PROFITEERING—“Schools that install safety pods can see an increase in revenue due to higher enrollment, as parents feel secure in dropping their children off at schools that offer greater protection from active shooters”. Only in America. 🤦🏻♂️ #EndGunViolence
2) this shit is REAL. my next reaction — will rich private schools that can afford these dystopian bunkers be able to buy enough for all kids? If not, will teacher have to choose which kids get bunker protection and which do not? It’s messed up.
The gun-industry propaganda that “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” is completely destroyed by the shocking #Uvalde school videos — and by the testimony of these brave kids who watched the police do nothing for 77 minutes.
Listen to this disturbing call between NRA leaders shortly after the Columbine mass shooting.
It was leaked to NPR last year.
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BREAKING—San Francisco at risk of an "uncontrolled monkeypox spread," lawmaker says—warning that San Francisco is veering toward a public health crisis due to the uncontrolled spread of the #monkeypox virus. City health dept begging for vaccine doses. thehill.com/policy/healthc…
2) SF’s Department of Public Health (DPH) says that its walk-in clinic will close for the remainder of the week due to the vaccine shortage. Other city clinics are working through remaining appointments and joining the DPH in “urgently asking for more doses.”
3) California Senator @Scott_Wiener (D) is urgently begging for most #monkeypox vaccine doses. And blames the lack of vaccine deliveries for endangering the city with uncontrolled spread.
WATCHING—3 people have died and 13 patients affected by a new unknown illness in Tanzania with nosebleed hemorrhagic fever symptoms akin to Ebola and Marburg—but lab tests have ruled out each of these viruses. If this is a new virus—then it is worrisome.👀 bbc.co.uk/news/live/worl…
2) Tanzania health minister asks for calm. But they ask for any additional cases to come forward. 5 others are in isolation wards. bbc.com/news/live/worl…
3) What I summarized is from @BBCAfrica — the notable part is the lab exclusion of Ebola and Marburg — that is what makes this worrisome. Nose bleeding hemorrhagic fevers are really bad types of illnesses. We don’t want this to be a new virus.
📍A study of HCWs found Omicron infection had little or no beneficial effect of boosting any immunity antibodies, B-cells or T-cells—among people who had imprinting with earlier variants. “Omicron is far from a benign natural booster of vaccine immunity.” science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
2) the study above was among triple vaccinated UK healthcare workers. And the quote is from immunologist Dr Altmann in this FT article summarizing imprinting.
I don’t know who needs to hear this—(cough, @WHO, @CDCgov cough)—but #monkeypox’s daily new case rate just spiked 25%—📍and that’s even a 7-day average! Pandemic yet?
NEW—It is time for the global public health community to recognize a growing reality: #Monkeypox is now a pandemic—unless we declare an emergency & act quickly to combat it, we risk repeating the same mistakes we made with covid.🧵@kavitapmd@yaneerbaryam washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
2) No longer contained to a single continent or found only among travelers, the monkeypox virus is undergoing community transmission in dozens of countries worldwide and spreading unchecked at an alarming rate. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
3) This is especially dangerous for the immunocompromised, pregnant women and young children. They all have a hospitalization and death rate from the virus that is much higher than that of healthy adults.