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WHYY By A woman walks in the snow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Friday, March 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) During extremely cold weather — when temperatures feel near or below 20 degrees Fahrenheit — Philadelphia officials will declare a Code Blue. What does that mean for Philly residents? During a Code Blue event, the city implements special measures to keep people who are experiencing homelessness safe. Those measures include 24-hour outreach to find unhoused people and transport them to safe indoor spaces and opening all available beds within the city’s emerge...

Patients and staff are being offered testing for the virus. A spokesperson for NHS Tayside said, “NHS Tayside’s Infection Prevention and Control Team is investigating a small number of cases of Covid-19 in connection to ward 10 at Ninewells Hospital. “All appropriate infection prevention and control measures have been put in place. “Patients in the ward are being clinically assessed and monitored and offered testing where this is appropriate. “As a precaution, staff are also being offered testing. “Close contacts have been identified and given appropriate advice and support.” Su...

On January 5, Beijing announced its new extended quarantine period of 21 days, and Shenzhen has followed suit.  A notice issued by the Guangdong Provincial Epidemic Prevention and Control Team states that the ‘14+7’ quarantine policy will now be in effect.  All overseas arrivals entering Shenzhen will be put into community management for seven days after being quarantined for 14 days and will be tested for COVID-19 a total of four times.  A nucleic acid test will be performed on the first, seventh, 14th and 21st day after entry.  For those entering from countries and regions where ne...

Sonas has claimed it took over two weeks for testing to occur after the first resident with symptoms was identified. The nursing home group claims chief inspector of social services Mary Dunnion failed to take this delay into account in making her findings. It also claims the failure of a HSE Outbreak Control Team to offer staffing support, when so many workers were out with the virus, was not taken into account in the report. The group, which operates 11 nursing homes and four retirement villages around the country, fears the publication of the report would cause “grave reputational damage...

NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 11 December, 2020 Status Report - Source: SpaceRef NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 11 December, 2020. Today: Payloads - JAXA Low Temp PCG: The crew retrieved the Low Temp PCG Sample from cold stowage and initiated protein crystal growth with historical documentation of the sample condition. The PCG Sample was re-inserted back into cold stowage. The objective of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Low Temperature Protein Crystallization Growth (JAXA Low Temp PCG) investigation is to grow high quality protein crystals in microgravity. The c...