Safe water & sanitation are not universal in rich countries, though we sometimes pretend they are ... even as we point out the deficiencies elsewhere.
That fiction must end. There is plenty of unfinished business at home.
Open access, out today in Lancet Global Health:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X23000062
Something like 60% of people working in school transportation (e.g., bus drivers) are out sick right now. A huge surge in something (covid?) is happening in this area with lots of people not coming in to work.
Media doesn't seem to have picked up on this yet, apart from a few articles like the above.
"How models with advanced natural language processing capabilities can be used to reduce the time-consuming process of writing and revising scholarly manuscripts
These models can capture the concepts in the scholarly text and produce high-quality revisions that improve clarity"
via @greenescientist https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.21.525030v1
Dr Dani Barrington
Richard Sever