Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai analyzed extensive datasets in the United States and found that people who were vaccinated against COVID-19 had fewer heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular problems than those who contracted SARS. -CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.

First US study to show reduced cardiovascular risk of cardiovascular events in patients following SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Analyzing the most comprehensive datasets in the United States, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have revealed the vaccine.[{” attribute=””>COVID-19 is associated with fewer heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular issues among people who were infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

The research letter, “Impact of Vaccination on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients with COVID-19 Infection,” was published on February 20 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In addition, the research will be presented in a poster session in New Orleans, LA, at the American College of Cardiology’s 72nd Annual Scientific Session Together With World Heart Federation’s World Congress of Cardiology.

Figure A is a plot of the probability that patients do not develop MACE versus time since their initial SARS-CoV2 infection, stratified by vaccination status. Figure B is a depiction of hazard ratio associated with MACE according to each examined factor. For example, patients who were fully vaccinated were 59% as likely to achieve MACE compared to patients who were not vaccinated. Credit: Lab of Girish N. Nadkarni, MD, MPH, Icahn Mount Sinai

It is the first study to examine both full and partial vaccination and the link to major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in the United States, confirming similar analyses performed previously using the Korean COVID-19 registry. Researchers used the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) database, the largest national comprehensive database on COVID-19. Since its inception in 2020, the N3C has continuously collected and harmonized data from electronic health records of institutions across the country. Included in this study were 1,934,294 patients, 217,843 of whom received mRNA vaccine formulations by Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna or viral vector technology by Johnson & Johnson. Cox proportional hazards, a statistical technique, was implemented to assess vaccination association with MACE.

“We sought to clarify the impact of previous vaccination on cardiovascular events among people who develop COVID-19 and found that, particularly among those with comorbidities, such as previous MACE, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, liver disease, and obesity, there is an association with a lower risk of complications. While we cannot attribute causality, it is supportive evidence that vaccination may have beneficial effects on a variety of post-COVID-19 complications,” said senior author Girish N. Nadkarni, MD, MPH, Irene and Dr. Arthur M. Fishberg Professor of Medicine at Icahn Mount Sinai, Director of The Charles Bronfman Institute of Personalized Medicine, and System Chief, Division of Data Driven and Digital Medicine (D3M), Department of Medicine.

“To our surprise, even partial vaccination was associated with lower risk of adverse cardiovascular events,” said first study author Joy Jiang, an MD/PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Nadkarni. “Given the magnitude of SARS-CoV-2 infection worldwide, we hope our findings could help improve vaccination rates, especially in individuals with coexisting conditions.”

Further work will be necessary to elucidate the mechanisms involved from an immunological perspective and clarify the role of SARS-CoV-2 subtypes and reinfections in their relationship to the risk of MACE.

Reference: “Impact of Vaccination on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients With COVID-19 Infection” by Joy Jiang, Lili Chan, Justin Kauffman, Jagat Narula, Alexander W. Charney, Wonsuk Oh, GIrish Nadkarni and on behalf of the N3C Consortium, 10 February 2023, Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2022.12.006

Additional co-authors are Lili Chan, MD, MS; Justin Kauffman, BS; Jagat Narula, MD, PhD; Alexander W. Charney, MD, PhD; and Wonsuk Oh, PhD, all from Icahn Mount Sinai.

The work was supported, in part, by funds from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, grant numbers K23DK124645 and T32DK007757, and by the TL1 Career Development Award, 1TL1TR004420-01.

ANTAKYA/ISTANBUL, Turkey, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Turkey has arrested 184 people responsible for the collapse of buildings in this month’s earthquakes and investigations are expanding, a minister said on Saturday. Procedures.

Overnight, the death toll from the earthquakes, the most powerful of which hit Turkey in the dead of night on February 6, rose to 44,128. This took the total number of deaths in Turkey and neighboring Syria to more than 50,000.

160,000 buildings containing 520,000 apartments collapsed or were severely damaged in Turkey, making it the worst disaster in the country’s modern history.

Speaking at a press conference in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, one of the 10 provinces affected by the disaster, Justice Minister Bekir Bostak said more than 600 people were being investigated in connection with the collapsed buildings.

Among those formally arrested and detained are 79 construction contractors, 74 people who take legal responsibility for buildings, 13 property owners and 18 people who have converted buildings.

Many Turks have expressed outrage at what they see as corrupt building practices and flawed urban developments.

Facing the biggest political challenge of his two-decade rule, President Tayyip Erdogan has promised accountability in elections by June.

In Gaziantep province, state broadcaster TRD Haber and other media reported that the mayor of Nurdagi district, a member of Erdogan’s ruling AK Party, was among those arrested as part of an investigation into collapsed buildings.

‘Breaks My Heart’

Nearly three weeks after the disaster, Turkey has no final death toll, and officials have not said how many bodies may still be trapped under the rubble.

A firefighter clearing rubble in the hard-hit city of Antakya said bodies were being found every day.

“It’s very difficult. If a person raises their hand, you can’t tell them to keep working,” said the firefighter, who declined to be identified.

Nearly two million people displaced by the disaster are housed in tents, container houses and other facilities in the region and other parts of the country, according to Turkey’s Disaster Management Authority.

More than 335,000 tents have been erected in the quake zone and container housing complexes have been established in 130 locations, while nearly 530,000 people have been evacuated from the affected areas.

But near Antakya, Syrian Omran Alswed and his family are still living in makeshift shelters.

“Our houses were heavily damaged, so we took shelter here, in a garden near us,” Alswede said.

“The biggest problem is the tents. Even after 19 days, not a single tent is available. We also applied to go to the tent camp but they said the nearby ones are full,” he said.

Turkey’s remaining ethnic Armenian village of Vagifli was badly hit by the quake, with 30 of its 40 stone houses heavily damaged.

“Vakifli is the only Armenian village in Turkey. This is our home. It breaks my heart to see this,” said Masis, a 67-year-old retired jeweler who spent 17 years moving to his hometown. Years in Istanbul.

Turkey and Armenia are still at loggerheads over the 1.5 million people Armenia says were killed by the Ottoman Empire, the predecessor of modern Turkey, in 1915. Armenia calls it genocide.

Turkey accepts that many Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were killed in clashes with Ottoman forces during World War I, but disputes the statistics and denies that it was legitimate.

Editing by Tom Perry, written by Helen Popper

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(CNN) The federal Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Norfolk Southern to stop shipping hazardous waste from a train derailment site in East Palestine, Ohio, so it can review the company’s plans for disposal.

Officials in Texas and Michigan complain they received no warning from contaminated water and soil. The train derailed In East Palestine, Ohio, will be sent to their jurisdictions for disposal.

There were about 2 million gallons of firefighting water from the derailment About half a million gallons are already expected to be disposed of in Harris County, Texas, according to the county’s chief executive.

“It’s a real problem, we were told yesterday that the items are coming today only to learn they’ve been here for a week,” Judge Lina Hidalgo said Thursday.

“EPA will ensure that all waste is disposed of in a safe and legal manner at EPA-certified facilities to prevent further releases of hazardous materials and impacts to communities,” the department said in a statement to CNN on Saturday.

As of Friday, the department said Norfolk Southern was “only responsible for the disposal of waste generated by the East Palestine rail derailment,” but waste disposal plans are “subject to EPA review and approval going forward.”

CNN has reached out to Norfolk Southern for comment.

Contaminated soil from the derailment site is being transported to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Wayne Disposal in Belleville, Michigan, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan said Friday.

He told CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield on Saturday that neither he nor Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer knew about the delivery of toxic waste to disposal sites in his district.

“I called everybody,” Dinkel said, “and nobody really bothered that they were coming here.”

Dingle represents Michigan’s Sixth Congressional District, which has two waste disposal sites.

“When I found out about this yesterday, the first call I got, I immediately assumed the governor’s office would know about it,” he said.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said 4,832 cubic yards of soil had been removed from land in East Palestine and six truckloads were on their way to Michigan.

Complaints widen the controversy February 3 train derailment He left that Residents complain About getting sick after hazardous chemicals seep into the air, water and soil.

National Transportation Safety Board Initial report According to safety board chairman Jennifer Homandy, one of the cars of the train carrying the plastic pellets was found to be heated by a hot mold.

Residents worry that chemicals from the train crash could cause rashes and headaches

As the bearing temperature warmed, the train passed two track fault detectors that did not trigger an audible alarm message because the thermal threshold was not met at that time, Homandy explained. A third detector eventually picked up a higher temperature, but by then it was too late.

“It was 100% preventable. … There was no accident,” Homandy said during a news conference Thursday.

The Texas official learned about the shipment from the news

At a news conference Thursday, Hidalgo expressed frustration that he first learned about Wednesday’s expected water shipment from the news media — not from the government agency or Texas Molecular, which the company hired to dispose of the water.

Hidalgo said Texas Molecular told his office Thursday that half a million gallons of water are already in the county and that shipments began arriving last Wednesday.

He added that while there is no legal requirement for his office to be notified, “it just doesn’t seem right.”

Texas Molecular receives water from trucks, but it’s unclear whether the trucks are used for the entire trip, Hidalgo said. The agency said in its office that it receives about 30 trucks of water per day, he said.

Texas Molecular said Friday that all shipments so far have arrived by truck for the entire trip.

“Texas Molecular does not carry or select a transportation system for water,” Jimmy Bracher, vice president of sales for Texas Molecular-owned VLS Environmental Solutions, said in a statement on CNN Friday evening.

“The company that generates the waste determines/selects who ships the wastewater, and they must be DOT and EPA approved transporters,” Bracher said.

On Thursday, Texas Molecular told CNN it had been hired to dispose of hazardous water from the Ohio train derailment. The company said they are experts with more than four decades of experience in managing water safely.

Hidalgo’s office is seeking information about the disposal, including the chemical composition of the firefighting water, precautions taken and why Harris County was chosen as the site, he said.

Hidalgo said, “There is an accident in traffic, and this is happening in a way that does not match the well, and now there is nothing to say that there is a bad reason for the water. I am coming here, not to the nearest site.” “But it’s our job to do basic due diligence on that information.”

More than 1.7 million gallons of contaminated fluid had been removed from the immediate site of the derailment, according to a Thursday. Press release From the Ohio Emergency Management Agency. Of this, more than 1.1 million gallons of “contaminated liquid” from East Palestine has been transported off-site so far, with most going to Texas Molecular and the rest to a facility in Vickery, Ohio.

CNN has yet to hear back from an Ohio agency asking for the location of the remaining 581,500 gallons, which were “removed” but “not hauled out.”

“We learned about it through the grapevine,” says Tinkel

Wayne County, Michigan, officials have been in contact with various federal and state agencies, including the railroad company involved in the derailment since learning about the shipment of contaminated material, Wayne County Executive Warren C. Evans said. Friday evening press conference. He said Evans County has not received a call from anyone saying this is happening.

“It just seems bad to me to do that to the citizens of Wayne County without knowing it’s coming,” Evans said.

Evans said officials don’t know if the move was “malicious or not,” but “there are disconnects.”

“We found out about it through the grapevine and then we saw Governor DeWine announce it on his platform,” Dingell said at a news conference.

According to Dingle, five trucks have been transported to the area so far, 99% with contaminated water and 1% with contaminated soil. A truck containing soil may have been brought to the area by mid-week, Dingle added.

Railway employees are not at fault, says NTSP chair

Homendi told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday that the 149-car train, operated by Norfolk Southern, had three employees: an engine engineer, a conductor and a coachman all at the engine head.

So far, the investigation has found that the crew did nothing wrong before the derailment, even though the crash was “100% preventable,” he said.

The next phase of the investigation will examine the train’s wheelset and bearings and the damage caused by the derailment, the NTSP report said. Along with maintenance practices and procedures, the company will also focus on designs of tank cars and railcars.

Investigators will also review the train operator’s use of track defect detection and the company’s rail car inspection procedures. More specifically, determining what caused the wheel bearing failure will be key to the investigation, Homandy said.

When the Broncos traded for Russell Wilson last year, one of the ways they rolled out the red carpet for him was to give him his own office in the team facility on the second floor, where the Broncos’ coaches and executives have their offices. Some coaches had a problem with this.

According to a lengthy article by TheAthletic.com about Wilson’s first season in Denver, members of the coaching staff believed that Wilson separating himself from his teammates was bad for locker room camaraderie. A coach told Wilson that his office door was always open, but the coach wondered why a player would have an office with a door.

“Therefore, Are you a coach or are you a player??” the coach asked. “Your open door should be sitting on your locker.”

Another coach said having an office on the second floor separated Wilson from the players.

“The players were always on the first floor; They never actually got to the second floor,” the coach said. “If you’re on the second floor as a player, it’s honestly not a good thing because you’ll probably get released.”

(CNN) A slow-moving winter storm battered the West Coast, flooding highways in Los Angeles and prompting rare blizzard warnings in Southern California.

within it First blizzard warningThe National Weather Service in San Diego said the mountains of San Bernardino County could see 3 to 5 feet of snow by Saturday morning.

A blizzard warning was also issued for Los Angeles and Ventura counties until Saturday afternoon. Some isolated areas could get 7 to 8 feet of snow up to 5 feet. The National Weather Service’s Los Angeles office issued its last blizzard warning on February 4, 1989.

Heavy rain fell on Los Angeles Friday afternoon and flooding closed several roads in the area. The NWS issued a flash flood warning for the city — the second-highest flood warning from the NWS, topped only by a flood emergency.

The lower elevations of the greater Los Angeles area could see 5 inches of rain, while the mountains could see 6 inches. In the San Diego area, low elevations could receive 3 inches of rain, while the mountains could receive 7 inches.

More than 6 million people are under flood warnings, including downtown Los Angeles, Pasadena, Beverly Hills, Burbank and Santa Barbara.

“This storm system will be unusually cold, and the amount of snow will be very low. In fact, areas very close to the Pacific coast and in interior valleys that aren’t used to seeing snow, may see some snow accumulation.” The National Weather Service said Start Friday.

“The worst impacts of flooding and blizzard conditions occur Friday afternoon through Saturday morning, and non-essential or non-urgent travel should be postponed!” The San Diego Weather Service said.

Wind gusts up to 75 mph are possible

The storm has put more than 20 million people under a flood watch and more than 30 million people under a high wind warning across Southern California — nearly two months after Rounds of deadly floods. Maximum gusts could reach 75 mph in the warning areas.

As the storm slips south, up to 6 inches of snow is possible at low elevations and up to 3 feet on the region’s highest peaks before conditions begin to improve by Friday evening.

The Sierra Nevada Mountains could see up to 6 feet of snow Friday through Saturday and in Nevada, a Blizzard warning In effect Friday morning through early Saturday for northwestern Nye County.

“Heavy snow, 60 mph winds, blowing and blowing snow will cause zero visibility,” the weather service warned.

Snow has already hit Mount Santa Cruz, resident Ngugi Kihara told CNN on Friday.

“We’ve never seen so much snow here,” Kihara said. “We woke it up. It started yesterday but took a lot overnight. A lot of trees are down and all the roads around us are closed. The power is out and has been mostly out since Tuesday.”

Power was out in California late Friday, leaving nearly 99,000 customers in the dark, mostly in the northern region, according to power cut. us.

Power outages continue in Midwest

As the storm hit in the west, A Severe, multi-day winter storm After wreaking havoc in several states across the western, northern Great Plains, Great Lakes region, and New England, it began to decline.

More than 640,000 utility customers in Michigan are without power in the state power cut. us And DTE, one of Michigan’s largest electric providers, said most of its customers could not get back online before Sunday.

Twenty percent of DTE’s customers were without power as of Friday afternoon, DTE CEO Jerry Norcia said at a press conference. That’s more than 480,000 customers, according to poweroutage.us.

By the end of the day Friday, the company expects to restore power to 200,000 customers. The utility hopes to have almost all customers back in service by Sunday, Norcia said.

Wayne County is currently hard hit with more than 227,000 customers offline due to this week’s winter storm. Another 112,000 people are without power in nearby Oakland County.

Friday night’s low in the Detroit area was 23 degrees, according to the NWS.

Fierce storm spurs rescue efforts

Several counties in Wyoming have gone into search-and-rescue mode after several days of more than 40 inches of snow fell in southern parts of the state, stranding motorists in heavy snow, the State Highway Patrol said. Twitter.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, saw more than 13 inches over three days this week. More than 160 vehicle crashes were reported statewide, and dozens of cars rolled off the roadway Wednesday, a Minnesota State Patrol spokeswoman said. Tweets.

Minneapolis officials have declared a one-day snow emergency since Friday, and city crews are plowing and treating streets.

Snowfall reached dozens of inches in some cities since the storm began Monday evening, including 48 inches in Battle Lake, Wyoming, 32 inches in Dupuir, Montana, and 29 inches in Park City, Utah.

But snow isn’t the storm’s only culprit. Heavy ice was also dangerous.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, measured 0.65 inches, while Francesville, Wisconsin, measured 0.75 inches of snow.

In New England, ice may have caused a 15-vehicle pile-up on the Massachusetts Turnpike Thursday night, according to a tweet. Massachusetts State Police.

Officials said the chain-reaction crash involved several private vehicles and tractor-trailers. Troopers, firefighters and EMS responded to the incident and several victims had to be taken to the hospital, the tweet said.

South America records hottest temperatures

As the northern parts of the country measure snowfall and snow accumulation, the southeastern parts are experiencing high temperatures.

More than 50 daily highs were recorded in Southeast Thursday.

• St. Simons Island in Georgia recorded a high of 88 degrees, an all-time high for February.
• Tupelo, Mississippi, reached a high temperature of 87 degrees, another February record. The previous high on Wednesday was 84 degrees.
• Raleigh, North Carolina saw a high of 85 degrees, an all-time high for February. The previous record was 84 degrees in 1977.

A squalling winter storm and southern heat wave produced 100-degree temperatures temperature difference Between the Northern Rockies and Southern earlier this week.

CNN’s Jennifer Henderson and Sarah Smart contributed to this report

“Do you work for Goldman Sachs in New York?” asked the judge.

“Yes,” Santos replied.

The New York Republican Party actually had a political future. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a Long Island swing district last November based on a largely fabricated resume that included a claim to have worked at Goldman Sachs, one of the world’s largest investment banks.

A spokeswoman for the bank told the New York Times Its original investigation Santos’ background has no record of him working there. Then he admitted in A New York Post interview He said he “never worked directly” for Goldman Sachs, but had “limited partnerships” with Linkbridge Investors Bank, a financial firm he works for.

Santos now faces investigations by state, federal and international agencies for a range of possible crimes, from campaign finance violations to pet charity fraud. He has refused to resign from Congress despite bipartisan calls for him to step down, arguing that he has not broken any laws, but he has given up committee work, citing “attention surrounding both my personal and campaign finance investigations.”

Santos’ attorney Joe Murray did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Santos appeared at the 2017 trial on Trelha’s behalf using the full name George Anthony DeWalter Santos. He told the judge that if the defendant is released on bail, he will secure an “extended-stay apartment through Airbnb” in Seattle during the trial.

“How do you know this man?” asked the judge.

“We are family friends. Our parents know each other from Brazil,” Santos said.

Trelha served seven months in prison and was later extradited to Brazil in early 2018 and pleaded guilty to criminal access device fraud. In a phone interview, Trelha said Santos also lied about their relationship. Trelha, through a translator, said he met Santos in the fall of 2016 on a Facebook group for Brazilians living in Orlando, Fla., where his mother died in 2012.

Trelha eventually moved into Santos’ Winter Park, Fla., apartment in November 2016, according to a copy of the lease seen by POLITICO. After being transferred to a new position at the hospitality website HotelsPro, Santos moved south from New York City, said Lilian Cabral, who works for HotelsPro in Orlando.

A federal prosecutor who eventually handled the case described the scam as “sophisticated,” saying Trelha’s three-day skimming spree in Seattle was only the “tip of the iceberg.” First reported by CBS News.

A person close to the investigation, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said prosecutors ultimately did not dig too deep. The man did not recall seeing any forensic reports on Trelha’s phone, and said prosecutors were not interested in pursuing any international or domestic co-conspirators.

New York-based lawyer Tiffany Boghossian, a former friend of Santos, helped him duck A theft charge in 2020 Santos said in a Feb. 7 interview with POLITICO that he was an “informant” in Trelha’s case, which used canceled checks to buy puppies from Amish farmers in Pennsylvania.

Santos told Boghossian that the warrant for his arrest in the Pennsylvania case was connected to his work as an informant in the Trelha investigation, he said. Believing his story at the time, Boghossian called Seattle police detective Lawrence Meyer, who did not verify the term “informant” but confirmed that Santos had “pointed them in the right direction” and provided the names of some of the people involved in the loan. Card fraud. POLITICO could not reach the mayor to confirm the exchange.

When Trelha was arrested on April 27, he was caught on security camera removing skimming equipment from a Chase ATM on Pike Street in downtown Seattle. According to arrest documents, he had a fake Brazilian ID card and 10 fraudulent cards in his hotel room. An empty Fed-Ex package found in her rental car led police to the Winter Park apartment she shared with Santos. Drelha declined to say who sent the package from the apartment.

Trelha said his plan is to spend one week skimming numbers and creating fraudulent cards using store-bought gift cards, and another week to make maximum ATM withdrawals with pin numbers captured by skimmers and cameras he installed.

“You go at 11 p.m., you can take it to the max, and then at midnight you take the max again,” he said.

Emily Langley, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, said that sometimes identity and credit card thieves collect numbers far from home, so the stolen numbers are less likely to be linked to criminals later. Langley told Politico that he had no information about Santos’ involvement in the Trelha investigation.

Trelha said that after his arrest in Seattle, he contacted a friend who contacted Santos to help him. “He was American and spoke English, so we thought he could help me a lot,” Trelha recalled. By then, Santos had moved back north to care for his ailing mother.

“Mr. DeWalter lives in New York,” Trelha’s public defender, Virginia Branham, said at the bail hearing. “I’ve spoken with him several times over the past few weeks. This is the second time he’s been out here to help Mr. Trelha. He’s extended his Airbnb stay for Mr. Trelha while this case is pending.” arranged,” Branham said in the post.

Santos told the judge he had known Trelha for “a few years” and that they had “lost contact. [but] I reconnected in Orlando in September of last year when I moved from New York.

Santos said he is staying at the “Space Needle” hotel pending a judge’s bail decision. At the hearing, Trelha’s bail was reduced from $250,000 to $75,000 — still more than the $10,000 his attorney had requested. Trelha said he could not post bail as he did not have a local guarantee.

A Google account under the name George DeWalter posted a negative review in 2017 of a Seattle Domino’s Pizza location near the Space Needle, two miles from the King County Jail, along with reviews of Brazilian restaurants in Queens and rental car companies in Miami.

“Looked at the tracker for 1 hour and didn’t move! Very very very slow Ordered time (night) put on hold for 35 minutes with no answer!!!! Do not order from this store, not worth the increase!!!”

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz set the fastest time in Bahrain on the second morning of Formula 1 2023 pre-season testing, holding off Williams rookie Logan Sargent.

On a warm Friday morning, Haas’ Kevin Magnussen led the opening run with the first rep time, 1m33.710s on Pirelli’s intermediate C3 compound.

Sainz then took the lead with a 1m32.653s effort, which he later improved to 1m32.486s in his C3-shot Ferrari.

The Spaniard improved by four-tenths on Max Verstappen’s Thursday benchmark, with Ferrari continuing to top the top speed rankings.

Sainz’s compatriot Fernando Alonso soon joined him at the front after the Aston Martin driver recorded 1m33.278s and 1m33.182s at the same venue.

4h15 Halfway through the morning session, Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu split the Spaniards to second with a lap of 1m33.170s.

After disappearing into the garage for an hour to work on the front end, Alonso returned to reclaim the spot in the C2s with a 1m32.969s.

Joe’s morning was also a mixed bag, with the Chinese driver disappearing in the garage for a long time, which restricted him to 43 laps.

Freshman Sgt was the last of the 10 morning runners as the American continued to get used to the Williams FW45.

In the final hour, he gradually moved up to second with 1m 32.968s, then clocked 1m 32.549s to within 0.063s of Chainz’s benchmark.

Behind Alonso and Chow, Magnussen finished fifth, the last driver Haas man to stay within a second of the leader, followed by Alpine’s Esteban Ocon.

Friday morning marked the first appearance of Sergio Perez, as only Red Bull did not split between its two drivers on Thursday.

Like team-mate Verstappen on Thursday, Perez put in plenty of testing material in a productive morning on his 2023 Test debut. The Mexican completed 76 laps, in which he was seventh.

Lewis Hamilton had a low-key session for Mercedes, with team principal Toto Wolff eighth, admitting his W14 car was “out of balance” in the unrepresentative morning heat of the overnight Bahrain Grand Prix. Eligibility and Race.

The seven-time world champion returned to the garage for some minor repairs after being one of several cars to have bodywork removed.

Lando Norris was ninth for McLaren, far behind the other runners.

Yuki Tsunoda was the productivity king on Friday morning, logging a whopping 85 laps as he finished bottom of the timesheets.

The trouble-free session allowed the teams to get plenty of mileage and helped Pirelli develop the C3 prototypes.

There was only one stop at the end: a virtual safety car followed by a brief red flag for a systems test by race control.

This led to a pair of exercises, beginning to end the session. At the second start, Norris provided some minor excitement as he overtook Sainz to avoid hitting the McLaren.

After a one-hour meal break, testing resumes at 15:15 local Bahrain time.

(CNN) Russia launches Soyuz spacecraft to replace capsule A coolant leak occurred In December, it left two astronauts and a NASA astronaut without a ride home.

The capsule, called Soyuz MS-23, lifted off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad in Kazakhstan at 7:24 p.m. ET on Thursday, or 5:24 a.m. on Friday. local time.

The uncrewed spacecraft will spend about two days in orbit and maneuver toward the International Space Station.

Soyuz MS-23 will be the return vehicle for cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, who all traveled to the space station in the Soyuz MS-22 capsule in September.

Instead of flying with crew members aboard, Soyuz MS-23 launched Thursday with a “zero-g indicator,” which can be any object left in the cabin and is designed to float freely as the capsule enters microgravity. For this task, the indicator is a teddy bear attached to the cabin by a string.

What causes a coolant leak?

About two months into the trip for the three men, MS-22 experienced a coolant leak that left the cabin at a temperature deemed unsafe for them to use on the return trip. The Russian space agency Roscosmos and NASA quickly worked to establish plans for a launch Replacement vehicle. Roscosmos officials said this resulted in a leak A small hole caused by an impact Small fish

However, plans to launch a recovery vehicle were called into question when the Russian cargo ship Progress experienced a similar coolant leak after docking with the space station. On February 11. Three days later, Roscosmos said in a post on the social media site Telegram. Delay the Soyuz MS-23 launch until at least March The agency investigated the cause of the coolant leak in the Progress vehicle.

On Tuesday, However, Roscosmos said in an updated Telegram post that it had determined that the cause of the Progress spacecraft leak was “external influences.”

“The Russians continue to closely monitor both the Soyuz and Progress coolant leaks,” Dana Weigel, NASA’s deputy space station administrator, said during a briefing Wednesday.

“They created a state commission to assess anomalies,” he added, adding that the team has been analyzing possible causes since the launch of the capsules through their journey into orbit.

Group change

Originally, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara were expected to launch to the space station on March 16 on MS-23.

Instead, Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio’s time on the space station will be extended until they return to Earth on Soyuz MS-23 later this year. According to reports by Russia’s state-run media, that could happen in September Toss.

If that deadline holds, the three crew members will have extended their expected six-month stint in space by a year.

When asked about the long stay, NASA’s space station program manager Joel Montalbano said the crew was in good health and there was no reason to accelerate their journey.

“The crew is ready to help wherever we ask,” Montalbano said during a Jan. 11 news conference. “They’re excited to be in space, excited to work and excited to do the research we’re doing in orbit. So they are willing to do whatever we decide for them.”

He added, “I might have to fly a little more Reward them with ice cream.”

The launch of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft comes just days before NASA and SpaceX launch their Crew-6 mission. Expected to fly early Monday morning, Crew-6 will carry NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoberg, along with United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alnyadi and Roscosmos astronaut Andrey Fedayev.

In a short time The four arrive at the space station, where NASA’s Crew-5 astronauts will return home after a five-month stay. There in the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. NASA officials said this week that coolant leaks in the Soyuz and Progress vehicles will have no impact on SpaceX missions, and that no similar problems have been detected in the Crew Dragon vehicles.

CNN’s Ashley Strickland contributed to this report.