Research published early in the pandemic on #COVID19 is more likely to include lower quality methods and less likely to adhere to reporting standards than research on other topics in the same journals.
Ultimately, it’s a consequence of a “publish-or-perish” culture in #highered.
'For example, the most highly cited public health publication listed on Google Scholar used data from a sample of 1,120 people, primarily well-educated young women, mostly recruited from social media over three days.'
'One study estimated the average time from submission to acceptance of 686 papers on COVID-19 to be 13 days, compared with 110 days in 539 pre-pandemic papers from the same journals.'
Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers may be becoming stupider. Even mild covid infections can cause loss of IQ points. The longer and more severe the infection, the greater the loss of IQ points.
“We can’t talk about how we got to total state abandonment on #COVID without discussing the billions of dollars that went into disinformation campaigns, pushing people to think of public health as an individual responsibility.”
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Make sure your #measles vaccines are up to date if you're travelling to 🇺🇸 for March Break.
Florida is 'lettin' it rip'
Measles is so contagious that if one person has it, up to 90% of the people close to that person who are not immune will also become infected. The virus can live for up to two hours in an airspace where the infected person coughed or sneezed.
Today in Labor History February 18, 1955: The U.S. launched Operation Teapot at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. Teapot included 14 nuclear bomb tests. Wasp was the first, detonated on February 18. It had a yield of 1.2 kilotons. During shot Wasp, ground forces participated in Exercise Desert Rock VI. This included an armored task force moving to within 3,000 ft of ground zero, while the mushroom cloud was still growing. From 1945 through 1962, the U.S. conducted 230 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, with approximately 235,000 military personnel participating. Most were enlisted men, from the navy. However, millions of people were exposed to the fallout from U.S. nuclear weapons tests in the southwest of the U.S. and the Marshall Islands. University of Arizona economist Keith Meyers estimates that radioactive fallout was responsible for 340,000 to 690,000 American deaths from 1951 to 1973.
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My physics teacher measured (could detect) any of the tests with a delay of about two weeks in Berlin, begin of the 60ies.
He showed me his manual plots on #Millimeterpapier.
He cleaned every day three wire lines hanging below the long ceiling of the physics preparation chamber, the wires were charged to hold (except during the cleaning) a high voltage from a simple Grainacher Cascade and collected in that way the dust particles in the room.
@MikeDunnAuthor And to think that it was child's play compared to today's hydrogen bomb scales. And just between the US and Russia, there's over 7,000 of them, and we've had them for decades.
Thousands of frontline workers may have died unnecessarily from covid due to federal governments failure to provide PPE according to New study. Majority were low wage, black. Hispanic or immigrant workers
“The contagious nature of measles means that if an infected person walks into a store and another person who isn't vaccinated comes in two hours later, they can still catch it.
Research suggests that one person with measles can spread it to an average of 12 to 18 others.”
"U.S. is turning its back on long COVID. We'll pay the price if we don't act."
"There is a hidden public health crisis in America that we can no longer ignore. And that is the crisis of long COVID-19
… about 16 million people throughout our country have long COVID-19. It affects people of all ages and from all backgrounds. And we don’t know why."
"Let’s say tomorrow the US government decided to stop cleaning our water supply. President Joe Biden or one of his minions gets on TV and says “cholera has been defeated, it’s over, and we need to get back to normal. We can’t live in fear of cholera forever- we need to live our lives!” Massive cholera outbreaks ensue, and people are quietly told they can (pay out of pocket) for private water filtration systems. Those who do pay this burdensome individual tax are told they are living in fear and mocked by those who do not. People with cholera are pushed by their employers to come to work anyway, and CDC guidance reduces cholera isolation to one day, whether or not you’re still symptomatic or infectious."
"Measles was officially declared eradicated in the U.S. more than 20 years ago, but new outbreaks of the disease are popping up — and experts say declining vaccination rates are jeopardizing herd immunity and increasing the risk...Measles is a highly contagious and potentially deadly virus that causes a tell-tale rash."
What to know about Dengue Fever as CDC warns of rising risk in United States
Is that Dengue Fever is a rocking Cambodian psychedelic band from Los Angeles, created in 2001 to play the music of Cambodian rockers who were murdered by the Khmer Rouge. They then went on to write and perform their own original songs, too. Their lead singer, Chhom Nimol, was a refuge from the Khmer Rouge, and sings in both Khmer and in English. The band was created by Zac Holtzman (originally from Dieselhed) and his brother Ethan.
Oh yeah, also, please remember to remove standing water in your yard; keep windows and doors closed, or screened; and wear long clothes and/or repellent outside during mosquito season.