Study offers tips to reduce COVID transmission on airplanes
A new study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign identifies the optimal conditions to reduce the risk of COVID transmission on airplanes.
BALTIMORE, MD, October 15, 2024 – The opioid epidemic is a crisis that has plagued the United States for decades. One central issue of the epidemic is inequitable access to treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), which puts certain populations at a higher risk of opioid overdose.
The supply chain for many small parcel shipping companies is typically long. Products are often made in distant lands, travel on oceans and waterways, arrive at ports, are then transported to warehouses, from where a third-party logistics provider delivers the product to its intended destination. In a stable world, shippers and customers alike can expect a product to be delivered within the promised time window. However, in a world facing high levels of uncertainty caused by war, pandemic, political instability, raw material shortages, freak accidents (recall the regional and national impact of the bridge collapse in the Port of Baltimore caused by a container ship), and weather, the shipper must work overtime to ensure customer expectations are met at no additional cost, despite these uncertainties.
The minimum wage is getting lip service on the campaign trail. Well-intentioned plans can backfire, Christopher Tang writes in a guest commentary.
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A new study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign identifies the optimal conditions to reduce the risk of COVID transmission on airplanes.
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CATONSVILLE, Md. — Does your credit score really go down if you check on it too much? A new study suggests it actually does, but only if it’s sinking already.
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