Tag: infectious disease

Ziyad Al-Aly, MD @zalaly · Nov 8 I spoke to @statnews about @RobertKennedyJr potentially leading @HHSGov ; this is an opportunity to reform America's health & research agencies & make sure they deliver for the American people We must work together to improve the health of all Americans JVN @JennJVN This is disappointing. RFK Jr is anti-science, anti-vax, pro-Ivermectin for Covid & has no ethics. In Samoa 83 people, mostly children, died in a measles outbreak. Kennedy had visited & spouted anti-vax rhetoric & kids weren't vaccinated. Don't legitimatize him. 8:33 PM · Nov 8, 2024 · 455 Views

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The Long covid issue has been heavily co-opted by the right-wing.

I’m sorry to those just finding out which way people are willing to go right now, I’ve seen it happening gradually over the years. It makes sense because obviously Republicans and conservatives get Long Covid too – perhaps even moreso because they’ve been less likely to take precautions or even get vaccinated in many cases. Science research, […]

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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.

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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…

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https://aerosol.nsysu.edu.tw/en/scopes/108 The image shows a cartoon representation someone having a cotton swab test stick stuck in their nose, and an illustration of lungs. The text reads: Virosols can enter and deposit in the bronchiolar and alveolar regions of lungs. Aerosols greater than 5 µm deposit primarily in the nasopharyngeal region. Aerosols lesser than 5 µm may enter into and deposit at the bronchiolar and alveolar regions, bypassing the screening in the oral and nasal regions. There are cartoon virus characters with eyes hovering in the lung illustration and they have message bubbles, one virus says: They think we only deposit in the nasopharyngeal region. They totally underestimate our power! Another virus says: This place is so cozy and private! Don't ever let humans know our secret getaways! Another virus says: I just want to go down deep and hide, so that I can focus on replicating my folks. Produced by: Aerosol Science Research Center, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. Copyright 2021 ASRC Reference: C. C. Wang et al., Airbome transmission of respiratory viruses. Science 373, eabd9149 2021

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The Tissue-Thin Ruse Economy.

2024-10-21

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Luzerne County manager makes it harder for the elderly and disabled to safely vote by mail in some Pennsylvania towns.

2024-09-22

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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.

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Doctor avoided contracting dengue while doing research — with precautions.

2024-09-17

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Stanford University to host right-wing trucker convoy adjacent political event.

2024-09-08

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A large gathering should at a minimum specifically ask people who are sick with covid or flu to stay home instead, or at least strongly recommend masking for anyone who is currently unwell. This is the minimum, to adhere to the recommended guidance of the CDC. That’s the minimum. Less precaution will likely precipitate an event becoming a superspreader. www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/prevention/precautions-when-sick.html

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The DNC was a superspreader event because they failed to adhere to CDC guidance recommending masking — at least for actively sick people!

2024-09-04

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Voting by mail is a safe option.

2024-09-03

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AI and poor infection control standards at hospitals, what could possibly go wrong?

2024-09-02

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Cory Doctorow still masking.

2024-08-27

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don't wait for everybody - Chloe Humbert

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Don’t assume CDC HICPAC will recommend controlling infection in hospitals

Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 008

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"I don't always need to go to the hospital. But when I do I don't want them to GIVE me diseases there." https://actionnetwork.org/letters/hospitals-should-not-spread-disease/

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Healthcare tech pitfalls that universal masking and common sense isolation rules could fix.

2024-08-17

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drawing of NIOSH N95 mask

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Ableist mask bans raise questions of how they could be enforced, and also questions about why there’s not another way to deal with the issue of juvenile delinquent vandals.

2024-06-30

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Stigma has always made it easy for people to spread dubious rumours during disease outbreaks.

2024-06-28

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Some will “say anything” when it comes to diseases misinformation.

2024-05-31

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Anti-mask was always a dark money campaign. Mar 28th, 2024 wat3rm370n on tumblr Image Alt Text: The disinformation didn’t just happen, it was deliberate. Teams Human. State Government Leadership Foundation openly bragged on social media about an advertising campaign that specifically targeted liberals to persuade them of the lie that masks supposedly do more harm than good.16 There is evidence that mask requirements are beneficial. But the State Government Leadership Foundation appears to have used old school advertising and simple repetition that uses the mere exposure effect, where people come to believe something simply because it seems familiar after hearing it a lot.17 teamshuman.substack.com/p/anti-mask-woke-washing Dark money from big corporations funded a right-wing think tank to do a deliberate advertising propaganda campaign to convince liberal Democrats that masks are bad. ProPublica headline: Buying Your Vote Big Corporations Put Up Seed Funding for Republican Dark Money Group IRS files show that some of the biggest companies in the country provided more than a million dollars a decade ago to launch a Republican dark money group. by Justin Elliott Feb. 14, 2013, 8 a.m. EST Tweet from State Government Leadership Foundation brags about an anti-mask advertising campaign targeting liberals.

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The pandemic era is now, and mask bans are unethical.

2024-05-17

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Farm bill should include regulating the bird flu in cows situation.

2024-05-15

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Where a disease is permanently circulating, mitigation must be permanent.

2024-05-14

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A Long Hauler Redditor.

2024-04-30

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The memory holed knowledge of presymptomatic and asymptomatic spread of infectious diseases.

2024-04-07

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