I've just started this but it's quite good so far.

#Osterholm #pandemic #books

@BruceMirken #CIDRAP is a great resource, though I mostly only listen to their every two week podcast with Dr. #osterholm

Dr. #Osterholm presents an intelligent & passionate defense of #WHO & #USAID, & explains the vital importance of the scientific missions of the #CDC, #NIH, #NSF, & other research centers. #PEPFAR (the global HIV mission) is in 55 countries and treats 20.6 million people who are infected with #HIV-#AIDS.

“The demise of the WHO is something I could not have imagined in my lifetime.”

“Somebody has got to stand up and say ‘This is wrong.’”

#publichealth

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/osterholm-update/id1504360345?i=1000689697323

Episode 176: Responding to Shock, Awe, and Censorship

Podcast Episode · Osterholm Update · 02/06/2025 · 1 sec

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We ‘have our head in the sand’: Health experts warn #US isn’t reacting fast enough to #threat of #birdflu, https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/27/health/cdc-bird-flu-virus-mutations-analysis/index.html

(...) That the #H5N1 virus has already spread so rapidly among #cattle, though, suggests “#USDA has basically dropped the ball, big-time,” said Dr. Michael #Osterholm, director of the #CIDRAP at the University of #Minnesota, in an interview with CNN Friday. “I think it was out of fear to protect industry. And they thought it was going to burn out, and it didn’t.”

We ‘have our head in the sand’: Health experts warn US isn’t reacting fast enough to threat of bird flu

The US hasn’t learned lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic that it could use to mitigate the threat of pathogens like H5N1 bird flu that keep showing signs of their own pandemic potential, health experts told CNN Friday.

CNN
Bloody hell.
The #CDC is going to tell people it's OK to go out in public when they're still contagious.
#Osterholm has completely sold out.
The article has misinformation about immunity and barely a passing reference to #LongCOVID.
I'm not sure I blame the Post much here; they're accurately reporting what the "experts" are saying. I wish they'd dig deeper, but it's hard when the truth is considered crazy and fringe.
Fuck.
#COVID
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3wosNqL
CDC plans to drop five-day covid isolation guidelines

People with covid will be able to return to school, work and society if they have been fever-free for 24 hours and their symptoms are mild and improving.

The Washington Post
2/ It was hard for me to believe, but after hearing @jzed74 mention it, I gave his #Osterholm Update podcast a listen and sure enough, he is blaming the pneumonia etc. in China on the fact that people were sheltered from viruses for so long. Not the same as in the U.S., he said, where we never had a real lockdown. It was kind of an “I told you so” statement, where he reference his letter from a year or so ago with Zeke Immanuel (sp?) about the need for China to quit trying to avoid #SARS2.

@Lorrrraaaaine 🤣 Good for him, he is not so much an expert to me. 🤣

#COVID19 #osterholm

Here’s a #covidHandout on #cilia
& the link to the #CovidReport study
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01505-7?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867422015057%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Again, #noScienceGirl but liberal arts aren’t no dummies whatsoever; we live to learn🌈

Last year myself was #hopium on nasal vaccines but heard #osterholm claim success not likely.. there’s some episode he explains why but still hoped..am still hopeful tbh

SARS-CoV-2 replication in airway epithelia requires motile cilia and microvillar reprogramming

Respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, bypass the defensive mucus/mucin layer of the airway by entering and exiting epithelial cells via their protruding, motile cilia and microvilli.

Cell

Also, if he thinks we are in a better place now in the #pandemic than we were before…

well then i have a bridge to sell you!

#acuteInfection isn’t the primary issue & also w/ prior #variants it took 10-15 minutes instead of.. 10-15 seconds #viralDose #inhalation

#reinfection is weakening #immuneSystem #tcells & destroying organs & #covid has mutated in 3 yrs MORE than #influenza in 15 years

I HAVE ZERO SCIENCE yet can fully understand this but #Osterholm is like “how did this happen to me?”🤦🏻‍♀️

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/osterholm-update-covid-19/id1504360345
what a ghoul #Osterholm is🙄
Just another #DavidLeonhardt in a different field #whataboutism

Frankly shocked it took him 3 yrs to catch #sarscov2 but according to him, WE SHOULD ALL ACCEPT GETTING #covid 2x annually

the fact he doesn’t understand that #virus can linger in the air for hours & he was🚫😷in elevator..AND can’t connect that it’s SO contagious now you can get it in 5-6 breaths..🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

blind leading the blind pretending to have #empathy

🤬🙄🤬🙄🤬🙄🤬🤬🤬
this podcast=🤢🤮

‎Osterholm update: COVID-19 on Apple Podcasts

‎Science · 2023

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