False allegation surfaces against Democratic candidate in CD2 race – Albuquerque Journal

KVIA, the ABC-affiliate in El Paso that aired the interview, said Monday evening that the misidentification was the result of a “technical error.” Brenda De Anda-Swann, the general manager, said in an email that “James Hall” was superimposed in front of Vasquez by mistake during the live newscast. Hall, a New Mexico State University assistant athletic director, was the next subject to be interviewed in the segment. Hall was also misidentified.

Herrell and other Republicans accused Vasquez of misrepresenting himself and called his positions on police as “radical.”

In the 2020 interview, Vasquez said: “We need serious police reform in this country. It’s not just about defunding police, it’s about defunding a system that privileges white people over everyone else.”

De Anda-Swann said there should have been no name in front of Vasquez in the news segment. She said the station wasn’t contacted by the Free Beacon or the Herrell campaign.

“It really was just a technical error during a live newscast,” she said.

Source: False allegation surfaces against Democratic candidate in CD2 race – Albuquerque Journal

Test predicts which COVID-19 patients will grow worse, Stanford Medicine study find | News Center | Stanford Medicine

A one-time test could predict which people hospitalized with COVID-19 are likely to worsen significantly during their stay, even if they were admitted with relatively mild symptoms, according to a study of more than 2,500 people headed by researchers at Stanford Medicine.

The test measures patient blood levels of a protein on the virus that causes COVID-19. High levels of the protein correlated strongly with an increased need for respiratory support five days later, regardless of the patient’s disease severity when the test was conducted, the researchers found. People whose levels were high were also likely to be hospitalized significantly longer than those with lower levels.

The findings suggest that the virus may continue to replicate in a subset of hospitalized patients, and that those patients might benefit from antiviral treatments like monoclonal antibodies or remdesivir. Such antiviral treatments are now primarily used in outpatient settings after previous clinical trials showed they did not benefit hospitalized patients.

Source: Test predicts which COVID-19 patients will grow worse, Stanford Medicine study find | News Center | Stanford Medicine

Bus and Urban Transit Workers Have Highest COVID-19 Risk | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network – California

Using state data collected between January 2020 and May 2022, the authors identified 340 confirmed workplace outbreaks, 5641 outbreak-associated COVID-19 cases, and 537 worker deaths. Overall, public transportation industries had about 1.4 times as many COVID-19 outbreaks as did all sectors combined. But certain workers and types of transit work were disproportionately affected. Workplace outbreaks were 5.2 times more common in bus and urban transit and 3.6 times more common in the air transportation industry than in all industries combined. Mortality was also 1.8 times higher in the bus and urban transit industries than in all industries combined. Source: Bus and Urban Transit Workers Have Highest COVID-19 Risk | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network

Health experts urge masking to slow a next wave

…public health experts, watching cases rise in Europe, are expecting New York City to experience another winter surge in infections. While they expect it to be less severe than last year’s jump in infections, they say they are worried by the city’s near total lack of rules meant to prevent virus transmission.

“The concern is that relaxing the precautions right now is going to make the city a lot more vulnerable to a surge in the coming weeks and months,” said Dr. Bruce Y. Lee, a professor at CUNY’s School of Public Health.

While hospitalizations and deaths are low, cases have risen slightly in the city in recent weeks, from a seven-day average of 1,980 new cases on Sept. 4, to 2,132 on Sept. 23, the latest day for which data is available, according to city records. The city’s coronavirus dashboard labels this growth in cases as “stable.”

The hands-off approach means that health experts aren’t sure how severe the coming wave could be.

The city has seen wide vaccination coverage for initial doses, but less so for boosters, which are key for keeping immunity to the coronavirus intact.

“I think the city needs to be doing much more in terms of putting multiple layers of protection in case,” said Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler, a professor of public health at Hunter College…

Source: Health experts urge masking to slow a next wave

COVID-19 booster adds 70% extra protection against omicron, Providence study finds

COVID-19 boosters add about 70 percent extra protection against omicron, which lasts four to five months, a study published Sept. 23 in the Journal of the American Medical Association found.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence researchers conducted the study at sites across six Western states on more than 3,000 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 between Oct. 1, 2021, and July 26. All patients had either two or three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. Eighty-one percent of participants were hospitalized when omicron was the dominant variant.

Booster vaccination was associated with decreased odds of hospitalization.

“This research shows us that even if you’re fully vaccinated, there’s a real value to getting a booster,” said Ari Robicsek, MD, chief medical analytics officer at Providence and senior author of the study. “Compared to people who only had their initial vaccinations, people with boosters were a lot less likely to have severe Covid for 4-5 months after the booster shot.”

Source: COVID-19 booster adds 70% extra protection against omicron, Providence study finds

Record Turkey Prices Expected as Thanksgiving Approaches

Families can expect to pay record high prices at the grocery store for turkey this upcoming holiday season thanks to the impacts of the bird flu and inflation. American Farm Bureau Federation economists analyzed turkey and egg costs in their latest Market Intel.

The retail price for fresh boneless, skinless turkey breast reached a record high of $6.70 per pound in September, 112% higher than the same time in 2021 when prices were $3.16 per pound. The previous record high price was $5.88 per pound in November 2015, during the 2015 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak.

Inflation is adding to the price hikes. All retail food prices were 11.4% higher in August compared to the same time last year. Despite the higher prices, there should be enough turkeys available for the Thanksgiving demand.

“All of us are feeling the pain of higher prices at the grocery store,” said AFBF President Zippy Duvall. “HPAI outbreaks in the spring and an uptick in cases in the fall are taking a toll, but farmers remain dedicated to ensuring America’s food supply remains strong.”

It is important to understand that farmers aren’t profiting from record high retail prices. High supply costs from feed, fuel, fertilizer and labor make raising turkeys even more expensive. USDA’s most recent Farm Sector Income Forecast predicts record high total production costs, increasing by 17.8% from 2021 to $437.4 billion in 2022.

While egg prices have come down from record highs in July, the average price for a dozen grade A eggs is $2.34, 27% higher than the same time in 2021, and 44% above the five-year average of $1.29.

Source: Record Turkey Prices Expected as Thanksgiving Approaches

Can Aluminum in Vaccines Cause Asthma? – VAXOPEDIA

“When the authors restricted their analysis to only children who had been fully immunized, the effect of aluminum exposure on the eczema sub-sample is no longer significant and is barely so among the non-eczema cohort.”

Would you have expected rates of asthma to be going down so much in younger children if vaccines were associated with asthma?

Rates have asthma have been steadily dropping in children over the years, even as kids get more vaccines.
Maybe vaccines have a protective effect?

Source: Can Aluminum in Vaccines Cause Asthma? – VAXOPEDIA

खामोशियों के गीत / Songs of Silence

Kaushal Kishore

ना सही शब्द मिल पाते हैं
ना सही धुन ढूंढ पाता हूं,
इसलिए खामोशियों के गीत
मैं चैन से गुनगुनाता हूं…

🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

I can neither find the right words
nor the right tune,
hence the songs of silence
I hum in peace…

–Kaushal Kishore

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Writing Process Wednesdays, and Writer’s Block

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

So, I have finally experienced the dreaded block: staring at my WiP, words stumbling over themselves refusing to be put in order, and refusing to be put down on paper, much less typed into the word processor.

After a few minutes of agonized worry that this would take up valuable time, I reached for a sheet of scrap paper meaning to write a throw away paragraph, but instead, out came the sketch of the scene that you see featured above.

Did it help?  Sort of.

Shira

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2.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses those thoughts.

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♫ The Long And Winding Road♫ (Redux)

Filosofa's Word

This is a redux from one I played back in 2020 … eons ago! 

Tonight’s selection is strange, in that it is a Beatles recording, yet while it reached the #1 spot in the U.S., it did not chart in the Beatles home country, the UK!  For me, at least, this is one of those that can get stuck in my head for days at a time, for I mostly love the tune, never knew the full lyrics until tonight!

From their 1970 album Let It Be, this was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney.  The road McCartney is talking about is the B842 which runs down the east coast of Kintyre and on into Campbeltown near his Scottish farmhouse.  Says McCartney …

“I just sat down at my piano in Scotland, started playing and came up with that song, imagining it was going to be done by someone like Ray…

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