With virus surging, LA County implores people to get shots
STEFANIE DAZIO and DAMIAN DOVARGANES, Associated Press
July 22, 2021
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1of20Adrian Luna, owner of the Taqueria El Sol buffet in Los Angeles Boyle Heights neighborhood, stands in the buffet area of his restaurant in Los Angeles, Thursday, July 22, 2021. Luna requires all his customers to wear face masks.Damian Dovarganes/APShow MoreShow Less
2of20FILE - In this Wednesday, May 26, 2021 file photo, visitors wear masks as they view art, including Vincent van Gogh s Irises , at left, at the newly re-opened Getty Center amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles. Los Angeles County residents are again required to wear masks indoors regardless of their vaccination status, a new mandate starting this weekend that health officials hope will reverse the latest spikes in coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths. The rule went into effect late Saturday, July 17, for the nation s largest cou
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How NZ climate tech could take on the world
Along with a proliferation of ‘xtechs’ (as in fintech, agritech, etc.) are the reports about them and the agencies involved to cater to them. You can rely on Computerworld New Zealand to read pretty much every tech-related report publicly released in New Zealand every single one of them and so we come to this week’s feature xtech: ‘cleantech’, also known as ‘climate tech’ and ‘environmental technology’. Callaghan Innovation’s report “New Zealand Climate Tech for the World” delves into this emerging area of specialty tech innovations.
Jul 23, 2021
As a deadly heat wave scorched the Pacific Northwest last month, overwhelming hospital emergency rooms in a region unaccustomed to triple-digit temperatures, doctors resorted to a grim but practical tool to save lives: human body bags filled with ice and water.
Officials at hospitals in Seattle and Renton, Washington, said that as more people arrived experiencing potentially fatal heatstroke, and with cooling catheters and even ice packs in short supply, they used the novel treatment to quickly immerse and cool several elderly people.
Zipping heatstroke patients into ice-filled body bags worked so well it could become a go-to treatment in a world increasingly altered by climate change, said Dr. Alex St. John, an emergency physician at UW Medicine’s Harborview Medical Center.