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Fastest growing Ebola outbreak ever & on track to become the largest: Said a rep. of the Africa CDC, “All the experts monitoring this outbreak agree...it was detected too late. [Now], we have to work hard to make up for what we missed earlier...to contain" it. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Ebola outbreak in DRC the fastest growing in the history of the virusAs the death toll rises to almost 1,500, and with a vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain potentially still months away, health workers face a battle to slow the outbreakwww.theguardian.com

The Department of Education is really on a roll. (Max & Ruby have no discernible parents; Nemo's dad starts the movie as a neurotic helicopter parent, then learns to back the h*ll off.)

Welcome to Airstrip One, Oceania; enjoy your stay. The CDC has 6,707 lab-confirmed, US cases of cyclosporiasis & is "aware of" 11,500+ more cases across 45 states. (That's 18,207+ cases.) But Kennedy says everything's fabulous: 🔹️He says the "surveillance... 🧵 1/4 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

RFK Jr. weighs in on why cyclosporiasis outbreak has been 'hard to track'Health Secretary Robert Kennedy tells USA TODAY in an exclusive interview food surveillance is better than ever, but explosive diarrhea is hard to track.www.usatoday.com

Bad, for a whole lotta' people: "Dozens of Democratic state officials [had] sued over the policy" to require chronically ill Medicaid users to prove they can't work, "arguing that they are suffering irreparable harm by having to shell out millions to hire... 🧵1/3 www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Judge declines to block strict work rule for sick patients on MedicaidThe case challenging Mehmet Oz's "faithfulness to Congressional intent” will continue.www.politico.com

Pretty obvious "insights" in this piece, which focuses on the fact that Americans have a shorter lifespan than Europeans, and calls out our car accidents, lousy gun control & lack of guaranteed health coverage. It notes that these are issues needing... 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The US public is fed up with RFK Jr. To really ‘make America healthy again’, it should look to Europe | Devi SridharAmericans are dying younger than Europeans, despite being the wealthiest people on the planet. Wellness fads won’t change that, says public health expert Devi Sridharwww.theguardian.com

An epi blogger posted her take on the Fauci hearing yesterday, complaining, in part, that he didn't convey enough uncertainty early on. I responded re: potential consequences of doing that & of undermining one's own expertise. I won't post it here, but will say my biggest gripe about Fauci... 1/2

Folks predicted this the min. the GOP took over. Well, not the piece I shared ⬇️ 7 mo. ago, but everyone else. "people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...

After Obamacare Cuts, Hospitals Are Treating More Uninsured Patients (Gift Article)More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.www.nytimes.com

🚨This is also some fun propaganda from McMahon & the regime. (I'd tell her to go home, but she's from my state, & we don't want her back.) What the regime claims: 🔹️The dolls are "trans" 🔹️They were developed with taxpayer funded grants 🔹️They'll be used in Minnesota schools, & parents were... 1/5

You know what leads to learning loss? Not vaccines; it's the dismantling of the Dept of Education by the Trump regime & Ed Commissioner Linda McMahon. This is some heavy-duty, anti-PH propaganda. (Where are *our* PSAs? This is not the time for silence; if they rewrite history, they're the victors.)

$600M for Gavi, thank goodness. "Gavi provides vaccines for 20 diseases, including measles, malaria and polio, to more than 50 low-income countries globally. It estimates that it’s vaccinated over 1.2 billion children in the world’s poorest countries, preventing... www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Trump administration to dispense $600M for vaccines RFK Jr. held upThe Health secretary said the group Congress had directed the money, to vaccinate children in poor countries, was using dangerous shots. The administration says it has secured reforms.www.politico.com

🧵 "Tin outa tin." One thing that reading FB comments is really good for is observing phonological & lexical changes to English in real time. I've always thought of this slow process of change as being more oral/aural or gestural/visual (both of which are characterized by "rapid fading"). So it...

🚨 My 2c, plus 🎁 link. By taking the 5th, Bedard writes, Fauci "became the speechless cipher to whom committee Republicans and Democrats argued their irreconcilable stories — about the pandemic, but also more broadly about science and public health in America. 🧵 1/4 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Opinion | What We Really Learned From the Fauci Hearing (Gift Article)Show trials are bad for democracy.www.nytimes.com

It's only strange if you believe that RFK wants to do what he says he wants to do. He does not, so this isn't strange at all: 🔹️The Trump regime "has effectively shut down most of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's activities, closing the spigot... 1/6 www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...

Trump administration has quietly throttled an agency devoted to the safety of American healthcareCongress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants.www.cbsnews.com