This scatterplot shows the quality of each company's climate targets compared with the prevalence of future-focused language in their annual reports. The vast majority of companies have either no targets or poor targets. Yet they still have lots to say about the future.

Talk is cheap, especially when it's about the future. There's a new addition to the corporate greenwashing playbook: Futurewashing.

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Tweet from Hegseth that says The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

Public health got started largely in the
military for a reason, Hegseth.

Remember the 1918 flu pandemic.

Remember Walter Reed’s work on yellow fever.

Remember George Washington ordering his troops to be inoculated against smallpox.

Nuvaxovid™ COVID-19 Vaccine Showed Better Tolerability than mNEXSPIKE in Head-to-head Sanofi-led Phase 4 Study Novavax is a biotech company with a proven technology, focused on developing our R&D assets and establishing partnerships to help protect health.

Nuvaxovid™ COVID-19 Vaccine Showed Better Tolerability than mNEXSPIKE in Head-to-head Sanofi-led Phase 4 Study

"First head-to-head, double-blind, randomized phase 4 study powered to directly compare the tolerability profiles of these vaccines in adults in a real-world setting"

US military service members will no longer be required to get annual flu shot Defense secretary Pete Hegseth makes announcement and calls military’s flu vaccine mandate ‘broad’ and ‘not rational’

"US military service members will no longer be required to get annual flu shot."

"Members of the US armed services will no longer be required to have an annual flu vaccination shot under a new policy announced Tuesday by Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary."

Anthropic has now reversed every change, and said that removing Claude Code from Pro was a "small test of 2% new prosumer signups." This does not sufficiently explain why changes were made to support materials and the website. I believe more changes are to come.

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Screenshot of a The Globe and Mail article titled “The long and costly shadow of COVID-19,” by health columnist André Picard. Main image shows a large outdoor installation of hundreds of red cots arranged on grass, each with a pillow, symbolizing people affected by long COVID. A person walks among the cots. Caption explains the display represents millions living with post-infectious illness, set up near the Washington Monument in May 2023.

The long and costly shadow of COVID-19

"An estimated 400 million people in the world have suffered from long COVID since the pandemic began"

"Long COVID has a health system and economic impact that is similar to stroke or multiple sclerosis, but has not sparked the same response"

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Screenshot of a post by aldebaran (@mdashaldebaran). Text reads: “Tired of getting sick all the time, but you won’t wear a mask. Worried about the rise in cancers and other conditions, but you won’t wear a mask. Grieving friends and family members who died suddenly, but you won’t wear a mask.” Timestamp: 11:32 AM, April 22, 2026, with about 480 views.

By aldebaran:

Tired of getting sick all the time, but you won't wear a mask.

Worried about the rise in cancers and other conditions, but you won't wear a mask.

Grieving friends and family members who died suddenly, but you won't wear a mask.

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I never thought we'd reach the stage of having to explain that sick soldiers don't fight anywhere near as effectively as soldiers who aren't sick which means that if your soldiers are sick you're much more likely to lose the fight, but here we are.

Habitual coffee intake shapes the gut microbiome and modifies host physiology and cognition - Nature Communications Here, the authors investigate coffee’s impact on the microbiota–gut–brain axis and assess whether these effects occur independently of caffeine in healthy participants from two clinical trials.

Daily coffee consumption apparently has a beneficial impact on the gut #microbiome by increasing the diversity of microbes that flourish in the intestines. New research 👇https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71264-8

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

An mRNA vaccine developed for pancreatic cancer is keeping is having a powerful effect for patients. The vax is a form of immunotherapy derived from genetic information within each patient’s cancer. It boosts the body’s ability to fight emergence of new cancer cells www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...

Vaccines save lives. Period.👇

Great thread on the exciting launch (backed by us @taxjustice.net among others) of this comprehensive roadmap from the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

Long Covid is not a "thing of the past". Millions of people have it. SARS-CoV-2 is still spreading and causing illness.
It is highly irresponsible to minimize the ongoing burden of the Covid pandemic. People deserve access to prevention, testing, treatment and care

Promotional graphic reading “Democracy dies, first, in the workplace” over a photo of blue-and-white strike signs scattered on the ground against a brick-and-stone wall. Smaller text says it is a 2025 conversation between Maximillian Alvarez, Hamilton Nolan and Sara Nelson about how the decline of unions and the rise of inequality reveal the urgent need for a revitalized labor movement. Logos for Working People and In These Times appear at the bottom.

"Today, 10% of workers in America are union members. That's the last stop before single digits. And there's no stop after single digits. That's the last stop on the elevator. We are in a fucking crisis, man."

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Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Trump will be guest of honor at the “nerd prom,” with journalists serving as suck-ups

Journalists planning to honor Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner have a choice:
A. Party with the dictator, wear fancy clothes and network to boost their careers.
B. Stand up for democracy by staying home.
They’re going to choose A. It looks terrible now. It will look worse to history.

Don’t be fooled by RFK Jr.’s ‘real food’ lectures. Making America healthy is much more complex OPINION: Lecturing folks struggling to “eat real food” while cutting SNAP benefits and other forms of food assistance feels like a sick joke.

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likes to lecture Americans about the need to eat real food…but for many Americans, it’s advice divorced from reality and helps mask an assault on public health by RFK Jr. and the Trump administration”.

My friend @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy and I in our OpEd, out today.

“May the Schwartz be with you”.

I borrowed from Spaceballs to deliver my assessment of Dr. Erica Schwartz’s nomination for CDC Director on Dr. Kaveh Hoda’s podcast @kavehmd.bsky.social.

She’s phenomenal. And that’s why we’re all suspicious.

Annual flu vaccine no longer required for U.S. military, Hegseth says The move alarmed some public health experts, who warned that it would weaken troop readiness.

Ending mandatory #influenza #vaccine is a HUGE mistake

The 1918–1919 flu pandemic tore through military camps and frontline soldiers, weakening readiness when it mattered most.

Infectious diseases are a force readiness issue, not just an individual one.

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Somatic mutations in microglia brain cells (the same mutations as seen in cancer) are enriched in and may drive the neuroinflammation of Alzheimer's disease
@cellcellpress.bsky.social

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Deaths in ICE Custody Skyrocket: 2026 Toll Reaches 17, on Average One a Week As the Trump administration continues to rapidly expand its immigration jail system across the United States, we look at the rising death toll of people in ICE custody, the highest in over two decades...

At least 17 people have died in ICE custody since January.

The post-AI-bubble regulation should start by making it illegal to do circular deals - money invested cannot be used to pay for services, money invested cannot be used for buying hardware, etc, etc. Hell, I'm game for making it illegal to invest in customers at all.

Contributor: Public Health Has Forgotten the Public | AJMC Public health must be grounded in empathy, cultural competence, psychological insight, and political awareness, emphasizes Perry N. Halkitis, PhD, MD, MPH.

Public Health has “ been less effective in engaging with people on how to navigate misinformation and mitigate mistrust. In short, we have not been effective in meeting people where they are.”

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“I’m pro-science. I just think we need to ask the right questions”.

-RFK Jr., known conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer, and disinformation profiteer, in a congressional hearing.

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RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.

RFK Jr. Won’t Commit to Following New CDC Nominee’s Vaccine Guidance Erica Schwartz, a former US deputy surgeon general, is supportive of vaccines.

On @kavehmd.bsky.social’s podcast, @angierasmussen.bsky.social and I both said that Dr. Erica Schwartz is a great pick for CDC Director, but her ability to do her job hinges on one thing:

RFK Jr. needs to STFU and get the hell out of her way.

Well, he refuses to commit to that.

Health New Zealand COVID-19 reporting dashboard (as of 19 April 2026). Shows total reported cases around 2.7 million, with 1,199 cases in the last 30 days and 174 in the last 7 days. A line graph displays COVID-19 cases from 2020 to 2026, with a large peak in early 2022 followed by smaller waves and low levels through 2024–2026. Menu options on the left include Age, Ethnicity, District, Deprivation, and Definitions.

New Zealand COVID weekly update: 19 April 2026

13 Apr to 19 Apr 2026:

🔹New cases: 174 (-17.1%)
🔹Deaths: -1*
🔹Deaths last 30 days: -16*
🔹Total deaths: 5,620 (-1*)

31 Mar to 6 Apr 2026:

🔹Hospitalisations: 42 (-30.0%)

Source: www.healthnz.govt.nz/about-us/hea...

News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing) Executive Summary:  * Anthropic appears to have removed access to Claude Code for its $20-a-month "Pro" Plans. * Current Pro users appear to still have access via the Claude web app. * Claude Code...

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Given ongoing conversations around #measles and #vaccines, I wanted to share our poster on measles vaccine intentions among Canadians- currently presented at #ESCMIDGlobal2026

A similar study in the U.S. observed comparable patterns of hesitancy—a concerning signal as measles resurges globally.