![]() Over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, ICE detention facilities have wrestled with a growing number of positive cases, totaling more than 19,879 confirmed cases and nine deaths. The Department of Homeland Security is administering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as part of an effort to scale up vaccinations at Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, ICE told CNN in a statement. “Today the agency authorized the use, under the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine, of an additional batch of vaccine drug substance manufactured at the Emergent facility,” the FDA said. The FDA has been giving extra scrutiny to batches produced at the facility, which are shipped to other facilities to be put into vials and finished. Ingredients that could have made up to 15 million vaccine doses were spoiled by contamination. After a mix-up earlier this year that involved ingredients for Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine and AstraZeneca’s vaccine, production was stopped and AstraZeneca moved its contract work elsewhere. The manufacturing facility has not yet received full FDA authorization to produce Johnson & Johnson doses. This is the fifth batch produced by the facility to be authorized, the FDA said in a statement, but did not say how many vaccines the newly authorized batch would account for. Additionally, any predicted CIR or CH HSS influences are explained in more detail in the forecast discussion.The US Food and Drug Administration authorized another batch of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine ingredients on Tuesday from the troubled Emergent BioSolutions facility in Baltimore. SWPC forecasters take into account any possible effects of CIR and CH HSS activity when forecasting the anticipated levels of overall planetary geomagnetic response for each 3-hour synoptic period over the next three days as detailed in the 3-day forecast. The larger and more expansive coronal holes can often be a source for high solar wind speeds that buffet Earth for many days.īecause of their potential for escalated geomagnetic activity and possible storming (G1 or higher), forecasters analyze coronal holes closely and also note them on the daily synoptic drawing. Geomagnetic storms are classified using a five-level NOAA Space Weather Scale. Strong CIRs and the faster CH HSS can impact Earth’s magnetosphere enough to cause periods of geomagnetic storming to the G1-G2 (Minor to Moderate) levels although rarer cases of stronger storming may also occur. Generally, coronal holes located at or near the solar equator are most likely to result in any CIR passage and/or higher solar wind speeds at Earth. After passage of the CIR and upon transition into the CH HSS flow, the overall IMF strength will normally begin to slowly weaken. As the CH HSS begins to arrive at Earth, solar wind speed and temperature increase, while particle density begins to decrease. The CIR can result in particle density enhancement and interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) strength increases preceding onset of the CH HSS. From the perspective of a fixed observer in interplanetary space, the CIR will be seen to lead the coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). As the high speed stream interacts with the relatively slower ambient solar wind, a compression region forms, known as a co-rotating interaction region (CIR). ![]() Persistent coronal holes are long-lasting sources for high speed solar wind streams. It is also possible for coronal holes to develop in isolation from the polar holes or for an extension of a polar hole to split off and become an isolated structure. Coronal holes are most prevalent and stable at the solar north and south poles but these polar holes can grow and expand to lower solar latitudes. The more persistent coronal holes can sometimes last through several solar rotations (27-day periods). ![]() This open, magnetic field line structure allows the solar wind to escape more readily into space, resulting in streams of relatively fast solar wind and is often referred to as a high speed stream in the context of analysis of structures in interplanetary space.Ĭoronal holes can develop at any time and location on the Sun, but are more common and persistent during the years around solar minimum. They appear dark because they are cooler, less dense regions than the surrounding plasma and are regions of open, unipolar magnetic fields. Coronal holes appear as dark areas in the solar corona in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft x-ray solar images. ![]()
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