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Nando161

"1. #COVID is not a respiratory #illness, it’s a multi-system #disease with some respiratory symptoms. Remember how #HIV infection starts with a ‘#flu’?

2. COVID is airborne, meaning the SARS-CoV-2 #virus is expelled into the air passively, just by breathing, even in the absence of symptoms. It accumulates and spreads out in enclosed spaces. Like theatres. Hand washing won’t prevent its spread.

thecanary.co/global/world-anal

Canary · After New York COVID play reporting vanishes, artists launch global cultural intervention, call-in Eric BogosianIn recent weeks, a small but pointed COVID-based theater project has triggered a strange trail of digital disruption.
#health#fact#ausgov
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Fishercat

New article by Katelyn Jetelina "Your Local Epidemiologist" 7-4-2025

"Third measles death
This is not normal. For three reasons.

Another child has died of measles. An 8-year-old girl. Unvaccinated. No underlying health conditions.

This is unbelievably tragic—and entirely preventable. It’s also not normal in three important ways."

yourlocalepidemiologist.substa

Your Local Epidemiologist · Third measles deathBy Katelyn Jetelina
#PublicHealth#YourLocalEpidemiologist#Measles
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Nonilex

This is the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new admin that are squandering America’s strength & threatening our #NationalSecurity. Firing hundreds of #FederalWorkers charged w/protecting our nation’s #nuclear weapons is also #dumb. So is shutting down efforts to fight #pandemics just as a deadly #Ebola outbreak is spreading in Africa. It makes no sense to purge talented generals, diplomats & spies at a time when rivals like China & Russia are trying to expand their…reach.

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PrivacyDigest

H.H.S. Scraps Studies of #Vaccines and Treatments for Future #Pandemics

Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 #pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other #pathogens.
#COVID19 #medicine #hhs #rfkjr

nytimes.com/2025/03/26/health/

The New York Times · H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future PandemicsBy Carl Zimmer
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nemo™ 🇺🇦

Did you know Ibn Sina Avicenna, the "father of modern medicine," helped shape our understanding of pandemics? 🤯 From identifying anthrax to pioneering quarantine methods, his work centuries ago still impacts us today! Learn more about this ancient hero: frontiersin.org/news/2022/05/3 #IbnSina #HistoryofMedicine #Pandemics #Science #history

Frontiers Science NewsIbn Sina – Ancient Hero of Modern PandemicsWe invite you to read the compelling story of Ibn Sina – the remarkable polymath
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Charo del Genio

New paper just published.

When a pandemic occurs, a hard lockdown is an obvious and effective way to stop it. However, lockdowns come with serious societal issues. For example, during COVID-19, a critical mass of people opposing lockdowns coalesced in Britain. This was mainly due to two demographic groups, namely self-employed people, who were concerned about their own economic losses, and parents, who dreaded the prospect of having to be closed in the same home with their own kids. Seeking validation and trying to promote their own personal interests, these people became main spreaders of disinformation, eventually falling prey of state-sponsored populistic and anti-science propaganda machines.

In this study, we show that one can use optimization and control theory to introduce only light travel restrictions between macroareas, such as states or regions within a country, yielding better final results in terms of infections and economic damage than those that were actually obtained at the time.

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

#mathematics#physics#optimization
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MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘

@ProPublica
During #TheOrangeMenace's first term, I half-joked they didn't care if millions of people died of #Covid b/c The Far Right was exploiting it as a means of #PopulationControl.

But here we are in a second term and two more potential #pandemics. If they WANTED to prevent all those deaths, this would be the perfect "Do Over"... a chance to "learn from their mistakes" and take the #BirdFlu & #Measles outbreaks seriously.

But instead, it appears they are out to kill millions more.

If one were serious about avoiding the next pandemic, you wouldn't appoint a Crazy Ass S.O.B. like RFK Jr. It certainly appears like they WANT to incur mass death yet again.
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MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘

@feelinglistless.bsky.social
During #TheOrangeMenace's first term, I half-joked they didn't care if millions of people died of #Covid b/c The Far Right was exploiting it as a means of #PopulationControl.

But here we are in a second term and two more potential #pandemics. If they WANTED to prevent all those deaths, this would be the perfect "Do Over"... a chance to "learn from their mistakes" and take the #BirdFlu & #Measles outbreaks seriously.

But instead, they're at it again.

If one were serious about avoiding the next pandemic, you wouldn't appoint a Crazy Ass S.O.B. like RFK Jr. It certainly appears like they WANT to cause mass death.
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Fishercat

Good health is a temporary privilege. Some people get to enjoy it for most of their lives. Others for a shorter time, or not at all. If you're healthy now, and it's *possible for you to mask up to protect others, but you don't, you're either an asshole, or a short-sighted fool.

Even if there *weren't* another pandemic starting, if you live long enough, your health will deteriorate so you'll need others to protect you. If you don't help normalize that behavior today, why do you expect other people will take care of you when you need it?

*Acquiring masks won't keep you from eating or paying rent.

#rant #masking #pandemics #CovidIsNotOver
#health #medical #SocialContract

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William Lindsey :toad:

"Are you reading about the growing risk of avian flu? At risk, or just paying attention? Or a farmer? Too bad. Because they don’t care who leaves—even if they are the scientists and veterinarians and Department of Agriculture employees tracking and triaging avian flu as we speak."

#Trump #Musk #FederalWorkers #PoliticsofChaos #healthcare #research #MedicalResearch #CDC #BirdFlu #AvianFlu #pandemics #DepartmentofAgriculture
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PrivacyDigest

‘Doomsday Clock’ moves closer to midnight amid threats of climate change, nuclear war, pandemics, AI

Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been.
#DomsdayVlock #ai #pandemics

apnews.com/article/doomsday-cl

AP News · 'Doomsday Clock' moves closer to midnightA science-oriented advocacy group says the Earth is moving closer to destruction. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said Tuesday that they've moved their “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been, because of worsening threats ranging from nuclear war to climate change to pandemics and artificial intelligence. The clock had stood at 90 seconds to midnight for the past two years. The advocacy group began to use a clock in 1947 to symbolize the potential and likelihood of people doing something to end humanity.
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