Kristi Noem is OUT as Homeland Security Secretary

Mary Katharine Goddard is the only woman whose name appears on the official 1777 printed copy of the Declaration of Independence. As a Baltimore printer and postmaster, she was commissioned by Congress to print this first authenticated, signed version, proudly signing it "Mary Katharine Goddard".

With the Paramount deal and CBS and CNN owned by the same people, say bye to the last bastion of fact-based, news.

Trump wanted Warner Bros. assets — particularly CNN, whose reporters he loathes — in the hands of an ally.

Moderna’s 2-in-1 flu and COVID vaccine shows encouraging results in small trial

A single dose of mRNA-1073 elicited durable immune responses through 6 months against all vaccine-matched influenza and SARS-CoV-2 strains.

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BREAKING NEWS: Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall dead at 95

Abraham Lincoln preserved the Union and ended slavery,

Franklin D. Roosevelt launched the New Deal to end the Great Depression.

Trump can recognize a giraffe.

As someone very wise once told me: you have no idea who people really are. And what they’ll confess privately. To lawyers, therapists, and their enablers.

She also said the partner of a monster is there to bask in the thrill and help burry the corpses. They don’t leave because they are in it.

Trump always attacks the reporter when cornered. And why on earth would anyone smile when discussing Epstein? Notice how Trump, the misogynist, never asks that of men?

Flu still dropping. COVID up markedly as well as RSV. Mask up in public

New review highlights growing evidence that diabetes drug metformin can prevent long COVID

The low-cost drug may lower the risk of clinician-diagnosed long COVID by 40% to 60%.

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Breaking

The world’s first vaccine targeting the entire SARS coronavirus family has commenced human testing.

GBP511, developed by UW Medicine and tested by SK Bioscience, seeks to provide protection against COVID-19 and future coronaviruses, potentially preventing the onset of the next pandemic.

BA.3.2 is behaving differently than any of the other variants we've seen.

I've been wondering for some time if this is our first example of co-circulation, where only part of the population is susceptable to infection. It is starting to look stabilized in Germany, does not look like a sweep.

Long-term retinal dysfunction following COVID-19 infection: a one-year prospective observational study - BMC Ophthalmology BMC Ophthalmology - COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, may lead to long-term retinal changes. Visual symptoms and retinal alterations have been reported in Long COVID; however, the available evidence...

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠

The retina is the window into your cortex.

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Trump leaves Davos more broken, more mocked and with zero dignity.
America sinks to a new low and the Board of Peace is a complete farce.
Any fear or respect for him has long departed.
America’s reputation is destroyed, there is zero trust, and zero future for them.

COVID levels remain steady and well below last winter’s levels. Flu is down considerably but a second wave cannot be ruled out and of course we will see Influenza B as the season progresses.
RSV still is rising.

One fucking LUNATIC is destabilizing the entire world why the HELL are we allowing this?

Macclesfield of the 6th tier National League eliminate defending FA Cup champions Premier League Crystal Palace with a 2-1 defeat.

COVID is one of the most insidious viruses we have ever experienced.
COVID is the most ignored and lied about serious virus.
COVID sequelae, will and is, decimating the world’s population.
This is already past the point of no return.
Governments are well aware of this.

H3N2 flu is surging — and just had the ‘perfect environment’ for a spike - National | Globalnews.ca In the week ending Dec. 20, one in four (25.6 per cent) of every influenza test conducted in the U.S. came back positive, the U.S. CDC said.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 7.5 million Americans have been infected and 81,000 have landed in the hospital this flu season, the health agency said on Thursday.

Five children died in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 20.

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Somebody filed a complaint because they don’t like the reminders that I say… like… don’t stick fingers into a fireplace, even if you think it’s cold.

So I asked… do you also get annoyed when the car beeps to remind you that you’ve left something on?

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Wastewater Virus Signals graph for Ontario

#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with December 21 data (😬)
- Kingston, Peel, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: AB, MB, NB, NS, PEI, QC, SK
- Happy new year!

wwater.ca

Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

Exclusive | As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance In an interview, President Trump—the oldest man to assume the office—said he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging.

—“They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” Trump said. “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?”
—No.
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“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”

In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

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In Bangalore, 18 adults previously vaccinated for COVID-19 received their first flu shot.

The vaccine expanded flu-specific CD4 T-cells and Tregs, with Tregs potentially dampening immune responses. SARS-CoV-2 immunity boosted the effect.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BA.3.2 emerged in Nov 2024 after ~3 years of intrahost evolution with >50 new spike AA muts, but since then, it's changed very little.

Could the mutagenic drug molnupiravir (MOV) galvanize BA.3.2 into pursuing new evolutionary paths? A new 89-mut BA.3.2 sequence hints that it could. 1/11

We are seeing huge amounts of illness that is off the chart. Flu, COVID and RSV.
WEAR A FUCKING MASK IN PUBLIC.