'We’re getting the story of bird flu backward.'

Vital piece from Melody Schreiber describing how industrial ag, not wild birds, has driven the spread of avian influenza (and what that means for stopping it):

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We’re getting the story of bird flu backward. The way that we farm animals in the U.S. and the world is amplifying costly and potentially deadly pathogens. My latest for The New Republic: newrepublic.com/article/181451…

'TB will never be extinguished fully without addressing the stigma of past trauma and eradicating 'the profound poverty and crowding that characterizes northern communities'' in Canada

Melody Schreiber NPR Goats & Soda

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Tuberculosis is spreading through three Nunavut communities, and five people have died. Why is it so hard to address TB in the North? One survivor of the 1960s campaign told me his story: npr.org/sections/goats…

📣 Today in The Sick Times we have a feature by Melody Schreiber on what we currently know about bird flu and its risk to people. Experts have said there are clear echoes of Covid-19 failures in this outbreak response.

thesicktimes.org/2024/04/30/bir…

I'm thrilled to make my debut at The Sick Times! Bird flu is spreading through U.S. farms. What are the risks to people? thesicktimes.org/2024/04/30/bir…

In light of some truly terrible The Guardian #LongCOVID reporting in the last 24hrs, I'm incredibly grateful to Melody Schreiber for her piece on the alarming increase in Long COVID cases in the US.

Numbers don't lie. Governments do.

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What happens if Congress bans gain of function research?

'More than half of the currently FDA-approved gene therapies are based on viral engineering opens in a new tab or window, with several more in the pipeline.' Vaccines for Covid and Ebola were also created via GoF research.

My symptoms didn’t improve for nearly three weeks when I had COVID. So according to this new guidance, I would need to be in isolation for that duration.

'With Covid, “fever has never been a marker for contagiousness. Honestly, if we say that, at this point, we’re just making stuff up,” said People's CDC member Lara Jirmanus, MD, MPH

Read and share Melody Schreiber's great article about the @CDCGov concerning new messaging.

newrepublic.com/article/179304…

When CDC doesn’t base guidance on science...it *infringes* upon people’s autonomy ... because people then don’t have the information to be able to independently make decisions that are consistent with their own values.” as I told Melody Schreiber newrepublic.com/article/179304…

The U.S. is considering one of the final steps that might cement Covid’s status as just another virus.
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The agency reportedly plans to tell people with Covid and other infections to isolate based on symptoms. That’s not a good idea, Melody Schreiber writes. trib.al/4f0fbDL

Inshallah tomorrow, the little guy I wrote about in here turns 12.

Am I in my feelings? Absolutely!

I will always be grateful to Melody Schreiber for inviting me to be a part of this.

#COVID19 death toll in US🇺🇸likely 16% higher than official tally, study says. Officially, more than 1.1 million Americans have died from Covid. But the actual number is assuredly higher, given the high rates of excess deaths, by Melody Schreiber theguardian.com/world/2024/feb… via The Guardian