<p>This <a href="/tags/arborday/" rel="tag">#ArborDay</a>, a reminder that trees aren't just important for the environment.</p><p>Tree loss can create the conditions for humans and virus-infected animals to collide — meaning the next deadly pandemic is just a forest clearing away.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/pandemic-spillover-outbreak-guinea-forest-clearing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/pandemic-spillover-outbreak-guinea-forest-clearing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/pan</span><span class="invisible">demic-spillover-outbreak-guinea-forest-clearing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/forest/" rel="tag">#Forest</a> <a href="/tags/trees/" rel="tag">#Trees</a> <a href="/tags/pandemic/" rel="tag">#Pandemic</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/disease/" rel="tag">#Disease</a></p>
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<p>What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic<br>---</p><p>To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/bird-flu-airborne-usda-pandemic?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/bird-flu-airborne-usda-pandemic?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/bir</span><span class="invisible">d-flu-airborne-usda-pandemic?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/birdflu/" rel="tag">#BirdFlu</a> <a href="/tags/pandemic/" rel="tag">#Pandemic</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a></p>
It looks like we might be in for a significant increase in COVID infections with these two new variants. Now's a good time to start wearing a mask indoors and avoiding crowded indoor events, ventilating indoor spaces, getting a booster, and generally paying attention to COVID levels if you weren't already doing all that. <a href="https://mstdn.science/users/TRyanGregory/statuses/114671085981206502" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mstdn.science/users/TRyanGregory/statuses/114671085981206502"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mstdn.science/users/TRyanGrego</span><span class="invisible">ry/statuses/114671085981206502</span></a><br><br><a href="/tags/covid/" rel="tag">#COVID</a> <a href="/tags/covid19/" rel="tag">#COVID19</a> <a href="/tags/pandemic/" rel="tag">#pandemic</a> <a href="/tags/covidisnotover/" rel="tag">#COVIDIsNotOver</a> <a href="/tags/maskup/" rel="tag">#MaskUp</a> <a href="/tags/wearamask/" rel="tag">#WearAMask</a><br>
Got another COVID booster this morning. I've lost count of how many I've had by this point but we're on a regular twice a year cadence now and until there is a real reason to stop.<br><br><a href="/tags/covid/" rel="tag">#COVID</a> <a href="/tags/covid19/" rel="tag">#COVID19</a> <a href="/tags/covidisnotover/" rel="tag">#COVIDIsNotOver</a> <a href="/tags/covidisairborne/" rel="tag">#COVIDIsAirborne</a> <a href="/tags/maskup/" rel="tag">#MaskUp</a> <a href="/tags/covidbooster/" rel="tag">#COVIDBooster</a> <a href="/tags/pandemic/" rel="tag">#pandemic</a><br>
"During COVID" is today.<br><br><a href="/tags/covid/" rel="tag">#COVID</a> <a href="/tags/covid19/" rel="tag">#COVID19</a> <a href="/tags/covidisstillhere/" rel="tag">#COVIDIsStillHere</a> <a href="/tags/covidisnotover/" rel="tag">#COVIDIsNotOver</a> <a href="/tags/maskup/" rel="tag">#MaskUp</a> <a href="/tags/pandemic/" rel="tag">#pandemic</a><br>