The Chimeric Beast Overrunning Texas and Spreading Disease yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Black and Latinx people in the United States have died at higher rates, and new data shows that they are getting vaccinated at much lower rates than white people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports more than 60% of those vaccinated were white, while just 11.5% were Latinx, 6% were Asian, and just over 5% were Black. The CDC data is based on details gathered during the first month of the U.S. vaccination campaign that saw nearly 13 million Americans get a shot, though race and ethnicity was only known for about half of the recipients. Black and Latinx people continue to face a disproportionate risk for COVID-19 in their jobs as essential workers and are more likely to have preexisting conditions. “What we’re seeing illustrated is about 150 years of medical neglect,” says Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Cultu
The SpaceX site in Texas will be supplied by at least five nearby gas wells, along with two gas-fired power plants, according to an FAA document.
(Bloomberg) Elon Musk became the richest man in the world thanks to enthusiasm for Tesla Inc.’s sleek electric cars and the company’s stratospheric stock price. But while Musk is perhaps the most well known clean energy CEO, SpaceX, his other company, is likely to rely on drilling for natural gas to power Starship, the new spacecraft and rocket designed to carry humans to the moon, Mars and beyond.
Musk’s SpaceX aims to use a site in South Texas to launch rockets to carry people and cargo to the moon and Mars. To do that, the company intends to drill gas wells to make its own fuel and electricity, according a Federal Aviation Administration document seen by Bloomberg.
TANF Improvements Needed to Help Parents Find Better Work and Benefit From an Equitable Recovery cbpp.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbpp.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.