Since explosive parasitic diarrhea is in the news, I thought we could revisit 2024, when the American Academy of Pediatrics said kids can attend school with up to 5 watery stools per day (along with lice, pink eye, Covid, etc).
Public health died a bloody death, & here we are.
The economist with Peter Thiel & Koch Network connections, who spent years aggressively downplaying Covid before launching a clothing line & serving on the advisory board for Michelle Obama’s food/beverage company, thinks we should stop freaking out about parasitic diarrhea.
"There is no evidence of population-level protective immunity ('herd immunity') to Covid-19. While we think Covid-19 generates an immune response, we don’t know if this immunity is long lasting."
-Meru Sheel (previously), who now claims widespread immunity
Ok hear me out: instead of all of us having to become extremely knowledgeable on a new infectious disease every 3-6 months, what if we got a large group of experts together and just put them in charge of giving us easy to understand health recommendations. They could also do things like track outbreaks and predict future concerns.
Ebola patient ... "boarded 👉commercial👈 flight from Kinshasa [to Paris] & was almost asymptomatic – except for headaches."
Don't worry. According to @WHO , if you used the same washroom after him, you are safe unless you were sitting within 2 rows of him 🤷♀️
“During the 1980s, AIDS deniers promoted homophobic ideas that the disease was caused by lifestyle choices or spiritual malaise. With Long Covid, skeptics promote lifestyle judgments around exercise and mental health.”
90% of your life is spent indoors. Americans have spent decades forced to accept that indoor air quality is unmeasurable and uncontrollable. The consequence? Kids have asthma attacks. Patients get infections. Employees rack up sick days.
@NYT went inside ARPA-H’s BREATHE program and the race to deploy the technology to make clean indoor air a public health standard.
Read the story. 📰 https://t.co/Locy2mKegA
@carlzimmer@JessicaLeeGreen
Weird how they think that Fauci created the virus to kill people but they are happy to keep on catching it over and over again because it's just a cold.
You don't need the government to implement an N95 mandate to wear an N95. You don't need the government to ban GenAI to stop using it. You can do the right thing on your own.
“Exposure to respiratory viruses before a baby’s first birthday — when immune systems are immature and before most childhood vaccinations — consistently predicted reduced earnings, education and health decades later.”