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My 10 year old asked me to explain what lobbyists do and how they can push for change or slow change. Anyone know of a video to recommend?

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Note to students: Being "tired" is not an excuse to miss a quiz, skip class, or accidentally cast a wrong vote at the UN Security Council. nypost.com/2025/02/25/w...

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I hate this timeline

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Title says it all 👇

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Interesting: Canada is buying 500,000 doses of #GSK 's #H5N1 vaccine "as part of ... contingency planning to protect people who may be at increased risk of being exposed to the virus through [infected] animals." Wonder what would trigger a decision to use it? www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

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Canada buys 500,000 doses of #H5N1 #AvianInfluenza vaccine for those most at risk. Risk to the general public of acquiring the virus remains low, Public Health Agency of Canada says. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca

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Epidemic intelligence service officers are the cream of the cream. They're top doctors, veterinarians & other health professionals. They sign up for a two-year training program to serve the country. Not only is terminating them bad for the country, it's also a disgraceful violation of a commitment.

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NEW on our blog, by guest contributor @benphillips76.bsky.social We are right to feel enraged at the current moment, but hope is how we’ll win speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/02/13/w...

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There are so many consequences of leaving WHO… I didn’t even think of this one. “President Trump’s order that the United States exit the World Health Organization could undo programs meant to ensure the safety, security and study of a deadly virus that once took half a billion lives, experts warn.“

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While I’m sad we have to rely on private orgs to fill gaps in outbreak data that would normally be reported by USG, I’m grateful for Ginkgo‬⁩ to take this on so we can better respond to H5N1- H5N1 US Tracker -

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Galveston self reports lab incidents which took place in their high containment facilities. Self reporting is great, but having a national oversight system for biosafety and biosecurity that sets out situations where reporting is mandatory just makes sense. Some countries already do this.

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Clarion call from The Lancet on Trump and Musk’s attack on research that will leave America—and the world—weaker, slower to adapt and innovate www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Canada just published a sensitive tech list that now includes language such as: ‘security sensitive biological agents’, ‘materials with enhanced properties such as pathogenicity, transmissibility, or to evade the immune system’, and ‘biological weapons’.

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The CBC Listen app, has an enormous number of wonderful podcasts as well as radio shows. It’s a great resource for Canadians & an increasingly important independent media source, for our American friends. #CBC

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Scientists, adept at evaluating hypotheses, are unlikely (as a group) to blindly toe a party line. Since they cannot be counted as supporters, the emerging fascist leader will see science, incl staff and work product, as nonsupporters and seek to marginalize their influence.

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As an autistic person and a parent of autistic children, I know our tism came from my quiet, quirky yet genius father - not childhood vaccines. But if you are still not convinced vaccines don’t cause autism - here is more info.

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youtu.be/yuOHbyuanbY

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Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

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To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...

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Well, today is the day…

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Who want the most challenging job in public health in Canada? Public Health Agency is searching for Theresa Tam’s replacement, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #COVID19 #cdnpoli

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🧵 STATEMENT: WHO expresses deep concern on the implications of the immediate funding pause for #HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries. These programmes provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide. Read more bit.ly/42yxxIz 1/5

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‘The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin. But the agency’s assessment assigns a low degree of confidence to this conclusion, suggesting the evidence is deficient, inconclusive or contradictory’.

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Brian in LEGO form.

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" By creating such an agency, you would position the United States as a global leader in how to manage necessary high-risk biological experiments—ensuring our country is a leader in advancing a safe and secure bioeconomy—while better preparing the country for pandemics "

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Canada says the H5N1 risk to the general public remains low, but added the situation is worsening.

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Canada has recently published a set of additional operational/physical security requirements for Containment Level 4 (CL4) laboratory facilities that strengthen biosecurity oversight. These requirements apply to the containment zone and the outer premises-regardless if Gov or privately owned.

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Lab biosafety, biosecurity and regulations are extremely important in protecting the public, but people also need to know without clinical/research labs (and those people who work there) we are all going back to the Flintstones era.

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Safety and security are sometimes treated as an afterthought in biolabs. “They also have to publish, and they also have to present, and they also have to manage people, and they also have to do biosafety,” NTI's Aparupa Sengupta told Undark.

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Science affords us the luxury of forgetting the impact of infectious diseases - In the 1st half of the 19th century 40-50% of children in US did not make it past the age of 5 - TB killed 1 in 7 people in US and Europe - smallpox killed 80% of infected children theconversation.com/infectious-d...

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Gizmo ❤️

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This is the second time an H5N1 case has developed potentially dangerous mutations, likely over the course of illness. The other case is the teen is British Columbia. Great reporting by @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2024/12/26/c...

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As a mum of 2 w autism, I’m often dragged into such ridiculous conversations 🙄

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