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Study finds electric vehicles provide lower carbon emissions through additional channels
Treatments in weeks, not months: Scientists develop ambitious pandemic response plan
Alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic projected to cause more liver disease and deaths

Study finds electric vehicles provide lower carbon emissions through additional channels

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 06:25 PM PST

A recent study found that the total indirect emissions from the supply of chain of electric vehicles pale in comparison to the same indirect emissions from fossil fuel-powered vehicles.

Treatments in weeks, not months: Scientists develop ambitious pandemic response plan

Posted: 21 Dec 2021 07:26 AM PST

An international team of scientists has created a plan for an accelerated pipeline for developing drug cocktails to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The pipeline could speed new and better treatments that the newly diagnosed and recently exposed could take at home to prevent serious illness.

Alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic projected to cause more liver disease and deaths

Posted: 20 Dec 2021 04:07 PM PST

A one-year increase in alcohol consumption in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to cause 8,000 additional deaths from alcohol-related liver disease, 18,700 cases of liver failure, and 1,000 cases of liver cancer by 2040. A sustained increase in alcohol consumption for more than one year could result in 19-35 percent additional mortality.