A new tactic I'm seeing in the vaccine "debate" is to say something that sounds smart like Why do we give so many more vaccines than Europe? So do we? First, "Europe" is not a country And European nations tend to do things differently from each other So how to compare US to

Influenza and COVID-19 are both circulating If you have multiple people feeling unwell or want to keep a dinner party safer, etc… You can pool home covid-flu multiplex rapid tests Pfizer’s Lucira COVID+FluA/B test is esp good for a family pool (use different swabs/ person)

This week's #FluView shows flu activity continues to increase and is elevated across most of the country. Nationally, the percent of specimens testing positive for influenza is at 18.7%. Read the full #FluView report: bit.ly/421CXf2

If people continue to be infected with #H5N1 #birdflu, some will die. One has: the person in Louisiana who was infected by poultry and/or wild birds in a backyard flock. Developing story. statnews.com/2025/01/06/bir…

🔹️Forecast to end of January🔹️ The model suggests the peak has already passed, and infections should recede to an extent over the next few weeks. This spring could trend in an unusual way due to the low holiday peak.

Today, we confirmed the first positive case of HPAI in a commercial poultry operation in Elbert County. As a result, all poultry activities - exhibitions, shows, swaps, and sales -  in Georgia are suspended until further notice. GDA staff are currently onsite at the affected

BREAKING: Bird flu found in commercial flock in Georgia, poultry markets suspended. ajc.com/news/bird-flu-…

If we're going to be serious about health of people here and around the world We need an effective World Health Organization (WHO) Yet, we may be days from US withdrawing from World Health Organization (WHO) In STAT, I lay out why a withdrawal would take away our leverage, elevate China, and make Americans less safe

Good read on H5 avian influenza nature.com/articles/s4158…

Here we provide evidence of henipaviruses in North America with the discovery of Camp hill virus in the Northern Short-Tailed Shrew, Alabama. Early release article available from EID wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/31… #virology

🧵: Belated update on the respiratory illness situation, based on CDC data. The #flu data is for the week ending Jan. 11. No surprises here, given we all know people who are sick right now. Flu activity is still high, #RSV is very high, and #Covid activity is rising. Please

Leaving World Health Organization (WHO) will have long-term impacts for the US, says Dean Ashish K. Jha in TIME. "We are going to see a lot more disease outbreaks become regional and global, and we will see more disease outbreaks from other countries coming into the U.S.," he says. time.com/7208937/us-wor…

I'd call this pointless cruelty, if cruelty weren't the point. I try to stay away from politics, but this isn't about politics, it's about basic human decency. Go ahead and unfollow me if you think treating desperate kids this way is okay.

News: Half of CDC "disease detectives" terminated. DOGE takes aim at US disease surveillance. Entire first-year class of the Epidemic Intelligence Service must be out by 5 p.m., sources say. Also: a major CDC contractor "just let go. Others may follow. open.substack.com/pub/insidemedi…

"rather than taking a clinical job that might have paid $200,000 to 350,000 per year, these passionate individuals took a salary that was more like $74,000 to $96,000 in order to work and train in the EIS"

NEW: We sued three Maryland drivers who racked up over $90,000 in fines for dangerous driving in DC. These are the first lawsuits brought under the STEER Act. This new civil authority empowers OAG to make our roads safer by holding reckless drivers from any state accountable.

Do you remember BA.3—the weakling cousin of BA.1 & BA.2 that seemed to take the worst from each & had weaker ACE2 binding than even the ancestral Wuhan Virus? After 3 years, BA.3 is back. And it is transmitting. Who saw this coming? 1/13

RFK Jr has been stating that the "anti-measles protection" of natural infection is better than vaccination First - if he thinks measles is not bad for you, then why care how good or long lasting the immunity against it is?? Second - Measles is NOT good for you. Do not get it to

Not surprising: infectiousness of H5n1 can be retained in cheese made from raw milk. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. Why am i not surprised? This has been described before, for tick borne encephalitis for instance frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

“The most proximate cause of contemporary tuberculosis deaths is not M. tuberculosis, but Homo sapiens” 🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 outlines why the U.S. withdrawal of foreign aid for fighting diseases like tuberculosis will haunt us Gift link for ⁦The Atlantic⁩ ⬇️ theatlantic.com/health/archive…