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Sam

@kaffando @stuartl #COVID #HPAI

Then too, add the inevitable development of human transmissible H5N1, or reassortment making it human transmissible - with high pathogenicity

The former could happen at any time. The latter is most likely this fall or next when the birds return from the arctic breeding grounds, having spent the summer trading flu viruses from all over the northern hemisphere.

Plus H3N3, H9N7, ...

The viruses are coming to take us away ha ha, ....

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Sam

@kaffando @treleanor @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 #COVID

On a related note, I had a fascinating discussion with Claude.ai.

It expects a wild type hybridization between SARS-CoV-2 and any of: MERS, NeoCov, PDF-2180, HKU4, or HKU5, spawning a new more deadly pandemic within the next several years, starting in humans, or in animals and moving to humans..

It is only surprised that that has not happened already.

We are not ready. We will not be ready.

It will come as a terrible "surprise".

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Sam

@kaffando @treleanor @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 #COVID

Wrong. SARS-CoV-2 is NOT seasonal. Human behaviors are seasonal - like crowding together indoors in winter for holidays. This dramatically increases transmission. And that along with the short period of immunity following infection or vaccination (~110-175 days for infection; 9-12 months for severe disease and death) causes a false appearance of seasonality.

It is here year round, and will remain so, since we refuse to learn.

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Carolyn Barber, MD

“Transmission is declining in most areas, & all regions are in the "low" category except the South, which remains @ moderate. LP.8.1 is already mature at about 70%, and barely made an impact.

🔸260,000 new infections/day
🔸~1 in 127 currently infected”— JP Weiland #press #COVID

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Scott Busby

A U.S. District Court today just granted a temporary restraining order that restores $11 billion in critical public health funding to state and local public health agencies across the country. This funding had been recently cut without notice by HHS under RFKJr.
These grants cover identifying, tracking, and addressing infectious diseases; ensuring access to immunizations; and modernizing critical public health infrastructure.
This funding was set by Congress to ensure the United States is better prepared for future public health threats like the Covid pandemic.
#health #hhs #courts #rfkjr #covid

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Massive, Unarchivable #Datasets of #Cancer, #Covid, #HIV and #Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before RFK announced 10,000 #HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on #NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review." Unlike other government datasets or web pages, downloading or otherwise archiving NIH data often requires a Data Use Agreement between a researcher institution and the agency.
404media.co/nih-archives-repos
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404 Media · Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost ForeverDays before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

BTW
am not going to tomorrow’s #protest.

am still in the post #chemo and #covid surveillance phase, which explains why am right now hobbling on one foot. after chemo and radiation my bones have felt fragile. had to wrap a foot because i have no idea how i bruised it.

feel no need to put my body on the line. did it for years and years and it cost me everything, almost my life.

let those columbusing American #fascism go out in force and flourish tommorrow.

i’ll be healing in #solidarity.

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anubis2814

Great news! #LongCovid
thelancet.com/journals/laninf/…

Until recently the best data we had concluded that #Covid per hospitalization does 15% damage to the body (Long covid frequency) than that of influenza hospitalizations(causing #longflu ). These were from Covid data from

patientcareonline.com/view/lon…
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM…

This new study shows however shows that while that was true for Original and delta combined, Omicron has a significantly lower impact on the organ systems, and is now even the tiniest bit less dangerous than long flu!

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