FluSCIM Lucas Gonzalez
@lucasgonzalez
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Work together to mitigate #H5N1BadSoonScenario, climate & poverty. https://t.co/r9ugatxmBl ~2010 #fluscim2
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Joined January 2008
I think I've pretty much mapped the whole field for myself: "global protection from aerosol driven epidemics and pandemics." Next: flesh out a small number of pages in appropedia, and write a substack post or three. Getting there!.
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RT @PPEtoheros: Since most people don’t know to consider anything besides an N95 for wildfire smoke events, I’ve designed a chart that help….
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RT @markwarling3: How Influenza Reassortment May Make Bird Flu More Dangerous | Scientific American
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RT @lucasgonzalez: A short informative rant because there'sa good Scientific American article on reassortment. It's biologically possible,….
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A short informative rant because there'sa good Scientific American article on reassortment. It's biologically possible, no matter how strongly we are in denial. And solutions are there, BTW!
This is a very clear article. I've been following flu for 20+ years as an epidemiologist/planner. Not a virologist but it's not entirely clear if 1918 "Spanish flu" emerged from mutation or reassortment. In either case, we're not looking, and we're not ready. #H5N1BadSoonScenario.
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RT @lucasgonzalez: So. over at I've done my best to collect practical options including adjusters and sustainable….
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RT @lucasgonzalez: Knowledge of the onset might easily be available once it's in many places (time to detection modelled to be "weeks" with….
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RT @lucasgonzalez: If you want to know more, go to my pinned post/tweet. Summary: a bad panflu (say killing many young people) is very poss….
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So. over at I've done my best to collect practical options including adjusters and sustainable reduction of respiratory contacts. In there's a mini-language to help dampen disruption of vital services & supplies. Help if you can.
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Knowledge of the onset might easily be available once it's in many places (time to detection modelled to be "weeks" with current surveillance practices). Vaccines would be slow in reaching the first arm, and would manufacturing countries share good enough masks? Messy fast? So. .
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If you want to know more, go to my pinned post/tweet. Summary: a bad panflu (say killing many young people) is very possible and could start abruptly, causing huge disruption that could be way more intense than what we've seen with covid - even before cases become truly abundant.
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This is a very clear article. I've been following flu for 20+ years as an epidemiologist/planner. Not a virologist but it's not entirely clear if 1918 "Spanish flu" emerged from mutation or reassortment. In either case, we're not looking, and we're not ready. #H5N1BadSoonScenario.
How Influenza Reassortment May Make Bird Flu More Dangerous | Scientific American
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RT @brownecfm: Extremely important article on reassortment, H5N1, and pandemic potential. As I've said before, if the situation in the US r….
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RT @isabelleboemeke: “It boggles the modern mind, but that's what a life with low energy consumption looks like: an endless hellscape of te….
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RT @DenimFarmer: The environmental cost is staggering:. Microplastics now found in human blood & placenta. Ocean plastic to outweigh fish b….
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RT @DenimFarmer: Contrast with ACTUAL recycling successes:. Aluminum: 75% avg US recycling rate.Requires 95% less energy than virgin materi….
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RT @DenimFarmer: The science behind plastic's unrecyclability is clear:. Polymer chains break down with each melt (unlike glass/metal). 7,0….
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RT @Hesamation: a guy created a dataset of 50 books from London 1800-1850 for LLM training. no modern bias. it’s actually super cool to se….
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Could it kill the young? I think, biologically, yes.
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RT @open_erv: @sri_srikrishna I'm not a fan of the ach thing. The cfm per person makes more sense. Why would you need an enormous amount….
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