Ian Robertson

After blasting WHO costs, Trump officials propose more expensive alternative HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.

“Spending two to three times the cost to create what we already had access to makes absolutely no sense..."

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Six years in, long Covid is still with many Vermonters — and they say the system is failing them  - United States News Beep Mary Kate Shanahan has long covid. Seen in South Burlington on Friday, February 13, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger

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"The most positive takeaway I have had from all of this is reinforcement of my knowledge that I have the capability to self-educate &
self-advocate within a system that seems to be working against providing care [for #LongCOVID] -

www.newsbeep.com/us/484051/

Thoughts on this: clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT048... (with 2 additional protocols now for tazemetostat or capivasertib)

vs hormone therapy & radiation?

54 yrs. Gleason 9. Grade 5. Stage 3.

#MedSky #urology #oncology #prostate #cancer

🚨OPENING SUBMISSIONS
'Impact on Society' - UK Covid-19 Inquiry

Adam Wagner KC, on behalf of CVF, identified unequal impacts and that Clinically Vulnerable people cannot be expected to protect themselves.

He asks for:
Safety
Support and
Status (under the Equality Act)

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Housing. The #1 most alienating thing about Canada to young people is the extraordinary cost of housing.

As a housing nerd, I know it’s mainly municipal/provincial, not federal.

But Poilievre identified a sore spot that the Liberals have long seemed out-of-touch on.

This is the sixth death in ICE custody in 18 days. This isn’t enforcement, it’s a system that cages people, outsources care, and shrugs when they die. Abolish ICE.

You all know that disease has been used as a tool of oppression throughout history, and that includes yesterday and today.

Fight oppression. Fight disease.

Solidarity. 😷

In like six months or so we’re gonna have some wild undercover investigative pieces from journalists who got jobs as ICE agents huh

I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*

Iris Gorfinkel: As a doctor, this U.S. health policy scares me and Ontario kids are in the blast radius Vaccines have become a political loyalty test in both the U.S. and Canada.

As a doctor, this U.S. health policy scares me and Ontario kids are in the blast radius #Opinion

Not Russia, not China but the US today. Sickening.

JFC this works. Really. FFS.

I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.

On RFK Jr., vaccines and my son with autism and Down syndrome Knowledge is the vaccine for ignorance and fear. But RFK Jr. just wants to let the fever burn.

This pleases me (gift):

"I had only one advantage: I’m a historian. One of the true gifts of studying the humanities is not the content we learn in school, but that we develop the skills to learn what we need to know when life takes unexpected turns. So like a proper nerd, I made a reading list."

New meta-analysis shows systemic immune-mediated diseases are linked to a higher risk of cardiovascular death—highlighting the importance of integrated cardiometabolic care.
🔗 https://ow.ly/x87650XIyxo

#CardioResearch #HeartHealth #Inflammation #CardioSky #MedSky

Oof. Flu A taking off like a rocket in #bcpoli (as predicted, but who needs prevention from @governmentofbc.bsky.social, amitrite?!).

Flu A test ~2X in 1 wk, from 7.4% to 13.8%
COVID going down, RSV up a bit, but still LOTS of both around.

#FluIsAirborne. Get your vax asap AND #MaskUp.

Hey everyone, it's time to play "guess the year we knew COVID was airborne"!

(answer in link: wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...)

“Leading medical societies and many state health officials say Kennedy is trying to dismantle a vaccine program that prevents disease and saves lives based on his beliefs rather than scientific evidence.”

Intensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated

www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...

Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.

Holy CRAP.

Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle.

Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it.

And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪

Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?

A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.

So, to all the "RFK's got some good ideas" folks (Rachael Bedard, Leana Wen) and Jay Bhattacharya is "an excellent choice for NIH" (Steven Macedo, Frances Lee) and Vinay Prasad "will bring a breath of fresh air to FDA" (Adam Cifu, John Mandrola) groupies--you own this now too.

Federal judge restricts how ICE can arrest people in Colorado, calling past conduct ‘unlawful’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ conduct during arrests in Colorado has been “unlawful,” a federal judge ruled Tuesday in an order that restricts how immigration officers can arrest people ...

I haven't seen anyone else reporting on this great decision.

www.durangoherald.com/articles/fed...

Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.

For someone who hates socialism he sure loves being publicly owned

FDA drops proposed rule on asbestos testing in cosmetics

www.consumeraffairs.com/news/fda-dro...

Aerosol transmission of SARSCoV2 virus is the dominant route for transmitting COVID-19.
👏'2025 Faraday Horizon Prize for advancing understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on transmissibility of respiratory pathogens.' @rsc.org
www.rsc.org/standards-an...

West Point plaque: "Our code of military obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law."