Becca Peter

My husband wrote the most wonderful post about Eddie and I wanted to share it on this site: Grief is the price paid for love, and Eddie was loved deeply by a great many people. Our grief is acute and intensified by the wonderful individual Eddie was.

‘Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This,’ Says Seattle Man Enjoying 37-Minute Window of Sunshine at Gas Works: tinyurl.com/24fw2w75

U.S. teen loses both legs, one arm after flu complications. Never in a million years did I think that a flu B would lead to something like this.” ctvnews.ca/world/article/…

Doctors say that most serious childhood diseases are caused by viruses. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says they are caused by radiation from 5G cell phone towers. For a busy parent, it can be hard to know who to trust.

1. A #flu update: 14 more kids have died from flu this season, per #CDC. This brings the 2025-26 pediatric flu death tally to 115 so far but it's likely to continue to rise. At this point last year the total was 134, but continued to climb to a record-setting 293. ~85% of these kids weren't vaxed

If he wanted to treat cancer patients, he should have renewed his license or found a licensed doctor to work with. Equating “Mr. Makis, you need to follow the law” with “murdering cancer patient” is just another pivot by a man upset at being caught breaking the law. 2/2

Reminding: telling a delicensed doctor he cannot practice medicine without a license isn’t murdering anyone. Even if he sincerely believes in the treatments he’s selling (which do not have good scientific data) behind them, licensing laws are there to protect people. 1/2

An Ohio-based company that initially balked at granting a mom's request to work from home during a high-risk pregnancy has been found liable for the newborn's death and ordered to pay $22.5 million in damages. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/o…

@AboutPediatrics @P_McCulloughMD None. That’s why his “average” doesn’t make sense. You would have to cherry pick a very odd assortment of years to reach that number.

@DefectiveBecca @P_McCulloughMD Ok. Since 1992, how many years did we have way more than 2000 cases?

MaHaHaHaHa. @P_McCulloughMD thinks that we have on average 2000 measles cases in the US each year. We don't! The median number of cases is closer to 86! The surge in the last few years have been outliers because not enough people are getting vaccinated.

@AboutPediatrics @P_McCulloughMD I mean his average of 2000 is random. Most years prior to 1992 we had way more than 2000 cases per year. We went from way more than 2000 to way less than 2000 in a very short time.

@DefectiveBecca @P_McCulloughMD These are statistics, not random numbers. When has it been more than 2000?

“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports bmj.com/content/390/bm…

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions. But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

Israel says it is bombing bridges to disrupt Hezbollah supply lines. But on the ground the reality is stark: entire routes into southern Lebanon are being severed — effectively cutting off around 1 million people from their homes. Families who have lived on this land for generations now face the very real risk of permanent displacement, unable to return, rebuild, or even reach what remains of their communities. What is being framed as a military tactic is also reshaping the map of civilian life

ICE detained a dialysis patient the morning of her treatment. She died 36 hours later in a detention infirmary. They logged it as "natural causes." When policy kills, call it what it is.

This is the first NYT headline acknowledging Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians — something human rights groups have documented for decades.

if you’ve ever worn black to a protest, used Signal, or carried a first aid kit, a federal jury just decided that can all be evidence of terrorism. a quick thread on the Prairielands convictions from last week, and what they mean for the right to protest in the US:

@HelloWallsFaron @ErinLobato @oscarcontrarius @DenverChannel That’s not coming from the government, that is all from local reports. The government does not publish that sort of demographic info.

@DefectiveBecca @ErinLobato @oscarcontrarius @DenverChannel Keep drinking the government Kool-aid, hon. It helps you sleep at night. Meanwhile, reality marches on despite government statistics. The people on the front lines know and are silenced.

JUST IN: Colorado's 12th #measles case has been confirmed in an unvaccinated Weld County adult who was hospitalized but has since been discharged. The case is not believed to be connected to the Broomfield outbreak. Exposure locations below.

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence and prevalence of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39775762/ POTS incidence from 1.42 to 20.3 cases per 1,000,000 person-years - roughly 14 times higher

It's an anti-masker tactic to claim that if you don't wear a mask 100% of the time, it isn't worth it. Untrue. Every single time you wear a mask, you reduce the chances for viruses to spread. Wearing a mask always improves public health, even if you only do it occasionally.

@HelloWallsFaron @oscarcontrarius @DenverChannel They test a huge percentage of suspected measles cases to see what strain they are. Anyone who tests positive for the attenuated strain in the vaccine is removed from case counts, and they only see those rashes in people recently vaccinated, it doesn’t spread to others.

@oscarcontrarius @DenverChannel It's all in what you leave out and what you stress. I suggest you look further into the leaky MMR vaccine. Maybe more than one source. It is a fact - well known by health officials - but not discussed