Russia is intensifying its push to capture a key Ukrainian city in the eastern Donbas Region. CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab speaks with CBS News’ Lana Zak on the fighting in the Donbas, and whether civilians have been able to evacuate amid the intense conflict.
I love Texas Paul and his videos as he is informative and authentic. I am posting this because the message that Texas Paul gives is an important part of the solution to these shootings. Thanks. Hugs
Hello Ali. Great points. What it comes down to is making the US schools a prison to send the kids to for 8 to 10 hours not for education, but so their parents can go to work to make profit for businesses. The kids will suffer in a stifling environment so the one problem that can be ignored is the love of easy access of guns in the US. And why is that easy access fought for and pushed, because it makes the gun industry a lot of profit. Thats the ask why three times answer. In the US it comes down to profit. People’s health doesn’t matter. Scared to go out in public, buy another gun to give the gun industry more profit because the politicians know we have to go out no matter how bad it is, we need supplies. We have to go to work. Kids have to go to school. But it doesn’t matter if some die. The profit must continue. We don’t have healthcare because it cuts into profits. We don’t have decent safety nets because it cuts into profits, we don’t have food or housing security in the US because it cuts into profit. The politicians and greedy wealthy owners of stock and companies don’t care because they know they won’t be shot, their kids won’t be shot, they won’t ever be hungry, homeless, in need. So they are humans in their minds, we are not, we are just to make them profit and disappear when we cannot function to make that profit anymore. And yes I am angry. Vote blue and vote progressives. Hugs
The disgraced, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump made a nonsensical and hateful remark about the transgender community during his rally to the thunderous applause of this followers. Dash Dobrofsky reacts.
The post-COVID conditions span heart, lung, kidney, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, neurological, and mental health conditions. Overall, COVID survivors had nearly twice the risk of developing respiratory and lung conditions, including pulmonary embolisms, compared with uninfected controls. The most common post-COVID conditions were respiratory conditions and musculoskeletal pain.
Among COVID survivors, people ages 18 to 64 were more likely than older survivors to develop cardiac dysrhythmia and musculoskeletal pain. The risks for survivors 65 and up were greater for kidney failure, blood clots, cerebrovascular disease, muscle disorders, neurological conditions, and mental health conditions.
In the older age group, “post-COVID conditions affecting the nervous system are of particular concern because these conditions can lead to early entry into supportive services or investment of additional resources into care,” the authors wrote. And for the 18-to-64 age group, post-COVID conditions could particularly “affect a patient’s ability to contribute to the workforce and might have economic consequences for survivors and their dependents.”
With more than 83 million cases of COVID-19 reported in the US—and the actual number of infections likely significantly higher—the findings mean that millions could develop long-term symptoms, requiring additional care and resources. ” Therefore, implementation of COVID-19 prevention strategies, as well as routine assessment for post-COVID conditions among persons who survive COVID-19, is critical to reducing the incidence and impact of post-COVID conditions, particularly among adults aged ≥65 years,” the authors conclude.
Study design
For the study, the authors mined electronic health records from a national, de-identified database containing information on 63.4 million adult patients from all 50 states. CDC researchers identified 353,164 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 between March 2020 and November 2021. They then matched each COVID-19 patient in a ratio of one to five with 1,640,776 control patients who had visited a health care facility during the same month as the COVID-19 patients’ diagnosis but weren’t diagnosed in the study’s time frame. All of the survivors and controls were monitored for at least a month and up to a year.
Patients who had a history of any of the 26 conditions previously linked to COVID-19 were excluded from the study.
Overall, 38.2 percent of COVID-19 survivors developed a post-COVID condition, compared with 16 percent of uninfected controls. In the 18 to 64 age group, 35.4 percent of survivors developed a post-COVID condition, compared with 14.6 percent of controls. In the 65 and up group, 45.4 percent of survivors developed a post-COVID condition, compared with 18.5 percent of controls.
The absolute risk difference between the percentage of COVID survivors and controls who developed a post-COVID condition was 20.8 percentage points for those between 18 and 64, and 26.9 percentage points for those 65 and up. Based on those calculations, the CDC estimates that one in five adults from 18 to 64 and one in four adults aged 65 and up developed at least one post-COVID condition.
The study has several limitations, including only tapping into electronic health records from one software source, creating the possibility that the results are not generalizable to the entire US. It also did not account for different SARS-CoV-2 variants and some demographic details, such as geographic location. And because it is based on electronic health records, it may be biased toward those who more readily seek care.
Still, the authors note their findings are “consistent with those from several large studies that indicated that post-COVID incident conditions occur in 20-30 percent of patients,” they write. And overall, they conclude, “these findings can increase awareness for post-COVID conditions and improve post-acute care and management of patients after illness.”
An alt-right conspiracy theory is baselessly positing that the Uvalde Elementary school mass murderer was a trans woman. One of the main targets of the conspiracy has now spoken out about the effect this has had on her life.
The conspiracy seems to have originated on 4Chan, where users shared photos of various trans women, claiming that these were images of the shooter. One screenshot of a 4Chan discord server suggested this was intentional, with some users apparently plotting to “psyop” people into believing the shooter was trans.
The conspiracy gained further traction when it was spread by high-profile right-wing figures. Arizona Representative Paul Gosar claimed the shooter was “a transsexual leftist illegal alien” in a now-deleted tweet, resulting in calls for his resignation. Candace Owens, in a tweet that has not been deleted at the time of this writing, also repeated the claim to her 3.1 million followers.
Alex Jones’s show Infowars also reportedly alleged the shooter was trans. Although they appear to have ceased spreading the claim, they still found a way to blame the shooting on the general dissolution of the traditional family.
In the wake of the conspiracy surrounding the Uvalde shooting, user Apprehensive_Ad_995 took to reddit to combat the misinformation. She shared a current photo of herself (very much alive whereas the real shooter is dead), saying, “It’s not me, I don’t even live in Texas.”
Apprehensive_Ad_995 has since identified herself as Sam, an artist, in a new interview with inews. Speaking on the sudden stress the conspiracy has caused her, Sam said, “I am being harassed and accused of murder with no evidence. And all I’ve done was live my life.”
At the same time, she acknowledged that her struggle pales in comparison to what the victims of the tragedy are going through. “I’m more worried about the victims and hope they get the support they deserve,” she said.
While the conspiracy is currently being downplayed, with some right-wing figures like Andy Ngo denouncing the misinformation, it is a symptom of something that has become all too common in the conservative movement. Sam acknowledged this, saying of figures like Gosar, “I’m ashamed that people like that are voted into office. People so concerned about their personal beliefs that they ignore the truth just to hurt innocent people.”
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