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Reducing the Risk of Long COVID in Kids: Why Reinfection Matters and What We Can Do johnsnowproject.org/primers/redu...

The new US administration conceded to Russia on Ukraine even before peace talks began — German Defense Minister Pistorius He stressed that NATO membership and territorial issues should be discussed at the table, not erased beforehand.

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New Zealand: Long Covid remains a concern. "Reducing infection rates through masking and other infectious controls would help keep Long Covid cases down" "At the moment, it seems to be a strategy of ignoring it, and I just don't think that's acceptable." - Prof Michael Baker

Fascinating!

1 - Welcome to #ThreadTalk! Get ready for #fashionhistory – it’s been a while, but I'm back. Today’s topic is All That Glitters – we’re talking about fashioning fabric with gold and metal, but especially real gold. Below, 1610-1620 - Dress of Electress Magdalena Syblla of Saxony.

Today, the war in Ukraine – or at least the time since the large-scale Russian invasion of 2022 – reaches the 1000-day mark. Besides reflecting on the tremendous sacrifices of the Ukrainian people since February 2022, the 1000-day point permits taking stock of the situation. 1/8 🇺🇦🧵

When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses and ilex, pea plants and more than 50 types of grasses. But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe.