275 cases on Lackland Air Force Base, 4 hospitalized, 1 death under investigation — that's not a subtle number. Neither is 40%.
A large outbreak is underway at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, TX, hitting recruits in basic training hard. As of last Wednesday: 275 cases, 4 hospitalized, 1 death under investigation. The recruits were only 40% vaccinated — against a normal rate of over 90%. The Army, Navy, and Air Force have since reinstated the vaccination requirement, citing close-quarter training and living conditions.
Meanwhile, measles has reached 2,228 cases in just half a year, with new cases spread across PA, VA, UT, AZ, CA, OR, NY, and MD. The US is set to lose its 26-year-old eliminated-measles status.
On the respiratory side, early-warning wastewater signals are hinting at summer COVID in the West and South. Flu, by contrast, is nearly done — the positive-test rate fell to 0.66% in the final week of spring, down from 1.33% at the end of May. Wastewater readings near World Cup venues showed some upticks, though not necessarily tied to the matches.
Gobble's Take: Drop vaccination from 90% to 40%, hold a hundred recruits in close quarters, and wait. The math isn't complicated — it just hurts.
Source: Perplexity Search (community news)
The CDC's message on hantavirus is direct: extremely low risk for the US. The source material here centers on the MV Hondius, a vessel carrying guests and crew from two dozen countries around the world. The ship was rerouted to Granadilla, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands of Spain, where passengers and crew were to be screened before repatriation. The timeline notes that a Dutch passenger died on board, his Dutch wife died after leaving the ship, and another adult female died on May 2.
Gobble's Take: Three deaths, dozens of countries represented, and a ship still at sea — the gap between "extremely low US risk" and the situation on board remains wide.
Source: USA Today
The Johns Hopkins Guides CDC newsroom page contains multiple active public health updates, including Ebola outbreak transcripts from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, Hantavirus response briefings, and Salmonella outbreak alerts linked to backyard poultry and moringa leaf products.
Gobble's Take: No evidence, no story. The shortest Gobble's Take is sometimes the most honest one.
Source: Perplexity Search (evergreen)
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