JusDayDa David Lim U.S. FDA You should’ve tagged Dept. of Agriculture Dept. of Agriculture_APHIS as it seems they might still be struggling with the whole “sharing all” or the “global” part of GISAID Initiative.

Right now, one of the biggest blind spots we have in this widespread outbreak is lack of genomic data (metadata) transparency.

When #H5N1 news broke, I told David Lim, “They would have to do a lot of testing before I would drink milk from one of these farms at this point' and got a lot of pushback.

3 weeks later, U.S. FDA reported H5N1 in grocery store milk. It'll take up to weeks more to know if these…

JGoodman Personally, I’ve spent 27 years studying H5N1 viruses. So, I’m going to wait for data I hope is coming soon from both FDA (pasteurization) & USDA (genomic data & raw milk handling). Minor inconvenience to pause my milk consumption while waiting for data. Delayed transparency…

Horrible pun comes to mind: the cows have left the barn.

What's sad is that the world, including the US, keeps leaving the barn doors wide open by failing to invest in:

- modern pathogen surveillance
- one health (animal/human/environment) integration
- common/interoperable…

Notes from Dept. of Agriculture + CDC briefing this morning:
—Transmission cattle-> cattle; cattle-> poultry, asymptomatic cattle positivity all confirmed
—H5N1+ in >30 dairy cattle herds in 8 states confirmed, but commercial milk +PCR testing indicates it's well beyond that
—If it does…

Our grass was cut today

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston's translucent form There is a real episode where they specifically talk about the benefits of respirators though youtube.com/watch?v=iEyQsz…

“Are you afraid the filter masks will work?” 🔥Wow.

To kick off another very disapointing story about governments failing to investigate properly (or at least not sharing the conclusions of those investigations). There has been almost zero further details about the cause of the Polish cat outbreak. twitter.com/PeacockFlu/sta…

It's been getting on for a year since I wrote this thread - heres a bit of an update of where we are with the evidence for mammal-to-mammal transmission of H5N1s.
twitter.com/PeacockFlu/sta…

Jake Jacobsen Cindy Wilinski yeah definitley a bad idea, very unclear right now if that was the source of the current outbreak but a definite possibility (and something that shouldnt happen, theres obvious reasons why other countries banned the practise!)

This is the cover of Brain today. Over 355.00 people were analyzed. How are we going to treat all these people with dementia?

'We found a higher incidence of encephalopathy, dementia, seizure/epilepsy, brain fog, and myelitis within the acute phase from 7 days to 3 months…

And why ignore a peer reviewed Letter to Science in October 2020 entitled 'Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2' which clearly describes the difs in exposure pathways for inhalation of aerosols that float like smoke vs droplets which rapidly drop?

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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As many of us have said, this is not rocket science. The public can understand that aerosols float like smoke and can carry infectious viruses (i.e. SARS-2), but droplets drop. It is fixable via masks, filtration, and ventilation yet ironically(?) World Health Organization (WHO) provides no solutions (9/).

And why did World Health Organization (WHO) not believe a major National Academies workshop in August 2020 was sufficient where all experts across the same disciplines agreed this virus (and likely others like influenza) is airborne?

nationalacademies.org/our-work/airbo…

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'Equity means everyone gets excellent protections, not reducing protections to the lowest possible common denominator.' 𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 [email protected]

healthydebate.ca/2024/04/topic/…

The virus can persist and replicate long term in tissue reservoirs, not just at autopsy. This includes in the brain, GI tract and the lung, possibly for months even years. We need to develop new antivirals. NIH Director Bertagnolli MD #LongCovid #ViralPersistence 👇

Ryan Gosling is one of the best #SNL host in the history of the show.

If you’re looking for a story that focuses on our shared humanity, here’s a gift link to an article on The Washington Post wapo.st/4aOVts1

This quote by Arundhati Roy lives rent-free in my head: “There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”