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- California’s greenhouse gas reductions could be wiped out by 2020 wildfires https://ph.ucla.edu/news/press-release/2022/oct/ucla-led-study-finds-california-s-greenhouse-gas-reductions-could-be 93 comments
- An international team of researchers has demonstrated that among patients hospitalized for influenza, those who were vaccinated had less severe infections, including reducing the odds for children requiring admittance to an intensive care unit by almost half. https://ph.ucla.edu/news/press-release/2022/oct/ucla-fielding-school-public-health-led-research-demonstrates-importance 76 comments science
- Researchers have found strong associations between drug misuse generally and opioid misuse specifically among unemployed Americans, who were found to have a 40% higher likelihood to misuse opioids than those working 35-40 hours per week. https://ph.ucla.edu/news/press-release/2022/may/opioid-addiction-crisis-united-states-linked-poor-working-conditions-and 16 comments science
- Facemask mandates and stay home orders reduced the risk of COVID-19 by 15% and 8%, respectively. Findings also show that long-term exposure to fine particulate matter is a risk factor, and that the levels of exposure to in the U.S. are sufficiently high to increase the risk of COVID-19. https://ph.ucla.edu/news/press-release/2021/jun/ucla-fsph-led-research-finds-connections-between-air-quality-and-covid 16 comments science
- The Real “Anthrax Killer” Caught on Security Camera - Surveillance tape shows Dr. Philip Zack entering Fort Detrick laboratory containing the Anthrax spores after he was fired for racist attacks on an Egyptian co-worker. http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/anthraxmissingarmylab.html 41 comments politics