Biden moves on combating long COVID | CIDRAP

Yesterday President Joe Biden issued a presidential memorandum directing the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a national action plan on long COVID.

The move signals an effort to study and fund research for the 7 million to 23 million Americans who suffer from COVID-19 symptoms for months and years after initial infection. Some estimates suggest as many as 1 in 3 people with COVID-19 will develop symptoms that last longer than 4 weeks, with some resulting in significant disability.

 

Source: Biden moves on combating long COVID | CIDRAP

Energy costs: 400,000 disabled people lose access to vital free help | openDemocracy (Me: Boris does not like disabled people…?)

400,000 disabled people across England have been stripped of the right to free insulation that could bring down their heating bills, in a move quietly slipped out by the government on Friday.

Disability equality charity Scope today slammed the cut as “bitterly disappointing” and showing “total disregard” for the needs of disabled people, who they warn are the “hardest hit” by fuel poverty and face “sky high” energy bills.

Under the new version of the government’s flagship energy efficiency scheme – the ‘Energy Company Obligation’ (ECO) – access to help is being cut from nearly half of all disabled people as their income is judged to be too high, documents released on Friday revealed.

 

Source: Energy costs: 400,000 disabled people lose access to vital free help | openDemocracy

Verde-n față

ore de drum

Londra, 2015

Când se tăia câte un dud pe strada noastră, eram necăjită zile-n șir. Apucasem să mă împrietenesc cu toți, unii îmi ofereau umbră, alții fructele lor albe, rozulii sau negre, pe care nu m-am săturat niciodată să le adun de prin țărână. Pe alte străzi mai erau și alți copaci, tei, castani, arțari și paltini, și merg adeseori să-i revăd ca pe niște prieteni dintotdeauna.

La câțiva ani după ce am vizitat Kew Gardens, am citit Overstory (L’Arbre-monde în traducere franceză) de Richard Powers și mi-am dat seama că văzusem în grădina londoneză aproape toate speciile imaginate ca personaje ale cărții, printre care și prietenii mei din copilărie.

În jurul acestor copaci se agită o lume diversă, fărâmițată de tot felul de constrângeri și prejudecăți, care se înverșunează să-i apere cu orice preț.

Sfidarea vine din partea Patriciei, cercetătoarea care susține că arborii au capacitatea sa comunice…

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As international negotiations end in Jamaica, the threat of deep-sea mining hangs over the world’s oceans · Global Voices

From mid-March to April 1, representatives of Greenpeace International assembled in Kingston, Jamaica to express their concerns about the possibility and potential ill-effects of deep-seabed mining. Along with the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, which calls the looming industry “the most recklessly destructive thing we could do to our planet,” Greenpeace — one of 32 non-governmental organisations observing the 27th Session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) — is calling for a moratorium on such activities.

Additional meetings are carded for later this year, with the goal of putting in place a mining code to allow deep-seabed mining to start in June 2023. Assuming this code is passed and instituted by this date, all of the deep sea, comprising nearly half of the planet, will be open to mining.

 

Source: As international negotiations end in Jamaica, the threat of deep-sea mining hangs over the world’s oceans · Global Voices

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