Why is Twitter's AI algorithm so mad at Biden? Did the president refuse to grant it an interview?

Health labs today got an 'urgent' notice from CDC

One lot of agency's Influenza A/H5 Subtyping Kit discovered to have a faulty component

Labs urged to halt use of component when testing suspect bird flu cases, over risk of 'inconclusive results'

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The Federal Trade Commission is accusing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and other top company executives of using disappearing messaging apps such as Signal to conceal potential evidence in the agency’s ongoing antitrust case against the e-commerce behemoth. wapo.st/4aTlqqH

The idea that a ban on a harmful product 'unfairly targets' a group that disproportionately uses that product is so funny. No, they're the group that's disproportionately harmed!

So frustrating - 15 years delayed. So many lives lost. So many people who could have had an easier time quitting.

🚨 Florida’s six-week abortion ban takes effect Wednesday.

One clinic just told me they have 70-80 patients on the schedule Monday.

They usually see 10-15.

Scoop via Matthew Belloni: Steven Spielberg “has been quietly but actively working with the Joe Biden campaign to help choreograph August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. … participating in multiple strategy sessions on how to best tell the president’s story…”…

Biden says he'll debate Trump in Howard Stern interview. Trump adviser Chris LaCivita instantly proposes logistics get done. Trump team said in public memo yesterday that the CPD hadn't answered their request to hold earlier debates. Biden team not huge CPD fans either.

So a fight over this relatively standard Democratic quote — and whether it could be attributed to a spokesperson by name — spiraled into the NYT being removed from White House email lists?

Most Dem oppo so far has focused on Hovde's 'Veep' moments, but this is the first I've seen using his 2012 Senate race - another world, when repealing the ACA was a fairly popular idea and every R was on record for it.

NEW: As bird flu spreads in cows, U.S. response has echoes of early covid. Testing of cows too limited. Results + studies not shared fast enough. Genetic analysis of H5N1 suggests outbreak started months before it was noticed. w ⁦Rachel Roubein⁩ washingtonpost.com/health/2024/04…

BREAKING: Police have charged Pikesville High School's athletic director with using AI to fake a racist recording of the school's principal that went viral thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12…

In August 2022, researchers at Yale invented a fluid that, pumped into dead pigs’ bodies, brought their organs back to life—a kind of “zombie” liquid.

Almost nobody talks about this medical breakthrough anymore. And no organizations use it.

Except for one. The Miami Heat.

Antitrust enforcement was once a backwater of health policy, but it's getting renewed attention from policymakers as a tool for addressing high prices.