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Muro deGrizeco :toad:

Got home, calmed down, got story from N95-masked spouse:

It was a little stuffy lobby that the face-scarf friend was in, so room prob had lot of virus. Exposure brief, few minutes. Spouse had tight #n95.

"Exposure Protocol" goes like this:

Presume exposed person infected. They wear N95 in house. Okay to remove mask in closed isolation room, towel at door base. Furnace has HEPA filter. Monitor for symptoms, test with #COVID / #Flu RAT repeatedly. Call all-clear after several days neg tests.

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Mat Wright

so, Island Health has apparently been trying to contact us for urgent tests, but Gmail is flagging emails from them as Spam and Suspicious - go figure that tech is against public health

Never heard of paravirus 'parainfluenza' - but that is what we have, and they want more from us.... and a good friend who is an infectious disease NP is like WTAF!!!

@hannu_ikonen

#BCpoli#Covid#Covid19
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Mat Wright

Wife is entering week 4, I'm in week 3 of an 'unknown' virus that truly feels like a combination of noro and Covid. Reduced lung function, no appetite, incredible fatigue

She was tested for everything at ER with no conclusion. Now friends reporting they have this and are cancelling Spring Break trips.

Stay masked, stay safe - public health is asleep

#Covid#Covid19#Flu
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"Instead, experts from within the FDA, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Department of Defense gathered Thursday to go over surveillance data from the US and around the world about flu viruses that are currently circulating.

The FDA is recommending that flu vaccines for the 2025-26 season be trivalent, protecting against two strains of influenza A and one of influenza B."

cnn.com/2025/03/13/health/fda-

CNN · After canceling meeting of independent advisers, FDA issues 2025-26 flu vaccine recommendationsBy Katherine Dillinger
#PublicHealth#flu#FDA
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Trina Corey

UPDATE: Weldon's nomination was just pulled

David Weldon, MD, nominee for Director of the CDC, is a vaccine- & science- denier. Confirmation hearing is TODAY, 3/13

Weldon has been often quoted by RFK Jr's anti-vaccine group. He supports policies that limit reproductive rights.

Please call your Senators. Especially if they are on the Senate HELP committee:
Cassidy, Paul, Collins, Murkowski, Mullin, Marshall, Scott, Tuberville, Hawley, Banks, Husted, Moody, Sander, Murray, Baldwin, Murphy, Kaine, Hassan, Hickenlooper, Markey, Kim, Blunt Rochester, Alsobrooks

open.substack.com/pub/peoplesc

open.substack.comAction Item! Demand Senators Oppose David Weldon as Director of CDCUrgent! Oppose David Weldon as the Director of CDC at Upcoming US Senate HELP Committee Hearing on March 13, 2025
#cdc#flu#rfk
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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

We didn’t just learn how to beat the #flu annually, we eliminated one of the 2 major lineages of Influenza B. No one has seen a positive B/Yamagata test in 5 years.

It is comprehensible that we could wipe out human flu entirely if we had widespread masking and vaccination for long enough. Maybe 3 years. We'd likely also do quite a job on RSV and other airborne viruses. med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/11

Med-MastodonDr. Lucky Tran :verified: (@luckytran@med-mastodon.com)Attached: 1 image At the start of COVID, we all learned how to beat airborne viruses like the flu: by wearing masks and staying home when we are sick. It's a real shame we haven't translated those important lessons into long-term behavioral change.
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Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith

The CDC's RESP-NET showed me you can compare the impact of different viruses by calculating hospitalizations per lakh per day. It seems to have so far escaped the predations of Musk and Kennedy, so I've been reluctant to draw too much attention to it!

These screenshots show that 2024-25 has been almost as bad as the previous two years, but this year the #flu has caused most of the hospitalizations, more than twice as many as #COVID and #RSV combined!

cdc.gov/resp-net/dashboard/

Line graph from RESP-NET showing cumulative hospitalization rates for four flu seasons. 2018-19 peaked in early march at 6.2 people hospitalized per lakh population per day. 2022-23 peaked in mid-November at 22.3. 2023-24 peaked in mid-December at 21. 2024-25 has peaked twice, in early January at 18.3 and in early February at 19.4, and preliminary data shows it dropping after that.
CDC RESP-NET screenshot showing weekly hospitalization rates for 2024-25, broken down by virus. We see that COVID hospitalizations peaked the first week in January at 4.2 per lakh per day, and RSV hospitalizations peaked the same week at 3.8. Most of the hospitalizations in this season have been for flu, with a peak of 10.3 the first week in January and another peak of 13.6 the week ending February 1.
Screenshot of contagion.grieve-smith.com based on RESP-NET data: COVID, flu and RSV hospitalizations 7-day average per lakh in the US Feb 8: Influenza 13.4 2/8/2025 2/22/2025 Combined 18.9 9.6 COVID 2.7 1.5 Flu 13.4 6.3 RSV 2.8 1.8 Source United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (data)
#CovidIsNotOver
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Calishat

#covid #flu #influenza #vaccines #PublicHealth

'Cornell researchers have developed a new vaccine platform that could provide more robust, longer-lasting protection from both COVID-19 and influenza, and broader immunity to different flu strains.

In a study published Jan. 29 in Science Advances, researchers found no visible signs of illness in mouse models after vaccination with the new platform and no cellular damage to tissues.'

news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/

Cornell ChronicleCOVID-flu vaccine could provide broad, lasting protection | Cornell ChronicleThe new platform, which provided 100% protection from influenza and COVID-19 in mouse models, could vastly improve vaccine administration and the efficacy of the current flu vaccine.
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