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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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus
“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.”
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.
Reach people where they are with a text message platform…
beta.notify.gov#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: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
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
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
https://apnews.com/article/measles-texas-new-mexico-mmr-outbreak-vaccines-408371700e3ab548777bf0354e586549
The measles outbreak in rural West Texas has grown…
AP NewsMore 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 https://www.11alive.com/video/news/local/cdc-employees-rally-amid-ongoing-government-layoffs/85-cd814c25-c608-4b53-a214-b47ee9f5f4ba
Employees are protesting the Trump administration's…
11Alive.comAt 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.
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.
#publichealth #rfkjr #trump #cdc #nih #hss #foodpoisoning #listeria #salmonella #mortality
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.
Amidst surging respiratory illnesses and previously…
for much deliberationFun. 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.
@GottaLaff in case you missed this: speaking of #epidemics
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/cdc-data-analyses-missing-mmwr-bird-flu-seasonal-influenza/
Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird…
KFF Health NewsRFK, 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 https://newrepublic.com/post/191579/robert-f-kennedy-jr-cdc-infectious-disease-research
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: https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/17/trump-layoffs-hhs-impact-on-health-safety-cdc-fda-cms/
In interview after interview with STAT, those who were…
STATScienceAlert: #CDC Report Suggests #BirdFlu Is Spreading Undetected to #Humans
https://www.sciencealert.com/cdc-report-suggests-bird-flu-is-spreading-undetected-to-humans
Amidst surging respiratory illnesses and previously…
ScienceAlertHere's another step towards becoming a real shithole country.
#rfkjr #cdc #healthcare
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/2/17/2304302/-RFK-Jr-guts-health-agencies-even-as-measles-cases-surge-in-Texas?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=
Recently confirmed Health and Human Services Secretary…
Daily KosCDC 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.
One thing nearly everyone agrees on? Vaccines are good.
Sorry, Mr. Kennedy, Most Americans Want to Get Their Shots
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/opinion/kennedy-vaccines-children-immunization.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk4.tG4q.jovdM-ZqKlQQ&smid=url-share
#NeverRFKJr #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #RFKisNoKennedy #RFKPredator #RFKGrifter #USPol #CDC #NIH #Vaccines #VaccinesSaveLives
Threatening vaccine access is not only bad science,…
The New York TimesThe 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.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/cdc-disease-detectors-fired-trump-administration-agency-cuts-doge-rcna192420
The Trump administration terminated hundreds of employees…
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