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Becca Peter

@defectivebecca.bsky.social
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That vigilante blogger from LuLaRich. My son died from an embryonal brain tumor in 2023. linktr.ee/defectivebecca

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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Here are some of the adventures the Three Monketeers had in 2025
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16/09/2025
When you get a vaccine or a medical checkup, we expect the healthcare worker to wash their hands and wear gloves. We should think the same about wearing masks in medical settings. Viruses can spread pre-symptomatically; masks are another effective infection control measure.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Studies show mostly poor long-COVID protection for Paxlovid A small protective effect was only seen in older adults. www.cidrap.umn.edu/s... Photo: Anthony Quintano/Flickr cc
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Infectious Diseases @infectiousdz.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
You know what actually seems linked to an increase in type 1 diabetes among kids in recent years? A disease they said children didn't need to be vaccinated for. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Incidence of Diabetes in Children and Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This systematic review and meta-analysis compares incidence rates of diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis among children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Not only did this scammer take $100K in his scam lying to kids, he also destroyed more than $28K of federally-purchased vaccines - taxpayers paid for - when vaccines first became available. It’s not just RFK and it’s not just “skepticism.” Our government is willing to lose money to promote antivaxx.
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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
In a sample of ~64,000 COVID survivors and ~1.2M controls, COVID was associated with a higher risk of new-onset pneumonia.  #LongCovid academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
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SARS-CoV-2 infection increases long-term risk of pneumonia in an urban population: an observational cohort study up to 46 months post-infection
Individuals with prior COVID-19, especially those hospitalized for COVID-19, had a higher long-term risk of new and recurrent pneumonia, with risk further
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Six former CDC vaccine chairs are sounding the alarm—and we better listen. The U.S. is on the brink of losing access to life-saving immunizations. When science is attacked and trust is eroded, lives will be lost. This is not a drill. This is a national emergency.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I spent time in Seminole, Texas, after a deadly measles outbreak tore through. I came back with a story about anti-vaccine activists who exploited the crisis, outmatched doctors and public health officials working to contain it — and a community left to bear the cost. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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How measles tore through a remote West Texas city
Anti-vaccine activists seized on a deadly outbreak in Seminole, setting off a battle between fringe doctors and mainstream medicine.
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I updated my chart comparing pediatric flu and Covid deaths. Measles killed about 400-500 Americans (of all ages) per year in the years leading up to the vaccine. Why are some infectious disease deaths mourned and others ignored, dismissed? Kids aren’t supposed to die.
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
There is evidence that Covid infections can dysregulate the immune system. Is repeatedly being infected with Covid causing the measles vaccine to lose effectiveness? Let's look at the data we have for Americans!
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 14/05/2025
#WARNING: CPSC is warning consumers to immediately stop using VESLA HOME kitchen faucets, KZH bathroom faucets & CEINOL bathroom faucets, all sold on Amazon.com. The faucets were tested and found to contain lead that can leach into water at levels that can be particularly harmful to young children.
VESLA HOME Kitchen Faucet, KZH Bathroom Faucet and CEINOL Bathroom Faucet
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Infectious disease doctors are really out there saying “fuck them kids” with their whole chest. Hundreds of children are dying in the US every year from infectious diseases such as flu and Covid. We should be using all tools to reduce these deaths, not shrugging our shoulders and accepting it.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Cancer drug Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, Revlimid costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply... Even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture. New: @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @propublica.org
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The Price of Remission
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
55yo Canadian woman who received one dose of MMR as a child had a serious case of breakthrough measles that put her in the hospital for four days. She is a teacher who was likely exposed at school. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Three years ago today, fresh off his first two brain surgeries. He did not want anyone to cut his hair, so it just stayed uneven until radiation made it fall out.
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Is the drop in influenza vaccination rates the reason that pediatric influenza deaths are increasing? It is likely a factor, but it’s not the only factor. Also…
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.
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Alexander Tin @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
There were hundreds more laid off at NIH on Friday, we're told, including at NCI Sounds like layoffs were to make up for reinstatements elsewhere HHS told us "savings from these reductions will help redirect resources toward critical programs" www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...
After careful review, less than 250 employees across HHS were notified that they are also impacted by the reduction in force announced in March 2025. [...] The savings from these reductions will help redirect resources toward critical programs and strengthen our ability to serve the American people effectively. The goal is clear: reduce waste and maximize the impact of every taxpayer dollar.

The simple fact is that the important work of serving the American people will continue without disruption. Because of the reorganization, HHS will be better positioned to meet the needs of those who count on us most.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
How NOT to make a universal vaccine against any pathogen, no less influenza or SARS-CoV-2 @statnews.com by @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/05/03/n...
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Scientists question NIH project’s use of 20th century technology to make a universal flu vaccine
$500 million NIH program to make vaccines against pathogens that can trigger pandemics uses approach pioneered in last century
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The next time you hear RFK Jr talk about how he wants to “make America healthy” and end the chronic illness epidemic … remember that he just chose to cut the entire NIOSH department. A group of people whose sole purpose is to help prevent sickness, death and disability.
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
#medsky #episky 🧪 #pedsky #idsky Here's why HHS's demand for all new vaccines to be approved by placebo-controlled trials is actually profoundly unethical and jeopardizes all vaccines requiring rapid updates to cover pathogens that evolve quickly open.substack.com/pub/deplatfo...
HHS and FDA Demand Unethical Vaccine Studies
RFK Jr's. HHS is attempting to demand placebo-controlled trials in cases where it's not ethically appropriate.

The Washington Post recently broke the story that HHS, under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will be demanding that all new vaccines complete placebo-controlled trials before licensure. HHS’s comments therein note that Kennedy is not anti-vaccine, but rather “pro-safety”- a bald-faced lie that insults everyone’s intelligence. Similarly, FDA Commissioner Makary seems to be pushing for Novavax to conduct a randomized efficacy trial of their COVID-19 vaccine under the claims that it is a novel product because it has changed the strain of the spike protein it uses (it is not a novel product under existing regulatory framework and simply by common sense). I understand that headlines on this question have sparked confusion (e.g., “RFK Jr. will order placebo testing for new vaccines, alarming health experts”) and it may not be immediately clear why the health experts are alarmed. Here’s my best attempt to explain:
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Alexander Tin @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Nearly all of remaining staff at CDC's NIOSH received lay off notices today, we're told This is an org chart shared with us illustrating eliminated divisions to date Cuts had already upended approvals of new N95 respirators and probes of firefighter injuries www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/05/2025
A visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.
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Video: Visual Analysis Shows U.S. Likely Bombed Yemen Migrant Detention Center
Videos and photos reveal remnants of at least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of an April 28 attack. The strike killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that con...
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I made a chart of Pediatric Flu and Covid deaths by flu season (October - September).
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
7 years ago today.
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Three years ago. Think horses, not zebras. Strong family history of migraines. Passed all his neuro exams. It was a zebra and it killed him.
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Robyn R. Sadoon, MPP, MPH @ralsadoon.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Imagine having measles, treating patients anyway, and getting a gold star from RFK Jr. That’s not medicine, it’s malpractice wrapped in conspiracy cosplay.
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Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer
A video shows a Texas doctor, who has been treating children in a measles outbreak, with a measles rash on his face in a clinic while caring for patients a week before he met with Health Secretary Rob...
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Patients: We need universal masking in healthcare settings to protect us from getting infected by HCWs. Hospital administrators: HCWs would never show up to work sick. Patients: Most illnesses are contagious before symptoms start and YES THEY WOULD. theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/dont-mess-...
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
MAHA adherents do not seem to believe in avoiding infectious disease at all… To MAHA, sunscreen, pasteurization and food dyes are unnatural, and therefore harmful. COVID-19, measles, the flu, RSV, and any other contagious disease you can imagine are natural, therefore not harmful.
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RFK Jr.'s "MAHA" movement doesn't want to eliminate chronic illness. They want to eliminate the chronically ill.
Public health, modern medicine and disease mitigation will suffer under RFK Jr. because he sees sick people- not sickness- as the problem.
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
680 measles cases reported so far in the US this year. HI and IN have their first cases. CO's 3rd case appears to be community transmission. The TX outbreak most likely came from Canada and now we are exporting measles down to Mexico. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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USA Measles Cases 2025
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
When we had 400-500 measles deaths (mostly children) per year we spent decades trying to stop it. When we had 400+ children dying per year of Covid and our efforts at a vaccine weren’t great, our response was to stop counting how many children died of Covid.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/03/2025
Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I’ve got 532 measles cases in the US in 2025 on my spreadsheet. Remember that the CDC data lags by several days. 474 cases are likely linked to the TX outbreak. It’s a hot mess. Things are not under control and probably won’t be for a long time. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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USA Measles Cases 2025
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging” www.propublica.org/article/meas...
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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 mb@buttericklaw.com
A screenshot from a legal complaint with contact information for the plaintiffs' attorneys that states, "Joseph R. Saveri (State Bar No. 130064)
Cadio Zirpoli (State Bar No. 179108)
Christopher K.L. Young (State Bar No. 318371)
Kathleen J. McMahon (State Bar No. 340007)
JOSEPH SAVERI LAW FIRM, LLP
601 California Street, Suite 1000
San Francisco, California 94108
Telephone: (415) 500-6800
Facsimile: (415) 395-9940
Email: jsaveri@saverilawfirm.com
czirpoli@saverilawfirm.com
cyoung@saverilawfirm.com
kmcmahon@saverilawfirm.com
Matthew Butterick (State Bar No. 250953)
1920 Hillhurst Avenue, #406
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Telephone: (323) 968-2632
Facsimile: (415) 395-9940
Email: mb@buttericklaw.com
Counsel for Individual and Representative
Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class"A screenshot from a legal complaint that states, "UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
Richard Kadrey, an individual;
Sarah Silverman, an individual;
Christopher Golden, an individual;
Individual and Representative Plaintiffs,
v.
Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware
corporation;
Case No.
Complaint
Class Action
Demand for Jury Trial
Defendant."
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Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers @drtiffanyaflowers.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
DOGE laid off 10,000 postal workers today. Farewell to the US Postal Service – more than 10,000 employees will be laid off following the agreement signed with DOGE unionrayo.com/en/usps-job-...
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Farewell to the US Postal Service - more than 10,000 employees will be laid off following the agreement signed with DOGE
A season full of twists is coming to the United States, as the United States Postal Service (USPS) has confirmed that more than 10,000 employees will be laid
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Fascinating read from @holdenthorp.bsky.social presents a highly plausible explanation for the perceived rise in autism rates — broader definition and better understanding of how it manifests in girls & women. Worth your time. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/o...
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Opinion | Sorry, R.F.K.: There Is No Autism Mystery
Greater awareness, not vaccines, has driven an increase in diagnoses.
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Today is going to be a big day for measles! Updates for Friday, March 21, 2025. We are starting the day with 371 reported measles cases in the US this year. That number will likely surpass 400 by the end of the day. I will post updates in this thread.
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Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We need to tread eugenics with the seriousness we treat the most vile forms of bigotry because eugenics is what turns those bigotries into action items.
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/03/2025
We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.
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GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors - LGBTQ Nation
The bill would allow anyone to sue someone who affirms a young person's transition, and it specifically mentions hairstyles.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is the natural consequence of liberals joining the far right in believing foundational anti vaxx belief that mass infection is good. This is a great piece breaking this down: www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-j...
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Alexander Tin @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
There's a lot of D1.3 in wild birds and poultry these days Now we know from CDC that last month's Ohio hospitalization was also D1.3 I think this marks first known U.S. human with D1.3. No concerning genetic changes reported www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spo... bsky.app/profile/hlni...
A screenshot of text that reads in part: "CDC has sequenced the virus from the most recent Ohio human case. Genetic data have been posted in GISAID (Epi ID 19785793) and have been submitted to GenBank. Sequencing indicates this is a clade 2.3.4.4b virus of the D1.3 genotype based on classification using USDA's genotyping assignment criteria. D1.3 viruses, like D1.1 viruses, originated from A3 genotype A(H5N1) viruses that were introduced to North America in 2022 and have subsequently reassorted with North American wild bird avian influenza viruses. There were no markers that would impact the effectiveness of influenza antivirals or existing candidate vaccine viruses. Finally, CDC did not identify changes that would make this virus better adapted to spread among or infect mammals. Attempts to isolate this virus in eggs are ongoing."
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Texas health officials think the measles outbreak will last a year. Make Endemic Measles Great Again! 😩 www.local3news.com/regional-nat...
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Becca Peter @defectivebecca.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Oklahoma apparently lacks the ability or desire to lab confirm measles cases. The CDC won’t count probable cases 🤦🏻‍♀️ So according to the CDC there is no measles in Oklahoma 🙃
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Alexander Tin @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“We have heard very unfortunate news that there is an effort underfoot to completely eliminate CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention as quickly as within the next 24 hours.”
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I have said it before: if I were actively trying to turn bird flu into a pandemic, this would be my strategy.
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