@RipleyEllen67@Luizmd@SenBillCassidy Have you noticed that the CDC case tracker has not reported any deaths since the first 3 in 2025? We are not reporting death rates that are consistent with other countries with similar healthcare. That would be an interesting thing to share with the media if you have evidence.
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@HardHab1t2break@allenanalysis I think you’re just noticing them more. The Chemical Safety Board has deployed to ~180 in the past 25 years.
https://t.co/o7KYhRsl6l
@DrNeilStone The hantavirus would have spread more without public health interventions. One person got 13 sick on a ship of 150. Ebola is up to 1,000 cases, but had been circulating for weeks.
The hantavirus outbreak was slowed by starting on a cruise ship.
1) This illustrates why it makes no sense for people to suggest we should eliminate the PHS (which happens periodically) or the Office of the Surgeon General (which leads the PHS).
2) It also shows how poorly conceived and executed DOGE was (on top of USAID cuts) in regards to health. Eliminate 25% of CDC (including outbreak response specialists), get outbreak, spend FAR more standing up a brand new response system to replace the people and resources you just cut.
Department of government inefficiency? 🤔
@Istillwantapony@WHO@WHOAFRO@OMS_Afrique@WHOUganda@AndyInDRC Maybe you don’t know what you are talking about. Or maybe you are just racist.
Miners can contract zoonotic diseases from bats in mines and caves. But I assume you want to keep exploiting people for gold.
https://t.co/Lxf5Ed4cLP
@ZekeEmanuel@CNN Some people cannot wear N95s, e.g., children under 2. In that specific case, a parent masking would not protect them from their child’s exposures. What can those people do if the government is not prepared?
@imreh33@sanidadgob My guess is that patient zero was not the only person transmitting the virus. The wife started having symptoms around April 24th. The French woman was sick during the repatriation flight. None of this contact tracing is as clean as if an infectious person went to a party.