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7 Apr, 6 tweets, 4 min read
“It’s not for lack of trying” ????
IT IS FOR LACK OF TRYING.
nature.com/articles/d4158…
We have sequenced ~60% of all Louisiana SARS-CoV-2 since beginning of pandemic. No funds from CDC... no serious discussions with contracting officials. Just talk talk talk talk talk. tick toc...
..@tylercowen & COVID-19 fast grants came through while @dmaccannell busy giving your tax dollars directly to @illumina @Labcorp etc who hadn’t even “ramped up” yet sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/u… Image
... meanwhile.. why should @dmaccannell fund university labs to sequence SARS-CoV-2? When he pays your tax dollars to @Labcorp et al, he is senior author on all the sequences they deposit in GenBank & @GISAID .. probably 50,000 by now. ImageImage
That is what I call clear “appearance” of a CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
Just one example of what the AUTHORSHIP on these sequences you tax $$ are paying for look in GISAID.. why would @dmaccannell or the office he is CHIEF SCIENTIST of want to fund me or any other academic lab to sequence in Louisiana? Image

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9 Apr
Your Forbes piece plus the explanatory cartoon by @malki form an effective vaccine that stops sealions in their tracks..
Because just like the adaptive immune system, early recognition is the best defense.
For example .. this is the Marshall sea lion-001 vaccine in action
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9 Apr
Had a great phone call with this Richard Neher guy.. sometimes a bit of Twitter theatre 🎭 can lead somewhere good!
..@nextstrain (Auspice + Augur) and @GISAID (EpiFlu + EpiCoV) have worked together to revolutionize how we understand outbreaks and have led to virtuous cycles of enhanced genome sequencing around the world 🌍
There are great things in store for all of us when we each get past our disagreements and/ or misunderstandings...
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8 Apr
Reimbursed? This says a lot about your respect or lack thereof for our intellectual contributions. Thanks!
Should @Tuliodna and @houzhou be “reimbursed” for “filling the void,” too.. and discovering B.1.351 and many other emergent variants? Is that our role? A raw materials producers those like you who refine pretty phylogenetic trees?
Or maybe local virologists want to engage with their local & international collaborators like @VirusWhisperer to develop viral neutralization assays?
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8 Apr
Our efforts are significant, too. SIGNIFICANT FOR PUBLIC HEALTH. You and your office has funded 0️⃣ of them.
Francis Collins discussed our work (positively) with the Washington Post.. and your boss, Greg Armstrong, presented to on the Q677 variants we helped discover
But we have seen no direct support from @CDCgov @CDCemergency @CDCDirector ... instead you take Louisiana $$$ and send it to @Labcorp & Quest & Illumina and stamp your name as SENIOR AUTHOR every time they publish a sequence under the CDC contracts you cut for them.
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7 Apr
DEMYSTIFY THIS NONSENSE
Sequencing pathogens & sharing the data is a public health utility. It needs to be distributed and decentralized to avoid the next COVID-19. And also, let’s face it.. to modernize how we move forward against all community transmitted infectious diseases.
Academia has huge role in community outreach, education & microbial genomic surveillance. CDC OAMD support for this has been ALL TALK. NO WALK.
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7 Apr
In the near future, ongoing community-based surveillance sequencing will release daily / weekly reports on the viruses 🦠 and bacteria that are actively causing illnesses in our schools, workplaces, care homes, et cetera Image
This is the future of global health.. and it will be happening in all countries, rich and poor.. cc: @WHO @RockefellerFdn @RickABright @GISAID @AfricaCDC @PardisSabeti
The technology is here but a few challenges remain.. we need to make sure to build trust in communities & be transparent about what we are doing when we obtain samples from communities
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