Posted: 10:51 a.m. EST Jan 21, 2022
Looking Back: First Case Of COVID Confirmed In The U.S.
Nearly 70 million Americans have been infected with the virus and more than 800,000 have died since the first case of COVID was confirmed in the U.S.
Looking Back: First Case Of COVID Confirmed In The U.S.
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Man dies after 613-day COVID-19 infection that underwent 50 mutations
Through the 613 days of infection, the virus evolved into a "novel immune-evasive variant" that had mutated over 50 times.
No link between sudden cardiac deaths and COVID vaccine, CDC says
The CDC says "the data do not support an association of COVID-19 vaccination with sudden cardiac death among previously healthy young persons."
Google AI tool could potentially be used to diagnose a person's cough
The technology system called Health Acoustic Representations (HeAR) was trained on millions of audio clips of human sounds from the YouTube database.
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Addressing the planet's ocean plastics problem
Our oceans are full of plastic — an estimated 200 million metric tons. And it's the microscopic pieces that could be the biggest threat.
UN warns workers are at risk from excess heat and other climate shifts
In a new report, the International Labor Organization suggested ways for governments to help address the rising effects of climate change on workers.
NASA announces it's fixed a bug that corrupted Voyager 1's messages
Engineers had to rearrange code on one of Voyager's computers to avoid memory corruption. Now its science mission is set to continue.
