Personally, I could well live without another #pandemic. 🎁 link (i.e., no paywall)
»A third farmworker in the United States has been found to be infected with bird flu, heightening concerns about an outbreak among dairy cattle first identified in March.«
The worker had respiratory symptoms, unlike the first two. But the risk to the public remains low, federal health officials said.
www.nytimes.com
Reposts of strips from my book collection, TRUMPBERT: OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE (www.Trumpbert.com) most weekdays. New strips every Sunday.
Please also check out my #pandemic #picturebook at www.PandemicPB.com
#dilbert #parody #trump #satire #comic #webcomic #Ukraine #extortion #impeachment
Cognitive empathy lets you imagine a client’s experience, puts yourself in their shoes and act accordingly. How you can use it to help restore reading post concussion. On Psychology Today.
www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/conc...
#kindness #reading #BrainInjury #pandemic #LongCovid #concussion
Cognitive empathy lets you imagine a client’s experience, puts yourself in their shoes and act accordingly. How you can use it to help restore reading post concussion.
www.psychologytoday.com
New strips every Sunday. Reposts of strips from my book collection TRUMPBERT: OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE (www.Trumpbert.com) most weekdays.
Please also check out my #pandemic #picturebook at www.PandemicPB.com
#dilbert #parody #trump #satire #comic #webcomic #MemorialDay
Another #pandemic is ‘absolutely inevitable’, says Patrick Vallance - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti... he's right; we must prepare for it
Former UK chief scientific adviser warns ‘we are not ready yet’ and urges next government to prepare
www.theguardian.com
Ignore misinformation and unite against pandemic threat, LSHTM's Director warns
Professor Smeeth urges those negotiating #pandemic treaty to work together to "fight against the target we all have in common; the next pandemic."
👇https://t.co/NZIa8ff7fs
Professor Liam Smeeth, the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), has warned world leaders involved in negotiating the pandemic agreement to ignore false claims circulat...
t.coThe world has hardly processed the Covid-19 #pandemic, so the thought of another pathogen taking over is far from pleasant. Yet, for the sake of preparedness, #infectious disease experts led by 🇩🇪 @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social have picked the most likely candidate in a new survey.
New research presented at the ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID) in Barcelona, Spain (27-30 April) shows that in a VACCELERATE Consortium survey study in which infectious diseases experts were a...
healthcare-in-europe.com#COVID19 has often been cited as a major force playing on the anxieties of young people. But the survey responses strongly indicate that the #pandemic actually accelerated pre-existing trends, @D_Blanchflower and his co-authors noted - @The74 www.the74million.org/article/a-le...
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Join the conversation about the future of #diagnostics with industry leaders from organizations like #NIAID #NIH, #BARDA, & #WomenInBio present on funding opportunities, #pandemic preparedness, & more! Register at: bit.ly/44vdbiq
#health #DC
Use this letter campaign to ask elected officials in the White House and Senate to prioritize telehealth for federal workers to mitigate global warming and spread of infectious disease. #COVID19 #pandemic
Telework should be prioritized for our future, to mitigate climate change and infectious disease in the ongoing pandemic. The Biden administration is scaling back telework for federal workers and enc...
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NZ needs to boost its
#pandemic efforts in response to the ongoing covid pandemic 😒
Airborne mitigations work for all airborne pathogens 🤷
NZ needs to boost its #pandemic preparedness efforts in response to the evolving threat posed by a variant of bird flu, which is now spreading in US cattle. www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/pot...
Aotearoa New Zealand needs to boost its pandemic preparedness efforts in response to the evolving threat posed by a variant of avian influenza, which is now spreading in cattle.
www.phcc.org.nzTonight, Monday May 13, from 8:00-9:30 PM EDT (GMT -4), I'll perform my 213th #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the #pandemic era. Let's see what oscillations we end up conjuring. twitch.tv/onezeromusic
Musician, programmer, vertebrate. Apparently also a Twitch streamer, now. Live ambient music from Pittsburgh, PA.
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"Since 2021, H5N1 viruses have been detected in 37 new mammal species worldwide..." We are watching...
#H5N1 #influenza #flu #pandemic #virus
🧪 #MedSky
This Medical News article discusses the current H5N1 avian influenza outbreak in US dairy cattle and its implications for occupational and public health.
jamanetwork.com“The pre-Covid landscape of coronavirology research saw intense US-China collaboration aimed at creating broad-spectrum vaccines for SARS- and MERS-like viruses” Well, they failed big time. How competent were all involved when none AFAIK came up with an effective stop-transmission vaccine? #pandemic
yurideigin.medium.com/why-ralph-ba...
He confirmed that DEFUSE proposed inserting novel furin cleavage sites into live viruses, inspired by feline coronaviruses
yurideigin.medium.comScientists are increasingly concerned that cows will become a permanent reservoir for the #H5N1 #avianinfluenza #virus, giving it more chances to mutate and jump to humans. #pandemic #biology www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientists worry that the H5N1 strain of avian influenza will become endemic in cattle, which would aid its spread in people. Scientists worry that the H5N1 strain of avian influenza will become endem...
www.nature.com(“post #pandemic normalization”) The biggest drops in #vacancy rates occurred in sectors such as #transport and #health that had the biggest post-pandemic recruitment problems, chart @WSJecon www.wsj.com/economy/fede...
“And they did not produce any evidence pointing directly to a #coronavirus leak from a lab in China, with or without EcoHealth’s involvement, a hitch in their yearslong effort to implicate Chinese and American #scientists in the beginnings of the #pandemic.” www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/s...
A heated hearing produced no new evidence that Peter Daszak or his nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, were implicated in the Covid outbreak.
www.nytimes.com
Trying to wrap up my research project and would appreciate your help. Did you start meditating for the first time during the pandemic? This anonymous online survey takes about 10 minutes to complete. To see if you qualify: meditationduringpandemic.org Thank you!
#meditation #pandemic
The questionnaire was designed as a research project for a doctoral dissertation to further the understanding about the motivation behind wanting to start a meditation practice.
meditationduringpandemic.orgTonight, Monday May 6, from 8-9:30PM EDT (GMT-4) will be my 212th #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the #pandemic era. Time to switch up the instrument a bit. Tune in to find out what. twitch.tv/onezeromusic
Musician, programmer, vertebrate. Apparently also a Twitch streamer, now. Live ambient music from Pittsburgh, PA.
twitch.tv“It’s worth noting that the economic cost of the #COVID19 #pandemic in the United States has been estimated at $14 trillion and the estimated global death toll since January 2020 is approaching 30 million.” thebulletin.org/2024/05/trum...
Donald Trump claimed he would disband the White House office charged with preventing and responding to pandemics. It's not the first time.
thebulletin.orgOn February 10th, he implied that it would go away with the heat in April. “It’s going to disappear,” he said on February 27th. On March 10th, just days before declaring a pandemic, #Trump urged everyone to “Just stay calm. It will go away.” #COVID19 #pandemic thebulletin.org/2024/05/trum...
Donald Trump claimed he would disband the White House office charged with preventing and responding to pandemics. It's not the first time.
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"Federal Government has already taken a historic series of actions...to address the #pandemic threat...actions include the development of a promising human vaccine against #H5N1 avian influenza virus, the submission of a $7.1 billion budget request..."
www.state.gov/pandemic-inf...
The purpose of this section is to ensure that foreign missions, international organizations and their members have a source dedicated to providing current information on issues related to the U.S. Gov...
www.state.gov
US shattered world records for the most #coronavirus #infections and #hospitalizations of any country since the #pandemic began
Two years into this crisis and a year into #Biden’s #presidency, we seem to be even #worse #off than under #Trump in the most lethal metric: more #deaths under the Democrat
When Omicron emerged, the White House missed chance after chance to limit infections – despite claiming to ‘follow the science’
www.theguardian.com
What would the world look like if the #pandemic never ended, if #Covid was causing widespread, long-term illness, and if all this was being covered up by the government?
www.normalcyfugitive.com/p/the-pandem...
Tomorrow is #graduation day for the college across the street, so they're spiffing up the joint to celebrate. This class started during fall of 2020, deep in the first year of the #pandemic. #CongratsClassOf2024
Negociations are underway with the #WHO about amendments to the International Health Regulations and a WHO agreement on #pandemic preparedness and management. The FAC-N supported the Federal Council's priorities for these negotiations by 16 votes to 8. 👇
www.parlament.ch/press-releas...
Fascinating 🧵 where Stephanie Tait outlines how things might go down if/when things escalate into an #H5N1 #pandemic
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#BirdFlu #CowFlu #BovineFlu
@StephTaitWrites: I’m gonna be the Debbie downer here, but I don’t think an H5N1 pandemic would have the results you’re expecting. Here’s what I think I would actually go down: First off, folks would ...
threadreaderapp.comBioVie Awarded up to $13.1 Million in Funding from U.S. Department of Defense to Evaluate Bezisterim (NE3107) for the Treatment of #LongCOVID #covid19 #pandemic
Increasing evidence supports a role for viral persistence, chronic inflammation and immune and metabolic dysregulation in driving long COVID Bezisterim,...
www.globenewswire.com
How Nostalgia Deceives Us. No one can return to the "normal" before times. Deep within us lies the knowledge that “normal” is a false front, nostalgia deceives, and we must deal with reality.
www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/conc...
#BrainInjury #LongCovid #COVID #pandemic
Grief smacks us with the reality of loss. Nostalgia covers it up.
www.psychologytoday.com(2/2) The #virus does not spread much in people yet, but as it jumps between animals, it could mutate to cause more person-to-person transmission and fuel a #pandemic. Containing the outbreak in #livestock herds is key, but testing of #cows is voluntary: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
Per The Sick Times, "CDC will stop requiring hospitals to report Covid-related metrics on April 30."
#covid19 #longcovid #pandemic
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thesicktimes.orgTonight, Monday April 22, from 8-9:30 PM EDT (GMT - 4) I'll perform my 210th #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the #pandemic era. Last week was pedal steel, so tonight's likely to be a return to #moogguitar. Drop in tonight for some Earth Day oscillations at twitch.tv/onezeromusic
Musician, programmer, vertebrate. Apparently also a Twitch streamer, now. Live ambient music from Pittsburgh, PA.
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
#china #economy #finance #policies #leaders #leadership #deflation #government #bonds #construction #projects #officials #growth #structural #secular #pandemic #economists #manufacturing #consumer #spending #world #property #markets #monetary #stimulus #crisis
Beijing hasn’t hit on the right mix of policies to reawaken the animal spirits.
www.bloomberg.com“Accommodations that #DisabledStudents had been requesting for years were slotted into place so that #students could learn remotely. But since the “end” of the #pandemic, #OnlineLearning has withered away and thousands of students have been left without sufficient access.” #Universities
The Covid era showed that remote learning is effective. It’s absurd that universities are going back to processes that exclude us, says Rosie Anfilogoff, a winner of the 2024 Hugo Young Award
www.theguardian.com
the @WHO sounds alarm over human cases of bird flu, says ‘looking for new hosts’
The World Health Organization said that A (H5N1) strain has become "a global zoonotic animal pandemic"
#pandemic #zoonotic #H5N1 #BirdFlu #virus🦠 #animals #PublicHealth🛟 www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/h...
We have been watching this since 1997. #H5N1 #BirdFlu keeps infecting more and more species and has developed into a global animal #pandemic. 1/3
🧪 #MedSky #PoliSky
Chief scientist voices fears about H5N1 variant that has ‘extraordinarily high’ mortality rate in humans
www.theguardian.comA short dip into the #coworking fad of the past couple of decades, more recent #WFH shifts, #Hybrid working options, and how businesses might or might not recover from the #pandemic. Hoping it might help us all think about the constructive opportunities that await us, in the near future:
Cowork brands have a fabulous opportunity to step into the breach and help businesses bridge the gap between their needs for collaborative team systems, and the emerging demands of their employee comm...
www.linkedin.com"...as the nation moves further from the #COVID-19 #pandemic, rates of #longCOVID remain steady and 7% of all adults—roughly 17 million people—reported currently having long COVID in March 2024."
This issue brief analyzes the latest data on rates of long COVID, which have appeared to stabilize, affecting about 1 in 10 adults who have had COVID.
www.kff.orgTonight, Monday April 15 from 8-9:30 PM EDT (GMT -4), I'll perform my 209th #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the #pandemic era. Tonight seems like a good occasion for either the #moogguitar or #pedalsteel . Tune in tonight at twitch.tv/onezeromusic
Musician, programmer, vertebrate. Apparently also a Twitch streamer, now. Live ambient music from Pittsburgh, PA.
twitch.tv
remember in 2020 when the #food #service #industry was in complete in utter chaos because of the #global #pandemic? how the #fitness industry got shut down and had to find so many #work arounds? how #education imploded? how the global #supplychain halted for a good minute?
Four years ago. 4.
Monday's 208th #pandemic era #ambient #guitar #improv is now up. This one's on the very organic-sounding $60 Univox hollowbody in Bb/F tuning, and has some woodwind and bowed string timbres appearing. $0/name-your-price at snwv.bandcamp.com/album/music-...