luckytran

luckytran, 7 months ago to random

Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce.

That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.

Estimated cost-based generic prices for nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) Prepared by Melissa J Barber and Dzintars Gotham 12 January 2023 Assuming current API market prices: Cost of production 150mg nirmatrelvir tablet: $0.63 100mg ritonavir tablet: $0.08 5 day treatment course - 2x150mg nirmatrelvir + 1x100mg ritonavir twice daily for 5 days: $13.38

luckytran, 6 months ago to random

If you want to know how the #COP28 UN Climate Change Conference is going, this post says it all...

luckytran, 4 months ago to random

"No cervical cancer cases have been detected in women who have been fully vaccinated against HPV, Public Health Scotland has revealed."

Vaccines work!

https://news.stv.tv/scotland/no-cervical-cancer-cases-detected-in-women-who-had-hpv-vaccine-public-health-scotland-study-finds

luckytran, 4 months ago to random

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

Without vaccines, many transmissible diseases were once an early death sentence. People are so quick to forget how fortunate we are to have access to them.

luckytran, 8 months ago to random

Wow. This email from a UK hospital instructs healthcare workers not to test for COVID because it might keep them out of work for longer. What happened to "do no harm"?

(Source: Prof. Stephen Griffin)

luckytran, 8 months ago to random

A new study suggests that fully remote workers may produce less than half the climate-warming emissions of people who spend their days in offices.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/09/18/work-from-home-carbon-footprint/

luckytran, 5 months ago to random

It's stunning that the technical leader of the World Health Organization's COVID-19 response, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, publically reaffirmed that COVID-19 is still a global health threat and still a pandemic, yet hardly any media outlet has covered this except for this one.

https://themessenger.com/health/covid-pandemic-who-cdc-russia-world-health-organization

luckytran, 11 months ago to climate

Let’s get this right. Scientists didn’t fail to communicate the risks of #climatechange, they have been warning us for a century. Our policies are failing because after knowing the risks, fossil fuel companies spent billions of dollars blocking meaningful action on #climate.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/

luckytran, 10 months ago to random

We've seen this movie before. As Imani Barbarin says, they’re going to “herd immunity” climate change.

Screenshots of headlines. CNN: This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in around 120,000 years, scientists say The Washington Post: Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how.

luckytran, 10 months ago to random

One week ago, a court in California ruled that employers cannot be sued for spreading COVID to their workers due to lack of protections.

This week, In-N-Out banned their employees from wearing masks.

This is horrible.

In-N-Out Burger: No masks shall be worn in the Store or Support facility unless an Associate has a valid medical note exempting him or her from this requirement. Associates who wear masks for medical reasons must wear a company-provided N-95 mask. Note: A different type of mask may only be worn with a valid medical note exempting the Associate from the N-95 mask requirement. This policy applies to all Store and Support Associates working in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, and Utah except Associates who are required to wear masks or other protective gear as part of their job duties (e.g., patty room Associates, lab technicians, painters, etc.).

luckytran, 8 months ago to random

Twitter/X is now removing headlines from links and Threads/Meta is prohibiting searches of public health terms like Covid and vaccines.

Billionaires are dangerously restricting people’s access to news.

The Washington Post: Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise Public health experts denounced the platform’s moderation policies, which they say restrict access to critical health information

luckytran, 10 months ago to random

"The era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived.

The air is unbreathable, the heat is unbearable, and the level of fossil fuel profits and climate inaction is unacceptable.

Humanity has unleashed destruction. This must not inspire despair, but action."

— United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

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luckytran, 6 months ago to random

This is unethical. Bosses are forcing employees to come into work sick with active COVID. This is why labor organizers need to incorporate public health into their demands.

luckytran, 16 days ago to random

We are living in an age of denial. Denial of a genocide. Denial of an ongoing pandemic. Denial of a climate crisis.

Acknowledging reality is an act of rebellion.

luckytran, 10 months ago to random

Bill Nye the Union Guy ✊️

luckytran, 7 months ago to random

We haven’t had a COVID inquiry yet in the US, but take note, we would reach a similar conclusion.

Cover story for this week's Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02504-7/fulltext

luckytran, 6 months ago to random

If you've fallen out of practice of wearing a mask, this would be a good week to start again! COVID rates are rising because of a new variant, and because many people will have gotten sick over Thanksgiving. Your best protection is wearing a high quality mask.

luckytran, 9 months ago to random

City of Hope in Duarte, California, has maintained masking requirements, and this has prevented hospital-acquired #COVID19 there entirely, according to Vijay Trisal, MD, chief medical officer at City of Hope.

“Our policies enabled us to achieve zero nosocomial infections, zero outbreaks.”

https://www.cancertherapyadvisor.com/home/cancer-topics/general-oncology/mask-mandates-have-kept-one-cancer-center-free-from-covid-19-others-have-lifted-masking-requirements-despite-patient-concerns/

luckytran, 10 months ago to random

Every government’s real policy for the climate crisis

luckytran, 4 months ago to random

The bare minimum we should have learned from a devastating pandemic that has killed and disabled millions is that we should stay home when we are sick. Yet, governments beholden to corporate interests are determined to make sure we don't even do that.

luckytran, 7 months ago to random

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." — James Baldwin

luckytran, 9 months ago to random

Great news: Free KN95 masks are now available from public health vending machines in NYC.

This is amazing work! Not everyone can afford to buy high quality masks regularly. If we want more people to wear masks, high quality masks should be available for free everywhere. Having them in public health vending machines in NYC is a great first step!

Today we launched NYC’s first public health vending machine. Located in Brooklyn and hosted by @sus_org, the machine provides 24/7 access to free, lifesaving harm reduction supplies, including naloxone.

luckytran, 3 months ago to random

4 years ago today, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic.

Today, we will rightfully remember the tens of millions of people who have died. We must never forget.

But we must also remember that COVID-19 is still killing, disabling, and excluding too many people today.

We are still in a pandemic. We still need to act.

luckytran, 11 months ago to random

Still my favorite segment about why it's a bad idea to participate in bad-faith "debates" about science. They only result in further amplifying disinformation.

"People still think this issue is open to debate, because on TV it is. It's always one person for one person against. When you look at the screen, it's 50/50, which is inherently misleading."
— @iamjohnoliver

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luckytran, 2 months ago to random

This was avoidable.