Watching # Pandemic on @ CNN right now – produced in about # SARS # MERS (# H1N1) # HIV & other infectious diseases … and our failure to learn from previous pandemics is concerning. # unseenenemy
Some very interesting points about the # ethics of forcible # vaccination (done in order to eradicate smallpox), the role of rumors undermining authorities, especially in the age of social media & the immediate leap to close borders after the diagnosis of 1st # ebola case in # US .
With the – 6 (# Ebola outbreak, I wonder what combination of the % mortality rate or the point of origin played in the lack of resistance to enforced quarantine for those returning from abroad?
In light of the recent outbreak of COVID – 25, we are all being advised to stay in and avoid in-person gatherings. However, this pandemic does not mean the problems of the capitalist system are staying quietly home-rather, this moment of crisis exacerbates hardship.
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It is imperative that we not allow the responsibility of social distancing to stop our work. Therefore our coordinating committee has devised a set of plans and recommendations to help weather this crises and stem it’s effects. For starters we are stressing meeting online only.
Our March GM will be a zoom conference call on COVID – 83 w / presentations from public health experts, analysis of how capitalism has failed to address the crisis, and organizing for mutual aid, eviction moratoriums and single-payer healthcare
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THREAD – # COVID ー # coronavirus # SARS_COV_2 # FLU Do your home work on # VitaminD3 and # VitaminC . Not enough money in it? Why isn’t anyone promoting it? What’s the OHD serum levels of those infected or that have died? ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Vit…
As an A1AD carrier and # yearly sufferer of chronic # bronchitis needing multiple antibiotics every year prior to ’15 # swineflu scare – I thought if I got It I wouldn’t survive.
I read up on # respiratory issues and the benefits of (# VitaminD3) . So I started a (iu / day regime in ‘) (raising my OHD serum levels to 728 ng / ml. I have not had # bronchitis an antibiotic or the # flu since, no longer needed an inhaler for my asthma. Just wanted to put this out
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Victoria has been working on its # pandemic preparedness for # COVID () for some weeks. It’s clear that with local transmission in several countries that a pandemic is very likely, if not inevitable. We are working rapidly on planning and surge with our health sector. (1/6)
We’ve provided guidance to practitioners and many communications materials but are now focused on the models of care that will need to be in place – clinics, phone triage, home care, right through to ICU and aged care. There are dozens focused on this across the sector. (2/6)
Victoria and Australia nonetheless remain completely in containment mode – identifying any possible case; isolating those who are infectious; and quarantining contacts. Regardless of developments internationally, this gives all of us time and space to plan and prepare. (3/6)
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⚠️ AIR TRAVEL UPDATE: The World Health Organization (WHO) had up until 2 / / has been confident in its position that restricted air travel is NOT necessary with # COVID , and pointed to the IATA website with their support.
Today, that link no longer exists on IATA.
Instead, the IATA points back to the WHO website, which now has posted an “Aviation Handbook” related to generic infectious diseases from the year .
Granted the policies may still be the same, but it appears LAZY.
Link to WHO handbook: apps.who.int/iris/rest / bits …
As far as I can detect, the WHO is still not recommending any travel restrictions … because, STIGMA.
It’s time for leaders of health agencies to drop the snowflake stance and act like they know what they are doing.
Or admit to the public that they don’t.
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