#covid in usa

[mysharona1987]

#China #covid #covid19 #science #news #research #mice #usa

[feckcops]

Joe Biden Is Shrinking the Welfare State

“By the estimates of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 15 million people are going to lose their health insurance over the next few months, including 5.3 million kids. Worse, based on historical trends, 6.8 million of those people will lose their Medicaid coverage in spite of still being eligible for it simply because of bureaucratic trifles ...

“The effects of the declaration’s end will go well beyond this, affecting working people’s ability to get free tests, vaccines, and affordable treatment for the virus. It also means the end of extra food stamps, another generous program set to continue as long as the emergency exists and a vital lifeline for working people struggling to keep up with grocery bills in the face of inflation ...

“From a practical and moral standpoint, this is obviously a travesty. But it’s also a needless own goal for the president, putting an already deeply unpopular Biden in the position of running for reelection in a year’s time with millions of people losing their health insurance — and his potential Republican opponent being able to boast he’d been the one to extend it to them in the first place. More than that, it makes a mockery of his frequent public statements insisting that his administration will ‘continue to fight for racial justice,’ since, as the HHS, acknowledges, 15 percent of those who are about to lose their coverage as a result of his decision are black and one-third are Latino ...

“If the idea is that Americans are now tired of thinking and caring about the pandemic, making supporting any COVID-related policies politically toxic, then this is the wrong way to go about unwinding those. Americans didn’t hate that the pandemic response included protecting them from being kicked out of their homes by greedy landlords, getting financial support for the government while they were unemployed, or having health insurance and a variety of other health care needs guaranteed.”

#welfare #benefits #food stamps #welfare state #healthcare #health insurance #medicaid #health #pandemic #covid #joe biden #biden #donald trump #trump #usa #america #american politics #north america #politics

[apas-95]

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#covid #usa #pandemic

[thecorvidforest]

if i see one more person say something like “teachers are quitting because the kids are getting meaner, so parents need to learn how to discipline your kids” i’m going to fucking scream.

the kids are not getting meaner because they’re spoiled. the kids are not getting meaner because of gentle parenting. these are not spoiled children, they are traumatized children. these are trauma behaviors.

they have to go to school every day with the knowledge they might get shot up. almost four years ago people started dying and becoming disabled from COVID, it never stopped, and they’re told to ignore it. for all they know, the earth might become uninhabitable in their lifetimes, and they are powerless against all these things. they are traumatized. stop putting the blame on innocent kids and individual parents.

#corvidforest #i’m speaking about the USA btw. don’t get in my notes and tell me not all countries are like that. i’m aware. #and if any of you try to tell me it’s the damn phones you’re getting blocked #try to hold some fucking nuance hm #teaching #teachers #gun violence #climate change #covid isn't over

[chawsl]

Trial of twitter files.

#trial #twitter #twitter files #testify #usa #covid #covid vaccine #censorship

[confusedlamp]

PSA: Please get the updated bivalent covid shot and the flu shot!

In the US, only 12.5% of people over 5 have gotten the new covid vaccine which protects against omicron. If you remember from 2020 and 2021, winter will bring likely surge of cases. The more people who are vaccinated, the less severe cases and deaths, and the less likely our already overwhelmed healthcare system is to get completely swamped. If you haven't already, please go get the vaccine and protect yourself and community.

Also, get your flu shot! Flu cases are already looking to be very high this year (about 18.1% positive testing rate as of November 28th, as opposed 3.6% from a normal year, as listed in the Vox article). Flu can always be a serious illness, but it's especially important this year to get vaccinated.

There are people who can't get vaccinated and they are often the people most at risk of serious illness from both covid and the flu. Please help lower their risk by getting vaccinated.

#if you're immunocompromised i am so sorry about the absolute hell of the last few years #usa #vaccines #flu #covid 19 #covid

[significantfoliage]

US government is ending the free COVID rapid test distribution program on March 8th!

Order your 4 if you haven’t yet.

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#covid #usa #us news #it let me put in two orders for my address so that'll be 8 tests

[pheonix1t23]

#usa #corrupt politicians #covid vax #donald trump #crooked donald

[pyrolitheus]

Fall 2022 To-Do List (USA)

Get registered to vote if you’re eligible

Grab a jab of that updated bivalent COVID-19 vaccine (and this year’s flu vaccine)

Vote in the Congressional Election on or before Nov 8 if you are eligible

#vax and vote #fall 2022 #usa #elections #midterm elections #CDC recommendations for COVID and flu vaccines are at the embedded links #Every state has different voting registration deadlines so check that first link to find out your state's rules!

[hussyknee]

Today in Imani Barbarin Fails To Miss Once Again:

#blue maga #genocide joe #vladimir putin #tankies die challenge #vote blue no matter who #vote biden #baby killer biden #fuck joe biden #fuck israel #fuck the usa #free palestine #islamophobia #racism #anti blackness #2024 elections #covid isn't over #ableism #eugenics #trans rights #us politics #imani barbarin #disability justice #russian propaganda #white supremacy #election propaganda #white liberals #shit liberals say #i/p #roe vs wade #knee of huss

[njbellydancingbysoraya]

With the unfortunate ongoing #pandemic 😷 situation m 2024 as #Covid gets wiser fighting for survival as each new variant causes more severe disease 🦠 not to mention the importance of avoiding #longcovid, this Gothic Barbie says it all rn 🖤 Stay a big Novid to COVID! #MaskUp

#Barbie #Part two #Barbie Deux #covid isn't over #Covid summer #Virus 2023 #COVID-19 #nj #USA #StaySafe #Mask Up #plague doctor #apocalyptic world #No COVID Deniers

[apas-95]

Oh, well, sure, if he says so. Everyone stop dying, I guess.

#covid #biden #usa

[acoraxia]

not sure where you are but at most USA colleges professors are required to excuse absences for funerals--and even if the prof hasn't let you take it yet, you should have received an incomplete instead of a 0 for the exam, and admin should be stepping in to ensure that the prof lets you take it. this is above your academic advisor, you should def email your academic dean. source: I'm a professor and if I did what your prof did I would be in deep shit with the university. hope it gets worked out!

Me on my way to the office on monday to present them with all the evidence at my disposal and show them the conversation between my professor and me where she literally just told me to make time or take it during the summer without even addressing the fact i was going to be unavailable due to a funeral: :3

#i’ll go insane on monday but at the very least i’ll have done something to get my money back. #and my grades back in order #its kind of insane how whenever i take online courses the professors are so… uncaring #like idk why #the only dude that cared was my math professor #he was so nice #at the end i failed his class only because of covid n’ more personal family issues preventing me from taking my exams #BUT HE AT THE VERY LEAST REPLIED AND TRIED TO FIND A WORK AROUND #anyways im going to show my dean all the papers on monday so help me god #also i AM in the USA. not gonna say where for obvious reasons but. yeah. everyone tells me the same thing #that the prof should’ve excused my absence

[daisiesonafield-blog]

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#boost #Covid-19 #covid tests #covid #usa #us #public health

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the appeal of a Minnesota woman who said she was wrongly denied unemployment benefits after being fired for refusing to be vaccinated for COVID-19 because of her religious beliefs.

The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development determined she wasn’t eligible for benefits because her reasons for refusing the vaccine were based less on religion and more on a lack of trust that the vaccine was effective.

The case shows that the vaccine debate continues to smolder after the pandemic and after the Supreme Court in 2022 halted enforcement of a Biden administration vaccine-or-testing mandate for large employers but declined to hear a challenge to the administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care facilities that receive federal funding.

Still pending is an appeal from military chaplains who challenged the military’s vaccination requirement. Although that requirement was later rescinded at the direction of Congress, the chaplains argue they lost out on training opportunities and promotions because they requested religious exemptions.

Minnesota said the unemployment benefit appeal denied Monday wasn’t worth the Supreme Court’s time because benefits have been given to others who were found to have a sincerely held religious objection to the vaccine, so there’s no overarching question to address.

Lawyers for the Upper Midwest Law Center, which represented Tina Goede, had argued she was treated differently by the Minnesota courts than others who successfully appealed their denial of benefits.

REFUSING TO GET VACCINATED, FIRED FROM A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY

After refusing to get vaccinated, Goede was fired in 2022 from her job as an account sales manager for the pharmaceutical company Astra Zeneca. Her position had required her to meet with customers in hospitals and clinics, some of which required proof of vaccination.

She told the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development her religious beliefs prohibit injecting foreign substances into her body, which is a “temple of the Holy Spirit.”

A Catholic opposed to abortion, Goede also objected to the COVID-19 vaccine because she believed it was manufactured using or tested on an aborted fetal-cell line. (A cell line from an abortion decades ago was used to create Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine. Fetal cells were used in the early testing, though not in the production, of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.)

But Goede told the unemployment law judge she wouldn’t receive the vaccine no matter how it was made “because it doesn’t work.”

The judge said Goede was declining to take some vaccines, but not others, “because she does not trust them, not because of a religious belief.”

Goede’s attorneys said the judge had interrogated her religious beliefs with “unfair `gotcha’ questioning."

“He couched his denial of benefits in Ms. Goede’s credibility and then discounted her religious beliefs by determining that her secular beliefs outweighed them,” the lawyers told the Supreme Court.

At the same time the Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld that decision last year, it reached the opposite conclusion for two others who had been denied benefits after asserting religious objections.

Goede’s lawyers said her case presented a question that will reoccur: how to analyze a religious objection to an employer policy when those objections coincide with secular beliefs.

#us politics #news #usa today #2024 #us supreme court #unemployment benefits #COVID-19 vaccine #covid vaccine #coronavirus vaccine #Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development #Minnesota #vaccine mandates #Tina Goede #unemployment

[mindblowingscience]

The U.S. has recorded the highest number of deaths from Covid-19 in the world, at more than 1 million. According to a new analysis by a group of public health researchers, the uneven and fragmented nature of the American health care system has played a major role in running up that grim tally.

The researchers argue that a single-payer universal healthcare system would have performed far better, saving as many as 330,000 lives during the first two years of the pandemic, as well as billions of dollars.

In a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of 10 researchers, most affiliated with the Yale School of Public Health, estimated “excess mortality” rates for those who were uninsured before the pandemic began or lost their health insurance due to becoming unemployed during the economic crisis sparked by Covid-19. Excess deaths attributable to a lack of health insurance came to 212,000 in the first year of the pandemic alone.

Continue Reading.

#Science #Universal Healthcare #usa #uspoli #Healthcare #covid tw