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In Australia, 2024 was a big #flu year in terms of hospitalisation numbers during the season's peak, but for mortality, #COVID19 (8.4 deaths per 100,000) resoundingly surpassed #flu (1.9/per 100k; in 2017, rate was 4.2/100k) overall* *numbers from the FluCAN sentinel hospital sample

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Things pediatricians are scared of: Grapes Hot dogs Lawn mowers Unmounted TVs Babies on laps in cars Riders without helmets Ungated pools Crib bumpers Trampolines Hot tubs Guns Things pediatricians are not scared of: Any/all the vaccines

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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 3 days ago • 476 comments

Live like a libertarian! Don't think the planes are safe? Just don't fly. Don't think the food is safe? Just don't eat.

submitted 5 days ago • 354 comments

Far-UVC light (222 nm) kills airborne bacteria in indoor spaces, reducing pathogens by up to 99.5%—even with low ventilation. Tested at room scale, it works fast & effectively. A game-changer for infection control in schools, hospitals, offices. Let’s deploy this tech!

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Gullible v skeptical v denial #MedSky

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Hope As one EIS is under attack, a new EIS rises in Africa africacdc.org/african-epid...

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Every AirSpot device comes with a its own adhesive stand - designed to be orientated in multiple configurations and great for your car dashboard. Put it close to the USB charger and you can keep it charged every time you take for a spin. #AirSpot #CleanIndoorAir

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Don’t you just love how the people who wanted school open during the pandemic think we don’t need a Department of Education?

submitted 7 days ago • 254 comments

"Laboratories in a national network of 58 facilities responding to the spread of bird flu were notified Friday that 25 percent of the staff in a central program office coordinating their work were fired" Emerging 4th world country in North America! www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 7 days ago • 227 comments

This blue Lobster was caught off the coast of Portland and returned to the water to continue to grow. Blue lobsters are one in two million.

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I wish Leslie Knope was in Congress right now…

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The fact that FOUR physicians voted to confirm an antivaxxer with zero qualifications to run HHS is just so depressing

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 8 days ago • 410 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 8 days ago • 540 comments

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 9 days ago • 1088 comments

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! What'd you get me? (still shopping for a last-minute gift for the lady scientist in your life? this year, get her what she really wants: a functional funding ecosystem, strong scientific integrity policies, and open, publicly funded data)

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.

submitted 13 days ago • 18406 comments

Here is how we know that vaccines do not cause autism: @matthewherper.bsky.social lays out the evidence - and the evidence is extensive - in clear, accessible detail. www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/v... via @statnews.com

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.

submitted 20 days ago • 852 comments

🚨These are the childhood, adolescent and adult vaccine recommendations from CDC. Creating this post for you to bookmark just in case this information gets removed from their website #ᴠᴀᴄᴄɪɴᴇssᴀᴠᴇʟɪᴠᴇs

submitted 20 days ago • 40 comments

In Germany they are protesting the far right, in the US 🤷🏻‍♀️.

submitted 21 days ago • 585 comments

What the right wing REALLY means:

submitted 21 days ago • 233 comments

This is fantastic news. ‘Groundbreaking’ potential cure for sickle cell in England approved for NHS use Clinical trials find one-time gene therapy exa-cel offers ‘functional cure’ in 96.6% of patients 👏 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 23 days ago • 52 comments

As Jesus famously said, Love thy neighbor a bit less than thyself

submitted 23 days ago • 615 comments

Sadly, this is totally relevant to Americans today.

submitted 24 days ago • 105 comments

Prior vaccination prevents overactivation of innate immune responses during COVID-19 breakthrough infection www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

This morning Uganda announced a new Ebola outbreak. The last time there was an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, the CDC worked with the WHO on helping end it. But now, the CDC can’t even talk to the WHO. I repeat, again and again, this is pure stupidity that will only hurt us.

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

🇳🇴 Norway appears firmly on track to become the first in the world to fully transition to electric vehicles. 🗣️ "We will not return to the bulky, noisy, dirty diesel car." ✍️ Take a look at the full story below: www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/n...

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

submitted 26 days ago • 474 comments

Oprah needs to apologize for Dr. Phil

submitted 26 days ago • 22 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 27 days ago • 1093 comments

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Revelations about the role Robert F. Kennedy Jr. played in a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa keep getting worse.

submitted 28 days ago • 404 comments

Here's an open post reviewing the evidence in favor of wearing an N95 mask, and why it was such a mistake to get rid of them. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/the-n95-ma...

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Thou shalt accept that DEI didn't hold your career back -- you're just mid, bro.

submitted 30 days ago • 365 comments

I’m not at all surprised. 💙

submitted 30 days ago • 689 comments

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde is the Christian that Franklin Graham failed to be.

submitted 32 days ago • 586 comments

Sweden: "Not implementing a mandatory lockdown was blamed for the higher mortality seen in Sweden. In a modeling study... researchers found that the infection rates could have been reduced by 75% and mortality could have been reduced by 25%" kevinmd.com/2025/01/swed...

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