Q&A: NIAID’s Jeanne Marrazzo speaks on bird flu, mpox, and succeeding Anthony Fauci
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An interview with the director of the NIAID, Jeanne Marrazzo, on bird flu, mpox, the post-Fauci era and more.

Jeanne Marrazzo, new leader of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, everyone:

Can I make a quick digression? We recently had a long Covid [research] meeting where we had about 200 people, in person. And we can’t mandate mask-wearing, because it’s federal property. But there was a fair amount of disturbance that we couldn’t, and people weren’t wearing masks, and one person accused us of committing a microaggression by not wearing masks.

And I take that very seriously. But I thought to myself, it’s more that people just want to live a normal life. We really don’t want to go back. It was so painful. We’re still all traumatized. Let’s be honest about that. None of us are over it.

So there’s not a lot of appetite for raising an alarm, especially if it could be perceived subsequently as a false alarm.

Edit - thanks for the help in bypassing the paywall.

  • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    27 days ago

    America will.never improve because Americans are literally the most spoiled, self centered, selfish, antisocial dipshits in the history of the world.

    If wearing a mask into a grocery store to stop a global pandemic was too big an ask what does anybody expect us to overc9me when there’s a real issue.

    Same with climate change, how many times have you seen people pitching about having to use plastic straws or reusable grocery bags.

    Americans are tough and smart and resilient, so long as they dont have to make LITERALLY any personal sacrifices.

    “The world is going to literally explode unless you skip going to this one specific movie showing, we will give you a full refund and a personal chariot to another showing at a later date” is a test 60% of the country would fail.