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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social

@GYamey

Oct 18, 2023

https://twitter.com/GYamey/status/1711784963220054116

OK, am gonna try live tweet while also being a panelist (😱)

Gauri Arora @CSEINDIA kicks us off, noting that we have an antibiotic pipeline crisis

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https://twitter.com/GYamey/status/1711784963220054116

The preclinical pipeline is also not healthy

This is largely due to market failures; big companies have largely exited the antibiotic space, seeking profits from other areas

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Small & medium sized developers are also struggling, facing teething problems

🚨🚨🚨ONLY 5 ANTIBIOTIC DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES ARE STILL ACTIVE

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social

@GYamey

Apr 20, 2023

@DukeGHI

Maya Wilson, masters of science in global health (GH) student here @DukeGHI, kicks us the seminar

She says the webinar was organized by Duke students "who recognized the persistence of colonial legacies, power dynamics, & knowledge creation & recognition systems in GH"

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https://twitter.com/GYamey/status/1649040075529830400

Maya says: "These colonial legacies are a direct threat to the ultimate goal of health equity, or health for all, within the context of GH. Colonality has also been a longstanding central facet to the ivory tower of academia"

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The aim of the webinar, she says, is "2 engage in discourse that will require us 2 stand face-to-face with hard truths about GH among other academic fields; discourse that will require us to acknowledge the ways in which the institutions that we are a part of contribute to.."
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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social

@GYamey

Apr 14, 2023

@cmyeaton

🦠 Panel on microbial threats, with, from left to right, Nancy Reynolds, Tony Fauci, Tom Inglesby, Nicole Lurie & @cmyeaton

At the start of the pandemic, our neighbor named his puppy Fauci, and first speaker is Tony himself….

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One day I will write a thread about Tony Fauci’s amazingly stylish clothing (very classic, with perfect fits)

Anyway, “civilizations have been formed & shaped by pandemics” through history, he says

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His first testimony to Congress was in 1984–he spoke about HIV

Over the years, he’d add more & more emerging & re-emerging infections, eg, SARS, MERS, Ebola, Covid….

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social

@GYamey

Mar 2, 2023

It's true that the extreme antisemite, anti-vaxxer Marjorie Taylor Greene & her MAGA committee members had a good chuckle, perhaps forgetting why it was called the "plague" & that it killed 25% of the city's population (so hilarious!)

A 🧵on the GBD's push for herd immunity 1/13

Interesting that the Athenian Plague is the model for the GBD!

In fact, the Athenians & Lacedaemonians were aware that the plague was contagious; spread of the disease was "effectively controlled by quarantine, either voluntary or involuntary"

jstor.org/stable/283290

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When the GBD, in the era before powerful Covid vaccines & antivirals, pushed for infection, many clinicians & scientists were understandably alarmed

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social

@GYamey

Feb 3, 2023

The 5 best cover versions of “White Rabbit”

From their brilliant Japanese psych album “Psychedelic Sounds In Japan,” this violin-heavy version by The Mops is 🔥☄️🔥

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Hungarian jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó created a magnificent sitar-heavy version, which is on his 1967 album “Wind, Sky and Diamonds,” released on the Impulse! label

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