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Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:

submitted 4 days ago • 86 comments

"After the war they tried to persuade public health officials to take the threat of airborne infection seriously. But infectious disease experts, fighting against outbreaks and preparing for emergence of new diseases mostly ignored them, even when it meant accepting basic mistakes about physics."

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

This is a very unusual pattern for COVID. I'm really curious as to what is driving it.

submitted 16 days ago • 25 comments

Dog carry #H5N1 at lower levels than cats but can infect others: "Our results suggest that the intensive monitoring of dogs is necessary to prevent human infection by H5N1 influenza virus, [they] may not show clear clinical signs...” NH Kim (2015) paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25416494/

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

This is how the WORLD should be ♥️

submitted 86 days ago • 19 comments

In a world where you can be anything, be kind.. 😊

submitted 78 days ago • 5 comments

Such an innocent moment. ❤️

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

I never saw a donkey smile before. That's cute.

submitted 40 days ago • 35 comments

THIS IS SO CUTE OH MY GOD 😭🥺

submitted 44 days ago • 13 comments

White mountain ermine hopping in the snow

submitted 45 days ago • 33 comments

The code… RNA or DNA when it’s in the body *is the virus. Whether it’s latent or not is another question.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Still more deadly than flu or RSV jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 35 days ago • 21 comments

I went through and calculated the 2024 averages based on the numbers provided here. On a yearly basis, SARS2 is still over four times the threat of any of the influenzas & over three times the threat of RSV. So don't listen to anybody when they tell you that is not a problem anymore.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Not good news: @WHO just announced a new Marburg outbreak in Tanzania. “As of 11 January 2025, nine suspected cases were reported including eight deaths across two districts – Biharamulo and Muleba. …Results are pending official confirmation.” www.who.int/emergencies/... 🧪 #IDsky

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Can we please put this on street video boards all over and air it as a commercial on every channel?? #AIRBORNE #COVID

submitted 55 days ago • 7 comments

I still remember the first time I saw #SARSCoV2 in the brain in the microscope, back in 2021. I was supposed to be looking at brains with Alzheimer, the neuroinflammation is similar. I knew #NeuroCovid was going to be pretty bad. We are just starting to see how much. #LongCovid

submitted 56 days ago • 23 comments

This is the final PMC forecast for New Year's Eve 🍾 If nobody is testing/isolating, there's a... 🎉1 in 10 chance of an exposure in a group of 5 🎉1 in 3 chance in a group of 20 🎉2 in 3 chance in a group of 50 Going outside, testing, masking, & HEPA reduce risk. More at www.veed.io/view/9be0ece...

submitted 62 days ago • 8 comments

SARS-CoV-2 spike S1 protein affects the pancreas's islet microvascular function in humans. This can contribute to dysfunction in the pancreas and the development of diabetes following SARS-CoV-2 infection #LongCovid t.co/0Edr2EPdJf

submitted 66 days ago • 9 comments

Important CDC update on the severe #H5N1 case in Louisiana patient 1) Some of the virus population detected in this patient had amino acid changes that facilitate binding upper respiratory tract cells. No human-human transmission detected though.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

The cutest little conehead 📷: Tufted Titmouse

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

www.forbes.com/sites/willia...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Rest without guilt.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Top graph… what we have going on with C19 (scaled down compared to flu due to most people using RAT, or nothing). Bottom graph, flu. No matter how hard you stare at it, C19 graph is just refusing to morph into a tidy spike like flu. Wishful thinking doesn’t work.

submitted 76 days ago • 10 comments

Tracking #SARSCoV2 #Lineages - Globally |12/14/24 Top lineages -#30DayTrends #G30 XEC (30%)👀 KP.3.1.1 (26.3%) MC.1 (4.4%) XEC.2 (3.4%) MC.16 (2.4%) LP.8.1 (2.2%) XEK (2%) MC.13 (1.9%) MC.10.1 (1.8%) MC.19 (1.1%) LB.1.3.1 (1%) Tracker: public.tableau.com/app/profile/... 1/n

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

If you are trying to compare SARS-CoV-2 to other viruses, you shouldn't. Al-Aly was skeptical of his own data. That one virus can cause this much mayhem all over the body. He kept running the data, and it always came back the same.

submitted 77 days ago • 11 comments

Map of U.S. Covid transmission, per CDC data. Bear in mind that reporting lags mean transmission has had 7 days to get worse. Approximately 1 in 64 Americans are now actively infectious. 💉💪😷

submitted 78 days ago • 28 comments

⚠️ BREAKING: WHO Sends Team to DRC Amid Deadly Outbreak of Unknown Disease The World Health Organization has sent a team to the DRC to investigate an outbreak of an "unknown disease" and collect samples for testing, according to a WHO official speaking with BNO News.

submitted 89 days ago • 4 comments

Tom, @frozen.bsky.social let's write a book called Airborne transmission & Common sense? #COVID #H5N1

submitted 106 days ago • 10 comments

Tracking #SARSCoV2 #Lineages - Globally |11/16/24 Top lineages -#30DayTrends #G30 KP.3.1.1 (35.5%) XEC (19.9%)👀 MC.1 (5.1%) MC.13 (2.6%) MC.16 (2.6%) XEC.2 (2.3%) MC.11 (1.4%) KP.2.3 (1.2%) MC.10 (1.2%) MV.1 (1.1%) Tracker: public.tableau.com/app/profile/... 1/n

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

“We will have a bird flu pandemic,” Robert Redfield, former director of the CDC, bluntly predicted in a television interview in June. “It’s not a question of if; it’s more a question of when…” fortune.com/well/2024/11...

submitted 113 days ago • 4 comments

Seems already too late, but… Petting farms, feeding birds, etc should all be prohibited right now We’re on the edge of (another) pandemic #H5N1

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments