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There is no definite link of bacteria from two babies who died and the formula from Abott Labs. See https://news.yahoo.com/explainer-happened-abbott-baby-formula-194225555.html . (Check and you can probably find stronger reference. )

"Abbott says https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/nutrition-health-and-wellness/abbott-update-on-powder-formula-recall.html there is no evidence to link its formulas to these illnesses. The FDA and the CDC have not disclosed any information that connects the illnesses and the plant. FDA officials said that the investigation was impeded by having only two of the four sickened babies' clinical samples.

"The CDC analyzed clinical samples from two of the infants and did not find a genetic match to the environmental strains found at the plant. It also said the bacteria from the patient samples were not closely related to one another."

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As mentioned in post above, our journalism is piss-poor. North Korea levels. It's never been THIS bad. Journalists hsould at least tell us how many cronobacter cases occur every year in children. I mean, really, this is turning into North Korean news.

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May 21, 2022·edited May 21, 2022

Turkey, right in the middle (metaphorically) of the Russia Ukraine issue, is very much the next big shoe to fall (after Sri Lanka). It is burning through foreign exchange just trying to hold on to the Lira. That means even more inflation is imminent. Erdogan doesn't have anything near a conventional understanding of economics. He views it conspiratorially. Will the US offer central bank swap lines to Erdogan (i've always suspected he's full CIA; and talking to my Turkish friend, who swears he's "donme").

Abbott Corp was a little too suspiciously "fawningly eager" and "close" to Trump very early on in Pandemic, for me to take any of this seriously. I still remember Dolce Gabana's gratuitous "kissing of the Trump ring", joining in the public propaganda racist theater at the time ( I mean, who'd think a private corp would stoop to such stupidity...yet....i saw it w own eyes) It's all spooky. How will the "Great Reset" model of blurring private corp and central government coopt shareholders? Shareholders will have to be cut down by force of fiat perhaps, the way Xi Jinping rewrote every corporate charter in China with the stroke of a pen, to accept the eminent domain of the Central Communist Party getting board seats......

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