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America is eating its young. We’re a nation built on the greatness of our research universities, it’s what gave us the Manhattan Project, victory in the Cold War, over HIV/AIDS. Our future depends on a robust NextGen of scientists. But we traded it for wellness influencers, climate denialists, and phony MAHA ideologies that more resemble a twisted Lysenko version of Stalinist Russia in the 1930s and 40s
It is time for me to reup 2020 post on the basics of dose-response for microorganisms: https://t.co/DcVg6Xz7jh
&, incubation time is a function of dose, and the distribution may have long tails, c.f. https://t.co/qgELJPupxz
#QMRA#riskassessment#doseresponse#Hantavirus
Lesson from Covid… by the time you realize that you need mandatory quarantines and mass testing… it’s too late for those measures to be fully effective.
Waiting until people become symptomatic to test/ isolate is a bandaid on a hemorrhage.
I fully agree that the quick dismissal of person to person transmission of #hantavirus is ill-founded. Have been reading a number of papers. This one (animal model) is particularly enlightening. #aerosols
Last year half of CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program staff were fired. This is the group responsible for investigating cruise ship outbreaks. The cuts were made despite the fact that US taxpayers don’t pay for this team. The cruise ship industry does.
I’m puzzled why the Secretary of War considers this a victory? Influenza deaths closely matched battle deaths of American g.i.’s in WW1
Unvaccinated American soldiers who died from influenza in WW1: 45,000
American soldiers killed by the German Army in WW1: 52,000
How is that “freedom”?
Fluoride, like anything (even water or oxygen) is all about dose. The levels in municipal water are FAR below harmful thresholds, but benefits go well beyond fewer cavities: less tooth pain & infection, fewer dental visits, less missed school, and major cost savings for families + communities!