Tag: Civil Rights

Swimming’s Governing Body to Restrict Transgender Athletes From Competing in Women’s Sports

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Swimming’s Governing Body to Restrict Transgender Athletes From Competing in Women’s Sports
By Jack Phillips | June 19, 2022 The governing body for international swimming approved new policies for transgender swimmers that will go into effect starting on June 20. In a notice on June 19, the International Swimming Federation (FINA) said it will only allow biological male swimmers to compete in women’s events if they have not experienced male puberty and have had puberty suppressed before age 12.… Read the rest

There Is No Balm in Gilead

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There Is No Balm in Gilead
  Recently revealed emails show Fauci and NIAID officials “scrambled in April 2020 to answer questions about altering the endpoint” in a trial of remdesivir. Once the drug was declared the new standard of care for COVID-19, as Forbes reported, Gilead’s stock surged more than 16 percent in overnight trading. Cihlar and Lane had reason to be glad over what Fauci called “quite good news.”… Read the rest

Study: Ineffective Blood Oxygen Readers Have Endangered Black and Latino COVID-19 Patients

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Study: Ineffective Blood Oxygen Readers Have Endangered Black and Latino COVID-19 Patients
NBC News reported: Black and Latino patients experienced significant delays in obtaining life-saving COVID-19 treatments due to a popular medical device that inaccurately reads darker skin tones, according to a study released last week in JAMA Internal Medicine. The report shows that pulse oximeters, a device that clips onto a person’s fingertips and reads oxygen levels, is more likely to produce inaccurate results in Black, Latino and Asian Americans than in white patients.… Read the rest