| | | | | | | Presented By JPMorgan Chase | | | | Axios AM | | By Mike Allen · Oct 06, 2022 | | ☕ Hello, Thursday. Smart Brevity™ count: 1,421 words ... 5½ minutes. Edited by Noah Bressner. | | | | | | 1 big thing: Long COVID reality |  Data: Census Bureau, Household Pulse Survey. Chart: Madison Dong/Axios Visuals Nearly 24 million U.S. adults have long COVID, and more than 80% of them have some trouble carrying out daily activities, the CDC says. - Nearly 30% of adults previously infected with COVID reported having long COVID at some point.
- Up to 4 million people are estimated to be out of work because of long COVID symptoms, according to a Brookings report in August.
Why it matters: Nearly three years into a pandemic that has left millions newly disabled, medical researchers remain flummoxed about treating scary lingering symptoms, Axios' Sabrina Moreno writes. 🧠 What's happening: Long COVID symptoms can include shortness of breath, cognitive difficulties and symptoms that worsen even with minimal physical or mental effort — a primary indicator of chronic fatigue syndrome. - The pandemic sharpened the focus on the once largely dismissed area of chronic fatigue in health care. But misunderstandings and stigma persist.
Between the lines: Long COVID is classified as a disability. But qualifying for Social Security benefits requires proof the condition has or will last a year — even though there's no test to diagnose long COVID. 🧮 By the numbers: In a census survey last month, more than one in four adults with long COVID reported significant limitations on day-to-day activities. - The number jumps closer to 40% for respondents who are Black, Latino or disabled — three groups that shouldered outsized burdens throughout the pandemic.
Between the lines: The report confirms that people are developing long COVID symptoms regardless of age, race, gender or previous disability. 🔮 What's next: As winter months near, an expected rise in cases coupled with fewer COVID protections could mean millions more will get long COVID. |     | | | | | | 2. 🐦 Musk's "super app" vision |  | | | Illustration: Lindsey Bailey/Axios | | | | Elon Musk's plans for Twitter may go beyond what we think of as a standard social media app, the billionaire teased: - "Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app," he tweeted.
The concept of an "everything app" or a "super app" — which serves as a hub for multiple services within a single user interface — is based on the model for mobile software that's dominant in China via WeChat, the original super app, Axios' Sara Fischer and Hope King write. - Musk began teasing the possibility of creating an everything app in May, just weeks after signing a merger agreement to buy Twitter.
- Speaking on an investor podcast, he said: "If you're in China, it's basically, you kind of live on WeChat — it does everything. It's sort of like Twitter, plus PayPal, plus a whole bunch of other things. And all rolled into one with actually a great interface."
🥊 Reality check: Building a super app in the U.S. is tougher than in China because of data privacy concerns, stricter banking regulations and mobile operating systems that make it harder for individual apps to establish their own payment terms independently. - And building a super app requires user trust.
💬 Our thought bubble It will be an uphill battle to transform Twitter, which is now almost exclusively a tool for posting public thoughts and links, into an all-purpose digital services smorgasbord. - U.S. users would need very powerful reasons to switch their ride-hailing, payment-sending, goods-purchasing and other behaviors from their favorite current apps to Musk's new product.
Share this story ... Go deeper: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel this summer endorsed Musk's "super app" strategy. | | | | | | | | 3. 🇷🇺 Russia retreats on 2 fronts |  Ukrainian forces have broken through Russian lines on two fronts during audacious counteroffensives in territories Vladimir Putin recently declared to be part of Russia, Axios World editor Dave Lawler writes. - Putin tacitly acknowledged the recent setbacks yesterday but said: "We are working on the assumption that the situation in the new territories will stabilize."
What's happening: - Ukraine recaptured at least 10 villages in the Kherson region between Sunday and Tuesday, per Foreign Policy. Kherson is the only regional capital to fall since the invasion began. Recapturing it is a top Ukrainian objective.
- In the northeast, the key logistics hub of Lyman in the northern Donetsk region fell to Ukraine on Friday. While the Kherson offensive had been telegraphed for months, the northeastern push seems to have caught the Russians by surprise. Ukrainian forces have captured an estimated 2,000 sq. miles there in less than a month.
🇺🇦 Ukrainian government social media accounts have been sharing videos of captured towns, soldiers and tanks — all underscoring the recent successes. - There have been no similar successes on the Russian side for several weeks. But analysts believe Ukraine's casualties in the Kherson offensive have been significant.
🥊 Reality check: Ukraine may have a narrowing window to gain ground before winter weather makes offensive operations difficult, and before Russia is able to flood in newly drafted soldiers to reinforce their lines. | | | | | | | | A message from JPMorgan Chase | | Investing in the future of our communities | | |  | | | | JPMorgan Chase delivered over $1 billion in community development financing in 2021. - The funding supports the development of affordable housing, small businesses, and vital facilities like grocery stores, schools and health clinics.
Learn more. | | | | | | 4. 📷 1,000 words | | Photo: Evan Vucci/AP In a possible preview of the 2024 presidential matchup, President Biden appeared with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Fisherman's Wharf in Fort Myers Beach to promote the federal and state Hurricane Ian response. - Both were on their best behavior. "Mr. President, welcome to Florida," the governor said.
Asked how DeSantis has handled the recovery, Biden said: "I think he's done a good job. ... We have very different political philosophies. ... [B]ut ... we've worked hand-in-glove." Photo: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images DeSantis fans enjoyed seeing him speak behind the presidential seal. | | | | | | | | 5. 100 days after Roe |  Data: Guttmacher Institute. (Ohio and Indiana are excluded since court action has temporarily suspended their bans.) Chart: Simran Parwani/Axios More than 80% of abortion clinics in 15 states with strict bans have stopped offering the procedure since the Supreme Court overturned Roe, Axios' Oriana Gonzalez writes from Guttmacher Institute research out this morning. - Only 13 of 79 clinics in those states were still providing abortions as of Oct. 2 — 100 days after the Dobbs decision.
All are located in Georgia, where a six-week ban is in place. - Texas had the most closures: Of 23 clinics before the decision, 12 shut down. 11 are open, but only offering services other than abortion.
Read the report ... Get Axios Vitals. | | | | | | | | 6. "Civil war" rising | | Trumpers rally outside Mar-a-Lago on the night of the FBI search in August. Photo: Marco Bello/Reuters More than a century and a half after the actual Civil War, "civil war" references are becoming common on the right, The New York Times writes in a front-page story (subscription). - Why it matters: Polling and social media "suggest that a growing number of Americans are anticipating, or even welcoming, the possibility of sustained political violence, researchers studying extremism say."
🧮 By the numbers: Posts on Twitter that mentioned "civil war" soared nearly 3,000% after the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. The bottom line: "What was once the subject of serious discussion only on the political periphery," The Times writes, "has migrated closer to the mainstream." | | | | | | | | 7. 👢 Katty Kay's democracy roadtrip | | Katty Kay speaks with Martin Kimmet, chairman of the Park County (Wyo.) Republican Party, on his ranch. Photo: BBC Studios Out today: BBC's Katty Kay traveled across America for a documentary on the fate of democracy, "Trump: The Comeback?" — including interviews with voters and local politicians in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wyoming. - "Despite the subject, it's actually fun," Katty tells me. "I go cattle-wrangling in Wyoming and truck-washing in Pennsylvania. ... An outsider/insider's take."
- The monthlong ramble took her from 126° in Phoenix to a snowstorm in Wyoming — in the space of a day.
Kay spent time with two Arizona GOP candidates — Kari Lake for governor and Mark Finchem for secretary of state — who were named yesterday by Rep. Liz Cheney as leading threats to democracy. - "Trump: The Comeback?" is available on BBC Select via Amazon Prime Video Channels, the Apple TV app and The Roku Channel.
Watch the trailer. | | | | | | | | 8. 📚 Michelle Obama theater tour | | Image: Live Nation Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres are among the celebrity moderators joining former First Lady Michelle Obama on a monthlong, six-city theater tour for her upcoming book, "The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times," out Nov. 15. - Why it matters: The tour, which has its own branding (above), is a sequel to an arena tour that was part of the blockbuster success of her first book, "Becoming," which sold 2 million copies in all formats in the first two weeks, and was the bestselling book of 2018.
Other moderators include Conan O'Brien, Tracee Ellis Ross, Gayle King and Michele Norris, "Today" show co-host Hoda Kotb, poet Elizabeth Alexander and advocate Heather McGhee, AP's Hillel Italie writes. Schedule: Live Nation DeGeneres will be onstage for the first two nights, in D.C., with Tyler Perry scheduled to interview her in Atlanta, Letterman in Chicago and Winfrey for the last stop, at L.A.'s YouTube Theater on Dec. 13. | | | | | | | | A message from JPMorgan Chase | | Revitalizing historic communities | | |  | | | | JPMorgan Chase's New Markets Tax Credit program helps developers fund projects that bring economic growth to underserved communities. - The program helped entrepreneur Baron Waller open Culver's, creating jobs and the community's first casual sit-down restaurant in years.
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