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There are 610,000 children in Rafah. 78,000 are infants. How can we live in a world where nobody is willing to stop them from being killed? How do we function in this reality? #ceasefirenow #AllEyesOnRafah

BREAKING :

Israel is deliberately targeting and blowing up civilian homes and tents in Rafah, where 1.7 million Palestinians have taken refuge.

This is not “self-defense”.

This is terrorism.

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IT IS REALLY BAD IN RAFAH

I ONLY SEE KIDS BEING KILLED!

🔴Gaza:

Israeli forces have begun their offensive on Rafah and have seized control of the border, effectively cutting off lifesaving aid deliveries into Gaza.

People are now at risk of falling further into the depths of a massive humanitarian disaster, which has reached

Portugal is averaging 91% renewable electricity in 2024

It also has Europe’s lowest wholesale power prices

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What are the most reliable rapid antigen tests? | racgp.org.au

'A new study has analysed 26 RATs from Australia and Canada, finding only six could effectively detect the lowest concentrations of COVID-19.'

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I've had three funeral meetings in the last week.
Today's was for a man (I'll say how old he was at the end of the thread) who died two weeks ago.
#AnecdoteAlert

Trying to pay quarterly BAS and myGov refuses to let me in and quite frankly this was hard enough with my brain at 100%. I seem to be stuck in a kafkaesque loop.

Just wipe all student HECS debts.
We aren’t doing these degrees for entertainment.

Free education for everyone isn’t that radical, we’ve had it before.

Good news re HECS indexation. But the issue of the size of the debt remains. The cost of university degrees remains based on Scott Morrison’s policy.

That needs to change. #Insiders

All HECs debt should be wiped. Albanese should do a Biden.
Tax the fossil fuel industry properly instead.
#Insiders

When could Australians have access to a new COVID-19 vaccine? | SBS News

On Tuesday, the WHO and EMA recommended an update to COVID-19 vaccines to target the JN.1 variant.

Professor Raina MacIntyre was part of the WHO team which made its recommendation.
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Details of the first documented human case of H5N1 bird flu in the dairy cattle pervasive outbreak
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It's possible/likely that other people have been infected but are not being diagnosed npr.org/sections/healt…

Novavax prepared to deliver protein-based non-mRNA JN.1 COVID-19 vaccine in line with WHO recommendation this Fall | novavax.com

#Novavax #JN1 #COVIDvaccine #COVIDisNotOver

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WHO: Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’

WHO chief scientist voices fears about H5N1 variant that has ‘extraordinarily high’ mortality rate in humans.

Guardian
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When #H5N1 news broke, I told David Lim, “They would have to do a lot of testing before I would drink milk from one of these farms at this point' and got a lot of pushback.

3 weeks later, U.S. FDA reported H5N1 in grocery store milk. It'll take up to weeks more to know if these

These reports from the UK & US challenge the notion that things are getting better on the #LongCovid front. They're consistent with what we know; there's a very large amount of SARS-Cov-2 circulating in populations like ours, that re-infection is common, & that re-infection