“Two male deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania…”
Tag: infection control
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.
Unmasked and making everyone sick.
I’ve been hearing about people showing up to work sick, testing positive for covid, and not wearing a mask and working sick, despite the CDC’s recommendation that people “Stay home and away from others”, and even after feeling better they say to mask when resuming normal activities. CDC – Respiratory Virus Guidance March 1, 2024 Preventing Spread […]
There are already guidelines that prevent people who feel unwell from donating blood.
I’m starting to think this issue is being pushed online because any type of controversy or fear mongering will generate attention and clicks…
Many people still don’t really know how respirator masks work.
It’s really no wonder people are susceptible to anti-mask propaganda undermining masks as an effective way to control the spread of aerosol transmitted diseases when the fact is, public health leadership has failed to properly explain to the public how respirator masks work. I invite people to read the various ways people have misunderstood how masks […]
Banning protective gear is non-viable for human survival.
What’s next on their enemy list, tassel knit hats and earmuffs in 15 degree weather? Prohibiting old lady babushkas?
Vaccines require high uptake to quell transmission.
Even the measles vaccine requires high uptake to stop transmission. This has always been the case. Vaccine effectiveness for transmission has always depended upon high uptake. That’s just how it works. That’s why it’s important to have a vaccine campaign.
But many did not survive the first time.
I realize that some people think they’re being helpful or consoling somehow when they say “the country survived the first Trump term”, but it’s unthinkingly insulting to all the people who lost their lives…
Public comment to CDC HICPAC committee November 2024 by Chloe
Going backward is a choice. We know better now. We use surgical gloves, autoclaves, disinfectants, checklists and yes, respirator masks exist. But big healthcare corporations don’t wanna pay for that, they lock up PPE, force nurses to work without sick leave at hospitals, and make patients beg for reasonable accommodation.
Trump said he wants to let RFK Jr. “go wild on” health, food, and medicines.
RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer who promoted an anti-vaxxer in Samoa…
Do we want hospitals that are clearly not pandemic-ready at all?
All staff, every last person working in a hospital should be provided with N95 respiratory protection.