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BALTIMORE, MD, April 23, 2025 – As plastic pollution in the world’s oceans reaches critical levels, groundbreaking new research reveals how artificial intelligence-driven algorithms can dramatically accelerate plastic waste removal – boosting efficiency by more than 60%.

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China’s rare earth minerals power the modern world. Banning their export could destroy it
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Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.

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The Trump administration’s back-and-forth moves on tariffs for technology products are stirring confusion in a sector heavily reliant on global supply chains.  
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COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing and Viral Load Reporting

COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing and Viral Load Reporting

Vox Eu, December 23, 2020

The US continues to struggle with insufficient COVID-19 testing capacity. At the same time, US laboratories use ultrasensitive diagnostic criteria in their tests, leading to a large proportion of positive diagnoses associated with negligible viral loads. This column seeks to construct a theory that explains both undertesting and overdiagnosis. The theory predicts both phenomena may arise in the absence of mandatory viral load reporting. Despite the obvious clinical advantages of viral load reporting, mandating such reporting may not be optimal when considering laboratories’ capacity building decisions and potential benefits of widespread quarantining. 

Baltimore-Area Nursing Home Staff, Residents Inoculated Against COVID-19 as the Vaccination Program Continues

Baltimore-Area Nursing Home Staff, Residents Inoculated Against COVID-19 as the Vaccination Program Continues

The Baltimore Sun, December 23, 2020

Claps, whoops and cheers erupted outside the Franklin Woods Center in Rossville on Wednesday after three staffers and two residents volunteered to get vaccinated during a brief news conference attended by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. The five participants were the first among the state’s nursing home community to get vaccinated. “Yeah, man, perfect!” yipped Brian Klausmeyer, the center’s executive director, after he got his shot. ”That was it?” laughed Davenia Kemp, Franklin Woods’ geriatric nurse assistant, after the needle went in. She’d kept herself up all night, anticipating pain, discomfort or worse.

How Will You Be Told When It's Your Turn for a COVID-19 Vaccine? It's Complicated

How Will You Be Told When It's Your Turn for a COVID-19 Vaccine? It's Complicated

USA Today, December 24, 2020

Will you get a text from your doctor? Will you read about it online? Or will you have to check the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website to know when it's your turn in line? As COVID-19 vaccines roll out to limited groups of people across the United States, how people learn they are eligible to get their shots won't be as clear while supplies remain limited, according to public health and policy experts and state vaccination plans. "I think it's going to be a little bit murky," said Katie Greene, a visiting policy associate at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy.

The Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Could be a Game-Changer for Inequality

The Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Could be a Game-Changer for Inequality

Barron's, December 31, 2020

Mass vaccination offers hope for a return to the prepandemic normal. But the distribution process also comes with some potentially nasty side effects: Vaccination without a careful plan could inadvertently make the world even more unequal than a year ago. The two initial vaccine candidates, from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, may have particularly problematic consequences for inequality. But the candidate that may have seemed like a runner-up in the vaccine race, from Oxford- AstraZeneca, has strong potential to finish as the most essential vaccine to end the pandemic.

Opinion: Looking Toward a Post-Vaccine COVID-19 America

Opinion: Looking Toward a Post-Vaccine COVID-19 America

The Detroit News, December 27, 2020

Immunization of health-care workers and residents of long-term care facilities has begun.  With each day bringing over 250,000 new confirmed cases and well over 2,000 additional deaths in the U.S., help is on the way to curb the COVID-19 momentum plaguing our nation. The full benefits of the vaccine will not be realized until tens of millions of people receive their two-dose regimen, which will likely not occur until the summer of 2021.  

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