There's a company that could save an enormous amount of lives and suffering – just by reducing by a tiny bit their revenue of 24 Billion USD a year!
#Danaher makes an incredible test for #tuberculosis and other terrible diseases, which gives people a chance to survive and thrive after infection. But they mark them up by 200-400 %! Making it impossible for most people who actually need them to get them!
Some exciting new South African research on a new TB skin test, which could offer cheaper and easier way to detect tuberculosis, a killer in many parts of Africa and the world.
Today In Labor History March 26, 1850: Edward Bellamy was born. Bellamy was an American author and socialist political activist, most well-known for his utopian novel, “Looking Backward,” one of the most commercially successful books published in the 19th century. It particularly appealed to the intellectuals who were alienated by the Gilded Age greed, corruption and violence. His book inspired many to form so-called “nationalist clubs” to implement his ideas of a society free of private property, social classes, war, poverty, crime, lawyers, politicians, prostitution, merchants, soldiers, and taxes. Plus, everyone could retire by the age of 45. He died at the age of 48 from tuberculosis.
@Brad This rise in #tuberculosis cases could very well be related to the now fairly well documented weakening of immune systems from surviving a #covid infection.
An #AI tool potentially could detect #COVID19 and #tuberculosis from a person’s cough. it's the first model trained on more than 300 million clips of coughing, breathing and throat clearing from YouTube videos. I'm wondering how they handled the ad breaks...
The aim is create #software which can differentiate between the 2 & make a #MobilePhoneApp which can accurately recognise a cough connected to #TB and other serious #diseases.
BROCK SHOCK: #Badger culls were never about stopping #Bovine#Tuberculosis. It was about sucking up to psychotic farmers and their irrational scapegoating of anything they can't just shoot or poison into extinction.
"Badger culls are not best way to cut bovine TB, report finds
"Exclusive: #BadgerTrust analysis comes 10 years after government started culls in #England against scientific advice..."
Call to action: John Green on how to force corporations to change.
"they cannot make decisions that would harm the shareholders even when that would benefit the entirety of humanity...talking to other shareholders about how they're profiting off of price-gouging the wolrd's poorest people and those who serve them....The only way to get them to do the right thing is reputational harm"