Welcome back. It's time for a good to know
a seaweed belt that is 5000 miles long. It's
making its way to the shores of South Florida.
The Great Atlantic Sara Gasam Belt has been traveling from
West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico. So you're
probably wondering what is Sagas? I know that's I'm
just wondering. No, it's a type of seaweed
. There you, there you go. It's brown
and leafy and it looks like it has berries dangling
from it. So why is it accumulation of problem
? Well, because when it decomposes it releases gasses
, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide causing a smell almost like
rotten egg. And you know, if you're on
the beaches in Florida, the one thing you want
the most is the smell of rotten getting done.
I mean, look at that like you don't even
really want to go in the water. No.
And so this is why people in Florida actually are
pretty worried about this because in addition to smell,
it's actually incredibly difficult to pick up and clean up
for hotels. Have apparently people around the clock that
are out there just picking up all of this stuff
. So that way it's no longer on the beach
for people when they're out there. All right.
Well, yeah, when you're paying for that vacation
you don't want. Yeah, absolutely not. Meanwhile
, grinder taken more steps to slow the spread of
HIV. The popular LGBT Q plus dating app is
distributing free at home HIV tests to users in the
US. Now. Grinder, partnering with the CDC
. This is part of a new public health initiative
called the Together Take Me Home campaign. So order
uh your test, all you have to do is
go to the app's main menu. Look for the
free HIV home test button, put in your info
and wait for that test kit to come in the
mail. The kit is also pretty easy. It
just, you just swap your gums and it takes
20 minutes for you to get your results. But
I was looking into this even though we know the
numbers of people who are contracting HIV and AIDS is
getting lower and lower. The amount of people who
actually test is incredibly low as well. According to
CD BC report in 2019, less than uh 40%
of people actually tested themselves for HIV. So that
means those who do have it don't know that they
have it. And this was sort of similar to
what we had with the COVID pandemic as well.
If you don't get people test and make it really
easy for people to check their status, people a
lot of people won't even test themselves. And as
a result, you don't know who has it and
who does it. I think this is so responsible
for a grinder, not to mention how many more
people will now test because of this app. And
as you may remember, we've been following the ongoing
drug shortage of adhd medications. Well, a new
report says that the shortage could now pose a national
security risk. The support. The report from Democrats
on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,
state That new drug shortages increased 30% in 2022 from
2021. The shortages are a result of economic factors
like supply chain troubles and reliance on foreign sources.
That's according to the report, the report highlighted how
many drug manufacturers moved overseas in the last several decades
because foreign governments offer tax incentives and have lighter regulations
. You know, if there's one thing I think
our government needs to look at very closely and I
know we have a long long list is prescription medication
in our country, the prices of it, the
shortages and just how so many people Americans are going
across the border to get their hands on these.
What should be simple medications or procedures like those individuals
that, you know, lost their lives in Mexico
just recently, that went down there and a lot
of people go to another country, be it Canada
or Mexico because they're trying to get prescription drugs as 00:03:24.000 --> well.