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With the death toll still rising in Maui ahead of President Biden’s visit to the island, over 1,000 wildfires are burning in Canada and the US Northwest, resulting in mass evacuations and deaths.

Today's Water Cooler

Scientists, healthcare professionals, and advocates speak against Joe Biden’s declaration on the COVID national emergency.

Throughout multiple waves of the pandemic and a profusion of virus variants, 100,000 elastomeric respirators have lain dormant in a warehouse as infections and deaths mount.

No evidence titanium dioxide in face masks is dangerous to wearers

This report was given by Evan Blake to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled “The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism”

A careful examination of CDC's data collection on monkeypox transmission.

According to the CDC, tens or hundreds of thousands of cases and hundreds or thousands of deaths each day from COVID-19 will be “here to stay.”

In a “fact check” article published by Reuters, the news outlet claims that social media posts exposing unexplained changes made in late May to the CDC’s guidelines on monkeypox, are “missing the context” of the changes.