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☆ Cornel West’s Improvisational Run for President: ‘It’s Jazz All the Way Down’
  + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Charles Homans | More About Charles Homans | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
“Watch that truck!” he called out, holding up a United Auto Workers sign. A dump truck blew past, the spray from its wheels momentarily knocking Mr. West back on his feet and further soaking his already damp suit. But then President Biden announced that he, too, would be going to Michigan, a crucial swing state, on the same day. Still, Mr. West seemed determined to make the best of this Siberia of solidarity. “That’s it!” he shouted, fist raised, after the dump truck driver let out a low blast on his horn.
Persons: Cornel West, West, Biden Organizations: “, United Auto Workers, Michigan Locations: New York’s Rockland County, Michigan, Tappan , N.Y, Siberia
☆ For Future Viral Threats, Health Officials Look to Sewage
  + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Brianna Abbott | Photographs Al J. Thompson For The Wall Street Journal | Al J. Thompson | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
When the virologist Kirsten St. George learned last summer that a paralyzed patient in New York’s Rockland County had tested positive for polio, she turned her attention to the state’s sewers. Polio is particularly stealthy because most infected people never develop symptoms but can still spread the virus. A wastewater-surveillance network established during the Covid-19 pandemic helped officials at the New York State Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center track polio’s spread in several counties.
☆ Fact Check-Monkeypox, polio and new COVID variants are not ‘planned’ as ‘scare tactics’ to affect the U.S. midterms
  + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +7 min
Monkeypox and polio outbreaks, or new COVID-19 variants, have not been “planned” or orchestrated as “scare tactics” to manipulate the Nov. 8 midterm elections in the United States. As laid out in a Reuters explainer (here), experts agree that the major driver behind both vaccine-derived and wild polio outbreaks remains an under-vaccinated population. “Monkeypox is nothing more than a scare tactic to make you stay home and not vote in the November elections. Experts contacted by Reuters dismissed claims that these disease outbreaks are connected to election cycles and said they would not disrupt the upcoming electoral process. There is no evidence that monkeypox and polio outbreaks or new COVID-19 variants have been orchestrated as “scare tactics” to manipulate the U.S. midterm elections.
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