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Abbott Nutrition restarts baby formula production in reopened Michigan plant

  • Abbott Nutrition has resumed baby formula production at its Sturgis, Michigan, plant, in a move to address a nationwide shortage.
  • The company said it will restart the production of EleCare, a formula for children with digestive issues, aiming for an initial product release around June 20.

Source: Abbott Nutrition restarts baby formula production in reopened Michigan plant

Russia plans to restart German telescope without permission | News | DW | 04.06.2022 (Me: Outlaw/autocrat Putin)

“They — the people that made the decision to shut down the telescope —  don’t have a moral right to halt this research for humankind just because their pro-fascist views are close to our enemies,” added Rogozin, who is a Putin loyalist and a vocal supporter of Moscow’s military action.

Source: Russia plans to restart German telescope without permission | News | DW | 04.06.2022

Avian Flu Diary: The NERC 2022 Summer (Electrical Grid) Reliability Assessment

While NERC’s risk scenario analysis shows adequate resources and energy for much of North America, the Western Interconnection, Texas, Southwest Power Pool (SPP), and Saskatchewan are at “elevated risk” of energy emergencies during extreme conditions. Midcontinent ISO (MISO) is in the “high risk” category, facing capacity shortfalls in its north and central areas during both normal and extreme conditions due to generator retirements and increased demand. Additionally, at the start of the summer, MISO will be without a key transmission line connecting its northern and southern areas as restoration continues on a four-mile section of a 500 kV transmission line that was damaged by a tornado in December 2021.

Source: Avian Flu Diary: The NERC 2022 Summer (Electrical Grid) Reliability Assessment

Italian study shows ventilation can cut school COVID cases by 82% | Reuters

Tuesday suggests that efficient ventilation systems can reduce the transmission of COVID-19 in schools by more than 80%.

An experiment overseen by the Hume foundation think-tank compared coronavirus contagion in 10,441 classrooms in Italy’s central Marche region.

COVID infections were steeply lower in the 316 classrooms that had mechanical ventilation systems, with the reduction in cases more marked according to the strength of the systems.

With applications guaranteeing a complete replacement of the air in a classroom 2.4 times in an hour, infections were reduced by 40%. They were lowered by 66.8% with four air replacements per hour and by 82.5% with six air replacements, the study showed.

Most of Italy’s schools lack mechanical ventilation systems. Instead, teachers are urged to keep windows open when weather conditions permit.

If the most efficient systems were installed “we could pass from 250 cases per 100,000 students (the alert level set by the education ministry) to a rate of 50 per 100,000,” the Hume foundation and the Marche regional government said in its press release.

Source: Italian study shows ventilation can cut school COVID cases by 82% | Reuters

Texas romance with guns tested by Uvalde school shooting – The Washington Post

On Saturday night, Small, a self-described “devout NRA Republican,” did what he acknowledges would have been unthinkable days earlier. He unlocked his gun cabinet and pulled out his AR-15, similar to the one used by the gunman in Uvalde. He drove to his local police department and turned it in.

Source: Texas romance with guns tested by Uvalde school shooting – The Washington Post