Don't be racist, there's plenty of good people in america. The filthy plague rats or humanity are politicians and rulers and these have no nationality.
Wait isn’t this news like 2-3 days old? I was really scared for a second, I thought it had gone from human to human. It’s the same guy who caught it from a cow I had already seen.
Still super scary, just not as scary as breaking news about human to human infection.
H5N1 has an absolutely insane mortality rate. Like if human to human spread ever becomes a thing, that is a true pack what you can and get the fuck out moment. Every time we have animal to human spread it’s just rolling the dice for if a mutation will occur to propel human to human spread. This awful constant gamble that’s genuinely terrifying
This is talking about the population of immunocompromised people, eg, people on immunosuppressants. It is not saying that the entire population of America is immunocompromised
Immunocompromised does not exclusively mean someone on immunosuppressants; I am immunocompromised because I have had an an autoimmune disorder for 20-some years. Generally speaking, if you've had several Covid infections by this point- and I don't know a whole lot of the gen. pop. in the US who has not- you can count yourself in that pool given that we know all variants of it wreck the immune system and stay hanging around to continue wrecking.
Here's the letter. I don't think I agree. I'd argue there's much less ambiguous language they could have used then.
As you are aware, the supply of JYNNEOS available for distribution through the end of this year is
estimated to only be sufficient to immunize half of the individuals at highest risk for monkeypox. In the
absence of an adequate supply, we have evaluated the use of alternative vaccines and potential ways to
maximize the number of individuals immunized with the available vaccine supply. Use of alternative
vaccines was determined to be either impractical or inadvisable at this time.
More specifically, ACAM2000 may not be appropriate now for a potentially immunocompromised
population. The local and systemic toxicities of this vaccine may not be considered to be acceptable for
the prevention of monkeypox. Consideration was also given to delaying second vaccine doses by 3 to 6
months. However, following careful review of the available animal data with JYNNEOS, and
acknowledging the absence of data applicable to this situation, this option was determined to be
inadvisable, particularly because it might both be insufficiently protective while at the same time providing
individuals with a false sense of reassurance that they were protected against monkeypox when the actual
level of protection would be unknown and quite possibly inadequate.
As they did later on when speaking of doses of JYNNEOS.
Yes, this dose is appropriate for individuals who are taking PrEP or PEP. The Fact Sheet for Healthcare
Providers Administering Vaccine notes that Immunocompromised persons, including those receiving
immunosuppressive therapy, may have a diminished immune response to JYNNEOS.
That, and well, we are all pretty much immunocompromised at this point. Turns out multiple infections of a virus that attacks endothelial cells isn't a good idea.
any time a news article about a disease rapidly spreading among animals contains the "risk of spillover is low" qualifier it's time to stock up on rice and beans
i bought a couple cases of vegan MREs (they were very affordable) for camping and for my partner to take as backup food when their on the road for months and now i feel like maybe i got the jump on this
they are random menu so far i've had a lentil soup and a spheggetio and a bunch of cookies and PB and crackers they come with. they are pretty good suprisingly