"There are signs an outbreak of measles in north London may have stabilised although there could still be more cases, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said."
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"There are signs an outbreak of measles in north London may have stabilised although there could still be more cases, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said."
Some of the most important threats to democracy do not make the biggest headlines - especially (and understandable) given the new war in Iran. This 4 min update looks at actions weakening the rule of law, reducing oversight, expanding executive power, and making voting harder.
youtu.be/DzHg-TbhdfQ
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Adding:
For anyone with genuine interest in this topic, this thread from @profstevegriffin.bsky.social is very good.
Deals with objections very nicely.
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Just over a minute on Trump as the would be king...
youtube.com/shorts/dpLgf...
The end of Digging for Britain.
For me, at least.
But I’ll still be making television about archaeology, on other channels. So watch this space…
I REALLY hope this can be replicated in humans. A trial in mice showed that a nasal vaccine targeting multiple respiratory pathogens including COVID-19 worked really well - enabling development of protective Immunity in the lung for 3 months (the duration of testing) 🧪
Usually meetings early in year would discuss fall vaccines. Now Kennedy is cancelling meetings so what will the future vaccines be?
To be fair, Battacharya has always been a huge supporter of diseases...
Precisely, it's a Govt level issue, not individual HEIs...
Universities were forced to pivot quickly to online teaching when all institutions went into multiple lock downs imposed by the government in response to a covid pandemic. 🧵
But how are vaccine manufacturer's able to work and respond to capricious changes at the turn of a time from Kennedy's team? This illustrates how unqualified they are and risks the future of vaccine research in the States as well as damages access to better vaccines which we REALLY need for flu
the FDA have done an abrupt turnaround and after initially saying they wouldn't review Moderna's application to licence an updated flu vaccine for the fall they have NOW decided they will review the application 🤷♀️
"And the man at the back said, "Everyone, attack"
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner said, "Boy, I wanna warn ya
It'll turn into a ballroom blitz"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wow.
"I've been totally exonerated"
So the US government is now providing a website that essentially lets European users look at banned porn and hate content cos they love free speech so much yet somehow keep stifling their own journalists and criticism of Trump…. Yup that’s completely normal ?!?!
The latest Trump administration moves to restrict voting ahead of the Midterms
youtube.com/shorts/UgHy3...
bsky.app/profile/dunc...
Presume it's something to do with the fact that, according to Trump, he's been 'totally exonerated' 😒
This is so dark.
The disinformation runs so deep.
‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question - www.ft.com/content/649d...
via @FT
PS more detail on my substack post here
christinapagel.substack.com/p/whats-goin...
'What’s going on with measles in England?'
New from @chrischirp.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
And when it comes down to it, 96 cases in just a few weeks is *huge* when we know it can be zero or close to zero. There mustn’t be any shrugging of shoulders, or acceptance of these outbreaks.
We know that outbreaks are avoidable because we did avoid them – for years, and not long ago. 7/8
