Got my second shot yesterday of Pfizer
and some chills last night tho and couldn’t sleep
Tired right now, but I’m good
and some chills last night tho and couldn’t sleep
Tired right now, but I’m good
COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)
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Imagine being so anti-science the Taliban makes more sense than you 
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Taliban Allow Polio Vaccine Program to Restart in Afghanistan
Azi Paybarah
4-5 minutes
Taliban leaders also agreed to allow women to be frontline workers for the effort, according to the World Health Organization and UNICEF.
Credit...Rahmat Gul/Associated Press
Oct. 19, 2021, 6:34 a.m. ET
In an effort to eradicate polio and boost health measures for children in Afghanistan, the Taliban government has agreed to restart a door-to-door vaccination program next month, and will allow women to be frontline workers in the drive, health officials announced on Tuesday.
The announcement, by the World Health Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund, is a breakthrough in a country that has been called the “world’s polio capital,” a place where vaccinators have faced the twin challenges of a lack of access to patients and deadly violence.
The five-day nationwide program to distribute the polio vaccine, which is given orally and in multiple doses, will begin Nov. 8, according to officials. The drive aims to reach about 10 million children, according to Dr. Hamid Jafari, head of polio eradication for the W.H.O.’s eastern Mediterranean region.
More than 3.3 million children had previously “remained inaccessible to vaccination campaigns,” according to the statement announcing the drive. Children who are 6 months to 59 months old will also be given vitamin A supplements during the campaign, officials said.
Word of the agreement comes as the Taliban have been showing some limited flexibility in dealings with the outside world as the government seeks desperately needed aid amid an ailing economy and increasing food scarcity.
In addition to this polio vaccination program, “all parties have agreed on the need to immediately start measles and Covid-19 vaccination campaigns,” the statement from the groups said. And a second polio vaccination program in Afghanistan will be synchronized with one in neighboring Pakistan that is scheduled to begin in December, it said.
Half a dozen more vaccination programs are scheduled to begin next year, according to Dr. Jafari.
In announcing the vaccination program, health officials said the Taliban “expressed their commitment” to allow women to be frontline workers in the drive and “for providing security and assuring the safety of all health workers across the country.”
Dr. Jafari said that tens of thousands of women were expected to work in the vaccination effort, as vaccinators, supervisors and managers.
The announcement comes months after several women working as polio vaccinators were killed, stifling efforts to inoculate children against the disease. In March, three women working for the government’s polio vaccine campaign were shot dead in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, local officials said.
“UNICEF is outraged by this attack,” the organization said at the time. “Frontline health workers should never be a target of violence.”
Around the same time of the shootings, there was an explosion at the city’s regional hospital, near the compound where the vaccines are stored, officials said.
No group took credit for those attacks. But the Taliban have in the past expressed skepticism of door-to-door vaccination drives, saying they believed some vaccinators acted as spies.
The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August, two decades after the American-led invasion of the country drove the group from power.
Health officials welcomed the Taliban’s support for the program.
“We’ve been working with them for decades,” Dr. Jafari said, noting that the Taliban controlled large parts of the country during their exile from power. The Taliban “have always been supportive of polio vaccination and eradication,” he said.
Dr. Ahmed al-Mandhari, the WHO’s regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean, said, “The urgency with which the Taliban leadership wants the polio campaign to proceed demonstrates a joint commitment to maintain the health system and restart essential immunizations to avert further outbreaks of preventable diseases.”
Restarting this vaccination program, said George Laryea-Adjei, UNICEF’s regional director for South Asia, is “a step closer toward achieving our shared hope of eradicating polio in the region.”
nytimes.com
Taliban Allow Polio Vaccine Program to Restart in Afghanistan
Azi Paybarah
4-5 minutes
Taliban leaders also agreed to allow women to be frontline workers for the effort, according to the World Health Organization and UNICEF.
Credit...Rahmat Gul/Associated Press
Oct. 19, 2021, 6:34 a.m. ET
In an effort to eradicate polio and boost health measures for children in Afghanistan, the Taliban government has agreed to restart a door-to-door vaccination program next month, and will allow women to be frontline workers in the drive, health officials announced on Tuesday.
The announcement, by the World Health Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund, is a breakthrough in a country that has been called the “world’s polio capital,” a place where vaccinators have faced the twin challenges of a lack of access to patients and deadly violence.
The five-day nationwide program to distribute the polio vaccine, which is given orally and in multiple doses, will begin Nov. 8, according to officials. The drive aims to reach about 10 million children, according to Dr. Hamid Jafari, head of polio eradication for the W.H.O.’s eastern Mediterranean region.
More than 3.3 million children had previously “remained inaccessible to vaccination campaigns,” according to the statement announcing the drive. Children who are 6 months to 59 months old will also be given vitamin A supplements during the campaign, officials said.
Word of the agreement comes as the Taliban have been showing some limited flexibility in dealings with the outside world as the government seeks desperately needed aid amid an ailing economy and increasing food scarcity.
In addition to this polio vaccination program, “all parties have agreed on the need to immediately start measles and Covid-19 vaccination campaigns,” the statement from the groups said. And a second polio vaccination program in Afghanistan will be synchronized with one in neighboring Pakistan that is scheduled to begin in December, it said.
Half a dozen more vaccination programs are scheduled to begin next year, according to Dr. Jafari.
In announcing the vaccination program, health officials said the Taliban “expressed their commitment” to allow women to be frontline workers in the drive and “for providing security and assuring the safety of all health workers across the country.”
Dr. Jafari said that tens of thousands of women were expected to work in the vaccination effort, as vaccinators, supervisors and managers.
The announcement comes months after several women working as polio vaccinators were killed, stifling efforts to inoculate children against the disease. In March, three women working for the government’s polio vaccine campaign were shot dead in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, local officials said.
“UNICEF is outraged by this attack,” the organization said at the time. “Frontline health workers should never be a target of violence.”
Around the same time of the shootings, there was an explosion at the city’s regional hospital, near the compound where the vaccines are stored, officials said.
No group took credit for those attacks. But the Taliban have in the past expressed skepticism of door-to-door vaccination drives, saying they believed some vaccinators acted as spies.
The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August, two decades after the American-led invasion of the country drove the group from power.
Health officials welcomed the Taliban’s support for the program.
“We’ve been working with them for decades,” Dr. Jafari said, noting that the Taliban controlled large parts of the country during their exile from power. The Taliban “have always been supportive of polio vaccination and eradication,” he said.
Dr. Ahmed al-Mandhari, the WHO’s regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean, said, “The urgency with which the Taliban leadership wants the polio campaign to proceed demonstrates a joint commitment to maintain the health system and restart essential immunizations to avert further outbreaks of preventable diseases.”
Restarting this vaccination program, said George Laryea-Adjei, UNICEF’s regional director for South Asia, is “a step closer toward achieving our shared hope of eradicating polio in the region.”
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So fukking true. They trying to medal at the oppression Olympics and they’re the hosts. Ridiculous
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Covid: Brazil's Bolsonaro 'should be charged with crimes against humanity'
Brazil's president should be accused of a series of crimes over his handling of the country's Covid-19 pandemic, a major inquiry report says.
The report is the culmination of a six-month inquiry that has revealed scandals and corruption in government.
President Bolsonaro has been accused of failing to control the virus that has killed more than 600,000 Brazilians.
The panel wants Mr Bolsonaro to face a number of criminal charges, including crimes against humanity.
Initial drafts of the report had recommended the president be charged with homicide and genocide against indigenous groups.
But these recommendations were dropped from the final 1,200 page report.
The last minute changes to the report are a measure of just how charged the political atmosphere is here in Brazil.
These past six months, Brazilians have been glued to the inquiry that has revealed scandal after scandal, and there's no doubt in anyone's mind - left or right of the political spectrum - that this has done damage to Jair Bolsonaro's popularity.
Those who still support him say it's politically motivated. But for those angry over how he handled the pandemic, the allegations are serious and they want to see justice done.
And that's where the sticking point seems to have been - original accusations of mass homicide and indigenous genocide have been removed from the report because there was no consensus. Instead, they've been replaced by the crime of "epidemic resulting in death" - as well as other charges including crimes against humanity and misuse of public funds.
There are 11 senators that make up the inquiry - seven of which are critics of President Bolsonaro. But the critics all need to agree on the charges in order for them to get a majority and ensure the recommendations can be voted on and taken to federal prosecutors who can decide the next step.
Despite the serious allegations, it is not clear what this means for Mr Bolsonaro, according to our correspondent.
The draft report still needs to be voted on by the Senate commission where it could be vetoed and altered, and there is no guarantee it will lead to criminal charges.
Image source, Reuters
Image caption, President Bolsonaro continues to oppose any lockdown measures to curb the outbreak
President Bolsonaro has dismissed the Congressional inquiry as politically motivated. He has frequently spoken out against lockdowns, masks and vaccinations.
In March, he told Brazilians to "stop whining" about Covid, a day after the country saw a record rise in deaths over a 24-hour period.
However, Mr Bolsonaro's popularity has already been dented by the pandemic, and this report could make life much harder for him if he wants to run for a second term in Brazil's 2022 elections.
Brazil's confirmed Covid-related death toll is the second-highest in the world - behind only the US.
Speaking to the BBC ahead of the report's publication, the inquiry rapporteur, Senator Renan Calheiros, said the panel wanted to punish those who contributed to "this massacre of Brazilians".
Brazil's president should be accused of a series of crimes over his handling of the country's Covid-19 pandemic, a major inquiry report says.
The report is the culmination of a six-month inquiry that has revealed scandals and corruption in government.
President Bolsonaro has been accused of failing to control the virus that has killed more than 600,000 Brazilians.
The panel wants Mr Bolsonaro to face a number of criminal charges, including crimes against humanity.
Initial drafts of the report had recommended the president be charged with homicide and genocide against indigenous groups.
But these recommendations were dropped from the final 1,200 page report.
The last minute changes to the report are a measure of just how charged the political atmosphere is here in Brazil.
These past six months, Brazilians have been glued to the inquiry that has revealed scandal after scandal, and there's no doubt in anyone's mind - left or right of the political spectrum - that this has done damage to Jair Bolsonaro's popularity.
Those who still support him say it's politically motivated. But for those angry over how he handled the pandemic, the allegations are serious and they want to see justice done.
And that's where the sticking point seems to have been - original accusations of mass homicide and indigenous genocide have been removed from the report because there was no consensus. Instead, they've been replaced by the crime of "epidemic resulting in death" - as well as other charges including crimes against humanity and misuse of public funds.
There are 11 senators that make up the inquiry - seven of which are critics of President Bolsonaro. But the critics all need to agree on the charges in order for them to get a majority and ensure the recommendations can be voted on and taken to federal prosecutors who can decide the next step.
Despite the serious allegations, it is not clear what this means for Mr Bolsonaro, according to our correspondent.
The draft report still needs to be voted on by the Senate commission where it could be vetoed and altered, and there is no guarantee it will lead to criminal charges.
Image caption, President Bolsonaro continues to oppose any lockdown measures to curb the outbreak
President Bolsonaro has dismissed the Congressional inquiry as politically motivated. He has frequently spoken out against lockdowns, masks and vaccinations.
In March, he told Brazilians to "stop whining" about Covid, a day after the country saw a record rise in deaths over a 24-hour period.
However, Mr Bolsonaro's popularity has already been dented by the pandemic, and this report could make life much harder for him if he wants to run for a second term in Brazil's 2022 elections.
Brazil's confirmed Covid-related death toll is the second-highest in the world - behind only the US.
Speaking to the BBC ahead of the report's publication, the inquiry rapporteur, Senator Renan Calheiros, said the panel wanted to punish those who contributed to "this massacre of Brazilians".
They saying the j & j drops to 8% in effectiveness if you don’t get the booster
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Covid done tbh
