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MINNEAPOLIS/ST.PAUL (04/26/2021) A new study by five doctoral students in neuroscience at the University of Minnesota Medical School calls attention to a lack of regulation and unknown long-term health effects of tear gas. Based on their research, the group recommends changing the protocols around the use of tear gas as a crowd control measure at both the local and national level. Following the murder of George Floyd and the protests in our city, we felt compelled to dig into the police force used during those protests. We are trained to look at data and draw conclusions, said Jennifer Brown, a graduate student in the U of M Medical School s Graduate Program in Neuroscience and lead author of the study. Investigating the use of tear gas on crowds was something we felt we could contribute to this social justice movement.
PolitiFact s ruling: Half True
Here s why: In a viral video clip, a suburban Atlanta mother who implored her local school board to stop mandating masks for children claimed that kids ages 5 to 9 are not affected by the coronavirus.
Children have been less likely than adults to contract COVID-19, and it’s rare for them to become seriously ill with the virus but to say they are not affected goes too far.
More than 3.6 million children in the United States have tested positive, and at least 297 have died, according to the latest report from American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. One reason schools require masks is to try to prevent kids from giving the virus to other people, which can happen even if kids become infected but don’t show symptoms.
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Her family searched frantically for medical care, but hospitals were deluged and oxygen tanks were selling for $660 on the black market $260 more than what Khan’s husband earns in a month.
The family pooled resources to buy a tank, and then made a desperate decision. They were planning to travel nearly 700 miles to a private hospital where a friend works in hopes that Khan would be able to receive treatment there.
“I’ve never seen a humanitarian crisis of this proportion in India,” said Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, who is in Mumbai. “It’s just horrible.