The Centers for Disease Circulation has decided that you must sacrifice your future health to prop up the economy temporarily.

Here's the problem: exposing everyone to COVID while they're contagious is guaranteed to devastate both our bodies and the economy in one fell swoop. 🧵

PSA that HEPA filters are great for wildfire smoke particulates but they don’t touch the formaldehyde, benzene, and other VOCs that also come along with wildfire smoke, especially aged wildfire smoke. Please get a carbon filter as well especially if you’re chemically sensitive!

3 years ago today, the CDC director told the vaccinated to take off their mask, giving the illusion that Covid vaccines prevent infection. It was the day they started turning citizens against masks. Soon after she called masks the 'Scarlett letter of the pandemic'.

Th second you drop your guard you will get COVID. It’s not a gamble, it’s a guarantee.

You people seeing this? —Trump Says He Will Reverse Protections for LGBTQ Kids on “Day One” If Reelected | Truthout truthout.org/articles/trump…

Fresh off the press - U.S. FDA says not to use Cue COVID tests: fda.gov/medical-device…

I'm anxious to learn what all of this fluA activity in California is.

CA has not been reported to have any H5-infected herds, they don't have a lot of wild birds contributing to their wastewater, and this isn't flu season.

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Data: Heart-failure patients have 82% better odds of living longer if vaccinated against #COVID

Vaccinated patients also had a 47% lower risk of hospitalization for heart failure and a 13% reduced risk of infection over 6 months.

cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/data-…

Wildfire smoke could move into Ottawa, eastern Ontario tonight ottawa.ctvnews.ca/wildfire-smoke…

BREAKING UPDATE: Biobot's SARS-CoV-2 wastewater data is indicating a 2nd week of rising infections, with the largest increase in the Western US region.

bhf.org.uk/informationsup…

If a patient develops MRSA and dies - we don’t say “oh well they were sick & probably dying anyways.” It’s considered a failure of infection control.

Hospitals should treat COVID the same way. They should actively try and prevent infecting patients.

Seeing whooping cough a lot recently ? There is a new strain from china described here, resistant to macrolides but sensible to bactrim

Half of patient were vaccinated children

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medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

BREAKING UPDATE: Walgreens Covid positivity rates are rising for the 2nd straight week. Testing is at the lowest level since August 6, 2023.

I'm hearing now that the CDC dashboard on influenza A in wastewater (aimed at tracking #H5N1 #birdflu ) will not be posted until Tuesday. Don't know what's behind the delay.

'COVID-19 is associated with a range of neurological, cognitive and mental health symptoms both acutely and chronically..
Investigations of the long-term impact of COVID-19 infection on cognitive function reveal that deficits can be seen in the global cognition and certain…

Get your air cleaners ready.

Schools boards, are you ready?

Today CDC is supposed to launch a new dashboard showing where #influenza A virus — at this time of year probably #H5N1 #birdflu — is showing up in #wastewater . Hopefully we can get a better idea in real time where cow outbreaks are occurring. Maybe. statnews.com/2024/05/13/cdc…

More than half the people who've caught Covid round here in the last month also caught it in the wave before Christmas.
And half the people who caught it before Christmas have caught it now.
#AnecdoteAlert

The first country that aims for zero hospital-acquired respiratory infections, in a similar way to the targets that were put in place two decades ago for MRSA, will save a huge amount of suffering, a lot of lives, and may end up saving their entire healthcare system