Breaking News: American babies are born with syphilis in sharply increasing numbers, with the infection becoming more than ten times as common over the past decade, the CDC reported, calling the situation "dire."
Congenital syphilis has become more than ten times as common over the past decade, the C.D.C. reported. “The situation is dire,” said one expert.
Someone really needs to reign Elon in.
Babies born without syphilis is commulism
TLDR it's because we've spent a decade gutting public health infrastructure, including maternal testing and tracing efforts, as per the article. This is what happens!
Also: in response to ‘why aren’t people having babies???’: Because healthcare is inaccessible and also healthcare policies, systems, and associations pretty much hate women, working families, & Black, brown, and indigenous people.
1. Reduce access to reproductive healthcare. 2. Reduce funding for public health that matters (actual clinics and actual drugs) 3. Stigmatize poor people. 4. Amplify racism and misogynoir. 5. Promote classist policies and protect ultrawealthy. 6. Demonstrate shock as babies are not born healthy.
1. Please use condoms 2. Please get tested. 3. Please get covid vaxx. (and I know, testing is an issue because of American shitty healthcare. But better than having your baby deal with this.)
This is not a health problem New York Times. It’s an economic problem. Neoliberalism way past its sell by date. (Actually if only it had never been foisted onto an unsuspecting world by Hayek & your damn Chicago school. A disaster all round)
On Twitter: syphillus is in the jab!
GEE I WONDER how that could have POSSIBLY happened!!!!
With the anti-science approach of the right wing, I would expect this.