No, Mitch McConnell was not cured of polio as a child because of government-funded care - PolitiFact
No, Mitch McConnell was not cured of polio as a child because of government-funded care - PolitiFact |
- No, Mitch McConnell was not cured of polio as a child because of government-funded care - PolitiFact
- UPDATE | Case of paralyzing polio-like illness found in West Virginia - WSAZ-TV
- Capital Square 1031 Launches All-Cash DST Offering of Fresenius Dialysis Clinic Near Chicago - Yahoo Finance
- Pakistan polio vaccine teams on edge after fatal attacks - FRANCE 24
| No, Mitch McConnell was not cured of polio as a child because of government-funded care - PolitiFact Posted: 29 Apr 2019 08:59 AM PDT   Says Mitch McConnell was cured of polio when he was a child by government-funded care and now he's trying to take that same care away from millions of Americans Did the United States government fund Mitch McConnell's care and rehabilitation after he was diagnosed with polio as a young child? The short answer is no. A recently shared Facebook post makes that claim, though, and reads:. "As a kid, Mitch McConnell had polio, and the government paid for ALL of his care and rehabilitation. Now, as the leader of the Republicans in the Senate, McConnell is taking government-funded care away from tens of millions of Americans. Let that sink in." The post was flagged as part of Facebook's efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) It is true that McConnell was diagnosed with polio when he was young, as he lays out in his 2016 memoir "The Long March." His treatment was not paid for by the government, but through charitable donations. McConnell was diagnosed with polio in 1944 at the age of 2, nearly 10 years before the polio vaccine was developed. In his memoir, McConnell wrote that he received care in Warm Springs, Ga., at the polio treatment center founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had suffered from the disease. David Oshinsky, historian and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Polio: An American Story," told PolitiFact in an email that no government money was involved in the Warm Springs, Ga., treatment center. It was "all voluntary private contributions." The rumor surfaced on social media in June 2017 as Senate Republicans, led by McConnell, took steps to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. The Occupy Democrats Facebook page posted the meme with an accompanying article that reported government-sponsored public funds saved McConnell's life, several outlets reported at the time. That story, which appeared on the Occupy Democrats website, has since been deleted. We tracked down a snapshot of the article using the web archive tool Wayback Machine. Another story with similar reporting surfaced the same day on the online magazine Death and Taxes. Both falsely claim that McConnell's care and rehabilitation was paid for by the public and, thus, was government-funded. But no federal dollars helped cure McConnell of the disease; it was a privately-funded facility. In 1937, Roosevelt re-established the Warm Springs Foundation as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and, in 1938, the foundation launched the first March of Dimes fundraiser. Comedian and radio personality Eddie Cantor coined the phrase and helped promote the nationwide March of Dimes campaign that was to line up with the president's annual birthday ball on Jan. 30. Cantor and other organizers solicited donations on the radio the month leading up the ball, and by Jan. 29, 1938, the eve of the president's birthday, "over 80,000 letters with dimes and dollars flooded the White House mailroom." The mailroom was "literally buried in an avalanche of donations, a total of 2,680,000 dimes or $268,000," according to the March of Dimes website. Funds also went to research grants to find a cure for the disease. That materialized in the mid 1950s, when Jonas Salk successfully developed the polio vaccine. While Roosevelt's political office promoted the fundraising for polio care and research, and the president used his name and popularity to help raise funds, the money came from the charity of the American people, as well as celebrities and corporations. The care McConnell received as a toddler was not taxpayer or government-funded, as the viral meme suggests. The facility operated as a nationwide nonprofit organization. We rate this meme False. Share the Facts 2019-04-29 16:06:08 UTC  2 1 7  PolitiFact Rating: False Says Mitch McConnell was cured of polio when he was a child by government-funded care and now he's trying to take that same care away from millions of Americans Facebook posts on the internet Monday, April 22, 2019 2019-04-22  | ||||||||
| UPDATE | Case of paralyzing polio-like illness found in West Virginia - WSAZ-TV Posted: 29 Apr 2019 03:42 PM PDT HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- UPDATE 4/29/19 @ 6:30 p.m.  The illness is called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, and is a very serious condition. It affects the nervous system, specifically the part of the spinal cord that affects a person's movement. It causes muscles in the body to become weak. The illness can cause paralyzing symptoms, and in some cases paralysis has been permanent. "It is something that happens quickly, that's what acute means," said Dr. Mitzi Payne, professor of Pediatric Neurology with Marshall University. "A child or person becomes very weak. It comes from an issue with the spinal cord. What happens is there is gray matter in the spinal cord that are these neurons that control your muscle movements, that is what is affected. Because those are affected, the patient becomes weak." Health officials don't know what specifically causes AFM, or what triggers it, however, they believe viruses likely play a role. Some of the symptoms of AFM include:
Most of the cases of AFM have been reported in children. "Children are sick more than adults anyway typically, so they are more likely to get viruses," Dr. Payne said. "Their immune systems aren't as strong as adults, especially neurologically, so they are more susceptible to this." So far in 2019, cases have been confirmed in four states: Nebraska, North Carolina, Utah and West Virginia. In 2018, 228 cases of AFM were confirmed in the U.S. There is no specific treatment for AFM, but doctors can develop a plan for patients on a case-by-case basis. Since doctors have not been able to determine what specifically causes AFM, there is no prevention method. However, to avoid other viruses that may trigger it, they urge everyone to wash their hands and get vaccinated. "There is no need to panic because it is very, very rare," Payne said. "The viruses that are thought to cause this, the viruses themselves are contagious, but that doesn't mean that everyone with that virus would get AFM." Researchers are still working to better understand AFM, what causes it and how to treat it. In most cases, those who developed AFM had a mild respiratory illness or fever consistent with a viral infection before they developed AFM. "For me the most concerning thing is not really knowing what virus is exactly causing it or predicting what child with that virus will have acute flaccid myelitis," Dr. Payne said. "We know it's a higher risk in younger children, it's more commonly seen in Enterovirus and West Nile, but there are other viruses that cause it. So as a medical provider, the nerve-wracking part is the fact that we don't truly understand why and how it does occur so we can do a better job preventing it." The last two cases of AFM in West Virginia were reported in 2016. ORIGINAL STORY 4/29/19 The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources has confirmed a case of a polio-like illness that can cause paralyzing symptoms and prove fatal. The Huntington Herald-Dispatch reports this is the first confirmed case in the state this year and only the third since the state began tracking the illness in 2014. The agency did not disclose any information on the patient or the patient's location. The disease affects the spinal cord and brain stem. It can cause full paralysis within seven days, and complete recovery is uncommon. This is one of several cases of acute flaccid myelitis confirmed across the country this year; Nebraska, North Carolina and Utah also have confirmed cases. There were 228 confirmed cases nationwide last year.  | ||||||||
| Posted: 30 Apr 2019 06:00 AM PDT CHICAGO, April 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Capital Square 1031, a leading real estate investment and management firm specializing in Delaware statutory trust (DST) offerings, announced today the launch of CS1031 Midwest Dialysis, DST, a Reg. D investment offering of a 9,000-square-foot Fresenius dialysis clinic located in East Chicago, Indiana. The building was acquired by the DST in an all-cash transaction.  Capital Square 1031 "CS1031 Midwest Dialysis DST provides investors with the opportunity to own a high-quality medical office building without any mortgage debt," said Louis Rogers, founder and chief executive officer of Capital Square 1031. "A growing number of Section 1031 exchange investors are seeking an all-cash replacement property without any mortgage debt. Also, the investment-grade lease guarantor, Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, coupled with the recession resilience of medical real estate, makes this a desirable investment." Located at 4016 Main St. and constructed in 2018, the medical office building is 100 percent leased for 15 years on a double-net basis to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA (Fresenius). The company is listed on both the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FME) and New York Stock Exchange (FMS). The company is engaged in providing kidney dialysis services and clinical laboratory testing; manufacturing and distributing products and equipment for kidney dialysis treatment; and providing other medical ancillary services. During the fiscal year 2018, Fresenius posted revenues of approximately $18.7 billion. The company also cared for more than 333,000 dialysis patients in 3,928 proprietary clinics located in more than 45 countries worldwide. Fresenius operates more than 40 production sites, which makes it the leading provider of dialysis products, including dialysis machines, dialyzers and disposable accessories. The facility is strategically located approximately 20 minutes from downtown Chicago and less than a mile from St. Catherine Hospital. Considered a pioneer in the industry for bringing the first x-ray technology, newborn incubator and treatments for polio to the region, St. Catherine Hospital has provided the community a broad range of healthcare services since 1928. Capital Square has acquired 75 properties for approximately 1,600 investors seeking quality replacement properties that qualify for tax deferral under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code. About Capital Square 1031 Capital Square provides a range of services, including due diligence, acquisition, loan sourcing, property management/asset management, and disposition, for a growing number of high net worth investors, private equity firms, family offices and institutional investors. Since inception, the firm has sponsored 56 DST programs and has completed approximately $1.03 billion in transaction volume. To learn more, visit www.CapitalSquare1031.com.
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| Pakistan polio vaccine teams on edge after fatal attacks - FRANCE 24 Posted: 25 Apr 2019 06:18 AM PDT  Date created : ADVERTISING Chaman (Pakistan) (AFP) Polio workers across Pakistan were told to remain vigilant Thursday after multiple attacks on vaccination teams killed at least three people this week during an ongoing push to eradicate the disease from the restive country. The latest victim, a polio worker, was shot in southwestern Balochistan province Thursday morning, following separate attacks targeting health workers in the country?s northwest earlier this week that left two police officers dead. "The attack has taken place in a remote area, and we have received reports that one female polio worker has been killed," Attaullah Shah, a district police chief, told AFP, saying a second health worker was also critically injured in the attack. The injured worker was later rushed to a nearby clinic before being sent to hospital in the provincial capital of Quetta for additional treatment. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the incident but militants -- including the Pakistani Taliban -- have attacked polio workers in the past, killing more than 100 people since December 2012. Security officials in Pakistan told AFP that authorities have instructed polio teams to remain "vigilant" amid the violence. The attacks come days after more than 25,000 children were rushed to hospitals in northwestern Pakistan after rumours spread some had suffered reactions to a polio vaccine. The panic came as health workers were carrying out a three-day vaccination campaign in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, with authorities saying dozens of polio workers have been beaten or harassed. Ongoing suspicion of the polio vaccine in Pakistan has been compounded recently by anti-vaccination videos circulating on social media. Islamist opposition to all forms of inoculation grew after the CIA organised a fake vaccination drive to help track down Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad. He was killed there by US forces in 2011. Some Taliban and ultra-conservative religious leaders have also been known to spread rumours that vaccines contain ingredients forbidden in Islam, such as pork derivatives, or that can cause infertility as part of a Western plot to reduce the population. "We have a communication challenge, it's a mistrust issue," said Babar Atta, who is helping oversee the country?s vaccination drive. Atta said at least 260,000 health workers are involved in the campaign with some 150,000 police escorting the teams. However Atta added that hundreds of thousands of children were likely to go unvaccinated. "There is a serious lack of trust among the parents," he said. Polio is endemic in only three countries in the world -- Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria -- although a relatively rare strain was also detected in Papua New Guinea at the end of last year. Polio is a highly contagious disease caused by a virus that invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis within hours. It mainly affects children under the age of five. ? 2019 AFP  |
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