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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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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On Thursday & Friday, 20th & 21st April, the @dukedecolonize student group is hosting a symposium, free & open to all (free lunch provided)

Register in-person or on zoom: linktr.ee/DUKEDDR

🧵on the schedule & speakers

1/9 Here is the two-day agenda

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🦠 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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1/? 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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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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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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The 8 best cover versions of “Light My Fire”

This one is, very obviously, the greatest in history, by Dame Shirley Bassey

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Another killer version, it gets the number 2 spot, José Feliciano (he later re-recorded it with Minnie Riperton)

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Today I returned to my office for the first time in 16 months.

Not surprisingly, there was a pile of mail for me.

Most of the mail was handwritten.

It was handwritten by incarcerated people.

These letters were devastating to read.

Let me explain.

1/n Last year, I was horrified that prisons, jails, ICE detention centers & juvenile detention centers were being ignored when it came to preventing Covid infection.

In March 2020, I wrote my 1st piece on how to reduce the risk of Covid in these settings

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time.com/5812616/protec…