What is leading the evening news today tells you exactly why we are so screwed up.
Things that were more deserving of the first 5+ minutes:
-Worsening Covid crisis
-Haitian refugee crisis and their maltreatment
-supply chain breaking.

Domestic violence makes for titillating media coverage, but that surely hasn’t changed laws or enforcement or made women safer. Image
Reference: researchgate.net/publication/71…

Numbers 1976-2002, but gun laws have become more lax since then.

The decrease in murders in black women is likely from wholesale incarceration of black men.
I am terribly sorry for the families involved. But we need to question why the media heap attention on missing/murdered white women and mostly ignore women of color.

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24 Sep
In case you are wondering about the ACIP (the people who decide on national immunization recommendations):

11 of the 15 members were appointed by Alex Azar, Trump’s Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/…
4 of them were appointed during Trump’s last month in office, at a time when the maniacs at the Great Barrington Declaration were determining White House policy.
So if you are wondering why we aren’t getting boosters, this is likely part of the problem.
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22 Sep
Donald is back to bullying @MaryLTrump

Now he is suing her for releasing tax documents that were legally hers, part of discovery from when she sued him for defrauding her out of her inheritance. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
If you haven’t read Mary’s book (you should), you can get a gist of the awfulness of her uncle from this article. nytimes.com/2016/01/03/us/…
If you are paywalled: here it is covered in Mother Jones: motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
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21 Sep
Pediatric COVID admissions are spiking in Ohio, and we already are one of the worst states for pediatric hospitalizations. Nine children have died of COVID in Ohio already. @GovMikeDeWine needs to do something.
cleveland.com/coronavirus/20… pediatric admissions for COVID are spiking in Ohio
Pediatric ID specialist Dr. Amy Edwards at Rainbow Babies Children's Hospital in Cleveland expects both the pediatric ICU and medical floors to be overwhelmed by the end of September or early October.
Note that a hospital stay for a kid with COVID-19 can last from several days to several weeks, especially if they are in the ICU. So this is going to have long-lasting impact on the ability of pediatric hospitals to continue to provide care for all kids.
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18 Sep
Honest question: why do husbands think their wives are telepathic?

Who the hell is Henry and for how much? Image
And of course I tried calling him like 60 seconds after he texted that, and he didn’t pick up.
Update: Image
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18 Sep
I think pediatricians are jaded and don’t understand how miraculous pediatric hospital care really is. If they did they would be fighting harder to protect their hospitals.

I trained in med/peds, which means I did a combined residency in both internal medicine and pediatrics.
I am board certified in both pediatrics and internal medicine.

By and large, a large share of patients treated at adult hospitals have a limited lifespan as a result of age or severity of disease.

This isn’t the case in pediatric hospitals.
This is why I keep screaming from rooftops about flattening the pediatric covid curve.

We need to preserve our pediatric hospitals’ ability to care for EVERY child that needs care.

This really matters.
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17 Sep
So, GOP legislature in Ohio wants to get rid of all vaccine mandates. I knew this was going to happen.

If you are in Ohio, please call your Ohio state house representative.

I can't find my old tweet about it, but I predicted it.

This is a war on public health.
WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS EVEN MEAN?
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