Great article from #statnews highlighting just how difficult it is to predict flu and the likelihood of significant human to human transmission, as #H5N1 continues to spread in mammals

https://www.statnews.com/2023/02/08/tracking-the-bird-flu-experts-see-a-familiar-threat-and-a-virus-whose-course-is-hard-to-predict/?s=09

Last month SHEA issued a recommendation that hospitals and other health care facilities stop routinely screening asymptomatic patients for Covid-19. Testing adds time, cost. The study they cited was Shira Doron's, one of Wen's 2 cited experts in her original WaPo article.

The #StatNews article notes that SHEA still hangs on to an outdated idea of how virus circulate in the air.

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https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/21/screening-asymptomatic-patients-covid-19/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/asymptomatic-screening-for-severe-acute-respiratory-coronavirus-virus-2-sarscov2-as-an-infection-prevention-measure-in-healthcare-facilities-challenges-and-considerations/5D9FF2904AD88CDBDA5CAFD29A965A69

This is a tremendous piece of work by Nick Florko at #StatNews. Thousands of people are dying every year from #HCV--a curable viral illness--in American #prisons.

#publichealth
https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/15/hundreds-incarcerated-people-dying-hepatitis-c-despite-simple-cure/

Every new mention of #ehlersdanlossyndrome in the news gives me hope that informed medical practitioners are in my future, and in my children’s. #STATnews #hEDS #EDSAwareness https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/12/ehlers-danlos-syndrome-patients-turned-researchers/

Every new mention of #ehlersdanlossyndrome in the news gives me hope that informed medical practitioners are in my future, and in my children’s. #STATnews #hEDS #EDSAwareness https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/12/ehlers-danlos-syndrome-patients-turned-researchers/