CDC will check sewage for viruses in communities exterior of New York

The US will expand polio sewage monitoring to include communities with low immunization rates outside the New York City metro area after a summer outbreak paralyzed an unvaccinated adult and raised questions about how widely the virus could circulate.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement Wednesday they would first work with health officials in Michigan and Philadelphia to identify communities with low immunization rates and begin testing wastewater in those areas. The CDC said it is in preliminary discussions with other state and local health officials about expanding testing to other areas of the United States

Federal health officials will also extend wastewater surveillance for polio to counties that have possible links to communities in New York where the virus is known to circulate. The CDC said the expanded surveillance program will help determine if the poliovirus is present in other parts of the United States and guide efforts to increase immunization rates in at-risk communities.

The wastewater tests last at least four months after they begin. The CDC described the expanded surveillance program as strategic and limited in focus to certain vulnerable communities.

Federal health officials’ decision to expand polio surveillance comes after an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County, New York, became paralyzed after contracting the virus over the summer. The CDC considers a single case of paralysis from polio to be a public health emergency because it is so rare and indicates the virus is spreading throughout the community.

Public health officials then confirmed that the virus was indeed spreading widely after sewage samples from five other New York boroughs tested positive. The Rockland patient has not traveled internationally, meaning he almost certainly picked up the virus from someone else in the community.

The virus, which is spreading in the New York area, is related to a strain used in the oral polio vaccine. The US stopped using this vaccine more than 20 years ago because it uses a live but weakened virus that can, on rare occasions, mutate and become virulent again, posing a threat to the unvaccinated.

Other countries still use the oral polio vaccine because it’s cheap, effective, easy to administer, and generally safe. The US uses an inactivated polio vaccine that is given as a series of shots. It uses killed viruses that cannot replicate or mutate.

Although the Rockland County patient is believed to have contracted polio through local spread, the chain of transmission likely came from someone overseas who received the oral vaccine.

The CDC said the risk to the general public is low because more than 92% of Americans are vaccinated against polio. The vaccine is very effective in preventing serious illness and paralysis, but it does not prevent transmission of the virus.

The oral vaccine is very effective at blocking transmission and is usually used to suppress outbreaks. The CDC is in talks about potentially introducing a newer version of the oral vaccine that’s more stable and has a lower risk of mutations to help tackle rare outbreaks like the one in New York.

Man reveals his daughter’s mom eradicating braids from his spouse

A man exposed his daughter’s mother for her reaction to his wife braiding his daughter’s hair. According to screenshots of an alleged text thread with the mother, she removed the style – and mocked the father with progress photos. Now Facebook users are debating the impact of shared parenting relationships on children.

“So my daughter’s mom put these pigtails in my baby head on b4 Thanksgiving day and her head and scalp looked like this,” the dad wrote on Facebook. “So I had my wife do something quick and clean on my baby’s head after I put her down. And so her mother acted.”

The father, identified as Kirk Stone on his profile, also included photos and videos of the child’s hair before and after the new hairstyle. In the previous footage, the young girl’s hair was styled in cornrows with white beads at the ends. The style seemed days old — the shaggy Jim Jones special.

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Kirk’s Facebook profile shows he is engaged to Dajanai Latrese – not yet married. In the viral post, however, he addresses his partner as his “wife.” At Kirk’s request, the fiancé/wife opted for cornrows adorned with the same white beads. But the girl’s mother, identified as Amari Jones in the text thread, was unhappy with the Dajanai’s efforts, calling the style a waste of time.

“So you let your girlfriend touch my daughter’s hair? For NO REASON, HUH wasted her time TAKE IT DOWN,” the mom allegedly wrote.

The mother has attached a photo of the partially taken out style. Minutes later, she wrote, “MADE SIE SIT FOR NO REASON.” Eleven minutes after the first text, the mother sent another picture of her daughter’s hair. This time the braided style was completely gone and her hair was swept into two vertical buns.

The mother attempted to call Kirk within a minute of sending the updated photo. It’s unclear if the parents spoke on the phone after the missed call, or when exactly the text messages were sent. But Kirk released the status and footage on Monday afternoon — days after Thanksgiving.

Facebook users react to the father’s post

As of Tuesday, the post had over 7,300 shares and almost 3,000 comments. Reactions have ranged from “bitter mom” comments to questions about what led to their troubled co-parenting. So why did the father share this private dispute? He says he wanted to show evidence of what he believes to be typical behavior.

“I don’t normally do this, but I wanted to show a little example of the bitterness and ignorance that hurts my baby to try to hurt me. SAD,” Stone wrote.

Dajanai also shared Kirk’s post and wrote “sad and very bitter” in her caption.

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China’s zero-Covid has shaken confidence in provide chains

While Chinese authorities could gradually ease restrictions in March, the zero-Covid policy is weakening global confidence in the country’s industrial supply chains, said Li Daokui, Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics at China’s Tsinghua University.

In the short term, supply chains will remain largely unaffected as factories continue to operate even when consumption is lower due to lockdowns, Li, a former adviser to the People’s Bank of China, said in an in-depth interview with Squawk Box Asia CNBC Wednesday.

“However, the long-term effects may already be formed, which means the international economic community is thinking twice about the stability of China’s supply chains,” he said.

“People used to think that China was the most solid, safest and most stable source of supply. Now they are thinking about rebuilding their own supply chains in their own countries or regions. So this is the situation now.”

Protests erupted across China over the weekend in a rare display of frustration at China’s zero-Covid policy and the ongoing lockdowns. There were also student protests at Li’s Institution, Beijing’s elite Tsinghua University.

The unrest came as infections rose, prompting more local Covid controls, despite a change in central government policy earlier this month that had sparked hopes of a gradual easing.

Rare protests erupted across China over the weekend as people vented their frustration at China’s zero-Covid policy and the ongoing lockdowns.

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Nearly three years of controls have battered the economy, with many economists forecasting GDP growth of less than 3% for China, well below previous years of between 6% and 8% annual growth.

However, the number of infections started falling earlier this week as Beijing pushed for more vaccinations for the elderly, which is key to reopening. Opening up is high on Beijing’s agenda, Li said.

“Well, I think the authorities are considering it… and I’m guessing that by the end of March [at] At the latest, the policy will change very well and fundamentally … that is, focus on protecting the elderly while opening up to the rest of the population,” Li said.

While Beijing may consider importing and using Western mRNA vaccines, which have a higher efficacy rate, Li said Chinese authorities are more likely to use other controls, such as ring-fencing lockdowns.

China says progress has been made in vaccinating the elderly

China has reached a tipping point with its Covid zero policy and Beijing will have to change tactics.

“People complain about things but the only thing people think about is the zero Covid policy. And people in all walks of life seethe with dissatisfaction with the continuation of this policy,” Li said.

“An important and philosophical reason is that the zero Covid policy was designed to fight [the] Virus, that was three years ago, but now the virus has changed.

“In a war [if] Your enemy has changed, you must change your tactics.”

“So I’m optimistic that the zero-Covid policy will see a big, substantive, gradual, pragmatic change. Once that changes, many of the problems you mentioned, economic problems, problems with people’s emotions… will gradually or completely be alleviated.”

If China abandons its Covid-zero policy, Li says the country should be able to return to a “magic” growth rate of 5% to 6%, which is the right level of growth given the current size of China’s labor market.

Demonstrators hold up a white sheet of paper against censorship as they march during a protest against China’s COVID-zero measures November 27, 2022 in Beijing.

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But simply opening up isn’t enough, as Beijing also needs to deal with its struggling real estate sector and help indebted local governments refinance, Li said.

As a first step, however, China can quickly boost its economy through infrastructure projects and investments.

“Well, in the short term, in the very short term… infrastructure investments are still the most important driver for stabilizing the economy,” Li said, adding that there are many ready-made projects that are about to start that can provide the economy an instant boost.

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Congress leaders pave the best way for a bipartisan invoice to avert a railroad strike

U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy attends a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and other leaders of Congress at the White House on November 29, 2022 in Washington, DC to review legislative priorities through the end of 2022 discuss.

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden hosted a rare meeting of the four leaders of the House and Senate at the White House on Tuesday, where Republicans and Democrats agreed to pass legislation to avert a nationwide railroad workers’ strike before the U.S. economy its effects could begin to be felt as early as this weekend.

Meeting with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, both out California, was a last-minute addition to Biden’s public schedule. It was also the first time the group known as “The Big Four” had met with Biden since Republicans narrowly gained control of the House of Representatives earlier this month and Democrats clung to the Senate despite strong political headwinds.

Tuesday’s meeting was neither partisan nor contentious, although attendees said the power dynamics in Washington are set to change.

“It was a very positive meeting and it was open,” Pelosi told reporters at the Capitol after the meeting. “But from a time point of view, we have to avoid the strike at the moment.”

McConnell struck a similar tone: “We had a really good meeting and laid out the challenges that we all face together here.”

A rail strike could officially start on December 9 if no agreement is reached between unions and rail companies. But the effects of that were felt before that. Rail freight companies are obliged to give customers a week’s notice of a possible strike to give them time to make contingency plans.

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Congress can step in and use its powers under the Constitution’s Commerce Clause to pass legislation to end a strike or lockout and set the terms of agreements between unions and carriers. In that case, Congress appears poised to pass a tentative collective bargaining agreement, which was endorsed by some – but not all – of the sector’s major unions in September.

Pelosi said she plans to bring a bill to the floor of the house on Wednesday morning.

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“It’s not all I’d like to see. I think we should have paid for sick leave,” she said.

“And I don’t like taking action against unions’ ability to strike. But as we weigh stocks, we need to avoid a strike,” Pelosi added.

Both Pelosi and McCarthy said Tuesday they believed the railroad strike law had the votes it took to get through the house.

But in the Senate, where it takes only one dissenting senator to stop a bill, emergency strike legislation could face new hurdles down the road.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has previously announced that he will oppose the bill.

“Just because Congress has the authority to enforce a cumbersome solution doesn’t mean we should,” Rubio said in a statement Tuesday.

An unlikely ally for Rubio on the other side of the political spectrum could be Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who criticized the deal when it was first reached in September. On Tuesday, he declined to say whether he would support the bill.

“Workers across the country who work for the railroads, people who work dangerous jobs in inclement weather, don’t have paid sick leave. This is outrageous,” Sanders told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday.

“I think it’s up to Congress to do everything in its power to protect these workers and make sure the railroad treats them with the respect and dignity they deserve,” he added.

Either Rubio or Sanders or any other senator could decide to mount a filibuster of the bill and potentially hold it up for days under Senate rules.

McConnell declined to speculate Tuesday about how many Republicans would support the bill.

“You have to ask our members,” he told reporters. “I think some tend to vote against and others argue that the economic price of doing so is too high.”

The House of Representatives is expected to pass a version of the bill Wednesday morning. After that, it becomes more difficult to predict the timeline given the flexibility afforded to senators under the chamber’s debate and filibuster rules.

Twitter to cease monitoring Covid misinformation underneath CEO Elon Musk

In this photo illustration Elon Musk’s Twitter account viewed on a mobile phone with Elon Musk in the background. In Brussels – Belgium on November 19, 2022.

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In a recent update to its website, Twitter said it was no longer enforcing its misleading information policy on Covid-19, effective November 23.

This means the company will no longer prioritize removing or flagging misleading health information related to Covid-19.

Twitter said in December 2020 it would begin flagging and removing misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines as thousands of accounts made false claims about the coronavirus and the adverse effects of vaccination.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has been vocal in his criticism of how public health officials have been responding to the coronavirus pandemic. He said during the company’s first-quarter 2020 earnings call that the stay-at-home orders “violently detain people in their homes against all their constitutional rights.” He also said on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast in 2020 that the death rate from Covid-19 was much lower than health officials estimated.

Musk has pledged to free speech on Twitter, which could partially explain why the change went into effect. However, online safety experts have claimed his approach has led to an increase in hate speech, harassment and misinformation on the platform.

Several civil rights groups earlier this month urged advertisers to stop advertising on Twitter after the company laid off thousands of employees, a move the groups feared would affect the company’s ability to moderate hateful and other problematic content.

Musk has claimed that impressions of hate speech have declined since October, although it’s not entirely clear how Twitter measured those impressions.

The change comes as technology newsletter Platformer says employees are scrambling to recover more than 62,000 suspended accounts. That number could include some of the more than 11,000 accounts suspended for violating the company’s Covid-19 misinformation rules.

On Nov. 23, Musk shared a poll asking whether Twitter should give “general amnesty” to suspended accounts so long as they weren’t involved in “egregious spam” or violated any law. “Yes” received 72.4% of the votes and “No” received 27.6%.

“People have spoken,” Musk said in a tweet the next day. “Amnesty begins next week. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.”‘

The poll was neither scientific nor immune to bot participation.

Musk used the same Latin phrase, meaning “the voice of the people, the voice of God,” on November 19 to announce that former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account would be restored. Under previous ownership, Twitter suspended Trump’s account for life following his promotion of the Jan. 6 uprising.

The billionaire who is also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, was forced to halt the initial launch of its $8-per-month Twitter Blue service after users abused the system by purchasing blue ticks to impersonate brands and celebrities. He banned some impersonators before closing the service, but again raised questions about his definition of free speech.

Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Rachel Maddow scathingly exhibits why Trump’s Nazi Thanksgiving is not politics as typical

Rachel Maddow explained why Trump elevates Nazis by having dinner with them isn’t politics as usual.

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And I feel like ever since that came to light over the bank holiday weekend, the main thing in political circles has been about whether or not this is bad for Trump, whether or not this will reflect badly on him as the leader of the Republican party, whether or not him that something could hurt, whether that could be a mistake or whether it’s slipping off him too.

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Okay, so the reason groups like People For The American Way monitor guys like this and track what they say and do isn’t just because a guy like that might someday have a random effect on a real politician who’s with them interacts.

No, the reason it’s worth keeping an eye on Holocaust-denying racist agitators who advocate race war and – I’m not kidding – the burning of women alive in America, the reason you – the reason you Monitoring guys like that isn’t just because of that
Their potential future impact on other people in power lies in their power and the harm they intend to cause.

And those guys, neo-Nazi agitators, who literally get a big hug, a private audience with what’s likely to be the next Republican Party presidential nominee, sure, that’s reflective of that political candidate and his party, but more importantly, it’s great for the Nazis, right ? It’s an overkill for their perceived legitimacy, their reach, their ability to get their message out to the people, to operate, to recruit, and to do what they want to do, which in this guy’s case is the United States of America in Whites transformed – only, no Jew allows a fascist homeland under a dictator that he would like Donald Trump to be. It’s hard to have normal, everyday, normal politics alongside this kind of politics, but this is where we are and the violent far right will benefit greatly from this moment.

Maddow was right. This situation is not politics as usual. Donald Trump Uplifts Nazis And Tells People Nick Fuentes Really Gets Him Trump’s desires and impulses have never been in doubt, and he wants to destroy democracy in order to seize and keep power.

When the media treats Trump’s dining with Nazis as just another Trump quirk and debates whether or not it’s a bad thing for the former president to hang out with NAZIS, they’re normalizing extremism and injecting it into mainstream society.

Donald Trump is a national security threat, and treating him as something lesser only helps America’s far-right.

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House press pool and congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a bachelor’s degree in political science. His thesis focused on public policy with a specialization in social reform movements.

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China touts progress on vaccination because it searches for a approach to reopen

BEIJING — Mainland China on Tuesday announced significant progress in obtaining Covid-19 booster shots for people “over 80”.

As of Monday, 65.8% of this age group had received booster shots, an official told reporters.

That’s up from 40% on Nov. 11, according to previous disclosures.

China also announced a new push to further vaccinate its elderly population against Covid-19.

An official told a news conference that vaccination is still effective in preventing serious illness and death, and the elderly are among the biggest beneficiaries.

The document did not provide specific details on how the authorities would proceed to vaccinate more people.

Analysts have said vaccinating a larger proportion of the population would help put China on the path to reopening. So far, only Chinese-made vaccines are available locally.

The Covid vaccination rate for the elderly in China is generally below that of the US and Singapore.

China is pushing for immunizations among the elderly

Tuesday’s announcement and press conference followed a weekend of unrest as people in cities across China vented their frustration with Covid policies. Local officials had tightened measures in some areas, contrary to signals from Beijing earlier this month that suggested China was on track to reopen.

The weekend demonstrations weighed on market sentiment in Asia on Monday. There was no evidence of subsequent protests amid increased security.

Recent Covid controls in mainland China have negatively impacted 25.1% of national GDP as of Monday, according to a Nomura model. That’s above the previous peak of 21.2% recorded in April during lockdown in Shanghai.

When asked in English whether China was reconsidering its Covid policy after the protests, an official said only that the development of the virus had been monitored without further explanation.

The country reported its first drop in daily local infections in more than a week on Monday.

China’s Covid infections are declining for the primary time in additional than per week

China’s capital Beijing is one of the hardest-hit cities in the recent Covid wave. Pictured here is a healthcare worker on November 27, 2022 in front of a cordoned off apartment complex.

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BEIJING — Mainland China on Monday reported the first drop in daily Covid infections in more than a week.

The country said local infections, mostly asymptomatic, totaled 38,421, compared with a record high of 40,052 reported for Sunday, according to CNBC calculations from Wind Information data.

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The last time the daily case count fell from the previous day was on November 19, the data showed.

Local infections declined in Guangdong and Chongqing, two of the hardest-hit regions in the recent Covid wave. No new deaths were reported.

But in the capital Beijing, infections rose Monday from a day earlier, as did Shanghai, albeit to a much lesser extent. Shanghai Disneyland said it would cease operations starting Tuesday after briefly reopening on Friday. Universal Beijing Resort remains open.

There were no indications of new protests on Monday. Over the weekend, students and groups of people across China held public demonstrations to protest the country’s strict zero-Covid policy.

Economist Stephen Roach warns that China's zero-Covid policy is pushing economic growth towards zero

According to social media, security has tightened in areas where protesters had gathered in Beijing and Shanghai. Some social media reports said police checked locals’ phones in Shanghai for foreign apps that cannot be accessed on the mainland without a VPN.

China’s official nightly newscast on Monday made no mention of the unrest but did include a section calling for unity on the current Covid measures. The show also highlighted how the government kept up health services and delivery of essentials to people in lockdown.

The purpose of the measures is to minimize the impact of Covid on the economy and society, claimed an op-ed Tuesday in People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party. The article firmly ruled out the idea of ​​relaxing controls.

Why China is showing no signs of deviating from its 'zero Covid' strategy

Strict Covid controls this year have weighed heavily on business activity and economic growth in China. As of the third quarter, national GDP had grown by 3% year-on-year, well below the official target of around 5.5% set in March.

As of Monday, 25.1% of China’s GDP was negatively affected by Covid controls, according to a Nomura model. That’s above the previous peak of 21.2% recorded in April during lockdown in Shanghai.

“The rapid increase in public discontent over last weekend’s lockdowns could further cloud the road to reopening,” analysts at Nomura said.

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Local authorities then banned the use of hard materials to block emergency exits, apartment building doors and entrances to apartment buildings, noting that short-term closures should not exceed 24 hours.

They also said the channels to seek medical treatment should remain unhindered. Previously, anecdotes on social media described how people were being denied access to medical care because of supposed Covid controls.

Covid measures and their implementation have varied locally, particularly given the dispersed nature of outbreaks.

From Tuesday, the city of Shanghai tightened restrictions on entering restaurants, shopping malls and other commercial establishments. Anyone wishing to enter must now provide a negative virus test within the last 48 hours instead of 72 hours.

And after the protests, at least Tsinghua University has encouraged students to return home earlier for the Lunar New Year winter break — more than a month in advance.

— CNBC’s Eunice Yoon contributed to this report.

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The US is “definitely” nonetheless in a Covid-19 pandemic, says Dr. fauci

dr Anthony Fauci, Senior White House Medical Advisor, speaks during a COVID-19 briefing at the White House November 22, 2022 in Washington, DC.

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The nation’s leading infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the US is “certainly” still in the middle of a Covid-19 pandemic and he was “very concerned” by the divisive state of American politics.

“As a public health official, I don’t want to see anyone suffer and die from Covid,” he told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “I don’t care if you’re a far-right Republican or a far-left Democrat, everyone deserves the reassurance of good public health and that doesn’t happen.”

Fauci said between 300 and 400 people are still dying from Covid every day and uptake of the latest vaccine booster is less than 15%.

“I think the idea of ​​forgetting it, that’s over — it’s not,” he said.

The 81-year-old became a household name during the Covid-19 pandemic and battled misinformation – sometimes from the highest levels of government. He challenged former President Donald Trump on everything from hydroxychloroquine use to mask mandates, and his unwavering commitment to science made him a quasi-celebrity.

White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said Sunday he knew it had been a long two years for Americans but that getting vaccinated ahead of the holiday season was still “incredibly important”.

“We understand that people want to move on,” Jha told ABC News on This Week. “The good news is that if they keep their immunity up to date they can keep going.”

Fauci announced plans in August to step down from his duties as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and as advisory White House medical adviser by the end of the year. He gave his expected final Covid briefing on Tuesday, encouraging people to get vaccinated.

“I hope to be remembered for what I tried to do, just to bring science, medicine and public health principles into very serious crises that we’ve had,” Fauci said Sunday. “As I said before, I gave everything to do that.”

Fauci has advised seven US Presidents starting with Ronald Reagan on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, West Nile virus, the 2001 anthrax attacks, pandemic flu, various avian flu threats, Ebola, Zika and most recently Covid and monkey pox.