Christine Wong

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Surge in worldwide measles cases driven by lack of vaccine coverage, WHO says The WHO and CDC say there were about 10.3 million cases of measles last year, up 20 percent from 2022. Children are especially susceptible to complications.

An estimated 10.3 million cases of measles occurred worldwide last year, up 20 percent from 2022, primarily because of inadequate immunization coverage, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

My dad is in palliative care. He was born in 1926 during the rise of authoritarianism, enlisted in the 🇨🇦 army to defeat it during WWII, but will die now as it rises again. Almost as sad as losing him TBH.

Feels like the early days of the pandemic all over again: avoiding the news because it's so soul crushingly bleak. Yet that's how evil wins, when we turn away due to exhaustion and despair. My only hope at this point is to escape into movies, books, art until some glimmer of hope returns.

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