Making these vaccines ahead of time is a billion dollar ask. But waiting for the pandemic to arrive is a multi-trillion dollar problem.

⚠️Mazelenvirus gevonden in rioolwater rond het Leuvense.
Net zoals in Brussel gaat het hier over genotype D8, het type dat nu in Europa circuleert.
1. We willen graag huisartsen attent maken voor de diagnose van mogelijke gevallen.
2. Laat zeker je kinderen vaccineren 💉12m💉9j

A truly bizarre movement wishes to deny the existence of immunity, immune memory, tissue-resident memory and the effect of boosting on strengthening immunity. This is based on complete ignorance of the immune system.

No - the Absolute risk of severe COVID-19 disease (ICU admission, Death) in kids is *NOT* 4%

Not close!

Let’s do the math

Assume most kids have had COVID

US kids -> ~74M
x 4% = 3M ppl

The US has NOT had 3M ICU/deaths of children from COVID-19

#DenominatorsMatter

Why are organs shaped the way they are and how does anatomical differences between males and females arise? An unbelievable paper by Irene Miguel-Aliaga The Crick Imperial College London - Congrats to all! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Working urgent care shifts in the Bay Area recently & we have had an ongoing onslaught of people presenting with upper respiratory infections. Some of these have been #Covid19 , some have been Flu A/B, and most have been without a diagnosis, as usual.

We need quicker

Michael Mina Exhibit 1: Waiting 2 months to *start* this risk assessment.

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In order to know who is in contact w animals that “may be infected” we first need to know what farms have #H5N1 .

The only good way to know this is to significantly enhance surveillance testing

Testing should be unrestricted at this point and 100% free to all farms

Let’s not just wait and see this time - by the time we are “seeing,” it’s too late

how many mammal species will we allow to become infected before it successfully mutates sufficiently (through bumping into humans more and more) to infect us and spread between us…

Let’s not just wait and see this time - by the time we are “seeing,” it’s too late

how many mammal species will we allow to become infected before it successfully mutates sufficiently (through bumping into humans more and more) to infect us and spread between us…

The #H5N1 virus will continue to mutate and evolve if we don’t control the outbreak

We need to
1. ⬆️testing in animals and high risk persons
2. Implement prevention measures
3. Train people on the use of PPE
4. Implement a #vaccine strategy
5. Continue genomic sequencing

Wait! Wasn’t human case in Texas in March? Now, in June CDC CDC Flu says they’re beginning to do a risk assessment. They’ve claimed to be doing this already over the past month. 2 moths later they will now begin.

Hope they reveal data on how much more efficient this virus

🧵 Ive written SARS-CoV-2 is a “textbook virus”

• Textbook does NOT mean mild
• Textbook viruses kill people
• Textbook viruses harm long-term immunity
• Textbook viruses cause dizzying amounts of poorly understood debilitating problems

I explain w examples here!

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New report in Cell Reports Medicine

Summary - The Immune System continues to work as expected and as it has for other respiratory viruses

A silver lining of COVID is it drove tons of immunology research - which will translate into improved treatments and vaccines for all pathogens

A reminder sans poppy seed muffin about how small #ticks can be. Hiking today and this asshole thought they were hitching a ride. Compare to the speck of dirt at the bottom.

This is so incredibly spot on. Our healthcare system is remarkably broken. We each pay hundreds or more dollars per month into insurance - and it is required by law for us each to do so to not incur government fines - and this cartoon encapsulates so well what we are paying for.

Clues From Bird Flu's Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle medpagetoday.com/special-report… Fascinating description of how the H5N1 outbreak among dairy cows started, how it was first picked up and how politics post COVID are making control difficult.

𝙃5𝙉1. 𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙄𝙇𝙆 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙙, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙃𝙐𝙈𝘼𝙉𝙎 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙄𝙉𝙁𝙀𝘾𝙏𝙀𝘿 !

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘱𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘋𝘜𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.
pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…