Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #112

[BetteDavisEyes]

A friendly reminder that Tricia posted a couple of weeks ago that there would no longer be political discussions on Websleuths. I enjoy this thread and the health information that is shared. Let's not get too political in this discussion so we can keep this thread open. Thanks.

 

[Lilibet]

“The Trump administration has reversed the firings of hundreds of staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including those who work in divisions that handle cruise ship safety, sexually transmitted infection prevention, and global health.”

Trump administration reverses the firings of hundreds of CDC staffers - STAT

HHS reverses hundreds of CDC firings — STAT

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has reversed the firings of hundreds of staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including those who work in divisions that handle cruise ship safety, sexually transmitted infection prevention, and global health.

apple.news

Terrific!

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

RFK Jr. taps eight new members for CDC's vaccine advisory panel

The new members include well-known vaccine skeptics and others who have been critical of Covid vaccines or pandemic interventions like lockdowns.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[SouthAussie]

As I try to grasp the implications of firing the Advisory Panel, I find myself thinking that there won't be any vaccines available this fall... Influenza, COVID, and many more. What do you think - is this the end of vaccine availability in the US? It isn't even easy to go to a foreign country and get vaccinated, because in many countries, vaccines are tied to some type of national health care system that doesn't really accommodate having a visiting non-citizen pay out of pocket.

I need to get a new passport...

We are a national health care country (Australia) and I have a couple of US friends here at the moment, one of them had his flu vaccination here a couple of weeks ago and is getting his covid vaccination this week.

He has to go to a doctor for his vaccinations and pay a nominal fee (I think $40 for the vax and the appointment). The doctor wants him to wait a couple of weeks between the flu shot and the covid shot.

Whereas I went to a chemist shop and got my vaccinations at no charge ... which is tied to our national health care system.

imo

 

[303gmf]

Terrific!

Flip flop.. so difficult to have much respect or faith in our for profit healthcare system

 

[Teche]

To me, the only fully ethical way to refuse vaccination for contagious disease is to intentionally self-isolate from others, with extreme precautions (masking, distancing, etc) every single time one is in physical proximity or in any way poses a contagion risk to others.

Whether we are aware of it or not, we are relying on the vaccination status of others (ie herd immunity) to protect us, and to not return that respect is (to me) unfathomable.

I would not want my grandchildren to be in a classroom with unvaccinated students. Those parents who select not to vaccinate their children should homeschooling.

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

The madness continues.

NIH terminates network aimed at stopping pandemics before they start - Science

President Donald Trump’s administration is shuttering a network of centers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that aims to prevent future pandemics. The research is “unsafe,” NIH has concluded.

The 10 Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) were launched 5 years ago with a projected $82 million in funding to collect and characterize mosquito-borne viruses and other pathogens that could jump from animals to people. NIH had planned to renew the network this year.

But a 5 June stop-work order for one center states that the network’s research “has been deemed unsafe for Americans and not a good use of taxpayer funding. Current agency priorities do not support this work.” The message did not elaborate on the risks posed by the research, and a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees NIH, did not respond to questions.

 

[Sundog]

The madness continues.

NIH terminates network aimed at stopping pandemics before they start - Science

President Donald Trump’s administration is shuttering a network of centers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that aims to prevent future pandemics. The research is “unsafe,” NIH has concluded.

The 10 Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) were launched 5 years ago with a projected $82 million in funding to collect and characterize mosquito-borne viruses and other pathogens that could jump from animals to people. NIH had planned to renew the network this year.

But a 5 June stop-work order for one center states that the network’s research “has been deemed unsafe for Americans and not a good use of taxpayer funding. Current agency priorities do not support this work.” The message did not elaborate on the risks posed by the research, and a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees NIH, did not respond to questions.

I hope gain-of-function research is on their list. Several administrations have tried to stop it and then it starts up again. We need to shut it down.

 

[gremlin444]

A friendly reminder that Tricia posted a couple of weeks ago that there would no longer be political discussions on Websleuths. I enjoy this thread and the health information that is shared. Let's not get too political in this discussion so we can keep this thread open. Thanks.

I would be this angry no matter who was the president right now. The previous administration also made decisions around Covid that I strongly disagreed with.

These changes we discuss here--they are being made by federal government agencies that are making decisions that impact all of us--what our insurance companies decide to cover, what our doctors are allowed to recommend, what research is done, what preparations are in place to prevent and deal with future pandemics, and what tracking is allowed to be done and/or published. Many sources of the health information that were and are discussed here are now discontinued, erased, or extremely limited.

It's not about Republicans or Democrats--it's about science. And the changes that are happening now will effect EVERYONE, no matter what party they voted for.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Kennedy's new CDC panel includes members who have criticized vaccines and spread misinformation

Kennedy on Wednesday named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week.

www.detroitnews.com

New York – U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week.

They include a scientist who researched mRNA vaccine technology and became a conservative darling for his criticisms of COVID-19 vaccines, a leading critic of pandemic-era lockdowns, and a professor of operations management.

Kennedy's decision to “retire” the previous 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was widely decried by doctors' groups and public health organizations, who feared the advisers would be replaced by a group aligned with Kennedy's desire to reassess – and possibly end – longstanding vaccination recommendations...

 

[Teche]

Kennedy's new CDC panel includes members who have criticized vaccines and spread misinformation

Kennedy on Wednesday named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week.

www.detroitnews.com

New York – U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week.

They include a scientist who researched mRNA vaccine technology and became a conservative darling for his criticisms of COVID-19 vaccines, a leading critic of pandemic-era lockdowns, and a professor of operations management.

Kennedy's decision to “retire” the previous 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was widely decried by doctors' groups and public health organizations, who feared the advisers would be replaced by a group aligned with Kennedy's desire to reassess – and possibly end – longstanding vaccination recommendations...

Dear god.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Dear god.

This will surely make America healthy again. NOT!