How can this be happening? archive.cdc.gov#/details?url...

Definitely should not be minimized, but there was a time when TB was endemic in certain communities in the US. Worked in long term care in the 1970’s in suburban Chicago and most of our farming and German immigrant residents had latent TB infection. Why we need our public health experts

Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…

Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

Isn’t it a great show?!!

I agree- you are a breath of fresh air in a very trying time. Thank you

What a mess

Plateaus: The highest form of flattery.

I’m so glad you are here!!

And the airborne discussion can’t go anywhere when part of the discussion during the pandemic revolved around the dire lack of N95 or higher respirators, lack of proper fit test programs, and the potential public response when there were no N95s to be found

Florence was at least partially correct.

Yes!!

I am so sorry. Which division. I have so many friends I’m so worried about. Hang in there. This is not your fault.

@uuhystericalsoc.bsky.social Have to make sure I see your posts They make my day

Right there with you. As my Mother used say ( and is now evidence based) things will look better in the morning. Day at a time, there are a lot of us out here

US COVID update: Feb 3, 2025

🔸1 in 88 people currently infected
🔸542,000 new daily infections
🔸3,794,000 new weekly infections
🔸190,000 to 759,000 weekly Long COVID cases

"There is more transmission today than during 50.8% of the pandemic"

Source: pmc19.com/data/PMC_COV...

Hi SHEA!!!! Welcome!!

@weirdyankovic00.bsky.social You are just amazing, you know that?!!! Glad you are on Blue Sky

Hi!!!!!

Happy Birthday Millie and Happy Thanksgiving from Chase and Pixel

And here I am on BlueSky. Long term care Infection Preventionist, photographer, Grandma, PhD in Nursing from University of Iowa.