public health
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17 Million Gallons of Raw Sewage Spills in Los Angeles
Stretches of beaches in Los Angeles are closed after 17 million gallons of untreated sewage spilled into the ocean following a mechanical failure at a water treatment plant Sunday.
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Deaths in America Surged in 2020, Well Beyond Official Covid-19 Toll
The covid-19 pandemic drove a horrifying surge in U.S. deaths last year, new research published Friday has shown. According to the study, over half a million more people died than would have been expected during the last 10 months of 2020. Most of these deaths were directly attributed to the viral illness, but some could…
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Covid-19 Survivors Have a Low Risk of Reinfection, Study Suggests
New U.S. government-funded research this week should offer some comfort to people who have survived covid-19. It suggests they have a low risk of reinfection from the coronavirus, at least around three months later.
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Please, Please Don’t Put Hand Sanitiser in Your Eyes
The harms of the covid-19 pandemic go well beyond the illnesses and deaths directly caused by the virus. One particular repercussion, according to a new study out Thursday, has been more kids getting hurt from alcohol-based hand sanitiser ending up in their eyes.