March 20, 2020 is the day life changed dramatically in Napa County and, with the one-year anniversary fast approaching, things are still out of whack.
Thatâs when a Napa County order issued two days earlier kicked in and required people to stay home unless engaged in an âessential activity,â such as buying food. Thatâs when the COVID-19 pandemic hit home with force and fear.
Optimistically, the shelter-at-home order was supposed to expire April 8, 2020. Instead, the county put in place modified restrictions that mirror state regulations.
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Anxiety among some Key Largo residents over the pending release of hundreds of millions of genetically modified mosquitoes next month in undisclosed locations throughout the Florida Keys has prompted U.S. Congressman Carlos Gimenez to seek answers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District and Oxitec, a British-based biotech company, plan to release genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in selected neighborhoods between Mile Marker 10 and Mile Marker 93 as a way to control the wild population of the disease-carrying pest. This is the first experiment of its kind in the United States.
Oxitec has conducted similar releases in the Caribbean and South America, and the company contends that it is safe and effective.
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