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Nov 17, 2024 • 1 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
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Calif. health officials dip into pandemic stockpile in response to bird flu

Over 2 million pieces of PPE have been distributed to farmworkers in response to confirmed human cases of bird flu

#H5N1

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JUST IN: New study finds that serious neurologic complications tied to influenza are more common than previously thought.

Particularly in young children.

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Analyzing over 79,000 influenza cases among children, researchers reported an incidence rate of 38 serious neurologic events per 100,000 person-weeks of flu.

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Alarmingly, children under 2 years old faced a significantly higher risk, and the study found no difference in complication rates between children who received antiviral treatments and those who did not.

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Feb 17
They can hide or tamp down data, but you can still see what’s happening if you know where to look.

People are documenting what public health refuse to acknowledge.

A growing number of people in critical condition with no clear explanation 🧵

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Feb 16
This wasn’t supposed to be public.

Right now, the CDC is sitting on data that could change the entire risk assessment for H5N1 bird flu 🧵

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The data shows two separate households with infected cats.

These weren’t stray animals wandering through a poultry farm, these were indoor pets.

The only clear connection?

Both households had dairy farm workers.

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One cat tested positive for H5N1 and died.

Another one in the same house got sick shortly after.

It looks like the virus could spread between cats, something that has rarely been documented outside of lab settings.

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Olivia, a young girl from Minnesota, has been fighting for her life for weeks after what started as a routine case of Influenza A turned into a medical crisis.

She’s been on a ventilator for over three weeks, battling ARDS, bacterial pneumonia, and lung blood clots.

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Her case isn’t unique. A teen in British Columbia faced the same terrifying progression.

Are these cases isolated, or is something changing with the virus?

The CDC should be answering that question. Instead, they’ve gone silent.

And that’s what concerns me the most.

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If the virus is changing (if we’re seeing more severe disease in young people) that’s something we should know immediately.

Instead, we have parents desperately looking for information while public health officials try to piece things together without federal support.

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Jan 13
B.C. doc reflects on treating teen with bird flu for two months

She was in respiratory distress, but there was no “clear flag”

They sent diagnostic tests to the hospital lab to determine the type of influenza that had sickened the teen.

They all came back negative.

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"This child needed a lot of support, basically the maximum amount of respiratory support that we're able to provide in a modern ICU,"

She started an antiviral the day of her diagnosis. The team initiated a combination therapy that added two other antivirals

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Been thinking about the risk of an H5N1 pandemic

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Humans are masters of self-sabotage.

Faced with low-probability, high-consequence events, we consistently make the same mistake.

We cling to the illusion of stability.

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I don’t think it’s ignorance.

It’s not even denial.

It’s something worse.

A fundamental failure to weigh the present against the future, comfort against survival, certainty against risk.

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