2) “The potential for large indoor gatherings to fuel coronavirus infections remains high, as illustrated by about three dozen cases linked to a CDC conference last week. The virus remains on pace to be one of the top 10 causes of death this year.”
3) luckily we have a very functional and cautious @CDCgov… oh wait, the CDC conference “not an outbreak” outbreak.
4) But I do have hope for the @CDCgov after Walensky resigns. The Ray of hope is in CDC’s key Principal Deputy Director Dr Nirav Shah @nirav_uscdc. Here is why he represents hope for me… 👇
CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP—➡️at the first celebratory @CDCgov conference for epidemic detectives since pandemic… a #COVID19 outbreak breaks loose, infecting multiple CDC employees—all while @CDCDirector set to dismantle the CL nationwide warning system. 🤦🏻♂️ washingtonpost.com/health/2023/04…
2) ““We’re letting you know that several people who attended the [Epidemic Intelligence Service] Conference have tested positive for COVID-19,” a CDC branch chief wrote in an email to staff on Friday and obtained by The Washington Post…
3) “adding that at least one person at the division’s recruiting event on Wednesday had tested positive.
Current and former CDC staff also told The Post that moderators at the conference warned staff several times that some attendees had tested positive for the virus.
⚠️“Alarmingly trending in WRONG DIRECTION”—Nevada’s entire congressional delegation is begging CDC to do more to fight a potentially lethal drug-resistant fungus causing the largest outbreaks in the country at Las Vegas hospitals and long-term care facilities. The Nevada State… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2) The fungus can spread from surfaces such as bed rails and medical equipment, where it can linger for long periods of time, invisible to the eye. It can also be spread by colonized people who don’t know they have it.
3) Nevada leaders asking CDC to take decisive action against fungus Candida auris and to “swiftly deliver necessary resources to the public health professionals and health care providers in Nevada on the front lines of this outbreak.”
📍Florida surgeon general “personally altered” key findings in study on #Covid19 vaccine safety. Researchers at Johns Hopkins & University of Florida, criticized the changes, saying it appears Ladapo altered study out of political—not scientific—concerns. politico.com/news/2023/04/2…
2) “The newly released draft of the eight-page study, provided by the Florida Department of Health, indicates that it initially stated that there was no significant risk associated with the Covid-19 vaccines for young men.”
3) “But “Dr. L’s Edits,” as the document is titled, reveal that Ladapo replaced that language to say that men between 18 and 39 years old are at high risk of heart illness from two Covid vaccines that use mRNA technology.”
⚠️Worrisome—“These findings suggest that #SARSCoV2 infection damages the CD8+ T cell response, an effect **akin to that observed in studies showing long-term damage to the immune system after infection with hepatitis C or #HIV**.” ~@NIH study! #LongCOVID nih.gov/news-events/ne…
2) The magnitude and quality of a key immune cell’s response to vaccination with two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were considerably lower in people with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to people without prior infection, a study has found.
3) In addition, the level of this key immune cell that targets the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein was substantially lower in unvaccinated people with COVID-19 than in vaccinated people who had never been infected.
Possible #MPOX mutation? An investigation has been launched in France 🇫🇷 after new cluster 17 cases—59% of people in a new monkeypox cluster were vaccinated—double usual % seen. Hence concerns of possible new #monkeypox mutation. telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
2) While the #MPOX jab does not offer complete protection against the disease, usually only 25% of French cases are in vaccinated individuals.
3) Those affected in the current French cluster are all men aged between 24 and 56.
“No parties or events common to the cases have been identified," the French health authority said. “No person has required hospitalisation.”
⚠️BREAKING—CDC team falls ill while investigating the health impacts of Ohio train derailment—➡️**7** US government investigators briefly fell ill in March while studying the possible health impacts of a toxic #OhioChemicalDisaster train derailment, @CDCgov confirms to CNN. 🧵
2) The investigators’ symptoms included sore throats, headaches, coughing and nausea – consistent with what some residents experienced after the February 3 train derailment that released a cocktail of hazardous chemicals into the air, water and soil. cnn.com/2023/03/31/hea…
3) The investigators who experienced symptoms were part of a team conducting a house-to-house survey in an area near the derailment, and they immediately reported their symptoms to federal safety officers.