@tirolianalps.bsky.social
Interested in news/existential events shaping our collective future: The 2nd disastrous Trump Admin, Climate, US & Global politics, potential pandemics amid mass $ & personnel cuts while still researching/fighting Long Covid since May 2022.
US Weekly COVID update: May 5, 2025
🔸1 in 170 People Currently Infected
🔸281,000 New Daily Infections
🔸1,967,000 New Weekly Infections
🔸98,000 to 393,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸700 to 1,200 Weekly Excess Deaths
Source: pmc19.com/data/PMC_COV...
Don't make us summon the demon. 😈
Our democratic allies are immediately registering their intense disapproval of Trump's mistreatment of Zelensky in the Oval Office, and they are expressing that disapproval in ways that are unmistakable in their directness, will be viscerally felt, and are strategically important.
America - going from bad to the depths of the abyss moment by moment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Classic Daily Mail disinformation
Pt 1: Non sequitur. DSTL studies Novichok so they must have poisoned the Skripals.
Pt2: wrong, there is plenty
Pt3: misleading.
Pt4: both wrong and misleading
Pt5 and table: wrong and/or misleading on all counts
March issue of The Lancet Microbe will be online next week, but you can read our editorial already.
A 🧵 on how Medicaid keeps everyone safe from infectious diseases ⬇️
Can Trump actually change federal funding rules through executive orders? - KQED
FDA bans Red No. 3, artificial coloring used in beverages, candy and other foods
The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it’s banning the use of Red No. 3, a synthetic dye that gives food and drinks their bright red cherry color but has been linked to cancer in animals.
Cuteness overload. Put your sound on. Douglas is a northern saw-whet owl and we LOVE when he vocalizes!
📸 christinescritters
#Owl #sound #Wild
Wow, big surprise. It turns out that getting sick more often does *not* make you stronger, but actually weakens you and makes you more prone to illness. The idea that 'kids just need to be exposed to bugs' needs to die. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl
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The Guardian had a story on them published on Sunday Pretty prescient! They got started up here in Sonoma county covering just a few counties. Now it’s 22 states!
This will get a bit lost in the shuffle of everything, but glaciologists in Antarctica have finally drilled a continuous ice core stretching past 1 million years. Congrats to the Beyond EPICA team! Can't wait to see the results.
We’ve been watching the Watch Duty team do absolutely *unbelievable* technical work all week (they’re members of our Fast Forward open source program), handling a surge of millions of people trying to see where the fires are in real time. There are still people who do such good on the internet.
⚠️ BREAKING:
California detects a new human case of H5N1 bird flu.
COVID-19 turns five today. It brought us to our knees, but H5N1 could knock us flat. 🦠 Crawford Kilian writes.
I had a nice, if foreboding, sense-of-impending doom-filled chat with Matt Stieb @nymag.com about my concerns with the current H5N1 situation.
Human H5N1 cases on the rise, infected cows and birds everywhere, while seasonal flu is surging—really not loving how it's going
nymag.com/intelligence...
ELIMINATED—$190 million for pediatric cancer research (over 8 years) has now been cut by de facto President Elon Musk.
Great catch by @susrust.bsky.social of an announcement by Marin County, CA of another #H5N1 #birdflu case in a child for whom the route of exposure isn't known.
Statement says nothing about how sick/not sick the child is.
ICC issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohamed Deif – Middle East live
Helen, is there concrete evidence re: would someone acquire #birdflu by touching a deceased animal or merely by being near an infected one?
#USDA confirms another dairy herd in California is infected with #H5N1 #birdflu. This brings the state's total to 336 infected herds, and the cumulative national total to 550 herds in 15 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
Interesting factoid about California's #H5N1 #birdflu in cows problem: the CA Dept of Food and Agriculture says that to date 9 previously infected herds have cleared quarantine.
Only 9.
That means 327 dairy herds in the state remain in quarantine.
The Hellenic Ornithological Society announced the extinction of the slender-billed curlew, last seen in Greece in 1999. It is the first recorded bird extinction in mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia, per BirdLife International.
www.ekathimerini.com/news/environ...
