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...Senate votes on June 27 of last year. On about June 13, according to The Washington Post, Foster says he told Thomas A. Scully, the Bush-appointed Medicare administrator, that the White House numbers were many billions off the mark. Foster also says he sent his calculations to Doug Badger, the administration’s top health policy analyst, and to executives within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of Health and Human Services...
...rail up to Shenzhen and Guangzhou to carry out fieldwork. It was Yi, along with the Shenzhen Centers for Disease Control, who in May took samples from Shenzhen's Dongmen Market and made the discovery that the masked palm civet, as well as the raccoon dog and hog badger, carried a virus remarkably similar to the SARS coronavirus. That research, initially hailed as a breakthrough in establishing the zoonotic origins of SARS, resulted in the Guangdong government temporarily banning the sale of civets. For Yi this should have been a crowning moment...
When Yi brought those samples back to Hong Kong, a frightening picture started to emerge. Not only was he again finding the SARS coronavirus in a host of animals--the civet cat, as well as various types of badger--he was astonished, when he did the genomic sequencing, to observe that these coronaviruses had actually mutated to become more similar to the SARS coronavirus samples taken from humans during the outbreak one year ago. All this confirmed that the disease that had infected humans was again at large. The animals that showed the highest infection rate by far were...
...Shenzhen and Guangzhou to carry out his fieldwork. It was Yi, along with the Shenzhen Centers for Disease Control (CDC), who in May took samples from Shenzhen's Dongmen Market and made the discovery that the masked palm civet, as well as the raccoon dog and hog badger, carried a virus remarkably similar to the coronavirus that causes SARS. That research, initially hailed as a breakthrough in establishing the zoonotic origins of SARS, resulted in the Guangdong government temporarily shutting down the wildlife markets and banning the sale of civets. For Yi, who attended medical school at Nanchang Medical College...
...very difficult non-conference schedule comes with the program, including a game at UNH, two matches in Schenectady versus Minnesota-Duluth and a holiday trip to Madison for the Badger Showdown—a tournament that includes UMass-Lowell and Ferris State, in addition to host Wisconsin...