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Amid very unhealthy air quality in Wisconsin, N95 respirators protect against particulate pollution, letter campaign to reduce air pollution from cars due July 5 #AirQuality #CleanAir #N95 #MaskUp
https://precaution.substack.com/p/respirators-wildfire-smoke-and-environmental

Kaitlin Sundling boosted:

A simple question for all those protestors that waste their time turning up to pride parades 🥰

A person wearing a flag wrapped round their shoulders holding a sign in a crowd that reads "If god hates us why are we so cute?" with a rainbow flag on the sign.

Kaitlin Sundling boosted:

Due to the smoke
my city’s public health department
advises that if we go outside
we should really “wear
a high quality mask
like an N95 or KN95”
and perhaps more people
would have such masks available
if that department
hadn’t spent months saying
such masks are no longer needed.

Kaitlin Sundling boosted:

This study shows that wearing an N95 respirator reduces exposure to wildfire smoke particles by over 14 times, and reduces hospitalizations by up to 39%. Please wear an N95 respirator mask!
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021GH000482

Kaitlin Sundling boosted:

Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/elon-musk-ron-desantis-2024-twitter/674149/?utm_source=feed

Kaitlin Sundling boosted:

The People's CDC Weather Report for the week of May 15th is out:
https://peoplescdc.org/2023/05/15/peoples-cdc-covid-19-weather-report-45/

Read for details on how the state heightens its double-standard callousness towards migrants/ asylum seekers, and more!

Kaitlin Sundling boosted:

With the end of the Public Health Emergency, the CDC has removed the #COVID transmission map from their website.

This is how you manufacture the disappearance of a pandemic.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=null&null=Risk

As of May 11, 2023, COVID-19 Community Levels (CCLs) and COVID-19 Community Transmission Levels are no longer calculatable; associated visualizations have been removed from COVID Data Tracker. The “COVID-19 Integrated County View” tab has been renamed “COVID-19 Vaccinations by County.” County-level hospitalization data will be available at COVID-19 Hospitalizations, Deaths, and Emergency visits by Geographic Area.

The last update to this page will be made on May 11, 2023. On June 15, 2023, this page will be removed from COVID Data Tracker, and a new page displaying updated vaccination data will be available. National and state level data will continue to be reported at CDC COVID Data Tracker: Vaccine Confidence and COVID VaxView.

Graphic: Map of US with all states in grey, signifying no data

Kaitlin Sundling boosted:

Here's what you get when you go to http://COVIDtransmissionmap.com

This was a shortcut set up to go straight to the CDC's #COVID transmission map (which was already buried on their website to prioritize the misleading Community Levels map).

The case data is now gone.

Grey US map with no data, formerly COVID transmission map

Kaitlin Sundling boosted:

With the end of the public health emergency, the CDC removed their COVID transmission and community levels maps, and found a way to make their main COVID map even more green: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_new-admissions-rate-county

Map of US Reported COVID-19 New Hospital Admissions Rate per 100,000 in the Past Week, by County

Kaitlin Sundling boosted:

Please, before the week is over,
take a moment
to order more test kits
as of May 11
(when the emergency ends)
Medicare and private insurers
will no longer cover the costs
of those test kits
so take a moment to order more
for the emergency may be ending
but the pandemic endures.

Kaitlin Sundling boosted:

It's unacceptable that some hospitals are now telling patients that they cannot ask staff members to wear a mask. What happened to "do no harm"?

https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/patient-care/patient-visitor-information/planning-your-visit/mask-policy#accordion-408c4afbeb-item-1d2bf9fb0f

Mass General Brigham

Masking

With the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, Mass General Brigham will end universal masking at all our hospitals, clinics, and other facilities starting on May 12, 2023.

Planning Your Visit

Frequently Asked Questions

I'd be more comfortable if my doctor, nurse, or other care. provider wore a mask. Can ask them to?

No. You cannot ask staff members to wear a mask because our policies no longer require it. Our system is adhering to current public health recommendations.

Kaitlin Sundling boosted:

Hey all! This is the @PeoplesCDC weekly update for May 1st! As always, the Weather Report from the People’s CDC sheds light on the COVID situation in the US.

Please be sure to check out the full written report, which includes even more information, clickable links to sources, and translation to Spanish -
https://peoplescdc.org/2023/05/01/peoples-cdc-covid-19-weather-report-43/

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#peoplescdc #COVID #COVID19 #COVID19WeatherReport
#longcovid #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver

[Image description 1: Image shows background with shades of light blue and blue colors. White square is centered with text that reads, “5/1/23 Weather Report." Top text reads, "About 78% of US counties experience moderate or higher transmission levels as of April 27."

Text below reads, "This data comes from the CDC's own Transmission Levels map -
which is increasingly unreliable as funding for free PCR tests ends. We recommend you continue to wear a well-fitting N95 mask or equivalent indoors and to fight for Free Access to Tests, Treatments, Vaccines and Data-Collection and Reporting."

Map shows COVID transmission levels/intensity by US county as of April 27, 2023 based on COVID cases per 100,000 population and percent positivity in past 7 days. Low transmission is blue, Moderate is yellow, Substantial is orange, High is red. Transmission is mixed with yellow throughout the country, scattered blue, and Arizona and New Mexico predominantly Red or Orange."

There’s a teal “People’s CDC” icon at the bottom with a teal arrow pointing to the right.]

Reinstate universal masking at UW Health in Wisconsin and Illinois. UW Health dropped masking without notice yesterday, leaving patients scrambling to try to find safer ways to access care. Please join me in urging UW Health to reinstate universal masking. #KeepMasksInHealthCare https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/keep-healthcare-masking-at-uw-health-in-wisconsin-and-illinois

A woman wearing glasses and a respirator with surgical mask on top sits with a microscope to one side.

Kaitlin Sundling boosted:

The death toll in Montana's controversial wolf hunt has increased to 254.

It's a sad reality that wolves in Montana face traps, bullets, and snares when they should be focused on the spring arrival of their pups.

Call on the U.S. Department of Interior to prioritize conservation over bloodsport.

Please TAKE ACTION to urge them to enact an emergency listing to protect wolves in the Northern Rockies → https://bit.ly/3XmkAwz

#RelistWolves #Wolf #WolvesOfMastodon

Two light-colored wolves lovingly mushing their faces together.

#KeepMasksInHealthcare #KeepMasksInHealthcareWI

As a physician, I support universal masking in healthcare now and in the future. Healthcare settings are particularly risky during the airborne COVID pandemic, and masking is a simple measure to protect vulnerable patients and workers in these settings.

People’s CDC substack post with more information including letter template: https://peoplescdc.substack.com/p/keep-masks-in-healthcare

Kaitlin Sundling boosted:

After so many years in the US and working in a hospital I can confidently say: I don't understand the system

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/14/1156581333/cancer-drug-high-price-could-bankrupt

Kaitlin Sundling boosted:

If you cannot
smell the flowers
they have given to you
or taste the chocolates
from the big red box
it is probably wise
for you
to cancel your dinner reservation.

Kaitlin Sundling boosted:

People’s CDC COVID-19 Weather Report https://peoplescdc.org/2023/02/13/peoples-cdc-covid-19-weather-report-34/

Map and table show COVID transmission levels by US county as of Feb 8, 2023 based on the number of COVID cases per 100,000 population and percent positivity in the past 7 days. Low to Moderate transmission levels are pale yellow, Substantial is orange, High is red, Very High is brown, and Extremely High is black. Eastern, southern, and parts of the Midwest are almost all red, while the northwest is pale yellow and orange. Text in the bottom right reads: 94.44 percent of the US population lives in an area with substantial or higher transmission. Transmission Level table shows 1.24 percent of counties (0.43 percent by population) as Extremely High, 2.32 percent of the counties (0.9 percent by population) as Very High, 52.64 percent of counties (58.08 percent by population) as High, 23.36 percent of counties (35.03 percent by population) as Substantial, and 20.43 percent of counties (5.56 percent by population) as Low to Moderate. The People's CDC created the graphic from CDC data.

A stacked bar chart with weeks on the x-axis shows weeks from Nov 12, 2022 to Feb 11, 2023 and y-axis as percentage of viral lineages among infections. The recent 3 weeks are labeled as Nowcast projections. XBB.1.5 (dark purple) continues to increase, making up about 74.7 percent of current week infections. BQ.1.1 (teal) has decreased in recent weeks but remains the second most prevalent lineage currently around 15.3%. BQ.1 (dark teal) is now about half as prevalent as BQ.1.1 but remains visibly labeled. BA.5 (light teal), which in October was the dominant lineage, is now down to nearly zero visibility - joined by XBB (periwinkle purple) and a handful of other colors in the week ending Feb 11, 2023.

Regional difference map of the US with 10 regions each depicted as shades of gray. In general, the numbers start in the Northeast and increase as they move south and then westward. Title reads “Nowcast Estimates for 2/5/2023 to 2/11/2023 by HHS Region.” Each region has a colored pie chart showing variant proportions. Legend at bottom right reads “Regional proportions from specimens collected the week ending 2/11/2023.” XBB1.5 (dark purple) makes up about 90 percent of the pie in regions 1, 2 and 3 (Northeast & Mid-Atlantic) and ranges from about 30 to 75 percent elsewhere. BQ1.1 (teal) is about 40 percent of cases in region 10 (North-West). It shares less than 25 percent along the east coast, representing about 25 percent of infections in regions 5 through 9. BQ1 (green) represents about 5 to 15 percent of infections in Regions 4-10. Bottom text reads: “Updated February 10, 2023” and “Lineages called using pangolin v4.2, pangolin-data v1.18 and user v.0.6.1.

Title reads “Wastewater: Effective SARS-Cov-2 virus concentration (copies/mL of sewage), powered by Biobot Analytics.” Line graph shows the levels of COVID detected in wastewater by US region, each region with a different color trend line. A legend map of the US in the center shows the West region as green, South as pink, Midwest as purple, and Northeast as orange. The y axis shows copies per mL of sewage and the x-axis shows time between late January 2020 to February 8, 2023 with January’s the last labeled on the axis. Northeast (orange) has the highest peaks in Jan 2020, Jan 2022, and Jan 2023. In the last six weeks this line has declined to meet the other lines. A legend on the right shows that for Feb 8, 2023 wastewater levels are 731 copies/mL in the Midwest, 815 copies/mL in the Northeast, 663 copies/mL in the South, and 458 copies/mL in the West.

University of Wisconsin's ASM Student Council passed COVID legislation supporting improved COVID protections on campus. The proposed measures would improve the situation on campus significantly. Thanks to the ASM student representatives for their leadership! https://badgerherald.com/news/2023/02/10/asm-passes-covid-19-legislation-discusses-masking-requirements/ #CovidIsNotOver #vaxplus #COVIDisAirborne

Please send letters and share this campaign to tell your elected officials to maintain our public health emergencies and provide basic COVID protections. https://peoplescdc.substack.com/p/tell-elected-reps-maintain-the-state #CovidIsNotOver @PeoplesCDC

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