Arizona man steals dozens of coronavirus testing kits from health clinic

A man stole dozens of coronavirus testing kits from an Arizona health clinic Friday while posing as a delivery driver, authorities said.

The man entered the El Rio Health Center in Tucson just before 8 p.m. as employees were getting ready to close, Tucson police said. He took 29 of the highly sought-after COVID-19 test kits and drove off in a reddish Dodge Charger or similar-style car.

Health center employees noticed the unused kits were missing the following morning, police said.

Surveillance images show the suspect, who police say is described as a Hispanic male in his 30s with a large build. He appears to have a full, dark-colored beard with some graying.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-man-steals-coronavirus-testing-kits

Watch the Water

Pentagon cleanup of toxic 'forever chemicals' likely to last decades

A recent report from the Pentagon says it may take decades to remove toxic “forever chemicals” from the water supply near military bases following a surge in the number of sites with suspected contamination.

The Defense Department now has 651 sites it suspects could be contaminated with PFAS, a class of chemicals used in a number of everyday products and in fire fighting foam used by the military.

That’s a more than 50 percent jump from earlier tallies, an increase revealed in a report this past week from the Pentagon’s PFAS Task Force.

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Now the military must test each site for PFAS, identify how the chemical has spread and craft a plan to remove it – a process that could stretch over 30 years.

“We’ve been pretty clear that the 651 [figure] is where [PFAS] may have been used, which means we need to go in and investigate. So we just don’t know at this point that at all 651 there has been an actual release into the environment,” Maureen Sullivan, the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for environment, told The Hill.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/488723-pentagon-cleanup-of-toxic-forever-chemicals-likely-to-last-decades