2022-03-20: News Headlines

WorkWeek (2022-03-20). WorkWeek: UESF Teachers Occupy For Back Pay, Covid, Griffin Charter & CNNC Union Busting. indybay.org WorkWeek covers SF UESF Teachers Occupation For Back Pay & Covid Capitalism, Giffin MIT Charter School Teachers Fighting Corruption & Chinese Union Busting at CNNC In Namibia…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-20). Mayo Clinic researchers recommend investments in vaccine safety in Nature commentary. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The leaders of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group are emphasizing the need for increased long-term study of vaccines and their mechanisms with future safety of patients in mind. Gregory Poland, M.D., and Richard Kennedy, Ph.D., write in their commentary in the scientific journal Nature Reviews Immunology that greater focus on understanding vaccines' downstream effects, not only on immunity but also on all the other biological systems will provide information that can help make vaccines safer…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-20). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: New cases of COVID-19 continue downward trend. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org New cases of COVID-19 are down 90% from the peak, with under 75,000 new cases reported last week across the U.S. "What we're observing is a pretty dramatic suppression of cases," explains Dr. Gregory Poland, head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "This is good news, but we need to be cautious." Dr. Poland warns that there are still people who are vulnerable to COVID-19 infection, including people who are immunocompromised; children under 5 who cannot yet be…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-20). Science Saturday: Mayo Clinic develops automated system to accelerate diagnoses for patients with rare diseases. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic researchers are working to accelerate the diagnoses of rare diseases and renew hope for patients whose symptoms have defied an explanation ‚Äï‚ÄØsometimes for years or even decades.‚ÄØ The team of genomics experts has developed an automated system called RENEW for tracking new scientific knowledge from around the world of pathogenic genetic variants and applying it to Mayo Clinic patients with rare and undiagnosed diseases. RENEW stands for reanalysis of negative whole-exome/genome data. "We're…

ecns.cn (2022-03-20). China greenlights three sci-tech innovation IPOs. ecns.cn China's securities regulator has approved the initial public offerings (IPOs) of three companies on the science and technology innovation board."ÄÄ"ÄÄFortior Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou Delphi Laser Co., Ltd. and CellWise Microelectronics Co., Ltd.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-03-20). Science Saturday: Big data helps in understanding asthma biologic use, outcomes. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 25 million Americans have asthma, and that number is increasing every year. In the last 10 years, a number of new medications have become available. Collectively referred to as 'biologics,' these therapies are made to target very specific parts of the body and its immune system. Although they each have different targets, they all are designed to prevent the inflammation that leads to asthma exacerbation. However, it appears…

Newsclick (2022-03-20). Vaccines don't block transmissions but reduce hospitalization & deaths. peoplesdispatch.org Immunologist Dr. Satyajit Rath and NewsClick's Prabir Purkayastha looks at the rising cases in Europe and South-East Asia, as well as wider topics of science, technology and health…

Fight Back (2022-03-19). Metro teachers show solidarity with striking Minneapolis educators. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On March 17 thousands of striking educators with MFT 59 and community members rallied on both sides of Lake Street, stretched out for about a mile, in Minneapolis in a mega picket outside Adult Education South and Transition Plus at the MPS Center for Adult Learning. After two hours of enthusiastic picketing and dancing, educators from other metro cities got on the MFT sound truck to send messages of solidarity to strikers. | Adi Penugonda, a high school social studies teacher and a member of Dakota County United Educators, started off the program, "Our message today is clear! Minneapolis educat…

Editor (2022-03-19). Dangers of teaching the Bhagavad Gita in educational curriculums. mronline.org The Hindu right wing forces are planning for a while to make the Bhagavad Gita as a national scripture and access to absolute state power is allowing them to fulfil their long-time dream.

Geoff Watts (2022-03-19). [Perspectives] Alberto García-Basteiro: seeking better TB control in Mozambique. thelancet.com "I always say that before I came to Mozambique my understanding of tuberculosis was not much more than you learn in med school", says Alberto García-Basteiro, now Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Research Coordinator at the Manhiàßa Health Research Centre (CISM) in Mozambique. Working at CISM, some 80 km north of the country's capital, Maputo, provided him with a rapid, in-depth education in the disease. The research he has led since his arrival in Mozambique in 2013 has earned him the 2021 Stephen Lawn TB—HIV Research Leadership Prize, awarded for his innovative and high-quality research on tuberculosis dia…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-03-19). Biggest Lie in World History: The Data Base is Flawed. There Never Was A Pandemic. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Introduction : | Destabilizing the social, political and economic structure of 190 sovereign countries cannot constitute a "solution" to combating the virus. But that was the imposed "solution" which was implemented in several stages from the very outset of the corona crisis…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-03-19). Colin Powell and the "The Sloppy Dossier": Plagiarism and "Fake Intelligence" Used to Justify the 2003 War on Iraq: Copied and Pasted from the Internet into an "Official" British Intel Report. globalresearch.ca Fake intelligence as well as plagiarized quotations had been slipped into an official intelligence report on Iraq's WMD presented to the UN Security Council by Secretary of State Colin Powell in February 2003.

Larry Chin (2022-03-19). Planetary Hysteria: Manufactured COVID-19 "Health Crisis" Pushes Humanity, Global Society to Total Shutdown. globalresearch.ca This incisive article by Larry Chin was written on March 26, 2020 shortly after the implementation of the March 18, 2020 lockdown in the United States. The COVID-19 charade is the biggest single disruption of human society in …

Adeyinka Makinde (2022-03-19). Tony Blair and the March 2003 Invasion of Iraq War: Should He Stand Trial for the Crime of Waging a "War of Aggression"? globalresearch.ca March 20th 2003 was the start of the Iraq War, a …

Shane Quinn (2022-03-19). Eleven Years Ago: US-NATO Invasion of Libya and Its Consequences. globalresearch.ca Eleven years ago, on 19 March 2011, the United States and …

Luciana Bohne (2022-03-19). The March 2003 Invasion of Iraq: American Dauphin: Cognitive Dissonance in the White House Imperial Palace. globalresearch.ca This incisive article by …

Wolfgang Preiser, Therese Fish (2022-03-19). [Comment] Sisonke: reaching several goals together. thelancet.com Research infrastructure and expertise from decades of HIV and tuberculosis research enabled several COVID-19 vaccine trials to be conducted in South Africa. The ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine procured by the South African Government did not protect against infection with the beta (B.1.351) variant of concern1 in a phase 1/2 trial and was therefore abandoned in early 2021.2 A single dose of the Ad26.COV2.S vaccine had been shown to be effective against the beta variant of SARS-CoV-2 by the ENSEMBLE trial,3 but as of early 2021 it was not yet authorised by the national regulator.

Anna L. Noble (2022-03-19). How Big Tech sees big profits in social-emotional learning at school. nationofchange.org Digital products that monitor students' online behavior raise concerns about how companies use that data for profit.

Our Reporter (2022-03-19). MUK student dies in fatal accident. plusnews.ug Vanessa Namuwaya, a student at Makerere University has Saturday died in a fatal accident along Garden City roundabout in Kampala. The deceased was pursuing construction management and in year three at Makerere University. At the time if her death, Vanessa was enroute to field work in traffic control. This story is being updated…

WSWS (2022-03-19). Howard University non-tenured teaching staff and adjunct professors rally for improved pay and conditions, plan three-day strike. wsws.org The threatened strike by hundreds of non-tenured faculty comes several months after students occupied the Washington D.C. campus to demand improvements to living conditions.

_____ (2022-03-19). Minneapolis Strikers Demand A Living Wage For The Lowest-Paid Educators. popularresistance.org Labor is on fire in the Twin Cities. Educators in Minneapolis are wrapping up their second week on strike, and cafeteria workers are poised to join them. | St. Paul educators came close to walking out as well; the unions fed off one another as they built their contract campaigns. "St. Paul has the experience," said St. Paul special ed teacher Jeff Garcia. "Minneapolis has the energy. They are really fired up." | The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and the St. Paul Federation of Educators both announced February 18 that their members had voted to authorize strikes. | MFT members walked out March 8. The strikers…

Labor Video Project (2022-03-19). "Give Us Our Money" SF UESF Teachers Demand Pay & Occupy SFSUD Offices To Get Back Pay. indybay.org Dozens of teachers, members of UESF and supporters rallied at the SFUSD district to demand their back pay. They also had a sleep until they get what is owed them.

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