#vaccine safety monitoring

[petpetisy]

Can a Dog Catch Parvo Twice in 2024? Shocking Truth!

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[batboyblog]

Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #25

June 28-July 5 2024

The Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Is putting forward the first ever federal safety regulation to protect worker's from excessive heat in the workplace. As climate change has caused extreme heat events to become more common work place deaths have risen from an average of 32 heat related deaths between 1992 and 2019 to 43 in 2022. The rules if finalized would require employers to provide drinking water and cool break areas at 80 degrees and at 90 degrees have mandatory 15-minute breaks every two hours and be monitored for signs of heat illness. This would effect an estimated 36 million workers.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced $1 Billion for 656 projects across the country aimed at helping local communities combat climate change fueled disasters like flooding and extreme heat. Some of the projects include $50 Million to Philadelphia for a stormwater pump station and combating flooding, and a grant to build Shaded bus shelters in Washington, D.C.

The Department of Transportation announced thanks to efforts by the Biden Administration flight cancellations at the lowest they've been in a decade. At just 1.4% for the year so far. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg credited the Department's new rules requiring automatic refunds for any cancellations or undue delays as driving the good numbers as well as the investment of $25 billion in airport infrastructure that was in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

The Department of Transportation announced $600 million in the 3rd round of funding to reconnect communities. Many communities have been divided by highways and other Infrastructure projects over the years. Most often effecting racial minority and poor areas. The Biden Administration is dedicated to addressing these injustices and helping reconnect communities split for decades. This funding round will see Atlanta’s Southside Communities reconnected as well as a redesign for Birmingham’s Black Main Street, reconnecting a community split by Interstate 65 in the 1960s. 

The Biden Administration approved its 9th offshore wind power project. About 9 miles off the coast of New Jersey the planned wind farm will generated 2,800 megawatts of electricity, enough to power almost a million homes with totally clear power. This will bring the total amount of clean wind power generated by projects approved by the Biden Administration to 13 gigawatts. The Administration's climate goal is to generate 30 gigawatts from wind.

The Biden Administration announced funding for 12 new Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs. The $504 million dollars will go to supporting tech hubs in, Colorado, Montana, Indiana, Illinois, Nevada, New York, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. These tech hubs together with 31 already announced and funded will support high tech manufacturing jobs, as well as training for 21st century jobs for millions of American workers.

HHS announced over $200 million to support improved care for older Americans, particularly those with Alzheimer’s and related dementias. The money is focused on training primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and other health care clinicians in best practices in elder and dementia care, as well as seeking to  integrate geriatric training into primary care. It also will support ways that families and other non-medical care givers can be educated to give support to aging people.

HHS announced $176 million to help support the development of a mRNA-based pandemic influenza vaccine. As part of the government's efforts to be ready before the next major pandemic it funds and supports new vaccine's to try to predict the next major pandemic. Moderna is working on an mRNA vaccine, much like the Covid-19, vaccine focused on the H5 and H7 avian influenza viruses, which experts fear could spread to humans and cause a Covid like event.

[beardedmrbean]

Vaccines that protect against severe illness, death and lingering long Covid-19 symptoms from a coronavirus infection were linked to small increases in neurological, blood, and heart-related conditions in the largest global vaccine safety study to date.

The rare events – identified early in the pandemic – included a higher risk of heart-related inflammation from mRNA shots made by Pfizer Inc, BioNTech SE, and Moderna Inc, and an increased risk of a type of blood clot in the brain after immunisation with viral-vector vaccines such as the one developed by the University of Oxford and made by AstraZeneca Plc.

The viral-vector jabs were also tied to an increased risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a neurological disorder in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the peripheral nervous system.

More than 13.5 billion doses of Covid vaccines have been administered globally over the past three years, saving over 1 million lives in Europe alone. Still, a small proportion of people immunised were injured by the shots, stoking debate about their benefits versus harms.

The new research, by the Global Vaccine Data Network, was published in the journal Vaccine last week.

The research looked for 13 medical conditions that the group considered “adverse events of special interest” among 99 million vaccinated individuals in eight countries, aiming to identify higher-than-expected cases after a Covid shot.

Myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, was consistently identified following a first, second and third dose of mRNA vaccines, the study found.

The highest increase in the observed-to-expected ratio was seen after a second jab with the Moderna shot. A first and fourth dose of the same vaccine was also tied to an increase in pericarditis, or inflammation of the thin sac covering the heart.

Researchers found a statistically significant increase in cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome within 42 days of an initial Oxford-developed ChAdOx1 or “Vaxzevria” shot that wasn’t observed with mRNA vaccines.

Based on the background incidence of the condition, 66 cases were expected – but 190 events were observed.

ChAdOx1 was linked to a threefold increase in cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, a type of blood clot in the brain, identified in 69 events, compared with an expected 21.

The small risk led to the vaccine’s withdrawal or restriction in Denmark and multiple other countries. Myocarditis was also linked to a third dose of ChAdOx1 in some, but not all, populations studied.

Possible safety signals for transverse myelitis – spinal cord inflammation – after viral-vector vaccines was identified in the study.

So was acute disseminated encephalomyelitis – inflammation and swelling in the brain and spinal cord – after both viral-vector and mRNA vaccines.

Seven cases of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were observed, versus an expectation of two.

The adverse events of special interest were selected based on pre-established associations with immunisation, what was already known about immune-related conditions and preclinical research. The study didn’t monitor for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS, that some research has linked with Covid vaccines.

Exercise intolerance, excessive fatigue, numbness and “brain fog” were among common symptoms identified in more than 240 adults experiencing chronic post-vaccination syndrome in a separate study conducted by the Yale School of Medicine. The cause of the syndrome isn’t yet known, and it has no diagnostic tests or proven remedies.

The Yale research aims to understand the condition to relieve the suffering of those affected and improve the safety of vaccines, said Harlan Krumholz, a principal investigator of the study, and director of the Yale New Haven Hospital Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation.

“Both things can be true,” Krumholz said in an interview. “They can save millions of lives, and there can be a small number of people who’ve been adversely affected.”

[darkmaga-returns]

Originally posted Jan 2023.

The medical community and the media hang their hats on the use of ‘double-blind, placebo-controlled, peer-reviewed studies published in legacy journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In a future substack, I will go into detail about the fallacies, and even the scam, of peer review and why it should not be held out as sacrosanct.  

For today’s discussion, let’s examine why all vaccine research should be questioned. Yes, ALL of it. If you read enough studies, you’ll see the patterns described below. For this substack, I’ll use this study on the safety of hepatitis B vaccination in children in India as an example. The vaccine used, Revac-B, contained both 0.5mg of aluminum and 0.05 mg of thimerosal, considered to be safe.

1. Vaccine trials can be quite small and include only healthy children.

Every study begins with ‘selection criteria’ that describe including only healthy individuals. This is from the hepatitis B study example:

All 60 subjects included in the study were in good health and had a negative history of hematological, renal, hepatic, or allergic diseases. All were screened and found to have normal blood panels, including normal liver enzymes.

When a vaccine trial has been completed and the vaccine is approved for use by the FDA, the vaccine is recommended for ALL children, regardless of their health condition, family history, or genetics. In fact, the new shot is most ardently pushed on children with underlying health concerns, such as seizure disorders, cardiac anomalies, and conditions such as cystic fibrosis or Down’s syndrome. These children become the next round of experimentation because the vaccines were never tested for safety on these groups and others.

2.  Vaccine studies follow side effects for a short period of time.

Most clinical trials monitor for side effects for a paltry 21 days, often less. In some studies, such as in the example we are using, children were monitored for 5 days by study monitors and 5 days by cards given to parents. If no reactions occur, the shot is deemed to be ‘safe.’

However, it can take weeks to months for immune and neurological complications to appear. These arbitrary deadlines, allowed by the FDA, prohibit making the connection between vaccines with chronic health disorders. If an illness emerges later, of course, the doctors will say it has nothing to do with the vaccine.

3.  Most vaccine safety studies do not use a true placebo.

The gold standard in medical research is the "placebo-controlled" trial. A placebo is an inactive or inert substance, such as a sugar pill or a shot of saline. In the trial, the placebo is given to one group, while the treatment group is given the experimental product. The placebo arm is used to ‘blind’ the study so the investigator doesn’t know if the subject received the Real Thing or the Inert Substance to minimize interpretation bias.

When reading a published vaccine trial, the substance used as the placebo is often not identified; it is simply called ‘placebo.’ For example, in this study for a new hepatitis B vaccine to treat chronic hepatitis B, the word ‘placebo’ is used 22 times, but we don’t know what placebo was used.

And that’s a problem. The substance used as a ‘placebo’ is often not inert; it may even may be another vaccine. For example, I remember reading a study where the meningitis C vaccine was used as a placebo because it was considered to be non-immunogenic and non-reactive. Or, in the instance of the Gardasil (HPV) vaccine, the ‘placebo’ was an injection of aluminum.

All studies for the Gardasil vaccine were said to be placebo-controlled and the total population that received a placebo included 9,701 subjects. The placebo was an aluminum adjuvant in all studies except study 018 (pre-/adolescent safety study), which used a non-aluminum-containing placebo [and we don’t know what that placebo was]

[worms-go-here]

2025 PREP LIST

Here's a list of things you should do to protect and help yourself going into 2025. I've organized them hard/medium/easy based on their time consumption and difficulty of execution.

GET A PASSPORT & OBTAIN DOCUMENTS (HARD)

• Get or update your passport so it will last through these next 4 years. Your passport is a very strong piece of identity keeping material. Everything in this section is especially important for people who have legally changed their name in any form. 2025 will likely contain some legislation targeting people whose name doesn't match on all their legal documents. Also if you need to flee the country this will be super important to have. Certain passport renewals are eligible to do online.

• Get copies or originals of all your legal documents. That means you should have your birth certificate, your social security card, and any diplomas or degrees. Keep those yourself at home in a safe location or in a safety deposit that you have legal access to (your name should be on the access slip and you should have a key)

CONTROL YOUR MONEY (MEDIUM)

• Move your money to a local bank or preferably a credit union. Big banks collect data on you and use your money to back their own evil causes. The people going into power don't care about people, they care about money, so that is our most powerful mouthpiece. Moving it sends a message to them and also denies them the data they get from monitoring our purchases and it protects it better. This is one of the most proactive things you can do right now.

How to move your money: It is probably best practice to call your bank and let them know that you are going to be closing your account there and transferring your money. This is so they can make sure they have enough cash on hand to give you. Then you'll just take that and head over to your new local bank or credit union and they'll get your accounts set up. It can be accomplished in a morning or afternoon. The hardest part will be just finding the time, and then moving all online accounts to a new billing situation. I did this a few years ago and it was actually super easy.

• Shop Local ! Shop Small ! everyone has been preaching this for years, but you need to keep doing it or start now. Shopping local has always been more expensive, but with the tariffs coming, its not going to matter any more. Don't shop Walmart, Target, big conglomerates. Especially for groceries. Food safety is going to continue to be relaxed under the incoming administration. Eating local and knowing where your food came from will be the best way to protect yourself.

• Get a budget. You can use a budget app like YNAB or just track it yourself on paper or on a spreadsheet. Just being aware of how much you spend and where will help you save money in the expensive time we're going into, and realize if your money is going to someone you don't want it to go to.

CONTROL YOUR BODY (HARD)

• Future of birth control and abortion is uncertain. Stock up now on Plan B and Plan C abortion pills. Do this even if you are not a person affected, because you never know who in your life will be. (be aware of the effectiveness of these pills. Plan B lowers in effectiveness on people 165 pounds and over. Other Plan B options have similar issues.)

• Consider your options for long term birth control. Talk with your doctor about how much birth control pill you can stock up on, or consider an IUD. Do your research about your options, they all affect different people differently. Most of these will last through the next 4 years. If yours is set to expire before or during that time period, ask if your doctor will go ahead and replace yours early.

• here is the list of doctors in the states who will perform sterilizations or permanent birth control

• update your vaccinations now. the future of vaccines are also uncertain. the updated covid and flu shots are available, ask your doctor or check your records to see what vaccines you need a re-up on. you should have an updated tetanus/tdap shot every 10 years. you can get these at your doctor or at CVS, Walgreens, etc.

• stop use of all period tracker apps or tracking your period on any digital platform based on the internet, cell data, or the cloud. track on paper.

• if you take prescriptions talk with your doctor about how much of it you can have on hand at once. stock as much as you can.

CONTROL YOUR RELATIONSHIPS (MEDIUM)

• Women are divorcing and breaking up with people who voted for Trump. If there are people in your life who don't align with your values its time to consider cutting them out, especially if they are a romantic partner.

• The 4B movement is taking off in America as a movement to show right wing men that they can't have their cake and eat it too. The 4 B's stand for no dating men, no sex with men, no marriage to men, and no childbirth. If that interests you now is the time to start.

• Delete your dating apps and your profiles on your dating apps. These guys will be scrolling past the same two women every day with no other offerings. Your body, your choice, no exceptions.

DITCH AMAZON (EASY)

• Cancel your amazon prime and delete or forswear use of your amazon account. Amazon has always been evil but now it is evil backed by evil. It collects your spending data and it is the biggest proponent of convenience culture. Getting real rights for workers means all of us recognizing that convenience has a cost, and it is far more than amazon is charging. A good life for everyone means you get your things slower, and we all need to learn to be ok with that.

• Unsubscribe from all shopping mailing lists. When you get the shopping newsletter in your inbox from wherever, hit the unsubscribe button. We need to be telling corporations and companies we don't care about their crap, and junk emails are bad for us and the planet. This is an easy way to cut temptation and stick it to them.

• Where you buy from matters. Buying small business or local means a safer product and it means your money does not go directly to the pockets of evil. The best easy thing you ca do during the next 4 years is CARE WHO YOUR MONEY GOES TO.

PROTECT YOURSELF ONLINE (EASY)

• SWITCH TO FIREFOX. It's said all the time on this website, but do it this time, actually do it. I finally did and it was super fast and easy and took less than a minute and it migrated all my bookmarks and passwords from chrome. Though the safest way to be online is with Linux, if you have that capability.

• add necessary extensions to your new firefox. these will be recommended when you install and you should 1000% add them: Ublock origin, privacy badger, facebook container, and clear urls. avoid adding savings extensions - honey is the biggest culprit. they make money off of your spending data. now is the time we have to fight harder than ever for our digital privacy and security, and that starts by denying them access.

MAKE YOUR PURCHASES NOW (MEDIUM)

• consider your life and if there is anything in it that is necessary and might break or need replaced in the next 4 years. I mean big purchases like appliances, car maintenance, house maintenance. Everything is going to get more expensive, and if you can get these big purchases now at a cheaper cost, you should do it.

• stock up on any imported goods that you have space for and want to prioritize having. Olive oil, wine, spices, to name a few.

HAVE AN EMERGENCY PLAN (MEDIUM)

• maybe when you move to your new credit union you move some of your money to a designated emergency savings fund. Everyone should have an emergency fund or money to fall back on in case anything happens, but that is going to be even more important to build and pad that fund going into an administration that is going to jack the prices of everything. Also because if you do need to flee you'll need money to fund your escape.

• make a plan for if you do decide to flee the country or it becomes necessary. consider where you will go and how you will get there. its important to think about how long you will stay there and how long you can stay legally or if you can immigrate, and to consider what the political climate / human rights situation in your hopeful new country is like.

EDUCATE YOURSELF (EASY)

• we all have to be part of the change, and we all have to fight for it. we can start by educating ourselves. My reading list includes Mutual Aid, Except for Palestine, Let this Radicalize You, Becoming Abolitionists, The Jungle, Assata, The Purpose of Power, Social Movements, We Do this till We Free Us, Strangers in their Own Land, and The New Jim Crow.

Knuckle down. We're not going into 2025 afraid, we're going in prepared.

Additions welcome, let me know if there's anything I missed. I know I'm missing how this affects people in college or going into it and ways you can protect yourself as an LGBTQ individual. I'll add to this as I learn that information.

[gumjrop]

CDC Recommends Updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 and Flu Vaccines for Fall/Winter Virus Season

Media Statement

For Immediate Release: June 27, 2024 Contact: Media Relations (404) 639-3286

Today [June 27, 2024], CDC recommended the updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines and the updated 2024-2025 flu vaccines to protect against severe COVID-19 and flu this fall and winter.

It is safe to receive COVID-19 and flu vaccines at the same visit. Data continue to show the importance of vaccination to protect against severe outcomes of COVID-19 and flu, including hospitalization and death. In 2023, more than 916,300 people were hospitalized due to COVID-19 and more than 75,500 people died from COVID-19. During the 2023-2024 flu season, more than 44,900 people are estimated to have died from flu complications.

Updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendation

CDC recommends everyone ages 6 months and older receive an updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine to protect against the potentially serious outcomes of COVID-19 this fall and winter whether or not they have ever previously been vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine. Updated COVID-19 vaccines will be available from Moderna, Novavax, and Pfizer later this year. This recommendation will take effect as soon as the new vaccines are available.

The virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, is always changing and protection from COVID-19 vaccines declines over time. Receiving an updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine can restore and enhance protection against the virus variants currently responsible for most infections and hospitalizations in the United States. COVID-19 vaccination also reduces the chance of suffering the effects of Long COVID, which can develop during or following acute infection and last for an extended duration.

Last season, people who received a 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine saw greater protection against illness and hospitalization than those who did not receive a 2023-2024 vaccine. To date, hundreds of millions of people have safely received a COVID-19 vaccine under the most intense vaccine safety monitoring in United States history.

Updated 2024-2025 Flu Vaccine Recommendation

CDC recommends everyone 6 months of age and older, with rare exceptions, receive an updated 2024-2025 flu vaccine to reduce the risk of influenza and its potentially serious complications this fall and winter. CDC encourages providers to begin their influenza vaccination planning efforts now and to vaccinate patients as indicated once 2024-2025 influenza vaccines become available.

Most people need only one dose of the flu vaccine each season. While CDC recommends flu vaccination as long as influenza viruses are circulating, September and October remain the best times for most people to get vaccinated. Flu vaccination in July and August is not recommended for most people, but there are several considerations regarding vaccination during those months for specific groups:

Pregnant people who are in their third trimester can get a flu vaccine in July or August to protect their babies from flu after birth, when they are too young to get vaccinated.

Children who need two doses of the flu vaccine should get their first dose of vaccine as soon as it becomes available. The second dose should be given at least four weeks after the first.

Vaccination in July or August can be considered for children who have health care visits during those months if there might not be another opportunity to vaccinate them.

For adults (especially those 65 years old and older) and pregnant people in the first and second trimester, vaccination in July and August should be avoided unless it won’t be possible to vaccinate in September or October.

Updated 2024-2025 flu vaccines will all be trivalent and will protect against an H1N1, H3N2 and a B/Victoria lineage virus. The composition of this season’s vaccine compared to last has been updated with a new influenza A(H3N2) virus.

For more information on updated COVID-19 vaccines visit: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) | CDC. For more information on updated flu vaccines visit: Seasonal Flu Vaccines | CDC.

The following statement is attributable to CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen:

“Our top recommendation for protecting yourself and your loved ones from respiratory illness is to get vaccinated,” said Mandy Cohen, M.D., M.P.H. “Make a plan now for you and your family to get both updated flu and COVID vaccines this fall, ahead of the respiratory virus season.”

[littlegreenwyvy]

Covid has ruined everything for everybody, and the more I'm actually starting to work on getting my life together the more obvious it becomes that everything is ruined because of it. I've had to either postpone, reschedule, or outright cancel more than thirty medical appointments (ranging from routine followups to treatments for my chronic illness to gender affirming procedures) this year alone, because the provider or office had to take off of work because of covid. And this is the best case scenario, because they actually recognized they were ill and cancelled their appointments, instead of just allowing it to happen and infecting countless other people, like literally the rest of the entire fucking world is doing. I can't count on both hands the number of close acquaintances I have who have covid or A Weird Flu™️ right this very moment. At this point the only safety measure right now is mask-wearing; there's no social distancing, there hasn't been widespread air-filtration upgrades, there's no 'remote option', there's no monitoring, there's no free or even low-cost testing. We just got a new vaccine, but hardly nobody's gonna actually get it (not to mention it's only free if you have insurance; CVS says it'll cost over $200 without insurance), and that it'll offer lower chances of a serious illness, won't actually keep people safe from infection, and won't prevent its spread in any way. The entire foundation of 'covid safety' is toothpicks and tape. It's not safe to go out. It's not safe to work. It's not safe to shop for groceries. It's not safe to go to the museum, or to restaurants, or to school, or to the doctor's office, or to visit friends. Our only options are 'quit our jobs, stop seeing friends, and cease all interaction with any other human being or in any space where there may be another human being', or 'eventually die of covid'. Anybody who thinks otherwise is a fucking moron, and anybody who acts as though it's any other way is responsible for countless deaths.

[fagsex]

i actually saw this clip going around again the other day and omg you wouldnt believe (you would) the replies to her 'outburst' in the comment section... braindeads saying shit like "but shes not wearing a mask?!?!?!?@?@?" like. are you genuinely clinically stupid. she is on stage in the video, clearly with other actors, and anyone with the even slightest amount of comprehension in their brains knows that actors of any sorts grouping together or performing from 2020-2022 ish give or take were very vaccinated and tested and monitored near constantly to ensure the safety of themselves and those around them, OBVIOUSLY she was too. and obviously your dumb ass in the audience was not. two years deep into covid acting like a shit for brains and then their comment takes the cake everytime. "i pay your salary!" ?!?!?!?? like patti lupone is a librarian or firefighter or some shit ???? in what universe is this ?? ? i literally do not understand the comment. are they implying their ticket fare pays her salary? do they not know how a job works? employment? the concept of a salary? do they understand that even if the only attendees were crickets she'd get paid the same? i really dont understand. do they think they pay the mcdonalds employees salaries too. i dont get it i really dont. i know this person is obviously painfully clinically stupid but i cannot wrap my head around this comment can anyone help

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

What Happens When You Deny Scientific Evidence? Look at Brazil's Pesticide Problem

The overuse of dangerous pesticides in Brazil threatens public health and serves as a warning to the rest of the world about the dangers of science denial

In Brazil, the unabated use of dangerous pesticides reminds the world of the harm done by denying reality. Here, as with everywhere else, synthetic pesticides play a crucial role in agriculture by controlling pests and protecting crops. But because of their high biological activity and persistence in the environment, these substances can harm human health and the ecosystem. All too often, they do just that.

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, who, many times, criticized COVID vaccines by claiming that they were too untested, set records in the approval of pesticides in the country, including substances banned in other countries because of safety concerns. The approvals ignored both the environmental impact of these pesticides, which themselves harmed farms, and their economic fallout, with possible export boycotts coming from other countries because of the risks of indiscriminate use.

The overuse of dangerous pesticides in Brazil both threatens public health there and serves as a worldwide warning about science denial. During the COVID pandemic, science denial threatened COVID treatments and vaccinations in Brazil while relegating important issues such as pesticide regulation to the background. Pesticides and pandemics may seem like separate issues, but warnings about the toxicity and risks of pesticides, just like calls for vaccinations, come from scientists. If there is no trust in science, warnings about both will be ignored.

Undoubtedly, the widespread introduction of pesticides after World War II increased food production on a large scale, but it also created environmental and public health problems, as well as dependencies on pesticide use in agriculture. Many developing countries, especially those in the tropical and equatorial zones, have become major food exporters crucial to global food security thanks to pesticides. Some of these substances lack secure regulations to monitor their precautionary use, however.

Continue reading.

[ejacutastic]

I love the vets I've worked with more than anything and they deserve so so so much love and praise, but I also don't think vet techs get enough recognition or understanding from the public for the work we do.

like we're not animal holders who play with puppies all day. we're usually the ones giving vaccines, drawing blood, placing catheters, doing lab work including manual microscopy, monitoring vitals during surgery and during recovery, positioning and taking xrays, giving your hospitalized dog's medications on time, asking the owner questions to get a history and alerting the vet to concerns (including contagious diseases we may need to take extra care for), typing up medical notes, maintaining specialized medical equipment, sterilizing surgical tools, and probably 15 other things I forgot.

we're also often the ones providing nursing care like wiping your cat's nose, warming its food, and hand feeding them when they don't want to eat because they can't smell anything with a respiratory infection as well as cleaning up poop and vomit and anything else from pets who are struggling to make sure they stay healthy and feel as good as they can. nursing care may seem small but I genuinely think it is the most important part of medical management.

idk just. vet techs rock and we're so undervalued by everyone despite our extensive knowledge and skillets as well as us having as high of a suicide risk as vets. I really think that the public knowing what we do is an important piece in the fight for a liveable wage, workplace safety, and general respect.

we're not kitten petters, we're veterinary medical staff and patient advocates with the knowledge and skills to back it up.

[darkmaga-returns]

Now that we are finally unburdened by what has been, here are my favorite “to do” list recommendations, in no particular order:

End the liability protection for all vaccine manufacturers. This was a huge mistake. Note: this may not be feasible in the short term until almost nobody wants them anymore.

Begin a massive advertising campaign educating the American public about the dangers of childhood vaccines and citing the studies that have been done and noting that there’s a reason the NIH refused to ever fund such a study.

Require on-going active safety monitoring of all drugs by an independent company. Make the active monitoring data public. Start with vaccines.

End all local, state, and federal government mandated health directives including masks, vaccination, etc. for people and pets. Public agencies should be free to advise medical interventions but they should be prohibited from enforcing compliance with any directive that may negatively impact a person’s health. People should be consulting with their doctors about all medical interventions.

Compensate those injured by the FDA-approved vaccines for their injuries. Not just the COVID vaccine but for all vaccines including kids whose autism was caused by vaccines.

How by reinstating all medical personnel that lost their jobs, pensions and other benefits for non compliance?

Replace the heads of the CDC, NIH, HHS, and FDA with honest leaders who cannot be bought who have been speaking out publicly about the corruption of these agencies.

[covid-safer-hotties]

Reference archived on our website

I know some people will celebrate, but the West has been dragging behind in covid vaccine development, and the issue with these vaccines is they only help provide herd immunity if people actually get them. Two struggles to overcome before we can party.

BACKGROUND. The level of nasal spike-specific secretory IgA (sIgA) is inversely correlated with the risk of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron infection. This study aimed to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of intranasal vaccination using Ad5-S-Omicron (NB2155), a replication-incompetent human type 5 adenovirus carrying Omicron BA.1 spike.

METHODS. An open-label, single-center, investigator-initiated trial was carried out on 128 health care workers who had never been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and had previously received 2 or 3 injections of inactivated whole-virus vaccines, with the last dose given 3–19 months previously (median 387 days, IQR 333–404 days). Participants received 2 intranasal sprays of NB2155 at 28-day intervals between November 30 and December 30, 2022. Safety was evaluated by solicited adverse events and laboratory tests. The elevation of nasal mucosal spike-specific sIgA and serum neutralizing activities were assessed. All participants were monitored for infection by antigen tests, disease symptoms, and the elevation of nucleocapsid-specific sIgA in the nasal passage.

RESULTS. The vaccine-related solicited adverse events were mild. Nasal spike-specific sIgA against 10 strains had a mean geometric mean fold increase of 4.5 after the first dose, but it increased much higher to 51.5 after the second dose. Serum neutralizing titers also increased modestly to 128.1 (95% CI 74.4–220.4) against authentic BA.1 and 76.9 (95% CI 45.4–130.2) against BA.5 at 14 days after the second dose. Due to the lifting of the zero-COVID policy in China on December 7, 2022, 57.3% of participants were infected with BA.5 between days 15 and 28 after the first dose, whereas no participants reported having any symptomatic infections between day 3 and day 90 after the second dose. The elevation of nasal nucleocapsid-specific sIgA on days 0, 14, 42, and 118 after the first dose was assessed to verify that these 2-dose participants had no asymptomatic infections.

CONCLUSION. A 2-dose intranasal vaccination regimen using NB2155 was safe, was well tolerated, and could dramatically induce broad-spectrum spike-specific sIgA in the nasal passage. Preliminary data suggested that the intranasal vaccination may establish an effective mucosal immune barrier against infection and warranted further clinical studies.

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Monkeypox Vaccine How Global Health Systems Are Responding

 Introduction

Monkeypox Vaccine , a viral zoonotic sickness that ordinarily impact animals but may be transmitted to humans has garnered international interest because of its recent outbreaks. In India, the nation of Haryana has confronted its own demanding situations related to this sickness. This articles delves into the emergence of monkeypox in Haryana, the kingdom responses to the outbreak and the results of public health and safety.

Overview of Monkeypox

It is caused by the Monkeypox Symptoms  virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus, which additionally consists of smallpox. The disease became first recognized in laboratory monkey in 1958, and the first human case became pronounced inside the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1970. It is characterised by signs and symptoms similar to smallpox, although generally milder. These signs and symptoms include fever, headache, muscles aches, Backaches, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion. A hallmark of the disorder is the development of a rash that progresses via extraordinary levels, subsequently forming scrabs.

The ailment is generally Monkeypox treatment transmitted to people through contact with inflamed animals, which include rodent or primates, or via direct touch with physical fluids or infected materials. Human to human transmission can occur via breathing droplets or touch with pores and skin lesions. 

Monkeypox in India and Haryana

Monkeypox virus vaccine in current years there had been sporadic instances of monkeypox said worldwide, including in diverse areas of India. Haryana, a state in northern India, has now not been proof against this worldwide fitness difficulty. The first big cases in Haryana were reported in mid-2023, marking a high-quality development in the country’s public fitness panorama.

The initial cases in Haryana raised alarms among fitness authorities due to the potential for fast spread and the results for public fitness. As monkeypox is not as well-known or as widely understood as different illnesses like COVID-19, its emergence supplied unique challenges for both healthcare vendors and the general public.

Initial Response and Measures

Upon the identification of monkeypox cases in Haryana, the state authorities, in conjunction with countrywide health agencies, carried out a sequence of measures to manipulate the spread of the sickness. 

Surveillance and Monitoring

Health authorities multiplied surveillance efforts to track the unfold of monkeypox. This involved monitoring folks who had come into touch with confirmed cases and carrying out follow-up assessments to pick out any new infections.

Public Awareness Campaigns

Recognizing the importance of public recognition, the government launched instructional campaigns to tell residents about monkeypox signs, transmission strategies, and preventive measures. This protected disseminating information thru numerous media channels 

Healthcare Preparedness:

Hospitals and healthcare centers had been ready with the important assets to address monkeypox instances. This included training healthcare workers on a way to recognize, diagnose, and deal with monkeypox, in addition to ensuring that appropriate isolation and infection manage measures have been in vicinity.

Travel and Movement Restrictions

In areas where monkeypox instances have been concentrated, localized journey and movement restrictions had been imposed to prevent in addition unfold. This was in particular relevant in densely populated urban regions in which the hazard of transmission changed into higher.

Coordination with National and International Agencies

Haryana's reaction was coordinated with national health authorities, along with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and global businesses just like the World Health Organization (WHO). This ensured that the country’s moves had been aligned with broader public fitness techniques and first-rate practices.

Challenges Faced

Limited Awareness and Stigma

It  became no longer well known among the overall public, main to confusion and misinformation. Additionally, the stigma related to infectious diseases now and again impeded open discussion and well timed reporting of symptoms.

Healthcare System Strain

Managing an epidemic requires significant assets and may strain the healthcare machine. Hospitals and clinics had to balance their ordinary responsibilities with the improved demands of coping with monkeypox cases.

Public Compliance

 Ensuring public compliance with fitness advisories and restrictions become another project. Some people can also were reluctant to stick to guidelines or may had been skeptical approximately the severity of the ailment.

Data Management

Accurate information collection and management are important for powerful disease control. The want for actual-time information on case numbers, contacts, and geographic unfold offered logistical challenges.

Impact on Public Health

Increased Health Awareness

The outbreak highlighted the significance of being vigilant approximately emerging infectious illnesses. It spurred discussions on enhancing public fitness infrastructure and disorder preparedness.

Strengthened Health Policies

The experience brought about a reassessment and strengthening of health regulations and protocols associated with infectious ailment management, specifically zoonotic diseases.

Enhanced Surveillance Systems

The outbreak underscored the want for strong surveillance structures to come across and respond to comparable outbreaks within the destiny.

Community Engagement

The response efforts emphasised the position of network engagement in handling fitness crises. Educating the general public and concerning network leaders were essential additives of the reaction approach.

Preventive Measures and Future Outlook

Ongoing Education

Continuous public schooling on monkeypox and different rising illnesses is critical. Awareness campaigns ought to cope with signs, preventive practices, and the importance of looking for scientific interest.

Strengthened Surveillance

Maintaining and improving surveillance systems enables in early detection and speedy reaction to ability outbreaks.

Research and Development

 Investing in studies to higher apprehend  and expand powerful vaccines and remedies is critical for lengthy-time period prevention and manipulate.

International Collaboration

 Monkeypox prevention global collaboration is critical for coping with sicknesses that cross borders. Sharing information, sources, and information can help in efficaciously addressing outbreaks.