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Physician Scientist MDPhD Infectious Diseases specialist Academic Medicine Global Public Health Science Communicator Posts are my opinions, not my employer's and are not medical advice I bet on myself and double down #IDSky #BlackSky
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🚨 Take Action! bit.ly/41zPjKN HIVMA Chair Colleen Kelley, MD, MPH, FIDSA, warns that cutting NIH funding threatens vital biomedical research. Urge Congress to alert them to the impacts of reducing federal resources and to protect NIH funding. Take action here: bit.ly/41zPjKN #SaveNIH

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One of the most joyful parts of my job is being a mentor to a wide range of young scientists. Undergrad graduate students, medical students, post-docs you name it. Being a Black woman, in translational research, there are very few of us in academic spaces. These students, find me.

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

🦠 HKU5-CoV-2: What We Know So Far Been getting a lot of questions about HKU5-CoV-2, the newly identified bat-derived coronavirus. Here’s what we know, and why you don’t need to panic. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

Great infographic. Pass it on.

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Okay, okay I volunteer as a tribute to serve as Measles Czar in Texas 🙋‍♀️. abcnews.go.com/Health/texas...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

1/ Being an infectious disease expert in the U.S. today feels like standing in the eye of a storm. Science should be our shield, but instead, we’re under attack, our expertise disregarded, our funding slashed, and public health increasingly politicized. 🧵

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"What would happen if we stopped measles and Hib vaccinations in industrialised countries? For example, in the USA there would be an estimated 3–4 million cases of measles with 450 deaths, and 20 000 Hib infections with 600 deaths" Will anyone find this acceptable? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

This was my after dinner reading. TLDR - 64 patients and a pretty weak signal with a non negligible confounding factor of fairly recent covid infection in the vaccinated individuals with chronic illness symptoms is insufficient to make a meaningful conclusion. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

This is true "Funds for vital health programs around the world remain frozen and their work has not been able to resume, despite a federal judge’s order that temporarily halted the Trump administration’s dismantling of the government’s main foreign aid agency." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

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This made my day!😀 Gotta love a chemistry professor with some #Culture #HappyBlackHistoryMonth

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Every day is a good day to remind you NOT to get medical advice about your healthcare or vaccines from people who are not trained or qualified to make these kinds of recommendations. If I am in legal trouble I talk to a lawyer If I want to learn about vaccines I talk to my doctor.

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Hopefully all recommended vaccines continue to be available in U.S. I cannot stress enough the importance of finding a pediatrician or primary care doc who believes in science & who you trust with your health to provide guidance on vaccines for you & your children. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I highly recommend reading this important piece by my friend and colleague @jncherabiemd.bsky.social Infectious disease and sexual health expert and importantly an advocate for trans rights in these strange times that we live in. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ErasureIsHArm

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Not just #Mpox but other infectious pathogens will likely see a rise and thrive in this climate. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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❤️🧡💙

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