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@amorvincitomnia
Gonzo Public Health 😷// “Fully vaxxed” is an outdated designation. Suggest: Time since last dose & # of total doses// Buy the ticket. Take the ride 💫
Nov 15, 2024 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
1/18 Oh no lol oh god lmao- Hanging up my jesters privilege for a bit of earnest posting. Here's what I submitted earlier this evening to HICPAC for their November meeting about the importance of layered mitigation strategies in healthcare settings. 2/ I am {whatevs} with 18 years of experience in public health research, direct service work, and advocacy, specializing in infectious disease mitigation including HIV and HCV.
Oct 2, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Hey. So. About Biobot trending downward. As of September 15, 2023, testing data is temporarily unavailable from about 400 wastewater testing sites nationwide. @amethystarlight @michael_hoerger covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
Screenshot of linked CDC Website: COVID Data Tracker - Maps, charts, and data provided by CDC, updates Mondays and Fridays by 8 p.m. ET COVID-19 Home Effective September 29, 2023, weekly updates to maps, charts, and data provided by CDC for COVID Data Tracker will occur on Fridays by 12 p.m. ET. This change aligns with the timing of CDC’s weekly updates for respiratory viruses (URL to that site). Note: As of September 15, 2023, testing data is temporarily unavailable from about 400 wastewater testing sites nationwide. A new contract is being implemented, and testing and reporting for aff... All credit to Patrick for finding this notice. All I did was verify and bring the news across platforms tiktok.com/@patrickthebio…
Sep 24, 2023 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
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WHO Tuberculosis Key Facts comparison: 2018 vs. 2021

[2018]

A total of 1.5 million people died from TB in 2018 (including 251 000 people with HIV). Worldwide, TB is one of the top 10 causes of death and the leading cause from a single infectious agent (above HIV/AIDS). 2/
In 2018, an estimated 10 million people fell ill with tuberculosis(TB) worldwide. 5.7 million men, 3.2 million women and 1.1 million children. There were cases in all countries and age groups. But TB is curable and preventable.
Sep 17, 2023 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
1/ On December 16th, 2009 the US Department of Labor released a video titled "The Difference Between Respirators and Surgical Masks"

W/in 30 seconds it clarifies; "A surgical mask is not a respirator and that's an important distinction for you and your employer to understand." Large text reads Surgical Masks (does not equal symbol) respirators 2/ They are very clear. Respirators are designed to reduce exposure to airborne contaminants. The respirator you use must be individually selected to fit your face and provide a tight seal. Half-mannequins without arms and wig display mannequins meant to represent all ethnicities model various respirator types. Valved and unvalved. Duckbilled, rounded, and angled. Headline reads: "Respirator" and defines "personal protective equipment designed to reduce exposure to airborne contaminants"
Jul 7, 2023 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
JULY 6, 2023 // California high court: Employers in California are not legally responsible for preventing the spread of COVID-19 from their employees to the employees’ family members, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday. archive.is/y3KhQ 2/ Workers’ compensation laws in the state do not preclude such claims, the court found. But companies also cannot be held legally responsible for preventing such infections, it said, given the tremendous burden such a requirement would place
Apr 13, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
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Huh. 🤔 From 2017: “The concept that enduring antigen stimulation leads to T-cell exhaustion that favors telomere attrition and a cell fate marked by enhanced T-cell senescence appears to be a common endpoint to chronic viral infections.” ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… 2/ Chronic viral infections are categorized as either slow, latent, or productive, depending upon the timing of virus replication and the resolution of disease. Source of graph: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8538/… Figure 46-1:Graph with y-ax...
Apr 9, 2023 • 30 tweets • 12 min read
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GOOD NEWS regarding the AIDS epidemic everyone! According to the June 1986 issue of Playboy, AIDS is on the decline. Vanishing, in fact. 🎆🎉🥳🍾 Photograph of the Playboy a...Photograph of article excer...Zoomed out photo of the art... 2/ Have a healthy immune system? You have nothing to worry about!

AIDS is hard to catch! Infected semen or fresh blood must come in to contact with a negative persons blood to infect. (Editors note: This is incomplete and inaccurate.) Article begins: "Some ...@amorvincitomnia adds a red...
Dec 17, 2022 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
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Do you recall the worlds remotest people? The Sentinalese on North Sentinel island, 500 miles east of India. There’s a suspicious article that Forbes published in March 2021 archive.ph/WxCX3 Sentinalese people threaten anyone who appear, and have kill 2/ Its thesis is classic imperialism arguing “isolation weakens the human body precisely because it limits the exposure to the myriad human-spread viruses that paradoxically strengthen the immune system.” This is right before introducing Sunetra Gupta, one author of The GBD.
Dec 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Got off a call with a complete stranger in a professional setting who, in the final minutes, shoehorned in the conservative spearheaded lie about P*losi’s husband’s attacker. After diplomatic correction this person said, “Well I believe it anyway.”

… tapping the sign👇 Image Ma’m. You asked where I’m from (San Francisco). Wild of you to treat this Zoom meeting as an Arby’s 🤨
Sep 18, 2022 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
26/ They close out those findings reasserting semen and fresh blood are main transmissible fluids adding that it cannot spread via physical touch.

Then they dismiss heterosexual epidemic again, but only here… In the African continent AIDS is a heterosexual concern 🤦‍♀️ Image 27/ Incredible levels of denial by the three Playboy contributors. It’s demonstrably heterosexual concern but they’re following local numbers in a globally connected world. “It’ll never happen here” is smugness we’ve recently seen re: 2022’s MPX coverage where Nigeria, et al’s
Sep 18, 2022 • 26 tweets • 9 min read
1/ 47 February 1986’s issue of Playboy asking the hard hitting question: Can Sex Survive AIDS? By: Arthur Kretchmer

Turns out the June issue was intended to clear up February’s mess.

Departing from the other 🧵’s tone this is a serious look at how the article minimizes HIV/AIDS
Image 2/ A few notes before we get in to it. HIV causes AIDS full stop. But keep in mind the connection between HIV & AIDS wasn’t widely understood in 1986. HIV, then called HTLV-III/LAV, seemed to have a nebulous correlation to AIDS. .nature.com/articles/d4285…
Sep 17, 2022 • 26 tweets • 10 min read
1/25 Good news regarding the AIDS epidemic everyone! According to the June 1986 issue of Playboy, AIDS is on the decline. Vanishing, in fact. 🎆🎉🥳🍾 2/ Have a healthy immune system? You have nothing to worry about!

AIDS is hard to catch! Infected semen or fresh blood must come in to contact with a negative persons blood to infect. (Editors note: This is wrong.)
Sep 16, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA president, called for a meeting of her union’s national board Saturday to discuss alternative evidence on whether to continue supporting vaccine requirements on film and TV sets. She invited America’s Frontline Doctors eugenicist Dr. Harvey Risch 🤦‍♀️ Last month, the “Nanny” star and cancer survivor raised her concerns about giving studio employers the right to require workers on film and TV shows to be vaccinated, in a letter published in the union’s magazine.
Jul 9, 2022 • 51 tweets • 11 min read
1/? I had the dismantling of testing & sexual health education clinics in the post-World War 2 era after penicillin became widely available in mind, but to my absolute utter lack of surprise the practice predates that. Let's go rabbit hunting: 2/ We can thank Hibbert Winslow Hill's 'provocative' 1912 book The New Public Health. If you haven't heard of Hibbert Winslow Hill it's not your fault. Despite his book putting a lot of the fuckery we're dealing with today in to motion he's not well known.
Jul 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It’s vague so let’s not speculate on what he meant. Let’s instead consider what it called to mind for me. Well. This thread of Bills & other commentators in the last few days. 1/4 In 2003 The Onion printed this. Haha. Funny. 2/4 theonion.com/this-war-will-… Screenshot of The Onion’s article title from 3/26/2003. Pu
Jul 7, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Oh?

1/8 Image Guy jumps through a lot of hoops explaining how there have been reinfections throughout the waves. Even mentions the person reinfected in 20 days from early 2022.

Oh but they’re rare still. (Pic 3)

2/8 ImageImageImage
Jul 7, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Cool, Chise. It’s known in epidemiology circles that an individual can be infected by multiple strains of any virus simultaneously. It’s true of HCV w/o HIV comorbidity. SARS-CoV-2 isn’t exempt from that. Ergo subsequent infections weeks apart not only can happen. They do happen ImageImageImage More than that. Simultaneous infection by multiple variants has been observed since Alpha & Beta were circulating long ago 🙄 tinyurl.com/2hm2nbws
Jun 24, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
1/5 Ok. At this point I have to wonder aloud whether gay & bi populations are the first to be identified b/c low threshold points of care (HIV testing clinics, testing vans, etc) are ubiquitous whereas they aren’t in other areas of public health. 2/5 There’s community reinforcement for health and regular checkups, well funded ad campaigns for regular testing & HIV advocacy, insufficiently funded supportive services—- all serving to meet general needs by connecting folks with care. All practices rooted in the 80’s pandemic
Jun 23, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It's cool how this article published 833 days after the WHO declared COVID19 a pandemic fails to mention asymptomatic spread (1st widely reported in Jan 2020), nor the impact of Long COVID. Very cool. And normal. And typical. Irresponsible. And stupid af. scientificamerican.com/article/study-… Aw- crap- it was published 832(!!) days after the declaration. It trended 833 days after.

My bad people. Absolutely beyond apologetic for this miscalculation. We've all grown accustomed to data errors-- surely this will be a forgivable sin. jko[gvqwejnopgqe]hni9qw3eg]hnipi
Jun 22, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
1/ In order to be employed in research focused departments at @UCSF, employees are required to review a basic refresher titled Social & Behavioral Responsible Conduct of Research through the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program) 2/ on a regular basis. You are required to pass an exam that asks detailed questions about The Belmont Report, Declaration of Helsinki, & must be able to describe the intersection where FDA’s 21 CFR Good Clinical Practice guidelines meet International Committee on Harmonization
Jun 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
*crying* *throwing up* It is TOO HOT in Oakland to read this but if you would like to engage in intellectual masochism see next tweet for a review 👇 Image Image