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Biomedical informatician and cognitive scientist, follower of all things medicine, technology, and science.
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CBS 60 Minutes || Bird flu, feared as a possible pandemic, poses growing risk to people as pathogen spreads h5n1: Dr. Kay Russo: "we're given a stick, and they put a blindfold on us, and we're sent into a gunfight and we're losing. We are losing." www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-fl...

Veterinarian Dr. Kay Russo told 60 Minutes that the U.S. is running out of time to stop bird flu. https://cbsn.ws/4cKau0s

BREAKING: Top Virologists Warn World to Prepare for Deadly H5N1 Bird Flu Pandemic Top virologists from 40 countries warn of growing H5N1 bird flu pandemic risk; urge stronger global defences as virus could kill 1 in every 2 people it infects.

🧵1/ RFK Jr. says childhood vaccines weren’t tested and that COVID boosters need full trials every year. That’s not how vaccines—or science—work. Time for a #FactCheckFriday! Let’s talk about how vaccines are tested, and how this kind of talk puts real people at risk. www.cdc.gov/vaccines/bas...

A total bald-faced lie. There is NO fetal tissue in the MMR vaccine. Period. This man is unfit to lead HHS.

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You can't have it both ways by stating that autism is an epidemic AND simultaneously cut funding for it. time.com/7279068/trum...

An antibiotic that's used to treat pneumonia has shown promise against Lyme disease at a dose 100 times lower than the standard antibiotic therapy - and it doesn't seem to harm the gut microbiome. Read @newscientist.com. www.newscientist.com/article/2477...

Autism is not a disease and these kids are not damaged, despite what HHS Secretary Kennedy says.

Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....

All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.

Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

⚠️ BREAKING: U.S. 🇺🇲 Sees 2.24 Million COVID-19 Cases in a Week as COVID-19 Transmission Surges to 28.3% Currently 1 in 149 Americans Infected.

“In one video… a voice claiming to be Zuckerberg says that “it’s normal to feel uncomfortable or even violated as we forcefully insert AI into every facet of your conscious experience. And I just want to assure you, you don’t need to worry because there’s absolutely nothing you can do to stop it.””

I get concerns about disincentive to disclose climate risks here, but frankly, disclosures have always struck me as more useful for assessing the technical chops of the risk team (ie how sophisticated are they in creatively considering how climate affects business) than as an absolute risk measure.

More evidence that viruses are bad. If you haven't been following @polybiorf.bsky.social you should. There are no good viruses. While infections for many may be "mild", the life long implications are huge. Want to live longer? Avoid viral infections. Many are airborne! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As an infectious diseases specialist I beg to defer. Simply encounter as a healthy individual an N meningitidis and you might die, doesn’t matter how healthy you are.

WHAT?! Dr. Ben Edwards, who RFK Jr tweeted is an "extraordinary healer", admits that he is "treating" unvaccinated children & families WHILE HE IS ACTIVELY INFECTIOUS WITH THE MEASLES. buff.ly/cu3QqpK "I am doing what any doctor should be doing." Dangerous on so many levels. #medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪

@greenhousemd.bsky.social #medsky www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

youtube.com/watch?v=Q9_n... And 60 years later the times are a changin again

1/ Another child has died from #measles in the U.S.—an 8-year-old girl. Unvaccinated. No underlying health conditions. This is tragic. And entirely preventable. It’s also not normal—for three key reasons. 🧵

Fact Checked: The Measles Vaccine is Safe and Effective 'Extensive research demonstrates that the MMR vaccine is safe and significantly reduces the risk of contracting measles, a disease that can lead to severe complications and death.' The American Academy of Pediatrics www.aap.org/en/news-room...

New measles death in TX - a child. C/w last week: CURRENT CASE COUNT: 569 Texas: 481 (+59) New Mexico: 54 (+6) Oklahoma: 10 Kansas: 24 (+1) HOSPITALIZATIONS: 58 (+14) Texas: 56 (+14) have been hospitalized, 11.6%. New Mexico: 2 (No change). This is 4.5% of NM cases. DEATHS: 3 (+1)

Tragically, another child died of measles in Texas In 2 months of RFK Jr’s ‘leadership’ we’ve had more measles deaths than over the last 2 decades. This isn’t a coincidence. We will regret this.

Measles likely came from cows (via rinderpest) around the 6th century BCE. For 2,500 years, we didn’t evolve superhuman resistance—children just died. Real protection only came in the 1960s, with vaccines. Our superpower isn’t evolving into superhumans. It’s outthinking pathogens.

In medical school I saw a case of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. This is a terrifying disease because the patient has measles, and then develops SSPE years later. The child progressively loses all neurological function until they become a shell of their former selves and die. Vaccines work.

San Francisco gets an A+ for presentation and form.

Saw this post and chills ran down my spine. Let's not let history repeat itself.

I’m finding it really difficult to publish pieces critical of large language models or AI in medical journals. Some of our papers show hard evidence of why the models are not ready for prime time. But journals seem to prefer the “AI is a doctor!” papers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A minute of solitude, spring is here ☺️

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff