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Health update 2

10 months 2 weeks ago
Here's the plan: Put me back on high-flow oxygen. Slam me with IV steroids. Quadruple the dose and administer every six hours. If that doesn't work, slam me with antibiotics. If that doesn't work, intubate me and do a broncoscopy. There are further options after that, but not good ones. Bottom line: doctors just don't ...continue reading "Health update 2"
Kevin Drum

Health update

10 months 2 weeks ago
For the next few days, my new favorite chart is for C-Reactive protein: Still going up. What a disaster. I'm huffing and puffing a storm.
Kevin Drum

Duckworth Joins Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democrats Statement Blasting Trump Administration's Reckless Termination of U.S. Foreign Assistance

10 months 2 weeks ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee—joined her fellow SFRC Democratic colleagues Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chris Coons (D-DE), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) in issuing the following statement on the Trump Administration’s reckless termination of nearly all U.S. foreign assistance programs: “It is clear that the Trump Administration’s foreign assistance ‘review’ was not a serious effort or attempt at reform but rather a pretext to dismantle decades of U.S. investment that makes America safer, stronger and more prosperous. There is no indication Secretary Rubio conducted a program-by-program review of the more than 9,000 awards or considered the dire national security implications of these rash actions. Ending programs first and asking questions later only

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