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Scientists worry that persistent cognitive issues caused by Covid signal that a surge in dementia cases and other mental conditions is on the horizon. Gift link to my updated explainer on what we know about Covid’s impact on the brain ⬇️ tinyurl.com/yrpwkf2n

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

As @angierasmussen.bsky.social told me: “There is never a good time to lay waste to essential public health professionals and scientists specializing in emerging viruses and responses to health emergencies, but this is the worst scenario I can possibly imagine.” Gift link ⬇️ tinyurl.com/2ue7eyek

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

What's the risk of the #BirdFlu becoming a pandemic? Reasonable estimate by @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social as in March 2025. *Since Nov 2024, we have been having transmission in pigs; it is just not sustained yet. #H5N1

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

BREAKING: The Trump administration has canceled an upcoming meeting of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee, a move that could complicate efforts to produce flu shots in time for the upcoming season. 1/2 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

My friends are dying. People are dying of #LongCovid and #MECFS while society keeps ignoring their existence. Rest in peace, Faraz. Sorry we failed you.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

For years, a global network nicknamed “Gremlin” has quietly tracked the microbial culprits behind rash-causing diseases, from measles to Ebola, stopping outbreaks before they spread. Now, this bedrock of global health is in jeopardy. Gift link ⬇️ tinyurl.com/mrxv6fj4

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

While medical advances help us combat zoonotic scourges, modern challenges such as climate change, intense agriculture & deforestation are fueling the emergence of infectious threats at an alarming rate. tinyurl.com/4p8brmjy

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Since October 2024, the CDC estimates the #FLU has made at least 29 million people sick, caused 370,000 hospitalizations, and resulted in 16,000 deaths in the U.S. Great text by @jasongale.bsky.social I haven't had Flu in many years since I started masking. It must be a coincidence 🤔 #Airborne

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

Lots of people sick with flu www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

A GSK spokesperson confirmed that David Wentworth, who served as director of the CDC's coronavirus & other respiratory viruses division, has been appointed to a snr role in its vaccines R&D unit. His appointment was finalized in late 2024, before President Trump signaled impending federal job cuts.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Data Hoarders Are Rushing to Save Vanishing US Health Records -A grassroots effort to preserve US government data takes shape -Scientists work into the night to preserve CDC web information www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @bloomberg.com @jasongale.bsky.social

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Leaving this here. A who’s who of the world’s wealthiest people surrounded President Donald Trump as he took the oath of office — gathering a combined net worth exceeding $1.3 trillion for the occasion. Free link here ⤵️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

New study by @zalaly.bsky.social and team looking at the risks and benefits of #GLP1s finds a surprising array of benefits (and risks) from these obesity/diabetes drugs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Anne Maldzinski’s recovery from a life-threatening immune reaction following a blood stem-cell transplant highlights the potential of microbiome-based therapies. 1/5 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

San Francisco has found a way to battle syphilis using a cheap morning-after pill. @jasongale.bsky.social has the details > www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

The data don’t lie. Covid was (and still is) a tragic and deadly public health, social, and economic disaster. Here are 8 charts that illustrate the effects on mortality in the US, via free-gift link. ⬇️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 70 days ago • 21 comments

Bloomberg: “How the Pandemic Increased US Deaths Visualized in Eight Charts” “The emergence of Covid-19 five years ago marked one of the worst public health crises in modern history.” t.co/hb5VKnMjvo

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

Another virus outbreak (Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus -SFTSV) associated with fur farming. It needs to stop. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 71 days ago • 5 comments

Deborah Birx, the White House Coronavirus response coordinator during the first Trump administration, excoriated the CDC in a CNN interview Friday morning for failing to learn the right lessons from Covid-19 in handling the H5N1 bird flu outbreak, according to Politico.

submitted 72 days ago • 22 comments

Update to the Disease Outbreak News on Undiagnosed disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo published on 8 December 2024 (now named acute respiratory infections complicated by malaria). www.who.int/emergencies/...

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments

I’m pleased to share that we FINALLY submitted our latest manuscript on SARS-CoV-2 cryptic lineages and what they tell us about the origins of COVID-19. This was a ton of work. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/... 1/

submitted 71 days ago • 7 comments

For those interested, my lecture for the University of Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute “The global expansion of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza” is available here on YouTube. It is from May 2024, but is still pertinent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImFD...

submitted 72 days ago • 4 comments

It turns out that the right mix of gut microbes — and a poop transplant — might be a game-changer in the fight against cancer. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

I've spent the past 5 years (almost) chronicling the spread of SARS-CoV-2 & the impact on our health in its wake-- Covid's direct viral effects and those that occurred indirectly due to healthcare disruptions and other unintended consequences of pandemic mitigation measures. 1/13

submitted 72 days ago • 4 comments