
Dylan George
@dylanbgeorge
Director, CDC Center for Forecasting & Outbreak Analytics; former VP at Ginkgo, In-Q-Tel, USG science & tech advisor - OSTP, HHS, DoD; ...views my own...
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NEW: UK Health Security Agency variant risk assessment just published ā ļø BA.2.86 designated a variant V-23AUG-01 gov.uk/government/pubā¦




Using the word āsurgeā for recent Covid seems unhelpful to me. The increase is real, but tiny in both proportion and absolute numbers compared with others over the last few years. I think itās misleading to use the same term for this and eg delta, BA.1 or BA.2. Donāt devalue it












.Dept. of Agriculture reports +2 #H5N1 #birdflu outbreaks in dairy cattle, bringing the number of infected herds to 26 since the first report in late March. New reports from Texas & New Mexico, which have had the most detections. (graph mine, from USDA data) aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poulā¦


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