(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) 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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(We Chinese in America Media Editor Tang Zhao, January 20, 2022) Lu Jianjie shared his secret recipe for relieving symptoms, and suggested continuing epidemic prevention, but if you are hit, you must remain optimistic.
Due to the high infectivity of the mutated virus Omicron, the number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) has soared every day, and many Chinese have also won bids one after another. In the United States, most people with mild symptoms of new coronary pneumonia are required to self-care at home; although most people are not in serious condition, many patients have obvious symptoms and are still quite uncomfortable. After winning the bid, some Chinese people tried various ways to relieve their symptoms and hoped to share their "sick diary" with everyone, hoping that if someone is also unfortunate enough to get sick, they can feel better and recover sooner.
Ken Jianjie, who lives in San Jose and used to run several Japanese restaurants, was recruited in early January. After a period of fighting the virus, he has successfully "turned from yang to yin" a few days ago. He said that in addition to taking OTC medicines that relieve pain and inflammation, he also tried "old Chinese methods" such as gargling with spirits and electric blankets to force sweat.
Lu Jianjie said that he tested at home on January 12 and found the diagnosis, but the actual time, location, and chain of infection are unknown. "But I think it doesn't make much sense to investigate the source of the infection anyway." Eating, entertainment, surfing the Internet, watching TV, and resting did not have much impact, the most intense symptoms were cough and sore throat, "the throat and gums were obviously swollen, very, very painful, almost never before pain."
He pointed out that when the pain was unbearable, he remembered that there was an old pain relief method of gargling with spirits, so he took out Luzhou Laojiao liquor at 52 degrees to try, "However, you can only rinse your mouth, don't swallow it. Go on. After all, when you are sick and taking medicine, you can't drink." After rinsing my mouth, I took painkiller and anti-inflammatory medicine, and then I felt much better, and the pain disappeared. However, because I thought that my health was not very good, I was worried and went to the hospital for examination. After a lot of tossing, I did blood tests and film scans. Fortunately, except for the positive for new coronary pneumonia, there were no major problems. "Nothing was different, and the doctor didn't prescribe any other medicine, so he ordered to drink more water, rest more, and test the virus situation of the new coronary pneumonia in a few days."
After waking up from a nap at noon the next day, I found that my throat and gums were very painful, so I gargled my mouth with white wine again, and took anti-inflammatory painkillers, as well as a cold medicine. In addition, an electric blanket was added, hoping to force the sweat out like a "sauna". "I was sweating profusely, and the effect was good. Later, the coughing situation was also relieved a lot."
On January 14, although I still felt sore throat and gum pain, it was much better, at least more than half of the worst time. He repeated the previous "Old Chinese method", gargling with spirits several times, and then gargling with warm water. In addition, vitamin C is supplemented to enhance resistance, as well as some anti-inflammatory medicines.
He said that the next day, that is, on January 15, when he tested the new COVID virus again, he had successfully changed from positive to negative. Of course, it is likely that he has been recruited for many days, and it is time to turn negative, but his method has indeed relieved his symptoms a lot. "Everyone's experience is different, maybe my method is also helpful for some people. Anyway, when I saw that the test rods were no longer the two winning bids, but only one blue, I was really excited and happy!"
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(We Chinese in America Media Editor Tang Zhao, January 20, 2022) The list of 40 finalists (Finalist) of the 2022 Regeneron Science Talent Search, which enjoys the reputation of "Junior Nobel Prize", was announced on the 20th. There are three Chinese students in the Los Angeles area. In the week-long finals on the 16th, the top 10 will compete for scholarships totaling more than $1.8 million.
The finalists of Chinese American students and research projects in the Los Angeles area are as follows:
Ethan (Yuan) Wong, Arcadia HS, Project Title "Yaw Characteristics of Aircraft with a Bell-Shaped Lift Distribution Built with a Novel Manufacturing" Technique".
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2022 Regeneron Science Prize finalist Wang Yuan from Los Angeles. (Photo from Regeneron STS)
Theodore (Tiqnqi) Jiang, Palisades Charter High School, Los Angeles, project title "Deciphering the Language of Genetic Variants: Using Transformer Language Models to Identify Pathogenic Missense Variants Associated with Human Genetic Diseases and Cancer" (Deciphering the Language of Genetic Variants: Using a Transformer-Based Language Model to Identify Pathogenic Missense Mutations Associated with Human Inherited Diseases and Cancer).
2022 Regeneron Science Prize finalist, Tianqi Jiang from Los Angeles. (Photo from Regeneron STS).
Vivien He, Palos Verdes Peninsula HS, Project Title "Qube: A Low-Cost Internet-of-Things Device for On-Site and Regional Earthquake Warning -Site and Regional Earthquake Early Warning".
2022 Regeneron Science Prize finalist, Vivien He of Los Angeles. (Photo from Regeneron STS)
The Regeneron STS Science Awards, sponsored by the Society for Science, are the oldest and most prestigious science and math competitions for high school students in the United States, recognizing outstanding achievements in science and mathematics by young students. The three finalists in Southern California this year are Chinese students from public high schools in the Los Angeles area. Their research fields cover biomedicine, artificial intelligence, Internet, industrial manufacturing, etc., and they have become the hope of future high-tech in the United States.
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Omicron tests positive. (Photo from Reuters)
(We Chinese in America Media Editor Tang Zhao, January 20, 2022) Many public health officials are heartened by early evidence that infections with the Omicron variant tend to cause milder symptoms compared with other types of the new coronavirus, The New York Times reported. But another important question arises whether infection with Omicron, including breakthrough cases among vaccinated people, can lead to long-term Covid-19 (long Covid), a series of physical, neurological, and cognitive symptoms that can last for months and damage daily life.
It's too early for scientists to understand the relationship between Omicron, vaccination, and long-term Covid-19. Early research in the outbreak did not yield clear clues. Here's what scientists have learned, and many questions that remain to be answered.
Will Omicron cause long-term Covid-19?
Since the Omicron variant was first identified at the end of November last year, it is too early to say how long the infection symptoms will last. It's unclear if the virus, like previous versions of the virus, suffers from problems like brain fog or extreme fatigue after the infection is resolved.
Although recent reports suggest that the initial disease caused by Omicron may be less severe than other mutant strains, the underlying symptoms of infection are like those of other mutant strains, suggesting that long-term effects may also be similar.
Doctors, researchers, and patient-led groups have warned that a milder initial disease does not necessarily mean Omicron is less likely to cause long-term Covid-19. Studies of early outbreaks have shown that many initially mild or asymptomatic individuals with COVID-19 later develop long-term COVID-19 that persists for months.
Can a vaccine prevent long-term COVID -19?
Maybe.
Vaccines are primarily designed to prevent people from becoming seriously ill or dying from the new coronavirus. For some of the previous variants, vaccines appear to reduce the likelihood of infection itself — of course, not getting infected is the best way to avoid long-term Covid-19. But vaccines are not as effective at preventing Omicron infections, and breakthrough infections with this new variant are far more common.
So far, studies of vaccinated and long-term Covid-19 have focused on data collected before the Delta virus variant emerged. The findings were mixed.
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