As new Covid variant lurks, the pandemic dossier India must dust up As SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, continues to circulate, even if no longer dominating headlines, it is important to pause and reflect on what the pandemic taught us. These lessons are not merely retrospective—they remain vital for shaping how we respond to future public-health threats. The Covid pandemic offered us many lessons. The virus spread not just through droplets but mostly by aerosols; yet the use of face masks should have been advised early. Superspreader events should have been avoided. The second wave was devastating because the Delta variant of the virus travelled with people. Predictions based on linear models proved inaccurate as they did not anticipate the complexity of virus evolution, the uneven state of health-system responses across India and the variability in people’s willingness to accept public-health advisories. This gap between modelling and lived reality weakened preparedness. Vaccines, though highly effective in reducing the severity of illness, did not entirely prevent infection. The respiratory tract lacked mucosal immunity, allowing the virus to infect even vaccinated individuals—something that was not clearly communicated to the public. Similarly, the idea of ‘herd immunity’ was often misunderstood. What exists is better described as ‘herd protection’, wherein groups with high levels of...

As new Covid variant lurks, the pandemic dossier India must dust up
->India Today | More on "Covid pandemic lessons India health" at BigEarthData.ai | #Covid #Pandemic

Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 9: a book about sound or listening

#readirishwomenchallenge #irishwriter #irishwomenwriters #brexit #pandemic #northernireland #protestant @bookaneer808.bsky.social

Urge Washington Officials to End Blind Spot on Contagious Diseases in Primate Labs.
Please sign/share, the next #Pandemic is just around the corner, knocking at the door yet.
If not for the animals then sign for your own health...
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It’s important that we show President Trump and the Republicans the same respect and cooperation that they showed President Obama.

It occurred to me last night that EVERY T**** DISASTER can be traced back to his all-consuming #racist hatred of #Obama:

o Dissolved his #Pandemic Response Team.

o Ripped up his #Iran nuke deal.

o Jealous of his #NobelPeacePrize (resulting in a bombing […]

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US CDC Delays Publishing Report Showing COVID Vaccine Benefits, WaPo Reports
#Infections #Britain #CDC #WHO #RFKjr #COVID19 #VirusCrisis #USA #EU #Asia #Africa #Pandemic #DrAnthonyFauci #Testing #Mandates #Masks #Deaths #Vaccine #Variants #Measles
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@hartmannreport.com EVERY T**** DISASTER can be traced to his all-consuming #racist hatred of #Obama:

Dissolved his #Pandemic Response Team.
Ripped up his #Iran nuke deal.
Jealous of his #NobelPeacePrize (resulting in bombing spree.)
Furious DACA is shielding "illegals" (ergo: Mass Deportations.)

Easily Scalable, Rapidly Deployable Mechanical Ventilator for Pandemic Health Crises in Resource-Limited Areas Media Monitoring for Signals about Emerging Threats

Easily Scalable, Rapidly Deployable Mechanical #Ventilator for #Pandemic Health #Crises in Resource-Limited Areas, etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/04/easi...

I think you're right. Last happy #Xmas was just before the #pandemic hit. Mike was still alive, & Hannah had just been born. I was still on speaking terms with my younger brother & my SIL. That was 6 years ago.🙄

Why Preventing the Next Pandemic Involves Humanizing Public Health | Newswise Perry N. Halkitis, dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health, Halkitis says the greatest drivers of pandemics are often human: our emotions, beliefs, political systems and social conditions. Halkitis, author of the forthcoming book Humanizing Public Health: How Disease-Centered Approaches Have Failed Us, discusses why this shift is needed as the world prepares for future health crises.

I have often referred to this putting the public back in public health, but humanizing public health is another great term for it. And it is necessary. #pandemic #publichealth www.newswise.com/articles/why...

New Report Shows Long Covid Is Costing Billions of Dollars Every Year!

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #H5N1 #Measles #WhoopingCough #RSV #Norovirus #Tuberculosis #Polio #Mpox #MaskUp #N95 #KeepMasksInHealthcare

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The Black Death by Thomas Asbridge review – a medieval horror story A magisterial history of one of the worst ever pandemics focuses on the individuals caught up in the chaos

#Disease #Plague #BlackDeath #Pandemic
The Black Death by Thomas Asbridge review – a medieval horror story
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And the plague itself, Asbridge argues, was more global than has usually been thought: it was “not solely, or even primarily, a European ...

Why Preventing the Next Pandemic Involves Humanizing Public Health For decades, public health responses to infectious diseases have focused primarily on the biology of pathogens: how viruses spread, how vaccines work and how treatments can stop disease. But Perry N. Halkitis, dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health, said that approach alone cannot explain why pandemics continue to devastate people and populations around the world despite our powerful biomedical advances. From HIV and AIDS to COVID-19, Halkitis said the greatest drivers of pandemics are often human: our emotions, beliefs, political systems and social conditions. Halkitis, author of the forthcoming book Humanizing Public Health: How Disease-Centered Approaches Have Failed Us, discusses why this shift is needed as the world prepares for future health crises. You often talk about the need to “humanize public health.” What does that mean? It means recognizing that health crises are not driven only by viruses or bacteria. They are also driven by people. Public health has historically approached pandemics through a biomedical lens. We focus on the pathogen: how it spreads, how it mutates and how we can develop vaccines or treatments to control it. That science is essential. But pandemics unfold within populations and the communities that constitute them. They are shaped by...

Why Preventing the Next Pandemic Involves Humanizing Public Health
->Newswise | More on "Humanizing pandemic public health approaches" at BigEarthData.ai | #Pandemic #PublicHealth

Liberia: Former NPHIL Director Dr. Tolbert Nyenswah Takes Key Role at Africa CDC to Lead Pandemic Preparedness - FrontPageAfrica Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Dr. Tolbert Nyenswah, Liberia’s former Director General of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL), has been appointed Director of Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response (PPPR) at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), reinforcing the continental body’s efforts to strengthen health security across Africa. By Gerald C. Koinyeneh Dr. Nyenswah brings over 20 years of experience in epidemic control, health system strengthening, and emergency response management. He is widely recognized for his leadership during Liberia’s 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak and for serving as the founding Director General of NPHIL, where he established Liberia’s first public health institute and built critical surveillance and outbreak response systems. In his new role at Africa CDC, Nyenswah will lead initiatives aimed at accelerating the implementation of the Africa Health Security and Sovereignty Agenda, including pandemic preparedness strategies, rapid response mechanisms, and coordination with member states to strengthen continent-wide resilience against infectious diseases. A Globally Respected Public Health Expert Dr. Nyenswah’s expertise extends beyond Liberia. He is a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a researcher at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and has served as a senior consultant for...

Liberia: Former NPHIL Director Dr. Tolbert Nyenswah Takes Key Role at Africa CDC to Lead Pandemic Preparedness - FrontPageAfrica
->Front Page Africa | More on "Nyenswah leads Africa CDC preparedness" at BigEarthData.ai | #CDC #Pandemic

Indiana tracks more bird flu in hard-hit counties Burials at New York City’s Hart Island potter’s field began outnumbering expected deaths in early March 2020, coinciding with COVID-19 pandemic onset, peaking five weeks later with 22 deaths for each death during the same week in 2019, investigators from the City University of New York Institute for Demographic Research report. The study, published yesterday in Scientific Reports, suggests that the pandemic greatly magnified inequalities and highlights the particularly devastating effects of COVID-19 on economically and socially vulnerable groups, the authors said. The team searched adult burial records from Hart Island and daily death data from the city’s health statistics bureau to estimate unclaimed deaths over time and by borough from March to August 2020 relative to pre-pandemic levels. More than 1 million people are buried at the Hart Island potter’s field, a public cemetery for deceased indigent, unknown, or unclaimed people. “Communities of color and the poor were disproportionately impacted through disrupted social networks—another consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic and a marker of poor health and premature death—and this may have further compounded who got sick and received treatment or care,” the authors wrote. Poorest borough had nearly a third of deaths From 2015 to 2020, 6,683 people were...

Indiana tracks more bird flu in hard-hit counties
->CIDRAP | More on "COVID-19 inequality deaths New York" at BigEarthData.ai | #BirdFlu #Pandemic

RFK Jr’s CDC delays report showing benefits from Covid vaccine, insiders say Stalled publication sparked concerns that information conflicting with Kennedy’s views may be sidelined

RFK Jr is an absolute chucklefuck.

#CDC #COVID #COVID-19 #RFKJr #News #Pandemic #Vaccines #Science #Medicine

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Food waste began to decline 4 years after the pandemic, Refed finds An analysis of surplus food generated in 2024 looked across the supply chain, from production to consumers. The residential sector made the most headway in reducing waste, and investment has increased.

Food #waste began to decline 4 years after the #pandemic, Refed finds

USS Leviathan Steaming out of New York Harbor, circa the mid-1920s. This photo is in the public domain via Wikicommons.

Today In #LaborHistory 4/9/1930: #IWW organized 1700 crewmembers of Leviathan, world’s largest ship. US seized the ship from #Germany, 1917, & used it to transport troops to Europe. In 1918, it left the US, filled with men dying from #Influenza. #workingclass #pandemic #flu #union #mutiny #strike

Forgotten Graves: A New Lens on Colonial Slavery In the heart of Cambridge, Jason Ur, Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology and IQSS affiliate, is unearthing histories long obscured.

When the #pandemic kept him from continuing his research abroad, IQSS affiliate Jason Ur shifted his work to uncover something long-hidden in Harvard's own backyard.

#Archaeology #BlackHistory #Research #RemoteSensing #GIS #Harvard #History #ColonialHistory
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Immune Amnesia: How Measles Weaken Your Immune System Measles can induce immune amnesia, a phenomenon that eliminates acquired immunity to other infectious diseases.

Immune Amnesia: How Measles Weaken Your Immune System
#Infections #Britain #CDC #WHO #RFKjr #COVID19 #VirusCrisis #USA #EU #Asia #Africa #Pandemic #DrAnthonyFauci #Testing #Mandates #Masks #Deaths #Vaccine #Variants #Measles
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Film 2406 - Eddington Intro : This was my last film at the movies before going on holiday to Corfu, Greece for two weeks. I wasn't necessarily thrilled to watch ...

#HollywoodCiak 2406 #Eddington #AriAster #JoaquinPhoenix #PedroPascal #LukeGrimes #DeirdreOConnell #MichealWard #CliftonCollinsJr #AustinButler #EmmaStone #western #COVIDー19 #politics #mayor #sheriff #NewMexico #violence #pandemic #politician #influencer
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We also played #Pandemic and SAVED THE WORLD

R&D roadmaps for pathogen families to reduce uncertainty about the next pandemic and ... In support of efforts to have safe and effective diagnostics, treatments and vaccines ready for distribution before the next pandemic strikes, WHO launched today, together with partners, research and development roadmaps for 10 groups or viruses and bacteria. The roadmaps were launched at an event, co-hosted by ANRS Emerging Infectious Diseases, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the World Health Organization (WHO), and partners held during the One Health Summit in Lyon, France. The event highlighted how a One Health and Pathogen Family-based approach can strengthen epidemic and pandemic preparedness, including through WHO’s Collaborative Open Research Consortia (CORCs), which bring together global research communities around priority viral families and core bacterial threats. “CORCs are turning global scientific collaboration for pandemics into a more durable decentralized and inclusive R&D preparedness architecture,” said Dr Sylvie Briand, Chief Scientist of WHO. ”By organizing efforts around pathogen families and embedding One Health, we can better anticipate risks and accelerate the R&D of countermeasures before the next crisis. “WHO thanks the CORC leads for their invaluable scientific leadership and for coordinating the development of the Family R&D Roadmaps that we are launching today.” Partners emphasized the importance of translating the Family R&D research roadmaps...

R&D roadmaps for pathogen families to reduce uncertainty about the next pandemic and ...
->World Health Organization | More on "WHO pandemic pathogen research roadmaps" at BigEarthData.ai | #Pandemic

The Truth Is Everything Is Not Fine And Ok, You Need To Be Informed!!

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #H5N1 #Measles #WhoopingCough #RSV #Norovirus #Tuberculosis #Polio #Mpox #MaskUp #N95 #KeepMasksInHealthcare

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What the rise in bird flu cases means for South Africa and beyond Avian flu has evolved from a farmer's concern to a significant public health threat, with its rapid spread across the US and Europe prompting urgent discussions in South Africa. Concern mounts as the rapid spread of avian influenza across the United States and Europe has intensified calls for widespread poultry vaccination in South Africa. Once largely confined to wild birds, the virus has increasingly drawn global attention for its ability to devastate poultry industries and, in rare cases, infect humans. Here’s what you need to know. What is bird flu? Bird flu is a highly contagious viral disease that occurs naturally in wild aquatic birds such as ducks and geese. While these birds often carry the virus without showing symptoms, it can spread rapidly when it reaches domestic poultry like chickens and turkeys, often with deadly consequences. How does it spread? The virus spreads when infected birds shed it through their saliva, mucus and faeces. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), humans are rarely infected, but when they are, it is usually after close, unprotected contact with infected animals or contaminated environments. This can happen by breathing in airborne droplets or dust containing the virus, touching...

What the rise in bird flu cases means for South Africa and beyond
->IOL | More on "Bird flu global public health" at BigEarthData.ai | #BirdFlu #Pandemic

Bird flu spread may depend on how far wild birds travel Birds travel far during migration, but what happens in their daily life matters just as much. A new study shows that small, everyday movements of ducks, swans, and geese can shape how bird flu spreads across the world. Scientists from the University of Georgia and other global research groups studied thousands of birds to understand this link. Their findings help explain how the environment, human activity, and bird behavior all connect. Bird movement spreads flu Waterfowl are natural carriers of avian influenza, also known as H5N1. This virus spreads when infected birds move from one place to another. While long migrations are important, this study focused on shorter movements during breeding and winter seasons. The research explains that animal movement plays a key role in how diseases spread in space. At the same time, movement can also reduce infection if birds leave contaminated areas. This balance makes it important to understand when and why birds move. “Birds are like us. They’re always responding to what’s around them, whether that’s food availability or disturbance from people or other animals,” said Claire Teitelbaum, lead author of the study. Environment controls movement Birds do not move randomly. Their surroundings guide their behavior. The...

Bird flu spread may depend on how far wild birds travel
->Earth.com | More on "Bird flu wild migration spread" at BigEarthData.ai | #BirdFlu #Pandemic

'Great news and welcome relief': Shropshire welcomes lifting of bird flu restrictions The news comes after months of restrictions. Sign Up and be kept in the loop each and every day with our free Daily newsletter. Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Plus subscription to Shropshire Star you get full access to our award winning journalism for the news that matters to you and more. Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... News that bird flu restrictions are being lifted has been welcomed in Shropshire. Mandatory housing measures for poultry and other captive birds will be lifted in England and Wales from tomorrow - Thursday, April 9. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad As birds may have been housed for several months, there is a seven day notice period to give keepers time to prepare. Keepers are being asked to follow the guidance on preparing to let birds outside again, including cleansing and disinfecting hard surfaces, fencing off ponds or standing water and reintroducing wild bird deterrents. Birds must still be housed if people are in a protection zone or captive bird (monitoring) controlled zone. All keepers must also continue to follow strict biosecurity measures to prevent bird flu and stop...

'Great news and welcome relief': Shropshire welcomes lifting of bird flu restrictions
->Shropshire Star | More on "Bird flu restrictions lifted England" at BigEarthData.ai | #BirdFlu #Pandemic

Why health influencers are actually making us more ill than we were before We’ve never had more health information at our finger tips. But AI models and online wellness gurus could be damaging our collective wellbeing – and making doctors’ jobs harder, Lydia Spencer-Elliott...

Why health influencers could be making us more ill than we were before
#Infections #Britain #CDC #WHO #RFKjr #COVID19 #VirusCrisis #USA #EU #Asia #Africa #Pandemic #DrAnthonyFauci #Testing #Mandates #Masks #Deaths #Vaccine #Variants #Measles
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Film 2406 - Eddington Intro : This was my last film at the movies before going on holiday to Corfu, Greece for two weeks. I wasn't necessarily thrilled to watch ...

#HollywoodCiak 2406 #Eddington #AriAster #JoaquinPhoenix #PedroPascal #LukeGrimes #DeirdreOConnell #MichealWard #CliftonCollinsJr #AustinButler #EmmaStone #western #COVIDー19 #politics #mayor #sheriff #NewMexico #violence #pandemic #politician #influencer
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Five of 11 ‘open risks’ on HSE risk register rated ‘high’

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@HSELive @roinnslainte @Slaintecare #hse #slaintecare #pandemic #covid19

Deep #disadvantage in #mortality on the frontlines of the #COVID19 #pandemic

Deep #disadvantage in #mortality on the frontlines of the #COVID19 #pandemic, etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/04/deep...