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She/they - queer midwestern biochemist and general homebody.
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The timing for this article is also particularly bad, as holidays stretch even politically engaged parents super thin. I've had 8 kids (ages 2-11) staying at my house this week. And even with 7 other grownups to help, I can count on one hand the number of news articles I've had time to read in full.
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines The agency’s top vaccine regulator said that a review had found that the children were likely to have died “because of” the shots. But public health experts want to examine the data.
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Meanwhile, even if a reader takes the time to click on and read the article, they still have to scroll past two ads and a list of related stories to get to the "okay but" paragraph explaining that real scientists are highly skeptical of these new FDA claims.
But those public health experts have also pointed to the number of lives saved by the shots and to the fact that the virus caused more than a million deaths among Americans. About 2,100 children have died of Covid since the pandemic began, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The findings of the new F.D.A. review have not been published in a peer-reviewed medical journal. Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a critic of Mr. Kennedy’s vaccine policies, called the memo an example of science “by press release.” He said the memo was devoid of context such as the number or rate of deaths from the virus itself among vaccinated and unvaccinated children. Dr. Offit said children with vaccine-related myocarditis showed up at the hospital, with cases that resolved quickly.
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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part of what made louis ck’s old routines funny was the ability to trust that he knew whereof he spoke, that he had conquered his issues with women enough to joke about them incisively. turns out he hadn’t, therefore couldn’t. craft issue!!
November 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM