Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin will have to overcome two congressional hurdles in his path to the Pentagon a waiver, then confirmation during which he’s likely to face questions from lawmakers regarding the Middle East, China and Defense Department spending.
The Most Popular Mask May Also Be the Least Effective, Study Finds
By Lauren Gray of Best Life |
The Most Popular Mask May Also Be the Least Effective, Study Finds
With thousands of brands, styles, materials, and modifications to select from, it s hard to know which particular masks do the best job of preventing droplets from spreading. That s exactly why a group of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill decided to put a range of masks to the test. For a study published by the journal
JAMA Internal Medicine in December, they set out to find the most and least effective masks, and found that one of the most popular and prevalent styles is ranked at the bottom of the list for efficacy. Read on to find out how your mask ranks, and for more on dangerous mask designs, check out This Type of Face Mask Isn t Protecting You From COVID, WHO Warns.
Black Woman, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, Developed the Scientific Approach to the Coronavirus Vaccine
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Published December 24, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading infectious disease doctor and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, addressed the African American community’s fears of accepting the new coronavirus vaccine.
“To my African American brothers and sisters … this vaccine that you’re gonna be taking was developed by an African American woman. And that is just a fact,” Dr. Fauci proclaimed during a recent National Urban League event.
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Dr. Fauci noted that Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, a Black woman, has been at the forefront of the vaccine process.
Intensive care units in the Hickory region could reach capacity in a week if COVID-19 hospitalizations remain on the current trend, a report published Dec. 22 predicts.
‘I’ll slit your throat’: Maryland man charged with threatening congressman Dan Morse A Maryland man who allegedly told a congressman he should be “tortured and skinned alive” was arrested Wednesday on charges of threatening a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, according to federal officials. Sidhartha Kumar Mathur, 34, of West Friendship, is accused of delivering the threats over voice mail and in a “webmail” message typed into the congressman’s website. In the voice mail, he appears to have left behind his actual phone number, a federal criminal complaint said. And the webmail was sent in a way that allowed investigators to track an IP address to Mathur’s address, court records state.