Stop thinking “if only we could convince people” of something, that things would change. Just stop that. It’s not about explaining.
Tag: infectious disease
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.
It’s a mistake to assume any of it is a mistake.
They really are actual eugenicists. Didn’t those salutes tip you off?
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.”
Ohio wants to force doctors to give quack cure to kids with covid.
The knock on effects of this would probably be many and very problematic.
“Uptick” is what they call it when half the staff has been out sick at every job in the past few weeks.
Several Illinois hospitals requiring masks as respiratory infections climb A mask requirement is in effect at area hospitals, including Rush University Medical Center, Rush Copley Medical Center and Rush Oak Park Hospital. By NBC Chicago Staff and NBC News • Published December 30, 2024 • Updated on December 30, 2024 at 4:55 pm Multiple Illinois health […]
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…