Amy Maxmen, PhD
@amymaxmen · @amymaxmen.bsky.social · joined 01 Dec 2010
Award-winning public health reporter @KFFHealthNews. Bylines @NYTimes @Nature & more. She/her. More: https://t.co/NdADJbAbi4
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🚨Texas measles outbreak nears 100 cases, w/16 hospitalizations. Officials suspect it's spilled just across the border to New Mexico.
Low vax rates+undetected infections mean it will grow.
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@amymaxmen You’re reporting even more important now!
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*clarification: I don't know who is stalling the CDC studies or why.
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On hold at the CDC: An analysis suggesting that flu cases *may* be at a record high. That could mean a surge of deaths comes next.
The CDC is delaying analyses to inform the situation & has cut off usual communication w/hospital networks & WHO.
My latest https://t.co/v9WaVOZ1FL
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🚨Urgent CDC analyses on seasonal flu, bird flu in cats & in wastewater have been stalled. And CDC has stopped contributing flu data to global platforms, says WHO.
“Delays in data create dangerous situations on the front line.” My latest @KFFHealthNews https://t.co/v9WaVOZ1FL
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🚨At least 14 people have been hospitalized in a measles outbreak in an undervaccinated part of Texas. 24 cases so far, mainly children.
Health officials worry some parents might not seek care for their kids. Dangerous & means this will keep spreading.
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@amymaxmen @KFFHealthNews Laziest country in the world. Such a shame.
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My investigation shows why bird flu surveillance is poor. Farmers are too busy to deal w/public health; local public health is beleaguered; a lack of urgency bc cases seem mild.
“If 100s of workers had died, we’d be more forceful about monitoring workers” https://t.co/ok7FjsaKqz
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CDC updates don't paint a picture of what's happening on the ground as local health departments try to learn how often bird flu infects farmworkers.
The lack of data means we can't make sense of Cali's spike.
My latest @KFFHealthNews & @sfchronicle https://t.co/ok7FjsaKqz
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Keeping track of people exposed to viruses is a cornerstone of pandemic prevention. I’ve tagged along w/health officers doing this around the world (track Ebola in Congo👇)
But US public health hasn't been as open w/me. So, I FOIAd health depts for emails on H5N1 surveillance. h
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Dozens of emails from local health depts show their struggle to monitor people exposed to bird flu.
They also reveal where public health has lost track.
Note that in this July update from Colorado 👇At least it's an honest depiction of the unknowns. https://t.co/Rs9XNYD9rg htt
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😿Some emails from MI were about people who seem to have infected their pet cats w/bird flu.
Epidemiologists don’t know if it was from raw milk droplets on the owners - or if they were infected & passed it thru, say, hands damp from rubbing their nose.
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🐮Exclusive: Emails from FOIA show why surveillance for human bird flu cases has been marred by delays & blind spots.
As a result, we can’t answer basic questions – like why cases have more than doubled within a few weeks.
My latest @KFFHealthNews
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.84%25 Oct
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.
What the audience does
Likes58.3%798 in total
Reposts29.6%405 in total
Replies1.3%18 in total
Quotes2.2%30 in total
Bookmarks8.6%117 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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