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Health officials sound alarm over surge of new coronavirus cases

October 12, 2020

Chicago — Coronavirus cases are on the rise in 39 states and only three are seeing fewer cases. Average daily deaths are also rising in 10 states compared to two weeks ago. The Midwest has been especially hard-hit in recent weeks.

With the nation seeing nearly 50,000 new cases a day, public health officials have given an ominous warning.

“We are truly headed into the fall with it covered by a virus disaster on our hands,” said Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

The country is seeing roughly twice as many new cases today as it did at the start of April.

“I hope these numbers jolt the American public into a realization it’s on a trajectory of getting worse and worse,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said.

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Puget Sound health experts share what they’ve learned since the COVID-19 pandemic hit

October 10, 2020

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Some of western Washington’s top doctors and scientists reveal what they’ve learned about the pandemic so far.

SEATTLE — More than six months into the coronavirus pandemic and everyone has had to adjust their daily lives in some way. It feels like we’ve all learned a lot.

That’s also the case for some of western Washington’s top scientists and public health officials.

KING 5 asked several of those officials: “What are the top things you have you learned in the past six months?”

Here are their responses:

Dr. Jeffrey Duchin

Health Officer, Public Health Seattle – King County

An important early lesson is that alignment of elected leaders and public health and medical experts allowed a rapid and effective response to the initial COVID-19 outbreak through community mitigation measures including the stay-at-home order, limiting public gatherings and non-essential activities, and face mask requirements.

The COVID-19 outbreak highlighted and exacerbated

Several regions sound alarm as US reports most Covid-19 daily cases in nearly 2 months

October 10, 2020

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Just as the US reported the highest number of daily Covid-19 infections in nearly two months, several experts offered grim outlooks if Americans don’t take the right precautions.

a person standing on a sidewalk: People walk through Times Square near Broadway and an empty theater district on October 9, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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People walk through Times Square near Broadway and an empty theater district on October 9, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Johns Hopkins University reported a total of 57,420 new positive cases of coronavirus in the United States on Friday.

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That is the most reported cases in a single day since August 14, when there were 64,601 new cases, the data show.

Friday’s surge of 57,420 cases marks the third consecutive day of 50,000+ reported cases in the US, Johns Hopkins says. The last time the US reported three consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases was also in mid-August.

Now Florida, which over the summer became the country’s hotspot, is “ripe

The New Wave of Sound Wellness Is Communal, Sober, and Not Unlike Coachella | W Magazine

October 5, 2020

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Illustration by Eric Elms.

As a wellness writer, I’m not proud to admit this, but if I’m invited anywhere between the hours of five and seven, I expect music and cocktails. Or at least, I used to.

Several months ago, in what now seems like some strange parallel universe, my friend Caroline asked me to meet her at a converted Victorian-era piano factory in the Camden area of London. I assumed it was for happy hour. But no, she had signed us up for a session with Lisa De Narvaez, a “spiritual technologist” (and Helena Christensen look-alike) whose Blisspoint breathwork method has an international following. Sighing, I resigned myself to a couple of hours of…sighing. But De Narvaez doesn’t facilitate Blisspoint in silence, or to the hippie-dippie drone of a didgeridoo. Instead, she curates clubby soundscapes embedded with special, customized frequencies that help people connect with their breath, open their

EPA Announces a $657,840 Community-Scale Air Toxics Monitoring Grant to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency | U.S. EPA News Releases

September 29, 2020

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News Releases from Region 10

09/28/2020

The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency will receive a $657,840 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant to help identify air toxics trends for the Puget Sound region by monitoring diesel particulate, wood smoke, ethylene oxide, and other hazardous air pollutants. Nationally, EPA announced the selection of 11 air toxics monitoring projects to receive $5 million in funding under the agency’s Community-Scale Air Toxics Ambient Monitoring grants program. These grants will help monitor and provide important information to communities on air toxics, also known as hazardous air pollutants.

The EPA is providing a grant of $657,840 to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency to study local levels of air toxics. PSCAA aims to characterize the emissions and health impacts of diesel particulate, wood smoke, ethylene oxide, and other hazardous air pollutants by making measurements at multiple locations over the course of a year. The areas of

Fed Delays Implementation of 340B Rule After Health Centers, Lawmakers Sound Alarm

September 27, 2020

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BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Community Health Centers and the nearly 30 million patients they serve have a temporary reprieve from a new regulation implementing the President’s Executive Order around insulin and EpiPens. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has revised the regulation from an Interim Final Rule to a Proposed Rule, signaling that the public will now have a chance to submit written comments before it goes into effect. The move comes after health center leaders sounded the alarm about the rule’s potential impact on vulnerable populations, flooding the federal agency with meeting requests.

“We are deeply grateful that there seems to be growing recognition among leaders in the Administration that this rule will do more harm than good at a time when too many people

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