COVID-19 vaccine and flu vaccine uptake has been pretty low through the end of February

 ... As of February 2025, 21.2% of adults 18+ in the U.S. have received a 2024–25 COVID-19 vaccine and 42.8% have received a 2024–25 flu vaccine. ...

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COVID-19 prevalence is low at the end of March 2025

 

RFK Jr cancels regular March meeting of flu vaccine panel which determines for which flu strains vaccines will be developed for next fall and winter

 

A crucial March meeting of vaccine advisors to the Food and Drug Administration has been canceled without explanation, a member of the advisory panel told CNBC on Wednesday. ... CDC data shows the flu has caused up to an estimated 910,000 hospitalizations since October, which puts the season on track to be the most severe in at least a decade. ...

Reported here.

The barbarians are inside the gates.

Everybody's favorite food inflation indicator, eggs, made another new all-time record high average price in January 2025: $4.953/dozen

 Sorting for the 100 largest flocks of egg-layers affected by H5N1 bird flu since 2022 which have had to be destroyed, as of this morning I count in excess of 21 million chickens destroyed to stop the spread so far in 2025 alone.

 

COVID-19 in the US is at an historic low for this time of year

 COVID-19 in national US wastewater analysis:

12/28/24: 04.75

12/30/23: 13.28

12/31/22: 10.99

1/1/22: 17.17

COVID-19 in wastewater in November 2024 is at 1.76 vs. 5.94 in November 2023 and 5.39 in November 2022 per the CDC

 

COVID-19 hits record lows for October in national wastewater analysis from the CDC, vaccine uptake for 2024-2025 season languishes at 4.8% for children and 13.5% for adults 18 and older

Oct 15, 2022: 3.38

Oct 14, 2023: 3.81

Oct 19, 2024: 1.94 (low, approaching minimal)

What a coincidence: Newsweek and now the CDC go after McDonalds

 

The vast majority in America is shunning vaccination against COVID-19 more than a month after availability according to the CDC

 

Reported on Friday, October 11th, 2024:

• The percent of adults age 18+ reporting receipt of the updated 2024─25 COVID-19 vaccine is 11.2% (9.7-12.7), including 26.7% (21.7-31.7) among adults age 65+.
  

The Harris-Walz campaign and the DNC still require vaccination against COVID-19 for employees

Story here. 

The Feds are renewing the COVID-19 hospitalization reporting requirement effective Nov 1 despite an actually lower current infection peak than in previous years

 I couldn't believe it when I saw it, but it's true.

The pandemic emergency ended in May 2023.

Required reporting of hospitalizations expired in April 2024, after which "The number of hospitals regularly reporting data decreased by nearly two thirds." 

Are the Feds preparing for the general?

 

 

https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html

https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/updated-hospital-reporting-requirements-for-respiratory-viruses.html

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/fy-2025-hospital-inpatient-prospective-payment-system-ipps-and-long-term-care-hospital-prospective-0

 

Oh no, not again: COVID-19 school closures in Tennessee and Alabama

 Of all pandemic deaths to date, school age children accounted for about 961 of 1,196,681 or 0.08%, according to the CDC.

Current wastewater surveillance is relatively high but hardly alarming, according to the CDC.

Have we learned nothing?

Yes, of course. We all went to public school.

 

One reason Americans are fatter than ever might seem to be sloth, except for the fact that 60% of the population worked in both 1979 and 2022 but the average work week dropped by just one hour over the period

According to the CDC, obesity is most severe among those of late middle-age, so if you can prevent it before then you are more likely to escape it later:

The prevalence of severe obesity was highest among adults aged 40–59 compared with other age groups.

Peak Baby Boom turned 40 in 1997.

Americans worked 32.61 hours per week on average in 1979 and 31.57 hours in 2022

All countries in 2016 with 30% of population or more obese

60% of the US population was working in both 1979 and 2022

The Seattle Times wants you to mask-up because there's a COVID-19 surge dontchaknow lol

 

42 million in the United States have forms of sexually transmitted human papillomavirus which can cause disease

More than 42 million Americans are infected with types of HPV that cause disease. ... Most HPV infections (9 out of 10) go away by themselves within 2 years. But sometimes, HPV infections will last longer and can cause some cancers.     

 

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About 70% of cancers in the oropharynx (which includes the tonsils, soft palate, and base of the tongue) are linked to human papillomavirus (HPV), a common sexually transmitted virus.

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Gonorrhea cases in the United States are up 135% in 12 years

 From 301,174 cases in 2009 to 710,151 cases in 2021

Chlamydia cases in the United States are up 32% in the last 12 years

From 1,244,180 in 2009 to 1,644,416 in 2021

Syphilis cases in the United States are up every year since 2009, a whopping 294% in 12 years

 From 44,832 cases in 2009 to 176,713 in 2021

Democrats begin Election 2024 leading with the lie that gun violence is the number one cause of death among children

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The CDC says otherwise.

Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death among US children aged 1-17 years since 1999, totaling 126,650. Among those the number one cause is motor vehicle traffic accidents, totaling 67,884. Number two is drowning accidents, at 19,062.  In eighth place is firearm accidents, totaling 2,265.

The second leading cause of death is childhood cancer, totaling 36,312.

The third leading cause of death is homicide, totaling 31,690. Among those the number one cause is firearms, totaling 19,306.

The fourth leading cause of death is suicide, totaling 26,653. Among those the number one cause is suicide by suffocation, totaling 12,890. The number two cause is suicide by firearm, totaling 10,934. Believe it, or not.

If you total firearm accidents, firearm homicides, and firearm suicides over the last 22 years for Americans aged 1-17 you still get only 32,505, a distant third place behind motor vehicle traffic accidents and cancer.

Meanwhile Democrats champion abortion on demand, which has killed untold millions upon millions of children since 1973, for which guns is just the smokescreen.

Incompetent lab inspectors from CDC completely missed rusting wastewater system at Fort Detrick Army biolab which spilled 2,000-3,000 gallons of contaminated water into Carroll Creek, USAMRIID response took 6 days until photo emerged

 Unsterilized laboratory wastewater from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, spewed out the top of a rusty 50,000-gallon outdoor holding tank, the pressure catapulting it over the short concrete wall that was supposed to contain hazardous spills.

It was May 25, 2018, the Friday morning before Memorial Day weekend, and the tank holding waste from labs working with Ebola, anthrax, and other lethal pathogens had become overpressurized, forcing the liquid out a vent pipe.

An estimated 2,000-3,000 gallons streamed into a grassy area a few feet from an open storm drain that dumps into Carroll Creek — a centerpiece of downtown Frederick, Maryland, a city of about 80,000 an hour’s drive from the nation’s capital.

But as the waste sprayed for as long as three hours, records show, none of the plant’s workers apparently noticed the tank had burst a pipe. This was despite the facility being under scrutiny from federal lab regulators following catastrophic flooding and an escalating series of safety failures that had been playing out for more than a week. ...

Lab inspectors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had apparently failed to recognize the plant was in such disrepair. The CDC offered no explanation of how the problems were missed, but after the incident it created a new policy and task force for overseeing labs’ wastewater decontamination systems.

Samuel Edwin, director of the CDC’s select agent regulatory program, did not grant an interview. Two years before the plant flooded and failed, the CDC had hired Edwin from USAMRIID, where he had spent eight years as the biological surety officer and responsible official in charge of making sure USAMRIID’s labs complied with federal regulations.

The whole story is a comedy of incompetence which would be funny if it weren't so serious, here.