💬 Quoted… “If the deaths could be ascribed to underlying disease, they will always report it as such and will not count it as a COVID-related death.”

• Public health officials around the world are raising questions about Shanghai's reported Covid death toll, which currently stands at 25 despite a major outbreak in China’s most-populous city over the past two months.

⚡ Stat of the Day: Renewable energy plants produced 97.6% of California's electricity on April 3, a new daily record.

🤯 Did You Know?... The first-ever Earth Day – held 52 years ago today – had a quantifiable impact on America’s priorities as a nation.

• When polled in May 1971, a full quarter of the US population said protecting the environment was an important goal – up 2,500% from when that same question was asked in 1969.
• In the months and years after the first Earth Day, the federal government established the Environmental Protection Agency and passed several key pieces of environmental legislation, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act.

📖 Worth a Read: The First Video-Game 'Easter Eggs' Were an Act of Corporate Rebellion → (The Hustle)