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As Mississippi’s looks ahead to the long, difficult task of converting declining transmission of the virus into a final victory over COVID-19, emerging scientific evidence is piling up in support of airborne transmission as a significant—and perhaps primary mode of infection for the virus, experts say.
The central U.S. has freezes, heat waves, windstorms, droughts and floods. All of these events stress the electric grid, pipeline networks, roads, rail and waterways. Right now in my state of Texas, ERCOT, a nonprofit corporation that manages the power grid for most of the state, is imposing rolling blackouts because demand for electric heating is very high. So is the Southwest Power Pool, which serves customers in 14 states from North Dakota to Oklahoma.
It is extremely disheartening when I read the comment section on social media any time COVID-19 is discussed. It hurts to see people who just
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