Anti pandemic.
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As a scientist who studies influenza viruses and who also grew up on a dairy farm, I wanted to provide my two cents on the current outbreaks of H5N1 in cows and what this means for the dairy industry and human health.
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@dr_kkjetelina YES to nimbleness and vigilance! twitter.com/svscarpino/sta…
Sam Scarpino@svscarpino
3/ While the risk to the public is almost certainly still low, we need our animal & public health authorities to continuing taking this situation very seriously. There's no excuses if we allow ongoing transmission & the virus ends up w/ the right set of mutations for H2H spread.
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CDC update on virus of infected farmer cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/s…
Plain language: Avian flu mutated at one specific spot, but not enough for ongoing human transmission, which is great news.
(PS this was incredible speed. Nimbleness that’s extremely helpful. Keep it up!)
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@ObservingAngel @ENirenberg Would be great if there were a page just dedicated to the tools, research, clinical trials, innovations. That's sort of what @EricTopol offers and why he deserves such thanks!
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4 years ago, a Stanford team lead by @drjBhattacharya began a study to determine seroprevalence of COVID antibodies.
It played a key role in driving the wildly incorrect belief that COVID is no worse than the flu.
How did it go so wrong?
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@ObservingAngel @ENirenberg I'm sure you agree. Anyway, thanks for your page and your contributions! Take care man.
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@ObservingAngel @ENirenberg As yr colleague Katelyn Jetelina has written, "95% of hospitalizations are [those] not up-to-date on vaccines. 1 in 4 nursing home residents didn’t get Paxlovid. Long Covid-19 treatment is moving at a snail’s pace. We need to be laser-focused on what will move the needle."
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@3M @TRyanGregory Great masks, THANK YOU. Just another shoutout for the "Aura in black"!
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@TRyanGregory Hi Ryan -- We are always open to our customers' suggestions and ideas!
Please be assured that we have shared your feedback internally with the relevant team to be worked on. twitter.com/messages/compo…
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One very easy and useful change would be for manufacturers to listen to users with ideas on improving fit, seal, comfort, and style of N95s. There's a huge market for it still, and it could help to facilitate and normalize masking for viruses, allergy season, etc.
@3M
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N95s are an occupational tool that prevents a TON of challenges for everyday, persistent, including hair type (especially with the “rubber band straps).
They are an AMAZING tool, but here are some very real things that could be fixed to make them better for persistent use: 🧵
Nukit@NukitToBeSure
I'm not going to step out of my lane or speak for others, but those of you pushing "head strap respirator or stay home" need to have a long, very respectful conversation with someone with 4C hair- just to start with. You don't know what you don't know- and most of us know far less than we think. Listen better. Bring a variety of good masks, share those masks, help people get fit tested- but don't assume.
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1/ The 2nd human case of H5N1 bird flu was reported in the US yesterday.
This case was in Texas & likely involved transmission from an infected cow🐄 to this individual.
The 1st case was reported in Colorado in 2022.
with @tonydokoupil @GayleKing @nateburleson
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@cmyeaton @CDCgov @CDCemergency @CDCDirector @WHCOS @WHO @mvankerkhove, please don't underprepare. Thank you for the superb guide, @cmyeaton. twitter.com/cmyeaton/statu…
Caitlin Rivers@cmyeaton
I wrote this over a year ago. Still relevant. How to Handle the Bird Flu: America Must Prepare for the Next Possible Pandemic. (No paywall, but you do have to input an email) foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…
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I wrote this over a year ago. Still relevant.
How to Handle the Bird Flu: America Must Prepare for the Next Possible Pandemic.
(No paywall, but you do have to input an email) foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…
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As an educator who believes in accepting late work, I say “thank you” to @CDCgov for turning in this guidance on ventilation.
I’d also like to have a convo with CDC after class about the consequences of turning this work in 4 yrs past the due date.
cdc.gov/ncird/whats-ne…
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I think this is an important point. Rest is your best friend when recovering from Covid. I worry that these guidelines will encourage over-zealous employers to assume people will report back to jobs after one day, which is exactly the wrong thing to do for multiple reasons.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran
Studies show that you need to rest when in you have COVID to reduce your risk of Long COVID. The CDC shortening their COVID isolation guidelines will put people at greater risk of Long COVID.
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@ashishkjha I'll respectfully make a counter point here using this chart. In many, many instances, symptoms are improving after day 2. However ~all of them will be still be highly contagious at that point. Big difference in area under the curve:
Ashish K. Jha@ashishkjha
I'll respectfully disagree with my friend @EricTopol CDC does not have a "no isolation" guideline Its guideline is to isolate until symptoms are clearly improving In the paper Eric cites, there is another useful graph It shows that as symptoms abate, so does infectious virus
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It's unfortunate this talking point is still being repeated, even though it has been proven wrong over and over. Data shows kids are a major vector
Point 1: Huge spike ages 0-17 right as school year starts (chart)
Point 2: Child was index case 70% of household transmission 1/
Alasdair Munro@apsmunro
@awgaffney I don't think anyone would say closures had "no effect" However, the data are pretty clear that school closures provided very limited benefit (much less than expected) due to children being less pre-disposed to transmission than adults Has big impact on cost:benefit
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