If you are making a break for other social media platforms, I am on Bluesky at @HelenBranswell.bsky.social and on mastadon at @[email protected]. And yes, they are pleasant places.
When you have the number of confirmed #measles cases that the US has these days — nearly 2,800 as of last week — measles deaths are going to happen.
Each is a tragedy.
The more children vaccinated against measles, the lower the risk of this unbearable loss.
Public comments about a proposal that would make science funding decisions open to political influence are removed from the record, but not by the submitters. A number mentioned that OMB Director Russell Vought's family has benefited from federally funded research.
.@WHO has increased its recommendations about how #DRC should contain the #Ebola#Bundibugyo outbreak, including postponing mass gatherings in areas with ongoing transmission, limiting the number of passengers on motorcycles & reducing crowding in bars. who.int/news/item/24-0…
