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**Lohan Gunaweera** @lohang@micro.alochana.net · 8h

Lohan Gunaweera @lohang@micro.alochana.net

"Multiple scientific studies have shown that the risk of developing Long COVID is compounded by each reinfection. Wastewater data, now the only reliable metric to track the spread of the pandemic, shows that the average American has been infected by COVID-19 nearly four times. At the current trajectory, this figure will reach eight infections per person by March 2030. A similar reality undoubtedly exists throughout the world."

5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The origins of a social catastrophe https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/12/qxrx-m12.html

#covid19 #health #healthcare #capitalism

World Socialist Web Site5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The origins of a social catastropheThe COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the incapacity of capitalism to deal with the problems of mass society, and that this social system is in an advanced state of regression.

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**Proletarian Rage** @prolrage@todon.nl · 16h

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Proletarian Rage @prolrage@todon.nl

@palestine @israel
He refused to leave his patients and the Kamal Adwan hospital he was obliged to serve and for 3 months he is under torture.

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/3/13/dr-hussam-abu-safiyas-lawyer-reveals-abuse-he-faces-in-israeli-prison?traffic_source=rss

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya’s lawyer reveals abuse he faces in Israeli prison
The lawyer acting for the former director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital says he’s being subjected to abusive and degrading treatment in an Israeli jail. Ghaid Qassem, told Al Jazeera that Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is being denied medication for his various health issues.
#health #HumanRights #gaza #gazagenocide #genocide #warcrimes #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState

Al JazeeraDr Hussam Abu Safiya’s lawyer reveals abuse he faces in Israeli prisonDr Hussam Abu Safiya’s lawyer reveals the abuse and degrading treatment he faces in Israeli prison.

**ProPublica** @ProPublica@newsie.social · 1d

ProPublica @ProPublica@newsie.social

A Health System Is Fighting Idaho’s Abortion Ban. It’s Not Its First Controversial Stance.
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St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines. It also sued right-wing figure Ammon Bundy — and won. Now it’s backing its doctors on the abortion front.
https://www.propublica.org/article/st-lukes-hospital-idaho-abortion-ban?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

ProPublicaA Health System Is Fighting Idaho’s Abortion Ban. It’s Not Its First Controversial Stance.

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**Sankofab** @SANKOFAB@zirk.us · 2d

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**Gina Intheburg** @ginaintheburg@mastodon.world · 3d *

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Emma Courtney is a PhD candidate studying #BreastCancer.

Under Trump's anti-#DEI EO, she can't use the words "woman," "female," "barrier," "race" in grant proposals to identify the scope of her work studying women's health or racial barriers to trtmt.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/10/stand_up_for_science_doge_protests

Democracy Now! · 3dStand Up for Science: Nationwide Protests Oppose Trump Cuts to Research from Cancer to Climate ChangeBy Democracy Now!

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**ˈdälfən™** @dalfen@mstdn.social · 3d

ˈdälfən™ @dalfen@mstdn.social

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#PublicHealth #health #measles #autism #rfkjr

~ Without Offering Proof, Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health ~

Mr. Kennedy said the Department of Health and Human Services would conduct clinical trials on several unproven treatments for measles, including a steroid, budesonide; an antibiotic called clarithromycin; and cod liver oil, which he said was "the safest application of vitamin A." Mr. Kennedy said he had heard from two local doctors that these treatments had led to "miraculous and instantaneous recovery." "We need to really do a good job of talking to the frontline doctors and see what is working on the ground,' he said. "Those therapeutics have really been ignored by the agency for a long, long time." While physicians sometimes administer high doses of vitamin A to care for children with severe measles, delivering it via a dietary supplement like cod liver oil makes it difficult to administer precise amounts, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html

Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST

There is no credible data to suggest that cod liver oil is "in any way conceivably safer" than traditionally administered vitamin A, he added. Dr. Schaffner said that antibiotics, which fight bacterial infections, are not effective treatments for measles, a virus. And he was unaware of any evidence that showed that steroids improved outcomes for children with measles. Conducting a clinical trial of these treatments is difficult on a practical level — there are not enough children with measles in the United States to run a large trial. And such a study would be ethically fraught: Doctors might need to withhold standard supportive care, like vitamin A, in order to test these remedies. Mr. Kennedy's focus on unverified treatments has frustrated some doctors in Gaines County, who have been trying to explain to patients that there is no antiviral for measles and that they have little control over which patients suffer serious symptoms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html

Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST

"We already are dealing with people that think measles is not a big deal," said Dr. Leila Myrick, a family medicine doctor in Seminole, Texas, who has been caring for patients with measles for several weeks. "Now they're going to think they can get this miracle treatment and that they definitely don't need to get vaccinated. It's a 100 percent going to make it harder."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html

Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST

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**ˈdälfən™** @dalfen@mstdn.social · 3d

ˈdälfən™ @dalfen@mstdn.social

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#PublicHealth #health #measles #autism #rfkjr

~ Without Offering Proof, Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health ~

There is data to show that severely malnourished children in poor countries often suffer worse outcomes from measles, said Dr. Sean O'Leary, chair of the infectious disease committee at the American Academy of Pediatrics. But there is no credible evidence that poor eating habits and exercise routines make a child more prone to measles complications, he added. There is also ample evidence that measles routinely killed healthy children before the M.M.R. vaccine became available, said Patsy Stinchfield, immediate past president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Before 1963, roughly 500 children, many of them previously healthy, died from the virus each year, she said. About 40 percent of people infected last year were hospitalized, according to the C.D.C. In the interview, Mr. Kennedy appeared frustrated that a vaccine-preventable illness rather than chronic disease had drawn national attention during his first weeks as secretary.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html

Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST

"We've had two measles deaths in 20 years in this country — we have 100,000 autism diagnoses every year," he said. "We need to keep our eye on the ball. Chronic disease is our enemy." The suggestion that vaccines cause autism has been discredited by dozens of scientific studies. Scientists have pointed out that measles deaths are so upsetting because they are preventable with vaccination. "Natural immunity" after infection may protect the body against various chronic illnesses, the secretary said. Asked whether he opposed so-called measles parties - events that parents hold to purposely spread measles from a sick child to healthy children - Mr. Kennedy said he would "never advise someone to get sick." But he also praised the benefits of natural immunity, protection gained after becoming infected with a virus, claiming that it lasted longer than vaccine-induced immunity and may later protect against cancers and cardiac disease.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html

Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST

While it's true that a measles infection may offer lifelong protection against the virus, the risks of getting sick far outweigh any small immunity benefit, said Dr. O'Leary. Two doses of the M.M.R. vaccine are about 97 percent effective at preventing an infection. Even if a vaccinated person gets a breakthrough infection, the illness tends to be mild. Experts also said there was no credible evidence to support the claim that a measles infection protects against other diseases. Just the opposite: A measles infection may cause "immune amnesia," in which the body "forgets" how to defend itself against illnesses it has already been exposed to, making it more susceptible to future infections. Kennedy spoke enthusiastically about unproven treatments for measles, and said the H.H.S. would study them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html

Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST

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**ˈdälfən™** @dalfen@mstdn.social · 3d

ˈdälfən™ @dalfen@mstdn.social

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#PublicHealth #health #measles #autism #rfkjr

~ Without Offering Proof, Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health ~

Mr. Kennedy claimed that it was "very difficult" for measles to kill a healthy person and that malnutrition played a role in the Texas outbreak. Early in the interview, Mr. Kennedy acknowledged the seriousness of measles infection, noting that it can lead to death, brain swelling and pneumonia. But he also described the illness as rarely fatal, even before 1963, when the vaccine became available. He said measles has a "very, very low infection fatality rate." According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for every thousand people infected with measles in the United States, the virus kills one to three. One study estimated that without vaccination today there would be 400,000 hospitalizations and 1,800 deaths annually. Death isn't the only possible consequence. Measles can also cause permanent blindness, deafness and intellectual disability. Before the vaccine became available, about a thousand people every year had encephalitis because of the virus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html

Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST

In later comments, Mr. Kennedy suggested that severe symptoms mainly affected people who were unhealthy before contracting measles. "It's very, very difficult for measles to kill a healthy person," he said, adding later that "we see a correlation between people who get hurt by measles and people who don't have good nutrition or who don't have a good exercise regimen." West Texas is "kind of a food desert," he added. Malnutrition "may have been an issue" for the child who died of measles in Gaines County. Texas health officials said the child had "no known underlying conditions." Dr. Wendell Parkey, a physician in Gaines County with many Mennonite patients, said the idea that the community was malnourished was mistaken.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html

Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST

Mennonites often avoid processed foods, raise their own livestock and make their own bread, he noted. From a very young age, many members of the community also help with farming and other physically demanding jobs. "They're the healthiest people out here," he said. "Nutritionally, I would put them up against anybody."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html

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**ˈdälfən™** @dalfen@mstdn.social · 3d *

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ˈdälfən™ @dalfen@mstdn.social

So it’s a false comparison.

Here are screenshots of the article if you want to check it out.

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#PublicHealth #health #measles #autism #rfkjr

~ Without Offering Proof, Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health ~

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html

By Teddy Rosenbluth March 10, 2025 Updated 5:22 p.m. ET In a sweeping interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, outlined a strategy for containing the measles outbreak in West Texas that strayed far from mainstream science, relying heavily on fringe theories about prevention and treatments. He issued a muffled call for vaccinations in the affected community, but said the choice was a personal one. He suggested that measles vaccine injuries were more common than known, contrary to extensive research. He asserted that natural immunity to measles, gained through infection, somehow also protected against cancer and heart disease, a claim not supported by research. He cheered on questionable treatments like cod liver oil, and said that local doctors had achieved "almost miraculous and instantaneous" recoveries with steroids or antibiotics.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html

Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST

The worsening measles outbreak, which has largely spread through a Mennonite community in Gaines County, has infected nearly 200 people and killed a child, the first such death in the United States in 10 years. Another suspected measles death has been reported in New Mexico, where cases have recently increased in a county that borders Gaines County. The interview, which lasted 35 minutes, was posted online by Fox News last week, just before the President Trump's address to Congress. Segments had been posted earlier, but the full version received little attention. Mr. Kennedy offered conflicting public health messages as he tried to reconcile the government's longstanding endorsement of vaccines with his own decades-long skepticism. Vaccines are "recommended" for West Texans, but the risks of immunization have been underestimated, he said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html

Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST

Mr. Kennedy acknowledged that vaccines "do prevent infection" and said that the federal government was helping ensure that people have access to "good medicines, including those who want them, to vaccines." "In highly unvaccinated communities like Mennonites, it's something that we recommend," he said. Mr. Kennedy described vaccination as a personal choice that must be respected, then went on to raise frightening concerns about the safety of the vaccines. He said he'd been told that a dozen Mennonite children had been injured by vaccines in Gaines County. People in the community wanted federal health workers arriving in Texas "to also look at our vaccine-injured kids and look them in the eye," Mr. Kennedy said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html

Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST

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**ˈdälfən™** @dalfen@mstdn.social · 3d

ˈdälfən™ @dalfen@mstdn.social

Again, it’s not all about the potential of measles to cause death. The disease has significant morbidity risk as well.

Complications from #measles can lead to permanent blindness, deafness, or intellectual disability (all of which affect someone for life).

Death isn't the only possible consequence. Measles can also cause permanent blindness, deafness and intellectual disability. Before the vaccine became available, about a thousand people every year had encephalitis because of the virus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html

Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST

#PublicHealth #health

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**ˈdälfən™** @dalfen@mstdn.social · 3d

ˈdälfən™ @dalfen@mstdn.social

It’s true that the measles generally has a low mortality rate in the #USA, but that doesn’t mean it is something to fool around with.

The effect of disease is more than mortality (death). It’s about morbidity (illness, chronic illness) too.

And the #measles can make someone VERY ill.

#PublicHealth #health

~ Measles rarely kills in the US – but when it does, here’s how ~
(from 2019)

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/health/how-measles-kills-explainer/index.html

CNN · Feb 5, 2019Measles rarely kills in the US – but when it does, here’s howBy Susan Scutti

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**Stefan Bohacek** @stefan@stefanbohacek.online · 3d *

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Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online

And as the article notes, the pandemic is far from over for many of us.

Coincidentally, March 15 is the International Long Covid Awareness day.

https://www.longcovidawareness.life

Solidarity with all those suffering and holding out for a cure.

A line chart labeled "U.S. adults reporting a disability" showing the number of U.S. adults reporting a disability from 2016 to 2025. The trend is flat from 2016 to 2020, and increases each year starting around March 2020.

Text below the chart reads:

The number of people reporting a disability soared. Many Americans struggled with long Covid and reported cognitive issues like “brain fog.”

#covid #LongCovid #health

**Stefan Bohacek** @stefan@stefanbohacek.online · 3d

Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Pretty fascinating look at how "Covid changed everything", in 30 charts.

"Decades from now, the pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today: an unmistakable spike, dip or jolt that officially began for Americans five years ago this week."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/09/upshot/covid-lockdown-five-year-charts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.204.fxKd.JLkhkiBQuauY&smid=url-share

The New York Times · 4d30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything in March 2020By Aatish Bhatia

#news #covid #health

**ProPublica** @ProPublica@newsie.social · 3d

ProPublica @ProPublica@newsie.social

National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval
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Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-cancer-institute-flagged-topics-vaccines-autism-rfk-jr?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

ProPublicaNational Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval

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