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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by timschmidt on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @02:46PM (#49453871)
I was one of those affected. The official CDC numbers are underestimates, because they're only counting cases confirmed by culture. My doc asked enough questions to make sure it wasn't your typical stomach flu or food poisoning and got me the antibiotics ASAP which I appreciated. I assume I'm not counted as a result. I have to assume others aren't as well.
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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by wonnage on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @03:44PM (#49454737)
Furthermore the present CDC was gutted by an administration whose solution to Covid was to stop counting
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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by zimpenfish on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:42PM (#49456912)
And whose solution to "Is cyclospora a problem?" was to remove the monitoring and presumably stick their fingers in their ears.[0]

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cdc-food-net-monitorin...

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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by Fomite on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:43PM (#49457440)
The FoodNet thing, while bad, has a bit of nuance in the system was not meant to do outbreak detection, so likely wouldn't have helped here.

But it does cripple our ability to ask if this was a one-off, or if we're seeing long term trends that should be worrisome.

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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by mapontosevenths on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:30AM (#49459725)
It would have made identifying the source trivial. Instead we had waves of confused and confusing reports.
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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by Fomite on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:42PM (#49457430)
This. As an infectious disease epidemiologist, the number of people who will work their way into laboratory confirmed case reports is a small fraction of the total number of people impacted.

You are almost certainly not reflected in those numbers.

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