#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #VictoriaLaw, author of "#CorridorsOfContagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of #Incarceration."

Law describes in harrowing detail how state neglect and #carceralAbuse amplified the ravages of #Covid19 in the US prison system

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18960148-amplifying-the-violence-of-incarceration-victoria-law-on-prisons-during-pandemic

#USprisons #USpol #prisons #prisonIndustrialComplex #socialMurder #Covid19USA #books @bookstodon

USA: Epidemic trend summary: Jan 23, 2026

COVID-19

As of January 20, 2026:

🔹5 states have COVID-19 infections growing or likely growing
🔹26 state has infections declining or likely declining
🔹15 states show no change

#COVID19USA

Source: https://cdc.gov/cfa-modeling-and-forecasting/rt-estimates/

🇺🇸US Weekly COVID update: Jan 19, 2026

🔸1 in 52 Actively Infectious
🔸941,000 Daily Infections
🔸6,020,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸18,000,000 Infections in 2026
🔸301,000 to 1,200,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸1,700 to 2,900 Weekly Excess Deaths

#COVID19USA

Source: https://pmc19.com/data/

🇺🇸USA: Epidemic trend summary: Jan 16, 2026

COVID-19

As of January 13, 2026:

🔹2 states have COVID-19 infections growing or likely growing
🔹39 state has infections declining or likely declining
🔹7 states show no change

#COVID19USA

Source: https://cdc.gov/cfa-modeling-and-forecasting/rt-estimates/

🇺🇸 USA: Trump administration says it will pull back billions in COVID funding from local health departments.

"Federal health officials said Tuesday they are pulling back $11.4 billion in COVID-19-related funds for local public health departments and other health organizations throughout the nation."

"Although the COVID federal public health emergency has ended, the virus is still killing Americans: 458 people per week on average have died from COVID over the past four weeks, according to CDC data."

"Officials said the money was largely used for COVID-19 testing, vaccination and global projects as well as community health workers responding to COVID and a program established in 2021 to address COVID health disparities among high-risk and underserved patients, including those in minority populations."

#COVID19USA #COVIDisNotOVER #PANDEMICIsNotOVER @auscovid19

Source: https://archive.md/AvknI

There are now 100% free at-home covid tests available again, directly from the US Postal Service.
Please consider getting these to use before & after large gatherings, and even if you don't want them for yourself, having them on hand for other people to use is super helpful, since outside of this, we're often stuck having to get these from price-gouging pharmacies.
https://special.usps.com/testkits

#COVID19 #ny #upstateny #AlbanyNY #COVID19usa #covidtests

The Political Economy of #Covid

"Over the last several years, the #Biden administration has overseen a rapid dismantling of the #USCovidResponse, alongside an effort to normalize the virus as part of everyday life. This session will explore how this rush to a premature 'end' of the pandemic was accomplished, how it was presented as an apolitical and technocratic matter of changing circumstances."

a talk by #DeathPanelPod

https://youtu.be/PcBdrbQE-YE
#covid19 #covid19USA #LongCovid #disability

"About two years ago was when it first hit me that the ideas that I've been hearing about measles, chickenpox and the HPV vaccine were being recycled about the covid vaccine .."

Dr #JonathanHoward discusses his book "#WeWantThemInfected: How the failed quest for #HerdImmunity led doctors to embrace the #AntivaccineMovement and blinded Americans to the threat of #COVID"

https://youtu.be/C-vejjpeCb0

#Antivaxxers #Covid19 #Covid19USA #CovidDisinfo #GBD #books #CovidVaccines

#DebunkTheFunk

"President Biden has declared an end to the #COVID19NationalEmergency, but people living with #LongCOVID say the pandemic is far from over. [..] We speak to science writer #RyanPrior about the movement to expand research and resources for those with #LongCOVID.."

The Long Haul: Millions with #COVID Face Chronic Illness as Biden Declares End to National Emergency

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/4/13/ryan_prior_long_covid

#Covid19USA #Covid19 #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MECFS #MillionsMissing #disability #USPol #DisabledActivism