Why do I feel like we're making the same mistakes with bird flu that we did with covid?
Dismissing this case with "oh he had chronic conditions" is extremely dangerous. Not to mention the fact that there's a lot of people who have multiple underlying health conditions.
My #CovidIsNotOver table at the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) at the Rhetoric Society (RSA)! Art by @JoBlakely and @violetblue ; zines by @hnewlevant ; flyers by @phpledge and bit.ly/lesscovid. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions on how to make it engaging--it's been lovely to meet other #CovidCautious people and create some visibility around #disability and #COVID .
Swift is contributing to the spread of #Covid. She missed an opportunity to not sicken her fans. She could've had cute 'Swifty' masks made, & included them in the ticket price. She's a billionaire. Studies show, masking at superspreader events slows the spread of Covid.
The Lucira at-home #COVID test is a molecular #COVID-19 test, more accurate than an antigen test. It takes 30 minutes to run and display the results - no app needed.
The Cue app now won't let you initiate a COVID test. (One friend said it works to just insert the cartridge. The app eventually recognizes the test in progress; you have to tap around to find a record of it.)
Alternative at-home molecular tests now include:
Metrix
Lucira
3EO
PlusLife (not yet FDA-authorized)
#Inflation soared under President #Biden in 2021 & 2022, as the #economy emerged from the #pandemic recession [that began under Trump]. Its causes were complex, including snarled #SupplyChains, stimulative policies by the #FederalReserve &, to a degree, federal fiscal policies incl’ing #Covid relief bills signed by #Trump &…Biden.
Es sieht so aus, als gäbe es im Herbst zumindest in den USA einen upgedateten #Impfstoff gegen die Variante JN.1 und Verwandte.
Ein Beratergremium der FDA hat grad ne Empfehlung ausgesprochen, die Erwartung ist, dass die FDA dem folgt.
Zeitrahmen und Verfügbarkeit bei uns sind bisher unklar.
This is a damning indictment of our global COVID policy failure: #COVID lulls aren't being earned by policy; they're being bought with infections and deaths
When SARS broke out in #Taiwan in ‘03, the WHO denied Taiwan’s request for the virus’ DNA to combat it.
The WHO told Taiwan’s health minister at the time to ask China.
#China refused the request and 137 people died in the following four months.
Taiwan has been denied WHO membership for five decades due to political reasons, says Dr. Chien-Jen, Taiwan’s Minister of Health at the time of the SARS outbreak.
Dr. Chen believes that if #China had acted responsibly over #COVID, there could have been a chance to save #Wuhan from #lockdown, or even to prevent the virus from traveling around the world.
It occurred to me today that even though over 1 million Americans have died from Covid, we have no national memorial or national day day of mourning and how the powers that be have decided to memory hole the whole thing and how wrong this is.
The results also suggest that N95 masks, also known as #respirators, should be the standard of care in nursing homes and health care settings when respiratory viral infections are prevalent and transmission risk is elevated”