🇨🇳🦠📹 — Over the past days, an emerging large outbreak of pneumonia appeared on Mainland China, with pediatric hospitals located at the Chinese Capital, Beijing, and in Liaoning (Southern Manchuria) being overwhelmed with sick children, causing on many schools to be suspended.
According to local reports, the lobbies of main hospitals at the outbreak could be linked to Mycoplasma pneumoniae, also known as “walking pneumonia”, which is reportedly surging as Mainland China enters its first winter without its Zero COVID-focused lockdown in action
➡️ However, first reports of pneumonia cases in children in Mainland China appeared on October 24, 2023, as reported by China Daily, as Zhou Huixia, director of the children's medical center at the Seventh Medical Center of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital, said during an interview with China Daily that the number of mycoplasma pneumoniae infections were rising rapidly increasing since August.
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"The wave has appeared particularly ferocious since the National Day holiday in early October," she said. "Compared to previous years, we found more patients with mixed infections, drug resistance and lobar pneumonia.
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The village of Piddington has voted for independence from the United Kingdom and to become a self governing village in a landslide vote.
91% Voting Leave
This comes after news that over 3,000 illegal migrants are to be dumped in their village.
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🇺🇸🛢 The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has fallen to 283.8M barrels, its lowest level since October 1982.
A year ago, September 2025, the SPR held 406 million barrels.
The current drawdown traces back to a 172 million-barrel release President Trump authorized in March, part of a coordinated 400 million-barrel release by 32 IEA member countries. Discharge began about a week later and was expected to take roughly 120 days, with the administration pledging to refill about 200 million barrels within a year at no cost to taxpayers.
Two different floors govern how far the reserve can fall. Federal law sets an operational minimum of 252.4 million barrels, while the generally accepted operational minimum is 250 to 300 million barrels on hand to pump and process oil efficiently, a level it is now testing.
Ben Cahill, an energy analyst at the Atlantic Council, has warned the releases carry diminishing returns: "at a certain point it becomes a self-defeating move, because releasing more...