1/ This #4ofjuly, have fun, enjoy your family/friends, but please #BeSafe. Express your politics at the ballot box and in your speech. But not wearing masks and flaunting social distancing measures? That makes you a danger to yourself and others, including those you love. #COVID
2/ Cults are dangerous. Leaders who lie are dangerous. Please protect yourself, your family & your community. If you wait to see this with your own eyes, it'll be too late. The US is careening into a long-term nationwide disaster: the loss of lives & damage to the economy. #COVID
3/ If you've had unprotected, high-risk sex, get STD/HIV testing. Many don't have symptoms. ~1/3 of those infected w/ #coronavirus don't have symptoms, but can infect others. If you engage in unsafe pandemic behavior (not wearing masks or social distancing), get #COVID tested.
4/ We're still really bad at predicting who'll get sick with #coronavirus#COVID. Many who are infected will be just fine. But the way the US is heading, many are going to get very sick, and many will die. This is a preventable tragedy.
5/ This #4ofjuly, let's celebrate American strength in the face of crisis. Let's show that we're stronger than the virus, that we can unite against the #coronavirus, that we can defeat #COVID. //
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1/ H5N1 bird flu candidate vaccine viruses have been identified:
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🔹2 are "well-matched" to H5N1 infecting dairy cattle
🔹but how "well-matched" are they really? this conclusion is based on ferret dataastho.org/education/hpai…
2/ 🔹Candidate vaccine viruses are used to make antigen (i.e. the target you want the immune system to see) for vaccines.
🔹Adjuvant has also been stockpiled.
🔹Adjuvants help strengthen the immune response to antigen in vaccines.
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🔹100s of thousands of doses of candidate antigen + adjuvant have been manufactured for use in clinical studies.
🔹2 safety/immunogenicity studies are being conducted.
🔹@ASPRgov is working with @US_FDA & industry to figure out a regulatory pathway for the use of these doses.
1/ Stemming the spread of H5N1 bird flu
🔹The federal government is ramping up testing of dairy cows
🔹Cows will now have to be tested before being transferred to another state
🔹H5N1 viral fragments detected in grocery store milk
🔹The risk to humans remains low at this time
2/ Remember PCR tests from COVID?
They can be positive even after you’ve recovered because they’re picking up dead virus.
Some PCR tests on pasteurized milk from grocery stores have come back positive for bird flu... but that could just be dead virus.
3/ Pasteurization has worked for over a hundred years to protect consumers from bacteria and viruses.
There’s no reason to think pasteurization won’t also work to kill the bird flu virus, but scientists are confirming that with testing anyway.