread protests with increasingly deadly force. Rights monitors say at least 286 people have been killed as of 24 March – including a seven-year-old girl reportedly shot dead in her home this week. UN rights experts say the military crackdown could amount to crimes against humanity under international law. Source: The New Humanitarian | Myanmar’s post-coup healthcare collapse
COVID-19 Vaccines Arrive in Kenya, the first of over 3.5 million doses delivered by UNICEF – YouTube
“How close are we to a COVID-19 vaccine?” That is a question asked around the world since the coronavirus pandemic began one year ago. On March 2, people in …
Filter made from a tree branch cleans contaminated water – UPI.com
“Because the raw materials are widely available and the fabrication processes are simple, one could imagine involving communities in procuring, fabricating, and distributing xylem filters,” Rohit Karnik told MIT News. “For places where the only option has been to drink unfiltered water, we expect xylem filters would improve health, and make water drinkable,” said Karnik, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. While developing their prototype, researchers ran into two problems. RELATED Many household drinking water filters fail to totally remove PFAS The xylem sieves dry out easily in storage, sticking to the walls of the filter and slowing water filtration. The sieves also gum up after being used multiple times. Researchers were able to solve the problem by soaking the sapwood cross-sections in warm water and then dipping them in ethanol. After being allowed to dry, the filters proved much more durable. In real-world tests around the MIT campus, the filters removed 99 percent of bacteria contaminants such as E. coli and rotavirus, matching the performance of commercial filters.
Source: Filter made from a tree branch cleans contaminated water – UPI.com
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Misleading Facts Fuel COVID-19 Misinformation, Evade Social Media Moderation : NPR
By just about any metric, it’s clear stories linking deaths to vaccines have spread in such a way that wildly overstates real numbers. Among the more than 85 million people in the U.S. who have now received at least one vaccination shot, less than .0018% of shot recipients have died sometime afterward. Even that small number includes people who were vaccinated while also suffering from other health conditions. Whether they have a vaccine or not, roughly 8,000 people die in the U.S. every day. And as more people get vaccinated, more vaccinated people will continue to die from unrelated causes, which the pharmaceutical company Pfizer alluded to in a statement earlier this year. “It is important to note that serious adverse events, including deaths that are unrelated to the vaccine, are unfortunately likely to occur at a similar rate as they would in the general population,” the statement said. But UNC-Chapel Hill’s Freelon said when it comes to conspiratorial thinking, stats and nuance often don’t matter as much as tragic stories. “This is something that we see repeatedly with human cognition,” Freelon said. “It’s the emphasis on the breathless anecdote and then the discounting of statistics that are much more representative.”
Source: Misleading Facts Fuel COVID-19 Misinformation, Evade Social Media Moderation : NPR
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