Do I Really Need an Air Purifier?

GIFT LINK: Good primer about portable air cleaners. We have two that we use for pollen, wildfire smoke, particles from cooking, viruses when someone is sick.

Clarification: Some, but not all, filters are made of the same material as masks (polypropylene).

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Establishing methods to monitor H5N1 influenza virus in dairy cattle milk Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza strain H5N1 has caused a multi-state outbreak among US dairy cattle, spreading across 15 states and infecting hundreds of herds since its onset. We rapidly developed ...

Excited to share our new preprint “Establishing methods to monitor H5N1 influenza virus in dairy cattle milk”. A HUGE collaborative effort between the Sabeti lab @broadinstitute.org and the Mass DPH and MDAR 🧵👇 (1/n)
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My lab has a position for a programmer--if you have programming skills and have recently left the NIH please contact me.

Join academic workers across the country in fighting restrictions on research - Feb. 19th Rally Why? For the last three weeks, we have seen unprecedented attacks on science that have severely impacted our day-to-day work as scientists, researchers, and clinicians - funding that sustains critical...

Copying from Public Health Awakened

Rally tomorrow in support of federal science and public health workersin front of the HHS building in WDC on February 19th 12 PM.

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An incredibly deep dive into pathogen and indicator concentrations in Southern Nevada wastewater is finally published! This work was the focus of my postdoc years and has tons of useful data for regulatory development and QMRAs! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...