Discussed in this episode:
- Donald Trump has announced his picks to hold key public health positions: prominent anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is up for Secretary of Health and Human Services; former Republican lawmaker David Weldon, a frequent critic of vaccination programs run by the Centers for Disease Control, is his pick to run . . . the Centers for Disease Control.
- H5N1 Avian Influenza keeps picking up steam. In California, a batch of raw milk has tested with high levels of the virus; in Canada, a teenager’s been hospitalized and put on breathing support with a variant of the virus with mutations that appear to increase the likelihood of human-to-human transmission.
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