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Wildfire smoke is sending more people to the hospital with heart attacks
Tribune via AOL· 3 days agoMore patients show up at Midwest emergency rooms with heart attacks when Canadian wildfire smoke coats the region with dirty air, new federal research showed. Epidemiologists with the Centers ...
Iowa sees impaired air quality from wildfires. Where is it the worst in the state?
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 3 days agoPoor air quality can cause and worsen lung diseases, according to the CDC. Immediate effects include coughing, wheezing, runny nose, headaches, stringing eyes and chest pain ...
I cannot fathom the NC legislature’s blatant discrimination against public schools
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThis is quite concerning for a soon-to-be octogenarian not on the bill’s exceptions list who has a...
Browntail moth caterpillars may be facing ‘zombie’ apocalypse in Maine
The Lewiston Sun Journal· 3 days agoA browntail moth winter web is covered with small, dead, infected caterpillars from last fall. It...
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The Christian Science Monitor· 2 days agoAs more than 17 million American workers are out of a job, Sharon Goen, a former hospitality worker in Las Vegas, is having the opposite experience. “We’re not making a living wage,” she says of gig workers.
Symptoms, spread and more: What to know about new COVID 'FLiRT' variants
NBC Chicago· 7 days agoThe variants, identified as KP.1.1 and KP.2, collectively make up more than 32% of COVID cases in...
Richard Feldman column: COVID is not gone; proceed with caution
The Herald Bulletin· 2 days agoThere’s an expression, “You may be done with COVID, but COVID isn’t done with you.” The situation...
Social distancing plus vaccines prevented 800,000 | Newswise
Newswise· 3 days agoChanging people’s behavior until a vaccine could be developed prevented roughly 800,000 COVID-19...
Possible measles exposure at UC Davis Medical Center
FOX40 Sacramento· 6 days ago(FOX40.COM) — Sacramento County health officials confirmed Friday morning that a child with measles visited UC Davis Medical Center’s emergency...
There's a new highly transmissible COVID-19 variant. Could FLiRT lead to a summer uptick?
Los Angeles Times· 6 days agoTwo new COVID-19 subvariants, collectively nicknamed FLiRT, are increasingly edging out the winter’s...