RFK Jr.’s Staffers Keep Getting Worse | The New Republic newrepublic.com/post/181264/rf…

Close but still wrong. The VICP -- which again does not cover Covid vaccines -- is paid for by by an excise tax on vaccines. Paid for by the manufacturer.
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VAERS is actually a national warning system that analyzes reports of possible side effects from vaccines -- it's meant to detect potential safety issues. I think Shanahan means the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program which is a separate thing entirely which is funded by an excise…

I don’t understand what NY Times is trying to do today, I mean I get the part below, but why that headline? And why bury the overwhelming benefits of Covid immunizations? Why say “for most people” the benefits outweighs the risks. Say it as it is >99.9%

I'n my latest column, I wrote about the GOP's campaign to smear the leader of a crucial anti-pandemic research organization--and the cowardly Democrats who went along: latimes.com/business/story…

New preprint out on sequence analysis for HPAI H5N1 in dairy cows, as covered by CIDRAP—the article pulls a quote from the study 'undersurveillance in epidemiologically important populations'
+100, more metadata please. #OneHealth cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenz…

Hey OhioDNR are fires allowed at the Mogadore Reservoir? Have been here multiple times when people are burning and not sure of the regulations.

This is unfolding in interesting way as more data slowly coming out from Dept. of Agriculture.

Imp to note this likely originated from a single/limited infection, within a confined area. Meaning also, this could’ve been detected, contained, halted in a single area.

It was likely spread…

Dr. Angela Rasmussen Agree, this is a good start...'a reassortment event in wild bird populations preceded a single wild bird-to-cattle transmission episode. The movement of asymptomatic cattle has likely played a role in the spread of HPAI within the United States dairy herd...'

And, similar to what our collaborative team has found, the USDA team finds that this entered cattle from wild birds via a single spillover, likely in December 2023.

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Lots of interesting information, including information about transmission between herds based on epidemiological and genomic linkages. Note how many question marks there are—these denote cases that weren’t identified but must have occurred.

Saitama City, Japan: we have a sewer utility.
me: same.
SC: we burn our sewer sludge.
me: same.
SC: we reuse the ash to help the environment.
me: same.
SC: we have tardigrade mascots.
me:

Was fantastic to welcome Isabella Eckerle to Swiss TPH yesterday to speak about viruses old and new!

I loved her reminder, 'From the view of a virus, there's nothing so special about a human.' We easily forget we're just another potential host in the eyes of a virus 👀🦠

We finally got a poll on how RFK Jr.'s vaccine views could play in 2024.

-Half of Republicans are unfamiliar with them. 4 in 10 Dems are unfamiliar.

-When informed about them, the % of Republicans who say they'd consider RFK nearly doubles.

-The % of Democrats who say they'd…

On top of the authoritarian laundry list that Trump gave to Time Magazine he would also close the pandemic preparedness office on day one. Because being unprepared went so swimmingly last time.

H5N1 bird flu testing in cows will be more limited that USDA said - STAT statnews.com/2024/04/26/h5n…

Out of 33 dairy farms in 8 U.S. states (+1 dairy farm in Colorado), 23 people have been tested for highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 by states. Less than 1 person per farm. This seems a clear answer to the question: “Are we testing enough for H5N1?”
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