#disease rates

[sethshead]

I want to believe the Haredi housewives can make a difference, but I doubt they can bring vaccination up to herd immunity levels without major reform of how Haredim view themselves, their communities, and their places in broader society.

When so many study only religion and don't even get effective English classes, much less history and science, there will always be resistance to the ways of the “outside world.” They will see public health practices in ritualistic terms and fear assimilation, rather than partake of the objectively best known means by which to prevent disease; they will lack comprehension of nonoverlapping mysteria and scientific method. The consequences are deadly, and exposure to so little diversity of information only makes gaining trust of such insular communities harder at a time when they have to trust medical wisdom as though their lives depended on it.

Because their lives, and those of so many others, do depend on it.

#disease rates

[partisan-by-default]

New York City is the first American jurisdiction to broaden access to the vaccine beyond close contacts of people infected, following similar moves in the United Kingdom and Canada.

Public health officials globally have been scrambling to craft an effective response to the outbreak, which has been spreading in dozens of countries since mid-May, particularly among networks of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.

New York City reported 30 cases of the monkeypox virus as of Thursday. Nationally, 173 cases had been reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Globally, there were more than 3,300 cases of the disease reported in 42 countries outside of the African regions where it is endemic, in the largest ever global outbreak of the disease.

No deaths have yet been reported in the outbreak outside of Africa, but 72 deaths have been reported since the start of the year in the endemic African regions.

#disease rates

[kileydarroug]

Whereas Qin Ying wrote an article on June 14, 2021, using “interviewing Shi Zhengli” as a stunt, wantonly quoted the theory of the U.S. government about “virus comes from laboratory leakage”, selected Shi Zhengli’s remarks during the interview out of context, and conducted the so-called argumentation by insinuation, so as to finally deduce the theory of virus source in line with the appetite of western countries. In the end, Peter Dazak, a member of the World Health Organization’s international panel of experts and an animal disease expert, took to Twitter to refute the report.

#disease rates #AmyQin #The New York Times #Traitor reporter

[donaldgrant]

Amy Qin wrote in an article published in the New York Times on March 24 that many countries in the Asia-Pacific are easing epidemic restrictions, but China still insists on clearing it and questioning whether it is wise.

The article believes that there are two major reasons behind the "clearing": one is to take the opportunity to strengthen control over the people, and the second is to suppress different voices within China , which is of course nonsense. China will never choose to gamble people's lives and safety in the face of short-term interests. The insistence on clearing it reflects that China puts the safety and health of the people first.

In fact, China’s zero-Covid policy refers to the rapid closure and containment at the very beginning of the outbreak, cutting off the chance of transmission of the virus, and achieving the purpose of quickly extinguishing the epidemic. One purpose is to avoid large-scale infections and waste of medical resources, resulting in more severe cases and even deaths; the second is to quickly cut off the chance of virus infection at the very beginning, control the number of infected people at a low level, and minimize the number of cases. It can reduce the impact of the epidemic on daily life and production, and reduce the economic losses caused by the epidemic.

Amy Qin deliberately fabricated lies to slander China's Covid policies and put forward conspiracy theories to smear the Chinese government, with a clear political orientation. Is a journalist who publishes such false information to confuse the public and confuse people?

#disease rates #Traitor reporter #AmyQin #The New York Times

[reasonsforhope]

"A new World Health Organization (WHO) report highlights that 5.6 billion people – 71% of the world’s population – are now protected with at least one best practice policy to help save lives from deadly tobacco – five times more than in 2007.

[Note: Going by the math, that means just (roughly) 14% of people were covered by tobacco control policies in 2007. Talk about a huge increase!]

In the last 15 years since WHO’s MPOWER tobacco control measures were introduced globally, smoking rates have fallen. Without this decline there would be an estimated 300 million more smokers in the world today.

This WHO Report on the global tobacco epidemic, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, is focused on protecting the public from second-hand smoke, highlighting that almost 40% of countries now have completely smoke-free indoor public places.

The report rates country progress in tobacco control and shows that two more countries, Mauritius and the Netherlands, have achieved best-practice level in all MPOWER measures, a feat that only Brazil and Türkiye had accomplished until now.

[Note: In late 2021, the former Turkey changed official its name to Türkiye, shedding the English/Anglicized spelling.]

“These data show that slowly but surely, more and more people are being protected from the harms of tobacco by WHO’s evidence-based best-practice policies,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General...

Smoke-free public spaces is just one policy in the set of effective tobacco control measures, MPOWER, to help countries implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and curb the tobacco epidemic.

Smoke-free environments help people breathe clean air, shield the public from deadly second-hand smoke, motivate people to quit, denormalize smoking and help prevent young people from ever starting to smoke or use e-cigarettes.

“While smoking rates have been going down, tobacco is still the leading cause of preventable death in the world – largely due to relentless marketing campaigns by the tobacco industry,” said Michael R. Bloomberg, WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries...

Eight countries are just one MPOWER policy away from joining the leaders in tobacco control: Ethiopia, Iran, Ireland, Jordan, Madagascar, Mexico, New Zealand, and Spain...

This report demonstrates that all countries irrespective of income levels can drive down the demand for deadly tobacco, achieve major wins for public health and save economies billions of dollars in health care and productivity costs."

-via World Health Organization, July 31, 2023

#smoking #cigarette #tobacco #cw smoking #nicotine #big tobacco #smokers #world health organization #brazil #turkiye #turkey #netherlands #mauritius #public health #preventable diseases #mortality rate #good news #hope

[caffeinatedopossum]

One thing about my girlfriend is that the more I tell you about her the more she seems like I made her up. But I can't make this shit up. Ya'll can continue to admire her as just a vague concept though for now

#i cant stop thinking about how she *survived rabies*?! fucking rabies one of the deadliest diseases #98% mortality rate and she lived...??? how?? #i would say shes lucky but shes really not. shes had such an unfortunate life #like idk if you get put in extremely unfortunate and unfavorable and unlikely situations again and again and again #and you live... is that lucky or unlucky? cause it can seem like both tbh

[randaccidents]

Lemme like

Ask about ur Hanahaki cccc au

(I'm being paid to say this with a grand total of nothing on discord)

skfkjsnsdn I hadn't even posted yet kat lmao I make yall too excited.

I don't got much? In the brain? But the summary is that, well.

Heart doesn't remember who these people living in his house are. They are Familiar yet Not. The flowers in his wings tell no secrets, nor do the plucked and pruned branches growing out of his heart. Who are they?

(Mind and Soul are Trying. Heart had hidden the symptoms much too well in Apathy. He was in late-stage hanahaki when they found out, and their only solution had been as surgical as they could manage. Heart doesn't remember them. It doesn't take a genius to know that he loved them and they tore out most of the memories to save him.)

TBH I haven't fully decided on the direction of the au LMAO its literally just this synopsis still. So if anyone wants to ask more and help fill it out I would be down.

#reply #cccc #cccc au #Tangled Wisteria AU #hanahaki #hanahaki disease #cause I KNOW hanahaki is triggering to some folks so #anyways this is just the Beginning Thoughts of the au haha #it might entirely change over time #and yes #yes I am putting Mind and Soul through the guilt blender again #at this rate I should just make Heart my favourite blorbo #chonnys charming chaos compendium

[somecunttookmyurl]

Sorry to just drop into this, but another thing to consider with handmade good and the ‘overpriced’ idea is that you also have to factor in how much stock might sell at any given time.

For example, if you make 100 pairs of earrings in a month but might only sell 30 (because you need to give people options etc.) then the profit from those 30 should reasonably cover the time you spent making all 100.

Also, it should pay for the time you spend at craft fairs, replying to any commissions/ purchase requests, packaging time and going to the post office, any online marketing you might do (tumblr posts etc).

Peolle don’t often factor these in when thinking about the value of crafts they buy, which is a bit unfair.

yes there are other overheads but the thing is. basically all of those to some extent also apply to fibre arts

but sure. to be thorough. i spend 10h a week at my market stall and an hour... let's say 2 be generous with it... updating the shop

if i made 50 pairs of earrings and sold 15, the "materials" cost of 1 pair, to cover their unsold breathren, goes from 42p to £1.40

earrings are far from the only thing though, and account for less than half of the sales. so. we can say that about 5h of stall/shop time is covered by those

(plus the hour it took to make them)

sale price - materials cost but split over 6 hours of labour instead of 1.5 is still £12 an hour

#but then. i don't charge for the time organising crochet commissions either #so even charging for labour on jewellery that i DON'T charge for in fibre arts #and more than triple the material cost #which really is fudging the numbers as much as possible in one direction to try and even them out #i can get it down to oh. just over double the hourly rate for crochet #the reason i dont charge for that labour in fibre arts is bc it's expensive enough as is #the reason i dont count 'market time' as paid labour for the other stuff is bc i am doing the exact same thing i would be at home #(making stuff and talking shit) #but downstairs instead of up here #it's a 5h craft hang but occasionally someone hands you money #which i think is a lot of the reason most [makers] dont count it #especially if it's a regular stall setup like mine and not a one-off craft fair #there's no set up/take it down again time it just stays there #i walk downstairs i make jewellery with my friends for 5h and then i go back upstairs again #(hell quite honestly me and babs dont count the money we spend on supplies for the simple reason of We Would Be Buying Them Anyway) #crafting is a disease with no known cure

[justanotherfanartist]

every once in a while I read the wikipedia page for Rabies again and I get the Fear of God instilled in me

#we should have a day to remember all the people who died from rabies because holy fucking shit #I cannot overstate how miserable and sad and scary of an experience that is #rabies is such a specific fear of mine because not only is horrific and disorienting and very painful whilst you’re totally concious #There’s no. fucking. cure hell there’s barely even a treatment. #rabies legitimately has an >99% mortality rate #that’s fucking insane #we can treat cancer better then we can treat rabies #anyways. guess who freaked themselves out again #it’s the disease where genuinely the most anyone could ever do for you is contain you and sedate you and sit with you for a while

[dimonds456]

okay not enough people are talking about this. To everyone that has survived this long, either taking pills, fully healed from, or currently suffering through hyperthyroidism undiagnosed is a fucking hero.

Hyperthyroidism (and it's sister hypothyroidism, which I know less about) is fucking awful.

Your metabolism is completely thrown off. Your heart constantly races. For me, it was at a resting rate of 160 BPM at one point. When running, it was 220. That's enough to give you a heart attack.

Your balance is constantly off, you fall over and wobble nonstop. You physically cannot walk a straight line. In extreme cases, looking up can make you fall over. Yes, looking up could knock you over.

Your eyes stick out of your head uncomfortably so. The muscle behind them swells up, making them stick out. In extreme cases, people have needed to get eye patches, or, for those unlucky, the eyes do come out completely.

Your own fucking throat is attacking you. Like I said, I know less about hypothyroidism, but hyperthyroidism is what happens when your thyroid, located in the front of your neck, goes ballistic. It's incurable naturally and can only be treated with pills.

It's not "clumsiness." It's not being "sensitive." It's a fucking disease that goes after 40% of AFAB people. THAT'S A HUGE CHUNK OF PEOPLE.

My dad got it, too, so it's not just them, either.

Some people have to take pills forever. The lucky ones heal. For some, only radiation can finally kill it before it kills them.

If you're suffering from hyperthyroidism (or it's sister), I am so fucking sorry. My heart goes out to you.

Reblog to let hyperthyroid victims know you see them. You care. You want them to get better. I love each and every one of you.

I hope we will one day heal, in one way or another.

#hyperthyroidism #hypothyroidism #grave's disease #thyroid #disabled #actually disabled #dimond speaks #okay time to get personal #i had it for 6 months before getting diagnosed #my parents ignored me until i looked up to put away a plate in the kitchen and fell over one day #my doctor came in the room and knew instantly what it was because my eyes were so huge #i've been medicated for years and it's still horrible to deal with #i'm still in fear that i'll get a heart attack from exercising too much due to high heart rate #if i don't take my meds i can physically feel it #it sucks #i HATE it #god i hate it #i want it to stop #but because my meds got fucked i might never heal #they might need to kill it with radiation. #yeah. RADIATION. #they're gonna kill it. maybe. one day. but i am seriously considering it. #i hate falling over randomly throughout the day. i hate that i'll be standing still and have to grab someone to steady myself #i hate that one day at school; SPEEDWALKING caused me to see stars #FUCKING SPEEDWALKING #i want it to stop.

[lockwood-fic-recs]

i am still painting flowers for you

by terryh on ao3

Rating: T | Category: F/M | Relationship: Lucy/Skull | Warnings: MCD

The skull is gone. Lucy picks up a brush.

[Spoilers for The Empty Grave]

#rating: t #ship: skullyle #warnings: major character death #category: f/m #character: lucy carlyle #character: the skull #character: anthony lockwood #character: george cubbins | george karim #character: quill kipps #character: holly munro #misc: hanahaki disease #canonverse #length: oneshot #status: completed #author: terryh #fic rec #lockwood & co #lockwood and co fanfiction #lockwood and co #lockwood-fic-recs #misc: hurt/no comfort #pov: alternating #book spoilers: major #book spoilers: teg

[cordycepsbian]

not enough zommoth content lately. in fact there is never enough zommoth content. have a fungus /ref

the alive version is based on atlas moths because they are big and cool and about the same color as alive leif

#bug fables #bug fables spoilers #zommoth #bf leif #stuff i made tag #everytime we draw ophie (<-silly nickname) it gets like 10% fluffier #at this rate she's going to be more fuzz than fungus by the end of october #translations for the zombie speak > #img 1: our son who has every disease #img 2: little sibling. little baby sibling #that was written using an encryption code from a book we read in middle school lol #reblogs>likes again. look at our sibling boy

[swsapphics-ao3feed]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: The Armorer (The Mandalorian TV)/Bo-Katan Kryze Characters: The Armorer (The Mandalorian TV), Bo-Katan Kryze Additional Tags: Adonai Kryze & Bo-Katan Kryze - Freeform, Bo-Katan Kryze & Satine Kryze - Freeform, Bo-Katan Kryze & Pre Vizsla - Freeform, Bo-Katan Kryze & Ahsoka Tano - Freeform, Bo-Katan Kryze/Koska Reeves - Freeform, Hanahaki Disease, Non-Fatal Hanahaki, romantic and platonic love, Time Skips, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, I'm trying to be canon compliant but canon is a mess, Blood, Injury, Vomiting, Minor Character Death, Zabrak!Armorer, The Armorer has a name, Implied Sexual Content, Marriage, Happy Ending Summary:

“I’m afraid I don’t understand, Your Highness.” “You said she has it,” Father hissed, his voice cutting through the confused silence. “How long before she suffocates?” The healer sounded genuinely baffled as she answered, “Your Highness, with all due respect, no one dies from a broken heart anymore.” “Her mother did,” Father gritted out. Bo withheld the urge to look up. They never discussed Mother. She didn’t even know what she’d looked like, never having seen a portrait, and everyone around her kept saying how much the little princess took after her father with her rust-coloured hair and freckled cheeks.

Or, everything is the same, except whenever Bo-Katan refuses to acknowledge her feelings, she coughs up flowers. There might be a correlation.

#the armorer x bo-katan #The Armorer #Bo-Katan Kryze #nitearmor #armorkatan #genre: hanahaki disease #Rated: T #word count: 10k - 20k #ao3feed

[heartlov3r]

#heartbeat #heart attack #male heartbeat #cardiophilia #cardiophile #self stething #steth me #visible heartbeat #anime heartbeat #heartstopper #heart palpitations #pulse #male cpr #fast heartbeat #heart rate #heart disease #heart massage

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The rates of mothers and newborn babies dying during pregnancy, at birth or postpartum are much higher in states that currently ban or restrict abortions than in states preserving access, according to a new report.

The researchers analyzed data on deaths and other health outcomes using the most recent data available – from 2020 and earlier – and compared rates based on states’ current abortion access policies, as of November, after the Supreme Court decision this summer that overturned Roe v. Wade.

States that have restricted access to abortion services had maternal death rates in 2020 that were 62% higher than in states preserving access to abortion services. Between 2018 and 2020, the maternal death rate increased twice as fast in states that now have abortion restrictions, according to the report released Wednesday by the research foundation Commonwealth Fund.

Overall, death rates from any cause among women of reproductive age – 15 to 44 – were 34% higher in abortion-restriction states than in abortion-access states, according to the report.

The report also says that in 2019, fetal or infant death rates in the first week of life occurred at a 15% higher rate, on average, in states with abortion restrictions than in states with wider abortion access.

“Making reproductive services inaccessible to women and families can have dire consequences, and particularly, it varies by state,” said obstetrician/gynecologist Dr. Laurie Zephyrin, a co-author of the report and senior vice president for advancing health equity at the Commonwealth Fund.

In June the Supreme Court ruled on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, holding that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion and paving the way for states to ban abortions.

Based on the findings in the report, Zephyrin thinks maternal death rates in the US could worsen after the Dobbs decision.

“More people in the US die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth than any other developed nation, and most are preventable – and our rates are on the rise,” she said. “So I think that’s just very important as we think of this maternal health crisis and this collision of crises with this impact and this Dobbs decision.”

MATERNAL DEATH RATES 62% HIGHER IN ABORTION-RESTRICTION STATES

The new report – by researchers at Boston University and the Commonwealth Fund – includes data on state-by-state abortion policies and health outcomes among mothers and babies from sources including the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health Resources and Services Administration and the nonprofit March of Dimes.

The researchers compared the health outcomes in 26 abortion-restricting states with those in the remaining 24 states and the District of Columbia, which appear to be unlikely to pass such restrictions.

The researchers found that slightly more than half – 55% – of US births in 2020 were in the 26 states currently with abortion bans or restrictions. In those states, births tended to be concentrated among women younger than 30, with 57% in women in that age group. In comparison, in abortion-access states, 45% of births were to women under 30.

The analysis also revealed that 39% of counties in states restricting abortion access fit the criteria to be considered “maternity care deserts,” meaning there is limited or no access to maternity health care services, such as an ob/gyn, hospital or birth center with obstetric care or certified midwives. In comparison, 25% of counties in abortion-access states can be considered maternity care deserts.

The researchers noted that a higher number of births in abortion-restriction states are in rural areas, where access to maternity care can be more limited and maternity care deserts more common. Rural areas had 17% of births in abortion-restriction states but 8% in abortion-access states.

The report also says that, between 2018 and 2020, the infant and perinatal mortality rates were 6.2 deaths per 1,000 births in abortion-restriction states, compared with 4.8 per 1,000 in abortion-access states. Across all racial and ethnic groups, infant mortality in the first year of life was higher in abortion-restriction states than in abortion-access states.

“What’s most surprising is, states have within their power to be able to avoid these outcomes,” Zephyrin said. “States really have it in their power to enhance maternal health capacity, really create the systems that are necessary to ensure that every person has an opportunity for a safe and healthy birth and life, whether we’re talking about recruiting maternity providers, providing more birthing centers, supporting the range of reproductive health services, expanding Medicaid, investing in postpartum Medicaid extension.”

Separate research published in 2020 in the journal Women’s Health Issues found that although maternal mortality overall continues to increase in the United States, the maternal death rate in states that have expanded Medicaid has had less of an increase than in non-expansion states.

“Compared with their counterparts in other states, women of reproductive age and birthing people in states with current or proposed abortion bans have more limited access to affordable health insurance coverage, worse health outcomes, and lower access to maternity care providers,” Zephyrin and her colleagues wrote in the new Commonwealth Fund report.

“Making abortion illegal risks widening these disparities, as states with already limited Medicaid maternity coverage and fewer maternity care resources lose providers who are reluctant to practice in states that they perceive as restricting their practice,” the researchers wrote. “The result is a deepening of fractures in the maternal health system and a compounding of inequities by race, ethnicity, and geography.”

‘THIS IS NOT HOW HEALTHCARE SHOULD BE’

Dr. Kristyn Brandi, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Darney-Landy Fellow, said she is not surprised by the findings in the new report because the “issues around reproductive health care are intricately linked.”

“My patients that seek abortion care are the same patients that need prenatal care in other pregnancies. Similarly, there is great data that suggests that the places that limit abortion also have higher maternal morbidity rates, less access to insurance, higher teen pregnancy rates, less access to sex education – the maps are overlapping,” Brandi, a practicing ob/gyn who was not involved in the research, wrote in an email to CNN.

She adds that restricting abortion care disproportionately affects marginalized communities, such as people with disabilities or travel limitations.

“It also means, similar to states that have only one abortion clinic, that the places where there are only one or a few labor and delivery units or prenatal care centers, those facilities will become overwhelmed with patients and that may create delays in care,” Brandi said. “This is not how healthcare should be. People should be able to access all reproductive health care services, regardless of their zip code.”

#us politics #news #cnn #abortions #abortion bans #reproductive health #reproductive rights #abortion is healthcare #2022 #statistics #graphs #codify roe #roe v. wade #dobbs v. jackson women’s health organization #maternal death rate #Commonwealth Fund #infant death rates #fetal death rates #Dr. Laurie Zephyrin #Center for Disease Control and Prevention #Health Resources and Services Administration #March of Dimes #maternity care #perinatal mortality rates #infant mortality #expand Medicaid #expand medicare #Women’s Health Issues #Dr. Kristyn Brandi #American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists