NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD Sunday, March 27, 2022
358th Weekly Edition
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POSTED COVID data 3/27/2022 1:00pm EDT
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Numbers below listed on 3/27/22
USA
NC |
Total
Cases |
New
Cases |
Total
Deaths |
New
Deaths |
Total
Recovered |
Active
Cases |
3-27-22 2,624,305 23,174 2,579,420 21,711
Please forgive the short entry, the floor is yours.
NC Policy Watch, Lisa Sorg, 3/25/2022
If the plastic food container that contained your lunch today winds up in the Neuse River, a local creek, or the Atlantic Ocean, 60 years from now people could find it, reasonably intact. The rest of the container will have degraded into micro-plastics — teeny particles that are visible only under a microscope. Fish or shrimp might have ingested those particles, filling their guts in place of food. People might have unknowingly drunk those plastic particles in water flowing from their taps.
Micro-plastics and their even smaller counterparts, nanoplastics, are a global environmental hazard. They pollute the oceans and rivers — including the Neuse and its tributaries — harming aquatic life, and potentially animals and humans. Yet these pollutants are understudied and in some cases, poorly understood.
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