India election results 2024 live: Vote count shows Narendra Modi’s alliance winning surprisingly narrow majority

Source: India election results 2024 live: Vote count shows Narendra Modi’s alliance winning surprisingly narrow majority

Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox coalition partners back Gaza hostage deal | Reuters

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s biggest coalition partner said on Tuesday it would support a prospective deal to free hostages from Hamas captivity even if it entails an overhaul of Israel’s Gaza war strategy.
The statement by Shas, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish party that holds 11 of parliament’s 120 seats, followed similar remarks on Monday by Yitzhak Goldknopf, leader of the second such party in the coalition, United Torah Judaism, which has seven seats.

Source: Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox coalition partners back Gaza hostage deal | Reuters

N95 respirator gets top billing in stopping SARS-CoV-2 viral leakage into the air | CIDRAP

Staff photo by Mary Van Beusekom

Researchers who compared the ability of cloth and surgical masks and KN95 and N95 respirators to impede SARS-CoV-2 leakage into the environment show that the “duckbill” N95 won handily, stopping 98% of the virus that causes COVID-19.

A University of Maryland (UMD) research team, which published the findings last week in eBioMedicine, collected breath samples from volunteers with community-acquired COVID-19 infections starting in May 2020. 

The highly transmissible nature of rapidly emerging Omicron variants in the setting of high rates of vaccination and prior infection underscores the critical role of non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as wearing face masks, to reduce inhalation (airborne) transmission of the virus by reducing the amount of virus in the air,” the study authors wrote.

Source: N95 respirator gets top billing in stopping SARS-CoV-2 viral leakage into the air | CIDRAP

Hidden Desires – Kaushal Kishore

 

Desires held close, within their bounds,

Whisper softly, scarcely making sounds…

But should they breach that fragile line,

Their whispers turn to cries with time…

.

From secret wants, so small, discreet,

To public woes that loudly beat…

They leap from heart to courtroom’s street,

From personal to legal defeat…

.

Contained, they’re but a private dream,

Unleashed, they find a harsher scheme…

Once they burst past modest seams,

They lose the grace of what they seem…

.

So guard them well, those dreams inside,

For once unchained, they cannot hide…

From personal realms they swiftly glide,

To face the world’s unyielding tide…

.

–Kaushal Kishore  

Source: Hidden Desires – Kaushal Kishore

Anthony Fauci says Marjorie Taylor Greene drove death threats against him | Anthony Fauci | The Guardian

After Anthony Fauci appeared at a contentious US House hearing on Monday, the former top public health official who led the nation’s response to Covid-19 singled out the far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Fox News as drivers of the “credible death threats” that he described to lawmakers.

“Whether it’s … news media – you know Fox News does it a lot – or it’s somebody in the Congress who gets up and makes a public statement that … the deaths of X number of people [were] because of policies or some crazy idea that I created, immediately, it’s like clockwork: the death threats go way up,” Fauci said in an interview with CNN.

The ex-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases then alluded to how Georgia’s conspiracy theorist Republican congresswoman assailed him during his testimony on Monday, telling the CNN host Kaitlan Collins: “When you have performances like that unusual performance by Marjorie Taylor Greene in today’s hearing, those are the kinds of things that drive up the death threats because there are a segment of the population out there that believe that kind of nonsense.”

Source: Anthony Fauci says Marjorie Taylor Greene drove death threats against him | Anthony Fauci | The Guardian

Hiltzik: House Republicans attack Fauci, but fail to land a punch – Los Angeles Times

Here’s what we know about Dr. Anthony S. Fauci: As a staff member at the National Institutes of Health for 54 years and director of its National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 38 years, Fauci was a key figure in the development of therapies for HIV and ensuring that funding was available for the search for a cure.

Under his leadership, NIAID invested billions of dollars in research that resulted in the development of mRNA technology, which in turn resulted in the development of COVID-19 vaccines in record time, saving millions of lives.

Under Fauci, NIAID also sponsored research into treatments for pandemic flu and the Ebola and Zika viruses. When COVID struck, he was tapped as a top advisor to then-President Trump — one of seven presidents he has advised during his career, from Reagan through Biden…

…The subcommittee Republicans tried hard to contradict the notion that the lab leak hypothesis is a “conspiracy theory.” Fauci played along, up to a point. He acknowledged that speculation about a lab leak is not in itself a conspiracy theory, but that doesn’t go for the elaborations that many of its adherents have made of it.

“What is a conspiracy theory is the kind of distortions of that particular subject, like, it was a lab leak and I was parachuted into the CIA like Jason Bourne and told the CIA that they should really not be talking about a lab leak,” he said. “That’s a conspiracy.” He was referring to a ludicrous accusation published in September, with great fanfare but no factual support whatsoever, by none other than Wenstrup

Source: Hiltzik: House Republicans attack Fauci, but fail to land a punch – Los Angeles Times

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