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The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.

The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.

Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Walgreens launches expanded flu, COVID tracker www.axios.com/2025/11/04/w...
Exclusive: Walgreens launches expanded flu, COVID tracker
Commercial and academic tools are becoming more important as federal data becomes less available.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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A new review article examines whether calling COVID-19 “Airborne AIDS” is an oversimplification—or a necessary warning about immune dysfunction and long-term risk. It doesn’t equate the two diseases—it compares shared outcomes (immune exhaustion, tissue persistence, neurocognitive effects) and (...)
October 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles. By Violet Affleck

May 18, 2025

"After all, the promised end to the pandemic has been more a matter of public relations than public health."

yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles
BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…
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May 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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“If the state can deprive an individual of his freedom simply because of his politics, which is what appears to have happened [to Mahmoud Khalil], then no one is safe,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes: theatln.tc/87FfKC8B
March 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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An important read by @yeshacallahan.bsky.social on the aftermath of the Eaton Fire on historically Black community of Altadena www.bet.com/article/7a2t...
Eaton Fire Devastates Historic Altadena, Displacing Black Families and Destroying Legacies
While celebrity losses grab headlines, the Eaton Fire has destroyed nearly 1,000 structures in Altadena, displacing Black families who’ve shaped the community for generations. Here's a brief history o...
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January 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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"Want to Limit Respiratory Virus Infections? Mask and Test in Hospitals"

"When hospital staff began masking again, the rates of hospital-onset respiratory viral infections decreased by 33%"

Study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Source: archive.md/Zki7D
December 2, 2024 at 12:05 AM