Laura Lee Johnson

In Ireland we probably averted about 500 newborn RSV hospitalizations once nirsevimab was introduced last year (~75% risk reduction). Uptake was > 80%, and that's what's threatened by these cynical safety concerns from the antivaxxers in the US government.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

California officials warn against foraging wild mushrooms after deadly poisoning outbreak California officials are warning foragers about a deadly outbreak linked to wild mushrooms. The state poison control system has identified 21 cases of amatoxin poisoning, likely from death cap mushrooms.

California officials are warning foragers about a deadly outbreak linked to wild mushrooms.

ByHeart baby formula from all lots may be contaminated with botulism bacteria, tests show The makers of ByHeart infant formula say tests of products tied to a botulism outbreak show that all of the company's products may have been contaminated.

The makers of ByHeart infant formula say tests of products tied to a botulism outbreak show that all of the company's products may have been contaminated.

ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows The figures do not include arrests made by Border Patrol, which has launched aggressive immigration operations in several cities in recent months.

ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

A young girl in a Santa hat standing in front of a Christmas tree. She is holding a chainsaw with a worried expression on her face. The text reads: Don't shop desperate this holiday season. Buy age-appropriate gifts for kids. Never gift toys with small parts to children under 3.

Shop now while you can still make good decisions!

FDA withdraws requirements to check for asbestos in makeup - WTOP News A recently withdrawn FDA rule means cosmetic companies are no longer required to test talc-based products for asbestos, leaving consumers responsible for choosing safer options.

WELP.

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Our ancestors did more with much less. We have no excuse.

You can hear Jose scream in excruciating pain as an ICE vehicle runs over his foot while he's being detained.

His family says Jose is a good man, with no criminal record, who works in roofing.

He needs to be released from detention to receive appropriate medical care.

I have done my best to avoid insta, but I might join just to follow these nuns.

How much does it cost to stop being poor in America? • New Hampshire Bulletin Last month, a Wall Street portfolio manager named Michael Green created a bit of a stir with a Substack article headlined, “How a broken benchmark quietly broke America.” His provocative economic…

"As just about any working-class American family will tell you, the real 'distortion of reality' is the idea that a family of four can do anything but suffer on $32,150 a year." Commentary from @danawormald.bsky.social #NHPolitics

Of babies infected w/Hepatitis B, 90% develop chronic infection.

Of those, 1 in 4 will DIE.

They lose the ability to get rid of toxins & make important proteins. Their skin yellows, their abdomen swells, they’re uncomfortable. A fate no one deserves.

One we can avoid w/ vaccination.

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Rosa Parks Featured on Ride On Buses During December Seventy years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man while riding a Montgomery, Alabama bus.

Seventy years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man while riding a Montgomery, Alabama bus. This month, the Montgomery County Department of Transportation will honor her legacy. https://bit.ly/3XsLFiW

The American Story An American History Experience Like No Other

There’s a shiny new exhibit at the National Archives in DC. Meant to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it took seven years of planning and work to complete. 1/

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SCIENCE SAVES LIVES.

Overall pediatric cancer survival rate increased from 63% in mid 1970s to 87%‼️between 2015 & 2021.

And this isn’t due to supplements, eating better or avoiding red food dye.

It’s due to science & industry working together to develop & approve therapies!

Committing atrocities is a loyalty test and binds you together with others who have done the same, severing other bonds of care and loyalty.
The atrocity literature highlights this over and over.

I’m about to turn 40 and @outnmbrdbyboys.bsky.social is [REDACTED] and we’re the youngest people at our county level committee meetings and it fucking kills me. We run our town’s committee and there’s one 36yo who shows up, like, sometimes. But we also have an outsized influence because we push.

Horrific.

This entire thread. (Yes.)

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Opinion: DCPS middle-schoolers should be reading novels Many parents like myself were shocked by a recent change to the English curriculum at Alice Deal Middle School.

A parent at a DC middle school is urging staff to reconsider its new curriculum, which removes all full-length novels from the 8th grade curriculum

Opinion: DCPS middle-schoolers should be reading novels

They are also cutting statistics which seems very odd. Notably, the department said the numbers in the report were wrong, and they had other ways to achieve the same cost cuts (that on face I would expect to make it an even stronger pull for students+faculty and investment.)

Healing your way. I had surgical repair for a broken ankle. Unsolicited advice is make your nook, follow instructions even when awkward, do all the PT and exercise they assign you, and if the pain/anti-inflammatory meds cause GI upset - quickly call for a different script (do not wait). Best wishes.

North Carolina Prison Officials Raise Prices for Those Who Can Least Afford It An increased markup on canteen goods adds to the financial burden on incarcerated people and their families, highlighting how prison systems squeeze them for revenue.

Walmart sells 11-ounce bags of Chex Cheesy Pizza Snack Mix for less than $4. In North Carolina prisons, a 4.25-ounce bag of that same product costs $8.75.

That's less than half the product for 2x the price.

Carceral greed at its finest.

Check your cheese: Shredded and grated varieties are recalled nationwide The FDA is urging customers to toss certain brands of grated Pecorino Romano; at the same time, it escalated an existing recall of numerous shredded cheeses.

There is a lot of different shredded cheese under recall. Check your refrigerators, your stores, and let your friends know. From @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...

Three hundred and thirty New Mexico high-schoolers are set to join a newly launched state pilot program offering monthly $500 payments to teens experiencing housing insecurity and other issues, conditioned on meeting certain goals. https://wapo.st/3YaHqss

Practice guideline for the management of infants and children 0 to 36 months of age with fever without source. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research - PubMed These guidelines do not eliminate all risk or strictly confine antibiotic treatment to children likely to have occult bacteremia. Physicians may individualize therapy based on clinical circumstances or adopt a variation of these guidelines based on a different interpretation of the evidence.

Peds, EM, and FM docs of a certain age know the figures in this manuscript by heart. We emerged through a post-vaccine era where they became no longer relevant, though we still grapple with how best to find the sick outliers, we are now headed in the wrong direction

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8517575/

When I trained, the burden of invasive pneumococcal disease (meningitis, bacteremia, severe pneumonia), meningococcal disease, severe rotavirus, and pertussis, and (slightly before my time) HiB, among others, is hard to fathom by today’s standards.

"In the days following the event, the woman says she hasn’t been able to sleep, is in physical pain from the way she was handled by the agents, and keeps reliving what happened. “The way I was treated left me feeling traumatized, humiliated, degraded, and unheard.”"

Community-based violence intervention (CVI) organizations are working on the frontlines of our nation’s gun violence crisis to build safe, thriving communities—and it’s working. Cities like Baltimore that have invested in these trusted, proven strategies are seeing gun violence decline.

one of us.