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Pitt & Carnegie Mellon Study: States With Mask Mandates Had Fewer Covid Cases

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Click above to enlarge The Pittsburgh Post Gazette reported on Monday that - Seema Lakdawala, who runs a lab studying virus transmission at Pitt’s School of Medicine, and Rebecca Nugent, a data and statistics professor at CMU, have been researching the impact of mask mandates at the state level since the beginning of the pandemic.  Their latest study, which began … [Read more...] about Pitt & Carnegie Mellon Study: States With Mask Mandates Had Fewer Covid Cases

Montco GOP Mum On Trump Claim Of 78,000 Phantom Vote

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It's not every day of the week that a former president of the United States mentions Montgomery County, PA in a letter to the Wall Street Journal.And because that former president happens to be a Republican who is claiming that "A canvass of Montgomery County has identified 78,000 phantom voters, with roughly 30% of respondents unaware that there are people registered and … [Read more...] about Montco GOP Mum On Trump Claim Of 78,000 Phantom Vote

Ben Franklin Tried To Convince Colonial Anti-Vaxxers To Get Inoculated For Smallpox

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An article published in theconversation.com draws parallels to the resistance that many in Colonial America had toward the "new technology" of the Smallpox Vaccine, with the vaccine hesitancy that is killing Americans, now.The authors, Mark Canada and Christian Chauret note that in 1721, the Congregational minister, Cotton Mather who they describe as "the most influential man … [Read more...] about Ben Franklin Tried To Convince Colonial Anti-Vaxxers To Get Inoculated For Smallpox