As the weather gets warmer and more Pennsylvanians venture outside, state officials are encouraging them to protect themselves against potentially serious tick-borne diseases.
well and expecting confirmation later today that 2021 was the most expensive and deadliest year when it came to unnatural disasters. 2020 was over $100 billion. 2021 will probably eclipse that, and if you just add it up over the course of a decade, that s $1 trillion for the u.s. in climate related disaster costs, which is twice as much as joe biden s build back better plan. that is interesting. bill, i have to say 17% burning more coal than last year for the first time since 201, i didn t know that. that tells you something. thanks, bill. you bet. l.a. public schools identifying 50,000 positive covid cases through its testing program in the past week alone. 50,000? the latest on where things stand with the omicron surge. spoiler alert, player 001 in s squid game did i say that right, i m afraid to watch it,
based on three months prediction of when it would take to roll out the 500 million pests on items, we need to billion a month to duke universal testing they called for the you can t have it both ways, you can have limited scarce supply and universal testing guidance, otherwise you create a black market which we are seeing, price gouging, magnifying inequities among poor people in the u.s. and the public is getting frustrated so we need guidance on selective testing program that says just test these particular situations, if you are around somewhere vulnerable, change your behavior. paul: if you re a symptomatically, you are saying you shouldn t test, weight until you have symptoms that could be covid or if you are going to see a loved one or your grandmother or somebody who is immunocompromised or at risk? yes. we have test everywhere then maybe it would make sense to
are seeing in chicago and what you are seeing play out across school district and across the country. eddie, i am sorry to hear that you were exposed and got covid and your symptoms were not just mild. i also had breakthrough case. my symptoms were like a bad cold, and i was able to recover from them because i was vaccinated, and, of course, now i am boosted. but here s the thing. andly continue to say this, eddie. it s got to be that layered mitigation. we cannot pick and choose. so we have to have the vaccinations. we have to mask, and we have to do the teing. and we know that in chicago and in other places, too, they were not able to get the adequate testing or the testing program that they had promised they would put in place was not in place. we ve got to have all those mitigation strategies in place, and then we have to collaborate, communicate, and the last thing i want to say, this is so
high-ventilated areas. but we have seen a few problems. some of the lines to get tests are quite long with some students waiting hours before being cleared. and that system of uploading results saw lags, as well. at this point, the district says they re working on a lot of those snags, but overall, feel very confident about being able to keep their classrooms open with such a large testing program. meanwhile, there was a shocking story out of new mexico. a young mother accused of throwing her baby in a garbage dumpster. luck we, fortunately, that baby survived. reporter: yeah, jose, this one is heartbreaking. luckily, the baby boy is alive and in stable condition after being left in that dumpster for around six hours in hobbs, new mexico. we re told that he was found by good samaritans who were looking for recyclables when they heard the baby s crisis. now police say they arrested that mom. they say that she said she didn t know that she was pregnant until the day before she delive