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@DrEricDing
Jan 25, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
⚠️CONCERNING—Millions of doses of #COVID19 vaccine shipped by Trump WH/HHS are missing. Nobody knows why yet. Biden coronavirus task force have spent first days in office working overtime to solve puzzle. So far, one hasn’t emerged. (by @ErinBanco) 🧵
thedailybeast.com/millions-of-co… Image
2) “According to data from CDC, 41.4 million doses have been handed out to the states. Only 21.8 mil have been administered. Bottom line: Doses should be flowing, they said But instead, states are complaining of vaccine shortages.”
3) COVID ACT NOW has just added a state by state vaccine tracker with shots delivered. Nobody sure why the big discrepancy in shipments vs shots administered. covidactnow.org/?s=1550490
4) “rechecked the numbers—local and federal data—to try to discover the cause. They looked at whether: manufactured to fill demand; where shipped and who had received it; how much was still sitting waiting to be administered; and how many doses were still sitting in warehouses.”
5) “They’ve still come up short, officials tell The Daily Beast, in part because the data sets they are working with are incomplete.”
6) “In the weeks leading up to the inauguration, officials working with Biden’s coronavirus transition task force assumed that the low vaccination rates were due in part to a lag in states reporting to the CDC.”
7) “They also calculated that some states were struggling to administer the vaccine efficiently because of staff shortages and, in some regions, because of a hesitancy among residents to sign up for the shot. But picture is even more muddled, and more complex, than they thought.”
8) “According to two officials working on Biden WH vaccine effort, some state officials, including in those states reporting vaccine shortages, have determined there might be additional doses in their jurisdiction—outside of their second-dose reserves— that are unaccounted for.”
9) “But those state officials do not know whether those doses are sitting in warehouses, freezers or in other distribution hubs, or whether been used but unreported. In other words, there could be perhaps millions of doses across the country missing in the distribution system”
10) “There could be a number of explanations to explain the discrepancies; some doses could have expired or been contaminated or otherwise destroyed, though those scenarios are rare.”

Read more by @ErinBanco - she’s dedicated to COVID reporting. thedailybeast.com/millions-of-co…
11) Remember when Trump HHS Sec Azar claimed they will be sending out reserves in mid Jan... only to realize they didn’t have any?!?! And that they were all gone by late Dec? But somehow HHS thought they still had more and promised to send? That was weird...
12) when millions of vaccine doses go missing and unaccounted for... this is what happens... US is way below anticipated 20 million in first month

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May 30
⚠️Huge—HUMAN RESPIRATORY INFECTION BY BIRD FLU—A third human case of H5 bird flu just diagnosed in a Michigan farm worker. The individual worked on a dairy farm & didn’t wear PPE. ➡️However—“With this case, respiratory symptoms occurred after direct exposure to an infected cow”—including cough and other respiratory symptoms! Thus is the first bird flu case in which an infected individual reported respiratory symptoms. The 2 human cases reported earlier this year experienced only conjunctivitis (pink eye).

💡Why is respiratory illness significant? It means the bird flu virus has somehow evolved to go respiratory. “The significance of respiratory symptoms relates to the possibility of onward spread. In people, influenza transmits via the respiratory route. A person with flu virus in their airways could be more likely to spread the virus — if the virus has the capacity to transmit between humans — than a person with an infection in their eye.”

statnews.com/2024/05/30/bir…Image
2) CDC declares: “this is the FIRST HUMAN CASE of the H5 virus in the U.S. to report more typical symptoms of acute respiratory illness associated with influenza virus infection”.

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3) This is why CDC has adamantly recommended strict PPE for all dairy and poultry farmworkers and veterinarians. But the word is that farms are resisting PPE use. Hence this mess.
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May 24
⚠️My god—RAW MILK WITH BIRD FLU CAN SICKEN—Latest raw milk bird flu study found insanely worrying results. Plus pasteurization heating doesn’t neutralize all bird flu virus!

📌Mice who drank raw milk infected with H5N1 got very sick! And starting from day 1.

📌Finally, 72 degree Celsius pasteurization heated milk did not neutralize the bird flu virus in milk—they used the heated milk with the virus to infect cells successfully.

This is EXACTLY the nightmare that me and @RickABright predicted & worried about!
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2) Furthermore, raw milk with the bird flu virus can survive refrigeration for several weeks! Image
3) “Heat treatment at 72°C was performed, with the default settings of the PCR thermocycler (i.e., preheated lid at 105°C) or with a metal lid (heated to 72°C) covering the PCR block (see the Supplementary Appendixfor details). After heat treatment, samples were inoculated into embryonated chicken eggs or Madin–Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells for virus detection. Under these conditions, heat treatment for 15 or 20 seconds reduced virus titers by more than 4.5 log units but did not completely inactivate the virus”Image
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May 21
HIP FRACTURE DEADLIER THAN CANCER for elderly. A new 🇨🇦 study finds only 1/3 of men & 1/2 of women age>=65 still alive 5 years after a hip fracture. In contrast, 5 year cancer survival higher. But we don’t focus on fracture prevention & nutrition enough.
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
2) By comparison, the five-year survival rate for older adults is 85 per cent for men diagnosed with prostate cancer, 80 per cent for women with breast cancer, and 56 per cent for colon cancer.
3) Broken hips are both the most common and the deadliest (of fractures). Researchers noted that while women have much better survival rates than men after hip fractures, women are also far more likely to break bones in the first place.
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May 20
“As unnerving as H5N1’s current spread in cows might be, “I would be a whole lot more concerned if this was an event in pigs’… Swine airways are evolutionary playgrounds where viruses can convert—and have converted—into ones that prefer to infect us.” 🧵
theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
2) “A flu virus that jumped from swine to humans, for instance, catalyzed the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. If there’s a list of riskiest animals for an avian flu to infiltrate, “pigs are clearly at the top,” Webby said”
3) “To successfully spread in a new species, a flu virus must infiltrate that creature’s cells, reproduce inside of them, and then make it to the next host. This H5N1 has managed that feat in several animals, but so far, “we’re actually still dealing with a very avian virus,”
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May 16
⚠️NO RARE BEEF!—@USDA suddenly admits (after Q&A pestering) that 120F cooked beef🥩patties experimentally inoculated with H5N1 virus still had surviving virus.

➡️“Cooking to… 120° F did show that there was virus still in the cooked hamburger patty, although at reduced levels." Image
2) Initially the @USDA only stated that no virus survived cooking to 160 F and 145 F. But they didn’t volunteer the 120 F rare cooking temperature results! Only after more questioning did they reveal 120 F virus survival. But so many folks eat rare meat! 🥩 DISCLOSURE CRITICAL!
3) here was the initial USDA press conference announcement. Made no mention of the results for virus levels in beef at lower temperatures.
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May 15
Dear Raw Milk drinkers— behold your future:

“West Virginia politician falls ill due to drinking unpasteurized milk after helping pass a law that legalized raw milk.”

eater.com/2016/3/9/11186…
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The FDA has completely dropped the ball on stopping raw milk trade.
3) Folks— famous Typhoid Fever outbreak in UK 🇬🇧 — caused by RAW MILK 🥛… legendary case from 1937.

We don’t learn from history do we? We just have to learn the hard way all over?
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