Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 023
Tag: infection control
Don’t take public health prescriptions from repeatedly wrong Doctor Monica Gandhi.
The failed politics of “centrist” corrupt clientelism has infiltrated and corrupted public health and we need to put a stop to this nonsense all around. There is an audio recording podcast recording (with transcript and references) that mirrors this post. Now is the time to make your voice heard about vaccines. Request for Written Comments—2025–2026 Formula for […]
NIOSH certification of N95 masks will shut down in June if Trump admin actions are not reversed at HHS.
This will have ramifications for workers in various fields and the general public.
People should be worried about polio. And a lot of other preventable infectious diseases.
It’s not really surprising Joe Rogan is platforming some right-winger who thinks polio is no big deal, a large amount of the left seems to not realize that covid is more serious than polio.
Bad actors leveraged the effects of stigma to manipulate people to thwart public health in a pandemic.
People deliberately spread disinformation, on purpose. Stigma is a known quantity when it comes to disease, especially infectious disease. Scientific American – January 6, 2025 The Real Reason People Don’t Trust in Science Has Nothing to Do with Scientists Propaganda works, is the real upshot of a survey showing lingering post-pandemic distrust of science By […]
Can we please end loser leftism and extol the public good?
Stop thinking “if only we could convince people” of something, that things would change. Just stop that. It’s not about explaining.
Herd immunity misinformation on the left.
Youtube served up a liberal channel with healthcare professionals that were ostensibly criticizing RFKJr – though I feel like they were trying to bothsides the guy, buying into some of his claims they think they agree with. But the issue is that covid vaccine uptake was never great even for the original series, it never […]
Pasteurization is popular because milkborne pathogens are not.
The risk just isn’t worth it. Especially for the cats.
There is no real substitute for case surveillance.
Cases in case surveillance means a count of actual diagnosed cases of a disease. National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) What is Case Surveillance? Case surveillance is foundational to public health practice. It helps us to understand diseases and their spread and determine appropriate actions to control outbreaks. Case surveillance occurs each time public health […]
Next year’s flu shots are at risk as well as the development of new vaccines.
It’s like people have been walking into this with normalcy bias.
The information zombies of pandemic misinformation.
There are things that have stuck with people from the beginning of the pandemic when we didn’t know much, and science & clinical information on covid was new, but we need to move with the times.
Louisiana government forbids public health officials from doing public health.
State officials have forbidden the public health department from even mentioning vaccines.
Elon Musk wiped out USAID maybe because he was pro-apartheid.
These eugenicists believe in some kind of a natural order, and so they see medicine, especially preventions for infectious diseases, as interfering in the “rightful” order of things.
Deer brain disease found in the region of Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania.
“Two male deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania…”
Failures of public health in the pandemic reveal hospital infection control weaknesses.
Hospitals could certainly walk and chew gum at the same time when it comes to infection control given the right incentives and management.
Bizarre RFKJR confirmation hearing.
RFKJr is a terrible anti-vaxxer. But there are so many other problems as well with him taking over the entirety of the federal healthcare in the US. The threat can’t be overstated.
Trump quits the US from WHO like he’s cancelling his country club membership.
Membership in the WHO isn’t like giving to some sketch non-profit charity in order to get tax favour.
Hospitals respond to disease outbreaks instead of preventing them.
An “uptick” is what they call it when half the staff at any job has been out sick during the last month or so.
Legislation against municipal mask bans introduced by President pro tempore of the Massachusetts Senate.
Massachusetts state Senator Will Brownsberger, Democrat from Boston, introduced a bill that would prohibit municipalities and boards of health from enacting mask bans that include banning “protective or medical use” of wearing masks in public.
Bird flu ought to be taken seriously.
“Without immediate nationwide livestock testing and isolation, expanded wastewater surveillance, and rapid vaccine distribution to at-risk populations, the virus risks mutating into a form capable of sustained human transmission—repeating the catastrophic delays of COVID-19.”
Veterinarians, cat tragedies, and avian influenza.
There is no benefit to raw milk or raw meat. Pasteurization and cooking exists.