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FDA Expert Panel Votes In Favor Of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine : Coronavirus Updates : NPR

In a unanimous 22-0, a panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson be authorized for emergency use in adults during the pandemic.

The vote in favor of the vaccine, which requires only one shot for protection, was taken to answer this question: Do the benefits of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine outweigh its risks for use in people 18 years of age and older.

NYS GIS Clearinghouse posted 2020 aerials from St

NYS GIS Clearinghouse posted 2020 aerials from Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Franklin, Clinton — Chemung and Steuben – Nassau and Suffolk today. They previously posted Monroe and GLOW counties.

https://orthos.its.ny.gov/ArcGIS/services/wms/Latest/MapServer/WMSServer?

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Climate-Driven Flood Damage Threatens Towns Across U.S. : NPR

Pastor Aaron Trigg was at home when the water arrived in Rainelle. It had been raining hard all day, filling the creeks and rivers that run through southern West Virginia. In the past, such intense downpours would last only a few hours, but this storm brought wave after wave of torrential rain. "You could hear the water up in the mountains just crashing trees," Trigg remembers. Rainelle is a small town in a steep valley. When the creek near downtown jumped its banks on the evening of June 23, 2016, the water immediately flooded into every home on Trigg's block. Trigg's house was one-story tall, so there was nowhere to escape. He took shelter on the second floor of his neighbor's house and waited as the water kept rising. As it got dark, he could hear people screaming for help. He wondered if he would survive the night. "I did a lot of praying that night," he says. "Not so much for myself, but for the people I could hear."