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Some healthcare workers have reported falling ill with COVID-19 after getting their first vaccine dose but that s not a surprise, as protection can take as long as 2 weeks to kick in, researchers said.
A nurse from California made headlines last week after getting sick 6 days after he received his first shot. Since then, other healthcare workers have shared similar experiences on social media.
Trauma surgeon Qaali Hussein, MD, for example, developed COVID-19 12 days after her first COVID-19 injection. I m 12 days post 1st dose of the vaccine so I do not have full protection yet, Hussein wrote on Twitter, stating that she should have at least some protection from severe illness. I think we definitely need to ramp up vaccinations and would highly recommend getting vaccinated as soon as you are able to.
Democrats have won control of the Senate, thanks to two tight Tuesday runoff races in Georgia.
With the Senate question largely resolved, President-elect Joe Biden can now start to focus on policy, including his ambitious agenda to deal with climate change, which calls for an aggressive shift to clean energy, carbon neutrality by the middle of the century, and massive federal investment to drive these changes. Contrast that with President Donald Trump, who put forth no plan to deal with climate change and actively undermined existing policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Biden is also likely to undo most, if not all, of Trump’s environmental rollbacks with his executive powers. Trump has repealed or weakened 125 environmental regulations, like protections for endangered species and environmental risk assessments for infrastructure. Trump has also opened protected wilderness for fossil fuel development and logging.
For every pilot who has gotten you from A to B, there is a missed birthday, a missed wedding and precious time missed with family.
Despite this being the path they chose, Captain George Kailis says “it’s a function of the job.”
“We spend a lot of time away from our home…there’s a lot of sacrifices to be made. Being in the bush I wasn’t around any of my friends or family and I didn’t have enough money to fly back every six months. Sometimes I wouldn’t see my family for 12 months.”
The pilot life is not all doom and gloom, but the road to becoming a captain takes more than just a few solo flights and simulator sessions.
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As a little girl, I was often reminded that my family name represents something special, that I carry with me something much bigger than myself.
Growing up in America, the walls of my childhood home were hung with black-and-white photographs of my late grandfather in the company of kings, queens, ministers, and other prestigious people. His stories were a constant topic of conversation at the dinner table, and towers of his books were always stacked in our home office.
Ahmad Ali Kohzad was a leading Afghan historian and archeologist. He was a prominent and esteemed scholar and cultural figure who was the first person to uncover Afghanistan s pre-Islamic history.
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The coronavirus pandemic led to more than 1.7 million deaths and 79 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 the disease caused by the virus and international students around the world largely escaped health affects but were disrupted in their studies.
Higher education in the United States also was roiled by a huge admissions scandal and immigration restrictions, which punctuated a chaotic and anxiety-ridden year.
The issues:
College admissions scandal
Nearly three dozen parents, including Full House actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, were sentenced in a high-profile college admissions scandal that revealed wealthy parents buying their children s way into college.