The cattle movement restriction is likely too late to contain transmission. The main benefit is the additional data that will come out of mandatory testing. It's frustrating that testing data is not already available; I hope it's released in the days ahead.

New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school

- significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls
- reduced bullying among both genders
- improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates
- largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids

We really need to be more open-minded about the potential for new host species to produce H5N1 viruses adapted to humans or other mammalian hosts.

Influenza viruses have a broad host range & adapt to any species they can infect. Pigs are not the only species that can be infected

Informative thread below. The problem is federal and state animal health officials are not turning over cases as aggressively as human health officials would, because they’re balancing economic concerns about impacts to farmers. So, ultimately Congress and Biden Admin needs to…

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