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Warning of More Pandemics to Come, Public Health Experts Urge Collective Examination of What it Means to Live in ‘Harmony with Nature’ | Common Dreams News

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Warning of More Pandemics to Come, Public Health Experts Urge Collective Examination of What it Means to Live in ‘Harmony with Nature’ | Common Dreams News

As the world continues to adjust to life�amidst Covid-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top infectious disease expert in the United States,�recently pointed�to human activity�and a disregard of living in harmony nature with as a major accelerator of pandemics—part of a global chorus elevating such concerns.

"Covid-19 is among�the most vivid wake-up calls in over a century," Fauci,�director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) wrote with medical epidemiologist David Morens, in a paper published last month in the scientific journal Cell. "It should force�us to begin to think in earnest and collectively about living in�more thoughtful and creative harmony with nature, even as we�plan for nature's inevitable, and always unexpected, surprises."

Trump officials interfered with CDC reports on Covid-19 – POLITICO

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Trump officials interfered with CDC reports on Covid-19 – POLITICO

The health department’s politically appointed communications aides have demanded the right to review and seek changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly scientific reports charting the progress of the coronavirus pandemic, in what officials characterized as an attempt to intimidate the reports’ authors and water down their communications to health professionals.

I am just very surprised 🤨 that Trump appointed the well known and infamous NY GOP political operative to oversee the CDC. 🐘 I get that the president wants oversight over the agency and emphasis on his campaign priorities but I don't like the idea of an explicit political hack running a scientific agency. 

 

Planet Money : NPR

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Why have we all been recycling plastic for 40 years? : Planet Money : NPR

Last year, Planet Money ran a show about why it doesn't make sense economically and, heartbreakingly, even environmentally to recycle plastic. But if recycling most plastic is not working now... and it didn't work 30 years ago when the numbers and arrows first popped up... did it ever work? And why did it take us so long to learn the truth? Today on the show, NPR reporter Laura Sullivan, with the support of PBS's Frontline, sets out to find out who is responsible.