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No lockdown and a vaccine within three months: what we can learn from America s 1957 pandemic

Asian flu vaccine being shipped by helicopter across the US  Credit: Walter Sanders/The LIFE Picture Collection In 1957, writes Niall Ferguson, the United States was hit by one of the deadliest pandemics in history – Asian flu. More than a million died worldwide. Yet there was no state of emergency; no lockdowns; no school closures. Hospitals were cleared for the sickest, and the rest were told to stay at home and drink fruit juice. President Eisenhower asked Congress for just $2.5 million in aid to public health, a tiny sum compared with the several trillion spent in response to Covid-19. But the most striking thing about the pandemic of 1957 is that no one remembers it, that it left almost no mark on its generation. Why?

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Japan plans to release Fukushima s contaminated water into the ocean | Science

The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images Japan plans to release Fukushima’s contaminated water into the ocean Apr. 13, 2021 , 10:25 AM Japan announced today it will release 1.25 million tons of treated wastewater contaminated by the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean. The government said it is the best way to deal with tritium and trace amounts of other radionuclides in the water. “Releasing the treated water into the sea is a realistic solution,” Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said at a Cabinet meeting endorsing the plan. “We will do our utmost to keep the water far above safety standards.” A Japanese government official later clarified that details of the release need to be worked out and approved. Gradual, trial releases could start in 2 years and might take 40 years to complete.

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