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Household Efforts Yield 40% Emission Reductions Under IIJA, IRA

TL/DR - A Vanderbilt study emphasizes the significance of household actions in reducing carbon emissions, with data from 2021 showing households account for around a third of U.S. CO2 emissions. The researchers concluded that a small proportion of funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021 and Inflation Reduction Act…

Revolutionary Method Improves Influenza Case Count in Healthcare

TL/DR - A study suggests that the traditional definition of health care-associated influenza results in a significant undercounting of cases. The study analyzed data from 5,904 patients hospitalized with influenza from 2012 to 2019; only 2.5% of these cases met the traditional definition of health care-associated influenza. However, when the…