@Yash25571056 Help! I finally qualified to receive a new booster vaccination but am genuinely wondering about the efficacy. I am already very cautious with masks indoors and only eating outside.
I respect your opinion-are better outcomes associated with combining these efforts with a booster?
"During the devastating global covid-19 pandemic, one nation stood out: the United States saw 'eye wateringly high' death rates compared with its peer nations.
The 1.16 million Americans killed by covid-19 represent 16% of global deaths in a nation with 4% of the world’s population.
One in three Americans knows someone who died from covid-19, about 300 000 children are estimated to have lost one or both parents, and there is a substantial burden of long covid..
The US series documents the many complex, inter-related causes of the poor US pandemic response, underpinned by two key contexts.
The first is the nation’s pre-existing structural and systemic features, which magnified the pandemic’s impact. These include gaps in healthcare and public health systems, the absence of social safety nets and workplace protections, social inequality, and systemic racism..
Ingrained inequalities contributed to devastating pandemic outcomes.
The US has greater income inequality and more limited worker protections than its peers and precarious employment was on the rise even before covid-19.
These are key reasons why the nation saw higher covid-19 mortality rates than its more equal counterparts, and why pandemic death in the US was so closely patterned by social class.
In addition, a history of pervasive structural racism manifested across many aspects of society, which, unsurprisingly, resulted in stark racial inequalities in the US in who lived and who died..
A second context is that while the US had many scientific resources, exemplified by the success of Operation Warp Speed in accelerating vaccine development and the Covid-19 Prevention Trials Network in mobilising critical research, government at many levels showed a surprising inability to generate reliable information, communicate it in a timely and consistent manner, and translate it into sound policy..
These failures began at the top."
What courageous statements!
'Pandemic lessons for the 2024 US presidential election'
https://t.co/PEvdnmVts2
@ninaturner I left the US after the election was stolen from you and Bernie and live in Europe now. I see a Tupac shirt almost every single day in small and large towns in every country I've visited. Can confirm his spirit lives on.
We're hitting 1.5/2°C of global warming even earlier than scientists' worst-case scenarios. Abrupt permafrost thaw and the collapse of major tropical ecosystems have begun. Planetary catastrophe is here. The neoliberal energy transition has already failed. Rethink everything. 🧵
@RetroCrone I marked the outside of the cap with permanent marker to make it easier to decipher, though that did take reading it correctly, at least once. 🧐