Coronavirus Tidbits #202 7/24/22
Announcements:
First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I'm getting.
Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don't be shy about that.
New posts;
Abortion Laws Deny Treatments Needed for Autoimmune Disease
medscape.com/viewarticle/977431
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Marburg, Monkeypox, And Other Viruses Emerging From Africa
https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2022/07/17/marburg-monkeypox-and-other-viruses-emerging-from-africa/?sh=5b66148b78c7
News
Covid:
More (mostly mild) side effects when flu vaccine given with COVID booster
Self-reported data from nearly 1 million Americans show an 8% to 11% higher rate of mostly mild systemic adverse events after simultaneous seasonal flu vaccine and mRNA COVID-19 booster (third) doses than with the COVID-19 booster alone.
In the study, published today in JAMA Network Open, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 Response Team and Emory University analyzed rates of systemic adverse events among 981,099 Americans aged 12 years and older in the week after either simultaneous flu and COVID-19 booster doses or the booster alone from Sep 22, 2021, to May 1, 2022. Volunteers responded to at least one health survey through the CDC's smartphone-based v-safe monitoring system during the study period.
The authors noted that current clinical CDC guidance states that COVID-19 vaccines may be given without regard to timing of other vaccines, including during the same vaccination visit. Authorization of COVID-19 vaccine boosters in the United States coincided with the recommended period for flu vaccination, increasing the odds of simultaneous receipt.
Fatigue, headache, muscle aches most reported
Of the 981,099 volunteers, 92,023 (9.4%) reported having received simultaneous flu and COVID-19 booster vaccination. Of these participants, 59.7% were female, 40.6% were aged 12 to 49 years, 25.8% were 50 to 64, 27.0% were 65 to 74, and 6.6% were 75 or older.
A total of 58.9% of 61,390 participants who simultaneously received the flu vaccine and the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 booster and 68.6% of 30,633 of those who simultaneously received the flu vaccine and the Moderna booster reported systemic adverse reactions.
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Special report: As the pandemic raged, health care CEOs’ earnings surged
Last week an astronomer said images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope peering deep into the universe left him “gobsmacked.” I thought of that phrase when poring over the out-of-this-world earnings of health care high-rollers. A STAT team — Bob Herman, Kate Sheridan, J. Emory Parker, Adam Feuerstein, and Mohana Ravindranath — today delivers a project revealing that health care CEOs made an average of $15.3 million last year. Salaries made up less than 6% of pay, with the actual realized gains of executives’ stock awards and options making up the lion’s share. The top earner was Regeneron Pharmaceuticals CEO Leonard Schleifer, pulling in an astounding $453 million.
For context, the collective $4.5 billion CEOs pocketed is enough money to cover the annual health insurance of roughly 580,000 individual people. Or choose your own comparator: Teslas? iPhone 13s? Tuition? Single family homes?
Here’s how four sectors shook out:
- CEOs of biotech and pharma occupied three of the top 10 spots on the compensation list, but also 11 of the top 25.
- Median CEO pay among 11 providers and insurance companies sat at $30 million, the highest of any sector.
https://mailchi.mp/statnews/tk-tncyc6de8v-617608?e=5c09ee46b1
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In survey, COVID-19 vaccine recipients report changes in menstrual bleeding
A new analysis of reports from more than 35,000 people offers the most comprehensive assessment so far of menstrual changes experienced by pre- and post-menopausal individuals in the first two weeks after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Published in the journal Science Advances, the study adds to the evidence that significant numbers of people experience this unexpected side effect.
"Menstruating and formerly menstruating people began sharing that they experienced unexpected bleeding after being administered a COVID-19 vaccine in early 2021," the scientists who led the study wrote. Because vaccine trials typically do not ask about menstrual cycles or bleeding, this side effect was largely ignored or dismissed.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-survey-covid-vaccine-recipients-menstrual.html
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Officials reorganize HHS to boost pandemic response
Plan would elevate ASPR, which plays key role in emergencies, to be an agency on par with CDC, FDA
The Biden administration is reorganizing the federal health department to create an independent division that would lead the nation’s pandemic response, amid frustrations with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The move elevates a roughly 1,000-person team — known as the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, or ASPR — into a separate division, charged with coordinating the nation’s response to health emergencies, according to seven people briefed on the plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment.
The reorganization allows the division “to mobilize a coordinated national response more quickly and stably during future disasters and emergencies while equipping us with greater hiring and contracting capabilities,” Dawn O’Connell, who leads ASPR and would run the new division, wrote to staff members Wednesday afternoon. The emailed memo was shared with The Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/20/biden-administration-aspr-independent-division/
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Monkeypox:
Analysis: Years of neglect leaves sexual health clinics ill-prepared for #monkeypox | Reuters https://t.co/XbD4RdX44v #STIs #STDs
— Judy Stone (@DrJudyStone) July 23, 2022
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New York City pursues one-dose monkeypox vaccine strategy, defying U.S. advice
Flying in the face of CDC and FDA guidance on monkeypox vaccination, New York City — the country’s epicenter with one-third of reported cases — will deliver first doses of vaccine to people at high risk rather than holding back second doses. Second appointments would follow once the city has more supply. It’s an approach also being taken in the U.K. and Canada.
The vaccine, Jynneos, is designed to be given in two doses, 28 days apart. It’s offered to people who are known contacts of monkeypox cases and men who have sex with men who are at high risk because they have multiple sex partners or partake in anonymous sex. For that latter group, “you just need a higher level of protection than one dose will give you,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told STAT’s Helen Branswell. “That’s really why we’re advocating for two doses.”
https://mailchi.mp/statnews/tk-tncyc6de8v-617608?e=5c09ee46b1
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With the current prescription model, for each patient given the medicine, a clinician completes 3 to 4 hours of paperwork.--US approaches 2,000 #monkeypox cases https://t.co/zzEaZby3lS
— Judy Stone (@DrJudyStone) July 20, 2022
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Fascinating & concerning report today in @Eurosurveillanc about a child (<10 yo) in the Netherlands who contracted #monkeypox. The people who worked up his case could find no plausible explanation for how he contracted it.
— Helen Branswell 🇺🇦 (@HelenBranswell) July 21, 2022
There will be more such cases.https://t.co/4ajKIeJven
Other:
63% Increase in Zoonotic Outbreaks in Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently reported Africa is facing a growing risk of outbreaks caused by zoonotic pathogens, such as the monkeypox virus, which originated in animals and then switched species and infected humans.
There has been a 63% increase in zoonotic outbreaks in the region from 2012-2022 compared to 2001-2011.
The WHO analysis published on July 14, 2022, found that between 2001-2022 there were 1843 substantiated public health events recorded in the WHO African region.
Thirty percent of these events were zoonotic disease outbreaks.
While these numbers have increased over the past two decades, there was a particular spike in 2019 and 2020 when zoonotic pathogens represented around 50% of public health events.
Ebola Virus Disease and other viral hemorrhagic fevers constitute nearly 70% of these outbreaks, with dengue fever, anthrax, plague, monkeypox, and a range of other diseases making up the remaining 30%.
https://www.
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Polio - NYC
For the first time in nearly a decade, we have a case of #polio in an unvaccinated adult. Per CDC, ~1 in 14 US 2y olds are currently NOT fully vaxxed & thus at risk. The US polio vaccine is safe & effective. Please verify you & your kids are up to date.https://t.co/3VzNAdyDjN
— Tatiana Prowell, MD (@tmprowell) July 21, 2022
Diagnostics:
Day 10: negative! 10 days. Not 5. Not 9. 10 days to be no longer infectious. Public Health seriously needs to revise its guidelines for isolation. pic.twitter.com/kJQ0Wo7K8m
— Steve Flindall (@flindall_steve) July 20, 2022
Drugs and Vaccines
Pfizer vaccine 83% effective against hospital Omicron illness in kids 5 to 11
In 5- to 11-year-old children, two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were 36.8% effective in preventing all SARS-CoV-2 infections, 63.5% against test-confirmed cases, and 82.7% against hospitalization amid the Omicron variant surge in Singapore, finds a real-world study published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
Jul 20 NEJM study
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/07/covid-19-scan-jul-21-2022
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As new variant spreads, a crucial drug to protect the most vulnerable goes vastly underused
https://www.statnews.com/2022/07/22/evusheld-covid-drug-for-immunocompromised-underused/?
If you are immunocompromised, ask your doc about EVUSHIELD!
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Monoclonal Antibody Bebtelovimab effective vs variants
Calls for key Covid drug #Bebtelovimab to be made available outside US - effective vs BA.4 and BA.5 https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-key-covid-drug.html via @medical_xpress #Monoclonals
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Novavax vaccine with booster induced neutralization antibodies vs BA.1 and BA.4/5 as well as 3 mRNA shotshttps://t.co/p3Pkeh30UT pic.twitter.com/uYQp9fyOpu
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 18, 2022
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https://twitter.com/meganranney/status/1549792053328056321?s=20&t=zrh1dSExKboTE6OURyGEkw
https://twitter.com/meganranney/status/1549792062857482243?s=20&t=zrh1dSExKboTE6OURyGEkw
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Devices and Masks:
If you've been going maskless indoors this summer, it's time to re-evaluate. Cases and hospitalizations are going up in so many communities in the US/Canada. Want to avoid getting sick & risking being robbed of your health via long COVID? Wear a mask when you're sharing the air!
— Dr Nicole E Basta (@IDEpiPhD) July 21, 2022
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Tip #2: If you’re going to be someplace a long time (home, office, hospital, wedding), open windows, add #HEPA, turn HVAC from ‘auto’ to ‘on' & do testing.
— Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR ⚜ (@michael_hoerger) July 19, 2022
BOOM, you just improved your mask. Better context = less work for the mask. https://t.co/OjTR2WNJOh
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How long do various types of masks effectively protect against #SARSCoV2 ? Which is another way of asking how frequently they should be replaced.https://t.co/QvBGjbz6fY
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 21, 2022
Epidemiology/Infection control:
High blood pressure tied to 2.6 times risk of severe COVID
Risk factors for hospitalization included hypertension, older age, chronic kidney disease (CKD), heart attack (myocardial infarction [MI] or heart failure [HF]), and a longer interval between the last vaccine dose and infection.
Hypertension, which carried a 2.6-fold increased risk, superseded all other risk factors in importance—even after excluding patients with CKD, MI, or HF and those taking an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB). Other previously identified risk factors for severe COVID-19, such as obesity and diabetes, weren't as strongly linked to hospitalization amid Omicron.
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CDC stops tracking COVID cases on cruise ships
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-cdc-tracking-covid-cases-cruise.html?
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Long Covid:
This figure about the long-term effects of Covid from a meta-analysis published in Nature is striking. What crazy world of pain have our public health agencies signed us up for?https://t.co/nCCuCxhLsH pic.twitter.com/4qv8JaII7s
— Nancy Delagrave | Covid-Stop / Des N-95 pour tous (@RougeMatisse) July 21, 2022
Monkeypox:
WHO warns of #monkeypox risk to kids, pregnant people if spread continues | CBC News https://t.co/KL6NEDSKGx
— Judy Stone (@DrJudyStone) July 23, 2022
Tips, general reading for public:
Ventilate.
Mask.
Vax.
Politics:
https://twitter.com/PFLAG/status/1550618441702416386?s=20&t=zrh1dSExKboTE6OURyGEkw
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Covid:
New York City Subway pic.twitter.com/MSX1s4J7Pr
— Pete Eriksen (@terrapinpete) July 17, 2022
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https://twitter.com/tmprowell/status/1548769085739208709?s=20&t=QUzjcbhPCp3Nm9-ZbhpYsw
Climate:
When you put out a bowl of ice for the local critters on an unusually hot day and one exhausted little guy falls asleep on it… pic.twitter.com/S2YtaP4u7D
— Mothra P.I. (@Hardywolf359) July 15, 2022
Public Health:
Public Health is under legal assault in USA:
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 18, 2022
"The #COVID -era litigation has altered not just the govt response to this #pandemic...it has endangered the fundamental tools that pub health workers have utilized for decades to protect community health:"
MOREhttps://t.co/qlt9Lnw055
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STD clinics are so underfunded, understaffed that physicians often have to act like office managers, calling patients to remind them of upcoming appointments, dealing with the delivery of refrigerators that are too big for their space. https://t.co/4Chg7lTCoI via @IlluminatorLA
— Liz Szabo (@LizSzabo) July 20, 2022
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Lynette Medley is the founder and CEO of No More Secrets Mind Body Spirit, a comprehensive sexual health and awareness organization. https://t.co/2idtIvOEQ9
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) July 21, 2022
GOP:
Starting today I’m going to post republicans’ horrendous record every day pic.twitter.com/SONldMerUV
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@BillPascrell) July 22, 2022
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https://twitter.com/AmyLynnStL/status/1549753680903159808?s=20&t=QUzjcbhPCp3Nm9-ZbhpYsw
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Cicilline: We have Republican opposition to every single piece of legislation and you have the audacity to say but there’s other gun crime you should be focused on… Seriously?!? Aren’t you ashamed to even say that when you stand up and oppose every one of these efforts? pic.twitter.com/ucYnh2o4is
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 20, 2022
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- Medicare bulk purchasing PASSED
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) July 21, 2022
- electoral college reform PASSED
- statutory legalization of gay marriage PASSED
- restart of the U.S. microchip industry PASSED
If this is where we end up at the end of 2022, this matches up against any modern President's first 2 years.
Jan 6/Cheney
Liz Cheney has made this her moment. Not sure how she lives this duality--the J6C Liz Cheney is stellar. The Liz Cheney who voted for Trump twice and with him 96%, who voted against the Voting Rights Act, Equality Act and more--hard to reconcile they are the same person.
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) July 22, 2022
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Wow these outtakes didn’t disappoint pic.twitter.com/bGVXolI2yV
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 22, 2022
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Every House Republican including both Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney voted against a bill that would require white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other extremists to be removed from the U.S. military. That tells me all I need to know.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) July 17, 2022
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*LAST WEEK* Liz Cheney voted *AGAINST* women being able to leave a state to seek reproductive health access elsewhere.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) July 16, 2022
Also *LAST WEEK* LIZ CHENEY voted AGAINST a bill that would require reporting WHITE SUPREMACISTS in the U.S. Military.
LAST WEEK
For you "when was that" folks.
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.@Maddow just broke a May, 22 Justice Dept MEMO from MERRICK GARLAND that basically says there will be no substantial indictments before midterms citing Bill Barr's 2020 DOJ policy.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) July 19, 2022
"Election sensitivities"
This confirms what I (+ others) have been attacked for saying.
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PURGED — Here’s the news. Those @SecretService texts are gone, gone, gone . Agency scoured records and said it found nothing new to give Congress . National Archives now investigating if USSS broke the law https://t.co/ROMnhjXSf5
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) July 19, 2022
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Breaking NBC: Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to testify Aug. 9 before the Georgia grand jury investigating Trump's possible criminal meddling in the 2020 election. @NBCNews @MSNBC
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 20, 2022
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NEW SONG PARODY pic.twitter.com/zLBwK60AH4
— Roy Zimmerman (@IamRoyZimmerman) July 20, 2022
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I expect all the breathless Republicans who complained about Justice Kavanaugh’s dinner being spoiled will put out statements today about the right wing harassment of the brave police officer who testified about being assaulted on Jan 6.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) July 22, 2022
Right? https://t.co/N6pZSORZsb
Guns:
Has Lauren Boebert, Marge or the NRA tweeted about the “good guy with a gun” who was robbed at an ATM, got his own gun, fired at the robber, missed and killed a 9 year old girl instead?
— SethAsherWeitz (@SethAsherW) July 20, 2022
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Nothing says ban assault rifles like 5 school officers, 8 federal DEA officers, 13 U.S. Marshals, 16 sheriff’s deputies, 25 Uvalde officers, 69 officers of nearby law enforcement, 91 state police officers plus 149 U.S. Border Patrol agents being scared of 1 shooter with an AR-15.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) July 18, 2022
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The controversial, high-profile move fulfills a promise Newsom made after the U.S. Supreme Court in December allowed a Texas anti-abortion law to take effect. https://t.co/YKtua8bEhl
— KQED News (@KQEDnews) July 22, 2022
Antisemitism:
Oy. Vey.
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) July 19, 2022
For those outside of metro Atlanta, east Cobb County is where tens of thousands of Jewish Atlantans live & home to some of the finest schools in the region. Unfortunately, this is only the latest incident related to antisemitism in Cobb schools. https://t.co/edmxw8u2zj
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“We [Hungarians] are not a mixed race, and we do not want to become a mixed race either”
— Katalin Cseh (@katka_cseh) July 23, 2022
This was Viktor Orban at Baile Tusnad just now, tearing into Western Europeans for “mixing with non-Europeans”
To all the Orban-fans out there: *this* is what you’re supporting pic.twitter.com/ywsEGcy7L3
White Christian Nationalism:
Hobby Lobby took out a full page ad saying that only Christians should be involved in running the country. If you’re not Christian, and you’re shopping at Hobby Lobby, you’re paying for your own persecution.
— Wendi (@wendow) July 18, 2022
Do better. Shop at Michael’s, Jo-Anne’s, or the internet. pic.twitter.com/eEwGQa8cVN
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BOYCOTT WALGREENS
— Mel (@Mel16934007) July 17, 2022
A Hayward WI Walgreens cashier refused to sell a couple condoms due to his “faith”
Walgreens: “Our company policy allows team members to step away from completing a transaction to which they have a moral objection #BoycottWalgreenshttps://t.co/0NIwLdiMDp
Abortion/Contraception:
https://twitter.com/sarah_t_agate/status/1548455358925905920?s=20&t=zrh1dSExKboTE6OURyGEkw
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Has anyone at the New York Times publicly explained why they use "pro-life" instead of "anti-abortion," which is the AP Style preference?
— Gabe Schneider (@gabemschneider) July 14, 2022
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10 states where abortion is now illegal have sent Google more than 5,700 demands for location tracking data since 2018.
— POLITICO (@politico) July 18, 2022
There's growing alarm about how police or prosecutors could use that data to target abortion providers or people seeking the procedure. https://t.co/UcEH7duMi7
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For about a year now, I've been saying that in Mississippi, Black women are 75 times more likely to die by carrying a pregnancy to term than by having an abortion.
— ⚓️Imani Two-Kitchens Gandy⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) July 13, 2022
Goodwin provided new statistics.
It's 118.
Black women are 118 times more likely to die by giving birth.
118.
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The Texas Medical Association says some doctors are endangering patients by delaying or refusing care while trying to comply with Texas’ restrictive abortion laws, according to a letter obtained by @DallasNews. https://t.co/MdkLjTwhOE
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 20, 2022
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When the penalty for aborting after rape is more severe than the penalty for rape, that's when you know it's a war on women
— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) June 24, 2022
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This is vile. @TudorDixon says a 14 YO who becomes impregnated when raped by her uncle is a “perfect example” of why abortions should be banned. If elected governor, she’d make the child carry that pregnancy to term. Please keep these people out of my state government. https://t.co/m0rA8I20BX
— Dr. Rob Davidson (@DrRobDavidson) July 21, 2022
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When Clarence Thomas said he wanted to take away a woman’s right to birth control, some told me that is just his opinion. But now I saw 195 of my Republican colleagues reject protection for contraceptives. This is not just an opinion of one man. This is their plan.
— Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) July 21, 2022
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One of my colleagues wrote about getting a vasectomy recently. His experience is on the left.
— Carter Sherman (@carter_sherman) July 21, 2022
Another Vice writer wrote in 2019 about getting her tubes tied. Her experience is on the right. pic.twitter.com/9hNTCREG5T
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CVS, in instructing its pharmacists to stop filling some prescriptions, refers to customers as “women of child bearing potential.” https://t.co/oY9VDqpRzH
— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) July 21, 2022
LGBT:
New from @Rushthewriter: A small Iowa town's library is closed for the foreseeable future after residents' complaints about LGBTQ staff and books drove most of the staff to quit.
— Iowa Starting Line (@IAStartingLine) July 13, 2022
Here's a timeline of what happened.https://t.co/cqgpF7WHOf
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NEW: White House Office of Management and Budget releases a statement in support of the Respect for Marriage Act, which would codify same-sex marriage into federal law.
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 19, 2022
“No person should face discrimination because of who they are or whom they love.” https://t.co/1V3uT92xZi pic.twitter.com/yY4wbglzuh
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If you live in FLORIDA!
— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) July 20, 2022
We NEED you to show up to Fort Lauderdale on August 5th.
They have a meeting for the Florida Board of Medicine where they are considering policies for detransitioning all trans teens and pulling trans adults off medicaid.
BE THERE. You too, allies. pic.twitter.com/CEkoCnXwDK
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A bill to protect interracial marriage and same-safe marriage was voted on in the House of Representatives. Not a single Republican member cosponsored the bill and Republicans overwhelmingly voted against the bill.
— Latino Victory (@latinovictoryus) July 20, 2022
These civil rights should not be up for debate. https://t.co/gOUJDHPQ2K
Alabama/Child labor:
Children as young as 12 have been working at the Hyundai subsidiary plant in Alabama, Reuters reports. AG Steve Marshall, who recently threatened to sue Google over search results, declined to comment on whether it is taking action against the plant. https://t.co/juxlSzVSM9
— Kyle Whitmire (@WarOnDumb) July 22, 2022
Missouri:
Josh Hawley running away to a variety of soundtracks.
— Mallory Nees (@The_Mal_Gallery) July 22, 2022
Pt. 1: Chariots of Fire #January6thCommitteeHearing pic.twitter.com/tVCf2R5tUD
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Where does Josh Hawley like to do his shopping?
— charlotteclymer@mastodon.social (@cmclymer) July 22, 2022
The flee market.
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This is my favorite clip; I love watching Claire McCasskill enjoying this moment. https://t.co/AGN7MTayT6
— Larry Lynam (@scopedbylarry) July 23, 2022
Pennsylvania/Oz:
https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1549044467889364992?s=20&t=zrh1dSExKboTE6OURyGEkw
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https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1549860966266851330?s=20&t=zrh1dSExKboTE6OURyGEkw
Puerto Rico:
https://twitter.com/deviIette/status/1549783161583927296?s=20&t=zrh1dSExKboTE6OURyGEkw
South Carolina:
South Carolina bill outlaws websites that tell how to get an #abortion https://t.co/yZ6qwyk83r #FreeSpeech at stake
— Judy Stone (@DrJudyStone) July 23, 2022
Texas:
Texas officials celebrated end of abortion rights after cutting back postpartum Medicaid extension https://t.co/ivHSswysiW pic.twitter.com/aLKAZy1Afb
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 20, 2022
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NEW: Mothers Against Greg Abbott, a diverse coalition of Texas women, just released a viral new ad. (h/t @MomsAGAbbott) pic.twitter.com/7Vo6giD9ZL
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) July 18, 2022
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NEW: I am so proud of @statesman, which gathered Spanish-speaking journalists to translate the Uvalde school shooting report.
— Tony Plohetski (@tplohetski) July 20, 2022
The city is comprised of many Spanish-speakers who deserve answers.
Read here, and we're printing 10,000 copies to deliver ASAP. https://t.co/4sSJSybrZb
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Wow. @GavinNewsom hits Greg Abbott with a full-page ad in the Houston Chronicle this morning.
— Rodney Ellis (@RodneyEllis) July 22, 2022
“If Texas can ban abortion and endanger lives, California can ban deadly weapons of war and save lives.”
Love it. pic.twitter.com/MS1feIpZhK
Ukraine/Russia/Other:
BREAKING: The Irish government has rejected a unanimous cross party parliamentary proposal to pass an Irish Magnitsky Act. This opens the door for Ireland to become a soft target as Putin’s cronies look for safe places to keep their money. Very bad news indeed. pic.twitter.com/SQfYpVkaoR
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) July 19, 2022
Jewish doctors secretly documented the medical effects of Nazi starvation policies in book recently rediscovered
Exactly 80 years ago, a group of starving Jewish scientists and doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto were collecting data on their starving patients. They hoped their research would benefit future generations through better ways to treat malnutrition, and they wanted the world to know of Nazi atrocities to prevent something similar from ever happening again. They recorded the grim effects of an almost complete lack of food on the human body in a rare book titled "Maladie de Famine" (in English, "The Disease of Starvation: Clinical Research on Starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942") that we recently rediscovered in the Tufts University library.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-jewish-doctors-secretly-documented-medical.html?
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When they ask you for that donation at the register, please know that the company has ALREADY made the donation to the org, received the tax break and is looking to recoup it from YOU, the customer. A double dip, if you will. And it's legal.
— Oontz & Yung (@SoAlmondie) July 16, 2022
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Yesterday, #US officials reported that #Russia plans to annex occupied #Ukrainian territory as soon as autumn 2022, confirming ISW’s May 2022 assessment. /1@politico: https://t.co/TJpY1zLGol https://t.co/CqfZLpefv9
— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) July 20, 2022
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I shared mapping data I've made of Russia's war in Ukraine with the team at @ReutersGraphics. From this data, interviews and their wonderful team of reporters, they were able to provide a great interactive timeline of the war. Please check it out!https://t.co/PH8Nqgugki pic.twitter.com/8NacieionW
— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) July 21, 2022
Feel good du jour:
Nephrologist Donates Kidney to Patient
— Transplant nephrologist was perfect match for patient-turned-friend
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/99852?
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Greek artist Danae Stratou, Desert Breath (1997) collaborative large scale land art installation (Egyptian desert) covering 25 acres #WomensArt pic.twitter.com/tG2bCuXDun
— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) July 17, 2022
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https://twitter.com/kacungira/status/1548136669076869120?s=20&t=zrh1dSExKboTE6OURyGEkw
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Hahn told Anthony and Derrick Bruce, “we can’t change the past, and we will never be able to make up for the injustice that was done to your great-great grandparents and great-grandparents Willa and Charles nearly a century ago. But this is a start.”https://t.co/PJrLYzsOv4
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) July 20, 2022
Comic relief:
me after insisting i’m only getting a couple things, I don’t need a basket pic.twitter.com/AyCif3GL1p
— I hope this is satire... (@sablaah) July 20, 2022
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New Plato’s cave just dropped pic.twitter.com/iV2cNvFkHD
— David Bather Woods (@dbatherwoods) July 20, 2022
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https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1549758921224732675?s=20&t=zrh1dSExKboTE6OURyGEkw
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https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1550576930302443520?s=20&t=zrh1dSExKboTE6OURyGEkw
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https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1550380832329814021?s=20&t=zrh1dSExKboTE6OURyGEkw
Perspective/Poem
Why Isn’t This Map in the History Books? https://t.co/e7a1YQffPL pic.twitter.com/FN82PF5fAp
— Ancient Origins (@ancientorigins) July 21, 2022
Bits of beauty:
