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Sajid Javid’s advice to not ‘cower’ from Covid provokes backlash | Sajid Javid | The Guardian (Me: Boris surrounds himself with reckless jerks… this one in charge of health)

The health secretary announced on Saturday that he had made a “full recovery” from Covid-19 after falling ill eight days ago, and said: “Please, if you haven’t yet, get your jab, as we learn to live with, rather than cower from, this virus.

Jo Goodman, the co-founder of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, said Javid’s “comments are deeply insensitive on a number of levels”.

“Not only are they hurtful to bereaved families, implying our loved ones were too cowardly to fight the virus, but they insult all those still doing their best to protect others from the devastation this horrific virus can bring,” she said.

Source: Sajid Javid’s advice to not ‘cower’ from Covid provokes backlash | Sajid Javid | The Guardian

Swimmer sacrifices Olympics dream in stand against Myanmar’s junta | Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 | The Guardian

There are almost 1,000 athletes here for the swimming competition, which began on Saturday. Win Htet Oo is not among them. Having qualified for the 50m freestyle, Oo was ready to make his Olympic debut as Myanmar’s lone swimmer. No longer.

Oo is absent, in lockdown 8,000 kilometres away in Melbourne, after the military seized power in a coup in February. With the junta committing human rights atrocities and dismantling civilian governance – and the Myanmar Olympic Committee (MOC) among those government structures expected to fall in line – Oo felt he could not represent his nation’s flag.

Source: Swimmer sacrifices Olympics dream in stand against Myanmar’s junta | Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 | The Guardian

Three Die After Untreatable ‘Superbug’ Fungus Infections in Two Different Cities – Slashdot

The “superbug” outbreaks were reported in a Washington, D.C, nursing home and at two Dallas-area hospitals, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. A handful of the patients had invasive fungal infections that were impervious to all three major classes of medications. “This is really the first time we’ve started seeing clustering of resistance” in which patients seemed to be getting the infections from each other, said the CDC’s Dr. Meghan Lyman… Source: Three Die After Untreatable ‘Superbug’ Fungus Infections in Two Different Cities – Slashdot

Cuando aparecen las estridencias…

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Cuando aparecen las estridencias y las voces repetidas en un ambiente enfermo, tóxico y sin sentido, las pausas y los silencios del interior hablan y aconsejan a quienes saben escucharlos y descifrar sus mensajes.

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‘Heart-wrenching’: inside a hospital grappling with Delta and vaccine hesitancy | Tennessee | The Guardian

Just a few months ago the hospital had no Covid-19 patients, with hopes that the widespread availability and effectiveness of vaccination in the US would keep things that way. But with the Delta variant now tearing its way through unvaccinated Americans and inoculation rates plateauing in Tennessee amid a dangerous conservative political backlash against vaccines, hospitals are experiencing a new wave of cases.

Covid-19 hospitalizations in Tennessee have more than doubled in the past three weeks, from 195 to 579. It’s currently far less than the peaks of last winter, when hospitals cared for upwards of 3,300 Covid patients statewide, but data shared with the Guardian shows that officials in Memphis believe almost 80% of new cases are now tied to the highly transmissible Delta variant with the transmission rate, or R number, at 1.53 and climbing, close to the highest it has ever been in the city…

Source: ‘Heart-wrenching’: inside a hospital grappling with Delta and vaccine hesitancy | Tennessee | The Guardian