Maksi Sanctum, BSPH/c

Ischemic stroke after COVID-19 vaccination: A self-controlled case series analysis We aimed to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the association between COVID-19 vaccination and incident ischemic stroke.

STUDY finds "no association between mRNA or adenovirus COVID-19 vaccines and ischemic stroke."

However, "Systematic reviews report over a 2-fold increased risk of ischemic stroke following infection with SARS-CoV-2."

www.jns-journal.com/article/S002...

This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best.

Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.

it’s hard to overstate:

-how beneficial vaccines are

-how massively overwhelming the evidence is showing no link between vaccines and autism

-how impossible it is that RFK will somehow “find the cause” (at all, let alone in his first year)

-how much RFKjr want to get rid of childhood vaccines

I will die on this hill:

it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.

This is going to get very, very bad and the people responsible are first going to deny it’s happening and then claim they couldn’t have predicted how bad it got

5/N What is vaccine decline worsens further?
📈A 50% drop in vaccine coverage (over 25 years):
• 51M measles cases (51,200 with postmeasles neurologic disease)
• 10M rubella cases (10,700 with congenital rubella)
• 4.3M polio cases (5,400 with paralytic polio)
• >10M hospitalizations
• 159K deaths

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.

Lawyers Seek Return of Migrants Deported Under Wartime Act An updated lawsuit filed in Washington was the latest in a flurry of suits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to send migrants to a prison in El Salvador.

Judge Hellerstein noted that no law authorizes the government “to hire a jail in a foreign country where people could be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment not allowable in United States jails.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Special thank you to @yalesph.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social for your recognition today with the Winslow Medal and our efforts to develop vaccines for the world’s poorest people + countering a dangerous and rising tide of antivaccine activism both in the U.S. and globally

One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

Texas Measles Update: Despite health secretary RFK Jr.'s claims, cases have not "plateaued". There are 36 new cases since Tues, which is very consistent with the rate of growth for over a month.

In addition, 3 cases were reported in El Paso for the first time.

www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

Facts and myths about measles It seems ironic that Robert F Kennedy Jr, one of the most prominent antivaccine activists, has been made Secretary of Health and Human Services in the USA while one of the largest recent measles outbr...

“Measles is a ‘canary in the coalmine’ for under-vaccination, be it due to vaccine misinformation, lack of access to vaccination, or conflict”

@thelancetinfdis.bsky.social

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New measles death in TX - a child. C/w last week:

CURRENT CASE COUNT: 569
Texas: 481 (+59)
New Mexico: 54 (+6)
Oklahoma: 10
Kansas: 24 (+1)

HOSPITALIZATIONS: 58 (+14)
Texas: 56 (+14) have been hospitalized, 11.6%.
New Mexico: 2 (No change). This is 4.5% of NM cases.

DEATHS: 3 (+1)

The photo editor on this deserves a raise. It looks like RFK is an evil warlock casting a measles spell.

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person.

I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person

I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

Just re-upping this for those of you who own SPY PUCKS.

Alexa is not your friend

Please read the comments also

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Move Over, H5N1—Another Bird Flu Strain Has Arrived in the U.S. It's the first poultry outbreak of H7N9 seen within the U.S. in nearly a decade.

Move Over, H5N1—Another Bird Flu Strain Has Arrived in the U.S.
It's the first poultry outbreak of H7N9 seen within the U.S. in nearly a decade.
gizmodo.com/move-over-h5...

Consumer sentiment continues to plunge on fears over Trump’s trade war, tumbling 11% this month | CNN Business The Trump bump in consumer sentiment is now a Trump slump.

“Consumer sentiment continues to plunge on fears over #Trump ’s trade war, tumbling 11% this month” #TrumpCrash #TrumpTax

www.cnn.com/2025/03/14/e...

Peru – Lima High Court declares COVID-19 an occupational disease for all workers Peru – Lima High Court declares COVID-19 an occupational disease for all workers

Peru are ahead of the UK www.covid19litigation.org/news/2023/09...

Pretty much an outright "we own #SCOTUS" declaration

Via Rupar:

Pam #Bondi: "Of course we're gonna lose in these liberal district courts, but we will win in the Supreme Court. Donald #Trump will control the budget."

E.P.A. Targets Dozens of Environmental Rules as It Reframes Its Purpose (Gift Article) Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said the agency’s mission was to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses.

The EPA Director has said that the new mission of the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY isn't to protect the environment but to “lower the cost of buying a car, heating a home and running a business.” Who needs clean air, safe water, health, and a sustainable planet?

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...

Iron dysregulation linked to long COVID development Problems with iron levels in the blood and the body's ability to regulate this important nutrient as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection could be a key trigger for long COVID, new research has discovered...

'Problems with iron levels in the blood and the body’s ability to regulate this key nutrient as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection could be a key trigger for Long COVID, new research has discovered.' 👉 Dr Aimee Hanson @uniofcam.bsky.social @newsmedical.bsky.social
www.news-medical.net/news/2025030...

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him.

Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

This is go to prison forever malfeasance. A guy who is currently a SpaceX employee also serves as an FAA official who cancels a big contract to award instead no-bid to his own employer and starts installing hardware without statutorily required tests and assurances

The Refaat Alareer Camp - by The Sameer Project The Sameer Project, a grassroots aid organization led by four Palestinians in the diaspora, is proud to announce our first tent encampment project that provides shelter and specialized support to disp...

We'd like to support Sameer Project's Refaat Camp reach its modest goal of 300K. They recently welcomed a new family that needs serious medical support. Please help, esp if you are a faculty who has yet to show up as students are getting beaten and abducted by the state.

chuffed.org/project/1133...

I said he was going crazy, and he is.

All day he’s been posting deranged nonsense, culminating in this: a call for the arrest of the woman exercising her First Amendment rights by organizing protests against Tesla.

Remember when Musk was still pretending to be an advocate for the First Amendment?

Again, the Secretary of State has no authority to “revoke” green cards.

Fascism is here.

The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich.

🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...