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Strategies to Avoid COVID and Other Respiratory Viruses ➡️ The most important thing that we can do is avoid getting infected in the first place. ⬅️ If we become infected, the goal is to limit the number of viral particles we are infected with. tactnowinfo.substack.com/p/strategies-t…

Measles in the U.S. The CDC reports 1,566 cases among US residents across 32 jurisdictions, plus 9 from international visitors. Most cases (94%, or 1,483) link to outbreaks, including 359 from new 2026 clusters and 1,124 continuing from 2025.

These are the words we were all hoping to hear: “Initial guidance on preventing the spread of infection was flawed. It assumed the virus was spread by contact transmission, failing properly to consider the extent to which it was also spread by AIRBORNE transmission.”

Vaccines save millions of lives. Unfortunately, a small fraction of people develop debilitating diseases after vaccination. Thank you @WSITYpod for having me on the show to discuss post-vaccination syndrome. Please listen and understand what the patients are going through and why many of them lost trust in the medical and scientific establishment. We must do better.

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! Arctic sea-ice has now begun its Spring melt and this year's maximum has passed, at 13,757,000 km² on March 7th. This means a new record low Arctic sea-ice maximum has been set, beating the old record low, set just last year, by about 26,000 km².

@MrsK @marianaclarke_3 @AzPetrich Newly released FBI interview summaries show a woman alleging that, as a minor, she was transported by Epstein to either New York or New Jersey and taken to a “very tall building with huge rooms,” where she says Donald Trump sexually assaulted her. nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

@marianaclarke_3 @AzPetrich Oh, you live in a different reality, don't you? His name is all over the files. There are many pictures of the two of them together. The US doesn't seem to be prosecuting yet, but other governments are.

BREAKING: The US Supreme Court has ruled - Trump has NO absolute immunity in the Epstein case. This 2026 decision means the President can now be subpoenaed. No immunity. Period.

@MrsK @marianaclarke_3 @AzPetrich The New York Times used a specialized search tool and found more than 5,300 files containing over 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, Mar‑a‑Lago, and related terms in the DOJ’s recent releases, plus about 130 Trump‑referencing files in earlier releases. nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/…

@AltericJ @rad4kar @AzPetrich They were close friends for well over a decade. Both were involved with modeling agencies, while Trump also ran beauty pageants.. They each kept high-end places in Manhattan & Palm Beach area, shared business interests & constant time in the same elite scene.

@rad4kar @AzPetrich You do realize, this picture is the only time Trump actually interacted with him, right?

@1goodtern @d_a_keldsen After a US hospital reported a 236% increase in pediatric brain infections in 2022, we acknowledged this. “Researchers said it's possible bacteria that live in the nose, mouth & throat might travel to the brain as Covid weakens a person's immune system.” medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-c…

🚨 Major federal ruling just halted the attempt to reshape U.S. vaccine policy. A federal judge has blocked the new CDC immunization schedule and frozen the reconstituted ACIP advisory panel, restoring the previous vaccine framework while the case proceeds through the courts. The decision isn’t about vaccine science — it’s about whether the government can bypass the scientific and legal process that has guided U.S. immunization policy for decades. open.substack.com/pub/tactnowinf…

Federal Court Slams the Brakes on RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Overhaul, by @TactNowInfo open.substack.com/pub/tactnowinf…

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

In 1980, over 450,000 children were paralyzed annually by Polio. Today? A 99.9% reduction. To the "natural immunity" and "better plumbing" crowd: Polio actually peaked in developed nations with excellent sanitation. Hygiene didn't stop the virus; the MOST SUCCESSFUL VACCINATION PROGRAM in history did. ​We traded a life in an Iron Lung for two drops of a vaccine.

Rule out viral infections before taking or prescribing azithromycin.

WELP—As result of all NIH grants requiring RFK Jr and White House approval… we now have 90% less funding for medical research. We are sacrificing our children’s future — all for what???

While the billionaire class is getting richer and richer, Gallup reports that 33% of Americans are cutting back on food, utilities and prescription drugs because of the high cost of health care. We need an economy that works for all, not just the 1%. We need Medicare for All.

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@felixprehn “Private equity investors, with their focus on buying cheap and reaping quick returns, are moving voraciously into the U.S. health care system; investments increased twentyfold from 2000 to 2018, and have only accelerated since. " tactnowinfo.substack.com/p/millions-of-…

Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends. A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets. Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses. The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits. A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days. Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive. The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away. The investing angle nobody talks about. Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in. Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies. The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates. Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try. (a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)

Safeguarding Children: COVID's Impact on Children's Health and Understanding Airborne Transmission tactnowinfo.substack.com/p/safeguarding…

Report: #COVID survivors at nearly 5 times the risk for kidney failure SARS-CoV-2 infection was also implicated in new-onset chronic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, and end-stage renal disease. cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/repor…