Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

As children’s hospitals fill up with respiratory virus patients and we head into winter, a handful of Senate Dems — Schumer, Rosen, Shaheen, Murphy, Kaine, Warner, Klobuchar, Cortez Masto, Sinema, Manchin, Tester, and Hickenlooper — voted with Republicans to end the COVID emergency. It won’t end the pandemic, but it will kick as many as 15 million Americans off Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, slash food benefits, and make tracking and combatting the virus more difficult.

Biden says he will veto. But it’s laying the foundation for ending the pandemic emergency, which has been floated for the new year.

Kids. Infect. Adults.
Adults. Infect. Kids.
Hospitals. Become. Strained.

Wear an N95 respirator and protect yourself.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/rsv-hospitalizations-seniors-higher-point-prior-seasons/story?id=93330280

Am I wrong to be faintly depressed by the BBC's current "Most Read" top 5?

These comments from
the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator completely dismiss health equity.

Only 10% have gotten the updated booster, pediatric hospitals are full, and there's unmitigated high COVID spread.

No public health protections mean that high risk people can't access medical care, public transport and other essential needs.

https://www.statnews.com/2022/11/15/white-houses-jha-isnt-predicting-a-holiday-covid-surge-this-year/

#COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #BringBackMasks #PublicHealth

#epidemiology, #epiverse no matter to me, just want to build an inclusive, equitable community together. Just don't call me late for dinner.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is testifying to a grand jury today in Fulton County in the investigation into Trump and associates like Lindsey Graham who attempted to have Black votes thrown out in the 2020 presidential election.

Republicans make it hard for people to vote and then when they are losing they say it was hard for people to vote

New Yorkers: Leaders and the media have stopped updating us, but you should know that 4 out of 5 of NYC's boroughs are currently at high #COVID "Community Levels."

According to CDC guidelines, this means *everyone* should be masking indoors and on public transit. #BringBackMasks

BREAKING per NBC News: Democrat Katie Hobbs defeats Republican Kari Lake

@gregggonsalves

Yes, vaccines, but let's not stop there. Air quality, masks, not exposing others when ill, thinking twice before gathering with large crowds indoors, these have worked for us before. We should not *again* count on pharma tools exclusively.

#influenza #AirQuality #immunocompromised #health

I find myself in the same position I was in during the early days of the birdsite, wondering what to post. Don’t want to be political or polemical in these early days, but mustn’t be too bland either. Not going to show you the scones I baked, share my latte art or describe my sourdough starter. Nor should I plug my current productions just yet. Easy enough to know what we don’t want Mastodon to be …

… anyway, that’s my current thinking

Unique bone microanatomy reveals ancestry of subterranean specializations in mammals:
https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.303

New @EvolLetters by Eli Amson, Torsten M. Scheyer, Quentin Martinez, Achim H. Schwermann, Daisuke Koyabu, Kai He, Reinhard Ziegler

📷 : Quentin Martinez

I got suspended from my beloved and dearly departed mom’s Twitter account @TipItMaggieG for “impersonating elon” even though the handle clearly says TipItMaggieg. 😂
#TwitterMigration

And polls consistently show white people are far less likely to wear masks than people of color.

Poll from Oct: Have worn a mask at least some of the time in the past seven days:

White 39%
Black 77%
Hispanic 63%

(Source: https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/3vmufv6ya9/econTabReport.pdf#page46)

White people who are claiming "this is a reach," Asian people, have been violently attacked in Western countries for wearing masks. Western leaders have said that "wearing masks isn't in our culture." A lot of anti-mask sentiment is deeply embedded in white supremacy.