Make America Healthy Again - Trump populism comes to health regulation (3 Viewers)

[superchuck500]

This is going to need a thread as we move forward - there are now clear signs that Trump supports a new, critical if not dubious approach on vaccination, and his HHS nominee RFK Jr. regularly espouses eating raw milk and raw meat . . . dietary components most experts agree are more dangerous than their heated counterparts.

Health is certainly one of those areas were anti-institutionalism and turning to popular influencers over medical science comes with genuine risk of harm.

Today Trump provided his most clear indication that he is a vaccine skeptic - claiming (falsely of course) that the USA doesn't "do as well" as other nations that use no vaccines at all.

 

[MT15]

I just read that one of the issues in tracking H5N1 is that it is a version of Flu A, and will show up as such on the rapid tests that are used in most of the clinics, doctor’s offices and home use. Even a lot of hospitals rely on rapid flu tests, rather than the type of tests done by reference labs that can distinguish Influenza A from H5N1.

We are in the midst of the worst Flu A outbreak in 15 years, and H5N1 is looming, with the possibility that if it transitions into human-to-human infection we wouldn’t immediately know, since the rapid tests wouldn’t catch it.

And we are cutting staff that works on it, and have an anti-vaxxer conspiracy nut case at HHS.

Just lovely, right?