'Dangerously exposed': Trump's cuts leave world vulnerable to next pandemic - The i Paper The world risks being left “dangerously exposed” to the next pandemic due to staff cuts at the World Health Organization (WHO), experts have warned. The UN’s health agency is to lose more than a quarter of its workforce by the end of June due to a serious funding crisis caused by Donald Trump withdrawing US support a day into his second presidential term last year. This month, Argentina also pulled out of WHO and other countries have reduced their support. Both Trump and Javier Milei, the Argentinian president, previously cited the Geneva-based organisation’s handling of the Covid pandemic as reasons for axing their funding. By the end of June, the deadline for the job cuts, a total of 2,400 WHO staff will have left the agency out of its 2025 workforce of 9,401. The i Paper understands that 1,900 people have already left, with about 500 jobs still to go by the end of June. Fears over pandemic response The cuts come as non-government organisations (NGOs) are warning that four major conflicts in Gaza, Sudan, Iran and Ukraine are having a massive impact on the health of displaced people, putting further pressure on the WHO’s capability to respond to health...

'Dangerously exposed': Trump's cuts leave world vulnerable to next pandemic - The i Paper
->iNews | More on "WHO funding cuts pandemic risk" at BigEarthData.ai | #TrumpFascism #NoDecency #Pandemic

STATUS QUO THINKERS ARE NOT SUITED TO NON-NORMAL TIMES.

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#healthcare #Covid #pandemic

It's been six years since the COVID-19 Pandemic lockdown came into effect. The impact and loss were devastating to many, inspiring artists to create art. It was a time to slow down and reflect - a reason to capture a unique moment in human history...
#loveart #thattick #COVID19 #lockdown #pandemic

There's a massive measles vaccine campaign in Mexico. Is the public on board? With tens of thousands of suspected cases, the government is aiming for 2.5 million jabs a week. The response has been encouraging — but also worrisome.

There's a massive measles vaccine campaign in Mexico. Is the public on board?
#Infections #Britain #CDC #WHO #RFKjr #COVID19 #VirusCrisis #USA #Pandemic #DrAnthonyFauci #Testing #Mandates #Masks #Deaths #Vaccine #Variants #Measles
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Concerns With The BA 3 2 Covid Variant And Another Infectious Virus!

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #H5N1 #Measles #WhoopingCough #RSV #Norovirus #Tuberculosis #Polio #Mpox #MaskUp #N95 #KeepMasksInHealthcare

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COVID-19 variant BA.3.2 is spreading quickly across US – a doctor explains what you need to know The current COVID-19 vaccine does not match the strain that’s now becoming dominant in the US, which could lead to a rise in COVID-19 cases.

COVID-19 variant BA.3.2 is spreading quickly across US – a doctor explains what you need to know theconversation.com/covid-19-variant-ba-3-2-... #pandemic #COVID #health #science #STEM

WHO Member States agree to extend negotiations on key annex to the Pandemic Agreement - World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) Member States have agreed to extend negotiations on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) annex to the WHO Pandemic Agreement, with discussions to resume in late-April ahead of its scheduled consideration by the World Health Assembly (WHA) in May. The decision to continue negotiations from 27 April–1 May, with informal intersessional discussions taking place in advance, reflects the commitment by WHO Member States to negotiate the PABS annex, a core component of the WHO Pandemic Agreement. The World Health Assembly adopted the Pandemic Agreement last year to address weaknesses exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and to strengthen global cooperation and equity in future pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. “The Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing system lies at the heart of the WHO Pandemic Agreement and I thank WHO Member States for their commitment to work to bring it to life,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “I urge all delegations to believe in the power of trust – trust in one another, in our institutions, and in our shared ability to transcend differences for the common public good, for solidarity and for equity.” The PABS annex is intended to ensure, on equal footing, the...

WHO Member States agree to extend negotiations on key annex to the Pandemic Agreement - World Health Organization (WHO)
->World Health Organization | More on "WHO pandemic agreement PABS negotiations" at BigEarthData.ai | #Health #Pandemic

Utah measles outbreak grows to 486 cases as U.S. total approaches 1,600  | AHA News A measles outbreak in Utah is now at 486 cases, with 107 reported in the last three weeks, according to data from the state’s Department of Health and Human Services.

Utah measles outbreak grows to 486 cases as U.S. total approaches 1,600
#Infections #Britain #CDC #WHO #RFKjr #COVID19 #VirusCrisis #USA #Pandemic #DrAnthonyFauci #Testing #Mandates #Masks #Deaths #Vaccine #Variants #Measles
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They fled L.A. for Joshua Tree during the pandemic. Now they face the reality of desert life Tyler Gaul strode across the sprawling backyard of his Yucca Valley home and surveyed the rocky hillside a few steps away from the pool and basketball court that sit atop his 2-acre property. When he first moved to the desert from Los Angeles last fall, this jagged landscape granted him a sense of serenity as the crowded city he left behind grappled with a pandemic. Gaul, who runs his own skin care company, knew it was time to move when he could no longer exercise outside his Echo Park apartment — his respite from stay-at-home orders — because of wildfire smoke polluting the air. Constant and worsening wildfires, paired with a public health crisis, proved to be too much. “I have a lung condition, and I was like, ‘No, I can’t do this anymore,’” he recalled. So he set out for the desert. Like many other city dwellers who have fled urban sprawl over the last year and a half, Gaul sought shelter in a more isolated desert community in hopes of finding more space and clean air, and limiting his exposure to the coronavirus. Local real estate agents say that the migration is driven by a desire for affordable...

They fled L.A. for Joshua Tree during the pandemic. Now they face the reality of desert life
->Los Angeles Times | More on "Pandemic exodus to desert life" at BigEarthData.ai | #Tree #Forest #Pandemic

The #illusive #Covid #Pandemic was #planned by #Communist #Eugenicists with the sole #purpose of #injecting our #World with #Poison. 40M+ #injured and #dead 💥
These #people have #blood on their #hands💥👏

#Urban #Educators
#global #vaccine #genocide #agenda
#vss365 #true #dystopian #war #crime #tales

A color photographs taken on the streets of Midtown Manhattan. A view of the world famous Radio City Music Hall, the streets are wet from a recent rain shower. Though it's 11:33 in the morning, not a single person is in sight due to the statewide shutdown during the CoViD-19 pandemic. The neon sign on the Music Hall's marquee is lit though no one is there to see it. The red color from the neon bounces off the wet black pavement

Daily Random #698
Flashback! Six years today
Dreary day around Radio City Musical Hall/Manhattan NYC
11:33pm/March 28th
#Photography #CoViD #Pandemic

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Kids' cognitive skills declined during COVID-19 pandemic, studies show A growing body of research suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the development of key cognitive skills that help children make plans, control their impulses, and adapt to new situations. Several long-term studies conducted before, during, and after the pandemic have found significant declines in children’s executive functioning, a set of mental skills that help people set goals, focus, and get things done. Executive function skills include flexible thinking, inhibition control, and working memory, which allows people to remember information without losing track of what they’re doing—such as when working on math problems. Children typically experience big gains in executive function when they begin school, according to Caitlin Dermody, MSc, a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. For example, kids need to remember to bring their lunch and snacks to school, to put them away during the day, and bring their lunch boxes home again in the afternoon, said first author Stephanie Jones, PhD, a professor of early childhood development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Children also practice self-inhibition by learning to raise their hands to speak, rather than shouting out answers. 7.5-point drop in executive function Jones and Dermody, along with other researchers from...

Kids' cognitive skills declined during COVID-19 pandemic, studies show
->CIDRAP | More on "Kids' cognitive skills pandemic decline" at BigEarthData.ai | #Covid19 #Pandemic

See Which Highly Populated Wastewater Site Is Seeing A Big Covid Surge

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #H5N1 #Measles #WhoopingCough #RSV #Norovirus #Tuberculosis #Polio #Mpox #MaskUp #N95 #KeepMasksInHealthcare

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Study explores airborne bird flu decay in livestock environments Discovering how the bird flu virus degrades in the air around livestock and how engineering solutions can effect that degradation quickly and efficiently are core aims of a new University of Michigan Engineering-led project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This work could help prevent or mitigate future outbreaks. Detection of bird flu infection within flocks and herds leads to the mass culling of animals, which disrupts food supply chains. The ongoing outbreak of HPAI H5N1 that began in 2022 in the U.S. has led to the loss of 175 million birds and, as of late 2024, has cost the industry roughly $1.4 billion. The $2 million grant from the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service aims to answer two fundamental questions about bird flu: How quickly does the virus that causes bird flu lose its infectivity in the air, specifically air found in enclosed livestock environments? What technologies can effectively reduce bird flu's infectivity in those environments? Herek Clack, U-M associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, will lead the project, conducting tests on how nonthermal plasmas can render aerosols containing the virus that causes bird flu incapable of infecting humans and livestock. His team's approach essentially...

Study explores airborne bird flu decay in livestock environments
->News-Medical | More info at BigEarthData.ai | #Environment #BirdFlu #Pandemic

Studying bird flu in the air to protect people, agricultural operations in Michigan and beyond Key takeaways: A $2M USDA grant will fund research on the infectivity of bird flu in the air. Nonthermal plasma has been shown to deactivate airborne virus particles. University of Michigan Engineering is collaborating with researchers at the University of Bristol in the U.K. Discovering how the bird flu virus degrades in the air around livestock and how engineering solutions can effect that degradation quickly and efficiently are core aims of a new University of Michigan Engineering-led project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This work could help prevent or mitigate future outbreaks. Detection of bird flu infection within flocks and herds leads to the mass culling of animals, which disrupts food supply chains. The ongoing outbreak of HPAI H5N1 that began in 2022 in the U.S. has led to the loss of 175 million birds and, as of late 2024, has cost the industry roughly $1.4 billion. The $2 million grant from the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service aims to answer two fundamental questions about bird flu: How quickly does the virus that causes bird flu lose its infectivity in the air, specifically air found in enclosed livestock environments? What technologies can effectively reduce bird flu's...

Studying bird flu in the air to protect people, agricultural operations in Michigan and beyond
->Newswise | More info at BigEarthData.ai | #Pandemic #BirdFlu #Agricultural

Navigating the two worlds of academic and public communication: the case of sociologists in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic that emerged in early 2020 was an unprecedented situation—particularly if seen not only as a new disease spreading around the globe, but as a genuinely social phenomenon, an event that impacted “the way we live” (Christakis 2020) and the key institutions of modern society (Rosa 2020; Stichweh 2020). Facing the immediate threat of an unknown infectious disease, societies, institutions, and individuals were confronted with an extreme level of uncertainty (Harambam 2020; Berger et al. 2021; Evans 2022; Kraemer 2022). In an interview in April 2020, Jürgen Habermas summarized that back then there was no expert who could have assessed the social and economic consequences of what was happening. Following Habermas, the only thing one could have said with certainty was that there “has never been so much knowledge about our unknowingness” (Habermas, cited in Schwering 2020). That notwithstanding, political decisions had to be taken, and there was a high level of public interest in the course of the pandemic. In this situation, both politics and the media rightfully referred to multiple sources of academic expertise in order to get the best knowledge available (Weingart et al. 2022). However, the availability of experts varied strongly depending on the...

Navigating the two worlds of academic and public communication: the case of sociologists in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic
->Nature | More on "Sociologists navigating pandemic public communication" at BigEarthData.ai | #Covid19 #Pandemic

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Latest online child sexual abuse and exploitation data. Get the latest online child sexual abuse and exploitation statistics from one of the leaders in child safety technology. Information updated in January of 2026.

"A recent study indicated that 1 in 9 men in the US admitted to engaging in some form of online sexual offending against children".

Mar 3 2026
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#epstein #research #statistics #usa #trump #cybercrime #pandemic

#vaccines #RFKjr #pseudoscience #healthcare #pandemic

We’re #proud to announce that our UCL #Centre for #Digital #Public #Health in #Emergencies is now a #WHO #Collaborating #Centre for Digital Public Health and #Pandemic #Preparedness. Strengthening #global #health with #digital, #data & #AI. 🎉🥂

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞:
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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

A kind of insanity? Certainly. The #Trump #RFKJr anti #vaccines “revolution” & massive abridging of medical research. I wonder if one day, we in Australia, other countries, will refuse entry to infectious Americans. And the country itself could become a hell hole. Next #pandemic? flip.it/aoT8FZ

Measles Resurgence 2026: Navigating Strategies for Restoring MMR Vaccine Confidence The 2026 measles resurgence underscores the fragility of herd immunity and the need for empathetic, evidence-based vaccine counseling in clinics.

Measles Resurgence 2026: Navigating Strategies for Restoring MMR Vaccine Confidence
#Infections #Britain #CDC #WHO #RFKjr #COVID19 #VirusCrisis #USA #Pandemic #DrAnthonyFauci #Testing #Mandates #Masks #Deaths #Vaccine #Variants #Measles
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Minimally supervised learning on sub-meter satellite imagery reveals slum expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic Slums are characterized by a lack of essential services such as clean water and sanitation, along with overcrowding, inadequate housing, and an increased risk of eviction1. These urban deprivations perpetuate the cycle of poverty2 and affirm the urgent need to monitor changes in the population living in slums—recognized by the United Nations as a key indicator of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2022, an estimated 1.1 billion people, representing nearly a quarter of the global urban population, lived in slums or slum-like conditions, and another two billion are projected to experience similar living circumstances by 20503. In response, UN-Habitat has compiled survey-based estimates of slum populations in 185 countries4, and launched various initiatives to track conditions within these settlements. Nonetheless, significant challenges remain in collecting sub-national data on slums and other vulnerable urban populations5. Data collection through surveys is resource-intensive, often exceeding the capacity of low-income countries in the substantial labor, time, and financial costs involved. Recent advances in AI-driven remote sensing technologies6 offer greater accuracy in detecting slums built with temporary materials and enable fine-grained regional analysis7,8. For example, semantic segmentation algorithms applied on very high resolution (VHR, ≤2 m/pixel) satellite imagery can identify informal housing based on subtle...

Minimally supervised learning on sub-meter satellite imagery reveals slum expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic
->Nature | More on "Slum mapping satellite AI poverty" at BigEarthData.ai | #Covid19 #Pandemic

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
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Film 2406 - Eddington Intro : This was my last film at the movies before going on holiday to Corfu, Greece for two weeks. I wasn't necessarily thrilled to watch ...

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🚨🚨Excellent but grim read from @chrischirp.bsky.social on the impact of the #pandemic in the #UK.

"failing to prepare over the spring and summer of 2020 and then to act quickly as the situation worsened transferred risk and suffering onto hospitals, staff, patients and families".

Misinformation About Covid And Other Viruses Is Deadly.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #H5N1 #Measles #WhoopingCough #RSV #Norovirus #Tuberculosis #Polio #Mpox #MaskUp #N95 #KeepMasksInHealthcare

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Scientific solidarity as response to Africa’s pandemic populism During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous African politicians characterized vaccine development as neocolonial dependence. Some pointed to the World Health Organization's warnings about Ma...

New article! During #COVID19 #PANDEMIC, African scientists were up against politicians stoking mistrust...which ironically marginalized their contributions. Rather than facing "epistemic injustice," scientists cooperated and innovated in a global community. 50 free downloads: doi.org/10.1080/0258...