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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the Administration for Strategic Preparedness & Response
[twitter]https://x.com/saskiapopescu/status/1890892595003298291?s=46&t=kf1qYlCXQnKgUhJWEIu2vg[/twitter][/quote]

Firings are real... I feel safer already /s

[b]Trump Cuts Hit Office Handling Bird Flu Response[/b]

“Laboratories in a national network of 58 facilities responding to the spread of bird flu were notified Friday that 25 percent of the staff in a central program office coordinating their work were fired in the Trump administration’s mass layoffs of federal employees,” Politico reports.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/16/trump-administration-firings-bird-flu-response-00204542?lctg=136252390

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FFS

I work for a hospital and private labs are already inundated with H5 tests because all hospitals are starting to send Flu A positive specimens that are negative for H1 and H3 on a broad respiratory panel for all admitted patients. The testing is VERY expensive and hospitals are also looking at the potential for medicaid/medicare reimbursements being cut which will be disastrous. Because labs are being inundated the return test can take a long time and also means that patients have to stay on isolation precautions the entire time which means utilization of scarce negative pressure rooms, gowns and gloves until the test returns.

If there is anything for which the MAGA party is especially weak and stupid, it is general science and healthcare.

Make America Healthy Again, my @ss.[/quote]

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