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The real looters are the ruling class
Los Angeles landlords are raising rents by as much as 124% after the wildfires.
January 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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All Los Angeles Public Library locations are providing free N95 masks. Libraries are essential!
January 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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AUSTRALIA weekly COVID update: 27 December 2024

#COVID19Australia #COVIDisntOVER #COVIDisAIRBORNE
December 27, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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Tasmania: "The federal member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, has written to the health minister saying it is “disturbing” that Pfizer is now the only COVID vaccine available in Australia under the national immunisation program."

Source: archive.md/MprDZ
December 28, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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US: How the Pandemic Increased US Deaths Visualized in Eight Charts.

Source: archive.md/JuNnw
December 29, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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XEC Variant May Be Driving ‘Silent’ COVID-19 Surge In December 2024.

"Not talking about COVID-19 doesn’t mean that it has gone away. The trouble, though, is many people are acting as if COVID has gone"

Source: archive.md/7mZaT
December 30, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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Taiwan: 200,000 doses of Novavax JN. 1 COVID-19 vaccine available from Jan. 1

"The protein-based vaccine provided an alternative for those who previously had an adverse reaction to more common mRNA COVID-19 vaccines."

focustaiwan.tw/society/2024...
200,000 doses of Novavax JN. 1 COVID-19 vaccine available from Jan. 1 - Focus Taiwan
The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Friday announced that it will make 200,000 doses of protein-based vaccine targeting the JN. 1 subvariant of COVID-19 available to the general public fro...
focustaiwan.tw
December 30, 2024 at 1:33 AM
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US COVID update: Dec 30, 2024

🔸1 in 50 people currently infected
🔸954,000 new daily infections
🔸6,678,000 new weekly infections

"There is more transmission today than during 82.3% of the pandemic."

#COVID19US #COVIDisntOVER

Source: www.pmc19.com/data/PMC_COV...
December 30, 2024 at 7:07 AM
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Number of persons hospitalised with COVID-19, Influenza, RSV in Queensland.

Source: www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pra...
December 30, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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Queensland: "COVID-19 hospitalisations increased by 128% between the end of November and start of December in Queensland."

@qldhealth

www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
There's a new wave of COVID-19 cases in this Australian state. Here's what's driving it
A wave of COVID-19 cases, many of them the new XEC variant, has led to an increase in COVID-related hospitalisations in Queensland.
www.sbs.com.au
December 30, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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Dr. Arijit Chakravarty: "I think that if you’re out there taking COVID seriously, and if you’re out there still trying to avoid repeated infections, you’re still doing the right thing. It is still possible to avoid being infected and a worthwhile goal."
December 31, 2024 at 5:47 AM
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“If people really understood the science behind all this, they would have a very different attitude”

Five years of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interview with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty

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Five years of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interview with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty
In this interview, Dr. Chakravarty discusses the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic and public health globally five years after the initial outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wuhan, China.
www.wsws.org
December 31, 2024 at 5:47 AM
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Last week, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen called for mask bans at protests. This week, she has C19
December 23, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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US COVID update: Dec 23, 2024

🔸1 in 79 people currently infected
🔸606,000 new daily infections
🔸4,242,000 new weekly infections

"There is more transmission today than during 59.2% of the pandemic."

#COVID19US #COVIDisntOVER

Source: pmc19.com/data/PMC_COV...
December 24, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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Tasmania: Rush on COVID vaccinations after surge in cases.

"There’s been a rush on COVID vaccinations in the state after reports of more cases of the virus in the past 10 days than in the previous 3 months."

Source: archive.md/PJyXr
December 22, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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“Many of the people in nursing homes live very long lives; if they hadn’t died of COVID, they could have had another 10 or 15 years.”

#COVID19US
December 23, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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US: "No one knows exactly how many U.S. nursing home residents died due to COVID, since the data is unreliable... Estimates that it was at least 152,000 during just the first year of the coronavirus outbreak."

fortune.com/well/article...
Dysfunction killed thousands of America's vulnerable elderly during COVID. This change could save lives next time
The author of a new book maintains that some—if not many—of those deaths didn’t need to happen.
fortune.com
December 23, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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Hang on a minute - what's with the discrepancy between last 2 weeks of @WAHealth's Virus WAtch report??

Peak of this C0VID wave's positivity rate revised to a lower level ⤵️

#Covid

@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
December 20, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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Key ally of ex-Brazil president Bolsonaro arrested over alleged coup plot
Key ally of ex-Brazil president Bolsonaro arrested over alleged coup plot
Gen Walter Braga Netto held over alleged attempt to seize power after 2022 election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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Brazil’s President Lula leaves hospital after brain surgery www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Brazil’s President Lula leaves hospital after brain surgery
President delivers emotional address wearing a panama hat – ‘so you don’t see the dressing on my head’
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Our @todayinfocus.bsky.social @theguardian.com podcast from Port-au-Prince, a very difficult mission which would have been impossible without the work of the amazing team: @etiennecp @OdelynJoseph & @JeanElieRider Thanks to incredible host @helenpidd.bsky.social
Inside Port-au-Prince, Haiti: the capital where gangs have taken over – podcast
Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips reports from Haiti on the struggles of the government to reassert its authority over the capital, Port-au-Prince, and on the ordinary Haitians caught up in the...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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WA weekly COVID update: Week ending 15 Dec 2024

🔸COVID positivity rate: 7.1% est. (-2.8%)

🔹PCR cases: 360 (-21.5%)
🔹Hospitalised: Average of 88 per day (+17.3%)
🔹ICU: 7-day average remained at one

@WAHealth @CHO_WAHealth

Source: www.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/Corp...
December 20, 2024 at 6:29 AM
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VIC weekly COVID Update: 14 Dec to 20 Dec 2024

🔸The next report will be available Friday 10th January 2025

🔸PCR positivity rate: 8.6% (+0.4%)

🔹PCR cases only: 1,128 (-0.1%)
🔹Hospitalised: 151* (-5.6%)
🔹ICU: 9* (-18.1%)

*7-day average

Source: www.health.vic.gov.au/infectious-d...
December 20, 2024 at 7:15 AM
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AUSTRALIA weekly COVID update: 20 December 2024

#COVID19Australia #COVIDisntOVER #COVIDisAIRBORNE
December 20, 2024 at 7:52 AM
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US: 10th COVID wave now surging in the US, amid total silence in the corporate media.

"1.6% of Americans are presently infected and capable of transmitting the virus to others. That is 1 in 64 people and represents nearly 750,000 new COVID-19 cases per day."

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
10th COVID wave now surging in the US, amid total silence in the corporate media
The entire political establishment is in agreement on the need to enforce the pro-corporate policy of “forever COVID,” in which the working class and broad layers of society as a whole are condemned t...
www.wsws.org
December 20, 2024 at 6:18 AM