"Health care institutions, nonprofits team up to battle hunger and the pandemic" by Janelle Nanos Globe Staff, August 14, 2020
During the pandemic surge in the spring, Dr. Amy Smith, a family medicine physician at Cambridge Health Alliance, received a desperate phone call from one of her colleagues.
The respiratory clinician on the line was about to release a COVID-19 patient to recover at home, but the individual didn’t have enough money to buy food for their family. The clinician was crying on the phone, worried that the patient would expose themselves or others to the virus if they waited in line at a food pantry.
“I looked and said, This is a solvable problem,” Smith said, and then she solved it.
At the end of April, Smith and her team at Cambridge Health Alliance began screening their COVID-19 patients for food insecurity and created a grocery referral program. The food deliveries, which reached as many as 2,400 household members, have meant these vulnerable patients can recover safely at home, Smith said. This in turn can help stop the spread of the disease in high-risk populations, many of whom may be undocumented and therefore unable to access federal benefits such as SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
They will if Biden wins, and this article has the stench of propaganda attached to it in service to the new vanguard of the dystopian medical technocracy that is being foisted upon us. It's more agenda-pushing as COVID becomes a catch-all for the entire NWO project, and nearly the entire medical e$tabli$hment has thrown in with it. Those honorable doctors fighting against it have been censored and ostracized.
Smith is now co-leading the hospital’s strategy around food insecurity, and is one of many health care practitioners stepping up their efforts to incorporate emergency food assistance into their care as a result of the pandemic.
They know of the coming famine and are setting themselves up and being used for the Great Re$et.
Health care workers have long been able to draw a straight line between access to nutritious food and health outcomes: Unhealthy diets, after all, are often the root cause of chronic diseases, but as COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on at-risk populations, its economic fallout has also exacerbated the need for emergency food services throughout the state that serve those populations.
“We recognize that it’s important for us to have partnerships beyond our four walls; hospitals can’t do everything alone,” said Dr. Thea James, vice president of mission and associate chief medical officer at Boston Medical Center. BMC, which was the first hospital in the country to have a food pantry, recently began partnering with the local nonprofit About Fresh to coordinate over 1,000 door-step grocery deliveries to 200 of its patients. “The partnership has been amazing for us during the pandemic,” James said.
Looks good, doesn't it, the medical tyranny and saviors who will feed you for a test for "nonprofits provide new ways for corporations and individuals to influence" things -- as if they didn't have enough and this is part and parcel to the Great Re$et.
As a result of the crisis, “a variety of nutrition services have suddenly become more accessible as a care system to patients,” said Kristin Sukys, a policy analyst at the Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School, and one of the leaders of the Food as Medicine Massachusetts coalition. “When COVID-19 struck, the community-based organizations that had partnerships with health care providers became a main lifeline to address emergency food need.”
Among the most robust efforts have stemmed from MassHealth’s new Flexible Services initiative, which aims to reduce health care costs and improve health outcomes and began rolling out statewide at the start of this year. The nutrition component of the pilot program lets health care providers screen Medicaid patients for food insecurity, and then refer them directly to community-based organizations that can help them apply for SNAP or WIC benefits, or get access to food pantries, meal or grocery deliveries, or even supermarket gift cards.
Jean Terranova, the director of food and health policy at Community Servings, a Jamaica Plain-based nonprofit that delivers medically tailored meals to patients, has been on the front lines of the Food as Medicine movement for years, but the pandemic escalated the need overnight, she said.
“With COVID it was right in your face.... It was an accelerant for this to take off,” she said. Community Servings had just finished a massive $21 million expansion, tripling the size of its kitchen and expanding the program statewide, when the pandemic hit.
The referrals have been coming “fast and furious,” and a few years ago, Project Bread ran a successful pilot program with Cambridge Health Alliance.
So this has all been in the works, and the medical e$tabli$hment is criminal!
It's all been such a SNAP!
These new partnerships are creating a “transformation of how health care has invested in the social determinants of health,” said Josh Trautwein, chief executive officer of About Fresh, which runs the Fresh Truck mobile grocery store, and has been partnering with Boston Medical Center and other health systems to coordinate over 21,000 grocery deliveries to high-risk patients.
Like I have said for months, they are going to eventually remove any reason for you to leave your cell, 'er, space, 'er home.
Through the MassHealth initiative, he is also beginning to roll out the Fresh Connect food purchasing program, a prepaid debit card that health systems can give patients to buy healthy food at existing restaurants and retailers. The nonprofit has a $3 million contract with a half-dozen area health care providers to give the cards to at-risk patients, and Sukys, the policy analyst, said that for every formal state-supported MassHealth partnership, there are dozens more across the state, like Smith’s, that have emerged from the crisis out of sheer need. She and others hope that these emergency partnerships will result in stronger connections among social safety net programs.
That's why their damn survey asked me about food security.
They knew this was coming, and what classifies as healthy food?
Some GMO or lab-concocted monstrosity?
Insect gruel?
Are they to be the judge of what goes into my body, and what of the whiff of communi$m that I just inhaled?
The coordination of health providers and community-based food programs creates a “perfect scenario,” said Eric Rimm, an epidemiologist at Harvard University who studies the health effects of diet and lifestyle. Patients get more comprehensive support while bringing down the overall cost of health care, he said, and for now, these links are providing a lifeline.
“Our patients’ lives are chaotic even when they haven’t lost their jobs and suddenly fallen ill,” said Dr. Leah Zallman, who co-heads the Social Determinants of Health Steering Committee at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and worked with Smith to create the grocery referral program. “You’re taking patients who are disenfranchised in every possible way and you add a COVID layer of burden. There’s no slack in the system.”
Then why did the health care conglomerates shed hundreds of thousands of jobs during this plandemic?
We have all been so played, and will soon starve to death in the darkest winter in 90+ years. I pray I'm wrong, but I know I'm right. It seems to be a characteristic of certain tribes.
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Gee, they appear to be working her quite hard, almost as if they want to get rid of her.
Nothing personal, it's just the health of the bottom line that is important:
"Mass. health insurers fared better last quarter because fewer people went to the doctor; All four major companies reported improved finances compared with 2019" by Andy Rosen Globe Staff, August 14, 2020
The finances of major health insurers in Massachusetts improved during the most recent financial quarter, as many patients deferred treatments and preventive care in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
I didn't do it out of panic, I did it out of self-preservation.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Tufts Health Plan, and Fallon Health all said Friday that their operating income had risen during the three-month period that ran through June, compared with the second quarter of 2019. A primary reason, the insurers said, was that fewer people went to the doctor.
Michael Carson, chief executive of Harvard Pilgrim, said in a statement that the trend ― despite the effect on the organization’s finances — is not what he wants to see. Harvard Pilgrim reported operating income of $54.5 million, up from with $28.9 million during the comparable period last year.
“Many people have deferred care over the past several months, and it is incredibly important that they not neglect their health. Health care providers have implemented stringent safety precautions, and we encourage our members to seek routine and preventive care including checkups, health screenings and vaccinations,” Carson said.
The sick evil f**kers never anticipated that we would distrust them; their megalomaniacal minds thought we would be rushing to them in terror.
The insurers are experiencing the other side of what has been a historically bad period for the organizations that provide health care. Many hospitals had to shut down money-making services such as elective procedures as they tried to conserve resources and space for COVID-19 patients.
Back in the flatten the curve days during which the surge never came and yet it suddenly became about cases and increasing lockdowns, testing, tracing, and so forth.
Mass General Brigham, the state’s largest health care network, said last week that it expected patient revenue to fall short of its forecast for the year by as much as $1.5 billion because of disruptions caused by the pandemic. The health care system added that things were beginning to stabilize.
Last week, Blue Cross said it would return $101 million to its customers as a result of lower-than-anticipated health care costs during the COVID-19 crisis. The company’s second-quarter operating income was $150.1 million. It lost $16.5 million during the same period last year. The insurer said it was its best quarterly performance in at least a decade.
Tufts reported an operating income of $37.6 million in the second quarter, up from $25.6 million during the same period in 2019. Fallon reported quarterly operating income of $22.3 million, compared with $1.3 million last year.
Sure is a lot of money out there as you await the diddling Congre$$ to send you a Chump change check.
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Related:
"The German biotechnology firm CureVac, whose US headquarters is in Boston, raised $213 million in its initial public offering Friday, then saw its stock skyrocket amid high hopes for its experimental vaccine for COVID-19. CureVac’s share price closed at $55.90, up nearly 250 percent, after the 20-year-old biotech debuted on the Nasdaq exchange. “This is kind of beyond expectations,” Pierre Kemula, CureVac’s chief financial officer, said of the stock market debut, believed to be the first by a firm that has developed a promising coronavirus vaccine. The drug company, one of several with a coronavirus vaccine candidate that relies on the promising pharmaceutical area known as messenger RNA, announced before the market opened that it had sold more than 13 million shares at $16 each. That was the top end of CureVac’s projected price range for its IPO and gave it a market value of about $2.8 billion. CureVac’s vaccine uses messenger RNA, genetic material that scientists believe can teach a person’s immune system to defend against the coronavirus. That’s the same approach of Moderna, the Cambridge biotech that last month began the first late-stage trial in the US of a COVID-19 vaccine. That vaccine is being tested on 30,000 volunteers across the United States, including participants at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston....."
The genetically-modifying vaccine is coming, folks, and is Congre$$ going to investigate like in the Kodak case?
Dr. Elizabeth Nabel's stock sales have infuriated a number of Brigham and Women’s employees (Elise Amendola/Associated Press).
Dr. Elizabeth Nabel did not disclose her role as a highly compensated member of the board at Moderna (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff/file).
The masks are off the evil, and if only the world was run by women, right?
Related:
Women are feeling the crunch of working from home more than men
The Globe tells you why, and I'm sorry I'm not wasting my time reading that front-page garbage. Maybe a foster parent would be better.
"US will prepare coronavirus strain for potential human challenge trials" by Carolyn Y. Johnson Washington Post, August 14, 2020
US researchers will create a strain of the coronavirus that could be used in possible vaccine trials called human challenge experiments, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview Friday.
This horror show gets worse with each paragraph!
The United States isn’t committed to embarking on such ethically fraught trials but has begun the process to create a stock of coronavirus strain that could be used to infect people, in case such trials become necessary, Fauci said. He called it a ‘‘Plan C or Plan D,’’ a preliminary step being taken because creating a strain that meets exacting regulatory standards will take months. Large, 30,000-person trials that are testing the effectiveness of experimental vaccines are likely to yield results sooner and provide much-needed safety data.
GOOD LORD, the TRIALS are going to be INFECTING the PARTICIPANTS, who will then spread!?!
Is that the second wave we will see in the fall?
‘‘You generally do [human challenge trials] if you don’t have enough infections in the community at any given time to get a signal from the vaccine,’’ Fauci said. ‘‘Unfortunately for us, we don’t have that problem — we have a lot of infections.’’
You can't have it both ways, $cum. If we have infections we have herd immunity, and you monsters are the most evil lot that has ever come across this planet. Damn you all to hell!
Typically, researchers test vaccines by inoculating people with the experimental drug or a placebo and waiting to see if those who got the real vaccine develop fewer cases or less-severe illness after being exposed to a virus in daily life. To tell if a coronavirus vaccine is 60 percent effective, Fauci has estimated that 150 to 160 people within the 30,000 participating in each trial need to become sick, for example.
In challenge trials, people would be exposed to the virus after an experimental vaccination. The idea has gained popular support through an organization called 1Day Sooner, which has signed up more than 30,000 volunteers eager to assume personal risk to speed up the scientific race for a vaccine. Reuters first reported Friday that the United States would begin taking steps toward preparing for such trials.
Why then were we, the healthy people, not allowed to assume personal risk due to tyrannical government diktats that have destroyed freedom and liberty?
Fauci and others have repeatedly argued that challenge experiments are likely to be slower, more ethically fraught, and harder to scientifically interpret than many people appreciate. It takes months to create the coronavirus strains that could be used in such trials to infect people.
Fauci said a viral strain would not be ready before the end of the year because challenge trials would probably select from people unlikely to develop severe illness and die of the disease, it also may be difficult to extrapolate results to understand whether the vaccine would protect people truly at risk from the virus.
What?
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None of that is stopping them as the move full $team ahead at warp $peed:
"The United States has begun planning the largest vaccination campaign ever undertaken, requiring extraordinary coordination, planning and communication. U.S. officials said this week that Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s effort to expedite development of coronavirus countermeasures, is on track to deliver tens of millions of vaccine doses by January. In planning discussions, one of the hottest topics involves freezers. At least one vaccine candidate is expected to require storage at very cold temperatures, about minus 94 degrees. A top CDC official told state immunization officials Wednesday that states probably won’t be expected to buy special freezers, but if a vaccine is approved by the Food and Drug Administration that requires such cold storage, states should prepare sites for mass vaccination clinics, because doctors’ offices aren’t likely to store and administer such shots.
Something wicked this way comes.
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On Friday, the Defense and Health and Human Services departments announced that McKesson Corp. will be a central distributor of the vaccines and related supplies. The CDC is executing an existing contract option of $178 million with McKesson to support vaccine distribution, an HHS statement said. McKesson also distributed the H1N1 vaccine during that pandemic in 2009-2010. The company will work under the CDC’s guidance to ship the vaccines to sites where shots will be administered, the statement said. Although Trump has said repeatedly that the military will deliver vaccines, the Defense Department “is not actually going to be distributing or delivering the vaccines itself,” Paul Mango, deputy chief of staff for policy at HHS, told reporters this week. Rather, the military will handle logistics of manufacturing, including acquisition of raw material, establishing factories and training workers.
Wake up, Trump turds!
Mark of the Beast time!
Friday also brought the latest reminders that the virus is adept at spreading wherever people gather, as the rocky reopening of schools across the country has demonstrated. Less than a week into the start of classes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, school officials on Friday announced two clusters of coronavirus cases in student housing. Meanwhile, a ban on all “nonessential” travel at U.S. land borders with Canada and Mexico will extend into its sixth month, officials said Friday. Acting U.S. homeland security secretary Chad Wolf and Canadian Public Safety Minister Bill Blair announced the extension on Twitter. “We will continue to do what’s necessary to keep our communities safe,” Blair said. The restrictions were imposed in mid-March and have been extended every month since. The current measures, which were set to expire next week, will remain in place until Sept. 21....."
Not a peep out of the Democrats regarding the borders now, and the plan is to test and retest until result is positive, never mind that consumers lack of confidence in the vaccines that will begin to be administered in October.
Related:
"The increase in deaths in New York City during the early months of the covid-19 pandemic rivals the death toll there at the peak of the 1918 flu pandemic, according to an analysis published Thursday. The comparison, published online in the medical journal JAMA Network Open, found that the number of deaths from all causes was roughly equal during the two peak months of the flu epidemic and the first 61 days of the current outbreak. The H1N1 flu pandemic eventually killed 50 million people a century ago, about 675,000 of them in the United States. The current pandemic has claimed at least 746,000 lives worldwide, about 162,000 of them in the United States, according to a tally kept by The Washington Post....."
So what?
Who believes them or the New York Times these days?
Btw, did you know the Spanish flu was the result of innoculations via the military?
Hey, wait “that man over there isn’t wearing a mask.” This becomes one of the now too common moments that each of us working in grocery stores during the pandemic has come to dread: confrontations with customers that span from mild to ugly to violent. I walk over to the unmasked man. “Excuse me, sir, I need to ask you to put on a mask. It’s a store requirement.” “I already talked to your manager,” he says, smirking. “I have a medical condition.” There it is: the two words — medical condition — that are the bullet in this game of Russian Roulette with the health and lives of the rest of us. From the smirk on his face and the “nyah-nyah” way he says it, I believe he is lying....."
The pot-hollering kettle hypocrites have finally seen the blinding light but not the invisible hand of AI systems in charge of your care (they will decide when you are discharged from the hospital, lo$er, so just stay home until July 2021 as the prolonged lockdown leads to disastrous results:
"Seventy-one percent of those working from home due to COVID-19 have experienced a new or exacerbated ailment caused by the equipment they now must use. According to an online survey of 20,262 people in 10 markets by the technology company Lenovo Group Ltd., the most common symptoms are back pain, poor posture (e.g., hunched shoulders), neck pain, eye irritation, insomnia, and headaches. Adding fiscal insult to physical injury, their employers aren’t necessarily footing the bill for new equipment: Of the 70 percent of employees who purchased new technology in order to work remotely, 39 percent were not fully compensated. The average sum spent in the surveyed countries was $273; the highest country averages were $339 in Great Britain, $340 in Italy, $348 in the United States and $381 in Germany."
How depre$$ing:
"Measures to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus have caused a decline in mental health and an increase in substance abuse that’s affecting some groups in the United States more than others, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly 41 percent of more than 5,400 respondents to a web-based survey reported adverse mental health afflictions, including the 30 percent who outlined symptoms of anxiety and depression. At least 13 percent of those who responded with mental health symptoms reported having started use or increasing use of controlled substances, and nearly 11 percent said they had seriously considered suicide in the previous 30 days. The degrees of affliction and suicide ideation also varied by age, gender and race. For example, suicidal ideation was more common in men than women. About 75 percent of respondents ages 18 through 24 reported at least one adverse mental or behavioral symptom, while nearly 52 of those ages 25 to 44 reported the same. Symptoms of anxiety disorder or depressive disorder, covid-19 related trauma and stressor-related disorder, the start of or increased use of substances to cope with pandemic-related stress and significant suicidal ideation in the previous 30 days were also most commonly reported by people 18 through 24. Hispanic respondents had a higher prevalence of anxiety disorder and depressive disorder symptoms, substance abuse and suicidal thoughts than non-Hispanic Whites or Asians. The report noted that Black respondents also saw an increase in substance use and suicidal thoughts in the past 30 days more than White and Asians who participated. Responses to the pandemic have also acutely affected essential workers and unpaid caregivers, according to the report, which concluded that the identified high-risk groups should be prioritized in intervention and prevention efforts."
Look at the f**King joo$paper turn it into a race issue!
It's reading this crap that is driving me crazy!
Time for the last rites:
“We’re going to get through this. The key is going to be how, and I think that’s with a belief system and faith in God. Personally, I talk to Jesus. I talk to the spirit all the time in the Catholic tradition. It sustains me. It gives me perspective. It calms me. It gives me insight. Those are all gifts of the spirit.”
So he is the one who told you to diddle kids?
"With many experts predicting serious trouble as the nation heads into fall and winter without getting the coronavirus pandemic under control, one Harvard medical professor sees signs of hope. The consensus view is that the coronavirus will still be raging as the flu season arrives, leading to a “horrible fall and winter. Lots of people dying, hospitals in big trouble, and we’re largely shut at home,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, on Thursday in a Boston Globe Op-Talk. “That is a view that lots of very smart people believe is most likely,” but Jha said he was “more optimistic than that.” He said the pandemic seemed to be easing in the hard-hit South, and people have started to comply better with public health measures such as mask-wearing. He also noted that even in states that are doing relatively well, like Massachusetts and Rhode Island, governors have taken measures to “pull back” on reopening plans. “I am optimistic that these governors are not going to let things get out of control,” he said. He also said he was optimistic about a “whole new set of technologies around testing, which will make testing much more widely available.... I’m also hoping that all the social distancing we’re doing, hand washing, etc., will make a real difference in terms of flu spread and we’ll end up having a much milder flu season, and so my optimistic view is we go into the fall and winter, if we do our job right, in reasonably good shape,” he said. “Hopefully, we have a good flu vaccine, which everybody should take, and then ... maybe by November, December into January we start getting a vaccine. Some people start getting vaccinated, and life starts turning around for a bit better — not normal — but then we can get through the winter without too much suffering.”
Sick, evil, twisted f**k!
No reviving these people:
"A man who disguised himself as a UPS driver and fatally shot his former neighbor has been indicted by a grand jury. Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey’s office said Robert Bonang, 61, of Marshfield, was due in Quincy District Court Friday for a probable cause hearing following his indictment earlier this week. He faces murder, two counts of possession of a large capacity weapon, illegal possession of ammunition, among other charges. He has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors say Bonang shot 59-year-old Laurie Melchionda outside her Braintree home in June. They say Bonang shot Melchionda while wearing a surgical mask and brown jacket and carrying a box. The gun was hidden inside the box, prosecutors say. Bonang used to live across the street from Melchionda, who was director of health services for the Weston Public Schools and a school nurse at Field Elementary (AP)."
Now she is a martyr, right, or just another casualty of war in the Great Re$et?
They will literally run you down:
"A woman fatally struck by a car was identified Friday as Jennifer Bemis, 67, law enforcement officials announced Friday. Bemis was walking near Main Street and Thoreau Street Thursday around 10:30 a.m. when she was struck by a 2010 black Toyota driven by a 91-year-old woman from Littleton, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Police Chief Joseph O’Connor said in a joint statement. Bemis was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The driver remained at the scene. No charges had been filed as of late Friday afternoon. The crash remains under investigation."
