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• Because renewable propane is chemically identical to regular propane, it provides all of the same benefits and can be used for all the same purposes.
• The Salinas propane company has been providing propane for all of these uses for residential, commercial, and agricultural needs since 1980.
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• CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bank of America Corporation announced today that it will redeem on April 25, 2023 all €2,000,000,000 principal amount outstanding of its Floating Rate Senior Notes, due April 25, 2024 (ISIN: XS1811433983; Common Code: 181143398) (the " Notes").
• The Notes were issued under the Bank of America Corporation U.S.$65,000,000,000 Euro Medium-Term Note Program.
• Payment of the redemption price for the Notes will be made in accordance with the applicable procedures of Euroclear Bank SA/NV and Clearstream Banking, S.A.  Bank of America, N.A.
• (operating through its London Branch) is the Principal Agent for the Notes and Bank of America Europe DAC (formerly known as Bank of America Merrill Lynch International DAC, successor by merger to Bank of America Merrill Lynch International Limited, Dublin branch, as successor to Merrill Lynch Equity S.à r.l.)

• NEW YORK, March 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BGC Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq: BGCP) ("BGC Partners" or "BGC" or the "Company"), a leading global brokerage and financial technology company, today announced that it has updated its outlook for the quarter ending March 31, 2023.
• Accordingly, BGC's revenue and pre-tax Adjusted Earnings for the first quarter of 2023 are now expected to be slightly below the midpoint of the range of its previously stated outlook.
• The Company's outlook was contained in BGC's financial results press release issued on February 27, 2023, which can be found at http://ir.bgcpartners.com .
• In addition, Adjusted Earnings calculations exclude certain gains and charges that management believes do not best reflect the ordinary results of BGC.

• These illnesses, from the common cold to pneumonia, have been a plague on mankind throughout history.
• Most are caused by viruses, so if you’ve ever been told “you probably have a virus” by a clinician, they were likely correct.
• Respiratory infections are the leading cause of death in children under 5 globally and a major reason for hospitalization of children in developed countries.
• As a pediatric infectious disease specialist and virologist, I have led my team in HMPV research for over 20 years, and I’ve personally cared for many children with this infection.

Origins of human metapneumovirus

• The human metapneumovirus was isolated from people with acute respiratory infection and sequenced in 2001 using a combination of specialized culture and molecular techniques.
• Third, genetic analysis by several different groups shows that the closest recent ancestor of HMPV is a bird virus, avian metapneumovirus.
• Evolutionary and genetic analysis suggests that the human virus diverged from the bird virus several hundred years ago.

HMPV in children

• Initial research groups focused on children and quickly discovered that HMPV caused respiratory infections in children worldwide, including Canada, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, South Africa and Argentina.
• Indeed, HMPV is a common cause of acute respiratory disease in children in every country examined, and most children get the infection for the first time by age 5.
• Children with underlying risk factors, such as those born prematurely and those with conditions like asthma,
  or those who have compromised immune systems, such as organ transplant recipients or children being treated for cancer, are at higher risk for severe HMPV.

Not just for kids

• This is especially true in adults over 65 years old, or those with underlying conditions.
• HMPV and RSV were more common than the flu in people 65 and older, presumably because many were vaccinated against the flu.
• Another national study of adults hospitalized for pneumonia showed that HMPV was as common as RSV, and nearly as common as influenza.

Why HMPV is still so underrecognized

• Despite being a common cause of serious respiratory disease, HMPV remains underdiagnosed by clinicians and little recognized by the general population.
• Most people with an acute respiratory illness don’t get any testing, and if they do, only complex molecular testing can detect HMPV.
• But HMPV circulates predictably every year, and in North America the peak is typically February through May.

A dearth of treatments

• Right now, there are no specific antiviral drugs to treat HMPV as there are for flu and COVID-19.
• As with the many other respiratory viruses that cause colds, most infected people will do just fine with rest and fluids.