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Cotton, Romney introduce bill pairing minimum wage increase with tighter citizenship verification

In his heart – Romney is still a racist…

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Republican Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.) and Mitt Romney (Utah) announced on Tuesday that they will be introducing a bill that would increase the minimum wage while also requiring employers to verify the immigration statu…

Where Did The Flu Go? Homebound Kids Shape A Mild Season : NPR (shift from summer vacation to winter vacation and good bye thousands of flu deaths each year)

During the 2019-2020 flu season, some 400,000 people were hospitalized for the flu, with 22,000 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last week — just ahead of the season’s usual peak — the CDC had recorded just 165 flu-related hospitalizations since October.

“Flu has been essentially nonexistent,” Dr. William Schaffner, infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University, said in an interview with Weekend Edition.

The mild season has benefitted from measures like masks and social distancing, he said. It helps too that, last year, a record number of people got a flu shot.

But Schaffner says there’s more to it: Kids — habitual superspreaders — are staying home.

“Children are generally thought of as having the distribution franchise for the influenza virus,” Schaffner said. “They produce much more virus, they shed more virus for longer periods of time.”

But over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, as schools went virtual and children interacted less, the chances of spreading the flu narrowed.

Source: Where Did The Flu Go? Homebound Kids Shape A Mild Season : NPR

16th Day of February – Fatcowco – (1923 – King Tutankhamun’s tomb opened)

1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun

Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist.

He became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun in November 1922.

1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun

On 16 February 1923, Carter opened the sealed doorway and confirmed it led to a burial chamber, containing the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.

Tutankhamun’s tomb is famous because of the treasures it held intact for over three thousand years, it is the best-preserved pharaonic tomb found in the Valley of the Kings.

Source: 16th Day of February – Fatcowco