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When the California Department of Public Health last month lifted mask mandates in health care settings, it didn't even cross my mind as a physician and CEO of Roots Community Health Center to drop masks in clinics I oversee in the East Bay and San Jose.Dr. Noha Aboelata, founder and CEO of the Roots Community Health Center, speaks during a 2021 news conference.

Here, from the Washington Post, is the money shot of the latest update on the climate crisis, this one concerning how warm the oceans are getting, which has led researchers to believe we are entering an El Nino climate pattern, which leads to all of the following, ending in "the plague": Strong El Ninos can also trigger ecological disasters and deadly weather extremes: drought and wildfires that cause rainforest loss, ocean warming that kills aquatic life and bleaches corals, rapid loss of polar ice, and a surge in transmission of diseases such as the plague.

A Seattle medical center is reporting 31 confirmed cases of a bacterial infection since October, according a news release from the Virginia Mason Medical Center.The most recent confirmed case was identified on April 3. Beginning in October 2022, Virginia Mason Medical Center detected an increase in cases of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria at our downtown campus, Sydney Bersante, Virginia Mason Medical Center's interim president said in the statement.

The West African country of Equatorial Guinea declared an outbreak of the Marburg virus disease in mid-February.There have been at least nine laboratory-confirmed cases, seven of which resulted in death, and 20 probable cases of dead individuals in this outbreak, according to the World Health Organization.

With COVID-19 cases declining statewide, Advocate Health Care is shifting to optional masking policies and lifting visitor restrictions at all of its Illinois facilities beginning Monday.The new policy, announced Friday, will apply to patients, visitors and staff at Advocate Health's 10 hospitals and 250 care sites in the Chicago area.

LVIV, Ukraine Nearly two weeks after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southeastern Ukraine, the floodwaters are receding, but local officials are grappling with a new concern: the potential for outbreaks from waterborne disease.On Saturday, local officials in Kherson and Mykolaiv, the two regions most affected by the flooding on the Dnipro River unleashed when the dam collapsed, outlined plans to ensure safe drinking water.

Health officials are extending vaccinations for mpox in London after recording a fresh spike in cases in the capital in recent weeks, mostly among unvaccinated people.The national mpox outbreak vaccination programme run by the UK Health Security Agency is due to close at the end of July, but shots will be made available in the capital beyond this date after the detection of 11 new cases, officials said.

As the smoke from hundreds of out-of-control wildfires dances and lingers above hundreds of North American communities, experts warn about the risks to human health from toxic particles those clouds carry.And because no home is perfectly sealed, air quality indoors can still be affected."On average, whatever the air pollution level outside is inside is probably about half that," explains Dan Westervelt, associate research professor at Columbia University's Climate School.

Image President George W. Bush with Bono, the lead singer of U2, in 2006.Bono was among the activists who lobbied Mr. Bush for antiretroviral medications people in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean.Credit...Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse Getty Images Here is something I don't write about very often: a situation in which unpredictable, seemingly irrational politics saved millions of the poorest and most vulnerable people on earth.

The Government has said new HIV transmissions could be eradicated in England by 2030 thanks to increased testing.The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said new transmissions of the virus fell by almost a third between 2019 and 2021.Statistics published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) in December 2022 estimated that 4,400 people were living with undiagnosed HIV in England in 2021, down from 5,600 in 2019.

M onkeypox vaccinations in London will be extended following a spike in cases, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has announced.The nationwide vaccination programme against monkeypox was due to close at the end of the July.After 11 new cases were recorded in the capital over the last few weeks, the programme will now run beyond July in order to keep the spread of the virus down.

T en cases of monkeypox have been diagnosed in London in the last month, prompting officials to urge at-risk groups to get vaccinated.A further ten cases of monkeypox have been diagnosed in the UK since May 4, all in London, bringing the total of new cases since the beginning of the year to 20.Half of the new cases were in unvaccinated individuals and two in those who had only received one dose, said the UK Health Security Agency.

COVID Boston's controversial policy will end on May 11, coinciding with the expiration of federal and state public health emergencies.Boston will lift its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all city workers on May 11, the same day federal and state public health emergencies are set to expire."The public health landscape has changed considerably" since Mayor Michelle Wu's administration implemented the policy in December 2021, Chief People Officer Alex Lawrence wrote in an email to department heads Wednesday.

This artist depiction shows Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, right, appearing in U.S. District Court in Boston, April 14, 2023.Teixeira has been indicted on federal felony charges.The Justice Department says Teixeira faces six counts in the indictment of willful retention and transmission of national defense information.

A space solar power prototype has demonstrated its ability to wirelessly beam power through space and direct a detectable amount of energy toward Earth for the first time.The experiment proves the viability of tapping into a near-limitless supply of power in the form of energy from the sun from space.

"If it is necessary that the acts of program transmission in question be completed entirely within the territory of Japan, even formally, such a person who attempts to practice a patented invention without authorization could easily escape liability for patent infringement....It would be extremely unjust to allow such an underhanded act in today's digital society."

Ever worry about shadowy forces tapping into your phone calls and listening in on your private conversations?Well, astronomers have some good news for you: It won't be aliens with their ears (or whatever auditory sensory organs they evolved) to the speaker getting into your business.At least, not yet.

Newly released memos revealing that Air Force leadership repeatedly warned Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira about inappropriately accessing classified intelligence have left former and current defense personnel baffled at how he retained his security clearance and was able to continue sharing classified information for months.

The government's chief scientist warned a former incumbent not to confuse the public during the Covid pandemic by naming an independent expert panel after the group convened to advise ministers on the crisis.Sir Patrick Vallance revealed the clash in an interview at the Institute for Government on Friday, where he also said he would have told the former prime minister Boris Johnson that the Covid rules were meant to be followed by all.

If Microsoft's Rare studio and Disney's Lucasfilm Games (formerly LucasArts) want to make a Monkey Island crossover DLC for Sea of Thieves, they do not, in fact, have to ask the original game's creator, Ron Gilbert.In a Mastodon thread responding to a fan's question on Sunday, Gilbert wrote that, "nope," he wasn't involved with Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island, an expansion to Rare Limited's multiplayer open-world pirate game themed around the iconic Monkey Island point-and-click adventure series.

Honda has a new version of its bestselling CR-V, the sixth to bear the name.Like many waistlines following the pandemic, it's slightly larger than the old CR-V.But don't let size matter-the $32,950 Sport version (or the $34,450 Sport AWD) features a hybrid powertrain capable of up to 40 mpg (5.9 L/100 km), and relative to the competition, it's even capable of being an engaging drive.

Government experts have based the UK's badger cull on a confused and flawed interpretation of the science, a damning report sent to MPs has concluded.Calling for an immediate rethink of the policy, the study claims officials adopted an ineffective and misguided approach to tackling tuberculosis in dairy cows, leading to a policy that is a self-perpetuating failure.

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau.Sign up to get it by email.When it was first announced in 2017 that Australia's oldest power station, Liddell, would close, the news set off a political firestorm.On the heels of the abrupt closure of another coal plant which caused energy prices to spike, the announcement sparked fears that shuttering Liddell, which opened in 1971 and accounted for 10 percent of New South Wales' energy, would have a similar effect.

Soon, you'll be able to plug in your Lamborghini.Closing out a half century of purely gasoline-powered V12 cars going back to the brand's earliest models, Luxury Italian sports car designer Lamborghini has unveiled its first supercar with a charging port.The Lamborghini Revuelto is a plug-in hybrid and, while it still has a V12 gasoline engine, it also has three electric motors.

A deadly, drug-resistant fungus emerging in the US gained ground faster and picked up yet more drug resistance amid the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday.The yeast Candida auris has been considered an "urgent threat"-the CDC's highest level of concern-since it was first reported in the US in 2016.

Joseph Hoyt and his team first showed up to the abandoned mineshaft in Wisconsin during the late summer of 2017, personal protective equipment in hand.Long before Covid-19, the supplies were to protect them from the chlorine dioxide gas they had brought along.Their aim was to use the disinfectant gas to kill the Pseudogymnoascus destructans fungus lining the walls of the mineshaft, which had already killed millions of bats across North America.

The U.S. is moving to ease restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men and other groups that traditionally face higher risks of HIV.Here, tubes direct blood from a donor into a bag in Davenport, Iowa, on Friday, Nov. 11, 2022.Charlie Neibergall/AP The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Thursday it had officially eliminated restrictions that had previously prohibited many blood donations by gay and bisexual men a longstanding policy that critics say is discriminatory.

It is, in fact, possible to download a car.Sterling Backus, enthusiastic father and physicist, literally downloaded and 3D printed an entire Lamborghini Aventador.Sterling started by first downloading a 1:10 scale model of the Aventador, scaling it up, separating the parts, and even adding a few signature modifications of his own, like making the car's body wider.

Waves crash.Tree branches vibrate.Mosquitoes hum.These phenomena take place every day but not everyone necessarily hears them.Indeed, some sounds happen in places that are hard for humans to access or below the level of what we can perceive.But more and more, scientists are listening in.From a root system up to 90 feet underground, to balloons floating 70,000 feet above earth, a series of recent audible insights are being showcased this week by experts gathering at the annual Acoustical Society of America conference.

Every new parent imagines watching their precious baby sleeping soundly in a beautiful nursery, but rarely do they realize how stressful it can be to actually leave your baby alone while you go into another room (or outside!)With all of the scary scenarios playing in parents' heads, it can be hard to choose which baby monitor will help you keep an eye on your little bundle of joy while also ensuring that they stay safe on their own.

The latest book from Charlotte and Peter Fiell showcases 100 of the most collectable motorcycles of all time.The pair have chosen their top seven, which includes a pioneering monocoque by designer John Britten.Published by Taschen, Ultimate Collector Motorcycles is a double-volume anthology featuring many of the most valuable bikes in existence today, from cherished race winners to pioneering record-breakers.

A federal appeals court on Monday temporarily blocked a lower court decision that overturned the Affordable Care Act's requirement that all health plans fully cover certain preventive health services.The move by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans will put on hold a decision from March that had threatened insurance coverage for recommended services like depression screenings for teenagers and drugs that prevent transmission of H.I.V.

A federal appeals court on Monday temporarily blocked a lower court decision that overturned the Affordable Care Act's requirement that all health plans fully cover certain preventive health services.The move by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans will put on hold a decision from March that had threatened insurance coverage for recommended services like depression screenings for teenagers and drugs that prevent transmission of H.I.V.

The World Health Organization has declared that mpox no longer constitutes a global health emergency.More than 87,000 cases were recorded in the past year, resulting in 140 deaths.Almost exactly a year after declaring the spread of mpox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially lifted its warning following a steep fall in the number of cases.

Recent cases of Marburg disease have also been reported in Cameroon and Tanzania, according to the WHO.Eight new confirmed cases of the Marburg disease have been reported in Equatorial Guinea, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.This brings the total of laboratory-confirmed cases to nine and probable cases to 20 since the outbreak of the disease a deadly one similar to Ebola was declared in February.