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a book and it’s pages 
bound together
like music and poetry
tuneful of notes
musings of a lone heartbeat.

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US Children’s Hospitals Are Overwhelmed by RSV – The New York Times (Me: MASK UP and WASH HANDS FREQUENTLY!!)

“Every children’s hospital that I’m aware of is absolutely swamped,” said Dr. Coleen Cunningham, the pediatrician in chief at Children’s Hospital of Orange County, a 334-bed facility in Southern California that is so full that children are being treated right in the emergency room as they wait for inpatient beds — sometimes for more than 24 hours.

R.S.V. is a common seasonal infection, and the vast majority of cases are very mild. But this year, the number of children falling ill — and seriously ill — is significantly greater than usual. Doctors suspect that those who would ordinarily have been exposed to R.S.V. over the last couple of years were insulated from it by social distancing measures and are now driving up the numbers.

Justice Department Announces Takedown of Nationwide Catalytic Converter Theft Ring | OPA | Department of Justice

A federal grand jury in the Northern District of Oklahoma returned a 40‑count indictment charging 13 defendants with conspiracy to receive stolen catalytic converters, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and other related charges.

According to court documents, together the defendants bought stolen catalytic converters from thieves on the street, then re-sold and shipped them to DG Auto in New Jersey for processing. Over the course of the conspiracy, defendant Tyler James Curtis received over $13 million in wired funds from DG Auto for the shipment of catalytic converters and received over $500,000 from Capital Cores for catalytic converters. Defendant Adam G. Sharkey received over $45 million in wired funds from DG Auto. And defendant Martynas Macerauskas received over $6 million in payments from DG Auto for catalytic converters. In all these incidents, most of the catalytic converters sold to DG Auto were stolen, and DG Auto knew or should have known that when they paid for them.

The 13 defendants are Navin Khanna, 39, of Holmdel, New Jersey; Adam Sharkey, 26, of West Islip, New York; Robert Gary Sharkey, 57, of Babylon, New York; Tyler James Curtis, 26, of Wagoner, Oklahoma; Benjamin Robert Mansour, 24, of Bixby, Oklahoma; Reiss Nicole Biby, 24, of Wagoner, Oklahoma; Martynas Macerauskas, 28, of Leila Lake, Texas; Kristina McKay Macerauskas, 21, of Leila Lake, Texas; Parker Star Weavel, 25, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Shane Allen Minnick, 26, of Haskell, Oklahoma; Ryan David LaRue 29, of Broken Bow, Oklahoma; Brian Pate Thomas, 25, of Choteau, Oklahoma; and Michael Anthony Rhoden, 26, of Keifer, Oklahoma.

Source: Justice Department Announces Takedown of Nationwide Catalytic Converter Theft Ring | OPA | Department of Justice

The New Abortion Landscape – The New York Times

They’re increasingly using telemedicine to get abortion pills. Because of access to the pills, a gray zone for providing abortions has emerged in the months since the court’s decision. The method is safe and effective, though in states with bans, the delivery mechanism is not legal.

Only one telemedicine service, Aid Access, openly provides pills in states with abortion bans. In the months preceding a leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s decision, Aid Access received an average of about 83 requests a day from people seeking abortion pills in 30 states, new research found. In 27 of those states, abortion is now banned, likely to be banned or allowed only during the first six weeks of pregnancy. For comparison’s sake, the study also included three states where the procedure is still widely available

Across the 30 states, requests to Aid Access for pills has risen to about 218 a day since the court released its decision at the end of June through September. The largest increases in queries came from states that enacted total abortion bans, as this chart shows:

Requests for abortion pills

Average weekly requests per 100,000 women from states with bans on abortion

15

La.

10

Miss.

Ark.

Ala.

Texas

Okla.

Idaho

Tenn.

5

W.V.

S.D.

Ky.

Mo.

Wis.

Before June 24, 2022

After June 24

Note: Data is from Sept. 1, 2021 to June 23, 2022 and from June 24 to Sept. 30, 2022, before and after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Source: Aid Access

By The New York Times

China bans celebrities with ‘lapsed morals’ from endorsing products | China | The Guardian (Me: Great Leap Forward 2.0 – Mao Zedong Redux)

China has banned all celebrities from endorsing a range of products and banned those with “lapsed morals” from endorsing anything, as part of an ongoing drive to align society with “core socialist values”.

The regulations, announced by state regulators this week, bar Chinese celebrities from publicly endorsing or advertising health, education and financial commodities, including e-cigarettes and baby formula.

Regulators said the push was to ensure China’s society was “guided by Xi Jinping thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era”, referring to the sweeping ideology underpinning the rule of the Xi-led Communist party.

Source: China bans celebrities with ‘lapsed morals’ from endorsing products | China | The Guardian

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