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[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Ebola now has more than 9,400 cases in the DRC, the deadliest outbreak in the country's history.

If you're wondering why global health funding matters, it's because viruses don't care how much your politicians want to talk about something else.

[CIDRAP @CIDRAP]

Nigeria announces its first Ebola case in 12 years

Also, Kenyan officials confirm a 9th case in that country, 4 of which have been healthcare workers.

Read more: https://t.co/TOBMCqp2H0

📷: EU/ECHO/Isabel Coello

[Vitalba Azzollini @vitalbaa]

Il nuovo decreto Sicurezza ha introdotto la presunzione della capacità di intendere e volere dei minori.

Ma il Governo li considera maturi solo in ambito penale, e non per tutto il resto, dato che non permette loro di decidere autonomamente nemmeno se frequentare un corso scolastico di educazione alla sessualità.

Insomma, la maturità si presume quando si tratta di attribuire responsabilità, ma si nega quando si tratta di riconoscere autonomia.

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

A preprint suggests SARS-CoV-2 has evolved to become harder for our immune systems to recognise. Researchers found new variants, such as XBB.1.5 and KP.2, are less recognised by immune cells that detect new threats. KP.2 was recognised 3 times less often than the original strain.

[Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl]

Study (N=8,500) finds women can expect to provide 7 years of care over their lifetimes to aging family & friends. Up from 6 in 2011. Men's caregiving held steady at 4 years.
https://t.co/wohT2U9fPG

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Refusing an Ebola vaccine is next level anti vaxx

If you want to take your chances with Ebola..be my guest

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

What is the quantity and quality of funding that cultural institutions need to create lasting public value?

Yesterday at @vam_east Storehouse, our @IIPP_UCL Public Value of Arts and Culture working group brought together museums, galleries, funders and policymakers to explore how policy and value frameworks can reshape funding, governance, accountability and reinvestment. Central to my work as Economist-in-Residence at @_TheWhitechapel: putting culture at the heart of economic policy. Thank you to Gus Casely-Hayford for hosting.

More on our Public Value of Arts and Culture research project: https://t.co/munrp97oeo

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

This now makes the Amazon SPV to offload its chips even stranger. It’s clearly trying to get investors to help out with its glut of GPUs

https://t.co/k2y8v6eKOb

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The new chair of the US vaccine advisory committee has questioned whether children still need the polio vaccine

Polio is still circulating in parts of the world, and the only reason American kids don't get it is the vaccine.

That's not a reason to stop. It's proof it works.

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

🇬🇧UK "Government failures allowed COVID to 'spread like wildfire' in care homes, inquiry says"

"The COVID pandemic 'totally disrupted' lives in care homes and had a 'devastating impact' - over 43,000 deaths involving COVID occurred in care homes between March 2020 and July 2022"

[CIDRAP @CIDRAP]

Epidemics linked to loss of health workers, with poorer nations hardest hit

Infectious disease epidemics could account for an average annual shortfall of 17,500 healthcare workers worldwide.

Read more: https://t.co/2xvClBwJzd

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

Crucially, moving to another state doesn’t allow one to avoid the tax, since the tax would be owed by billionaires who lived in California at the beginning of 2026.

Not 2027 — but beginning of 2026.

There is no incentive to move to another state. One cannot avoid the tax by moving. This is one of the main reasons why it was structured as a one-time tax.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

The California billionaire tax (Proposition 40) currently on the ballot is a one-time tax of 5% on the wealth of California’s roughly 250 billionaires.

It would be owed by billionaires residing in California as of January 1, 2026.

Because these billionaires own more than $2 trillion in wealth, it would generate around $100 billion in revenue.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

This Hoover Institution study, which has fueled the deluge of ads (more than $200 million spent by billionaires so far) to defeat the California billionaire tax, is spectacularly misleading.

Let me explain its crucial flaw. 🧵

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

White blood cell biology links to health and disease
insights on neutrophil-specific signatures and health outcomes. Plus
"In two independent EHR databases, absolute neutrophil counts within clinically normal range were associated with subsequent development of
multiple comorbidities and increased mortality."
https://t.co/GFCy93cmm9

[Clémence Guetté @Clemence_Guette]

Des milliers de Français ayant un cancer vont subir cette décision du gouvernement.

C’est injuste et évitable. Partagez cette vidéo.

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

Public control is gaining traction in Andy Burnham’s government. But what does it mean?

In a new piece with @AnnaHopeEmerson we set out a clear definition. Public control is the capacity of the state to steer the strategic direction of economic activity through the public-purpose orientation of its policy tools. Ownership is one tool, not the only one. Link below.

[CIDRAP @CIDRAP]

US cervical cancer screening rates have risen, but disparities remain, new data show

Women living in the southern and western parts of the country and those in some racial and age groups are less likely to be screened.

Read more: https://t.co/FAVv7DXiPL

[BirdieBittern @BirdieBittern]

✈️Flying the Friendly Skies!

"Flight from hell"

Medics in hazmat suits board plane as suspected norovirus makes passengers violently sick

https://t.co/Gih4ocd74c

[CIDRAP @CIDRAP]

Infectious disease specialists protest HIV funding cuts

Supporters of people with HIV/AIDS rallied at the IDWeek 2026 conference in Washington, DC.

Read more: https://t.co/fQMrbMdAGy

📷: Liz Szabo