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This New Hampshire RAC Executive Team working group is focused on building New Hampshire's resilience and reiterative capacities.

The New Hampshire Resilient American Community (RAC) Executive Team working group is focused on assisting in the development of resilient and regenerative communities of opportunity with social equity that are living within the carrying capacities of their local and bioregional ecosystems in New Hampshire.  One of its main goals in 2022 is to engage actions that will help transition the COVID-19 pandemic toward a more controlled endemic state within New Hampshire's resilient American communities. 

Members

Annette Cole Beth Wheeler Courtney Vashaw DCHarman Ed Shanshala Hank Rappaport
Jan Booher Jeff Booher kvanbergen Lauren Pearson Leah Booher mdmcdonald
mike kraft pames

Email address for group

newhampshire-rac-et@m.resiliencesystem.org

Seafood workers at higher risk for COVID-19--study

UNH Report: Seafood workers at higher risk for COVID-19

Workers in the seafood industry were twice as likely to contract COVID-19 than employees in other food industries, according to a new study from the University of Hampshire.

Tight working conditions on vessels, as well as in seafood processing factories, appears to have played a direct role.

“You have people working, just like in any food processing, in really close quarters, working side by side together, on these food lines,” said Easton White, assistant professor of biological sciences at UNH, who led the study.

White said fishers faced challenges using PPE while onboard vessels, where a wet environment made the use of masks less effective.

The report, published in the journal PeerJ, based its findings on media reports and documented outbreaks between April 2020 and July 2021. ...

 

 

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