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Omicron: WHO warns of 'high infection risk' around globe - BBC News - 0 views

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pandemic vaccine policy

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  • The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the Omicron coronavirus variant poses a high risk of infection surges around the globe.
  • The variant could lead to severe consequences in some regions
  • with initial evidence suggesting it has a higher re-infection risk
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  • "Omicron has an unprecedented number of spike mutations
  • working to discover if the new variant is associated with higher transmission, risk of reinfection and how it reacts to vaccines.
  • The new variant has prompted the UK, EU and US to issue a travel ban on Southern African countries
  • Travel into Australia for international students and "skilled workers" holding visas was meant to re-start on Wednesday but has now been delayed until 15 December.
  • But Mr Biden also said he did not anticipate any further US travel restrictions or lockdowns at this time.
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Austria Announces Nationwide Lockdown and Plans Vaccine Mandate - The New York Times - 0 views

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pandemic vaccine policy austria public health

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  • Austria will go into a nationwide lockdown on Monday and impose a coronavirus vaccination mandate in February,
  • the first national vaccine mandate to be announced in a Western democracy.
  • Recent restrictions on unvaccinated people have failed to bring the outbreak sufficiently under control
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  • citing the high number of Austrians who had refused to get a shot and the divisive political climate that supported them.
  • the lead-time of several months was needed to prepare for the mandate, including clarifying the legal situation.
  • will last for at least 10 days and affect both vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
  • A handful of countries in Asia have imposed mandatory vaccinations against coronavirus for their adult populations
  • Current rates of vaccinations, albeit among the highest in the world, have not been enough to prevent a surge of infections as winter sets in and more people remain indoors.
  • Most inoculated people have been protected from hospitalization in intensive-care units and death from the virus.
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Oreos, Sour Patch Kids and other snacks will soon get more expensive : NPR - 0 views

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economics politics covid supply crisis

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  • Supply chain problems are making it harder to get so many products and making them more expensive
  • to increase by 6-7% beginning in the new year.
  • Transportation costs and "industrywide supply chain constraints" are some of the factors responsible for the spike in pricing,
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  • This is due to the cost of commodities, transportation and packaging," it said, adding that labor shortages are also a factor.
  • the company says the demand for snacks has not diminished — the pandemic may have even increased it.
  • "Ongoing uncertainty is fueling the desire for comfort and indulgence which has been a consistent trend throughout COVID,"
  • Mondelez isn't the only company to boost prices in response to increasing costs and other factors.
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Republicans Pounce on Schools as a Wedge Issue to Unite the Party - The New York Times - 0 views

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politics US education schools policy voting elections

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  • “parental rights,”
  • tapping into broader anger at the education system.
  • a highly effective political strategy capitalizing on the frustrations of suburban parents still reeling from the devastating fallout of pandemic-era schooling.
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  • Republicans have moved to galvanize crucial groups of voters around what the party calls “parental rights” issues in public schools, a hodgepodge of conservative causes ranging from eradicating mask mandates to demanding changes to the way children are taught about racism.
  • education rocketed to the top of voter concerns in the final weeks of the race, narrowly edging out the economy.
  • He attacked critical race theory, a graduate school framework that has become a loose shorthand for a contentious debate on how to address race.
  • teachers’ unions, unresponsive school boards, quarantine policies and the instruction parents saw firsthand during months of remote learning.
  • they seemed unprepared to counter the wider outpouring of anger over schools.
  • The trend was most evident in Mr. Youngkin’s improvement over former President Donald J. Trump’s performance in the Washington suburbs, which include a mix of communities with large Asian, Hispanic and Black populations.
  • the strategy was ripe for replicating in races across the country.
  • While the conservative news media and Republican candidates stirred the stew of anxieties and racial resentments that animate the party’s base
  • But the election results suggested that Republicans had spoken about education in ways that resonated with a broader cross-section of voters.
  • Black parents upset over the opposition of teachers’ unions to charter schools; and suburban mothers of all races who were generally on edge about having to juggle so much at home over the last year and a half.
  • exploited similar lines of attack but beat it back by leaning into vaccination and mask mandates in schools.
  • Many of those effects were borne most heavily by key parts of the Democratic base, including women and Black and Latino families.
  • They also need to be prepared to assert the value of public education in terms of a place where there’s a common curriculum and common set of values that most voters agree are the right ones for public schools.
  • “The unwillingness to engage in this was a big mistake, and it will be in 2022, too.”
  • “Critical race theory isn’t being taught, but we need to actually tell people what is being taught and why this is a strategy to prevent our kids from learning about all of our history,”
  • National and state union leaders drew public ire for slowing the reopening of schools even after teachers were given early access to vaccines.
  • But she also chided Democrats for their timidity, warning that tough conversations were needed to rebuild trust between parents and their schools.
  • education in Virginia and nationwide has continued to be disrupted by occasional quarantines and classroom closures to contain the coronavirus.
  • While some parents supported the cautious approach — driven by teachers’ unions, school boards and some administrators — others became frustrated and angry, especially in suburban counties like Fairfax and Arlington.
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Most Republicans say they don't trust elections, an NPR poll finds : NPR - 0 views

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politics voting elections trump biden

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  • A majority of Americans trust that elections are fair, are confident in their state and local governments' ability to administer elections, and will trust the results in 2022 and in 2024 regardless of whether their preferred candidate wins,
  • most Americans feel that former President Donald Trump has continued to say the 2020 election was rigged mostly because he didn't like the outcome.
  • There was a big education gap — between those with college degrees and those without — that emerged in the survey when it came to Republicans and Republican-leaning independents.
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  • And among Democratic voters, there is little confidence in him as the standard-bearer once again in 2024.
  • Forty-four percent said someone else would be better,
  • Overall, 58% said they trust elections in the country either a great deal or a good amount.
  • But while almost 9 in 10 Democrats and 60% of independents said so, just a third of Republicans agreed.
  • There was more trust in state and local governments than the electoral process overall — even though all elections in this country are conducted at the local level.
  • Republicans, though, did seem affected by Trump's messaging, because 60% said they have less confidence that their state and local governments will conduct the elections fairly and accurately since the 2020 presidential election.
  • three-quarters of Republicans said those extra counts happened mostly because there are real cases of fraud in these states.
  • making false claims about the election being rigged mostly because he didn't like his loss.
  • he overwhelming majority of Republicans say they simply don't believe it. It's a lie that Trump continues to push and is amplified by the conservative media echo chamber.
  • About half of those with them say they trust elections, while less than 3 in 10 without degrees said so.
  • But when it came to Trump's claims, those without degrees were 10 points more likely to believe him.
  • Nonwhites were 10 points more likely to say Democrats have a better chance of winning with Biden than without him — but even they were split with 43% saying so and 43% saying someone else would be better.
  • Trump starts in a better position than Biden with his base, but it's still not an overwhelming vote of confidence for a former president with as much sway as he appears to have with GOP elected officials.
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Allegheny County Bar Association recommends voters keep 4 judges | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 0 views

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politics voting judges

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  • a list of four judges that it recommends voters keep on the bench during the municipal elections on Nov. 2.
  • All four judges are at the end of their 10-year term, and voters will decide whether to vote yes or no on their retention.
  • Superior Court Judges John T. Bender and Mary Jane Bowes were both recommended by the ACBA, as were Common Pleas Judges Alexander T. Bicket and Randy Todd.
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  • whose experience working in front of these judges gives them a distinct expertise in evaluating a judge’s performance
  • We’ve surveyed our members, and the attorneys of the Allegheny County Bar Association strongly recommend these four judges for retention. On Nov. 2, we encourage voters to vote ‘yes’ and retain these qualified judges.”
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Democrats Drop Prescription Drug Prices From Spending Bill | Time - 0 views

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economics politics policy government

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  • Democrats had hoped to give the federal government the power to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies over drug prices
  • a promise to deliver lower drug prices this year.
  • Big Pharma employs roughly 1,500 lobbyists on Capitol Hill and spent more than $177 million on lobbying and campaign donations in 2021 alone.
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  • spent $7.44 million on lobbying during the third quarter alone, a nearly 25% increase from the same period last year.
  • But a small cadre of Democratic holdouts appear to be enough to have stopped the proposal in its tracks.
  • Most were among the top recipients of money from the pharmaceutical industry.
  • But it’s also “very good at knowing exactly how many votes they need to kill pieces of legislation, and figuring out a way to get those votes.”
  • Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden also said he was continuing to have conversations on the drug pricing issue
  • It would allow Medicare to negotiate prices—but only for medications used in outpatient services, and only after the drugs’ patents expire.
  • It stands in sharp contrast to the more sweeping plan favored by Sen. Bernie Sanders and other Democrats that would allow the government to negotiate in Medicare Part D, which covers far more drugs.
  • On Thursday, he called the omission of the drug pricing provision in Biden’s framework a “major problem.”
  • He argued that just because the prescription drug pricing provision has been popular among voters doesn’t make it the right policy.
  • If Democrats end up passing any proposal, even a modest one, that gives the government the power to negotiate drug prices, it would mark a historic shift.
  • If Democratic lawmakers end up with no drug pricing proposal in this wide-ranging spending bill, they not only leave millions of Americans struggling to afford their medicines, they also miss the best chance they’ve had in decades.
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Climate Change Became the Largest Part of Biden Spending Bill - The New York Times - 0 views

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crisis policy biden government climate Culture

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  • t’s a framework that will create millions of jobs, grow the economy, invest in our nation and our people, turn the climate crisis into an opportunity, and put us on a path not only to compete, but to win the economic competition for the 21st century against China and every other major country in the world
  • Climate has emerged as the single largest category in President Biden’s new framework for a huge spending bill,
  • bill was pared down from $3.5 trillion to $1.85 trillion,
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  • But $555 billion in climate programs remained.
  • If enacted, it would be the largest action ever taken by the United States to address climate change.
  • Buyers of electric vehicles would also benefit, receiving up to $12,500 in tax credits — depending on what portion of the vehicle parts were made in America.
  • Scientists say that nations must quickly and deeply cut emissions from burning oil, gas and coal to avert the most harrowing impacts of climate change.
  • a program that would have rewarded power companies that moved from fossil fuels to clean energy, and penalized those that did not.
  • One group of moderate House Democrats even suggested that Democrats not worry about offsetting climate spending with tax increases.
  • At the same time, a new generation of climate activists has been advising the president on his agenda, and warning lawmakers that they risk losing young voters if they do not act.
  • “Folks, we all have that obligation, an obligation to our children and to our grandchildren,” Mr. Biden said.
  • Showing up empty-handed would damage the United States’ credibility on the world stage.
  • That measure withered in the Senate after Democrats could not summon enough votes from their own party to bring the bill to the floor for a vote.
  • “Today, we have every major agricultural group, and food companies, and researchers supporting a climate bill.
  • The past two years have only underscored that case: there were 22 climate disasters that cost at least $1 billion each in the United States in 2020, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  • a plan that would have eliminated the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade.
  • As soon as Democrats on Capitol Hill secured a razor-thin majority in early 2020, their leaders began laying the groundwork for a climate plan.
  • Mr. Schumer tasked Democrats on the Senate committees responsible for tax policy to craft climate-related tax legislation that could be bundled into a larger budget bill.
  • they used the software to quickly identify replacement programs that would achieve similar levels of emissions cuts.
  • At the same time, he demanded that the overall bill be slashed, from $3.5 trillion to roughly $1.5 trillion.
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What Happens Next as F.D.A., C.D.C. Weigh Covid Shots for Children - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • voted to recommend authorizing the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children 5 to 11 years old, opening the way to inoculating 28 million children in the United States.
  • More needs to happen at the F.D.A. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before children 5 to 11 will be able to receive the vaccine
  • The panel’s votes are not binding,
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  • That panel is scheduled to meet to consider the issue next week.
  • Federal officials have said that if pediatric doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are authorized, 15 million doses of vaccine will immediately be shipped to the states for distribution.
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How Democrats Would Tax Billionaires to Pay for Their Agenda - The New York Times - 0 views

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government policy taxes economics

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  • Senate Democrats plan to tax the richest of the rich, hoping to extract hundreds of billions of dollars from the mountains of wealth that billionaires sit on to help pay for their social safety net and climate change policies.
  • Such tax avoidance could be adapted to the new system, for instance by shifting wealth from tradable assets like stocks to less liquid ones like real estate or companies.
  • on anyone with more than $1 billion in assets or more than $100 million in income for three consecutive years
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  • Democrats say the billionaires tax could be one of the most politically popular elements of their social safety net and climate change bill, which is expected to cost at least $1.5 trillion and could be completed as soon as Wednesday.
  • “I think there is an absolute understanding that at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, when you have people like Jeff Bezos, in a given year, not paying a nickel in federal income taxes, that these guys are going to have to start paying their fair share,” said Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent.
  • It would for the first time tax billionaires on the unrealized gains in the value of their liquid assets, such as stocks, bonds and cash, which can grow for years as vast capital stores that can be borrowed off to live virtually income tax free.
  • Democrats’ tax proposal would impose a new interest charge on them, which would be paid when those assets were sold, on top of the existing capital gains tax.
  • They could also deem up to $1 billion of tradable stock in a single corporation to be a non-tradable asset, to ensure that founders of a company could maintain their controlling shares.
  • For instance, any gift or bequest that did not go to a spouse or charity would be considered a taxable event, subject to capital gains taxation.
  • “direct taxes” — a term without clear definition — should be apportioned among the states so that each state’s residents pay a share equal to the share of the state’s population.
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Old Power Gear Is Slowing Use of Clean Energy and Electric Cars - The New York Times - 0 views

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climate crisis policy government

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  • The local utility’s equipment is so overloaded that there is no place for the electricity produced by the panels to go.
  • have made it hard for homeowners, local governments and businesses to use solar panels, batteries, electric cars, heat pumps and other devices that can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Now, homes and businesses are increasingly supplying energy to the grid from their rooftop solar panels.
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  • About one out of 10 utility customers in the state have solar power, according to the California Solar and Storage Association.
  • noting that it can take workers up to six months to do so if they are swamped with projects.
  • To achieve its climate goals, the city has already banned the use of natural gas in new buildings, the largest local government in the country to do so.
  • The company added that it supports the use of solar panels by nearly 600,000 of its residential customers and electric cars owned by 360,000 customers.
  • When he was recently charging his Tesla at his home on Long Island, the electrical equipment that connected the utility’s power line to his home became so hot that it melted.
  • People who are pushing for greater investment say the spending will pay off by saving people money on monthly bills and preventing the worst effects of climate change.
  • That’s because people could generate some electricity through rooftop solar panels and store that energy in home batteries.
  • But if regulators allowed more utilities to offer lower electricity rates at night, people would charge cars when there is plenty of spare capacity.
  • Robert Barrosa, senior director of sales and marketing at Electrify America, said that eventually the company could help utilities by taking power when there was too much of it and supplying it when there was not enough of it.
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How a Stunning Lagoon in Spain Turned Into 'Green Soup' - The New York Times - 0 views

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climate politics spain foreign

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  • Tons of dead fish have washed ashore as the once-crystalline waters became choked with algae.
  • But they agree that nitrate-filled runoffs from fertilizers from nearby farms have heavily damaged the waters where oysters and sea-horses used to thrive
  • He also put some of the blame on local politicians, accusing them of long downplaying the contamination
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  • And waste produced by a nearby electricity plan and oil refinery has damaged the giant Berre lagoon in southern France.
  • When five tons of dead fish washed up in August near her house on the lagoon, she decided that she was ready to move.
  • Madrid says the responsibility lies at the local level.
  • She said at least 75 percent of the lagoon’s water contamination came from runoffs.
  • ut in September, the Spanish Institute of Oceanography published a report that rejected the idea that excessive summer heat helped kill the fish.
  • the contamination comes from water seeping into the lagoon from an aquifer in which toxic substances have accumulated over decades.
  • Laggards should get government incentives to invest in green technology rather than “stones thrown by people who have no knowledge of our modern irrigation systems,” he added.
  • “I unfortunately do think that political colors matter,” she said.
  • The lagoon was proof that “one of the major problems of Europe is the contamination of its waters by nitrates,” he said.
  • Mr. Morán said that his central government planned to use 300 million euros, or about $350 million, from the European Union’s pandemic recovery fund to protect the Mar Menor’s natural habitat and waters.
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Biden Is Open to Scrapping Filibuster for Voting Rights Bill 'and Maybe More' - The New... - 0 views

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politics biden legislature policy

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  • open to ending the Senate filibuster so Democrats could pass voting rights legislation
  • optimism about passage of his infrastructure and social safety net bills even as he offered candid descriptions of closed-door negotiations with two Democratic holdouts.
  • would lose “at least three votes” on his social policy bill if he pushed an end to the filibuster
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  • the need to pass sweeping voting rights legislation favored by Democrats is “equally as consequential” as the debt limit vote,
  • Republicans used the filibuster to prevent action on major parts of the Democratic agenda.
  • thwarting legislation that Democrats say would counter efforts in Republican-controlled states to impose new voting restrictions.
  • he can pass an immigration overhaul, address prison reform and enact more ambitious climate change legislation.
  • will leave office with half his priorities unmet.
  • Democrats bring legislation to the floor that would benefit communities of color, and Republicans won’t even engage in a good-faith debate.”
  • They must act with urgency to get rid of the filibuster.”
  • likely to give Democratic activists some renewed hope that he will take on the filibuster.
  • which he said would surpass the Affordable Care Act in its scope and impact on American society.
  • But Mr. Biden needs the support of all 50 Senate Democrats and nearly every House Democrat.
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Heavy Rains in India and Nepal Kill Dozens - The New York Times - 0 views

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environment global foreign farming climate

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  • Unseasonably heavy rainfall has destroyed crops, washed away bridges and killed dozens of people across India and Nepal in a reminder of the devastation caused by a changing climate.
  • across the subcontinent, reaching the Himalayas in Nepal and spreading all the way down to the coastal ravines of India’s southwestern peninsula.
  • India and its neighbors have struggled to square development projects intended to lift millions of people out of poverty with the risks of a changing climate.
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  • Meteorologists were not expecting the catastrophic rainfall that has deluged India and Nepal in recent days.
  • Torrential rains also soaked southern India, triggering flash floods and landslides in the state of Kerala.
  • This week, officials in Kerala opened overflowing dams, the first time state officials had made such a move since catastrophic flooding killed more than 400 people in 2018.
  • Rice paddy that was ready for harvest was damaged in the rain, causing Nepal’s farmers to despair and prompting fears of a food crisis in one of the world’s poorest countries.
  • “Rainfalls in October were reported in the past, too, but not to this intensity,” said Ajaya Dixit, an expert on climate change vulnerability in Nepal. “Climate change is real, and it is happening.”
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As Pandemic Upends Teaching, Fewer Students Want to Pursue It - The New York Times - 0 views

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pandemic teaching biden education

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  • Kianna Ameni-Melvin’s parents used to tell her that there wasn’t much money to be made in education. But it was easy enough for her to tune them out as she enrolled in an education studies program, with her mind set on teaching high school special education.
  • She began to question how the profession’s low pay could impact the challenges of pandemic teaching.
  • “People are weighing whether or not it makes sense to go to a classroom when there are alternatives that may seem safer,
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  • A survey by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education found that 19 percent of undergraduate-level and 11 percent of graduate-level teaching programs saw a significant drop in enrollment this year.
  • combined with longstanding frustrations over low pay compared with professions that require similar levels of education.
  • After months of seeing only her roommates, moving around a classroom brimming with fourth and fifth graders was nerve-racking
  • “I didn’t want to start despising a career I had a passion for because of the salary,”
  • while they might have pictured themselves holding students’ hands and forming deep relationships, they’re now finding themselves staring at faces on a Zoom grid instead.
  • Educators have struggled with recruitment to the profession since long before the pandemic. In recent years, about 8 percent of public schoolteachers were leaving the work force annually, through retirement or attrition.
  • the secretary of education, recently called for financial help to reopen schools safely, which will allow them to bring on more employees so they can make their classes smaller. The Covid-19 relief package approved by President Biden includes $129 billion in funding for K-12 schools, which can be used to increase staff.
  • that teaching has historically been a “recession-proof profession” that sometimes attracts more young people in times of crisis.
  • “Seeing her make her students laugh made me realize how much a teacher can impact someone’s day,” she said. “I was like, whoa, that’s something I want to do.”
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F.D.A. to Allow 'Mix and Match' Approach for Covid Booster Shots - The New York Times - 0 views

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coronavirus vaccine politics pandemic

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  • , a move that could reduce the appeal of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and provide flexibility to doctors and other vaccinators.
  • But vaccine providers could use their discretion to offer a different brand, a freedom that state health officials have been requesting for weeks.
  • The agency last month authorized booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for at least six months after the second dose.
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  • A shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine also raised the antibody levels of Johnson & Johnson recipients more than Johnson & Johnson did, the study found, although not as much as Moderna did
  • The study’s researchers warned against using the findings to conclude that any one combination of vaccines was better.
  • Providers also might not have access to a vaccine a patient initially received
  • “From a public health perspective, there’s a clear need in some situations for individuals to receive a different vaccine,
  • Regulators have not authorized booster shots for recipients of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines yet.
  • The F.D.A. authorized boosters for workers whose jobs put them at high risk of exposure to potentially infectious people.
  • Yes. The C.D.C. says the Covid vaccine may be administered without regard to the timing of other vaccines, and many pharmacy sites are allowing people to schedule a flu shot at the same time as a booster dose.
  • ut the only Moderna recipients who are expected to become eligible for boosters are those who are at least 65 or otherwise considered at high risk, following the same eligibility requirements for recipients of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine.
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Covid Has Killed Hundreds of Police Officers. Many Still Resist Vaccines. - The New Yor... - 0 views

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  • he had assumed that the lieutenant, a distant relative, was vaccinated, but thought it would be inappropriate to ask.
  • More than 460 American law enforcement officers have died from Covid-19 infections tied to their work since the start of the pandemic, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page, making the coronavirus by far the most common cause of duty-related deaths in 2020 and 2021. More than four times as many officers have died from Covid-19 as from gunfire in that period.
  • While the virus has ravaged policing, persuading officers to take a vaccine has often been a struggle,
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  • Yet as more departments in recent weeks have considered requiring members to be vaccinated, officers and their unions have loudly pushed back,
  • “It’s a huge challenge, and I think mayors throughout the country are balancing the safety imperatives of responding to 911 calls against the safety imperatives of having a vaccinated work force,
  • Still, proponents of the mandate have noted that there were risks to the public in not requiring the shots.
  • Health departments generally do not publish vaccination data by occupation, but some cities have released figures showing that police department employees have been vaccinated at lower rates than most other government workers,
  • But some officials theorized that the daily dangers of police work may also make an invisible virus seem less of a hazard,
  • a vast majority of Americans hospitalized with or dying from Covid-19 are unvaccinated.
  • For more than a year, the chief has made daily phone calls to sick officers and delivered meals to officers in quarantine. When outbreaks have spread through his department, he has reshuffled schedules and asked officers to work overtime.
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Biden to Restore Three National Monuments in Utah and New England - The New York Times - 0 views

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politics us trump biden native indigenous

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  • had been stripped away by former President Donald J. Trump, according to two people familiar with the matter.
  • Mr. Biden will reinstate and slightly expand the original 1.3 million acre boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument, and restore the original 1.8 million acre boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante, two rugged and pristine expanses in Utah that are defined by red rock canyons, rich wildlife and archaeological treasures.
  • “The president’s protection of these three national monuments is among a series of steps the administration has taken to restore protections to some of America’s most cherished lands and waters, many of which are sacred to tribal nation
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  • Mr. Biden ordered a review of the elimination of protections for the monuments to “determine whether restoration of the monument boundaries and conditions would be appropriate.”
  • Conservation groups welcomed the news. “Thank you, President Biden — you have listened to Indigenous tribes and the American people and ensured these landscapes will be protected for generations to come,”
  • President Biden fanned the flames of controversy and ignored input from the communities closest to these monuments,
  • The new boundaries will restore the original Obama-era boundary and will include the additional 11,200 Trump-era acres.
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Election Workers in Georgia Are Fired for Shredding Voter Registration Forms - The New ... - 0 views

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election biden trump politics us

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  • two workers had been fired for shredding voter registration forms,
  • employees saw them destroying registration forms awaiting processing before local elections in November
  • After 20 years of documented failure in Fulton County elections, Georgians are tired of waiting to see what the next embarrassing revelation will be
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  • While the charges of wrongdoing surfaced on Friday, it was unclear when the actual destruction of registration forms might have occurred.
  • The statewide Georgia vote has been counted three times with zero evidence of fraud.
  • Voting rights advocates and Democrats statewide have cast the inquiry as a first step toward a pro-Trump takeover of election machinery in the county most crucial to Democratic hopes in future elections.
  • A report by a state-appointed monitor concluded that elections there were “sloppy” but it found no evidence of “dishonesty, fraud or intentional malfeasance.”
  • “If you have two employees who are terminated by the elections director, that certainly prompts an investigation and analysis,” she said. “It’s critical that we get this right.”
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Iraq Says It Arrested a Leading Islamic State Figure - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Iraq says it has captured the Islamic State’s finance chief, a rare arrest of a major ISIS figure
  • Mr. al-Ajuz had been captured across the border in Syria.
  • he was a top aide to the current head of the group and a former deputy to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the ISIS leader who was killed in a U.S. raid in 2019 in northwestern Syria.
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  • the United States military congratulated Iraq on the capture, describing Mr. al-Ajuz as one of the group’s most senior leaders.
  • a cross-border operation would have required the cooperation of at least the Syrian-Kurdish forces in Syria
  • “This is one of the most significant counter-ISIS achievements in recent years,” Charles Lister, director of the Washington-based Middle East Institute’s Syria and Countering Terrorism and Extremism Programs, said in an email.
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