Bi Sasquatch

The #COVID #pandemic hit during his first term, and now there is a risk of a #H5N1 / #BirdFlue pandemic.

He has cut essential staff at the #FDA and #CDC and put a #vaccine denier in charge of #HHS.

#Pandmics make a good case for restricting the populus which could be abused to establish an authoritarian state.

You have to wonder if #Malthus would be proud.

#MalthusWouldBeProud #USPolitics
#ThePoliticsOfHate #ThePoliticsOfGreed

Source: @wikipedia
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Feb 19, 2025, 06:16 · · · 1 · 0
Anirvan Chatterjee

“At NIH, offices involved in reviewing and administering grants to researchers outside the agency, such as at universities and medical centers, were hit hard…The NIH spends most of the agency’s $48 billion annual budget on this kind of “extramural” research to find new cures for cancer, heart disease and other diseases.”

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#uspol #nih #cdc

Support the Resistance

After each of my covid vaccinations, I received follow-up text messages from the CDC for research purposes and to track the effectiveness of the vaccine in each demographic. I gladly participated.

Look at who has access to notify dot gov

Imagine now that the CDC under RFKjr decides to send mass conspiracy text messages warning recipients.

#USPOL #CDC

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Notify.gov

Reach people where they are with a text message platform…

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sport of sacred spherical cows

#CDC has long time now been piloting the craft of #PublicHealth sans navigational equipment.

To be clear, national data used for chart above are modeled on regional data collection.

Given little data we do have, LP.8.1 has gained majority status in NY/NJ and Great Lakes regions, XEC still majority in Mtn/Dakotas, with cousin XEQ prominent.

[For color key, see: covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-track]

#ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks

sport of sacred spherical cows

After January's FLiRT soup (JN.1 and JN.1.11 lineages vying for dominance), we've returned to JN.1.11 soup (FLiRT and FLuQE clusters competing), that began when FLuQE majority ended in November.

After no data two weeks ago, #CDC updated variant estimates.

Raj has updated dashboard Sunday with new GISAID sequences. As of data two weeks ago, XEC.8 joins XEC.2 and LP.8.1.1 / NY as significant.

#ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #dataviz #datavis

Feb 19, 2025, 00:33 · · · 1 · 0
Kim Perales

The measles outbreak in rural West Texas has grown to 58 cases as of Tuesday, and eight people in neighboring eastern New Mexico also have been diagnosed with measles.

New Mexico health department spokesman Robert Nott said Tuesday that the agency hadn’t “identified any direct contact” between cases in its state and cases in Texas.

Measles is a highly contagious disease.

#PublicHealth #GOPDeathCult #Measles #TrumpMusk #USPol #AntiVax #RFKJr #HHS #CDC
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Texas measles cases are up, and New Mexico now has an outbreak. Here's what you need to know

The measles outbreak in rural West Texas has grown…

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Feb 19, 2025, 00:13 · · · 8 · 0
Rose Rudd

More on demonstrations at #CDC main campus today in Atlanta #ATL. The headline says employees rallied, but I know many community members also were there. It was not and is not solely employees who find these firings abhorrent. Protect #publichealth #USpol 11alive.com/video/news/local/c

CDC employees rally amid ongoing government layoffs

Employees are protesting the Trump administration's…

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Nonilex

At the #CDC, 2 prestigious training programs were gutted: one that embeds recent #PublicHealth grads in local #health depts & another to cultivate the next generation of PhD lab scientists. But the agency’s #Epidemic #Intelligence Service—the “disease detectives” who track #outbreaks around the world—has apparently been spared, perhaps because of an uproar among alumni after a majority of its members were told on Fri that they would be let go.

#Trump #law #science #medicine #RFKJr #HHS

MikeDunnAuthor

Number of Americans with food borne illness rose by 25% in 2024, while hospitalizations and deaths more than doubled. This, even before RFKJr and Trump gutted the public health infrastructure, which will likely make the problem much worse.

cidrap.umn.edu/foodborne-disea

#publichealth #rfkjr #trump #cdc #nih #hss #foodpoisoning #listeria #salmonella #mortality

Kim Perales

Trump cuts will decimate #publichealth. PH officials have been tracking a lethal strain of bird flu.

“It’s not canceled,” #Musk wrote, while he dismantles the EIS.

Firings: excised the next GEN of leaders at the #CDC #NIH #FDA.

Scientists, disease hunters & administrators: oversee grant proposals, analysts figure out new ways to cut HC costs... at #HHS.

Officials at the NIH: esp. concerned -he might target more snr employees by asking for their resignations.

#USPol

nytimes.com/2025/02/18/us/poli

Feb 18, 2025, 15:01 · · · 12 · 0
formuchdeliberation

CDC Report Suggests Bird Flu Is Spreading Undetected to Humans : ScienceAlert…

Amidst surging respiratory illnesses and previously controlled diseases like tuberculosis making alarming comebacks, a new #CDC report provides further evidence #birdflu is spreading undetected to humans... #H5N1 #health

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CDC Report Suggests Bird Flu Is Spreading Undetected to Humans : ScienceAlert…

Amidst surging respiratory illnesses and previously…

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CaliCarol

Fun. 2am and I'm wide awake.
Heads up everybody. Call your representatives in the House and Senate about this one... I was walking to the Sacto Protest yesterday with a retired immunologist and had a quick chat. NEXT YEARS FLU VACCINE IS BEING COMPROMISED. Trump/Musk have put a gag order on the CDC so they cannot talk to other State's Health Depertments to start data gathering to design the vaccine based on flu strains seen in the wild. There may be no flu shot next year.

#flu #CDC #uspol

maeve harris

RFK, Jr laid off half of #CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, affecting 1260. The service detects infectious diseases as they begin to develop, the layoffs will adversely affect preparedness newrepublic.com/post/191579/ro

Brittany Trang

NEW:

Drug manufacturer inspections (already backlogged)
Keeping infected animals out of the country
Kicking unauthorized medical devices off of Amazon
Issuing device recalls

People in all of these jobs were eliminated over the weekend, without actual cause.

"I call it 'getting DOGE-d.'"

More @STAT: statnews.com/2025/02/17/trump-

#health #healthcare #medicine #HHS #FDA #CDC #CMS #DOGE

Drug inspectors, AI experts, maternal health workers: Trump’s health agency cuts are far-reaching

In interview after interview with STAT, those who were…

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MikeDunnAuthor

CDC is calling the current flu outbreak high severity for all age-groups for the first time since the 2017-18 season. For the past 2 weeks, flu mortality has outpaced covid mortality. During the past week, there were 11 more pediatric flu deaths, raising the season's total to 68.

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#flu #influenza #publichealth #covid #mortality #cdc

US flu reaches high severity status as deaths outpace COVID

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Laffy

The disease is in the WH #ProLifeMyAss

#CDC 'disease detectors' among hundreds fired as #Trump admin ramps up agency cuts

Administration officials last week informed CDC leaders of plans to cut up to 10% of its workforce as it targeted federal probationary employees.”
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CDC 'disease detectors' among hundreds fired as Trump administration ramps up agency cuts

The Trump administration terminated hundreds of employees…

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