Eileen Brokaw

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Cuts to the chase:

Infant MORTALITY. OP has already corrected deeper in the thread.

3) The lack transparency is my biggest concern. The existence of a layer of City decision making with no agendas, no transcripts, no criteria or process for inclusion. That is scary AF. And very Wheeler. 3/3

2) All of this takes me back 50 years, to the first round of community redesign of Couch Park. We proposed closing NW 20th between the school and the park . And it was opposed by… police and fire. It stayed a chained off actual street for many years, with resultant safety issues for the school. 2/3

A few notes on this memo:
1) It’s METROPOLITAN Learning Center (not Multnomah). It’s been there, in that name, for 57 years. This shows a very concerning lack of basic knowledge of the neighborhood.
2) All of this is taking me back 50 years… 1/3

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

The 112-Year Odyssey of Pertussis and Pertussis Vaccines—Mistakes Made and Implications for the Future Abstract. Effective diphtheria, tetanus toxoids, whole-cell pertussis (DTwP) vaccines became available in the 1930s, and they were put into routine use in

given that this year has seen a lot of pertussis activity already and that situation is likely to worsen in the coming years, it is worth seriously considering a booster. James Cherry, an expert pertussis specifically, has argued that we should be getting them every ~3 years. Be aware that their...

Thought for the day:

The hospitalist contract has a clause that they return to work when the nurses do- they do not have to cross the nurse picket line.

Like many of us, I am upset, outraged, etc., by yesterday’s events, Executive Orders, and so forth. But this, THIS is the one that frightens me. This is terrifying.

“Overdoing it. Walking too much. Doing too much work ard the house. I want to pace all the time, but sometimes my brain thinks ‘Hey we can do this’ & my body is like ‘What the hell, man!'” – Nikki Albert/@brainlessblogger.bsky.social - Read more: https://buff.ly/2JlylFZ #PainFlares #ChronicPain

Women seeking abortions after using 'natural' contraception Researchers have seen a shift from "more reliable" hormonal contraceptives to fertility tracking apps.

Natural conception methods are very problematic especially fertility or period tracking apps. Beware the misinformation.
#ReproSky #Fertility
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Conversation re: #alcohol & #cancer in news/social chatter is mostly missing the ways industry corrupted the science & public health guidelines for decades. This should inform regulatory policy. Scientists & agencies are now standing up to clarify, not shame individuals. #healthcommunication #CDoH

screenshot of the linked tweets by the Western Pacific WHO account. Text: 1) @WHOWPRO · Jan 4, 2020 #China has reported to WHO regarding a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, Hubei Province.The Govt has also met with our country office,and updated @WHO on the situation. Govt actions to control the incident have been instituted and investigations into the cause are ongoing. 1/3 2) @WHOWPRO · Jan 4, 2020 We’re closely monitoring the situation in Wuhan & are in active communication with our counterparts in China. We’ve activated our incident management system across the 3 levels of @WHO (country office, regional office, HQ) & can launch a broader response, if needed. 2/3 3) @WHOWPRO · Jan 4, 2020 #China has extensive capacity to respond to public health events and is responding proactively & rapidly to the current incident in Wuhan – isolating patients, tracing close contacts, cleaning up the market, and searching for the cause and for additional cases. 3/3

Screenshots of the linked tweets by the WHO main account: 1) @WHO · Jan 4, 2020 #China has reported to WHO a cluster of #pneumonia cases —with no deaths— in Wuhan, Hubei Province 🇨🇳 . Investigations are underway to identify the cause of this illness. 2) @WHO · Jan 4, 2020 WHO is closely monitoring this event and will share more details as we have them. WHO is working across the 3 levels (country office, regional office, HQ) to track the situation. #pneumonia #China

Five years ago (Saturday 4 Jan 2020), first communications by the World Health Organization about the Wuhan outbreak, via tweets: at 5:27 UTC by the Western Pacific Region account, and at 18:13 UTC by the main WHO account

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DEA Keeping Supply of Rx Opioids Unchanged in 2025 — Pain News Network By Pat Anson The Drug Enforcement Administration says it can’t do anything about shortages of opioid pain medication at U.S. pharmacies and will keep the 2025 opioid supply essentially unchanged from...

DEA contined to decrease the opioid medication supply for 2025 despite comments from patients, hospitals and health professionaks concerned about shortages. The DEA says it has no control over pharmacies being out-of-stock. www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2024...

5 years ago—Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang warns his colleagues on Dec 30 2019 that 7 people in Wuhan have been diagnosed with COVID. He was subsequently arrested for "spreading rumors". Dr Li died while treating patients on the front lines, of the disease he first tried the world about.

Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

Science affords us the luxury of forgetting the impact of infectious diseases
- In the 1st half of the 19th century 40-50% of children in US did not make it past the age of 5
- TB killed 1 in 7 people in US and Europe
- smallpox killed 80% of infected children
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COVID-19 is a trigger of autoimmune rheumatic diseases: a hypothesis tested over time - Rheumatology International We discuss the paper recently published in Rheumatology Internationa. This article reflects on the prevalence of autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARD) during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2023) and compar...

Study in Greece (2020–2023, 10M people) found COVID-19 linked to rises in rheumatoid arthritis (+20%), lupus, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and systemic sclerosis.

SARS-CoV-2 may trigger autoimmunity.

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Wapo saying that “lockdowns” (which we didn’t have) 4 years ago are leading to more whooping cough cases. In fact that has nothing to do with it

The Washington Post is spreading the extremely dangerous and false anti vaxx “immunity debt” conspiracy theory. This anti vaxx conspiracy has been debunked repeatedly by scientists and yet WaPo continues to push it. Extremely dangerous www.thegauntlet.news/p/with-immun...

December 27, 2024. CDC-Wastewater Map -
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Upgrade your #causalinference arsenal.

A revision of our book "Causal Inference: What If" is available at miguelhernan.org/whatifbook

Thanks to everyone who suggested improvements, reported typos, and proposed new citations and material.

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Our Wins Of The Week Well, so much for Donald’s honeymoon.

As Republicans showed themselves to be the chaos agents that they are, completely unable to govern, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries took to the House floor to expose their government spending hypocrisy. It's a must-watch.

This past year of COVID has felt like a blur of denial, protest, abandonment and repression. We’re working on our episode about everything that’s happened this year, and I want to hear your answer to a question that I keep asking myself: What moments defined it for you?

Btw, not just polio we’ll have to worry about👇

Under no circumstances can history be allowed to repeat itself
#vaccination #polio #IDSky