WTF? Biden is trying to outdo Trump in
#COVID19
China-bashing. So, we're good with bipartisan anti-Asian hysteria now? There are so many ways that the Trump administration failed in this crisis... but this is what Biden is going with.
40-year-old Michelle Go was killed when she was shoved in front of an oncoming train yesterday. She was an employee at Deloitte. Vigil planned for her this week. Simon Martial is still awaiting arraignment. He is undergoing psychiatric evaluation at the hospital.
Just to be clear, this does not mean that vaccines are not working. It means that when we allow unmitigated transmission of a highly infectious deadly disease, it will end up killing vulnerable people, including many who are vaccinated. 💔
Over 180,000 US residents have died of covid since Biden’s December 16th threat of “a winter of severe illness and death — if you’re unvaccinated…”
According to CDC data, 41% of January covid deaths were among fully vaccinated people
Maybe not the most pressing question of the moment, but how does the field of global health recover any legitimacy at all after being almost completely silent in the face of a generational global health catastrophe?
@LizzMurr56
@itsdannyneary
Yep. My great uncle talked about escaping to a hill and watching U.S. planes carpet bomb and destroy his entire village in minutes. Another elder in my community had to dodge bullets from U.S. planes to survive. He was like 8 years old at the time.
@Imani_Barbarin
Made the mistake of peeping at the dudes followers’ comments. Liberals have really shown their racist and callous disregard for Palestinian lives. They are doing the “Hamas would kill you” thing to excuse Biden’s support for genocide. Insufferable.
Coming from a country where farmers were forced to pick up arms and were subsequently slaughtered in war, it's very disturbing to see non-Ukranians cheering on Ukrainian civilians who are forced to fight in war. This is a massive tragedy unfolding and not a football game.
I spoke with multiple people today about the threat of a massive winter surge in the U.S. driven by
#Omicron
. Every one of them told me that they heard it only caused mild infections. I'm afraid people in the US are very unprepared for what's likely coming.
@JuliaRaifman
@gregggonsalves
Seems like less severe individual outcomes was deliberately over-emphasized so that they can justify not implementing any meaningful action. The outcome has been tragic, and it was an intentional policy choice. 😢😡
A pandemic that killed 1 million people in the US, with disproportionate harm to working class Black, brown, and indigenous people should cause everyone to challenge basic health and social systems in this country, no? Framing this as left-wing opportunism is such a clown move.
@jbarro
At least they are pretty explicit about it in this particular essay! (That they think of the pandemic as a lost opportunity to push society toward a more left-wing/socialist direction.)
@eleanor_mueller
"Mammoth" social spending package. And, yet, never seen that word to used to describe the perennially obscene military spending (>7 trillion over 10 years).
@DrRupaMarya
That email so clearly highlights the vast disconnect between UC administration and the students who are witnessing genocide happen in real time… shameful really
@uche_blackstock
@JuliaRaifman
And we should absolutely shut down daily massive super spreading events still going on all over the country. For example, NYC yesterday: Attendance 17.5k.
"Georgia State quarterback Mikele Colasurdo has been diagnosed with a heart condition as a result of contracting COVID-19 and won't be able to play football this season"
@sadthedreamer
Cops in US used the same playbook. “A Black woman who was pulled from her car and beaten by Philadelphia police during a protest last year is suing a police union for posting what she calls a misleading photo of her “terrified” toddler on social media”
Me, a Korean person, watching the mens World Cup:
(Japan wins) Let’s goooo!!!! My Asian brothers!
(Japan loses) Haha you suckers lost! Eat shit colonizers!
🤷🏻♂️
Dear colleagues,
If you're truly committed to diversity, then you'd be cool with the smell of kimchi from my Korean lunch in the break room. Otherwise, it's all just talk.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 “As Jewish students… we will continue to pursue tikkun olam – the repairing of the world. This necessarily includes our unwavering support for the Palestinian people in their decades-long resistance against Zionist brutality”
@JordiVanderwaal
@_Zeets
Lol. So decolonization happened thanks to beneficent white monarchs who wanted to give back power to the natives and they simply "oversaw" the process. That is certainly a take.
"Had the first [SARS-CoV-2] virus that was first identified in China last year originated in Africa, it is now clear that the world would have locked us away and thrown away the keys. There would have been no urgency to develop vaccines" - Dr.
@yodifiji
@thrasherxy
Seems that the business elite in the US decided that masks are symbols of high COVID risk in society and therefore bad for business. Promoting masks goes against their push to convince everyone that things are back to normal.
Kapler to not take field during anthem in protest
"Every time I place my hand over my heart and remove my hat, I'm participating in a self congratulatory glorification of the ONLY country where these mass shootings take place"
“The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over,” President Biden tells 60 Minutes in an interview in Detroit.
@gregggonsalves
Cancel large sporting and entertainment super spreading events. Not sure how politically feasible, but it's ridiculous that ~90k people will be gathering for the Rose Bowl football game here in two days. 😣
"Americans are badly ill-informed about this simple fact, that success at dealing with Covid is a) possible b) real) and means something far, far more dramatic than they probably think. It’s not half as many deaths. It’s 100s or 1000s of times fewer."
“Vietnam’s had 35 deaths, from a population of 96 million. If it had acted like America, it would have had 73,000 deaths.
If America had acted like Vietnam, on the other hand, it would have had just 120 deaths.”
Thinking about U.S. travel ban on African countries in fear of the new
#Omicron
variant as the country seems completely cool with pre-pandemic levels of holiday travel with the
#Delta
variant causing >1200 deaths per day. 🤔
@eLife
So you don’t condemn atrocities against Palestinians and your code of conduct prohibits speaking out about atrocities against Palestinians? Did I get that right? Your tweet is a perfect case in point of the inhumane hypocrisy pointed out by your editor in chief.
@DrDadabhoy
Many of us feel a strong connection to the Palestinian struggle due to our people’s own history of being subjected to colonialism and imperialist war.
South Africa needs to be praised, offered whatever support is needed & acknowledged for the quality & speed of the public health & genomic science in SA, sharing the data immediately, supporting the region & the world. Not criticised, have sanctions or other restrictions imposed
I was fortunate to have witnessed Dr. Farmer destroy a World Bank economist at the 2000 Int'l AIDS Conference in Durban in a debate on expansion of AIDS medication globally to poor countries. The WB dude insisted that prevention is the only realistic solution in poor countries.
@Lakshmi_RKG
@uche_blackstock
I think the fact that Dr. Wen’s messages align very well with business interests that fund/own major media outlets play a significant role.
I agree with
@nataliexdean
: “We just don’t have clear evidence of enough of a loss of efficacy to change our focus or distract from the main goal, which is trying to get as many people first doses” as possible."
@neva9257
Maybe part of the hackathon is to analyze
#SARSCoV2
spread in social gatherings in real time? I guess that counts as innovative and disruptive?
Yeah, not a good look.
The fact that one of Minnesota's busiest COVID testing locations has to move out of the convention center for a week because the space was booked by an event that's estimated to bring in 40,000 visitors is straight-up Peak Pandemic.
"workplace wellness and seminars on work-life balance, essentially making it the responsibility of individual workers to try to deal with the conditions of wage labor... they’re emblematic of a neoliberal approach to thinking about public health and public health interventions."
BREAKING: Following the three biggest unions in Belgium refusing to move arms to Israel, the Union of Dock Workers in Barcelona (OEPB) from today will refuse to move any ships containing weapons for Israel
Every time I give a talk that includes the crisis in Gaza, I have multiple students come up to me to thank me for mentioning Palestine. I encourage university faculty to talk about Palestine. Your students will thank you.
Honored to be part of this
#globalhealth
panel on Wednesday @ 2pm PST. My talk is titled "Global Health, Power, and the Health Crisis in
#Gaza
".
Zoom registration:
@oni_blackstock
Not sure, but I think this pattern shows a profound disconnect among people who are used to watching wars on TV and not experiencing the horrors of war.
I'm troubled that high profile Asian physicians are being platformed to eliminate public health measures for a deadly disease that has disproportionately harmed Black, brown, and indigenous communities in the US.
@qureshimeh
@LongDesertTrain
Hope you feel better soon! But no, those early takes about Asians being more vulnerable was completely wrong and also racist.
Very cool paper on within-host M. tuberculosis heterogeneity: "We document within-host Mtb diversity in an index case, which led to transmission of minority alleles to a secondary case."
#UPDATE
: LAPD Confirms that the second victim who died in the NoHo shooting at Burlington was a 14-year-old girl, whom they believe was killed by a stray bullet fired from an officer's firearm.
@BruceDickenson1
@oni_blackstock
Yeah but the legitimate concern about unmitigated transmission in the US leading to emerging variants has been completely ignored by US policymakers. This latest policy seems to be driven by xenophobia and racism.
@zdroberts
@sbg1
@AndyKroll
No. Not counting Iraqi deaths is unacceptable. Ignoring non-US deaths is abhorrent and part of why folks here continue to support mass killing overseas.
“Mask wearing by the index case is associated with the household transmission risk reduction by 67%” from
@SunKaiyuan
et Al.
Behavioral factors and SARS-CoV-2 transmission heterogeneity within a household cohort in Costa Rica
As a scholar whose work has focused on homelessness for 25 years, let me be clear: “shelter & services” do not justify eviction from encampments that are home. Plus, LA has refused to use FEMA funding to create stable housing, making
@MitchOFarrell
’s statement a ploy.
This is absolutely awful! Public health folks should denounce the use of the term "contact tracing" for police surveillance. This could cause irreparable harm to trust in public health authorities and further set back pandemic response.
The use of "contact tracing" to describe police investigations of protestors is chilling tbh. The war on COVID is normalizing surveillance in a bad way.
Dr. Farmer: It’s important to note that it's not just that people haven't been taught to fish, their boats have been destroyed, their nets shredded, and uh, you know their fleets have been sunk.
“Columbia’s Black Student Organization… debated whether to participate in the [apartheid divest] coalition. …“Ultimately,” he explained, “we decided that people are dying, and it’s a privilege to be worried about future jobs.”
Students at Harvard compiled a list of over 70 incidents including a student in a hijab being chased with a knife, a woman whose hijab was ripped off, and a counterprotestor driving his car threateningly at a protester, among other reports of harassment.
I remember being filled with constant anxiety and dread when Bush named North Korea as an axis of evil post 9/11 and drumbeats of war against North Korea were intensifying. Can’t begin to imagine what Palestinian diaspora is going thru right now.
Hard to imagine any of this happening if folks didn't call out the White House on social media and through organized campaigns for failing to make high quality masks and tests available.
SCOOP: The Biden administration is planning to announce tomorrow a plan to distribute hundreds of millions of N95 masks at pharmacies and other sites.
The masks will be sourced from the Strategic National Stockpile.
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@adamcancryn
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