@outbreakupdates See: Otto & Edgerton, 2025: https://t.co/UgldxN351Y for discussion on Canada and less-than-timely submission of sequences to GISAID.
@outbreakupdates The D1.3 genotype was acknowledged several months ago (31 May 2025). See CFIA: https://t.co/xiEENj0oUj . Also found there, possibly apocryphal reports from court proceedings suggesting human infections. Still no sequence data that I can find.
Pandemic preparedness in the US has been leveled a crippling blow with the cancellation of multiple #BARDA contracts to help develop mRNA vaccines. No other vaccine platform produces vaccine so quickly; without mRNA, Americans will have a long wait for pandemic vax. https://t.co/La1UDBkq2x
@outbreakupdates RFK Jr is a nut, or worse, but this action follows directly on from Michael Rosenthal and Julie Tate's explosive reporting in the July 20th NYT: https://t.co/xd1MyIR1iG
@NightShiftMD Last week the eminent evolutionary theorist @CT_Bergstrom used the eloquent phrase "fuckery" to describe Makary's fantastical musings on cooking classes over insulin. Here, I think Professor Bergstrom's fine use of Anglo Saxon has found yet another application.
@OhCasavant I'll let you know. This is the rumour out here in the hinterlands. Mind you, there are lots of rumours out here... about chem trails, cosmic alignments, healing energies, etc. I'll report back.
@OhCasavant I fully expect to be the only person there. I will admit to being a bit uncertain about real evidence of benefits, etc - I am not worried- but w/ profound ?s over the availability of a new CoV2 vaccine adapted for the fall, I think this makes sense now.
@angie_rasmussen Court process that take 6+months are not helpful to public health. Six months ago a cull made urgent sense. Now - w/ no evidence of sustained transmission - acull seems capricious to me. 6m ago it was different story. CFIA should have appealed with urgency.
@deonandan@MovatSusie Those of us North of 60 (age, not geography, not TV show) are likely to have deceased parents, and perhaps only apocryphal evidence of prior measles infection. Assuming that we have actionable data from 6 decades ago is imprudent, but imprudent defines public health these days.
@deonandan I've been looking, and have not seen, any representative samples with measles antibody titres for Canada. Am I missing something or do we really not know the distribution of titres across the population? Please tell me that I missed a key paper!
@seatsixtyone The old fashioned magnetic tickets were still around in April 2025β¦ but we had the odd experience that tickets paid for in central Paris were not honored at Versailles station. Needed "Versailles" purchased tickets. Same face value.
@kasza_leslie@crwequine@FionaMattatall The worrying thing is the size of the original "signal" that had generated this response? It had to be large enough to be definitive! How many women already identified with iatrogenic infections?