Here's everything I know about bird flu, including how long it lasts on surfaces, etc. Courting The Next Pandemic okdoomer.io/courting-the-n…

Novavax Availability Update 📢 Novavax has updated their U.S. vaccine finder website with "coming soon" placeholders for major pharmacies such as CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens, Costco, Sam's Club, Walmart, Kroger, Meijer, and Publix. New additions: Giant and Stop & Shop.

One of the worst human beings on the planet gives Harris her endorsement and she's honored to have it. The Democratic Party tent is filled with monsters. I'm voting Green.

Whole thread with comments from Sara and Jus Day Da.

What did you do this Saturday? I went to my lab to make sure my sauna was working for my research study (took me an hour to drive through the crowd in Champaign because of the IL vs Kansas game — we’re winning with 9 mins left, 20-17). And I started to build my own sauna at home.

Yes. It is just that simple.

A pervasive feeling of the pandemic …

Reading 2016 articles on the damage caused by HRC relishing praise from war criminal Henry Kissinger, the predecessor to Dick Cheney... esquire.com/news-politics/…

My brother's death was live streamed to us. Not even his wife & children were allowed to be with him. We are eternally grateful to the healthcare workers, true angels, who held him as he died. "It felt we were live streaming somebody's death" bbc.com/news/articles/…

Here is the current USA forecast. 11 variants are employed, including XEC and LF.7. Results beyond December 1 are used at your own risk. I will have a complete write-up in tomorrow's substack (free, link in my profile) Another forecast using finer spatial data is coming soon.

Welp, my posts are being suppressed again. Neat! If you see this, can you drop a 👀 and/or RT 🙏

Thread & review on SARS-CoV-2 & cancer. Interesting section on how therapeutics for acute C-19- such as corticosteroids/immunosuppressants may add to this risk. My gut has been that immune suppressive therapies will NOT be the way to go for #LongCovid… cureus.com/articles/28949…

From "The Great Influenza" by John Barry. We learned nothing.

How to defeat a pandemic (1918): "You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth" Public Health (2024):

Whole thread. Dr. Prather gets it done, whatever the “it” is.

I’m telling ya, four more years of the same hustle. Lives be damned.

Wow I know some local health officials and public leaders who need to read this...I've never seen such an effort to ignore/block/twist data in my 30+ year career. I just keep pressing. Science facts/numbers (calibrated!) for the win. We won't back down.

And the higher the office they seek, the wider the impact they could have.

Whole thread, including threads cited from Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA and Lazarus Long.

I'm still on a mental health break from this place. For the xenophobic and misogynistic haters and COVID minimizers, I'm also still fully supported by the Uni of California, and our research in #Neurocovid is stronger than ever. Grants and papers coming. More news on that soon!