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So even taking that at face value, curious if any data re dismissals, or anecdotal?
That said... boggles my mind people think its reasonable to cause unavailability for all to a percieved disadvantage. Why not deal with "dismissals" instead of effectively causing unavailability to most if not all?

I am SHOCKED about meningococcal = Meningitis!!

Not recommended = due to how manufacfurers and payments work. won't be available even to those who want them in a short period of time

They are also wrong about recommendations ... unless they are cherrypicking

Medicare is @#$$: expensive if people can't/ don't sign up for gap coverage as well. 15k out of pocket last year. Now not as expensive as without it, but still ####" expensive.
And a lot of medications...even generic.. are not covered.

Medicaid os what is affordable.

Medicaid for all! IMHO.

Moderna withdraws application for COVID-flu combination vaccine Moderna said on Wednesday it has withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and COVID combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

This is absolutely terrible news.

With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately.

h/t @merz.bsky.social

Very interesting! What is proposed as to where the funding would come from?

Why would you estimate the CFR to be lower if it learns how to transmit between humans better? I personally suspect CFR would likely jump higher first long before that

What about those of us which are old and no lover have antibodies (know from past pregnancy). How do we get boosted or can we?

@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social so happy to learn your back informing the public!!

.... all I can say is.... natural selection.... :/

How do we know it hasn't helped if it hasn't been compared to data?

If I raised chickens, I sure wouldn't want my neighbors within 7 miles to not cull, since we know know it might be literally spreading thorough bird poop dust through the wind:/

Good for Canada

.... we are screwed. Can you share source please?

IMHO YES & no, ie yes as impact to livestock & other living beings... AABP minimized & called the clade B variant in 2024/Cows (& infected other animals & humans) BIAV; & there wasn't pressure to do the right thing. More recent terrifying to humans clade D1.1 likely from birds msss flying south.

In December my entire family got Covid, despite us being vaccinated in November... I suspect drift has happened a bit

And situations like this.."None of the three Northwestern states require testing of people exposed to animals with avian flu...."https://www.investigatewest.org/investigatewest-reports/bird-flu-is-racing-through-farms-but-northwest-states-are-rarely-testing-workers-17733478

US undercounts bird flu in cattle as farmers shun testing Farmers risk being restricted from selling their milk or cattle for weeks.

For example.. this...
Good old fashioned immediate self-interest above all else in humans
www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Not all cows were symptomatic, by far, and... if you look.. testing was not always required. Especially early. Due to industry in some states doubtful all exposed even if they knew... tested or sought testing.
No idea why.. my guess would be a combo of vets trying to keep animals alive & greed?

How American life carried on as normal during the lethal 1968 pandemic 400,000 people went to Woodstock during the deadly Hong Kong flu pandemic that killed 1 million people worldwide. President Johnson and the Apollo 8 crew were among many who were infected.

Before everything was "paused" down; CDC fata showed an estimated 52% of infections were due to H3N2, which has a reputation for being particularly nasty. (May 2020 UK article..)
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

On the one hand... I think everyone was lucky that clade / strain didn't have the traditionally high mortality rate to humans. On the other hand.. . On a personal note I am worried the industry will expect vlade strain D1.1 to be the same.... only that strain has high mortality in humans as well..

Highly pathogenic avian influenza detected in TX, KS dairy cattle Continuing their investigation into a disease event affecting primarily older dairy cows in Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico, today the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Drug Administration...

www.avma.org/news/press-r...

AABP Decides to Reference Cattle Disease as Bovine Influenza A Virus (BIAV) The American Association of Bovine Practitioners is making the name change, as it more accurately reflects the issue.

It hasn't been spreading undetected in cows, well not really. Last year AABP has decided to call it "BIAV" instead of H5N1 in cows... many dairy workers infected... makes sense vets did too. www.porkbusiness.com/news/industr...

Agreed, although ring vaccination wouldn't work for viruses that literally have wings across borders... it would only work short term at initial outbreaks to prevent spread.... biding time. Which yes we do need

IMHO vaccinating chickens makes sense. It is the food supply, and let's face it.. humans are fallable and might be afraid to act quickly when it affects their pocketbook or livelihood. IMHO any livestock in large numbers probably should. AND i agree it should not be ONLY chickens.

For example.. Wikipedia has a lot of source data listed at the bottom, the sources referenced speak for themselves. Multiple virus tracking forums have been discussing H5N1 (and other viruses) for decades, but if you'd like I'd start reading the material referenced here to start .

That is based on a single strain clade that has not adapted to humans well. The one that is newly introduced D1.1 is of high concern. Overall the mortality rate is still extremely high. It has been studied and reported on since at least the 1990s

... keep an eye out.. this Clade variant is of significant concern

You are right, e don't. Keep in mind those numbers are that high when it hasn't adopted to spread to humans that well :/

The problem is as of October 2024, the stockpile isn't enough for even 1% of the US population .. were those efforts halted along with CDC reporting?

IMHO... as long as Covid best case scenerio. US stockpile i 10/2024 reported to e 4.8 million doses (2.4 million people) less than 1% of the US population, &news was we were going to try to stockpile 10 million doses (5 million people) by spring. The US has over 334 million.