RFK Jr, HHS & MAHA
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Batt Boy
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The "72 jab" is only believed by the Fox News Crowd and/or those who don't understand math
I was going to write a longer post about that but got sucked into reading about the epidemiology of meningitis. The meningitis vaccines protect against Neisseria meningitidis, which is a cause of meningitis but not the only one.
The epidemiology of bacterial meningitis in the United States during 2008–2023: an analysis of active, laboratory, population-based, multistate surveillance data - PMC
Bacterial meningitis is a severe syndrome with dynamic epidemiology, but assessments of current trends are limited. We aimed to describe changing epidemiologic patterns among common bacterial causes of meningitis in the United States. We analyzed ...
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S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae are the first and third most common causes and are covered by vaccines which are still recommended. We don’t have a vaccine for Group B strep, which is the second leading cause.
The meningitis vaccines are still recommended for high risk groups- such as communal living situations. However, the softer wording of the new “guidance” will certainly result in some patients not receiving who otherwise should, and therefore unnecessary cases of meningitis, which are fatal about 10% of the time.
I actually had a friend from high school die from meningitis when he was a freshman at UNCW. And anyone who with experience in healthcare knows how quickly those patients get critically ill- so IMO this change is a travesty.
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Yea when i was on inpatient in residency, if a patient came in with a week of symptoms, the dark humor would be, “well it’s not meningitis cause they’d already be dead”I was going to write a longer post about that but got sucked into reading about the epidemiology of meningitis. The meningitis vaccines protect against Neisseria meningitidis, which is a cause of meningitis but not the only one.
The epidemiology of bacterial meningitis in the United States during 2008–2023: an analysis of active, laboratory, population-based, multistate surveillance data - PMC
Bacterial meningitis is a severe syndrome with dynamic epidemiology, but assessments of current trends are limited. We aimed to describe changing epidemiologic patterns among common bacterial causes of meningitis in the United States. We analyzed ...
S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae are the first and third most common causes and are covered by vaccines which are still recommended. We don’t have a vaccine for Group B strep, which is the second leading cause.
The meningitis vaccines are still recommended for high risk groups- such as communal living situations. However, the softer wording of the new “guidance” will certainly result in some patients not receiving who otherwise should, and therefore unnecessary cases of meningitis, which are fatal about 10% of the time.
I actually had a friend from high school die from meningitis when he was a freshman at UNCW. And anyone who with experience in healthcare knows how quickly those patients get critically ill- so IMO this change is a travesty.
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Florida's Surgeon General Is Now Peddling Fake Water
In a recent social media post, Joseph Ladapo endorsed the use of structured water, which doesn't actually seem to exist.
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For once Leavitt is not entirely wrong. But when Michelle Obama wanted healthier food in school cafeterias and Bloomberg wanted to end big gulp corn syrup drinks, they were nannystaters. It would be great to get Americans to eat healthier food in healthier portions. All for it. But will MAGA suddenly get behind this?
Mulberry Heel
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For once Leavitt is not entirely wrong. But when Michelle Obama wanted healthier food in school cafeterias and Bloomberg wanted to end big gulp corn syrup drinks, they were nannystaters. It would be great to get Americans to eat healthier food in healthier portions. All for it. But will MAGA suddenly get behind this?
MAGAs will continue to drag their pudgy bodies into the local Dollar General to buy as much cheap junk food as they can afford. Even Dear Leader and MAHA isn't going to stop that.
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Their economic policies sure won't stop it either.