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In her recommendation, Bagdasarian stated, "Any person over the age of six months without contraindication who has not received a dose of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved or-authorized 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine may be considered to have an underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 and is thus eligible to receive an age-appropriate dose."

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition.

www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Your friendly reminder that you don’t have to turn right on a red if you don’t want to, even if it’s clear. Even if the guy behind you is laying on the horn.

26% Kit Kat price increase ahead of Halloween?? Lord have mercy

Recession watch, updated to include the latest industrial production numbers.

933 - Fall Vaccine Confusion with Your Local Epidemiologist Public Health On Call · Episode

@kkjetelina.bsky.social

Where "omg this is such a mess" meets "let's just press record and talk this out."

tl;dr: Fall vaccines are anything but business as usual this year and all eyes will be on independent orgs and health insurance companies.

Let's listen.

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Guide to Identify and Mitigate the Negative Effects of Gentrification Caused by Transportation Investment In this project, funded by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, we investigated what is known about the links between transportation investment and gentrification and surveye...

How do transportation investments impact gentrification & related outcomes like displacement?

In a new paper co-developed by @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, National Center for Smart Growth, & Toole Design, we examine what the scholarship tells us & survey transportation practitioners on the topic.

A former F.B.I. agent who was charged with encouraging the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to kill police officers has been named as an adviser to the Justice Department task force that President Trump established to seek retribution.
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Map of the United States showing reported cases of Lyme disease in 1995. One dot placed in county of residence for each reported case. Source: CDC data.

This is a map of Lyme disease cases in 1995 via CDC. Keep it in mind when I show you the 2023 map in the next post.

Lyme Disease Case Maps Data map showing reported cases of Lyme disease over time and by state of residence.

The TL;DR:
With milder winters in some regions, ticks are active longer, spread further & have more chance to bite humans. Lyme disease has gone from a regional issue for people in Pennsylvania and adjacent regions to covering 1/3rd of the company.

Seems like a terrible time to defund the CDC.

The Trump admin has agreed to release from prison a three-time felon and spare him from deportation in exchange for his cooperation in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego García. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

We’ve talked about “Alligator Alcatraz” before. Here are more details.

Starting the first week of July, when South Florida’s heat index regularly hits 100°F, they plan to detain up to 5,000 people in tents. No A/C. No real shelter. Just suffocating heat, choking humidity, and swarms of mosquitoes.

I’m seeing a lot of people posting about how sick they are with a “summer flu”

Main complaints? Fatigue, extremely sore throat, fever and loss of smell.

It’s Covid. The Nimbus variant is here & appears to be more transmissible.

It’s time to wear a respirator, clean the air & stay home when sick!

Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a rancid bigot.

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism

“'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.'

*More of this, please*"

thinking again about this 2018 cover

Make this go viral.

Tesla on the hunt for space to park its overflowing inventory.

@electrek.co $TSLA
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Can’t protest in person during the No Kings rallies. Next best thing - chalk my sidewalk along a popular walking route. Already have had support!

Summoning all you (West) Michiganders @indivisibleggr.bsky.social

MAGA: Flags for me but not for thee

Cartoon by @Andertoon.bsky.social for Raw Story

#LosAngeles #AntiIce #AntiIceProtests #LAProtests #LosAngelesProtests #ICE #Immigration #Political #PoliticalCartoons

The list includes several well-known critics of vaccines. The eight new members, a significant decline from the 17 that previously served on the panel, include: Dr. Joseph R. Hibbeln, a psychiatrist and nutritional scientist who previously worked on nutritional neuroscience at the NIH; Dr. Martin Kulldorf, an epidemiologist formerly at Harvard Medical School, who has served on an FDA safety committee as well as the vaccine subgroup of ACIP; Retsef Levi, a professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management; Dr. Robert Malone, a physician who conducted early research on mRNA vaccine technology; Dr. Cody Meissner, a professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, who has previously held advisory roles at CDC and FDA, including as an ACIP member; Dr. James Pagano, an emergency medicine physician; Vicky Pebsworth, a nurse with a PhD in public health, who has previously served on FDA vaccine advisory committees; Dr. Michael Ross, an obstetrician and gynecologicist, who has served on a CDC advisory committee for the prevention of breast and cervical cancer.

NEW: After firing expert scientists on the CDC's vaccine advisory committee, RFK Jr. has named their replacements.

The new committee contains many figures known for spreading disinformation about vaccines and COVID including Robert Malone and Martin Kulldorff.

This is bad.

The collapse of corporate media in the face of Trump is something to behold.

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed an expert panel of vaccine advisers that has historically guided the federal government’s vaccine recommendations.

Michigan doesn't have a DMV or toll roads; they're not texting you about unpaid tickets A new DMV text is annoying drivers, just like the fake texts about unpaid tolls earlier this year.

Michigan does not have toll roads, and the state will never send you a text demanding immediate payment for a toll. If you receive a message like this, it's a scam.
www.freep.com/story/money/...

Need 10 cops for a 10 speed

Opinion | RFK Jr.: HHS Moves to Restore Public Trust in Vaccines We’re reconstituting an advisory committee to avoid conflicts of interest.

"A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science"
Agree. A clean sweep of the HHS.
www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US This study attempts to measure excess mortality due to firearms among US children aged 0 to 17 years after the McDonald v Chicago US Supreme Court decision (2010).

Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US.

Our national @JAMAPediatrics study is live.

Findings (2011-2023):
•7,400 more deaths in most permissive and permissive firearm law states.
•No increase in the stricter law states.
•Decreases in 4 strict law states.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

NBC News Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead in a car accident. Gastonia, N.C., police charged the parents with involuntary manslaughter charges after allowing the victim and his brother to walk home alone from a nearby grocery store.

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

No better testimonial than this one on how federal job cuts put lives at risk.