Is Panic Flu a Thing?
Thanks to COVID-19 we now live in what can either be considered a permanently absurd or post-absurdist world. I was firmly in the former camp until a few weeks ago. The longer the mask fetishists insisted that we keep wearing them even if we are fully vaccinated, the more I realized we were well on the other side of absurd and the word has almost zero meaning now.
As many have noted since late last year, the regular flu kinda disappeared with arrival of the Wuhan Chinese Bat variety. It was quite remarkable. Those who mentioned it early were dismissed as conspiracy nuts.
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Elon Musk Says He Has Asperger s Syndrome But Is Asperger s Still a Diagnosis? Here s What Experts Told Us Health.com 5 days ago
Elon Musk made a surprising announcement while hosting
Saturday Night Live over the weekend: He has Asperger s syndrome.
Musk slipped his diagnosis into his opening speech, after pointing out that he doesn t have a lot of variation in his tone when he speaks. He then said that he s the first person with Asperger s to host SNL before joking that he s at least the first to admit it.
Plenty of people pointed out on Twitter that Asperger s syndrome is an outdated diagnosis. I always feel a little queasy about having to use Asperger with some older/less informed healthcare providers when they are not up to date with the current terms, one person wrote. I mean, if you just Google for 10 minutes, you get a good glimpse of all the baggage and problems of that word. Another simply wrote that, Asperger s is no longer a diagnosis.
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May 09, 2021 2:40 PM ET
“We’ve gone over a year without a significant portion of the population getting infected with flu and getting immunity because of that,” Pekosz said. “That could mean that the susceptible people in the population to flu are going to be increasing.”
When someone gets the flu, they usually develop some immunity to the virus. That’s why young children and babies are often the most susceptible to getting infected, because their immune system hasn’t seen the virus yet. But since there was such little influenza circulating this year, the number of people without any prior immunity could double.
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States Push to Extend Postpartum Medicaid Benefits to Save Lives
Two doulas attend a pregnant Medicaid beneficiary in her home in Minneapolis. States are moving toward extending Medicaid postpartum benefits in an attempt to stem high maternal mortality rates.
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More states are moving to extend Medicaid benefits to new mothers up to a full year after giving birth, far beyond the 60 days required by federal law.
That development, promoted by numerous medical groups as well as official state medical boards that focus on maternal health, reflects increasing alarm over the United States’ maternal mortality rate, which is the worst among developed nations and is trending in the wrong direction. There also is a growing awareness that women face increased health risks not only during pregnancy and labor and delivery, but also for months afterward. Nearly a quarter of postpartum-related deaths occur six week