Kate
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"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."
Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."
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We need YOU to protect global health! The White House is formally trying to claw back funds allocated for life-saving programs including #PEPFAR and #Tuberculosis prevention. We have 45 days to tell our representatives this is unacceptable, call now! win.newmode.net/call...
June 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We need YOU to protect global health! The White House is formally trying to claw back funds allocated for life-saving programs including #PEPFAR and #Tuberculosis prevention. We have 45 days to tell our representatives this is unacceptable, call now! win.newmode.net/call...
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The Trump administration has just canceled a nearly $600 million contract with Moderna that was meant to develop a bird flu vaccine.
May 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The Trump administration has just canceled a nearly $600 million contract with Moderna that was meant to develop a bird flu vaccine.
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💡Spotlight - Book review
📚Talha Burki has written a fascinating review of "Everything is Tuberculosis by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
🔗 tinyurl.com/33mpapjw
“I think about the strange fact that we could end the TB pandemic, but haven't.”
#EndTB
📚Talha Burki has written a fascinating review of "Everything is Tuberculosis by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
🔗 tinyurl.com/33mpapjw
“I think about the strange fact that we could end the TB pandemic, but haven't.”
#EndTB
May 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
💡Spotlight - Book review
📚Talha Burki has written a fascinating review of "Everything is Tuberculosis by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
🔗 tinyurl.com/33mpapjw
“I think about the strange fact that we could end the TB pandemic, but haven't.”
#EndTB
📚Talha Burki has written a fascinating review of "Everything is Tuberculosis by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
🔗 tinyurl.com/33mpapjw
“I think about the strange fact that we could end the TB pandemic, but haven't.”
#EndTB
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More Texas parents are opting to vaccinate their babies early against measles, nearly a 4.5-fold increase so far this year compared to 2019, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
More Texas children are getting vaccinated early against measles
Fear of babies contracting the contagious and potentially deadly virus has spurred the surge in vaccinations amid Texas’ historic measles outbreak.
www.texastribune.org
May 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
More Texas parents are opting to vaccinate their babies early against measles, nearly a 4.5-fold increase so far this year compared to 2019, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
“The researchers said they couldn't estimate the cost of treating KJ because it was part of a research project that was supported by the National Institutes of Health.” These are the miracles NIH research allows.
For the first time, doctors have created a customized treatment using the revolutionary gene-editing technique known as CRISPR to treat a baby with a rare, life-threatening genetic disorder.
A promising genetic treatment tailor-made for a baby born with a rare disorder
For the first time, doctors have created a customized treatment using the revolutionary gene-editing technique known as CRISPR to treat a baby with a rare, life-threatening genetic disorder.
www.npr.org
May 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
“The researchers said they couldn't estimate the cost of treating KJ because it was part of a research project that was supported by the National Institutes of Health.” These are the miracles NIH research allows.
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Projected deaths from cessation of USAID PEPFAR funding
www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
a 90-day freeze is expected to result in ~60,000 excess deaths
www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
a 90-day freeze is expected to result in ~60,000 excess deaths
The impact of the PEPFAR funding freeze on HIV deaths and infections: a mathematical modelling study of seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa
The sudden cessation of PEPFAR funding likely results in tens of thousands of HIV
deaths and new infections. These losses of life and health should compel the United
States government to rapidly and f...
www.thelancet.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Projected deaths from cessation of USAID PEPFAR funding
www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
a 90-day freeze is expected to result in ~60,000 excess deaths
www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
a 90-day freeze is expected to result in ~60,000 excess deaths
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Happy Independent Bookstore day! It's always a great day to support indie bookstores, but I'm glad for this chance to celebrate them especially! I am so grateful for all they do for communities, readers, and writers. Support indies with online ordering too--through their websites or bookshop.org
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
bookshop.org
April 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Happy Independent Bookstore day! It's always a great day to support indie bookstores, but I'm glad for this chance to celebrate them especially! I am so grateful for all they do for communities, readers, and writers. Support indies with online ordering too--through their websites or bookshop.org
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It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books.
It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse.
www.chron.com/politics/art...
It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse.
www.chron.com/politics/art...
Texas bill could punish bookstores for 'obscene' books
A new bill in the Texas Legislature, authored by Rep. Nate Schatzline, would allow businesses to be held liable if a minor reports damages from "obscene" books.
www.chron.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books.
It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse.
www.chron.com/politics/art...
It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse.
www.chron.com/politics/art...
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Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despite receiving an exceptional performance evaluation in the fall.
After landing his dream job as a park ranger, he’s ‘heartbroken’ to be let go in federal cuts | CNN
Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despit...
www.cnn.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
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As a lowly citizen of the District of Columbia, I don't have a voting representative in Congress. So I put into my latest newsletter all the questions I would ask my Senator or my Representative, if I had one.
www.kedits.com/p/202-224-3121
www.kedits.com/p/202-224-3121
(202) 224-3121
It's like a telethon, but for Democracy
www.kedits.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
As a lowly citizen of the District of Columbia, I don't have a voting representative in Congress. So I put into my latest newsletter all the questions I would ask my Senator or my Representative, if I had one.
www.kedits.com/p/202-224-3121
www.kedits.com/p/202-224-3121
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Proud to see the endTB trial, work of a huge team, led by @partnersinhealth.bsky.social, @msf.org, IRD & supported by @unitaid.bsky.social, published in @nejm.org today. Safe, effective, shortened treatments for drug-resistant TB can be available to all. #TBSky #ForeignAid tinyurl.com/NEJM-endTB
Oral Regimens for Rifampin-Resistant, Fluoroquinolone-Susceptible Tuberculosis | NEJM
For decades, poor treatment options and low-quality evidence plagued care for patients
with rifampin-resistant tuberculosis. The advent of new drugs to treat tuberculosis
and enhanced funding now p...
tinyurl.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Proud to see the endTB trial, work of a huge team, led by @partnersinhealth.bsky.social, @msf.org, IRD & supported by @unitaid.bsky.social, published in @nejm.org today. Safe, effective, shortened treatments for drug-resistant TB can be available to all. #TBSky #ForeignAid tinyurl.com/NEJM-endTB
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🎉 Congratulations #Niger for eliminating Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, the first country in the African Region to do so bit.ly/40Ur7lV
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🎉 Congratulations #Niger for eliminating Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, the first country in the African Region to do so bit.ly/40Ur7lV
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January 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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🎉 Congratulations #Niger for eliminating Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, the first country in the African Region to do so bit.ly/40Ur7lV
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🎉 Congratulations #Niger for eliminating Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, the first country in the African Region to do so bit.ly/40Ur7lV
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I just heard the BEST turn of phrase to (politely?) express disdain for largely fruitless academic bickering:
“These discussions tend to generate more heat than light.”
#chemsky 🧪
“These discussions tend to generate more heat than light.”
#chemsky 🧪
January 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I just heard the BEST turn of phrase to (politely?) express disdain for largely fruitless academic bickering:
“These discussions tend to generate more heat than light.”
#chemsky 🧪
“These discussions tend to generate more heat than light.”
#chemsky 🧪
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NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
January 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...