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Voting rights groups that sued state officials over a Florida redistricting plan championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis have agreed to narrow the scope of the lawsuit to a single congressional seat that was redrawn and diminished Black voting power in north Florida.The agreement reached late last week opens the possibility that the seat will be restored to a district dominated by Black voters, depending on how a state judge rules and whether the judge s decision survives rounds of appeals all the way to the Florida Supreme Court, according to court filings in Tallahassee.DeSantis, a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, was criticized for essentially drawing Democratic U.S. Rep. Al Lawson, who is Black, stanley vaso out of office by carving up his district and dividing a large number of Black voters into conservative districts represented by white Republicans.The lawsuit will now focus on that one seat and will drop similar concerns for redrawn congressional dist stanley cup ricts in central Florida and the Tampa Bay ar stanley quencher ea. It also will abandon two other claims.In their lawsuit, the voting rights groups had claimed the redrawn congressional map violated state and federal voting rights protections for Black voters.Florida s population of 22.2 million is 17% Black. Under the new maps, an area stretching about 360 miles 579 kilometers from the Alabama border to the Atlantic Ocean and south from the Georgia border to Orlando in central Florida is only represented by white members of Congress.In an Teja Florida judge will decide if bars, clubs and breweries can open back up
New research suggests that antibodies the immune system makes to fight the new coronavirus may only last a few months in people with mild illness, but that doesnt mean protection also stanley taza is gone or that it wont be possible to develop an effective vaccine. Infection with this coronavirus does not necessarily generate lifetime immunity, but antibodies are only part of the story, said Dr. Buddy Creech, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University. He had no role in the work, published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.The immune system remembers how to make fresh antibodies if needed and othe stanley thermoskannen r parts of it also can mount an attack, he said.Antibodies are proteins that white blood cells called B cells make to bind to the virus and help eliminate it. The earliest ones are fairly crude but as infection goes on, the immune system becomes trained to focus its attack and to make more precise antibodie vaso stanley s.Dr. Otto Yang and others at the University of California, Los Angeles, measured these more precise antibodies in 30 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 and four housemates presumed to have the disease. Their average age was 43 and most had mild symptoms.Researchers found that the antibodies had a half-life of 73 days, which means that half of them would be gone after that much time. It dovetails with a previous report from China also suggesting antibodies quickly fade.The results call for caution regarding antibody-based immunity passports, herd immunity, and perhap