Official, Biden Administration, World Health Organization discussed on America's First News

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A World Health Organization expert says the Corona virus is unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and most probably jumped to humans. Via an intermediary species of wh o food safety and animal diseases. Expert Peter Ben Emmerich made the assessment and a summation of a W. H o team's investigation into the possible origins of the virus in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the first cases were discovered in December of 2019. Visit by the team took months to negotiate after China only agreed to it amid massive international pressure at the World Health Assembly meeting last May, and Beijing's continued to deny calls for a strictly independent investigation. Chinese authorities have kept a tight hold on information about the possible causes of the pandemic that is now sick and more than 105 million globally and killed more than 2.2 million worldwide. They're at home. School leaders are planning for the possibility of more distance learning next fall at the start of yet another school year. President Biden has made reopening schools of top priority, but administrators say there's too much to consider as new strains of the virus appear and teachers wait to be vaccinated. Dr Anthony Fauci says the Biden administration's plans to reopen schools within the 1st 100 days of the Biden administration will be released this week. But there's still a lot to consider. It's not an easy problem to solve. Obviously, we want to get Teachers vaccinated. They are essential personnel. As far as we're concerned, it would be important to get them vaccinated. But there are situations where you likely consisted. Get Children back to school, Provided you do it. In a safe environment visa be masking another public health measures on just to be clear. You're not speaking in a personal capacity. You're speaking as the job that you do right? And we had the White House come out and say that the CDC director, saying almost exactly what you said was speaking in a personal capacity, not an official guidance. But this is going to be the official guidance, is it not? Well, you know, the official guidance spread is coming out literally imminently, very likely this before the end of this week, so I think it would be important rather than trying to get different opinions of it. Let's see what the guidance shows and then we could all discuss about The various aspects of the guidance, but it will be coming out. I'm almost certain before the end of the week thought you making the comments to Fox News from teachers unions are demanding to be vaccinated before Heading back to school. The drive to vaccinate Americans against the virus is gaining speed and newly recorded cases of falling to their lowest level in three months. But authorities worry that rockets Super Bowl celebrations could fuel new outbreaks. Videos went viral on social media, showing throngs of mostly massless fans and Packed sports bars as the Buccaneers won the Super Bowl and that despite Tampa Mayor and Jane Castro's order requiring masks at a Super Bowl party, she says penalties are coming. Everyone knows that simply wearing a mask dramatically reduces the spread of covert 19. And I'm proud to say that the majority of individuals that I saw Out and about enjoying the festivities associated with the Super Bowl. Working flying, You know, we we had tens of thousands of people all over the city downtown out by the stadium, eve or city down here in Channel side. And very, very few incidents, So I'm proud of our community. But those few bad actors will be identified and the Tampa Police Department will handle it. There just has to be that level of personal responsibility. You can supply everyone with a mask, Advise them of the science behind it and expect that they are going tol abide by the mask Order again. You're gonna find a few. They don't Majority that I saw were wearing masks. The mayor has not taken a look at the online videos prior to that news conference, Apparently the mayor of the ST Petersburg, meanwhile, called patrons at a masculine party hosted by rapper 50 Cent Stupid. And so the city is going to take a very close look at it and may end up costing someone a lot more than just quote 50 Cent. Police in Charleston, South Carolina, meanwhile, issued citations to nearly 50 people for not wearing masks in public during Sunday's game. Delta Airlines. It says it will continue to block some seats on all flights through spring break in Easter that to provide a bit more space between passengers in Atlanta based airline announced Monday will limit capacity on flights through April 30th. It will block middle seats and most cabins, although groups of three or more can choose to sit together. During the early days of the pandemic, Several US airlines blocked the middle seats. Although United never did others that temporarily limited the number of seats for sale of since dropped the practice, at least in the main cabin, including southwest, JetBlue, Alaska and American It's a scary reminder of the havoc that can be read. If hacker with bad intentions gets hold of a secure computer system that happened in Oldsmar, Florida, officials say a hacker access the city's water treatment plant and tried to taint the system by dramatically increasing the amount of lie in the water. Penelas County Sheriff Bob Galtieri. When someone again remotely accessed the computer system, and it showed up on the operator screen with the mouse be moved about various open various software functions that control the water being treated in the system. Person remotely accessed the system for about 3 to 5 minutes, opening various functions on the screen. One of the functions opened by the person hacking into the system was one that controls the amount of sodium hydroxide in the water. The hacker changed the sodium hydroxide from about 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million. This'll is obviously a significant and potentially dangerous increase. Story of hydroxide, also known as a lie is the main angry and liquid drain cleaners. Also used to control water acidity and remove medals from breaking water in the water treatment plants. After the intruder increased the parts per million from 100 to 11,100. The intruder exited the system. The plant operator immediately reduced the level back to the appropriate amount of 100. Because the operator noticed increased and lowered it right away at no time. Was there a significant adverse effect on the water being treated importantly, the public was never.

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