#virus prevention

[amedcommunitypharmacy]

As the seasons change and colder temperatures set in, our focus on staying healthy becomes even more vital. One key measure that often takes center stage during this time is getting an annual flu shot. The importance of flu shots extends far beyond a routine health practice; it is a critical step towards safeguarding individual and community well-being.

#Healthier Future #Reducing Complications #Virus Prevention

[don-lichterman]

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#UVC Disinfection #Virus Prevention #Workplace Safety

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

fauci saying “vulnerable people will fall by the wayside” and that some will die but that’s ok because we’re not going to see the “tsunami of cases” we’ve seen before is so dehumanising. so babies with no immune system, elderly people, disabled people, and people without adequate access to healthcare can all die of covid. but it’s ok guys because actually they’re just falling to the wayside and everyone else will go back to normal and be fine (sarcasm).

my death or the deaths of my family or friends wouldn’t be us “falling by the wayside”, it would be us being failed by our government, healthcare systems, and communities who have refused to take coronavirus seriously despite mounting anecdotal and scientific evidence of the harm this virus does. fact that people can accept the deaths of vulnerable groups just because they want to eat in a restaurant or don’t want to wear a mask is horrifying

#yall can reblog this #for those of you touting community care or progressive values or allyship to marginalised communities #i better see y’all masking #it goes without saying that if you can’t mask then my saying mask up does not apply to you #but for the people who can mask please do so to protect yourself and others #masking up also protects people who aren’t able to mask #I’m just so tired of being told that death to a virus that is preventable via masking and air filtration and proper testing availability to #prevent spread by allowing people to stop their chain of transmission #is just. fine. like all these people will die and apparently that’s fine and actually a great thing #also. with one or two covid infections formerly healthy people enter vulnerable groups. because the studies coming out right now and #what we know about long term sars1 effects (because covid is not a cold or flu. it’s sars2. it’s severe accuse respiratory syndrome) #are showing that the long term effects on the bodies of people who have had covid will be disasterous #and if covid had been properly felt with then maybe only some people would be facing that reality. but the amount of people who have been #infected not just once but multiple times. with some people having close to double digit numbers of infections. means that the amount of #people looking at sars2 long term symptoms could be quite a large group #coronavirus #my post

[toshootforthestars]

From the report by Beth Mole, posted 29 Feb 2024:

In a lengthy background document, the agency laid out its rationale for consolidating COVID-19 guidance into general guidance for respiratory viruses—including influenza, RSV, adenoviruses, rhinoviruses, enteroviruses, and others, though specifically not measles. The agency also noted the guidance does not apply to health care settings and outbreak scenarios. "COVID-19 remains an important public health threat, but it is no longer the emergency that it once was, and its health impacts increasingly resemble those of other respiratory viral illnesses, including influenza and RSV," the agency wrote. The most notable change in the new guidance is the previously reported decision to no longer recommend a minimum five-day isolation period for those infected with the pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Instead, the new isolation guidance is based on symptoms, which matches long-standing isolation guidance for other respiratory viruses, including influenza. "The updated Respiratory Virus Guidance recommends people with respiratory virus symptoms that are not better explained by another cause stay home and away from others until at least 24 hours after both resolution of fever AND overall symptom are getting better," the document states. "This recommendation addresses the period of greatest infectiousness and highest viral load for most people, which is typically in the first few days of illness and when symptoms, including fever, are worst." The CDC acknowledged that the eased isolation guidance will create "residual risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission," and that most people are no longer infectious only after 8 to 10 days. As such, the agency urged people to follow additional interventions—including masking, testing, distancing, hygiene, and improving air quality—for five additional days after their isolation period. "Today’s announcement reflects the progress we have made in protecting against severe illness from COVID-19," CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen said in a statement. "However, we still must use the commonsense solutions we know work to protect ourselves and others from serious illness from respiratory viruses—this includes vaccination, treatment, and staying home when we get sick." Overall, the agency argued that a shorter isolation period would be inconsequential. Other countries and states that have similarly abandoned fixed isolation times did not see jumps in COVID-19 emergency department visits or hospitalizations, the CDC pointed out. And most people who have COVID-19 don't know they have it anyway, making COVID-19-specific guidance moot, the agency argued. In a recent CDC survey, less than half of people said they would test for SARS-CoV-2 if they had a cough or cold symptoms, and less than 10 percent said they would go to a pharmacy or health care provider to get tested. Meanwhile, "The overall sensitivity of COVID-19 antigen tests is relatively low and even lower in individuals with only mild symptoms," the agency said. The CDC also raised practical concerns for isolation, including a lack of paid sick leave for many, social isolation, and "societal costs." The points are likely to land poorly with critics. “The CDC is again prioritizing short-term business interests over our health by caving to employer pressure on COVID guidelines. This is a pattern we’ve seen throughout the pandemic,” Lara Jirmanus, Clinical Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, said in a press release last month after the news first broke of the CDC's planned isolation update. Jirmanus is a member of the People's CDC, a group that advocates for more aggressive COVID-19 policies, which put out the press release. Another member of the group, Sam Friedman, a professor of population health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, also blasted the CDC's stance last month. The guidance will "make workplaces and public spaces even more unsafe for everyone, particularly for people who are high-risk for COVID complications," he said.

But, the CDC argues that the threat of COVID-19 is fading. Hospitalizations, deaths, prevalence of long COVID, and COVID-19 complications in children (MIS-C) are all down. COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective at preventing severe disease, death, and to some extent, long COVID—we just need more people to get them. Over 95% of adults hospitalized with COVID-19 in the 2023–2024 respiratory season had no record of receiving the seasonal booster dose, the agency noted. Only 22% of adults got the latest shot, including only 42% of people ages 65 and older. In contrast, 48% of adults got the latest flu shot, including 73% of people ages 65 and older. But even with the crummy vaccination rates for COVID-19, a mix of past infection and shots have led to a substantial protection in the overall population. The CDC even went as far as arguing that COVID-19 deaths have fallen to a level that is similar to what's seen with flu. "Reported deaths involving COVID-19 are several-fold greater than those reported to involve influenza and RSV. However, influenza and likely RSV are often underreported as causes of death," the CDC said. In the 2022–2023 respiratory virus season, there were nearly 90,000 reported COVID-19 deaths. For flu, there were 9,559 reported deaths, but the CDC estimates the true number to be between 18,000 and 97,000. In the current season, there have been 32,949 reported COVID-19 deaths to date and 5,854 reported flu deaths, but the agency estimates the real flu deaths are between 17,000 and 50,000. "Total COVID-19 deaths, accounting for underreporting, are likely to be higher than, but of the same order of magnitude as, total influenza deaths," the agency concluded.

(say no to raw dough: CDC)

#please stay safe #the vaccines are safe #yes the covid shot is safe #covid is not a hoax #covid causes permanent long term damage to your body even if you're healthy #news #scicomm #science #ars technica #covid--19 #coronavirus #beth mole #pandemic #the cdc #centers for disease control #5 day covid isolation #yes you should stay home for at least 5 days if you test positive for covid #Open windows to ventilate indoor space with outdoor air to prevent virus transmission #Wear a mask that doesn't touch your lips #keep distance from others

[pillowprincessvarric]

Oh we are so not making it out of this alive comrades.

#*grips your shoulders* having a barrier between your nose and mouth and air that contains an airborne virus #Will prevent you from getting sick. that is not up for debate #it has Never been up for debate among anyone who isn't trying to sell you something #it is basic germ theory. shakes you. shakes you. shakes you. #the failure of institutions is not an excuse for You. personally. to turn your brain off.

[roakkaliha]

i love how ppl on this site will be like “oh you didnt publish my ask talking abt why x user is a shitty person? you must be intentionally silencing me”, as if ‘asks just straight up vanishing before reaching the person theyre being sent to’ isnt among the top 5 most well known n complained abt issues on here.

#.txt #n sometimes its not even a bug its an anti-spam feature that prevents anons from sending links #bc unknown links are generally a virus risk

[appalachianapologies]

Ok SO I've got some fishes I would like to share from the aquarium we went to a couple weeks ago. First here is my very very favorite fish. I have no idea what it was, but if I was naming it, it would be "patchwork quilt fish" because it looks like somebody just jammed 3 fish together. (Also here's a clownfish.)

And then there's THIS nightmare horror from the deep which apepared to have one red mouth and like 6 white eyes. I couldn't get a very good picture of this monster but trust me, it looks like it's about to start sucking out your blood while hypnotizing you with its 6 white eyes.

I have a request for a MacGyverism (maybe gone wrong? in a whumpy way? or maybe just a fact?) related to your chemistry homework. (Ok I literally have no idea what type of chemistry you're studying maybe this is impossilble in which case just.... whatever Mac thing strikes you.)

that fish just went thrifting and is showing off its outfit!! and ofc The Horrors™️

prompts

“Shit, shit-”

“Hoss-”

“Uh-” Mac shakes his head, having momentarily forgotten that he had his earpiece in. “How much time can you buy me?”

“I got three bullets and six assholes. Probably not as much as you need.”

“Can you at least keep them occupied?”

“I’ll do my best,” Jack mutters back. “What’s goin’ on?”

Mac swallows, glad that Jack can’t see what he’s seeing. “The casing is starting to erode.”

“What the hell does that mean?”

“It means that whatever container Moore was keeping the virus in, he chose the wrong one.”

“Can you fix it?”

“Temporarily, sure.”

“Good enough for me.”

Mac gives a nod to himself. He needs chemicals, and very specific ones. If the container starts leaking, which it inevitably will, he needs it to leak into an acid. The only problem is that he won’t be able to keep the solution acidic for long enough. At best, it’ll take a hazmat team hours to arrive. 

Mac exhales, eyes running up and down the shelves of cleaning supplies. Too many of them are bases, but finally, his eyes settle on the vinegar.

Unfortunately, that’s only half the battle. Before he can use it for any type of temporary containment, he needs to create its conjugate base to keep the solution at the same pH.

“Water,” Mac mumbles.

“What’s that?”

“New plan. Let the rest of the guards do whatever they want. I need you to find me some water bottles.” Mac looks back down at the canister, now blistering and looking more than ready to burst. “And Jack?”

“Yep?”

“Do it fast.”

#we're doing very boring things (sorry chemists) rn so this was more difficult than i expected haha #but the short story is that buffers are made and buffers are cool because they prevent solutions from easily changing pH #why would this help a virus in a leaking container? who fucking knows. not me that's for sure lmao #anyway the equation to find the ph of a buffer solution is: pH = pKa + log([A-]/[HA]). just yknow. if anyone needed it kjkfsdkjsfd #in which vi actually writes #asks #rosieblogstuff #we love rosieblogstuff #macgyver #macgyver 2016 #drabbles #prompts #technically buffers were from last unit's stuff (but we're still getting review questions from it) #right now we're doing things like finding the most acidic proton in a molecule and i just could not figure out why or how mac would manage #to do that in the field lol

[xviruserrorx]

Always fantastic starting off the new Year with my insurance changing on me even though I was still supposed to be on my old one, not to mention this new insurance is for maternal care and I as a disabled Asexual person laughed so loud because wow that's gotta be some irony... And It doesn't cover any of my doctors or my medications most of which are hormone medications because I don't have a functioning pituitary or hypothalamus gland and I kinda need those meds to y'know live so... New year is going swell 🫠

#virus rambling #i am so screwed #like royally screwed #i cant afford my meds i really can't especially hormone meds because for some reason hormone meds are fricken expensive #im freaking out and ive been on tumblr all day to keep my mind busy to prevent the impending doom feeling #because guess whose meds run out at the beginning of the month and i was gonna order them but now i cant... #and i completely forgot about my blood med too because i dont feel like choking on blood this month either #american healthcare everybody where you have to worry about suffering and then possibly dying because you cant afford meds 🙃 #im gonna wallow and vent in the some 900 posts i just saved to my drafts brb

[fergus-cousland]

not my throat feeling scratchy after my colleague was walking around coughing and sneezing and not sanitising his hands

#if i get sick because Some People haven't learnt anything about preventing virus transmission after the past three years...

[greenapplebling]

Everyone making posts about Joel being the bad guy, "Joel apologists", etc., like???

Babies, I thought we established years ago that THE VACCINE WOULDN'T HAVE WORKED ANYWAYS. It wasn't much of a moral dilemma, Joel did the right thing bc otherwise ELLIE WOULD'VE DIED FOR NOTHING.

#vaccines are for viruses #fungi isn't a virus #and even if it did work. vaccines are preventable not cure #so the infected people/clickers would still pretty much be a thing #and they still can kill you even if they can't infect you #AND the fireflies don't have the means to even mass product. so only a couple of people would gotten the vaccine #like LITERALLY the worst thing they could've done is kill Ellie just bc they were desperate #tlou spoilers #tlou hbo #hbo tlou #tlou #the last of us #tlou finale #joel and ellie #tlou joel #tlou ellie #the fireflies #vaccine #fungi #infection

[theculturedmarxist]

CDC Rigs Its Own Monkeypox Case Reports by Not Including Questions on Airborne Transmission

CDC Rigs Its Own Monkeypox Case Reports by Not Including Questions on Airborne Transmission

By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

This short and sweet post will have two parts. First, I will show that the CDC Monkeypox case report form omits amy questions about airborne transmission. Then I will show why that’s a bad idea, inexplicable given CDC’s previous documentation on this point.

Caveat: I am not saying that “Monkeypox is airborne.” To my knowledge, we don’t have epidemiological studies of the same quality we have with Covid; the kind with seat charts and diagrams of airflow (as in the famous Skagit Valley chorus study, but with many others); that is the kind of evidence I rate highest, most of all because such studies show me how to imagine the ground and what to do. However, we do have sufficient information not to rule out airborne transmission altogether, as I will show. That CDC does this a priori — and at the start of what we all hope is not the start of another global pandemic on the order of Covid — is mind-boggling, or would be mind-boggling if we had not, by this time, had plenty of experience with how “The Centers for Disease” operates. They have form. * * *

First, let’s look at the CDC case report, “OMB No. 0920-1011.” We have the “Short Form,” designed to be filled out by state or local health officials. We also have the “Data Dictionary Codebook” (same OMB number), which documents the database fields that will be populated by Short Form data entry. Both are embedded in the Appendix to this post. (The name “Short Form” suggests the existence of a “Long Form,” probably populating database fields unused by the Short Form, but if such a form exists, I haven’t seen it.

From transmission, the key section in the Short From is “History of Possible Exposures.” Here it is:

As you can see, the structured portion of the form (i.e. checkboxes and radio buttons) does not permit any representation of airborne transmission (certainly not a “fleeting contact” such as has occurred with Covid); airborne tranmission is ruled out a priori[1].

An interviewer desperate to somehow cram information about airborne transmission into the form could use the following text fields (“location of exposure,” “additional details”):

However, exactly because such data would be unstructured and unstandardized, it’s not likely to make it into any reports generated from the database.

We now turn to the Data Dictionary Codebook. As you can see, fields on the Short Form are mapped to fields in a database. Here is an example of how the documentation is structured:

As you can see, the basic structure is a series of field/value pairs, mutually exclusive (ORed radio buttons) or not (ANDed checkboxes). Hilariously, I found this field while searching for “air” (“prairie”); no such luck. “Prairie Dog” strongly suggests that the Data Dictionary dates from no later than 2003, when “All people infected with monkeypox in this outbreak became ill after having contact with pet prairie dogs. The pets were infected after being housed near imported small mammals from Ghana. This was the first time that human monkeypox was reported outside of Africa.” But no doubt our thinking, and our fields, have been updated since that time.

We can also see from this example that the CodeBook contains many fields that are not used in the Short Form. Here is another example:

The word “mask” does not appear in the Short Form.

I scanned the entire codebook, and I can’t find any fields that would store data relevant to airborne transmission in the general case. (You can check my work in the Appendix.) For example, the famous Japanese 3Cs — closed spaces (with poor ventilation), crowded places (with many people nearby), and close-contact settings (such as close-range conversations), are highly structured and would lend themselves well to representation in a database. Here are more suggestions:

We can conclude, then, that CDC simply is not enquiring into airborne transmission of Monkeypox. They have ruled it out, a priori. However, if you go by existing literature — including from the CDC itself — there’s plenty of reason consider it a real possibllity. To that literature we now turn. * * *

First, from KHN, “CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Guidance On Airborne Risks Of Monkeypox“:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it removed the recommendation that travelers worried about monkeypox should wear a mask because it was causing confusion. Although public health officials have been linking many of the cases in this outbreak to close sexual contacts, monkeypox can also be spread through the air for short distances.

This is one of KHN’s handy wrap-ups. From the New York Times, “Monkeypox Can Be Airborne, Too.” So why not collect data on airborne transmision of monkeypox, if only to rule it out?

Then there’s Nature, “How does monkeypox spread? What scientists know.” What we “know” seems solid:

Several studies… show that few people contract the disease from an infected household member with whom they didn’t have sexual contact. This finding, paired with the data about viral load, suggests that respiratory droplets and airborne particles probably aren’t the primary transmission route… If corroborated by further research [which CDC has decided not to do, because reasons], it could call into question whether people should isolate for the entire duration of infection, which might be difficult because the illness seems to take up to a month to resolve, she adds.

But what we “know” melts into air:

Even if the virus can be sexually transmitted, it’s unclear how large of a role this mode of transmission has, compared with simply being in close, skin-to-skin contact with a person or inhaling their respiratory particles [gawd, they can never say “aerosols”] — which also occur during sex.

Put more pointedly, during sex — hear me out — people share air, so any theory of skin-to-skin contact has an enormous confounding factor. So why not collect data on airborne transmision of monkeypox, if only to rule it out?

Now let’s do a (frankly cursory) review of the literature on airborne transmission of monkeypox.

CDC, “Smallpox & Other Orthopoxvirus-Associated Infections.” Here is CDC scrubbing it:

CDC, “Hospital Respiratory Protection Program Toolkit“:

CDC, “Potential Exposure to Person with Confirmed Human Monkeypox Infection” (via):

CDC, “Monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo“:

Coughing and sneezing is possibly droplets (loogies, ballistic). Talking (like singing) certainly includes aerosols, i.e. transmission is airborne.

But wait, there’s more from the CDC:

GOV.UK, “High consequence infectious diseases (HCID)“:

And finally, Clinical Infectious Diseases, “The Clinical Characteristics of Human Monkeypox, and Risk Factors for Severe Disease.” Figure 1 lists the upper and lower respiratory tract symptoms — arguably related to breathing, not touch — the researchers studied.:

Oddly, the CDC’s “Short Form” has eliminated all these symptoms, even coughing:

Again, why not collect data on airborne transmision of monkeypox, if only to rule it out?

* * *

In list form:

1) Why won’t CDC collect data on airborne transmission of monkeypox, if only to rule it out?

2) Why won’t CDC collect data on airborne transmission of monkeypox, if only to rule it out?

3) Why won’t CDC collect data on airborne transmission of monkeypox, if only to rule it out?

4) Why won’t CDC collect data on airborne transmission of monkeypox, if only to rule it out?

5) Why won’t CDC collect data on airborne transmission of monkeypox, if only to rule it out?

6) Why won’t CDC collect data on airborne transmission of monkeypox, if only to rule it out?

7) Why won’t CDC collect data on airborne transmission of monkeypox, if only to rule it out?

8) Why won’t CDC collect data on airborne transmission of monkeypox, if only to rule it out?

9) Why won’t CDC collect data on airborne transmission of monkeypox, if only to rule it out?

10) Why won’t CDC collect data on airborne transmission of monkeypox, if only to rule it out?

And so forth. One hesitates to use the word “farce” for CDC”s “science” here, if only because stronger words come to mind.

NOTES

[1] CDC might not be so strong on transmission, but hoo boy! Did they lavish attention on data structures for gender and race (although not, naturally, proxies for class like income or education level).

#center for disease control and prevention #cdc #monkeypox #mkpx virus #pandemic #monkeypox pandemic #public health #late stage capitalism #social murder #class warfare

[iheartvmt]

Standing surgery to remove an ulcerated wart from a show heifer.

To do the surgery, we restrained her in a headgate with the farmer holding her head as still as possible with the nose tongs, and I did a local block with lidocaine and gave her a shot of banamine for pain/inflammation. I also covered her eye on the surgery side and pet her to help keep her calm (she was used to being handled and enjoyed petting; for some cattle that would make them even more scared). Then Doc prepped the area as best one can in the field and used an elliptical incision to remove the small mass. She closed with PDS, an absorbable suture, so they won't have to be removed later. She did great!

Cattle warts are a common, usually benign problem that is self-limiting, though recovery can take up to a year. They are caused by several bovine papilloma viruses, which are not transmissible to other species. Surgery is usually reserved for ulcerated warts, as in our girl here, or large warts in unfortunate areas, such as the genitals or udder, that prevent movement or breeding. There is a vaccine available, but it has to be given young, before exposure to infected animals or equipment has occured.

#cattle warts #bovine papilloma virus #cattle #large animal #surgery #field surgery #beef cattle #pain management #local anesthesia #animal handling #animal restraint #livestock #livestock diseases #preventative medicine #vaccines #vaccination

[thehealthofficers]

A new study directed by the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) has distinguished concentrated groups of the tick-borne Powassan virus all through New England.

#eer ticks #encephalitis #epidemiology #genetic analysis #infectious diseases #medical research #New England #Powassan virus #prevention #public health #tick hotspots #tick-borne illnesses #viral ecology #viral infections. #virus evolution #virus transmission

[spiralingtrap]

i wanted to make a duel monsters deck for togami in nightmare troubadour for fun and accidentally ran into a mandatory kaiba duel for obelisk the tormentor while testing it and. hi. what the fuck

#spierce testimonies #ygo #HE USED SNATCH STEAL ON MY GEMINI ELF BUT #I HAD LABYRINTH WALL UP #SO HE JUST COULDN'T DO ANYTHING UNTIL HE TRIBUTED IT #AND HE SENT MY MARIA THE FALLEN ONE TO THE GRAVEYARD WITH DARK DESTRUCTION VIRUS #HI. WHAT THE HELL #he also tributed blue eyes to summon. another blue eyes. since i had an equip card on the first one that prevented it from attacking #incredibly kaiba move

[8thavenueserenade]

nothing sucks more in the world than saying to someone “i love you and care about you and want you to be safe” and they essentially tell you to fuck off

#every single person i try to talk to about covid #EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. #has either literally cursed at me for trying to talk about it or walked away or said they just didn’t wanna hear it #like sorry for trying to give you info that will literally save your life i guess #and make society liveable for people like me #not masking is murder #not masking is selfish #if you don’t care about public health you’re just not a good person #how can you watch people dying and getting disabled at every turn by covid and think oh well i just don’t care about that #it’s just like i don’t understand that mindset #especially if you have kids #your kids don’t understand the risks enough to make that choice for themselves #when you don’t mask or have your kids mask you are not giving them the choice of whether or not they allow a virus to enter their body #and potentially disable or kill them #they are only as safe as the parents allow them to be and if you aren’t protecting them then you have to accept the risk that they will #become disabled or die as a result #and if someone tells you hey there’s easy things you can do to prevent that #and you say i don’t care or i didn’t ask go away #then like what the fuck #kirby.txt #don’t reblog

[corvidaedream]

someone isn't having a very good international women's day

#messages from the ouija board #she has conjunctivitis from feline herpes virus apparently #the cone is keeping her from trying to itch her face/overgrooming and also to keep her from immediately wiping topical meds out of her eyes #she doesnt like the cone or the fact that every 8 hours i am putting a little bit of goop in her eyes #she keeps trying to go into her various hiding spots under furniture and being prevented by The Cone