Alice (SHE/HER) Sato, MD PhD

a beautifully hard bound blue book titled “The Late Bloomer” with the author’s name, Sonja Buckley MD

signed inscription: “to Dr. D.L. Knox With esteem and admiration from Sonja Buckley MD Summer 1996”

title page The Late Bloomer An Autobiography of a Female Medical Scientist (picture of Sonja Bucklcy MD, Summer 1945) by Sonja Buckley MD

Finally got my hands on a rare find: Sonja Buckley’s autobiography. She was instrumental in the development of tissue culture techniques for virus isolation & study, which required CONSIDERABLE skill pre-gloves, BSCs, & mechanical pipettes - & was the first person to isolate Lassa virus.

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I'm seeing a whole lot less outrage for the journalists of color who have been systematically discarded at places like NBC and CBS (and across journalism, really) than the response to Jimmy Kimmel's 5-day suspension.

Health officials brace for a severe flu season, urge people to get vaccinated Health officials in Ottawa and across Ontario are bracing for a severe flu season at a time when hospitals are already overcrowded.

Please protect yourself, others & the healthcare system. Please help healthcare workers. Get vaccinated.

"Health officials are bracing for a severe flu season & urging residents to get vaccinated against flu, COVID-19 & RSV...The message comes at a time when many hospitals are already overcrowded"

And if you have extra HSA or FSA funds to use before 12/31, this is a great way to spend them down

blue and white scarf with neuron pattern

teal blue and white scarf with neuron pattern

Back in stock in time for holiday shopping: the blue ombre neuron scarf and the starburst amacrine cell scarf. www.etsy.com/shop/artolog... 🧪🐡🧠

That Capitol switchboard number is (202) 224-3121 and provide the operator with the name, Speaker Mike Johnson, and <your Republican Congressional Rep.>

Explain your family's situation, and those of your neighbors

• healthcare costs
• food costs
• housing costs
• business environment
• your future

He’s a good boy

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Right to Hug Every year, millions of children can’t hug their parents because of corporate greed. Jails across the United States have stopped allowing children to visit their parents for free, forcing families to ...

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#PedSky

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Colorado children sue Adams County Sheriff over ban on in-person visits at its jail with parents Lawsuit alleges Adams County and jail telecom company profited from keeping families apart

Ty Hank god someone is suing but truly this is evil to profit off families and children’s needs.

Charging 20 cents PER MINUTE to video call through a monopoly.

#PedSky

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Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!

USAID pulled out of Sudan in July. A loss of over a billion in humanitarian assistance. Now this.

Sudan has become a 'case study' for the impact of USAID cuts, aid worker says Humanitarians in Sudan, where a three-year civil war has made assistance increasingly difficult, warn that a vacuum left by cuts to U.S. funding cannot be filled.

The British medical journal Lancet found that in the absence of USAID’s funds and works, 14 million more people would die in the next five years, a third of those children under 5.

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Who are the domestic terrorists again?

After Greg Abbott took theirs, Houstonians are painting rainbows everywhere "The more rainbows I can paint, the better."

For my last story for a week, I spoke with the people painting rainbows all over Houston to protest the rainbow crosswalk removal the other week: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Direct view of brown tabby’s face. His left eye is brown and his right eye is green.

Happy #Caturday

Pinocchio? Andrew Lang collections?

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

In a study of 94 people post-allo HCT who received the adjuvanted RSV vaccine (RSVPreF3 OA) >= 3 months after HCT, 32% achieved >=4 fold increase in anti–pre-F IgG titers (median 16 fold), 37% w/ CMI response.

IgG response better further out from HCT...

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Review: Human H5N1 avian flu cases can be asymptomatic, and the virus likely spreads among people

😬 "believed to have been infected through human-to-human spread"...

Meanwhile our homicidally negligent public health and infection control leaders are still lying to the public about the need for proper protections against aerosol transmission, to cover up their last lethal "very big mistake".

Two T. rex skeletons face off on a bed of artificial flowers. Triceratops mural and skeleton visible behind them, with a replica magnolia tree.

Carnegie Museum of Natural History: 63%. This one's weird because their entire Cenozoic gallery is made up of real skeletons, but there are a million fish casts dragging the number down.

Amazon Ring cameras are a privacy nightmare 👹but we know there are many reasons why people get them, so we have some suggestions ….

A colorful flyer with a textured background promoting an event titled “Paint and Protest for Trans Care.” The text reads: “Saturday, 11/1, @12pm - 1340 Boylston St. - @ProtectTransFutures.” It invites people to join for an afternoon of sign making, chalk art, and hot chocolate to show support for gender-affirming care at Fenway Health. It states the protest welcomes community members of all ages and encourages bringing friends, kids, and neighbors. It also mentions that those unable to attend can donate art supplies by contacting @ProtectTransFutures on Instagram. At the bottom, bold text reads: “OUR GOAL: Bring the Boston community together to show Fenway Health that we won’t turn our backs on trans youth. Healthcare is a human right.” Logos for ACT UP Boston and Protect Trans Futures (PTF) appear at the bottom.

Protest tomorrow at Fenway Health at noon over abandoning trans youth. If you're in Boston, come out and support.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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OECD Child poverty rate by country “On average across OECD countries, 12.2% of children live in relative income poverty (Chart CO2.2.A), but rates differ considerably from country to country. In six OECD countries (Chile, Costa Rica, Israel, Spain, Türkiye and the United States), more than 20% of children live in relative poverty; rates are particularly high, at around 30%, in Costa Rica. In 17 other OECD countries (Belgium, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia and Sweden), however, less than 10% of children live in relative income poverty. In Denmark and Finland, the child relative income poverty rate is only around 4%.” Source: https://webfs.oecd.org/els-com/Family_Database/CO_2_2_Child_Poverty.pdf

Did you know? The US has one of the highest child poverty rates of OECD countries.

The average child poverty rate across OECD countries is 12.2%

In the US, it’s over 20%

It’s partly why many children rely on SNAP

High rates of child poverty warrant a national conversation.

A new study shows that COVID19 during pregnancy was associated with a significant increase in the odds of neurodevelopmental conditions in offspring.

This supports literature suggesting that infections during pregnancy can increase the odds of ASD in offspring.

It also supports vaccination.

This week in #GlobalHealthWatch:

1) 🇿🇦 SA approves injectable #LEN for #PrEP, the first in Africa
2) US releases a draft #globalhealth MoU w/major gaps in #HIVprevention & community voice
3) Leaked EU doc suggests future cuts to Gavi & the Global Fund

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