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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Texas borderlands too often a photo op for politicians pushing stereotypes | Texas | The Guardian

Ubiquitous border tours fixate on immigration, missing the complex character and needs of the region

Source: Texas borderlands too often a photo op for politicians pushing stereotypes | Texas | The Guardian

Pfizer to ask US to authorize third Covid vaccine shot as booster | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Pfizer plans to ask US regulators to authorize a booster dose of its Covid-19 vaccine within the next month, the drugmaker’s top scientist said on Thursday.

The announcement was based on evidence of greater risk of reinfection six months after inoculation and due to the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of coronavirus.

And the US pharmaceutical company and its German partner BioNTech have started designing a version of their vaccine specifically to combat the highly-contagious Delta variant, Pfizer’s chief scientific officer, Mikael Dolsten, said.

However, the companies do not think they will need to replace the current version of their highly-successful shot.

Source: Pfizer to ask US to authorize third Covid vaccine shot as booster | Coronavirus | The Guardian

UPDATE: Toyota reverses course, says it will stop donating to Republican objectors – by Judd Legum – Popular Information

Toyota announced on Thursday afternoon that it would “stop contributing to those members of Congress who contested the certification of certain states in the 2020 election.” Source: UPDATE: Toyota reverses course, says it will stop donating to Republican objectors – by Judd Legum – Popular Information

Bamlanivimab prevents COVID-19 morbidity and mortality in nursing-home setting | Topics in Antiviral Medicine; 29(1):32-33, 2021. | EMBASE

Bamlanivimab was highly effective in reducing the incidence of symptomatic COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 infection and was well tolerated. These findings demonstrate the potential beneficial impact of bamlanivimab use on COVID-19 morbidity and mortality among skilled nursing facility residents. Source: Bamlanivimab prevents COVID-19 morbidity and mortality in nursing-home setting | Topics in Antiviral Medicine; 29(1):32-33, 2021. | EMBASE

If You Don’t Plan to Recycle More How will you have a Future that is Secure? — FunWritings

More recycling is the solution for plastic pollution Let us change the bad situation

If You Don’t Plan to Recycle More How will you have a Future that is Secure? — FunWritings

Quedamos en medio de la travesía

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Quedamos en medio de la travesía, entre imágenes difusas de rostros que partieron con sus nombres, sus apellidos y sus biografías, inscritos, quizá, en lápidas abandonadas y frías, y la gente que no estaba con nosotros en aquellos minutos y años infantiles y juveniles, y que ahora escribe sus historias en un mundo que parece roto e inmejorable y que, no obstante, le pertenece durante su fugaz existencia. Quedamos en medio de la travesía, mientras pensábamos que el mundo era nuestro. Era lo que teníamos. Se iban los días sin darnos cuenta. Acaso éramos tan felices que no contabilizábamos los instantes, probablemente estábamos inmersos en un ambiente que creíamos duradero y nuestro, quizá las personas que permanecían con nosotros significaban tanto, o tal vez, enamorados, planeábamos construir un hogar y ser intensamente dichosos. Quedamos en medio de la travesía…

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Climate crisis ‘may put 8bn at risk of malaria and dengue’ | Global development | The Guardian

More than 8 billion people could be at risk of malaria and dengue fever by 2080 if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise unabated, a new study says. Malaria and dengue fever will spread to reach billions of people, according to new projections. Researchers predict that up to 4.7 billion more people could be threatened by the world’s two most prominent mosquito-borne diseases, compared with 1970-99 figures. The figures are based on projections of a population growth of about 4.5 billion over the same period, and a temperature rise of about 3.7C by 2100. The study, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and published in the Lancet Planetary Health journal, found that if emission levels continue to rise at current rates, the effect on global temperatures could lengthen transmission seasons by more than a month for malaria and four months for dengue over the next 50 years.

Source: Climate crisis ‘may put 8bn at risk of malaria and dengue’ | Global development | The Guardian

Long COVID life lessons on symptoms, treatment, and recovery – Los Angeles Times

…This pandemic has heightened the inequities, especially among people of color and women like myself. It has been long and isolating, and has made me see how fragile life can be. I don’t take for granted the privilege that I have to be able to call my parents, family or friends at the drop of a hat, thanks to FaceTime, WhatsApp and high-speed internet. I believe being an educated patient is key to getting the care you need.

I also know that as a person who speaks English, I am privileged. I have had to translate Spanish for a few people in waiting rooms as I saw them struggling to communicate with the nurses and staff.

I am very grateful that I am here today and some days I feel the survivor’s guilt. I think of the thousands of individuals who don’t have access to affordable health insurance, and of those who didn’t survive. I also feel for those who have lost their loved ones.

I’ve learned not to take no for an answer, and to say no when I need to rest. One of my doctors joked, “You take more notes than any other patient I’ve had before.”

These days, my oxygen is 96/97 on most days, and I am able to go up and down the stairs without being winded. I’m still going for tests to resolve some of the symptoms. I can hold interviews and not lose my voice until late in the day. And I can write and share my story.

Source: Long COVID life lessons on symptoms, treatment, and recovery – Los Angeles Times