BREAKING—New York declared a state of emergency over #polio to boost vaccination rates amid evidence that the virus is spreading. Unvaccinated individuals who live, work, go to school or visit NYC metro area are at the highest risk of paralytic disease. cnbc.com/2022/09/09/new…
2) New York began wastewater surveillance after an unvaccinated adult caught polio in Rockland County in July and suffered from paralysis, the first known infection in the U.S. in nearly a decade.
3) The emergency declaration will expand the network of vaccine administrators to include pharmacists, midwives and EMS workers in an effort to boost the immunization rate in areas where it has slipped.
4) extremely bad timing to lift mask mandates @GovKathyHochul given the new emergency.
5) “Some New Yorkers who completed their vaccine series should receive a single lifetime booster shot, health officials said. These individuals include people who might have contact with someone infected or thought to be infected with poliovirus….”
6) To be clear… these are the adults now recommended to consider a #polio booster shot… what a time to be alive…
Whoa—total EXCESS DEATHS to date across Europe* in 2022 now 📌exceeds both 2021 and 2020 at the same point! 👀 Unlike spikes—seems 2022 deaths are just steadily climbing—now passing prior pandemic years like tortoise 🐢 vs the hare 🐇. Worrisome.
YOUNGER DEATHS—new excess death data shows 0-14 age group across Europe (38 Euromomo countries) dying at 📌10x the rate versus 2021 in week 35, & age 15-44 group dying at 📌30% higher than 2021. ➡️#Omicron is more severe in kids.
3) this is even more worrisome in my opinion… excess deaths to date in 2022 now even higher than prior pandemic years! The EUROMOMO data doesn’t lie… 👇
Life expectancy drop… is it #COVID? Yeah. Hell yeah.
How big is this life expectancy drop? Pretty damn big… largest in decades… #COVID19
3) Well, since #COVID19 is a pandemic… did other European countries have as big of a life expectancy drop as the US? No. American life expectancy dropped the most among wealthier countries.
TOP NUCLEAR SECRETS—Material on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities seized by FBI at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Some seized documents were so closely held, only the president, a Cabinet-level or near-Cabinet level official could authorize others to know. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
2) Documents about such highly classified operations require special clearances on a need-to-know basis, not just top-secret clearance. Some special-access programs can have as few as a couple dozen government personnel authorized to know of an operation’s existence.
3) Records that deal with such programs are kept under lock and key, almost always in a secure compartmented information facility, with a designated control officer to keep careful tabs on their location.