Karuna S
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"The new leader of [ACIP] recently claimed that Covid-19 vaccines were responsible for a rise in cancer cases, and that the vast majority of women who get the vaccine in their first trimester have miscarriages."
False claims.
endpoints.news/new-acip-cha...
False claims.
endpoints.news/new-acip-cha...
New ACIP chair compares Covid requirements to Holocaust, says shots caused cancer, miscarriages
CDC vaccine panel chair Kirk Milhoan claimed Covid vaccines cause cancer, high miscarriage rates, and compared vaccine cards to Holocaust armbands in a YouTube video.
endpoints.news
December 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"The new leader of [ACIP] recently claimed that Covid-19 vaccines were responsible for a rise in cancer cases, and that the vast majority of women who get the vaccine in their first trimester have miscarriages."
False claims.
endpoints.news/new-acip-cha...
False claims.
endpoints.news/new-acip-cha...
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This question came up. While somewhat coy, it isn’t actually that simple to answer.
Given that I’m an “aerosol scientist”, I figured I take a crack at answering it.
Given that I’m an “aerosol scientist”, I figured I take a crack at answering it.
How exactly does one become an "aerosol scientist", inquiring minds want to know.
November 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This question came up. While somewhat coy, it isn’t actually that simple to answer.
Given that I’m an “aerosol scientist”, I figured I take a crack at answering it.
Given that I’m an “aerosol scientist”, I figured I take a crack at answering it.
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🚨🧵 by Zdenek Vrozina on Covid's impact:
"COVID can cause a long-lasting breakdown of immune homeostasis, where elevated IL-7 and IL-15 keep T cells activated for months after the acute infection.
In some people this dysregulated state becomes..."
18-tweet 🧵
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"COVID can cause a long-lasting breakdown of immune homeostasis, where elevated IL-7 and IL-15 keep T cells activated for months after the acute infection.
In some people this dysregulated state becomes..."
18-tweet 🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19947...
November 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
🚨🧵 by Zdenek Vrozina on Covid's impact:
"COVID can cause a long-lasting breakdown of immune homeostasis, where elevated IL-7 and IL-15 keep T cells activated for months after the acute infection.
In some people this dysregulated state becomes..."
18-tweet 🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19947...
"COVID can cause a long-lasting breakdown of immune homeostasis, where elevated IL-7 and IL-15 keep T cells activated for months after the acute infection.
In some people this dysregulated state becomes..."
18-tweet 🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19947...
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Reposted by Karuna S
Three babies in Kentucky have died of whooping cough.
They weren’t vaccinated and neither were their mothers.
This is RFK Jr’s legacy. A trail of dead kids who never had a chance.
They didn’t get to decide about vaccination. Adults chose for them & they paid with their life.
They weren’t vaccinated and neither were their mothers.
This is RFK Jr’s legacy. A trail of dead kids who never had a chance.
They didn’t get to decide about vaccination. Adults chose for them & they paid with their life.
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Three babies in Kentucky have died of whooping cough.
They weren’t vaccinated and neither were their mothers.
This is RFK Jr’s legacy. A trail of dead kids who never had a chance.
They didn’t get to decide about vaccination. Adults chose for them & they paid with their life.
They weren’t vaccinated and neither were their mothers.
This is RFK Jr’s legacy. A trail of dead kids who never had a chance.
They didn’t get to decide about vaccination. Adults chose for them & they paid with their life.
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Filed under, "Shit every thinking person already knows."
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Filed under, "Shit every thinking person already knows."
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The AMA is starting to fracture under political pressure. Our analysis explains what changed this week, and why it matters.
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The AMA is starting to fracture under political pressure. Our analysis explains what changed this week, and why it matters.
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This is super exciting - mRNA vaccine against EBV enters early stage phase 2 trial in 180 people with a recent MS diagnosis. The virus is known to play a significant role in its development
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
Common virus jab could be key in fight against multiple sclerosis
The vaccine will be trialled in patients recently diagnosed with MS
www.independent.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is super exciting - mRNA vaccine against EBV enters early stage phase 2 trial in 180 people with a recent MS diagnosis. The virus is known to play a significant role in its development
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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Fascinating 🧵. The grotesquely mutated spike of this NJ Cryptic binds ACE2 very tightly.
It raises a broader question: Can cryptic wastewater-like lineages transmit?
YES
We knew it happened once. Now we know it's happened at least twice. The results in both cases were not pretty. 1/15
It raises a broader question: Can cryptic wastewater-like lineages transmit?
YES
We knew it happened once. Now we know it's happened at least twice. The results in both cases were not pretty. 1/15
This is wild.
Remember the NJ crytic lineage?
I posted 18 months ago that the Spike was too divergent to predict ACE2 binding, and asked if someone else could figure it out.
Some colleagues took me up on it.
Guess what they found?
1/
Remember the NJ crytic lineage?
I posted 18 months ago that the Spike was too divergent to predict ACE2 binding, and asked if someone else could figure it out.
Some colleagues took me up on it.
Guess what they found?
1/
November 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Fascinating 🧵. The grotesquely mutated spike of this NJ Cryptic binds ACE2 very tightly.
It raises a broader question: Can cryptic wastewater-like lineages transmit?
YES
We knew it happened once. Now we know it's happened at least twice. The results in both cases were not pretty. 1/15
It raises a broader question: Can cryptic wastewater-like lineages transmit?
YES
We knew it happened once. Now we know it's happened at least twice. The results in both cases were not pretty. 1/15
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In Quebec you can’t get the covid vax under 64 years old without heightened exposure like healthcare workers, or a medical complication. First time I’ve been happy about having asthma.
November 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
In Quebec you can’t get the covid vax under 64 years old without heightened exposure like healthcare workers, or a medical complication. First time I’ve been happy about having asthma.
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My wife has severe asthma. Her appointment was postponed twice and the pharmacy had run out of vaccines when she showed up for attempt #3 yesterday.
Gotta pay for that Northvolt mess somehow, I guess.
Gotta pay for that Northvolt mess somehow, I guess.
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My wife has severe asthma. Her appointment was postponed twice and the pharmacy had run out of vaccines when she showed up for attempt #3 yesterday.
Gotta pay for that Northvolt mess somehow, I guess.
Gotta pay for that Northvolt mess somehow, I guess.
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Will PRIVATIZING Canadian MEDICARE WORK?
Researchers compared 25 wealthy countries.
The more each relies on FOR-PROFIT COMPANIES to deliver healthcare
...the WORSE LIFE EXPECTANCY gets.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Researchers compared 25 wealthy countries.
The more each relies on FOR-PROFIT COMPANIES to deliver healthcare
...the WORSE LIFE EXPECTANCY gets.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Will PRIVATIZING Canadian MEDICARE WORK?
Researchers compared 25 wealthy countries.
The more each relies on FOR-PROFIT COMPANIES to deliver healthcare
...the WORSE LIFE EXPECTANCY gets.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Researchers compared 25 wealthy countries.
The more each relies on FOR-PROFIT COMPANIES to deliver healthcare
...the WORSE LIFE EXPECTANCY gets.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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University of Bergen researchers estimate long COVID affects at least 36% of people post-infection and costs the global economy $1 trillion annually, with US patients facing $9000 each in yearly impacts and $170 billion in national lost earnings.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Economic burden of long COVID: macroeconomic, cost-of-illness and microeconomic impacts - npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine - Economic burden of long COVID: macroeconomic, cost-of-illness and microeconomic impacts
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
University of Bergen researchers estimate long COVID affects at least 36% of people post-infection and costs the global economy $1 trillion annually, with US patients facing $9000 each in yearly impacts and $170 billion in national lost earnings.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This was the H5N5 patient.
"Public health officials are continuing to monitor anyone who was in contact with the patient — including more than 100 health care workers — for symptoms to ensure that human-to-human spread has not occurred."
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
"Public health officials are continuing to monitor anyone who was in contact with the patient — including more than 100 health care workers — for symptoms to ensure that human-to-human spread has not occurred."
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Bird flu patient dies, marking second U.S. fatality in 2025
The Washington state resident, an older adult with underlying conditions, was infected with a strain that has previously been reported in animals but never before in humans.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This was the H5N5 patient.
"Public health officials are continuing to monitor anyone who was in contact with the patient — including more than 100 health care workers — for symptoms to ensure that human-to-human spread has not occurred."
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
"Public health officials are continuing to monitor anyone who was in contact with the patient — including more than 100 health care workers — for symptoms to ensure that human-to-human spread has not occurred."
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is crowing about Robert Kennedy Jr.’s CDC pushing debunked vaccine misinformation.
“Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions,” he says.
Wakefield’s paper was *fraudulent.*
“Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions,” he says.
Wakefield’s paper was *fraudulent.*
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is crowing about Robert Kennedy Jr.’s CDC pushing debunked vaccine misinformation.
“Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions,” he says.
Wakefield’s paper was *fraudulent.*
“Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions,” he says.
Wakefield’s paper was *fraudulent.*
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“I had hemophilia for nearly five decades. I went to Philadelphia and had a 45-minute infusion, and my hemophilia was gone.”
Genes-> Medicine
nature.com/articles/s41...
Genes-> Medicine
nature.com/articles/s41...
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
“I had hemophilia for nearly five decades. I went to Philadelphia and had a 45-minute infusion, and my hemophilia was gone.”
Genes-> Medicine
nature.com/articles/s41...
Genes-> Medicine
nature.com/articles/s41...
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#Avian flu has decimated world's largest breeding colony of southern elephant seals
The loss may threaten the population's future by reducing the number of surviving pups.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Photo: David Cook / Flickr cc
The loss may threaten the population's future by reducing the number of surviving pups.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Photo: David Cook / Flickr cc
November 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
#Avian flu has decimated world's largest breeding colony of southern elephant seals
The loss may threaten the population's future by reducing the number of surviving pups.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Photo: David Cook / Flickr cc
The loss may threaten the population's future by reducing the number of surviving pups.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Photo: David Cook / Flickr cc
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"There is a notable gap in strong study designs (such as randomized controlled trials and studies that involve large numbers of participants)"
They are literally arguing for large scale RCTs for PPE during Ebola outbreaks because they don't believe in physical science or the precautionary principle
They are literally arguing for large scale RCTs for PPE during Ebola outbreaks because they don't believe in physical science or the precautionary principle
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"There is a notable gap in strong study designs (such as randomized controlled trials and studies that involve large numbers of participants)"
They are literally arguing for large scale RCTs for PPE during Ebola outbreaks because they don't believe in physical science or the precautionary principle
They are literally arguing for large scale RCTs for PPE during Ebola outbreaks because they don't believe in physical science or the precautionary principle
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Superb 🧵 by Dr. @evonnetcurran.bsky.social on Twitter earlier today about the (dubious) statement that "80% of infections diseases are spread by contact..."
Full 🧵 (12 tweets):
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19900...
Full 🧵 (12 tweets):
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19900...
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Superb 🧵 by Dr. @evonnetcurran.bsky.social on Twitter earlier today about the (dubious) statement that "80% of infections diseases are spread by contact..."
Full 🧵 (12 tweets):
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19900...
Full 🧵 (12 tweets):
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19900...
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The irony.
Designed and proven using entirely mechanistic method and observational data, with a healthy side order of biochemistry.
And fielded for decades with huge successes, without a single randomized trial as proof.
& today, groups of MDs work tirelessly to prove N95 don’t work vs viruses.
Designed and proven using entirely mechanistic method and observational data, with a healthy side order of biochemistry.
And fielded for decades with huge successes, without a single randomized trial as proof.
& today, groups of MDs work tirelessly to prove N95 don’t work vs viruses.
On this day in 1966, Cluny Macpherson died.
Born in St. John's in 1879, he invented the gas mask during the First World War. His design was adopted by the British Army. He later became the president of the St. John's Clinical Society and the Newfoundland Medical Association.
Born in St. John's in 1879, he invented the gas mask during the First World War. His design was adopted by the British Army. He later became the president of the St. John's Clinical Society and the Newfoundland Medical Association.
November 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The irony.
Designed and proven using entirely mechanistic method and observational data, with a healthy side order of biochemistry.
And fielded for decades with huge successes, without a single randomized trial as proof.
& today, groups of MDs work tirelessly to prove N95 don’t work vs viruses.
Designed and proven using entirely mechanistic method and observational data, with a healthy side order of biochemistry.
And fielded for decades with huge successes, without a single randomized trial as proof.
& today, groups of MDs work tirelessly to prove N95 don’t work vs viruses.
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Alice Wong died of an infection 💔
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51
The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social me...
www.npr.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Alice Wong died of an infection 💔
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
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6/ Our message is clear: Health security must be treated as national security. Hospitals, labs, and health data systems are critical infrastructure, and need to be defended.
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
6/ Our message is clear: Health security must be treated as national security. Hospitals, labs, and health data systems are critical infrastructure, and need to be defended.
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5/ And there's an information war too. Russian-linked networks amplify anti-vaccine narratives, distort pandemic responses, and flood social media with conspiracies that erode trust in institutions.
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
5/ And there's an information war too. Russian-linked networks amplify anti-vaccine narratives, distort pandemic responses, and flood social media with conspiracies that erode trust in institutions.
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3/ Health systems are now frontline targets. A 2024 ransomware attack UK NHS blood testing and contributed to at least one patient death. Croatia’s main hospital was hit. Poland faces repeated attacks on hospitals and water systems. These aren’t random.
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
3/ Health systems are now frontline targets. A 2024 ransomware attack UK NHS blood testing and contributed to at least one patient death. Croatia’s main hospital was hit. Poland faces repeated attacks on hospitals and water systems. These aren’t random.
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🧵1/ Europe is experiencing a hybrid war. Russia is targeting not only military and commercial infrastructure and security systems but our health systems. In our new paper in the European Journal of Public Health, @charlottemar.bsky.social & I spell out the implications
@eupha.bsky.social
@eupha.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
🧵1/ Europe is experiencing a hybrid war. Russia is targeting not only military and commercial infrastructure and security systems but our health systems. In our new paper in the European Journal of Public Health, @charlottemar.bsky.social & I spell out the implications
@eupha.bsky.social
@eupha.bsky.social