Mom, spouse, UNE med school professor of Micro & ID, amateur chef, #ChaoticGood, #speaker #SciComm #VaccinesWork #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #EmergingViruses She/Her
Apr 20, 2021 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Do better @nypost - you should be ashamed. I didn't think I'd have to add "vaccines don't cause Herpes" to my disinformation slides, but here were are.... a thread 🧵....
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1.) As with all stupid disinformation tactics, there is a kernal of reality wrapped in screaming layers of inflammatory nonsense here. The grain of truth involves #shingles, known clinically as #Herpes zoster. All of us who have had #ChickenPox ....
Aug 11, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Moscow claims to have produced the world's first #COVID19#vaccine. Few details have been shared, but here is what we know:
1.) testing has been done on fewer than 100 people
2.) Putin claims that all have antibodies and the only complication/side effect was fever
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3.) By definition, no #Phase3 trial has been done, so if we take Putin's work for it we can *perhaps* say there is evidence for safety, but no one can pretend there is evidence for efficacy as defined by "protection against #COVID19"
4.) This was an a priori ("first") claim
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Jun 20, 2020 • 11 tweets • 8 min read
Let me tell you a bit about #COVID19 in #Maine. First, you may think of Maine as a rural state, and largely it is, but not entirely. We have a good-size city with an international airport in #Portland, and the southern tip (where I live) is considered part of greater #Boston 1/
Seriously, lots of people in town commute home and back daily. So.... not the sticks. Our #COVID19 case count is still considered "falling". Currently, businesses strictly regulate how many customers can be inside at any one time (number varies w/ business size). 2/
Mar 28, 2020 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
(Thread) Attention #MedTwitter and #EpiTwitter - I am going to try crowdsourcing some advice on a publication venue for a study that my colleague @KHouseknecht and I strongly suspect could have profound impacts on #COVID19 patient outcomes. These are preclinical model data. 1/
Here is the upshot: these (in vivo) data demonstrate profound immune dysregulation occurring as a drug side effect. The drug in question is widely prescribed, notably in vulnerable populations including older adults. These are the very same patients most at risk for... 2/
Feb 29, 2020 • 30 tweets • 25 min read
A thread about the delayed #coronavirus/#COVID19 testing, and more broadly, about the process of science: 1/
One of the many questions of the past week in the US has been: "WHY AREN'T WE TESTING ALL SUSPECTED CASES?" This is a very fair and natural question if you do not work in a clinical laboratory or, more broadly, in R&D as applied to human health. 2/
