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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · 10d

Interested in a transplant recipient facing education tool about CMV? We developed this as a spinoff from the fourth international consensus CMV guidelines. Thank you to Kamada Pharmaceuticals and @lavyshai.bsky.social for support and development. cytogam.com/wp-content/u...

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · 28d

Jan Styczynski covers best methods for CMV prevention after HSCT per ECIL guidelines compared with ASTCT guidelines #CMVSymposium_2025

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · 28d

@elisaruiz.bsky.social Elisa Ruiz-Arabi discusses metaphors for best methods for CMV prevention in organ transplant recipients with Jose Maria Aguado chairing #CMVSymposium_2025

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · 28d

Honored to cochair the #CMVSymposium_2025 with @martinasester.bsky.social and Julian de la Torre Cisneros - defeating the troll of transplantation

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PennLDI @pennldi.bsky.social · 29d

Read this op-ed in the @bostonglobe.com by LDI Fellow @zekeemanuel.bsky.social. ⤵️

Zeke Emanuel, MD, PhD @zekeemanuel.bsky.social · Sep 4

RFK is turning the CDC into an ideological rubber stamp of the Trump admin. Congress must use their oversight power to restore qualified leadership and adequate funding to the CDC. Our children's health and our scientific credibility depend on it.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/04/o...

How to respond to Kennedy’s purge at the CDC - The Boston Globe

Major responsibility rests on Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who cast the pivotal vote for Kennedy’s confirmation as HHS secretary.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · Aug 30

if you only share one of my posts today, let it be this one

Louisiana Families for Vaccines @lafamilies4vax.bsky.social · Aug 30

🗣Take Action now: secure.everyaction.com/0SHFqHvBiUOc...

RFK Jr. is jeopardizing public health—firing CDC leaders and gutting vaccine science. Demand Senator Cassidy move to fire RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary and support science-backed policy! #ScienceMatters #VaccinesWork #USAnotRFK

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excited to have this recording available to all who want to listen/watch ⁦‪@BradGardiner.bsky.social‬⁩ talk about his very interesting work with CMV and lung transplant -TTS EdComm - Immune biomarkers for CMV infection @transplantation.bsky.social ⁦‪ ⁦‬⁩ tts.org/join-tts/116...

TTS EdComm - Immune biomarkers for CMV infection - August 27 2025

The Transplantation Society will provide the focus for global leadership in transplantation: development of the science and clinical practice, scientific communication, continuing education, guidance ...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Aug 27

Breaking news: Susan Monarez, the newly installed director of the CDC, is being ousted weeks after she was confirmed to lead the public health agency, according to multiple administration officials.

CDC director being ousted weeks into job

Susan Monarez, a longtime federal government scientist, was confirmed by the Senate in late July to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · Aug 23

Dr Stephanie Pouch rocking her talk on strategies to tackle MDRO Gram negative infections

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · Aug 23

Dr Jay Fishman reviewing our xenotransplantation experience at #mgh and risk of infection here at the wonderful transplant ID symposium in Toronto

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · Aug 22

Dr Deepali Kumar talking about state of the art vaccines for transplant patients

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · Aug 22

Great summary slide by @jobadd.bsky.social

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · Aug 22

Dr John Baddley @jobadd.bsky.social talking about cutting edge antifungals at the Transplant ID symposium in Toronto organized by the Ajmera Transplant Centre events.myconferencesuite.com/Transplant_I...

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AST IDCOP @ast-idcop.bsky.social · Aug 4

Dr. Robert (Bob) Rubin Transplant ID Award Recipient for 2025 is the amazing @kottonnelson.bsky.social !!! #TxID #MedEd @astinfo.bsky.social

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Priya Kodiyanplakkal @rosypriya.bsky.social · Aug 3

Full house at the ABCs of CMV session at #WTC2025 #TxID featuring a targeted review the new #Cmv guidelines @kottonnelson.bsky.social

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · Aug 9

CDC workers were terrified as gunman shot at the agency’s headquarters yesterday.
Today they are still reeling from shock, fear — and rage.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...

After Years of Anger Directed at C.D.C., Shooting Manifests Worst Fears

www.nytimes.com

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · Aug 9

CDC employees told me the shooting at CDC was much worse than initial police reports suggested. More than 40 bullets hit buildings. “It’s a miracle more people weren’t hit,” said one staffer who was locked down in a building for hours last evening.

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Aug 9

Feel like this needs a spotlight: employees were told that the shooting at CDC, which left an officer dead and buildings riddled with bullets, was targeted at agency, @lenasun.bsky.social, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and @tobiaraji.bsky.social report

Years of anti-CDC rhetoric has consequences

Monarez did not provide any additional information about the suspect's motives during the call. However, a briefing some CDC employees received Saturday from senior agency leaders said the gunman left a note, according to one employee who attended.
"We were told very clearly that this was targeted, directed at CDC," the employee said. "But we were also told that this was an isolated event."
There has been speculation among CDC employees that officials may have known about possible threats. When Monarez was at the CDC this week - her first week on the job - she was accompanied at all times by armed security guards, the employee said.

During Monarez's call with staff Saturday, another CDC senior leader, Daniel Jernigan, who heads the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, or NCEZID, estimated there were about 40 bullet holes in CDC buildings on campus.
He did not mean it as a complete account, but rather an indication that "it will take a bit before the buildings are 'fixed' again," said an employee who listened to the call and, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive information.
The shooting was "way worse than what was initially reported," the employee said, adding that gunfire continued for about 15 minutes and that "it's a miracle more people weren't hit."

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · Jul 12

An absolutely extraordinary piece of writing about the shock and dread of living through something you would have considered unimaginable, and — somewhat — coming out the other side.

(This is not a spoiler, if the author had not survived there would be no story. Stop quibbling and read it.)

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Jul 11

The first time I tried to read this piece…I couldn’t get through it because I was uncontrollably sobbing by the time I got near the end

It’s beautiful and heartbreaking.

Read it: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”

The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.

www.texasmonthly.com

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · Jul 9

Pleased to join colleagues like @ericmeyerowitz.bsky.social in the @nejm.org rebutting the COVID vaccine policy of Prasad and Makary

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination | NEJM

To the Editor: In their Sounding Board article (June 26 issue),1 Prasad and Makary ignore the fact that the risks of SARS-CoV-2 infection extend beyond acute outcomes such as hospitalization and de...

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · Jul 10

ICYMI - on June 25, the CDC signed off on the ACIP recommendation that adults 50 years of age and over with risk factors for severe RSV get the RSV vaccine. Details here. This lowers the age from 60 to 50. Universal recommendation for everyone 75 and over. www.cdc.gov/acip/vaccine...

ACIP Recommendations

ACIP approved the following recommendations by majority vote and were adopted by the CDC Director.

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · Jul 7

Looking forward to this webinar on July 7 – join us!

Jen Li @drjenkidney.bsky.social · Jul 6

www.tts.org/component/co... @ttsorg.bsky.social @esottransplant.bsky.social @kottonnelson.bsky.social

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · Jul 6

America must acknowledge how devastating this will be for now & future generations. There will be millions of shortened lives and unnecessary deaths here & abroad. We have been the leaders in science and medicine - this is truly crippling. It will affect of all of, our families, and our patients.

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jul 6

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · Jun 29

The deadline for this has been moved out to July 14. Send in your interesting CMV data or CMV cases!

Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · Jun 5

Submit your abstracts for the CMV symposium 2025 to be held in Sept near Frankfurt. Submission deadline is June 30. The top 3 abstracts will have travel and accommodation covered. Priority for excellent abstracts submitted by those earlier in their career. It will be a wonderful meeting! Join us!!

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · Jun 15

Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”

In the US alone.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

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