BREAKING: Oakland Unified School board just voted 5-1 with one member abstaining to require #COVID vaccinations for students to attend in person classes. Next step is to come up with implementation plan & timeline. OUSD joins LA Unified with vaccine mandate. CBS News Bay Area

Ezra Klein A friend just sent this article by Adam Grant and Allison Sweet Grant.They write that the editor of the book said “I think it is basically a book about a sadomasochistic relationship.” nytimes.com/2020/04/15/par…

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New report on very rare acute myocarditis after mRNA vaccination in age 18+ 5.8 cases/million after 2nd dose, 0.8/million 1st dose, all cases fully resolved with conservative management jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai… Kaiser Permanente Southern California Kaiser Permanente Research JAMA Internal Medicine

Conspiracy theories are everywhere and people don't understand how harmful they are. I made the original Conspiracy Chart over a year ago. An update was long overdue. This is the 2021 version.

NU VARIANT (B.1.1.529) in South Africa & why unlikely to evade vaccine-induced immunity. So, what is this variant? Number 1, we don't know yet if it is more transmissible. Still being studied & described. 59 cases uploaded to database thenationalnews.com/coronavirus/20…

Once again - rapid tests are detecting Omicron virus. “It’s working as it was designed…There does not seem to be any performance deficit with Omicron.” -Joe Derisi Professor and Head of BioHub at UC San Francisco nytimes.com/2022/01/11/hea…

A) "Everyone will be exposed to Omicron" B) "Everyone will get Omicron" They're different. (A) promotes appropriate caution till surge ends: boost, N95, outdoor>indoor. (B) promotes counterproductive behavior as hospitals are overwhelmed. Biggest difference: A is true. B is not.

Great #dataviz Axios (below) takes info from PNASNews paper pnas.org/content/118/49… & shows efficacy of various mask combos in preventing spread from infected➔uninfected person. Given likelihood of exposure when prevalence is sky-high, now's the time to use best mask possible.

NEW from Elizabeth Warren: "If a moment like this with Russia doesn't remind us why we need to get off fossil fuels then I just don't know what it's going to take."

📺 NEW VIDEO Republicans have taken away your right to choose. Now take away their right to govern. #GOPHandmaidsTale

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The Oakland Public Ethics Commission says it filed a subpoena for records from OUSD Director Mike Hutchinson as part of a campaign finance investigation. PEC says Hutchinson didn't comply, so the commission filed a lawsuit to compel records production.

I found a California Condor searching for carrion amongst our shoes this morning. Oakland Zoo are all you condors accounted for?

Week over week drought classification/improvement. Area in D4 (Exceptional Drought) is no longer on the map. The drought monitor class change map also helps show where there was 1 class (category) improvement. #CAwx

Katie Porter is currently on the floor reading a book called "The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck"

The Mayor of Orland Park, Illinois Keith Pekau's response to several residents demanding that the board pass a resolution for a ceasefire in #Gaza, is a thing of beauty! 🫳🎤 More here: israellycool.com/2024/02/08/orl…