Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

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]

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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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