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Jun 12, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Very interesting details on US intelligence on a lab-leak, from former US intelligence officer. "I write this because, to put it bluntly, I’m tired of being the butt of stupid and paranoid conspiracy theories being promulgated by those who know better." christopherashleyford.medium.com/the-lab-leak-i…
⭐️ An excerpt from an email from the former Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation, last year 👇🏽

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Jul 31
🚨Breaking: New study lends weight to suspicions of undiagnosed bird flu infections in people. Nearly 15% of farmworkers had antibodies agst H5N1 in a small study.

A lack of surveillance is a problem for all of us.
My latest @KFFHealthNews +@NPR npr.org/sections/shots…
This is the 1st study on missed infections from people on farms w/outbreaks -- who fell sick but weren’t tested.

It means the US is missing cases & may not notice if the virus became more contagious. It means we’re basing decisions on incomplete data. kffhealthnews.org/news/article/b…
I asked dairy workers why they’re not getting tested.

No one had heard of bird flu, never mind gotten PPE or offers of tests. One said they don’t get much from their employers, not even water. If they call in sick, they worry about getting fired. kffhealthnews.org/news/article/b…
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Jun 20
🚨Scoop: A behind-the-scenes look at the bird flu outbreak shows the US hasn't fixed a key failing from covid -- getting people tests.

Only 45 people tested over the past 3 months. "We're flying blind," said @JenniferNuzzo.

Mine @KFFHealthNews
kffhealthnews.org/news/article/c…
“We’d like to be doing more testing,” said Nirav Shah @CDCgov. The CDC is confident it could bc it has a million H5 bird flu tests, & has given them to some 100 public health labs.

This confidence is reminiscent of covid.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article/c…
Fauci wrote on the slow test rollout in covid, which damned the country.

"The [CDC] traditionally had a go-it-alone attitude, excluding input from outside sources...instead of immediately partnering w/the diagnostic industry, it started from scratch" theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Read 10 tweets
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Mar 18
🧵On this anniversary of the pandemic's start, I revisited horrors of early 2020. My hope is fading bc I don't see *any* big changes to protect us.

My latest piece on the CDC suggests the next pandemic will be worse. @KFFHealthNews / @NBCNews

nbcnews.com/health/health-…
Flashbacks to 2020. Remember nurses in garbage bags? Hospital & nursing home leadership told staff to forego N95s, pointing to CDC advice that they weren't warranted. >3,600 health workers died of Covid in 2020. Image
Flashback to 2020. Remember horrific outbreaks in nursing homes & prisons?

A lack of testing -- despite our enormous capacity for it -- meant outbreaks exploded. A lack of strong advice & regulation led to testimonials like this one, from a veterans' home. Image
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Sep 15, 2023
🧵My latest: Inequality becomes entrenched with each new booster rollout. Gone are the days of intensive vaccine campaigns.

“Urging people to get boosters has really only worked for Democrats, college graduates, and people making over $90,000 a year,” says @gregggonsalves
<55% of nursing home residents in several states got the last booster, no reason to expect rates to be different this time around.

<11% of incarcerated people in Minnesota go the last booster.

And gaping disparities between Black & white people are back. kffhealthnews.org/news/article/n…
In 2021, outreach included mobile vaccine sites & education. It worked. But ended.

Now the vaccines cost 4x more. @Maybarduk asks, “If these vaccines had been kept at the same price, what decisions would be made to expand the response?” kffhealthnews.org/news/article/n…
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May 10, 2023
🚨I've talked with dozens of experts & officials who worked on the pandemic response.

Here are 7 transformations that must happen if the US doesn't -- once again -- get utterly destroyed by a virus.

Not simple. This is real talk. 🧵
Mine @washingtonpost
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…
1. Testing centers should remain everywhere, for HIV, for flu, etc. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…
2.Set nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals. The nurses we briefly cheered for are facing violence & burnout & leaving the profession, and we need them. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…
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May 8, 2023
80% of women in US jails are mothers & nearly 60% of women in prisons. Many are the primary caretaker.

1.3 million people in the US have been separated from their mothers before age 18 due to their mothers’ imprisonment

So let's write about incarcerated moms but this is not it. Image
Ref to the NYT Holmes piece and prisonpolicy.org/blog/2022/05/0…
Biance Clayborne vs Elizabeth Holmes. "Devoted mothers" waiting for trial. ImageImage
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