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Travis Bernhardt

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Travis Bernhardt

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in the context of NIH cutting 1.7b in funding for long covid research incl. 577m to develop antivirals

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March 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM

Travis Bernhardt

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tbh this framing would have improved this video

March 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM

Travis Bernhardt

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measles requires 95% immunity (infection or 2x vaccine doses) for herd immunity to work, 80-85% is worrisome

in BC: "Just under 82 per cent of two-year-olds have gotten one dose of the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine, and around 72 per cent of seven-year-olds have gotten both doses"

Measles is one of the most infectious diseases on Earth. An infected person can walk through a room and up to two hours later a healthy person can walk through the same room and get sick, just by breathing the lingering air.

The disease can cause brain swelling, leading to seizures, deafness or brain damage, and kills about one in every 3,000 people, according to HealthLinkBC. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gives a grimmer estimate, reporting that one in four cases of measles requires hospitalization and one in 1,000 cases results in death.

Unvaccinated people who survive a measles infection are at a radically higher risk of dying from another illness in the years after the infection. Measles can wipe out 11 to 73 per cent of an unvaccinated person’s antibodies, meaning their immune system forgets how to fight off pathogens it previously defeated.

March 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM

Travis Bernhardt

@tbernhardt.bsky.social

astonishing short excerpt from Ghada Karmi's book Return, in which she is invited by the NYT's bureau chief to visit what used to be her home before it was stolen in 1948

(the NYT owns the newer residence built on top of it)

newyorkwarcrimes.com/why-does-the...