Hey did anybody hear anything yesterday to "remember" or "never forget" the day that we entered the global pandemic called #Covid?
It's been 23 years and we still get bombarded with insistence that we never forget 9/11!!
But not one rememberance of Covid.
DEATHS:
7,090,776 - Covid
2,996 - 9/11
ILLNESSES RELATED TO:
65,000,000 - #LongCovid
45,200 - 9/11
If we had a 9/11 every day since March 11, 2020, the total deaths would still not be as many as the deaths from Covid.
#Cancer, #Covid, & #Alzheimers #Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before #RFKJr announced that 10,000 #HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on #NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
#Trump #health #science #medicine #AntiIntellectualism #idiocracy #USpol
https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/
Major funding cuts to the vaccine pipeline announced in the US, but important advances for mucosal Covid vaccines globally:
- 10th mucosal vax reaches phase 2 (in Canada)
- Another human challenge trial as prep for mucosal trials started in Singapore
- Trial results, including one for intranasal vax in kids in China
And lots more in my latest next generation Covid vaccine update now online @PLOS
Mike Masnick compares how the Free Press covered the (misleading-to-false) story of the #Biden admin’s "censorship" of #SocialMedia [actually trying to combat harmful #disinformation like #election & #COVID #lies & #ConspiracyTheories or #HateSpeech like #WhiteSupremacy], to how they handled the very real #censorship attack on #Wikipedia by #Trump’s DC #USAttorney #EdMartin.
Spoiler: there are differences.
#law #tech #moderation #dictatorship #FourthEstate #journalism
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/government-actually-threatens-wikipedias-editorial-freedom-self-proclaimed-free-speech-warriors-suddenly-have-other-plans/
Questions about #covid that many people have and may not understand... And they matter and I've asked them too.
#Surgical vs #n95 #masks and #one way masking , with links to the studies and info in it, feel free to read of you are interested:
https://airsupportproject.com/does-one-way-masking-work-covid-19-series/
And info on the fight to improve infection control standards in #healthcare settings with #HICPAC and #CDC and #Hospitals etc
Mask discomfort and ignorance are no excuse. 6 years now. #COVID affects everyone. Best finds: Moldex Airwave 4800 #N95 which has excellent #Breathability (I'm a severe asthmatic) and my kid loves the black Bluna #KF94 with adjustable ear straps, he adds a nose foam stickers. U with us, u mask too.
Noticing a lot more coughing people on trains in #Japan recently too. Bet it's surging here too #Covid #covid19 https://www.nationthailand.com/health-wellness/40050177
We the People™ have 3 days, starting May 20, 2025, to write a public comment to the FDA about why #COVID-19 boosters should be available to everyone and also free of charge, as a public service benefiting public health.
Select "Individual consumer" as the most likely category.
But thanks to Trump & MAGA-GOP, 👋🏼COVID vax for Americans. #TimingIsEverything
“CDC's airport screening program has detected multiple cases of the new #COVID -19 variant NB.1.8.1, which has been linked to a large surge of the virus in China.
Cases linked to the NB.1.8.1 variant have been reported in arriving international travelers at airports in Calif, Wash state, Va & NYC area”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-reports-cases-new-covid-variant-nb-1-8-1-behind-surge-china/
"US Health and Human Services #RFKJr announced Tuesday said the #COVID vaccine will no longer be among the recommended vaccines for pregnant women and healthy children on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s immunization schedule." https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/health/covid-vaccine-pregnant-women-children-recommendation?cid=ios_app
GREAT NEWS! The Covid Safety Handbook audiobook is now accessible online for public library patrons across North America!
Our book shows you how to stay safe while RFK Jr destroys US #Covid prevention
Library link: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/17724785
Find more versions here: https://linktr.ee/covidbook
RFK Jr. says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy pregnant women.
Yet doctors have found that stillbirths can result from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta — even for people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent.
#News #Covid #Vaccines #RFKJr #PublicHealth #Health #Pregnancy #Women
We continue to avoid the key lesson of #COVID - we have to sanitize our exhaled waste air like we sanitized our waste food & water in the 19th century.
Until we centralize air sanitization into HVAC, we won't defeat airborne diseases like covid, flu & RSV. And many others.
ASHRAE has given us standards. Now we need the will and capital to implement them ubiquitously.
Lessons from the COVID experience - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Just in time for #RFKJr to make sure we don't get a vax! Wee!
⚠️"New #COVID variant NB.1.8.1 gaining momentum globally has landed in US
...more transmissible than the dominant strain worldwide, LP.8.1, meaning..potential to drive up cases this summer.
...a rise in cases in several parts of the world, including Eur, SE Asia, N & S America" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/new-covid-variant-nb181-vaccines-cases-what-know-rcna209465
The American Public Health Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and several other major medical organizations are suing U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy over vaccines. Also listed as a plaintiff is an anonymous pregnant woman who lives in Massachusetts, where the suit was filed, and who says she was unable to get a COVID-19 vaccination after Kennedy changed the recommendations. Dr. Jason Goldman, president of the American College of Physicians, which is also involved with the suit, said during a briefing on the matter that adults who come to his practice are “hesitant” about vaccines. “They are not trusting the system anymore, and this is a direct impact on the health of our patients, because if they don’t get vaccinated, they can get sicker, they can end up hospitalized or even die."
#Health #Medicine #Science #Vaccines #RFKJr. #RobertFKennedy #HealthSecretary #COVID
Just published from my archives, an interview with KD Drackert, a local Long #Covid activist, #LGBTQIA+ performance artist and all-around fab person. They are a founder of our mask bloc/air filter lending library, Clear the Air ATX.
Read it: https://www.patreon.com/posts/lefts-forgotten-132515558
(Free! No Patreon login/membership necessary)
(📷Kit O'Connell, January 2024 at the @TexasObserver office)
#LongCovid #health #HumanRights #activism #Texas #Austin #politics #USpol #RFKJr #Trump #CovidIsNotOver #MutualAid
