centers for disease control and prevention
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Not Cool, The World’s Getting So Hot, Scientists Needed a New Colour
On Earth Day, the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention teamed up to announce a new heat risk system to better communicate the severity of hot weather. The color-coded system added magenta, a fifth-tier of heat severity, beyond red, to communicate extreme heat “rare and/or long-duration extreme heat with little…
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Malaria Makes a Comeback in Florida and Texas
Mosquito season is in full swing across the U.S., and this year’s annual boom of summertime blood suckers comes with some additional bad news. For the first time since 2003, malaria is spreading in the states. Both Florida and Texas have confirmed locally acquired cases of the potentially deadly mosquito-borne illness.
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The CDC Bought Access to the Location Data of Many Americans
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly bought access to people’s location data from a private date company that was banned by Google, according to documents obtained by reporters at Motherboard through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The public health agency was planning on using that information to track people’s movement…
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CDC Confirms Power of Anime (and Ventilation) Prevented NYC Con From Being an Omicron Superspreader
The Centre for Disease Control released a study yesterday that the 2021 Anime NYC convention was not a superspreader event, despite the attendance of one of the first known people in the U.S. to have been infected with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. But this wasn’t just luck — the event had several measures…