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| Topic - H2H-H5N1 spread in US Posted: 25 Jul 2024 at 12:19am By Dutch Josh |
 < aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="menu" aria-label="More" role="" ="-175oi2r r-1777fci r-bt1l66 r-bztko3 r-lrvibr r-1loqt21 r-1ny4l3l" -testid="caret" ="" style="text-align: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; align-items: stretch; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: black; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; : relative; : 0; overflow: ; justify-: center; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; user-: none;"> HHS & the FDA are finally taking the bird flu crisis more seriously & are now in crisis mode. Unfortunately, they are also taking a huge step backwards in protecting workers from bird flu.
HHS just introduced an amendment that will roll back protections so that workers can be given expired products including N95s and be forced to reuse disposable masks instead of discard them after each use. That strategy cost 1000s of HCWs their lives and will harm farm workers just as bad.
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-16247.pdf
https://fda.gov/media/135763/download…
It’s great that experts like are able to promote pharmaceutical interventions for bird flu. If they really want workers to be effectively protected, they should also be speaking out about this amendment & the need to promote PPE like elastomeric respirators and PAPRs while there is still time to ramp up production.
If nothing is done & advanced levels of protection remain ignored, pharmaceutical interventions won’t be able to get us out of the bird flu crisis.
If bird flu gets even more out of control, it could have a big impact on the food supply chain, inflation and the economy plus cost democrats dearly in the election as they won’t be able to blame Trump for the country being left unprepared for another viral threat & not having the tools needed to protect the country.
With the push towards focusing once again only on pharmaceutical interventions & either discouraging mask use or encouraging the use of N95s in a way that fails to protect workers, it’s like the government is purposely allowing the bird flu crisis to just keep getting worse.
. DJ, Vaccines can/have to be part of a pandemic strategy ! Vaccines may be more of use fighting flu-types then fighting CoViD. But vaccines alone can NOT do the job !!! To get the maximum out of tax-payer money "big pharma" profits have to be limited by law...No room for "pandemic-profits". It would also be very welcome to see "politicians" being obligated where they get their money from...Who are the "political donors" not wasting any (created) crisis....  < aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="menu" aria-label="More" role="" ="-175oi2r r-1777fci r-bt1l66 r-bztko3 r-lrvibr r-1loqt21 r-1ny4l3l" -testid="caret" ="" style="text-align: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; align-items: stretch; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: black; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; : relative; : 0; overflow: ; justify-: center; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; user-: none;"> DJ, Well you do not need to be a scientist for that ! H5N1 did spread from (wild)birds into mammals on a global scale in the last two-three years...It is NOT just a US problem ! Worse...H5N1 might be going H2H already in some part(s) of the globe -without much symptoms or CoViD co-infection blamed for symptoms.... A first step has to be to get a better GLOBAL view of H5N1 spread in humans...A main reason why that is NOT done is that "politics" may NOT like the outcome....
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