Masks are back in high demand: "We can't keep them on shelves longer than a day"
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Mask shortages could loom once again as the highly contagious Delta variant continues to spread across the U.S. and more individuals start to heed renewed government advice to wear masks indoors and in high-transmission settings again.
Some cities, states and businesses have implemented mask mandates, too, helping to drive up sales of cloth and surgical masks as well as medical-grade respirators, once reserved for hospital and frontline workers. Demand for different mask varieties has soared over the past few weeks in tandem with a sharp rise in COVID-19 case numbers tied to the Delta variant of the coronavirus, according to manufacturers and market experts.Billions of cicadas are emerging across about 16 states in the Southeast and Midwest. Periodical cicadas used to reliably emerge every 13 or 17 years, depending on their brood. But in a warming world where spring conditions arrive sooner, climate change is messing with the bugs' internal alarm clocks.
Senate Democrats to unveil package to protect IVF as party makes reproductive rights push this month
Washington — A group of Senate Democrats is set to unveil a new package to protect access to IVF on Monday, as the party makes a push around reproductive rights this month — two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.