navan
/
Daily-Dose
mirror of https://github.com/navanchauhan/Daily-Dose.git
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Added daily report

This commit is contained in:
Navan Chauhan 2022-06-28 13:07:25 +00:00
parent f067aae5b3
commit 75492c947c
3 changed files with 702 additions and 2 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

192
archive-covid-19/28 June, 2022.html Normal file
View File

@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="" xml:lang="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<meta content="pandoc" name="generator"/>
<meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes" name="viewport"/>
<title>28 June, 2022</title>
<style type="text/css">
code{white-space: pre-wrap;}
span.smallcaps{font-variant: small-caps;}
span.underline{text-decoration: underline;}
div.column{display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; width: 50%;}
</style>
<title>Covid-19 Sentry</title><meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" name="viewport"/><link href="styles/simple.css" rel="stylesheet"/><link href="../styles/simple.css" rel="stylesheet"/><link href="https://unpkg.com/aos@2.3.1/dist/aos.css" rel="stylesheet"/><script src="https://unpkg.com/aos@2.3.1/dist/aos.js"></script></head>
<body>
<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="covid-19-sentry">Covid-19 Sentry</h1>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="#from-preprints">From Preprints</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-clinical-trials">From Clinical Trials</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-pubmed">From PubMed</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-patent-search">From Patent Search</a></li>
</ul>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-preprints">From Preprints</h1>
<ul>
<li><strong>The RNA demethylase FTO controls m6A marking on SARS-CoV-2 and classifies COVID-19 severity in patients</strong> -
<div>
The RNA modification N6-methyladenosine (m6A) plays a key role in the life cycles of several RNA viruses. Whether this applies to SARS-CoV-2 and whether m6A affects the outcome of COVID-19 disease is still poorly explored. Here we report that the RNA demethylase FTO strongly affects both m6A marking of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 severity. By m6A profiling of SARS-CoV-2, we confirmed in infected cultured cells and showed for the first time in vivo in hamsters that the regions encoding TRS_L and the nucleocapsid protein are multiply marked by m6A, preferentially within RRACH motifs that are specific to {beta}-coronaviruses and well conserved across SARS-CoV-2 variants. In cells, downregulation of the m6A demethylase FTO, occurring upon SARS-CoV-2 infection, increased m6A marking of SARS-CoV-2 RNA and slightly promoted viral replication. In COVID-19 patients, a negative correlation was found between FTO expression and both SARS-CoV-2 expression and disease severity. FTO emerged as a classifier of disease severity and hence a potential stratifier of COVID-19 patients.
</div>
<div class="article-link article-html-link">
🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.27.497749v1" target="_blank">The RNA demethylase FTO controls m6A marking on SARS-CoV-2 and classifies COVID-19 severity in patients</a>
</div></li>
<li><strong>Roadkill in a time of pandemic: the analysis of wildlife-vehicle collisions reveals the differential impact of COVID-19 lockdown over mammal assemblages</strong> -
<div>
Collisions with vehicles are a major anthropogenic cause of mortality for wildlife, with conservation and evolutionary implications. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries worldwide enforced lockdowns which importantly reduced traffic, and therefore had unprecedented consequences for global wildlife populations. We modeled how the two lockdown periods in spring and autumn 2020 influenced wildlife-vehicle collisions in Slovenia (central Europe), by comparing long-term (for the period 2010–2020) and high-quality time series data on road mortality of seven mammalian species: European roe deer (n = 53,259), red fox (n = 9,889), European badger (n = 5,170), brown hare (n = 5,050), stone marten (n = 4,267), wild boar (n = 1,188), and red deer (n = 1,088). We decomposed 2010–2019 data through autoregressive Bayesian Generalized Additive Models, and then we compared 2020 data to forecasts, aiming to estimate anomalies in number of collisions during both lockdown periods. During the spring lockdown (16 March – 30 April 2020), we observed far less collisions than in the 2010–2019 average as well as in 2020 forecasts, for roe deer and badger. In the autumnal lockdown (20 October – 31 December 2020), we observed significantly less collisions for roe deer and wild boar. Traffic reduction in both lockdown periods had a major impact on roe deer, which in autumn and spring 2020 experienced 270–330 less road-related mortality cases than expected. COVID-19 lockdown reduced traffic-related mortality for the majority of studied species. In some species, this decrease reached a magnitude of biological significance, which can have long-term repercussions on both evolution and management. Obviously, large-scale sanitary policies, imposing a reduction to human mobility, can have large-scale impacts on wildlife. As pandemics may increase in the next decades, we encourage further research exploring the consequences of their enforcement over global change and wildlife conservation and evolution.
</div>
<div class="article-link article-html-link">
🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://ecoevorxiv.org/p3zft/" target="_blank">Roadkill in a time of pandemic: the analysis of wildlife-vehicle collisions reveals the differential impact of COVID-19 lockdown over mammal assemblages</a>
</div></li>
<li><strong>A Siege on Positive Ageing: Experiences of identity threat and coping among Older Adults during COVID-19 pandemic</strong> -
<div>
Older adults face significant challenges in regards to the various stereotypes associated with ageing, which have consequences for their mental health and wellbeing. The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened these age-based stereotypes due to older adults’ proportionally higher vulnerability to the virus. The present research explored how the pandemic has exacerbated the challenges of ageing by impacting on the social identities of older adults and how these challenges have been met. Eleven focus groups were conducted with 32 UK older adults from a range of household compositions. Guided by the social identity approach, a thematic analysis found that participants faced a number of recognisable stereotype threats: loss of opportunities to enact meaningful identities, loss of autonomy and loss of usefulness. Despite these threats, we also found participants used identity management strategies and mobilised existing or new social identities to give and receive of support and to retain a meaningful and purposeful life. The implications of this research are that governments and those supporting older adults can attend to the negative psychology impact of protective policies and know that fostering group connections can be a source of pandemic resilience.
</div>
<div class="article-link article-html-link">
🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://psyarxiv.com/pufd5/" target="_blank">A Siege on Positive Ageing: Experiences of identity threat and coping among Older Adults during COVID-19 pandemic</a>
</div></li>
<li><strong>Coupling Wastewater-Based Epidemiological Surveillance and Modelling of SARS-COV-2/COVID-19: Practical Applications at the Public Health Agency of Canada</strong> -
<div>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) of SARS-CoV-2 offers a complementary tool for clinical surveillance to detect and monitor Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Since both symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 can shed the virus through the fecal route, WBS has the potential to measure community prevalence of COVID-19 without restrictions from healthcare-seeking behaviors and clinical testing capacity. During the Omicron wave, the limited capacity of clinical testing to identify COVID-19 cases in many jurisdictions highlighted the utility of WBS to estimate disease prevalence and inform public health strategies. However, there is a plethora of in-sewage, environmental and laboratory factors that can influence WBS outputs. The implementation of WBS therefore requires a comprehensive framework to outline an analysis pipeline that accounts for these complex and nuanced factors. This article reviews the framework of the national WBS conducted at the Public Health Agency of Canada to present WBS methods used in Canada to track and monitor SARS-CoV-2. In particular, we focus on five Canadian cities - Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax - whose wastewater signals are analyzed by a mathematical model to provide case forecasts and reproduction number estimates. This work provides insights on approaches to implement WBS at the national scale in an accurate and efficient manner. Importantly, the national WBS system has implications beyond COVID-19, as a similar framework can be applied to monitor other infectious disease pathogens or antimicrobial resistance in the community.
</p>
</div>
<div class="article-link article-html-link">
🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.26.22276912v1" target="_blank">Coupling Wastewater-Based Epidemiological Surveillance and Modelling of SARS-COV-2/COVID-19: Practical Applications at the Public Health Agency of Canada</a>
</div></li>
<li><strong>Predicting Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in Japan Using Google Trends: Infodemiology Study</strong> -
<div>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
Objectives: We aimed to predict the number of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) infections before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using Internet search data. Methods: We obtained actual HFMD cases from the National Institute of Infectious Disease and Internet search data using Google Trends between 2004 and 2021 in Japan. We calculated the Pearson correlation coefficients between actual HFMD cases and the search topic “HFMD” from 2004 to 2021. We conducted a cross-correlation analysis between the actual HFMD cases and 43 HFMD-related search terms before and during the pandemic. We identified the most significant predictors of HFMD infection using stepwise multiple linear regression. Results: We found that actual HFMD cases and Internet search volume peaked around July in most years, except for 2020 and 2021. The search topic “HFMD” presented a strong correlation with actual HFMD cases, but the correlation was weaker in 2004, 2008, and 2020. Results from stepwise multiple linear regression exhibited that the search terms “infect,” “daycare,” “vomit,” “HFMD,” “eczema,” “pain,” and “high fever were the most significant predictors before the pandemic, while”infect," “enterovirus,” “herpangina,” “kindergarten,” “myocarditis,” “HFMD,” “contact infection,” “blister,” “high fever” “dermatology,” and “plantar” were the most significant predictors during the pandemic. Conclusions: The predictors for HFMD infections before and during the COVID-19 pandemic were different. The awareness of HFMD infection in Japan may improved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Continuous monitoring is important to promote public health and prevent resurgence. Public interest reflected in information-seeking behavior can be helpful for public health surveillance.
</p>
</div>
<div class="article-link article-html-link">
🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.26.22276919v1" target="_blank">Predicting Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in Japan Using Google Trends: Infodemiology Study</a>
</div></li>
<li><strong>Analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequence of nasopharyngeal exudate from healthy donors reveals changes in key microbial communities associated with aging</strong> -
<div>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
Background: Functional or compositional perturbations of the microbiome can occur at different sites of the body and this dysbiosis has been linked to various diseases. Changes in the nasopharyngeal microbiome are associated to patient susceptibility to multiple viral infections, including COVID-19, supporting the idea that the nasopharynx may be playing an important role in health and disease. Most studies on the nasopharyngeal microbiome have focused on a specific component in the lifespan, such as infanthood or the elderly, or have other limitations such as low sample sizes. Therefore, detailed studies analyzing the age- and sex-associated changes in the nasopharyngeal microbiome of healthy people across their whole life are essential to understand the relevance of the nasopharynx in the pathogenesis of multiple diseases, particularly viral infections such as COVID-19. Results: 120 nasopharyngeal samples from healthy subjects of all ages and both sexes were analyzed by 16s rRNA sequencing. Nasopharyngeal bacterial alpha diversity did not vary in any case between age or sex groups. Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, and Bacteroidetes were the predominant phyla in all the age groups, with several sex-associated differences probably due to the different levels of sex hormones between both sexes. Acinetobacter, Brevundimonas, Dolosigranulum, Finegoldia, Haemophilus, Leptotrichia, Moraxella, Peptoniphilus, Pseudomonas, Rothia, and Staphylococcus were the only 11 bacterial genera that presented significant age-associated differences. Other bacterial genera such as Anaerococcus, Burkholderia, Campylobacter, Delftia, Prevotella, Neisseria, Propionibacterium, Streptococcus, Ralstonia, Sphingomonas, and Corynebacterium appeared in the population with a very high frequency, suggesting that their presence might be biologically relevant. Conclusions: In contrast to other anatomical areas such as the gut, bacterial diversity in the nasopharynx of healthy subjects remains very stable and resistant to perturbations throughout the whole life and in both sexes. Age-associated changes in taxonomic composition were observed at phylum, family, and genus levels, as well as several sex-associated changes probably due to the different levels of sex hormones present in both sexes at certain ages. Our results provide a complete and valuable dataset that will be useful for future research aiming for studying the relationship between changes in the nasopharyngeal microbiome and susceptibility to or severity of multiple diseases, including COVID-19.
</p>
</div>
<div class="article-link article-html-link">
🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.26.22276913v1" target="_blank">Analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequence of nasopharyngeal exudate from healthy donors reveals changes in key microbial communities associated with aging</a>
</div></li>
<li><strong>An Economic Evaluation of a virtual Covid Ward in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland</strong> -
<div>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
Objective The objective of this study was to demonstrate the impact of a virtual Covid 19 ward on NHS resource use. Methods Different methods were used to derive comparators for the observational data on acute length of stay versus the actual lengths of stay of 310 patients on acute wards and differences estimated. The resource use associated with delivering care in the virtual ward were collected on an ongoing basis. Results The virtual ward delivered estimated health care system savings of 1,103 bed days, 529,719 UK Pounds in net financial savings across two key groups of patients; those who had been on oxygen and required weaning off it while within the virtual ward and those not requiring oxygen therapy with less severe acute Covid disease. The costs of the intervention were 9.7% of the estimated gross savings and the mean net saving per patient was 1,709 UK pounds in the base case without including the savings associated with a likely reduction in re-admissions. The 30-day re-admission rate was 2.9%, which was substantially beneath alternative comparative data. The mean cost of the intervention was 184.38 UK pounds per patient. Conclusion The virtual ward delivered significant financial savings in both groups of patients, did so with a high degree of confidence, whilst doing so at a very low absolute and relative cost.
</p>
</div>
<div class="article-link article-html-link">
🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.27.22276736v1" target="_blank">An Economic Evaluation of a virtual Covid Ward in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland</a>
</div></li>
<li><strong>Strong correlations between the binding antibodies against wild type and neutralizing antibodies against omicron BA.1 and BA.2 variants of SARS-CoV-2 in individuals following booster (third dose) vaccination</strong> -
<div>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
This study examined the neutralizing activity and receptor binding domain (RBD) antibody levels against wild-type and omicron BA.1 and BA.2 variants in individuals who received three doses of COVID-19 vaccination. The relationship between the SARS-CoV-2 RBD antibody against wild-type and live virus neutralizing antibody titers against omicron BA.1 and BA.2 variants was examined. In total, 310 sera samples from individuals after booster vaccination (third dose) vaccination were tested for specific IgG wild-type SARS-CoV-2 RBD and the omicron BA.1 surrogate virus neutralization test (sVNT). The live virus neutralization assay against omicron BA.1 and BA.2 was performed using the foci-reduction neutralization test (FRNT50). The anti-RBD IgG strongly correlated with FRNT50 titers against BA.1 and BA.2. Non-linear regression showed that anti-RBD IgG with ≥148 BAU/mL and ≥138 BAU/mL were related to detectable FRNT50 titers (≥1:20) against BA.1 and BA.2, respectively. A moderate correlation was observed between the sVNT and FRNT50 titers. At detectable FRNT50 titers (≥1:20), the predicted sVNT for BA.1 and BA.2 were ≥10.57% and ≥11.52%, respectively. The study identified anti-RBD IgG and sVNT levels that predict detectable neutralizing antibodies against omicron variants. Assessment and monitoring of protective immunity support vaccine policies and will help identify optimal timing for booster vaccination.
</p>
</div>
<div class="article-link article-html-link">
🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.27.22276959v1" target="_blank">Strong correlations between the binding antibodies against wild type and neutralizing antibodies against omicron BA.1 and BA.2 variants of SARS-CoV-2 in individuals following booster (third dose) vaccination</a>
</div></li>
<li><strong>Telemedicine Use Among People with HIV in 2021: The Hybrid-Care Environment</strong> -
<div>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
Background: Telemedicine use for the care of people with HIV (PWH) was widely expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic. During 2021, as on-site care was re-introduced, care was delivered through a mixture of in-person and telemedicine. We studied how different patient populations used telemedicine in this hybrid-care environment. Methods: Using observational data from patients enrolled in the Johns Hopkins HIV Clinical Cohort, we analyzed all in-person and telemedicine HIV primary care visits completed in an HIV clinic from January 1st, 2021 to December 30th, 2021. We used log-binomial regression models to investigate the association between patient characteristics and the probability of completing a telemedicine versus in-person visit. A secondary analysis of telemedicine visits investigated the probably of completing a video versus telephone visit. Results: A total of 5,518 visits were completed by 1,884 patients; 4,282 (77.6%) visits were in-person, 800 (14.5%) by phone, and 436 (7.9%) by video. The relative risk (RR) of completing telemedicine vs. in-person visits was 0.65 (95% Confidence Interval (CI): 0.47, 0.91) for patients age 65+ vs. age 20-39; 0.84 (95% CI: 0.72, 0.98) for males vs. females; 0.81 (95% CI: 0.66, 0.99) for Black vs. white patients; 0.62 (95% CI: 0.49, 0.79) for patients in the highest vs. lowest quartile of Area Deprivation Index; and 1.52 (95% CI: 1.26, 1.84) for patients &gt;15 miles vs. &lt;5 miles from clinic. Conclusions: In the second year of the pandemic, overall in-person care was utilized more than telemedicine, and significant differences persist across subgroups in telemedicine uptake.
</p>
</div>
<div class="article-link article-html-link">
🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.27.22276960v1" target="_blank">Telemedicine Use Among People with HIV in 2021: The Hybrid-Care Environment</a>
</div></li>
<li><strong>Within-hotel transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during on-arrival quarantine in Hong Kong</strong> -
<div>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
Background: On-arrival quarantine has been one of the primary measures used to prevent the introduction of COVID-19 into Hong Kong since the start of the pandemic. Most on-arrival quarantines have been done in hotels, with the duration of quarantine and testing frequency during quarantine varying throughout the pandemic for various reasons. However, hotels are not necessarily designed with infection control in mind. We aimed to study the potential risk of transmission between persons in on-arrival quarantine. Methods: We examined data on each laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 case identified in on-arrival quarantine in a hotel in Hong Kong between 1 May 2020 and 31 January 2022. We sequenced the full genomes of viruses from cases that overlapped with other confirmed cases in terms of the hotel of stay, date of arrival and date of testing positive. A combination of epidemiological information and sequence information was then used to identify probable transmission events. Findings: Among 221 imported cases that overlapped with other quarantined cases, phylogenetic analysis identified eight suspected clusters comprising 20 cases in total. Only three of these clusters had been recognised as hotel transmission events. Interpretation: We have identified potential occurrences of COVID-19 transmission within hotel quarantine in Hong Kong demonstrating the underlying low but non-zero risk associated with sequestering arrivals within hotels. In future pandemics, on-arrival quarantine in hotels could be used to delay the introduction of infection, but the construction of purpose-built facilities for on-arrival quarantine might be necessary to minimize importation risk.
</p>
</div>
<div class="article-link article-html-link">
🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.25.22276894v1" target="_blank">Within-hotel transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during on-arrival quarantine in Hong Kong</a>
</div></li>
<li><strong>Non-Adherence of PLWHA in taking Antiretroviral during the COVID-19 pandemic in West Sumatra, Indonesia: Qualitative analysis</strong> -
<div>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
Abstract Introduction: COVID-19 pandemic condition affects the adherence of PLWHA in taking antiretroviral drugs. People with Lost to Follow-up (LTFU) were an average of 26 %, The feared impact is the high mortality rate and decreased productivity, visits of PLWHA patients to M Jamil Hospital come from all regions in West Sumatra to the southern provinces of Jambi and Bengkulu. This study aimed to determine factors that influence patient non-Adherence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: This study was conducted by exploring the experiences of patients and health workers by observing adherence to taking antiretroviral, 34 informant: 25 patients, 5 NGOs, and 4 health workers, The data were collected from September 6th to October 9th 2021, Analysis data using N VIVO 12. Results: Patients in taking medication during the COVID-19 pandemic were feeling bored, most of the patient lived was so far, so patients often asked for help from NGOs to take medication. Forgetfulness, busyness, and fear of being exposed to COVID-19. Then, the economic factor, due to the large number of layoffs, and the absence of BPJS insurance affects compliance, while the factors of stigma, stress, feeling well are slightly expressed by patients. It turns out that the Covid-19 condition affects patients to come for treatment to the hospital. In addition to drug side effects, dizziness, nausea, and vomiting also affect medication adherence. The role of NGOs in providing information and education as well as motivating and taking medication during the COVID-19 condition is very important. Conclusion: The most common causes of non-compliance from loss to follow-up during the COVID-19 pandemic are; bored, far from home, forgetful, and economic factors for fear of covid-19. Most of the side effects of drugs are dizziness, and nausea and vomiting so that the role of NGOs is important in helping patients take medication.
</p>
</div>
<div class="article-link article-html-link">
🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.26.22276906v1" target="_blank">Non-Adherence of PLWHA in taking Antiretroviral during the COVID-19 pandemic in West Sumatra, Indonesia: Qualitative analysis</a>
</div></li>
<li><strong>Digitalization impacts the COVID-19 pandemic and the stringency of government measures</strong> -
<div>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
COVID-19 poses a significant burden on populations worldwide. Although the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation, little is known about digitalization9s influence on pandemic developments. Using the Digital Adoption Index (DAI), we examined the effects of digitalization on early COVID-19 cases, deaths, and stringency indices (SI) of government measures. Gradient Tree Boosting pinpointed essential features, such as populations9 smoker fraction, age, poverty, and DAI. Then, regression analyses indicated that higher DAI was associated with significant declines in new cases ( β =-362.25/pm; p&lt;0.001) and deaths ( β =-5.53/pm; p&lt;0.001) months after the peak. Over the entire range, higher DAI was associated with higher mean SI ( β =4.86; p&lt;0.01). Interestingly, however, in countries with high DAI &gt;0.68, the correlation inverted ( β =-55.26; p&lt;0.05). Finally, a scoping review identified 70 publications providing valuable arguments for our findings. Thus, digitalization is evident for handling current and future pandemics but can also facilitate stronger government actions restricting individual freedom.
</p>
</div>
<div class="article-link article-html-link">
🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.27.22276377v1" target="_blank">Digitalization impacts the COVID-19 pandemic and the stringency of government measures</a>
</div></li>
<li><strong>Population genomic insights into the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant</strong> -
<div>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
A thorough understanding of the patterns of population subdivision of a pathogen can prevent disease spread. For SARS-CoV-2, the availability of millions of genomes makes this task analytically challenging. Our study used population genomic methods and identified subtle subdivisions within the Omicron variant, in addition to that captured by the Pango lineage. Further, some of the identified clusters of the Omicron variant revealed statistically significant signatures of selection or expansion revealing the role of microevolutionary processes in the spread of the virus. These are crucial information for policy makers as preventive measures can be designed to mitigate further spread based on a holistic understanding of the variability of the virus and evolutionary processes aiding its spread.
</p>
</div>
<div class="article-link article-html-link">
🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.27.22276933v1" target="_blank">Population genomic insights into the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant</a>
</div></li>
<li><strong>The burden of respiratory conditions in the emergency department of Muhimbili National Hospital in Tanzania in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic</strong> -
<div>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
Background Globally, respiratory diseases cause 10 million deaths every year. With the COVID19 pandemic, the burden of respiratory illness increased and led to significant morbidity and mortality in both high- and low-income countries. This study assessed the burden and trend of respiratory conditions among patients presenting to the emergency department of Muhimbili National Hospital in Tanzania and compared with national COVID-19 data to determine if this knowledge may be useful for the surveillance of disease outbreaks in settings of limited specific diagnostic testing. Methods The study used routinely collected data from the electronic information system in the Emergency Medical Department (EMD) of Muhimbili National Hospital in Tanzania. All patients presenting to the EMD in a 2-year period, 2020 and 2021 with respiratory conditions were included. Descriptive statistics and graphical visualizations were used to describe the burden of respiratory conditions and the trends over time and to compare to national Tanzanian COVID-19 data during the same period. Results One in every four patients who presented to the EMD of the Muhimbili National Hospital had a respiratory condition – 1039 patients per month. Of the 24,942 patients, 52% were males, and the median age (IQR) was 34.7 (21.7, 53.7) years. The most common respiratory diagnoses were pneumonia (52%), upper respiratory tract infections (31%), asthma (4.8%) and suspected COVID-19 (2.5%). There were four peaks of respiratory conditions coinciding with the four waves in the national COVID-19 data. Conclusions There is a high burden of respiratory conditions among patients presenting to the EMD of Muhimbili National Hospital. The trend shows four peaks of respiratory conditions in 2020-2021 seen to coincide with the four waves in the national COVID-19 data. Real-time hospital-based surveillance tools may be useful for early detection of respiratory disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies in settings with limited diagnostic testing.
</p>
</div>
<div class="article-link article-html-link">
🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.26.22276861v1" target="_blank">The burden of respiratory conditions in the emergency department of Muhimbili National Hospital in Tanzania in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic</a>
</div></li>
<li><strong>Antiviral T-cell Biofactory platform for SARS-CoV-2</strong> -
<div>
Vaccines help reduce new infections, but interventions that can prevent the disease from transitioning to a severe stage are rather limited. Dysregulated IFN kinetics are mostly exploited by pathogenic viruses, including SARS-CoV-2. The clinical benefits of systemically infused IFN are, unfortunately, mired by undesired side effects. To address this situation, we engineered a T cell to synthesize interferons (IFNs) as antiviral proteins upon recognizing the virus envelop protein of SARS-CoV-2, i.e., anti-SARS T-cell Biofactory. The T-cell Biofactory, capable of regulating the IFN expression with spatiotemporal resolution within the infected tissues, can mitigate these concerns. In this work, we determined the prophylactic and therapeutic effects of the type-I and type-III IFNs produced from the T cell Biofactory against SARS-CoV-2 infection in host cells and investigated the expression profiles of ensuing IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs). To enable the translation of T cell Biofactory as an effective antiviral countermeasure, we also investigated an irradiation dose that renders the T-cell Biofactory non-proliferative and thus non-oncogenic. The ongoing public health crisis motivated us to direct the T cell Biofactory technology to target SARS-CoV-2. The T-cell Biofactory, based on T cells engineered with chimeric antigen receptors (CAR T cells), is a platform technology that can be rapidly re-engineered and become available for targeting any new pathogen.
</div>
<div class="article-link article-html-link">
🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.26.497669v1" target="_blank">Antiviral T-cell Biofactory platform for SARS-CoV-2</a>
</div></li>
</ul>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-clinical-trials">From Clinical Trials</h1>
<ul>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Immunobridging Study of COVID-19 Protein Subunit Recombinant Vaccine</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Biological: COVID-19 Protein Subunit Recombinant Vaccine;   Biological: Active Comparator<br/><b>Sponsors</b>:   PT Bio Farma;   Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta;   Faculty of Medicine, Diponegoro University, Semarang;   Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Andalas, Padang;   Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Hassanudin, Makassar<br/><b>Recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 Variant (COVID-19 Omicron) mRNA Vaccine (Phase 1)</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Intervention</b>:   Biological: ABO1009-DP<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:   Suzhou Abogen Biosciences Co., Ltd.<br/><b>Not yet recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Discussing COVID-19 Vaccines in Private Facebook Groups</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Behavioral: Gist messages on COVID-19 vaccination;   Behavioral: COVID-19 vaccine information<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:   George Washington University<br/><b>Completed</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Immunogenicity and Safety Study of One Booster Dose of Trivalent COVID-19 Vaccine (Vero Cell), Inactivated</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Biological: Trivalent COVID-19 Vaccine (Vero Cell), Inactivated, Prototype Strain, Delta Strain and Omicron Strain;   Biological: COVID-19 Vaccine (Vero Cell), Inactivated<br/><b>Sponsors</b>:   Sinovac Biotech (Colombia) S.A.S.;   Sinovac Life Sciences Co., Ltd.<br/><b>Not yet recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Home-Based Exercise Tele-Rehabilitation After COVID-19</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   Post SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19)<br/><b>Intervention</b>:   Other: Tele-exercise<br/><b>Sponsors</b>:   VA Office of Research and Development;   Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center;   Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center<br/><b>Not yet recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>IMM-BCP-01 in Mild to Moderate COVID-19</strong> - <b>Conditions</b>:   SARS-CoV2 Infection;   COVID-19<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Drug: IMM-BCP-01;   Drug: Placebo<br/><b>Sponsors</b>:   Immunome, Inc.;   United States Department of Defense<br/><b>Recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for the Treatment of Patients With COVID-19.</strong> - <b>Conditions</b>:   COVID-19 Pneumonia;   COVID-19<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Biological: Mesenchymal stem cell;   Other: Placebo<br/><b>Sponsors</b>:   Paulo Brofman;   Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico<br/><b>Recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Olfactory Training in COVID-19 Associated Loss of Smell</strong> - <b>Conditions</b>:   COVID-19;   Hyposmia<br/><b>Intervention</b>:   Device: Sniffin’ sticks Duftquartett<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:   Medical University Innsbruck<br/><b>Not yet recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Psychological Impact of Medical Evacuations on Families of Patients Admitted to Intensive Care Unit for Severe COVID-19</strong> - <b>Conditions</b>:   COVID-19;   Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Other: Revised Impact of Event Scale;   Other: Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale;   Other: 36-Item Short Form Survey;   Other: satisfaction survey;   Other: semi-directed interview with trusted person on the general experience of the patient’s medical evacuation;   Other: semi-directed interview with trusted person on the general experience of hospitalization in intensive care<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:   Centre Hospitalier Metropole Savoie<br/><b>Completed</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Effect of COVID-19 on Platelet Mitochondrial Bioenergetic, Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress in Infertile Men.</strong> - <b>Conditions</b>:   Infertility, Male;   COVID-19<br/><b>Intervention</b>:   Other: diagnostic test and sperm analysis<br/><b>Sponsors</b>:   Comenius University;   GYN-FIV<br/><b>Active, not recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Study to Evaluate Immunogenicity and Safety of MVC-COV1901 Vaccine Compared With AZD1222</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19 Vaccine<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Biological: MVC-COV1901;   Biological: AZD1222<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:   Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp.<br/><b>Not yet recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>ACE2 Chewing Gum on SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load (COVID 19)</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   SARS-CoV-2<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Drug: ACE2 Chewing Gum;   Other: Placebo Chewing Gum<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:   University of Pennsylvania<br/><b>Not yet recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Trial</strong> - <b>Conditions</b>:   Vaccination Refusal;   COVID-19<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Other: Short Message Service (SMS) + Website Link Strategy;   Other: Phone Call with Peer Strategy<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:   Washington University School of Medicine<br/><b>Not yet recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Laser Therapy on Tension-type Cephalea and Orofacial Pain in Post-covid-19 Patients</strong> - <b>Conditions</b>:   Tension-Type Headache;   Orofacial Pain;   COVID-19<br/><b>Intervention</b>:   Radiation: Photobimodulation<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:   University of Nove de Julho<br/><b>Recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Cardiovascular Autonomic and Immune Mechanism of Post COVID-19 Tachycardia Syndrome</strong> - <b>Conditions</b>:   Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome;   Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS);   Long COVID;   SARS CoV 2 Infection<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Diagnostic Test: Determine the inflammatory and immune profile of post-COVID-19 POTS patients;   Diagnostic Test: Measurement of PNS activity by HRV (Heart rate Variation);   Diagnostic Test: Autonomic Symptoms assessment<br/><b>Sponsors</b>:   Vanderbilt University Medical Center;   American Heart Association<br/><b>Recruiting</b></p></li>
</ul>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-pubmed">From PubMed</h1>
<ul>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Analysis of Interaction between odorant receptors and flexible spike of SARS CoV-2- key to loss of smell</strong> - The vaccine development for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is primarily focused on structure of the spike (S) protein. The heavy glycosylation of S with flexible hinges at stalk shields from antibodies. The flexible nature of hinges may be one of the important factors which are responsible for binding the odorant receptor of those neurons which are responsible for the loss of smell in patients with COVID-19 infection. In this study strong and stable bond formation…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ongoing positive selection drives the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 genomes</strong> - SARS-CoV-2 is a new RNA virus affecting humans and spreads extensively through world populations since its first outbreak in December, 2019. Whether the transmissibility and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 in humans after zoonotic transfer are actively evolving, and driven by adaptation to the new host and environments is still under debate. Understanding the evolutionary mechanism underlying epidemiological and pathological characteristics of COVID-19 is essential for predicting the epidemic trend,…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Assessment of disinfectant efficacy in reducing microbial growth</strong> - The incidence of hospital- and community-acquired infections has been dramatically increased worldwide. Accordingly, hands hygiene and the use of disinfectants have been increased leading to the expansion in hand sanitizers production to meet public demand. This study was conducted to assess the efficiency of common disinfectants in the market of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in inhibiting the microbial growth during the time of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Five bacterial strains of…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Apixaban, an orally available anticoagulant, inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication and its major protease in a non-competitive way</strong> - No abstract</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>An engineered 5-helix bundle derived from SARS-CoV-2 S2 pre-binds sarbecoviral spike at both serological- and endosomal-pH to inhibit virus entry</strong> - Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and related sarbecoviruses enter host cells by receptor-recognition and membrane-fusion. An indispensable step in fusion is the formation of 6-helix bundle by viral spike heptad repeats 1 and 2 (HR1 and HR2). Here, we report the construction of 5-helix bundle (5HB) proteins for virus infection inhibition. The optimal construct inhibits SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus entry with sub-micromolar IC50. Unlike HR2-based peptides that cannot bind…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Development of an efficient reproducible cell-cell transmission assay for rapid quantification of SARS-CoV-2 Spike interaction with hACE2</strong> - Efficient quantitative assays for measurement of viral replication and infectivity are indispensable to future endeavors to develop prophylactic or therapeutic antiviral drugs or vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. We developed a SARS-CoV-2 cell-cell transmission assay that provides a rapid and quantitative readout to assess SARS-CoV-2 Spike hACE2 interaction in the absence of pseudotyped particles or live virus. We established two well-behaved stable cell lines, which demonstrated a remarkable…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Heparanase Is a Putative Mediator of Endothelial Glycocalyx Damage in COVID-19 - A Proof-of-Concept Study</strong> - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a systemic disease associated with injury (thinning) of the endothelial glycocalyx (eGC), a protective layer on the vascular endothelium. The aim of this translational study was to investigate the role of the eGC-degrading enzyme heparanase (HPSE), which is known to play a central role in the destruction of the eGC in bacterial sepsis. Excess activity of HPSE in plasma from COVID-19 patients correlated with several markers of eGC damage and perfused…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Neutrophil Extracellular Traps, Sepsis and COVID-19 - A Tripod Stand</strong> - The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Majority of COVID-19 patients have mild disease but about 20% of COVID-19 patients progress to severe disease. These patients end up in the intensive care unit (ICU) with clinical manifestations of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and sepsis. The formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) has also been associated with severe…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Immunosuppressant Treatment in Rheumatic Musculoskeletal Diseases Does Not Inhibit Elicitation of Humoral Response to SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Preserves Effector Immune Cell Populations</strong> - COVID-19 has proven to be particularly serious and life-threatening for patients presenting with pre-existing pathologies. Patients affected by rheumatic musculoskeletal disease (RMD) are likely to have impaired immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 infection due to their compromised immune system and the prolonged use of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), which include conventional synthetic (cs) DMARDs or biologic and targeted synthetic (b/ts) DMARDs. To provide an integrated…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Seroprevalence of Anti-S1-RBD Antibodies in Pre-pandemic and Pandemic Subjects From Hail Region, KSA</strong> - CONCLUSION: Antibody levels increased in samples collected during the pandemic, even though these subjects were not clinically COVID-19 positive. A small number of pre-pandemic subjects showed serum antibodies, suggesting prior exposure to other coronaviruses in the region. With dwindling neutralizing antibody levels and reduced vaccine efficacy against newer variants, it remains crucial to develop better assays for surveillance, management, and future research.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>SARS-CoV-2 infects an <em>in vitro</em> model of the human developing pancreas through endocytosis</strong> - Recent studies showed that SARS-CoV-2 can infect adult human pancreas and trigger pancreatic damage. Here, using human fetal pancreas samples and 3D differentiation of human pluripotent cells into pancreatic endocrine cells, we determined that SARS-CoV-2 receptors ACE2, TMPRSS2 and NRP1 are expressed in precursors of insulin-producing pancreatic β-cells, rendering them permissive to SARS-CoV-2 infection. We also show that SARS-CoV-2 enters and undergoes efficient replication in human multipotent…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A review of the effects of ATP and hydroxychloroquine on the phase separation of the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein</strong> - SARS-CoV-2 is the coronavirus causing the ongoing pandemic with &gt; 460 millions of infections and &gt; 6 millions of deaths. SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) is the only structural protein which plays essential roles in almost all key steps of the viral life cycle with its diverse functions depending on liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) driven by interacting with various nucleic acids. The 419-residue N protein is highly conserved in all variants including delta and omicron, and composed of both…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Phytochemistry, biological activities and in silico molecular docking studies of <em>Oxalis pes-caprae</em> L. compounds against SARS-CoV-2</strong> - Phytochemicals are directly involved in therapeutic treatment or precursors to synthesize useful drugs. The current study was aimed to evaluate the phytocompounds and their biopotentials using methanolic and n-hexane extracts of various parts of Oxalis pes-caprae. For the phytochemical analysis, standard procedures were used, whereas Aluminum Chloride reagent and Follin-ciocalteau reagent methods were used to determine total flavonoid and phenolic contents. Radical scavenging DPPH,…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Interaction of 5-[4’-(<em>N</em>-Methyl-1,3-benzimidazol-2-yl)phenyl]-10,15,20-tri-(<em>N</em>-methyl-3’-pyridyl)porphyrin Triiodide with SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein</strong> - The results of experimental studies of the interaction of the S-protein with a monohetaryl-substituted porphyrin containing a benzimidazole residue are presented. It has been revealed that the S-protein forms high-affinity complexes with the specified porphyrin. The porphyrin binding by the SARS-CoV-2 S-protein has proceeded stepwise; at the first stage, the driving force of the complexation is electrostatic interaction between the surface negatively charged regions of the protein and cationic…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Human miRNAs to Identify Potential Regions of SARS-CoV-2</strong> - It is two years now but the world is still struggling against COVID-19 due to the havoc created by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its multiple variants. Considering this perspective, in this work, we have hypothesized a new approach in order to identify potential regions in SARS-CoV-2 similar to the human miRNAs. Thus, they may have similar consequences as caused by the human miRNAs in human body. Therefore, the same way by which human miRNAs are inhibited can be applied for such potential regions of…</p></li>
</ul>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-patent-search">From Patent Search</h1>
<script>AOS.init();</script></body></html>

508
archive-daily-dose/28 June, 2022.html Normal file
View File

@ -0,0 +1,508 @@
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="" xml:lang="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<meta content="pandoc" name="generator"/>
<meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes" name="viewport"/>
<title>28 June, 2022</title>
<style type="text/css">
code{white-space: pre-wrap;}
span.smallcaps{font-variant: small-caps;}
span.underline{text-decoration: underline;}
div.column{display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; width: 50%;}
</style>
<title>Daily-Dose</title><meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" name="viewport"/><link href="styles/simple.css" rel="stylesheet"/><link href="../styles/simple.css" rel="stylesheet"/><style>*{overflow-x:hidden;}</style><link href="https://unpkg.com/aos@2.3.1/dist/aos.css" rel="stylesheet"/><script src="https://unpkg.com/aos@2.3.1/dist/aos.js"></script></head>
<body>
<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
</ul>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
<ul>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Supreme Court Decision That Defined Abortion Rights for Thirty Years</strong> - The centrist, compromising view of reproductive rights in Planned Parenthood v. Casey helped clear the path to overturn Roe v. Wade. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-supreme-court-decision-that-defined-abortion-rights-for-thirty-years">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The “Gap” in the Constitution That Led to January 6th</strong> - Trump and his allies exploited key vulnerabilities in the electoral process. Is the biggest one Congress itself? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-gap-in-the-constitution-that-led-to-january-6th">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>When the Supreme Court Takes Away a Long-Held Constitutional Right</strong> - The crude reality of the political machinations involved in overruling Roe v. Wade makes it galling to read the Court’s self-portrayal as a picture of proper judicial restraint. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/when-the-supreme-court-takes-away-a-long-held-constitutional-right">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Political Strategy of Ron DeSantis’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill</strong> - In American politics, ideology is often a smoke screen for individual ambition. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-political-strategy-of-ron-desantiss-dont-say-gay-bill">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Colorado Primary Map: Live Election Results</strong> - The latest results from the Colorado primary ahead of the 2022 midterms. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/election-2022/live-midterm-results-colorado">link</a></p></li>
</ul>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
<ul>
<li><strong>You shouldn’t have to ask your boss for an abortion</strong> -
<figure>
<img alt="Protesters wearing green hold a large banner reading “We won’t go back.”" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/RnGxXPLIcGf_VHA6kUG3nkPNakY=/0x0:5235x3926/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71023634/1404257207.0.jpg"/>
<figcaption>
Activists with Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights protest outside of the US Supreme Court on June 21. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
</figcaption>
</figure>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
Corporate America is an imperfect ally on abortion rights.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="nmJPZG">
Companies stepping up to say that they will support their workers in accessing abortions after the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/24/23181720/supreme-court-dobbs-jackson-womens-health-samuel-alito-roe-wade-abortion-marriage-contraception"><em>Roe v. Wade</em></a> raises questions both logistical and existential. For example, do you really want to ask your boss at <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/business/abortion-companies-travel-expenses.html">Dick’s Sporting Goods</a> for $4,000 and a couple of days off to terminate a pregnancy? If you start to think about the situation beyond the press release, it can get pretty disturbing pretty quickly. It reinforces how supremely screwed up the entire post-<em>Roe</em> situation is, as well as the setup of the United States health care system.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="2JESm7">
“It’s better than nothing, I’m not going to say it’s bad,” said Kate Bahn, director of labor market policy and chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. “It’s a Band-Aid on a stab wound.”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="kclM9m">
It’s a Band-Aid millions of people across the country, now stripped of their rights, would rather not need.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="GhbQE1">
How and whether all of this will work remains an open question; logistically, how companies will handle this could be <a href="https://www.protocol.com/workplace/abortion-benefits-tech-companies-disclosure">complicated</a>. It’s not yet clear how aggressive a post-<em>Roe</em> enforcement regime might be, or what lengths anti-abortion lawmakers will go to in targeting entities, including businesses, that support abortion care.
</p>
<div class="c-float-right">
<div id="3lncZi">
<div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="BTgjyV">
Some experts warn that Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/23036009/disney-culture-war-desantis-florida-dont-say-gay">attack on Disney over the company’s tepid opposition to the state’s “don’t say gay” bill</a> is a disturbing precedent. If abortion is criminalized in a state, courts might issue subpoenas trying to compel companies and health benefits programs to hand over information. Companies could also potentially be accused of aiding and abetting a crime and issued subpoenas in those cases. <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/27/23183835/roe-wade-abortion-pregnant-criminalize">There are plenty of legal fights ahead</a> and many unanswered questions.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="uUgPkj">
On an individual level, companies getting involved in abortion care puts an awkward onus on workers to go through their employers regarding a personal, private matter. It also underlines an often overlooked issue: the way health care in the US is so intertwined with and controlled by one’s employer.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="qug3q1">
Whether or not a worker can get abortion support through their employer in a state where the procedure is outlawed now becomes a matter of luck, where they work, and in many cases, whether they’re covered by their employer’s health benefits plans or not. Some companies making announcements aren’t actually going to provide assistance to all of their employees. “We could probably guess that these types of benefits would be more available to high-income workers who would be better able to afford access to abortion services anyway,” Bahn said.
</p>
<div class="c-float-right">
<aside id="KQDOeI">
<q>“It’s a Band-Aid on a stab wound”</q>
</aside>
</div>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="D98jpb">
At a broader scale, this is part of a troubling trend in the United States where the public <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22585831/starbucks-bathroom-privatization-government">increasingly leans on corporations to solve problems</a> because the government will not. Companies — many of which have donated <a href="https://popular.info/p/these-13-corporations-have-spent">millions of dollars</a> to anti-abortion politicians — aren’t going to save the people who have just lost what many believe is a fundamental constitutional and human right.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="VHB35F">
“It seems abnormal to you that the state would take away fundamental human rights and you would have to count on capitalism to provide them,” said Linda Hirshman, a lawyer and author of multiple books about activism and social change. “You haven’t lived in a world where the democratically elected government was the adversary and the market economy was the ally.”
</p>
<h3 id="UJa9Uo">
An insufficient solution to an enormous problem
</h3>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="httizI">
After a draft of the <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization</em> decision was leaked by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473">Politico</a> in May, some companies began to announce their intentions to provide support to their employees where abortion access is restricted. Since the decision came down, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/business/abortion-companies-travel-expenses.html">major companies</a> have reiterated and announced their positions.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="VWcwN8">
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/06/24/abortion-supreme-court-corporate-reaction/">Disney</a>, for example, has said it will extend its “family planning” benefit to workers who can’t get reproductive care where they live. The CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods said <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lauren-hobart-0656893_at-dicks-our-teammates-are-the-heart-of-activity-6946126055220936705-HPGn/">on LinkedIn</a> that the company would provide up to $4,000 in abortion travel expense reimbursement to workers enrolled in its medical plan and their family members. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-reimburse-us-employees-who-travel-treatments-including-abortions-2022-05-02/">Amazon</a> has told staff it will also pay up to $4,000 in assistance. A <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/business/abortion-companies-travel-expenses.html?partner=slack&amp;smid=sl-share">litany of major names</a>, including JPMorgan, Bank of America, Meta, Warner Brothers, Reddit, and a multitude of others, say they will reimburse employees for reproductive care-related travel and otherwise support workers in need of such care.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="RjYq30">
Vox Media, which owns Vox.com, has also made such a pledge. On Friday, CEO Jim Bankoff pledged to “support employees seeking access to critical health care, including abortion.” The company has put in place a $1,500 reimbursement of travel-related expenses for employees who have to travel more than 100 miles for “critical health care” needs. The benefit is also <a href="https://twitter.com/vox_union/status/1540357641368657925?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">about to be enshrined</a> in Vox Media’s new union contract.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="JqZeT9">
For many employees, it is reassuring to know that they have their employers’ support, and these measures will surely help many people. At the same time, this is a woefully insufficient solution, and it’s really unclear how any of this will work.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="SgOURZ">
“I don’t know what the individual processes will be like, but if someone is seeking reimbursement for travel, you know, do they have to go to HR? Or is it done through the insurance companies?” said Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic who has analogous experience with gender-affirming care. “What are the processes that they have to protect confidentiality, because that is particularly a huge concern, especially if you have a manager that is opposed to abortion.”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="tFQfqf">
I love my boss and really trust her. I also would not want to have to ask her — or anyone in Vox’s HR department — for a couple thousand dollars and two days off because of an unwanted pregnancy.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="pjzTHZ">
It’s worth scrutinizing which workers will be covered by these policies companies are offering up and which ones will be excluded. If, say, a travel reimbursement is covered through the employer’s health plan, workers who aren’t on the health plan — like part-time employees or contractors — wouldn’t be covered. The company would have to deal with that separately, which some firms, such as Levi Strauss, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/05/04/1096627066/companies-abortion-levis-amazon-citigroup">have said they would</a>. Amazon and Disney, which employ hundreds of thousands of people, did not respond to requests for more information about which workers would and wouldn’t be covered by their assistance programs. Dick’s pointed to its <a href="https://twitter.com/DICKS/status/1540399862688223234">original statement</a> and declined to comment further, as did <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2022/letter-to-starbucks-partners-ensuring-access-to-healthcare/">Starbucks</a>.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="KNTIFw">
“It’s not a real, just policy if it just covers your corporate headquarters employees,” said Sonja Spoo, director of reproductive rights campaigns at UltraViolet, a women’s advocacy group.
</p>
<div class="c-float-right">
<aside id="li2NNU">
<q>“It’s not a real, just policy if it just covers your corporate headquarters employees”</q>
</aside>
</div>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="lM9vnX">
While many big-name companies have said they’ll help workers with abortion assistance, others have not. Walmart and McDonald’s did not respond to inquiries about whether they have any plans to support workers in need of abortion care. It’s a controversial issue, and a lot of companies do not want to get in the middle of it.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="11sQBc">
This conversation also discounts the millions of people who work for small businesses, where what — if anything — they’ll do in the face of <em>Roe</em>’s repeal is a completely open question.
</p>
<h3 id="OYxlAK">
Republicans aren’t just going to let this go
</h3>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="vZnMwc">
Businesses saying they’ll cover travel expenses for abortions and providing other assistance are likely to quickly find themselves at odds with anti-abortion lawmakers and leaders. This could have consequences for the businesses in question and their employees.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="cEiHvO">
Some Republicans have made no secret of their desire to go after corporations they view as having progressive values. In May, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/5/rubio-introduces-bill-to-remove-tax-breaks-for-woke-corporations">introduced a bill</a> that would remove tax breaks for “woke” corporations. It would bar employers from deducting expenses related to abortion travel costs or gender-affirming care. In Texas, a group of Republican legislators <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/23/texas-companies-pay-abortions/">have said they’ll introduce bills</a> banning companies that pay for abortions in states where it’s legal from doing business in the state.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="yeWPwy">
Gov. DeSantis in Florida has <a href="https://www.vox.com/23036009/disney-culture-war-desantis-florida-dont-say-gay">provided a blueprint</a>, after attacking Disney in the wake of its objection to the state’s “don’t say gay” bill and axing some of the benefits and breaks the company was receiving.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="rVosJi">
“If you saw what happened with Disney, where DeSantis made a very public example of retaliating against Disney, there has been a culture of silence that has fallen. It’s very clear the playbook now is to attack corporations that do anything that goes against social conservatism in a very public way and get them to stop doing stuff like that,” Caraballo said. A state getting a major company to back down could have a chilling effect on everyone else. “All of the smaller companies will fall like dominoes.”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="8s0UwA">
Workers will have to depend on their employers to be brave, but this is a situation where state governments may have the upper hand.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="GoOVbm">
“At the end of the day, the state, which has a monopoly of force — that’s by definition — is more powerful than the market economy,” Hirshman said.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="5TjpCZ">
Criminalization is also a major concern. If law enforcement believes a person had an illegal abortion, they may begin to issue subpoenas and warrants as part of their investigations, including from employers and their health benefits programs.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="bcnfMY">
“That’s going to be a really interesting problem,” said Lucia Savage, chief privacy and regulatory officer at Omada Health. “Right now, if a law enforcement agency wants to look at a medical record, they can do so with a court order. So changes in reproductive health law that make things illegal creates new criminal bases for that court order to be issued.”
</p>
<div class="c-float-right">
<aside id="CPJv2y">
<q>“The playbook now is to attack corporations that do anything that goes against social conservatism”</q>
</aside>
</div>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="eUW6Aa">
There are all sorts of areas where the issue could get thorny; for example, with remote work. Say Texas tries to get a court order or issue a subpoena to investigate an employee who works from home in that state, but for a firm based in California. Would that subpoena be issued rightfully? And then there’s the company’s reaction, too. “Different employers are going to have different appetites for fighting that subpoena,” she said.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="FqpEmB">
In the mid-2010s, Apple <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_dispute">fought hard to keep from unlocking iPhones</a>, including that of a mass shooter in San Bernardino, California, despite multiple orders from law enforcement. In the abortion context, it’s not clear how many companies will be Apple. That was also a key function for customers, not a benefit to employees.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="J5Zzhl">
The Supreme Court’s overturning of <em>Roe </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/23074696/abortion-illegal-supereme-court-women-work">will change work for women</a> and people who can get pregnant, whether their employers offer reproductive support or not.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="rvOwIh">
Sometimes, separate workforce policies for women can work against them, meaning there could be unintended knock-on effects for these corporate policies. “If there’s a costly benefit that’s only available to women workers, is there a risk that could ultimately lead to a stigma or bias or discrimination?” Bahn said.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="D46SHB">
She also pointed to evidence that <a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w7527/w7527.pdf">reduced access to birth control</a> and <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545701.2019.1622029?journalCode=rfec20">restrictions on abortion services</a> can stifle women at work, making them less likely to move between jobs and into higher-paying jobs. “It changes how you think about your life if you live in a place where you don’t have control over family planning,” she said.
</p>
<h3 id="qN7KFZ">
Companies just aren’t going to save us here
</h3>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="TwXOoi">
One complicated aspect of companies now saying they’ll help support workers needing reproductive care<strong> </strong>is that some of those same companies also played a role in how we got here in the first place. Namely, if you look at their donations, you’ll see plenty have given money to anti-abortion politicians who helped craft the laws they are now fighting against. Measures being taken now are less valuable than if companies had mobilized to really fight the political battle before.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="tuBjTD">
<a href="https://weareultraviolet.org/6-companies-giving-to-anti-choice-candidates/">UltraViolet</a> has launched a <a href="https://reproreceipts.com/">website</a> that tracks corporate giving to anti-abortion candidates or their associated political action committees, and identified hundreds of thousands of dollars from firms such as Nike, Uber, Disney, and AT&amp;T. All now say they’re going to reimburse abortion travel expenses.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="9pdX6F">
“They need to stop giving to anti-abortion politicians,” Spoo said. “Their rationale for giving might not be ideological, but their impact is.” She believes companies have a responsibility to help fund the way back to abortion rights, through lobbying and supporting local abortion assistance groups.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="ie3P3b">
Bahn echoed the sentiment. “If companies really cared, I think that they should put their support behind wide-scale policy changes. Some of it could be lobbying on Capitol Hill,” she said.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="hkYN7X">
How long companies stick to their guns here is also worth keeping an eye on. At the outset of the pandemic, corporations <a href="https://www.vox.com/covid-19-coronavirus-economy-recession-stock-market/2020/7/24/21334368/pandemic-related-perks-benefits-disappearing-essential-workers-starbucks-covid-19">were very eager</a> to tell us how they were supporting their customers and workers. A few months in, after everybody stopped looking, that support often petered out.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="QioKZN">
Employers supporting workers in need of reproductive care is, generally, a good thing. But for so many people shocked, confused, and devastated by the Supreme Court’s decision, it really seems like we just should not be here in the first place. And, again, it’s worth questioning why health care is at all tied to work.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="Yv0o81">
The slogan goes, “My body, my choice,” not “My body, and after consulting with the HR department, my choice.”
</p></li>
<li><strong>The anti-abortion “social safety net”</strong> -
<figure>
<img alt="" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/c3HVPNqb2fTI8GqNHTRiX05LMJs=/0x0:3320x2490/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71023557/GettyImages_1241516254a.0.jpg"/>
<figcaption>
Anit-abortion activists celebrate outside the US Supreme Court on June 24, the day <em>Roe v. Wade</em> was overturned. | Matt McClain/Washington Post via Getty Images
</figcaption>
</figure>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
The right wants “crisis pregnancy centers” to replace abortion clinics.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="r67mqd">
When the last abortion clinic in Texas <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/24/abortion-clinic-dobbs-supreme-court-roe/">closes its doors for good</a>, Prestonwood Pregnancy Center will remain.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="juHnir">
So will Agape, with locations in Round Rock, Austin, Cedar Park, and Taylor. So will the Pregnancy Help Center, operating in Texas’s Brazoria County since 1990.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="xfW7Ad">
These are pregnancy resource centers, also known as <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/3/2/21146011/crisis-pregnancy-center-resource-abortion-title-x">crisis pregnancy centers</a>, and for many years, their main mission has been to convince people not to have abortions (the three centers above did not respond to Vox’s request for comment). But now that <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/24/23181720/supreme-court-dobbs-jackson-womens-health-samuel-alito-roe-wade-abortion-marriage-contraception">the Supreme Court has overturned <em>Roe v. Wade</em></a>, abortion bans are either in effect or imminent in Texas and <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23023675/anti-abortion-movement-roe-sb8-medication-abortion">more than 20 other states</a> around the country. In the coming months and years, pregnancy resource centers will have a bigger role to play — one that has researchers and reproductive justice advocates worried.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="PCKjj1">
While many centers offer supplies like baby clothes and diapers, they’ve also been criticized for misleading pregnant people and spreading <a href="https://scholars.org/brief/study-information-and-misinformation-presented-websites-crisis-pregnancy-centers-georgia">false claims</a> about the dangers of abortion. In <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/2012/09/public-health-risks-crisis-pregnancy-centers#:~:text=While%20crisis%20pregnancy%20center%20staff,whether%20to%20terminate%20an%20unintended">one congressional investigation</a>, 87 percent of centers gave false or misleading medical information. Some centers have also been found to <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/2012/09/public-health-risks-crisis-pregnancy-centers#:~:text=While%20crisis%20pregnancy%20center%20staff,whether%20to%20terminate%20an%20unintended">encourage people to delay an abortion decision</a> until they are past the gestational limit, sometimes by misrepresenting state laws; <a href="https://time.com/6189528/anti-abortion-pregnancy-centers-collect-data-investigation/">one Texas woman</a> even says she was told she could she could continue carrying an ectopic pregnancy — which are highly dangerous and almost never viable — if she was “careful.”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="Aprozw">
“It’s dangerous because they position themselves as legitimate health care centers,” said Onyenma Obiekea, policy analyst for the Black Women for Wellness Action Project, a reproductive justice advocacy group. “You earn the trust of community members only to offer this disinformation.”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="oiA3KC">
As anti-abortion advocates and lawmakers plan for a post-<em>Roe</em> future, they’re increasingly talking about services people will need to get through unplanned pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting: things like diapers, formula, and help with food and rent.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="oSgKEK">
For a lot of conservatives, the go-to solution for providing those resources is pregnancy centers. In Texas and at least eight other states, the centers already get government funding, and experts expect that funding to grow as the facilities move into providing more kinds of services, like adoption. The centers are part of a kind of parallel social safety net, created by anti-abortion groups and suffused with anti-abortion values, that’s likely to get larger and stronger in the years to come.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="weRVh1">
Though the centers don’t seem to serve large numbers of clients — yet — they do offer “basic things that financially struggling people need,” said Katrina Kimport, a professor at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), a group at the University of California San Francisco, who has <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/3/2/21146011/crisis-pregnancy-center-resource-abortion-title-x">studied the centers</a>. However, critics say that in addition to spreading misinformation, they also promulgate a narrow vision of heterosexual, two-parent family life that may not be achievable or desirable for the people they aim to serve. At least as it stands now, “this is inadequate care.”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="XS8EL9">
Inadequate though it may be, the anti-abortion safety net is about to see an influx of power and money. Americans on both sides of the issue will have to reckon with what that means.
</p>
<h3 id="9wuaN7">
Anti-abortion pregnancy centers are a big part of the right’s post-<em>Roe</em> plan
</h3>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="TVtVGZ">
Abortion opponents have long been <a href="https://www.prochoiceamerica.org/campaign/the-hypocrisy-of-the-pro-life-movement/">criticized</a> for ignoring the needs of babies after they’re born, as well as <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23055300/supreme-court-overturn-roe-wade-abortion-bans-health-care">the harms</a> of having to carry an unplanned pregnancy to term. Leading up to the end of <em>Roe, </em>however, conservative lawmakers and activists have started to speak more loudly and publicly about what abortion bans are going to mean for people facing pregnancies they didn’t intend. “We are certainly going to have to provide women’s health at a higher level,” Louisiana state Rep. Rick Edmonds, a Republican and a pastor, <a href="https://lailluminator.com/2022/05/12/if-louisiana-bans-abortion-will-the-state-spend-more-money-on-pregnant-people-infants/">told the Louisiana Illuminator</a> last month. “We are going to see more babies, not less. So we have to find a way to add resources.”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="wBSJI8">
It’s a concern for rank-and-file conservatives too. In a <a href="https://research.lifeway.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/American-Views-on-Abortion-Report-5_24_22.pdf">recent poll</a> conducted for the Land Center for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, <a href="https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/crisis-pregnancy-centers-will-face-increase-in-demand-in-post-roe-america-expert-says.html">62 percent of people</a> who identified as “pro-life” agreed with the statement that a state that restricts abortion also “has a responsibility to increase support/options for women who have unwanted pregnancies.”
</p>
<figure class="e-image">
<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/6Gga9IMaNzvcasDw6yGBFcD4Er8=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23655472/GettyImages_612066388.jpg"/> <cite>Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images</cite>
<figcaption>
Fetus dolls in a basket at the pro-life Carolina Pregnancy Center in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 2016.
</figcaption>
</figure>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="DuQNku">
The attitude is a change for Republicans, who have often opposed government programs for parents and children. “The political winds are definitely shifting,” said Patrick Brown, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), a conservative think tank. There’s “a lot more room to run on what the government should be doing and what it should be spending money on.”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="fjFAza">
Historically, however, the states that will ban abortion now that <em>Roe</em> has fallen also <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23057032/supreme-court-abortion-rights-roe-v-wade-state-aid">have the weakest support for children and families</a>, often as a result of decisions made by Republican legislators. Reversing that, if lawmakers want to, will be no easy task.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="MWHSVg">
In some cases, conservatives are supporting policies that have been progressive priorities in the past, including an expanded child tax credit or child allowance (a version of which Republican Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) <a href="https://www.deseret.com/2022/6/15/23167413/mitt-romney-steven-daines-richard-burr-family-security-act-2-0-child-allowance-work-requirement-bill">introduced in June</a>) and extended Medicaid coverage for people after they give birth. (Some Republicans remain staunchly opposed to such policies, with <a href="https://www.mississippifreepress.org/21646/house-political-games-kill-medicaid-extension-for-new-mothers-in-mississippi">one Mississippi state legislator</a> recently arguing that “we need to look for ways to keep people off, not put them on” Medicaid.)
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="si5ftI">
Then there are pregnancy resource centers.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="kimNCg">
The centers <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/3/2/21146011/crisis-pregnancy-center-resource-abortion-title-x">have been around since the 1960s</a>, proliferating after 1973, when <em>Roe</em> established the right to an abortion nationwide. They were founded, mostly by evangelical or other Christian groups, on the idea that “one-on-one ministry to people who were pregnant could talk people out of abortion,” Kimport said. Given that the centers’ original mission was to stop abortion, you might imagine that many would close after the fall of <em>Roe</em> since the procedure will now be banned across much of the country.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="7rqpER">
However, it’s already clear from public statements by the centers themselves and anti-abortion lawmakers that these facilities aren’t going anywhere. Instead, “what we will see is an attempt by abortion opponents and anti-abortion legislators to propose that these centers are the appropriate way for people who would want but cannot obtain an abortion to receive services,” Kimport said.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="bxmXaH">
That’s already happening. “If at some point <em>Roe v. Wade</em> is overturned, we’re going to have to step up and fund places like these centers to be able to reach out to all those women who are now going, ‘I need help,’” Arkansas state Rep. Cindy Crawford, a Republican, <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arkansas/articles/2022-03-03/arkansas-lawmakers-ok-1m-for-pregnancy-resource-centers">told the Associated Press</a> in March. Edmonds, the Louisiana representative, is <a href="https://lailluminator.com/2022/05/12/if-louisiana-bans-abortion-will-the-state-spend-more-money-on-pregnant-people-infants/">backing a bill</a> that would earmark $1 million from the state budget to help the centers build an online service network.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="2FrUIN">
That’s on top of money that the centers already get from Louisiana and other states around the country as part of “alternatives to abortion” programs, which have been around since the 1990s and have grown in recent years. The largest, in Texas, received $100 million over two years in the latest budget cycle, and abortion opponents hope to see that grow further. “We always are working toward the increase in funding for the alternatives to abortion program,” said Amy O’Donnell, director of communications for the group Texas Alliance for Life.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="73Q9Ej">
“Our goal is to help women remove obstacles that they may face in going through an unplanned pregnancy so that they can successfully give birth to the baby and then keep that baby with support or place that baby for adoption, if that’s their choice,” O’Donnell said. “With that, we recognize that they’re going to need support both before and after birth.”
</p>
<h3 id="x8CZ20">
Critics say the anti-abortion safety net … isn’t one
</h3>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="Ge0phB">
Pregnancy resource centers do offer some forms of support to the people who visit them. In <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/3/2/21146011/crisis-pregnancy-center-resource-abortion-title-x">a small study</a> published in 2020, Kimport found that women who visited the centers got things like baby clothes and prenatal vitamins, as well as services like pregnancy tests. Especially for low-income people, the centers can fill some of the gaps in states where more conventional social services, from Medicaid to food stamps, have been cut to the bone.
</p>
<figure class="e-image">
<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/wG2iSMK74ImJQVJvzOBMpLIjhMU=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23655479/GettyImages_1241090084.jpg"/> <cite>Katherine Frey/Washington Post via Getty Images</cite>
<figcaption>
Tere Haring, founder and executive director of Allied Womens Center in San Antonio, Texas, looks over donated items in October 2021. She says the center helps women with rent, utilities, diapers, clothing, and other needs for up to five years after a child is born.
</figcaption>
</figure>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="wfghd2">
However, researchers and reproductive-rights advocates have deep concerns about the idea that pregnancy resource centers could step in to become a substitute for the right to an abortion.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="9fUYQK">
At the most basic level, the centers do not provide abortion, which is something a lot of people want. Reproductive rights groups argue that support during an unplanned pregnancy is no substitute for the choice of whether to carry that pregnancy to term. “There’s nothing that a crisis pregnancy center can offer that is equal to getting an abortion,” said Morgan Moone, strategic data and advocacy manager for the New Orleans-based Reproductive Justice Action Collective (ReJAC). “Abortion is providing opportunity; it’s providing autonomy over an individual’s body.”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="tFGGSn">
Moreover, people who are seeking abortion may not be interested in goods and services to help them carry the pregnancy to term instead. <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/3/2/21146011/crisis-pregnancy-center-resource-abortion-title-x">Kimport’s research</a> suggests that pregnancy resource centers are not especially popular. During a two-year period of recruiting study participants at prenatal clinics, she and her team were able to find only 21 people who had been to such a center and were willing to talk about the experience (and only a handful who had visited one but didn’t want to talk).
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="EknrBT">
The majority of people who had visited the centers were not considering abortion; they just needed assistance continuing a wanted pregnancy. After Texas passed <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/8/31/22650303/supreme-court-abortion-texas-sb8-jackson-roe-wade-greg-abbott">the restrictive abortion law SB 8</a>, abortions among Texans fell by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/upshot/texas-abortion-women-data.html">only about 10 percent</a>, suggesting that most people in the state who wanted abortions found a way to get them — they did not visit a pregnancy center for support in giving birth and raising a child.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="3bTS0L">
Another concern is the actual services that pregnancy resource centers provide. <a href="https://scholars.org/brief/study-information-and-misinformation-presented-websites-crisis-pregnancy-centers-georgia">Research from the University of Georgia</a> has found that while the centers sometimes present themselves as medical providers and offer services like ultrasounds, they also often <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/3/2/21146011/crisis-pregnancy-center-resource-abortion-title-x">spread misinformation about abortion</a>, such as the false claim that it causes breast cancer. The centers often are not staffed by medical personnel. <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/2012/09/public-health-risks-crisis-pregnancy-centers#:~:text=While%20crisis%20pregnancy%20center%20staff,whether%20to%20terminate%20an%20unintended">One 2007 study</a> conducted by the NARAL ProChoice Maryland Fund found that just 18 percent of Maryland centers had staff with medical training. In addition, anti-abortion centers may spread <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26493590/">misinformation about sexually transmitted infections</a> and contraception, or provide no information at all.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="1vnZfN">
“That’s harmful,” said Obiekea, of the Black Women for Wellness Action Project. “This is information about your health.”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="14vn9H">
The centers are also not subject to the same <a href="https://www.theregreview.org/2020/10/03/saturday-seminar-cpc-conundrum/">ethical and privacy regulations</a> that govern medical clinics. The centers can collect and store data on clients’ sexual and reproductive history, test results, ultrasounds, and more, <a href="https://time.com/6189528/anti-abortion-pregnancy-centers-collect-data-investigation/">according to Time</a>. That data could then be turned over to law enforcement to sue or prosecute abortion providers or even <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23023675/anti-abortion-movement-roe-sb8-medication-abortion">pregnant people themselves</a>.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="KpivfW">
Most pregnancy resource centers remain affiliated with churches or other Christian groups, and Christian religious messages are typically part of their counseling. Anti-abortion advocates say the centers are still open to all, regardless of religion: “There are some who may look for an open-door opportunity to share their Christian views, but they are also very happy to navigate around that,” O’Donnell said. According to Kimport, however, while people don’t have to be Christian to visit a center, hearing the religious messages is typically “not optional.”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="A4npZg">
Moreover, the centers’ programming is often “informed by a normative idea of gender, of families, that may or may not conform to what the clients want, are interested in, or are even able to achieve,” Kimport said. That includes “an expectation of monogamy, of marriage, of a two-parent home,” and of a male breadwinner and “female caretaker and primary caregiver,” which may not be realistic or desirable for many Americans. Overall, “it’s not a client-centered safety net,” Kimport said. “It is much more top-down-directed, and directed by people who, to the best of my knowledge, do not have experience in the delivery of basic services.”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="DyIjX8">
Then there’s the fact that diverting state funding to pregnancy resource centers can take away from the existing social safety net. In <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/04/states-divert-federal-welfare-funding-anti-abortion-clinics">at least 10 states</a>, for example, the centers receive money from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program — money that would otherwise go to non-religiously affiliated welfare programs for kids and parents in poverty. Such programs aren’t perfect; they, too, can employ a top-down approach that fails to center families’ needs.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="r186eA">
But pregnancy resource centers are not set up to act as a substitute. “These centers have not historically been tied into existing structures of the social safety net,” Kimport said. They typically don’t have social workers on staff and are not well-versed in navigating the complex web of government services available for low-income families. “People are not getting any kind of wraparound care.”
</p>
<figure class="e-image">
<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/eWzq1gP1nXx5uBVcPI-LoFiZ6uY=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23655510/AP22178472591213.jpg"/> <cite>Leah M. Willingham/AP</cite>
<figcaption>
A sign advertises free pregnancy tests and abortion information outside the Woman’s Choice Pregnancy Resource Center in Charleston, West Virginia, on June 17. The anti-abortion center is located next to Women’s Health Center of West Virginia, seen at left in the background, the only abortion provider in the state.
</figcaption>
</figure>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="xrp2iR">
The centers also aren’t always subject to the same kinds of reporting and transparency requirements that govern social safety net programs, leading some to question <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/08/texas-abortion-budget/">how they’re really spending their money</a>. A <a href="https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2018-07-20/crisis-pregnancy-centers-money-for-nothing/">2018 investigation by the Austin Chronicle</a> found that at a number of Texas centers, the overwhelming majority of state money was spent on counseling rather than on any kind of tangible goods like baby clothes or food.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="m6dvQ9">
Some say it’s impossible to know how effective pregnancy resource centers will be as a part of the social safety net until they actually enter their new, post-<em>Roe</em> role. As Brown, the EPPC fellow, put it, “you can’t know until it’s live.”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="wuvynK">
One thing, however, is clear: <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23023675/anti-abortion-movement-roe-sb8-medication-abortion">The anti-abortion movement</a> is about to have its biggest chance in decades to shape American public policy, and pregnancy resource centers — along with churches and other religiously affiliated organizations like a Dallas-area <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/16/evangelical-women-texas-abortion/">“maternity ranch”</a> for pregnant people and single moms — are a major part of the movement’s vision.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="6hVO2Q">
Given this, some hope the centers can adapt to their new role and get better at supporting people, by offering more postpartum help, for example, or doing a better job of working with other services. “To the extent that this is the delivery system that states have decided to invest in, I hope the centers can grow from that,” Kimport said.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="QgK2r1">
Reproductive rights and justice organizations have also made some efforts to create resource centers of their own. <a href="https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/indiana-abortion-advocates-plan-for-future-after-roe">All Options Pregnancy Center</a> in Bloomington, Indiana, for example, offers diapers and wipes alongside referrals to abortion clinics and funding resources.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="LUIhCD">
Other advocates are working on providing information on all of people’s reproductive options, including abortion, even as it gets more difficult to access. “When we find ourselves at the crossroads of moments like this, where there’s a lot of confusion, where there’s a lot of fear, where there’s a lot of emotion, it’s easy to not know where to turn,” said Moore of ReJAC, the New Orleans reproductive justice group. To combat that feeling, the organization is working on raising awareness around where and when people can still get abortions, as well as how they can help others with money or transportation.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="hY6RAM">
The Black Women for Wellness Action Project, meanwhile, is backing <a href="https://trackbill.com/bill/california-assembly-bill-2586-reproductive-and-sexual-health-inequities/2230778/">a California bill</a> that would fund community-based organizations that provide medically accurate sexual and reproductive health information. “It’s a challenge,” Obiekea said of the post-<em>Roe</em> landscape, but “not one that we’re backing down from.”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="xE4Txi">
“We absolutely believe in the power of an informed public,” Moore said. “It’s something that we believe is critical in ensuring that people can make the best decisions for their bodies, for their families, for their communities.”
</p></li>
<li><strong>The Aftermath</strong> -
<figure>
<img alt="" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/dTh-XrwmFOE_fNSGBbT9zEsmhiM=/609x0:5500x3668/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71023479/8W3A5970.0.jpg"/>
<figcaption>
Shantel Jones holds her son in New Orleans in March 2022. Both were affected by the closure of a local maternity ward. | Kathleen Flynn for Vox
</figcaption>
</figure>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
A series about the collateral health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in communities around the US.
</p>
<figure class="e-image">
<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/sHd7z8cj65qEXbktFto16CNQWV8=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22658207/IMG_6211_20210612_144505_copy.jpg"/> <cite>Courtesy of the Jolley family</cite>
</figure>
<h3 id="RE3Y3k">
<a href="https://www.vox.com/22439911/doctors-mental-health-suicide-coronavirus-pandemic">The doctors are not all right</a>
</h3>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="J0eDS9">
Doctors need mental health support, but the medical profession often punishes them for getting it.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="hF0BDm">
<em>By Julia Belluz</em>
</p>
<figure class="e-image">
<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/ZiIUToE53s1Aitn-bfsz8grDH0g=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22751186/DSCF2051_copy.jpg"/> <cite>Joseph Rushmore for Vox</cite>
</figure>
<h3 id="9jkeHU">
<a href="https://www.vox.com/22442407/care-for-caregivers-mental-health-covid">America isn’t taking care of caregivers</a>
</h3>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="qC1v3m">
48 million people provide unpaid care to their loved ones in the US. Here’s how to help them.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="K3IKwL">
<em>By Katherine Harmon Courage</em>
</p>
<figure class="e-image">
<img alt="A person climbing a snow-covered mountainside." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Zmzv6B7e2tAf9vw-FDih3KBQbG4=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23224360/Alexis_Leader_SAR_11.jpg"/> <cite>Nick Danielson for Vox</cite>
</figure>
<h3 id="uIGKAk">
<a href="https://www.vox.com/22921788/mental-health-first-responders-rescuers-trauma-ptsd-resilience">They save skiers and hikers in the wilderness. Here’s how they think about resilience.</a>
</h3>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="QTv2yr">
Search-and-rescue responders have powerful new ways of recovering from trauma.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="P16hbz">
<em>by Christopher Tedeschi </em>
</p>
<figure class="e-image">
<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/MPRmZ5Pcv3QMwcSu9VuPOQ0gebE=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23286601/MLM_Willimantic_777.jpg"/> <cite>Michelle McLoughlin for Vox</cite>
</figure>
<h3 id="JGiEyZ">
<a href="https://www.vox.com/22923432/maternity-wards-hospitals-covid-19-pandemic">Maternity wards are shuttering across the US during the pandemic</a>
</h3>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="CDKBA4">
The closures could make giving birth more dangerous in the United States.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="y6iXbQ">
<em>by Dylan Scott </em>
</p>
<figure class="e-image">
<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/3Fip2a4dPGQXNdyK6bgEtuk12OI=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23645388/ClaytonMcCray39.jpg"/> <cite>Stephanie Strasburg for Vox</cite>
</figure>
<h3 id="bfC85x">
<a href="https://www.vox.com/e/22940019">Health care in jails and prisons is terrible. The pandemic made it even worse. </a>
</h3>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="5KRVvc">
America’s 1.7 million incarcerated people have a constitutional right to medical treatment. During the pandemic, many of them say they didn’t get it in time.
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="3RJ1ou">
<em>by Victoria Law</em>
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="pOh9mw">
<em>This series is supported in part by the </em><a href="https://nihcm.org/grants/journalism-grants"><em>NIHCM Foundation</em></a>.
</p></li>
</ul>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
<ul>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Aus vs SL | Australia up for Sri Lanka’s spin challenge in Test series, says captain Cummins</strong> - Two match Test series between hosts Sri Lanka and Australia will commence on Wednesday</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Multifaceted, Super Gladiator, Forever Together, Silver Canyon and Gimme impress</strong> -</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Spinner Radha Yadav moves up in Women’s T20 rankings</strong> - Smriti Mandhana (fourth), Jemimah Rodrigues (14th) and captain Harmanpreet Kaur (18th) have retained their places in the batting list.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine's Anhelina Kalinina will use Wimbledon prize money to rebuild parents' home</strong> - Anhelina Kalinina said her parents are now staying at her apartment while the rebuilding work takes place at their home in Irpin, which was retaken from Russian troops in late March</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>AFC extends deadline for 2023 Asian Cup hosting rights bids</strong> - Interested parties must confirm their bid by July 15, the AFC said in a statement after China’s strict COVID-19 policy resulted in the event being moved out of the country</p></li>
</ul>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
<ul>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>‘Absolute hypocrisy,’ say activists on Zubair’s arrest as India commits to freedom of speech at G7 meet</strong> - Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair was arrested by Delhi Police on Monday for allegedly hurting religious sentiments through one of his tweets posted in 2018</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Students in Andhra Pradesh to be provided with Byju’s learning tabs, says Jagan</strong> - Chief Minister suggests setting up digital boards and TV screens in schools</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>20 students still under observation</strong> - Will be discharged today</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Foundation stone laid for housing complex for construction workers</strong> - It will come up on 10 acres at a cost of ₹10 crore</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Andhra Pradesh: TDP writes to NHRC over suspicious death of man in Nellore village</strong> - Provide financial compensation to the family, Varla Ramaiah writes</p></li>
</ul>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
<ul>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kremenchuk strike: ‘I didn’t think they would hit a mall - it’s a safe place’</strong> - A Russian missile hit a busy mall in Ukraine. The BBC spoke to some of those who were inside.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Nazi camp guard, 101, given five years for aiding murder</strong> - The oldest Nazi criminal ever to stand trial in Germany, he had always denied being a camp guard.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Nato summit: Five challenges for the military alliance</strong> - After Russia’s shock invasion of Ukraine, what issues are likely to dominate the Nato summit?</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Will Sweden and Finland go from neutral to Nato?</strong> - It would be a historic shift if they do and Turkey is the only obstacle to them joining.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Credit Suisse bank found guilty over money-laundering charges</strong> - The bank is fined by a Swiss court for involvement in money-laundering linked to a Bulgarian drugs ring.</p></li>
</ul>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
<ul>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Pro-Russia threat group Killnet is pummeling Lithuania with DDoS attacks</strong> - DDoSes aim to punish Baltic country’s blockade of shipments to Kaliningrad. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1863112">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Tesla bundles battery users to make it look like lower power demand</strong> - Program meant to lower demand pays home owners to use battery instead of the grid. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1863105">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>On the brink of ruin, Juul files emergency petition to fight FDA ban</strong> - For now, a federal appeals court allowed Juul to stay on the market until a legal review. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1863071">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Google Hangouts finally gets a shutdown date: November 2022 [Update]</strong> - Hangouts was the primary Google messaging app from 2013–2016. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1863058">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Steam Deck shipments “more than double” this week—so let’s estimate how many</strong> - We match good hardware-manufacturing news with a dive into Valve’s public-facing data. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1863038">link</a></p></li>
</ul>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</h1>
<ul>
<li><strong>A trucker who has been out on the road for two months stops at a brothel outside Atlanta.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
<div class="md">
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
He walks directly up to the Madam, drops down $500, and says, “I want your ugliest woman and a grilled cheese sandwich!”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
The Madam is astonished. “But sir, for that kind of money you could have one of my prettiest ladies and a three-course meal.”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
The trucker replies, “Listen darlin’, I’m not horny – I’m just homesick.”
</p>
</div>
<!-- SC_ON -->
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Remarkable-Youth-504"> /u/Remarkable-Youth-504 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/vmdrbk/a_trucker_who_has_been_out_on_the_road_for_two/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/vmdrbk/a_trucker_who_has_been_out_on_the_road_for_two/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
<li><strong>Two clowns are eating a cannibal…</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
<div class="md">
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
One turns to the other and says, “I think we got this joke wrong.”
</p>
</div>
<!-- SC_ON -->
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/skeptibat"> /u/skeptibat </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/vm8u8c/two_clowns_are_eating_a_cannibal/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/vm8u8c/two_clowns_are_eating_a_cannibal/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
<li><strong>I apologised to my girlfriend during sex for slipping it in the wrong hole</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
<div class="md">
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
But of course she couldn’t hear me with my dick in her ear.
</p>
</div>
<!-- SC_ON -->
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Scientific__Nerd"> /u/Scientific__Nerd </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/vmh7f0/i_apologised_to_my_girlfriend_during_sex_for/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/vmh7f0/i_apologised_to_my_girlfriend_during_sex_for/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
<li><strong>What kind of drug should dinosaurs never take?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
<div class="md">
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
A steroid.
</p>
</div>
<!-- SC_ON -->
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/daird1"> /u/daird1 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/vmg6x7/what_kind_of_drug_should_dinosaurs_never_take/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/vmg6x7/what_kind_of_drug_should_dinosaurs_never_take/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
<li><strong>An Englishman is hiking in Scotland and he pauses to drink from a stream. A passing shepherd calls out “Dinnae drink frae that, it’s all fulla coo piss an shite!”</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
<div class="md">
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
The Englishman says to him in a cut-glass accent “I’m terribly sorry, my good fellow, would you very much mind repeating that in the Queen’s English?”
</p>
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
And the shepherd says “I’m terribly sorry sir, I was only asking if you would like to borrow this tin cup and get a proper drink?”
</p>
</div>
<!-- SC_ON -->
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/FancyAlligator"> /u/FancyAlligator </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/vlx8ge/an_englishman_is_hiking_in_scotland_and_he_pauses/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/vlx8ge/an_englishman_is_hiking_in_scotland_and_he_pauses/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
</ul>
<script>AOS.init();</script></body></html>

4
index.html
View File

File diff suppressed because one or more lines are too long