Which has gotta make you wonder -- what's coming up in this meeting?
Wow, it is 8:45 a.m., on a Friday and we've had so much news.
And USPS's board of governors is about to meet in 15 minutes, and I have a feeling things could get feisty.
And we have another USPS story that will drop today, and I think lots of folks will read.
Buckle up.
Which has gotta make you wonder -- what's coming up in this meeting?
This is BIG. This NEVER happens at board of governors meetings. The board HATES exposing public fissures. This a massive fault line.
Wow.
Holy cow.
"I ask why this change needs to be implemented now. Why not wait until management implements the impressively innovative changes in the rest of the [Delivering for America] plan?"
Will that change USPS policy, or the way USPS conducts its business? We shall see.
Here it is.
USPS will pay DeJoy's former company, XPO Logistics, $120 million to take over two key sorting facilities.
Meanwhile, DeJoy maintains significant financial ties to XPO.
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Microorganisms in biofilms are enclosed by an extracellular matrix that confers protection and improves survival. Previous studies have shown that viruses can secondarily colonize preexisting biofilms, and viral biofilms have also been described.
...we raise the perspective that CoVs can persistently infect bats due to their association with biofilm structures. This phenomenon potentially provides an optimal environment for nonpathogenic & well-adapted viruses to interact with the host, as well as for viral recombination.
Biofilms can also enhance virion viability in extracellular environments, such as on fomites and in aquatic sediments, allowing viral persistence and dissemination.
Viruses and other pathogens are often studied as stand-alone entities, despite that, in nature, they mostly live in multispecies associations called biofilms—both externally and within the host.
https://t.co/FBfXhUrH5d

Microorganisms in biofilms are enclosed by an extracellular matrix that confers protection and improves survival. Previous studies have shown that viruses can secondarily colonize preexisting biofilms, and viral biofilms have also been described.

...we raise the perspective that CoVs can persistently infect bats due to their association with biofilm structures. This phenomenon potentially provides an optimal environment for nonpathogenic & well-adapted viruses to interact with the host, as well as for viral recombination.

Biofilms can also enhance virion viability in extracellular environments, such as on fomites and in aquatic sediments, allowing viral persistence and dissemination.
