Source: New, highly transmissible forms of omicron may pose latest covid threat – The Washington Post
Global data reveal half may have long COVID 4 months on | CIDRAP
Worldwide, 49% of COVID-19 survivors reported persistent symptoms 4 months after diagnosis, estimates a meta-analysis of 31 studies published late last week in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
University of Michigan researchers, who conducted a systematic review on Jul 5, 2021, also found the prevalence of long COVID at 1 month at 37%, while it was 25% at 2 months and 32% at 3 months. Fifty studies were identified in the review, and 41 were included in a quantitative synthesis, and 31 reporting overall prevalence were meta-analyzed.
The 50 studies included a total of 1,680,003 COVID-19 patients, including those who were hospitalized (67,161 patients from 22 studies), nonhospitalized (4,165 from 5 studies), and any COVID-19 patients, regardless of hospitalization status (1,608,677 from 23 studies).
Source: Global data reveal half may have long COVID 4 months on | CIDRAP
Foreign students ‘taken from Shanghai’ as teachers resign from international schools — Radio Free Asia
A Shanghai resident surnamed Sun said Fudan’s foreign students have been transported out of Shanghai to isolation facilities in Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other provinces.
“The foreign students at Fudan are no longer in Shanghai and have been moved to Zhejiang and Jiangsu,” Sun said. “They got taken away when the temporary hospitals no longer had enough space.”
The Consulate General of Japan in Shanghai has also written to the local authorities to ask how long the lockdown will continue.
In a letter to deputy mayor Zong Ming, it said that around 40,000 Japanese nationals are currently living in Shanghai, and are “facing an unprecedented and difficult situation.” Source: Foreign students ‘taken from Shanghai’ as teachers resign from international schools — Radio Free Asia
20+ Vegan Recipes Made From Pantry Staples – Oh My Veggies
Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops | New Mexico | The Guardian
On the edges of the field are giant heirloom sunflowers – used to attract pollinators – and rows of amaranth. “By companion cropping, you’re replicating those systems you see in nature,” said Lowden, describing the traditional Indigenous practice of interplanting crops to deter weeds and pests, maintain moisture and enrich the soil. “This is thousands of years of knowledge passed down,” he added.
For the past decade, Lowden, 34, has worked to restore traditional crops and farming practices in Acoma. As program director for Ancestral Lands, a non-profit that supports land stewardship in Indigenous communities, he reintroduced traditional Acoma crops into the community and created a bank of 57 arid-adapted seeds native to the region.
His work is part of a broader movement to build food and seed sovereignty on tribal lands amidst staggering global biodiversity losses created by the modern agricultural system and growing food insecurities caused by climate crisis.
“It’s so important that we can bring back our seed diversity,” said Lowden, speaking inside the Ancestral Lands office in Acoma, a few doors down from the seed bank. “To stop monocropping and bring these resilient seeds home.”
Offshoring in Rwanda isn’t a ‘dead cat’ to distract from Partygate, it’s just plain inhumane | Moya Lothian-McLean | The Guardian
Barely had news of the Home Office’s draconian immigration deal with Rwanda broken on Thursday when it began to be proclaimed a political diversion. Journalists and MPs alike invoked the tired image of a “dead cat”, the phrase associated with the strategist Lynton Crosby to describe the act of wilfully talking up one hot-button issue to divert attention from another. Members of the public took to social media to agree that, yes, the plan to process certain asylum seekers in offshore centres, thousands of miles away, was indeed just an attempt to push Partygate off the front pages.
Except, this explanation doesn’t really tally. Attempts to “outsource” asylum applications have been in the works for nearly three years. Negotiations with Rwanda reportedly took place over eight months. The plan forms a key part of the breathtakingly inhumane plank of immigration policies the home secretary Priti Patel is introducing – a cruel (and illegal) attempt to make an already hostile environment completely unliveable. So why the conviction that this latest proposal – hardly shifting criticism away from Boris Johnson, who took ownership of the policy – is not a means to an end, but a smokescreen to shield him?
The spectre of the dead cat has been everywhere during Johnson’s tenure as prime minister. Writing in 2019, the historian Charlotte Lydia Riley implored commentators to cease proclaiming every political happenstance to be a dead cat. “The idea that there must be a clever plan behind political campaigns also shows our desire to believe that there is someone, somewhere, in control,” she wrote. “But in truth, politics is messy. Nobody is in control. The world is not governed by clever people doing clever things.”
Texas’ return on billions in border security spending is a mystery | The Texas Tribune
At least thirty-seven dead Parents of Russian sailors aboard the Moskva leak information about their sons killed in Ukraine’s missile strike — Meduza

The source told Meduza that the bodies of those killed were sent to Sevastopol in Crimea on April 15. Over the weekend, the mother of a sailor who survived told Novaya Gazeta’s new European edition that “roughly 40” were killed in the attack on the Moskva.
Meduza’s source says another 100 sailors were injured, and multiple people aboard the ship are still missing, though it’s still unclear how many sailors are still unaccounted for. In total, there were about 500 people aboard the ship, the source told Meduza.
Officially, Russia’s Defense Ministry has acknowledged no deaths among the crew of the Moskva.
Marii Freire Pereira
Muitas mulheres não denunciam os seus agressores por medo.
No meu entender, esta é até uma ação “natural “. Afinal, a passividade feminina é algo cultural. A mulher foi educada para saber obedecer o marido ao invés de questionar. Todavia, o problema da violência, não se resolve com o medo, nem com o silêncio.
Um dos mecanismos para diluir o efeito da violência na vida dessas mulheres,é procurar trabalhar mecanismos que sejam capazes de abrir espaço ao diálogo. É sim,um trabalho de conscientização- que permite à sociedade confrontaro problema, e não neutralizar.
Marii Freire Pereira
https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!
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Santarém, Pá 18 de abril de 2022

Don’t Wait ‘Til It’s Too Late!!!
We really need him in jail…
In conversations with friends, I have often said that the only way to ensure that the former guy cannot take over the nation following the 2024 presidential election is to ensure that he cannot be on the ballot. There are only two ways to do that: his death, or his imprisonment. If we fail to keep the name “Trump” off the ballot, this nation will no longer be a democratic republic. Full stop. Robert Reich agrees, only he states it far better than I could …
Why it must happen soon: The United States vs. Donald J. Trump
Merrick Garland must do it now, before it’s too late
Robert Reich, 18 April 2022
On Friday, Trump endorsed J.D. Vance in the Ohio Senate Republican primary. This follows his endorsement of Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s Senate Republican primary and Herschel Walker in the Georgia Senate race. The press has framed these…
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Robert Reich, 18 April 2022
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