(We Chinese in America Media Editor Tang Zhao, January 22, 2022) The medical community found that a sore throat is an early symptom of the new COVID. Public health experts have listed more than 20 common symptoms of new coronary pneumonia, but also confused when to go for screening. Experts now suggest one of the symptoms a person might know they might have been hit before they get screened: a sore throat.

The study found that a sore throat is the first symptom that appears after contracting the new COVID. Allison Arwady, MD, chief of the Chicago Department of Public Health, said that if you have a sore throat, even if the symptoms are not severe, you should stay home unless you test negative after the event, NBC News reported.

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(We Chinese in America Media Editor Tang Zhao, January 21, 2022) Students at Penn's Wharton School generally overestimate the average annual American salary. What is the average annual salary of the average American? Nina Strohminger, a professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, pointed out that when students were asked this question, 25 percent said the average American annual salary should be more than six figures. One student even answered "$800,000, but the actual figure was around $45,000. Regarding the gap between the students' understanding and the real situation, she tweeted: "I really don't know how to look at it."

Nina Strohminge wrote on Twitter on the 19th that Wharton students generally overestimate the annual salary of the average American, which has been warmly echoed by netizens and has become a hot topic on Twitter. Nina Strohminge’s tweet received more than 9,600 comments, and more than 210,000 netizens liked it. Stefanie Stantcheva, an economics professor at Harvard University, responded: "Low-income people think that everyone else is low-income, and rich people think that everyone else is rich."

In an interview with The Washington Post, Ken Jacobs, director of the Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California-Berkeley, said that when estimating the finances of the general population, many People usually think in terms of closeness to their own experience, not based on reality.

Jacobs: "The idea that a salary of 200,000 or 100,000 is considered a normal salary is very strange, because such a figure is so overestimated."

The Washington Post reported that the Wharton School’s annual tuition is about $80,000, and the average annual income of local residents in the western part of Philadelphia, where the school is located, is about 34,000 yuan.

According to the Social Security Administration (SSA), the average annual salary of Americans was $53,383 last year, and the median annual salary was $34,612.

Statistics from the Department of Labor show that the median weekly wage for U.S. workers in the fourth quarter of 2021 was $1,010, which is roughly equivalent to an annual salary of $52,520.

The Washington Post analyzed how the middle-class should be defined in the United States. In recent years, it has been hotly debated by public opinion. The vast majority of people consider themselves middle-class, but many people cannot tell how the middle-class is defined.

The Washington Post reported in 2017 that middle-class households earn between $35,000 and $122,500 a year. The report said that an annual salary of $100,000 is still classified as a middle class, but it is already very extreme, "75% of American households have an annual income below this level.”

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(We Chinese in America Media Editor Tang Zhao, January 21, 2022) British Prime Minister Johnson (Photo from European News Agency), who was caught in the "Party Gate" storm, opened a party of 100 during the lockdown period and was forced by the party and facing a crisis of stepping down. When he was questioned by lawmakers in Parliament on the 19th, he even said "Hello" in Chinese. "It's nice to meet you", and the audience instantly laughed.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) released a video on Twitter on the 19th. Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, accused Johnson in the House of Commons of the British Parliament that day, saying, "tens of millions of British people are now witnessing that the Prime Minister can't even control himself. The basic rules of epidemic prevention set out. In the current public health crisis, he is no longer suitable to formulate epidemic prevention policies for others." "The best anti-epidemic policy now is to resign himself."

In this regard, after Johnson stood on the podium, he even said "Hello" and "Nice to meet you" to Speaker Lindsay Hoyle in Chinese and said that he did not agree with Davey’s statement and would continue to follow the people's concerns about priority governance.

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(We Chinese in America Media Editor Tang Zhao, January 21, 2022) The FDA could approve Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine as soon as next month for children between the ages of six months and five. White House chief anti-epidemic adviser Anthony Fauci said on the 19th that the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expects to approve Pfizer's new COVID vaccine as soon as next month for children aged six months to five years old. If the authorization is passed, the United States will become the youngest country in the world to approve the new Covid vaccine.

Pfizer is still testing its own vaccine on six-month-old infants and will soon file an authorization application with the authorities; the United States is one of the few countries that allows children under 12 to receive the new Covid vaccine, and Pfizer is the only domestically approved vaccine. Vaccines for children; Fauci said: "My hope is that the mandate will pass in the next month or so before it's too late, but I can't guarantee it."

Pfizer announced in December that it had switched to a three-dose trial after a two-dose trial of the vaccine in young children was less than satisfactory; the company said last month that the evaluation of the trial did not have any safety concerns for children in that age group.

The current single-dose dose of the vaccine is 30 micrograms for adults and children over 12 years old, 10 micrograms for 5 to 12 years old, and 3 micrograms for children under five years old, in three doses.

However, according to the statistics of the Federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), since the outbreak of the epidemic in March 2020, the proportion of deaths of minors infected with new coronary pneumonia has been lower than 0.1%, and the risk is relatively low. Of the population, only 259 were children under the age of five.

A University of Utah study published last October found that as many as 50 percent of children were asymptomatic after contracting the virus; the study was conducted at the height of the outbreak of the mutant virus, Delta, when the highly contagious mutant virus Omicron has not yet broken out.

A study published by the CDC last week also showed that regardless of age, Omicron-infected people are half as likely to be hospitalized and 91 percent less likely to die. The need for vaccinations in young children remains to be assessed.

Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO), also does not believe that healthy children need to be vaccinated; she said: "Our goal is to protect the most vulnerable, seriously ill and at highest risk of death, those who are the elderly, the immunocompromised or those with chronic medical conditions, and healthcare workers."

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