Jules

1. #Flu activity in the US is really starting to pick up — just in time for the multi-generational gatherings at Christmas, Hanukkah & over the new year.
Map on the left shows activity for the week ending Dec. 7. Look at the change in the following week (right). www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...

​DWP two-child benefit limit to be axed in Scotland as PM under huge pressure Scotland has vowed to axe the 'pernicious' two-child benefit limit in a move that will pile massive pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to cut the Tory benefit rule

BREAKING: The Scottish government has announced the two-child benefit limit - blamed for trapping children in poverty “will be scrapped"

Finance Secretary Shona Robison said eradicating child poverty was a "top priority"👏

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Firms who supplied unusable PPE are still raking in cash from NHS contracts - Good Law Project During the pandemic 17 firms supplied £119m worth of PPE that was deemed unusable in the NHS. Since the start of 2024, they’ve made £83.6m. By Max Colbert

🔴NEW: Firms who supplied unusable PPE are still raking in cash from NHS contracts.

During the pandemic 17 firms supplied £119m worth of PPE that was deemed unusable in the NHS. Since the start of 2024, they’ve made £83.6m.
goodlawproject.org/firms-who-su...

#SpotTheScammer

@robert3318.bsky.social - using pics of Javier Fernandez Casanova, stolen from www.instagram.com/javiermco

The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can persist in the brain—in the skull bone marrow and meninges—to induce neurologic damage
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... open-access

Jeez. This is an outrageous post from Elon Musk. If anyone was in any doubt about where his sentiments will lie at the next UK general election look no further than this. The Prime Minister, every cabinet member & Labour MP need to join @bsky.app now

England 28th November - 7 days data

New Cases 1,159 - w/e 20th November (⬇️-94 on last report )
New Deaths 164 - w/e 15th November
Admissions No Data

#COVID19

Can we get this shared 1,000 times for the NHS?? 💙

go.bsky.app/QSu8Fdi

Screenshot of Bylines Network on Bluesky showing 49.7K followers.

Please help the Bylines Network get over 50K!

Follow @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social

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Schools closed again tomorrow. #CLIMATECHANGE

• He has claimed HIV is not the cause of AIDS (it is), but rather poppers are. • He has claimed that the 1918 influenza pandemic was caused by influenza vaccines (it wasn't). • After causing (with the help of local anti-vaccine lobbyists) a measles outbreak in Samoa which resulted in 83 deaths, Kennedy blamed the outbreak on measles vaccines (a thing that is literally impossible). • He has repeatedly claimed vaccines cause autism (they do not) while also dehumanizing autistic people. • He has denied that there has ever been a vaccine that has been safe and effective. • He claimed COVID-19 was ethnically targeted to attack Caucasian and Black people, while Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews were relatively immune. • He has said that rather than take stimulant medications, those diagnosed with ADHD should be forced to work in labor camps. • He has claimed that he is not anti-vaccine, despite being at the head of the world's leading source of anti-vaccine disinformation. • He has argued that opposing vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic was worse than being a Jew in the Holocaust. • He has apologized for comparing vaccination itself to the Holocaust multiple times it's worth asking how genuine such apologies are if you keep making the comparison. • He has touted health benefits for unpasteurized (raw) milk that do not exist -

Long list of RFK Jr’s health misinformation and outright lies.

Jacqueline Carey, "In March 2020 40% of 111 calls went unanswered, and by September 2021, 25% of NHS 111 calls were abandoned"

Sajid Javid, "Yes'

Surreal that this is what the Conservatives did to the NHS 111 service

How much more evidence do we need, after 29 failures, that the climate COPs are not fit for purpose? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
There have been many proposals for a process that would actually work, but all are ignored.
The talks are MEANT to fail.

Complicated subjects often mean that previously stated opinions will change in the light of newly released data (as here) or the identification of error underpinning a previous calculation.

Twice today I have seen professionals highlight previous opinions and explain changes

That IS “PROFESSIONAL”

Wind and rain in Wiltshire causing havoc.

On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis

A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country

A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation

You couldn't make it up.
The New York Times, so active in getting people repeatedly infected, slips out a quiet little article saying that Covid infections can raise the risk of heart problems for years.

Can we please stop pretending?

archive.md/eNWvM

@brazz59.bsky.social followed me - this is a British MAGAt.

Be careful who you follow back.

Trump is a chaos agent.

And when there's chaos there's looting.

And all of it will be done by his billionaire friends.

Anyone from any country can take part in this survey about Long Covid.

It’s looking for opinions on recommending aerobic exercise for Long Covid patients.

Try not to swear in the comments…

BREAKING: Downing Street has said the government would fulfill its legal obligations in relation to the ICC after they issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu

#SpotTheScammer

@ivanvolodymrr.bsky.social - this ghoul is using a stolen pic of a Ukrainian former TV presenter, Daniel Salem, who is now in the armed forces, fighting against Russia.

Report and block.

Pandemic linked to 16% rise in babies born with heart defects The proportion of babies born with a congenital heart abnormality increased by 16 per cent after the first year of the pandemic, according to research at City St George's, University of London and pub...

Rise in babies are being born with heart defects.

This isn’t lockdowns, obviously, they didn’t even exist then!

It’s obviously not school closures.

And it’s obviously not masks.

So can we start tackling the root cause now?

COVID.

#SARSCoV2 #LongCovidKids

www.news-medical.net/news/2024111...

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner rocking it at #PMQs 👏

A message from a REAL farmer who hasn’t been brainwashed by the Tories, wealthy landowners and the right wing media👇🏽
#FarmersProtest

Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans Scientists are racing to understand what a hospitalized teen’s case of bird flu may mean for future outbreaks

"Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans"

Tick tick tock tock

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

It’s happening

What a treat for 🦋

We are getting his fascinating 🧵 on materials, energy and politics/ economics.

Make sure you follow & buckle up for the stories 👇👇

Tweet showing German tractors in 2023 and telling Labour to listen

You can literally see the German number plates.

Because Einstein here has used a photo of a GERMAN protest in 2023.

838 people have shared it.