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Bernie Sanders ‘must reconsider’ Joe Rogan endorsement, says LGBTQ group

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Human Rights Campaign says podcast host Rogan has ‘attacked countless marginalised groups at every opportunity’

Bernie Sanders “must reconsider” his acceptance of an endorsement from Joe Rogan, the president of the Human Rights Campaign said on Friday, given that the comedian and podcast host has “attacked transgender people, gay men, women, people of colour and countless marginalised groups at every opportunity”.

Related: Impeachment: Democrats focus on cover-up of alleged Ukraine aid scheme

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‘Take Her Out’: Recording Reveals Trump Demanding Ouster of Yovanovitch Directly to Parnas—Man He Claims Not to Know

An audio recording reviewed by ABC News captured President Donald Trump demanding the ouster of then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during a 2018 dinner with a group of associates that included Lev Parnas, the indicted businessman Trump has repeatedly claimed not to know. “Get rid of her!” Trump said in the recording, ABC reported Friday. “Get her out tomorrow. I don’t care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it.” The president’s outburst came after Parnas, an associate of Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, recommended that Trump fire Yovanovitch. Parnas, according to ABC, told Trump in the recording that the ambassador was “basically walking around telling everybody, ‘Wait, he’s gonna get impeached, just wait.’” “The biggest problem there, I think where we need to start is we gotta get rid of the ambassador,” Parnas said. “She’s still leftover from the Clinton administration.” A copy of the recording is now in the possession of federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, ABC reported.

Source: ‘Take Her Out’: Recording Reveals Trump Demanding Ouster of Yovanovitch Directly to Parnas—Man He Claims Not to Know

Come ‘Say This to My Face,’ Says Ayanna Pressley After Betsy Devos Compares Being Pro-Choice to Being Pro-Slavery

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, chair of the House Abortion Access Task Force, offered Thursday to give Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a face-to-face lesson on reproductive rights and U.S. history after the billionaire cabinet official likened the arguments of pro-choice advocates to those of slavery supporters during the Civil War Era—a comparison one critic denounced as “utterly deranged.” “I say again: only slavery was slavery. This is utterly deranged, and [Betsy DeVos] should resign.” —Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone

Source: Come ‘Say This to My Face,’ Says Ayanna Pressley After Betsy Devos Compares Being Pro-Choice to Being Pro-Slavery

Coronavirus Live Updates: Death Toll Climbs, and Infections Reach Europe – The New York Times

Chinese health authorities reported at least 15 new deaths in one day, raising the death toll to 41 — all in China. A second case was confirmed in the United States and three cases were confirmed in France, as health officials were preparing for an outbreak that could last months.

China coronavirus: first fatality reported outside Hubei province as man dies in Hebei near Beijing, while eight cities now on lockdown | South China Morning Post

Travel bans have been imposed on eight cities in Hubei province: Wuhan, Huanggang, Ezhou, Chibi, Xiantao, Qianjiang, Zhijiang and Lichuan

Source: China coronavirus: first fatality reported outside Hubei province as man dies in Hebei near Beijing, while eight cities now on lockdown | South China Morning Post

US drinking water contamination with ‘forever chemicals’ far worse than scientists thought

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Highest levels of PFAS in Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, report by environmental watchdog finds

The contamination of US drinking water with manmade “forever chemicals” is far worse than previously estimated with some of the highest levels found in Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, said a report on Wednesday by an environmental watchdog group.

The chemicals, resistant to breaking down in the environment, are known as perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. Some have been linked to cancers, liver damage, low birth weight and other health problems.

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Anti-Vax Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories

Why do some folks think that the 2019 novel coronavirus is a man, made patented virus that is being spread to push a mandatory vaccination program?

A new anti-vaccine conspiracy theory is born, this one about the 2019 novel coronavirus.Robert F Kennedy, Jr leads Children’s Health Defense…

Yup, the usual suspects.

Anti-Vax Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories

As you are likely aware, the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was first identified in the city of Wuhan, China. It has since spread outside Wuhan, including at least one case in the United States.

Why is this a concern?

Some of the other human coronaviruses that have been recently discovered cause severe disease, including MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV.

So what’s the new conspiracy theory?

A patent for a poultry vaccine is not evidence for a conspiracy theory about the 2019 novel coronavirus.A patent for a poultry vaccine is not evidence for a conspiracy theory about the 2019 novel coronavirus.

That someone attenuated a coronavirus (weakened it) to use it in a vaccine and that this attenuated coronavirus somehow became the 2019 novel coronavirus that started the outbreak in Wuhan, China.

How do we know that this isn’t true?

“Preliminary analysis showed that the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) clusters with the SARS-related CoV clade and differs from the core genome of known bat CoV.”

Cluster of pneumonia cases caused by a novel coronavirus, Wuhan, China

For one thing, it isn’t the same virus that is described in the patent!

Folks should also know that animal vaccines for coronaviruses aren’t new. Why didn’t any of them revert and cause outbreaks?

“In the early 1950s, the first IB vaccine was developed in the USA using the van Roekel M41 (Mass) strain.”

Cook et al on The long view: 40 years of infectious bronchitis research

What about the idea that we will soon be getting a new Chinese coronavirus vaccine?

Here's how the game is played. It is all about conspiracy theories with these folks...Here’s how the game is played. It is all about conspiracy theories with these folks…

Several biotech companies have already said that they will be working on a 2019-nCoV vaccine, but it is important to note that despite years and years of work, we still don’t have vaccines for MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV.

SARS-CoV has been around since 2002…

While development of a quick 2019-nCoV vaccine will be great if this virus gets out of control, that doesn’t seem to be the way things happen…

Know what else isn’t new?

Anti-vaccine conspiracy theories

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