Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide during the COVID Pandemic

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April 29, 2021

Public Health Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide during the COVID Pandemic The public health measures that slow the spread of the novel coronavirus work really well on influenza By Katie Peek

Public Health Decoded: How Do Vaccines Actually Work? Vaccines are medicines that train the body to defend itself against future disease, and they have been saving human lives for hundreds of years. By Michael Tabb,Andrea Gawrylewski,Jeffery DelViscio

Climate Biden Tells Congress Climate Action and Job Creation Are the Same "If we act to save the planet, we can create millions of jobs," he says By Adam Aton,E&E News

Space Antarctic Study Shows How Much Space Dust Hits Earth Every Year A tally of pristine micrometeorites locked in polar ice gives the best-yet look at the origin and amount of extraterrestrial material reaching our planet By Sarah Derouin

Medicine Blood Test Gives Early Warning of Failing Heart Transplant The new DNA-based test predicts transplant rejection By Harini Barath

Physics Muon Results Throw Physicists' Best Theories into Confusion Experimental anomalies have sent researchers scrambling to concoct new explanations By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

Policy & Ethics The Fading Dream of the Computer Brain Beware the hype about remaking neuroscience through technology, writes the director of the new documentary In Silico By Noah Hutton

Behavior & Society Religion Both Helped and Hurt during the Pandemic It was good, on balance, for people's mental health—but not so good for physical health By Landon Schnabel

Public Health CDC Drops Some Outdoor Mask Advice for Vaccinated People, Based on This Science The agency's latest guidelines are in line with a wealth of evidence that COVID is far less likely to be transmitted outside than indoors By Tanya Lewis

Public Health People of Color Breathe More Unhealthy Air from Nearly All Polluting Sources A trend of disproportionate exposure to deadly air pollution among Asian, Hispanic and Black people persists in most cases regardless of the emission source, a study finds By Robin Lloyd

Climate You Can Taste Climate Change in this Awful Beer New Belgium Brewing is selling a smoke-flavored brew as a sensory warning about agriculture's troubles to come By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

Medicine Malaria Vaccine Shows Promise--Now Come Tougher Trials Preliminary results suggest the vaccine is up to 77 percent effective in young children, but researchers await larger studies By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Flu Season Never Came to the Southern Hemisphere Mask wearing and social distancing for COVID-19 may have cut influenza cases south of the equator By Katie Peek | September 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "There's just no flu circulating." Greg Poland, who has studied the disease at the Mayo Clinic for decades

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