In an exclusive essay for PEOPLE, the married #Arizona lawmakers share how a #gunman stole their dreams of having a child together — & why they fear politicians will do the same to other #families
Sen #MarkKelly & #GabbyGiffords: “Our lives changed forever on Jan 8th, 2011, when a gunman opened fire at a ‘Congress on Your Corner’ event in Tucson. 6 lives were lost, many more were injured, & Gabby was shot in the head. Of everything that changed that day — …halting our careers, the …long, difficult road to recovery — we also lost something we wanted very much: the opportunity to have a child together.
"A slice of the nearly $29 million that Boulder collected during the first six and a half years of a voter-passed soda tax has provided low-income residents with extra money to buy fresh produce from local businesses.
It’s one of many ways the city has directed revenue from that unusual tax to a range of programs focused on improving health equity in the community."
Warning labels —like on tobacco & alcohol— are one of the most powerful tools available to the nation’s top #health ofcl, but…requires approval by #Congress.
Cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, are rapidly rising in UK, France, USA, Spain, and #Canada.
Mounting evidence shows that #Covid infections can create lasting differences in some people’s immune systems leaving them more susceptible to other diseases.
Whooping cough is one of the most infectious diseases in the world with a reproductive number of 12-17… similar to measles.
"There have been 5230 new cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand over the week to Sunday, and 20 further deaths attributed to the virus." "It comes just weeks after Covid cases spiked to their highest level in 18 months"
The CDC recommends people 65 and over get a Spring redundant dose of that year's Fall #COVID vaccine.
21 days of "consistently high concentrations" of SARS-CoV-2 detected in wastewater samples "some of the highest" ever measured.
"Fewer people are also getting the latest vaccines: Just 14% of California's population has received an up-to-date dose, CDPH data shows, indicating that there's less immunity overall."
[Translated: ] Less than two weeks ago, Salud confirmed to El Nuevo Día that, among the infections of this respiratory virus, a new variant called KP.2 predominated...
...currently, 184 people are hospitalized for COVID-19 in Puerto Rico, including 23 pediatric cases...
"Illinois emergency rooms saw a nearly 30% increase in patients testing positive for COVID-19 during the week ending June 8. Illinois is one of nearly a dozen states that reported at least a moderate uptick that week."
"This comes as emergency room visits for COVID-19 in King County have been on the rise for weeks. The most recent data from King County shows COVID-19 accounted for nearly 250 emergency room visits over one week in June."
"Chemical and manufacturing groups sued the federal government late Monday over a landmark drinking-water standard that would require cleanup of so-called forever chemicals linked to cancer and other health risks."
"Childbirth is deadlier in the United States than in any other high-income nation...More than 80% of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States are preventable, but factors including a shortage of maternity care providers, limited access to after-birth home visits and lack of guaranteed paid parental leave have increased the risk of maternal mortality, especially for Black people..."
Democratic members of the #House select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic defended Dr. Anthony #Fauci ahead of Monday's hearing about the #US’ #COVID19#pandemic response, policies & transparency.
The representatives blasted #Republicans’ claims of Fauci’s involvement in starting [for real they had to say this] or covering up the pandemic as a “dangerous” & “cartoonish” narrative.
“The Select subcmte has become an echo chamber of #extreme narratives intended to vilify our nation's #PublicHealth ofcls. Rather than tackling forward-looking reforms to strengthen public #health data collection, improve future testing & contact tracing capacity or address the inequities that we laid bare by the #pandemic, our majority colleagues have spent time & #taxpayer dollars fishing for evidence to back up their most extreme members’ claims about Dr. Fauci,” said #Democrat Rep Raul Ruiz.
“This investigation of Dr. #Fauci shows that he is an honorable #PublicServant, committed to #PublicHealth & he is not a comic book supervillain. He did not fund research to create the #Covid19 pandemic. He did not lie to #Congress about gain of function research in #Wuhan. And he did not organize a lab leak suppression campaign to cover his tracks. These are outrageous concoctions, fabrications & distortions,” #Democrat Rep #JamieRaskin said.
Dr #Fauci dismisses ‘preposterous’ allegations that he led #covid coverup
The infectious-disease expert said #Republicans have distorted emails between #scientists as they discussed whether a lab leak of the coronavirus was possible.
Fauci defended himself against claims that he orchestrated a coverup of the #coronavirus#pandemic’s origins, w/the fmr govt official rejecting some allegations as “simply preposterous.”
@luckytran
Aaaand because I am younger than 65, I have been turned down by three pharmacies in my area for a COVID booster. The last one I had was in early October 2023.
I need to travel by air from the US west coast to the MAGA COVID cesspool called "the state of Florida" for my mother's memorial in July and I am desperate to get boosted.
Because I am near the Canadian border, I hoped to get one across the border but their guidelines seem to be the same as in the US.
People in Baltimore have been dying of overdoses at a rate never before seen in a major American city.
The city was once hailed for its response to #addiction. But as #fentanyl flooded streets & ofcls shifted priorities, deaths hit unprecedented heights.
This is the first part in a series exploring #Baltimore’s overdose crisis.
In the past 6 yrs, nearly 6k lives have been lost. The death rate from 2018 to 2022 was nearly DOUBLE that of any other large city, & higher than nearly all of Appalachia during the prescription pill crisis, the Midwest during the height of rural meth labs or New York during the crack epidemic.
A decade ago, 700 fewer people here were being killed by drugs each year. And when fatalities began to rise from the synthetic #opioid#fentanyl, so potent that even minuscule doses are deadly, #Baltimore’s initial response was hailed as a national model. The city set ambitious goals, distributed #Narcan widely, experimented w/ways to steer people into treatment & ratcheted up campaigns to alert the public.
The organizers of @pycon have given community organizers a massive gift 🎁
Let's not squander it!
A sold out#PyConUS 2024 proved that even large events can prioritize safety and inclusion for caregivers and immunocompromised people by way of requiring masks, and gathering venue data to calibrate their policy from year-to-year. Smaller events have proven it's possible at that scale, too.
Now is the time for at least one other large event to step up.
“As a physician I am deeply concerned about North Carolina’s potential total ban on mask-wearing. It’s disturbing to think immunocompromised and cancer patients could be deemed criminals for following medical advice aimed at safeguarding their health,” [Jerome] Adams said in one post.