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Recently retired USA physician. 
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“The court affirmed what should be beyond dispute: The government cannot pick and choose which journalists are allowed to cover it or deny access based on their reporting — a core First Amendment protection.” - National Press Club President Mark Schoeff Jr.

COVID may have killed significantly more people in the U.S. in the first two years of the pandemic than official records indicate, with as many as one overlooked death for every five recorded ones. That brings the total to nearly one million deaths just in 2020 and 2021.

That calculation comes from research published today in Science Advances that seeks to understand how many COVID deaths fell through the cracks of official reporting systems. The untallied cases show the burden of the pandemic in the U.S. fell most heavily on marginalized people.
“These vulnerable groups are just taking a higher risk at every step, and the accumulation of all of that is this disparity in COVID mortality at the end,” says Mathew Kiang, an epidemiologist at Stanford University and a co-author of the study.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-killed-150-000-more-people-in-its-first-two-years-than-official-toll/

COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show

We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say

Scientific American

@nlowell @WarnerCrocker

Blush green, green, dark green
Chlorophyll begins anew
All life thanks sunlight

seasons shift slowly
winter melting into spring
suddenly crocus

#DailyHaikuPrompt

“‘We want her under oath because we do not trust her,’ Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost told reporters.” https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-epstein-bondi-blanche-d49d96d7a53f4e8f71460a8c34155b3b
Justice Department leaders meet with lawmakers over Epstein files

Democratic lawmakers have stormed out of a closed-door briefing on the Jeffrey Epstein files by Justice Department leaders, and say they will push to force Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions under oath about the case. Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to try to quell bipartisan frustration over the Justice Department’s handling of millions of files related to Epstein’s sex trafficking investigation. Republicans on the committee dismissed the move by Democrats as political grandstanding, said Bondi and Blanche had been answering “substantiative questions,” and that Bondi said she would follow the law regarding her subpoena.

AP News
POWELL: “Gas prices are up… very very low level of job creation… tariffs raise prices…”
Alex Jones: Infowars will be shutting down in "the middle of next month"

Media Matters for America
"Royer is the second person to die in ICE custody this week after Afghanistan War Veteran Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, the 13th since the start of the year in January, and the 42nd person to die in ICE custody during the Trump administration." https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/as-predicted-ice-reports-another
As Predicted, ICE Reports Another Detention Death While Congress Does Nothing: 2nd This Week, 13th This Year, 42nd Under Trump

Detention deaths occurring about once every four days. Call Rep. Scott Franklin and Glades County Sheriff's Office until we get answers, contact information available below.

Austin Kocher
Photographer Zanele Muholi Wins Prestigious Hasselblad Award

“I receive it on behalf of my community; those who have been erased, those who are still here, and those who are yet to see themselves reflected with dignity.”

My Modern Met

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116213891709746761

Trump and his cronies are so stupid they attacked probably the one country in the world that has absolutely no fear of retaliating against the USA.

That doesn't mean I support the regime of the mollah, I'm just stating a geopolitical fact.

#war #iran #epstein #trump