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One way to whittle down the population, bring back #COVID & let it #mutate!

The FDA plans to require new clinical trials for approval of annual COVID-19 boosters for healthy Americans under 65, effectively limiting their availability this fall to older adults & those with a higher risk of developing severe illness.

#PublicHealth #HHS #Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #science #medicine
reuters.com/business/healthcar

Occasionally, I think about how to work effectively with #rstats. Currently, I am teaching my #bioinformatics courses with #RKWard again. I try to do most of it with packages from the base installation. #datatable is an exception. But otherwise, I like to use #within (very fast) instead of #mutate.
But there are more approaches, which are often simpler/faster/stable:

- github.com/matloff/TidyverseSk
- davidhughjones.medium.com/dont

GitHubTidyverseSkeptic/RDesign.pdf at master · matloff/TidyverseSkepticAn opinionated view of the Tidyverse "dialect" of the R language. - TidyverseSkeptic/RDesign.pdf at master · matloff/TidyverseSkeptic

From bad to worse
How the avian flu must change before it can trigger a human pandemic
For that nightmare to unfold, however, the virus, a subtype known as H5N1, would have to undergo a major transformation, changing from a pathogen efficient at infecting cells in the guts of birds and spreading through feces-contaminated water into one adept at infecting human lung tissue and spreading through the air. So far, that has not happened.
science.org/content/article/ba #AvianFlu #mutate #pandemic

www.science.orgFrom bad to worse: How avian flu must change to trigger a human pandemicScientists identify three key changes needed to adapt the virus to mammals

isn’t #XBB116 rising quick & fast in India? But don’t worry, if you’re on the #alwaysInfected plan, it’ll be mild🤡

this is how #variants spread #mutate & accelerate spread

people need to stop looking to celebrities & public figures for #publicHealth guidance

#wearADamnMask #novavax #HEPA #covidIsNotOver no matter how much you wish it to be. You’re not 5 yrs old; grow tf up #zeroCovid #NoCovid #iWantMyNovavaxNow #matrixM #mucosalimmunity sord of.. #seeingIsBelieving

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@xabitron1 @hfentonmudd
was speaking to DonEford last week & he said🇯🇵blood banks detected an antibody that fought #sarscov2 pre-pandemic, but w/antigenic drift I don’t think it’s valid anymore & explains sudden⬆️☠️🇯🇵..b/c we allowed this #mutate #variants

There was a🧯exit sticker already🤦🏻‍♀️w/same info different font, however it forced me to send a strongly worded email to put them on notice

Nobody will ring my 🚪🛎️🔔 ever again lol

Super lives on my floor & still 🚫😷of course..