2025-April-04 Friday

737 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19

1,225,657 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total

"The number one lesson that Donald Trump took from the pandemic on his watch is that it was bad for him politically. For him, utter ignorance was preferable to public information panic and preparedness. Kennedy is the mad bad tool implementing that lesson now in his powerful position running the nation's health agencies right into the ground."

~ Nina Burleigh

#Trump #RFKJr #science #disinformation #healthcare #medicine #science #research #Covid #pandemic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5QW4fhhWHg

Is anyone else noticing the masks they've been relying on since the start of the #covid #pandemic are being discontinued by manufacturers?

For a long time I've been using 3M KF94 masks. The model I've been buying is vanishing from suppliers. While shopping around for a replacement I found some alternatives made by LG, but they're discontinuing theirs too.

There probably is less demand now than there was, but enough to discontinue the masks altogether?

I just can’t shake the thought recently that the goal of the #Kleptocrat #Oligarchy is to recreate the conditions of the early #pandemic.

The #tradewar, tanking the economy, destroying #science & gutting public health agencies, would all serve this goal.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billionaires-double-wealth-covid-pandemic/

I'm old enough to remember that there was a time when the #economy was so important, we fully ignored a #pandemic to try to preserve it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/layoff-announcements-surge-to-the-most-since-the-pandemic-as-musks-doge-slices-federal-labor-force.html

A #Wildlife #Health #Outbreak #Response Table-top Exercise for #Pandemic Preparedness #Planning, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-wildlife-health-outbreak-response.html

No worse than the flu?

I've lost track of how many different ways this claim is false. But here's yet another:

Healthcare workers with chronic condition miss more days of work due to COVID than flu

67% vs 12% of absences due to COVID, flu

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/healthcare-workers-chronic-condition-miss-more-days-work-due-covid-flu-data-show

#Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Cmte Chair #BillCassidy (R) & Ranking Member #BernieSanders (I) sent #RFKJr a joint letter asking him to testify at an April 10 hearing to explain his "proposed reorganization" of #HHS.

#MassLayoffs, #purge of leadership underway at #US #health agencies

Senior leaders across #HHS were put on *leave* & countless other employees lost their jobs Tues as the #Trump admin began a sweeping purge of the agencies that oversee govt health programs.

#PublicHealth #healthcare #disease #vaccines #research #science #medicine #pandemic #law #USpol #RFKJr #Musk #DOGE #Coup
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/01/hhs-senior-leaders-put-on-leave-nih/

PREDATORS

#H5N1 #influenza #AvianInfluenza #birdflu #pandemic

Influenza aviar altamente patógena H5N1: historia, situación actual y perspectivas | Journal of Virology

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.02209-24

If you haven't read much about bird flu yet and want to follow the story from today, you should read this review.

Modeling the #impact of early #vaccination in an #influenza #pandemic in the #USA, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/03/modeling-impact-of-early-vaccination-in.html

Politicians managing a pandemic have a difficult balance:

Deploy interventions too early, they lose.
Lift interventions too late, they lose.
Too many people die, they lose.

Can you find the balance?

https://www.dv-pandemic-simulator.org/

#BirdFlu found for second time in seals at north Norfolk colony UK

#Wildlife #pandemic
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/25047692.bird-flu-detected-15-dead-seals-blakeney-point/?ref=yahoo