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Yves here. The lack of any serious, concerted action to combat Covid transmission in schools is another example of how America has become a “can’t do” society. Evidence is mounting that teachers and other school employees are correct in seeing health risk in continuing to show up at work:
Wonder why I talk about the role of children in the pandemic a lot? It’s because the message isn’t getting through.
In November, a prominent Canadian politician said, “children are not transmitters of COVID.”
That is wrong and frankly horrifying to hear.pic.twitter.com/bhoiWxWpzC
Confusing to you and me @c drosten! I can’t work out the denial about transmission in children. The only explanation is ideological. We expected children to transmit covid just like they do other viruses. The science provided no surprises. Yes, they do! so we need to act on it. pic.twitter.com/gzwTxonGDk
32 Nonprofit Leaders Who Will Impact the World in 2021
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According to Guidestar there are approximately 1.8 million recognized 501(c)3 organizations based in the United States. The Stanford Social Innovation Review notes these organizations account for 5-10 percent of the United States’ economy and about 10 percent of U.S. employment.
Since 1998, annual revenues from nonprofit organizations in the U.S. has been rising nearly every year. Statista shows a steady increase in annual revenues from $1.04 trillion in 1998 to $2.62 trillion in 2016.
Nonprofit organizations are a crucial part to not only the U.S. economy, but also to our global economy. It’s inspiring to see so many talented and dedicated leaders leap into the nonprofit sector to enhance giving into the modern era.
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Jennifer Lodge, PhD, the vice chancellor for research at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named the inaugural David T. Blasingame Professor.
Jennifer K. Lodge, PhD, the vice chancellor for research at Washington University in St. Louis and a leading expert in fungus that can cause a potentially fatal brain infection, has been named the inaugural David T. Blasingame Professor. She also serves as the senior associate dean for research and a professor of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine.
The new professorship, funded by Washington University, was created to honor the extraordinary contributions of David T. Blasingame, who led the university’s Alumni & Development Office for 28 years until his retirement in 2018.
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Cattle herders in South Sudan are part of a dairying tradition that stretches back at least 6000 years, according to a new study. Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis/Getty Images
Humans were drinking milk before they could digest it
Jan. 27, 2021 , 5:00 AM
Our history with milk presents a chicken-or-egg conundrum: Humans couldn’t digest the beverage before they evolved mutations that helped them do so, yet they had to already be consuming milk to change their DNA. “There’s always been the question of which came first,” says University of Pennsylvania geneticist Sarah Tishkoff. “The cultural practice or the mutation.”