#  @angie_rasmussen Dr. Angela Rasmussen Dr. Angela Rasmussen posts on X about rfk, canada, health, pandemic the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::394087611/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] +120% - [--] Month [-------] -5.10% - [--] Months [----------] -13% - [--] Year [----------] +91% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::394087611/posts_active)  - [--] Month [--] -20% - [--] Months [---] +55% - [--] Year [---] +40% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::394087611/followers)  - [--] Week [-------] +0.06% - [--] Month [-------] +0.32% - [--] Months [-------] +3.30% - [--] Year [-------] +5.40% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::394087611/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [stocks](/list/stocks) [us election](/list/us-election) [nfl](/list/nfl) [musicians](/list/musicians) **Social topic influence** [rfk](/topic/rfk) #56, [canada](/topic/canada), [health](/topic/health) #3034, [pandemic](/topic/pandemic), [science](/topic/science), [if you](/topic/if-you), [china](/topic/china), [has been](/topic/has-been), [twitter](/topic/twitter), [money](/topic/money) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@rebecca21951651](/creator/undefined) [@baneppgofroc](/creator/undefined) [@brycenickels](/creator/undefined) [@biorealism](/creator/undefined) [@sigridbratlie](/creator/undefined) [@seckennedy](/creator/undefined) [@justinmsizemore](/creator/undefined) [@angierasmussen](/creator/undefined) [@stevenemassey](/creator/undefined) [@sciencemagazine](/creator/undefined) [@stavarune](/creator/undefined) [@dissenting2020](/creator/undefined) [@michaelworobey](/creator/undefined) [@jepekar](/creator/undefined) [@rwlander](/creator/undefined) [@sylviosi](/creator/undefined) [@ayjchan](/creator/undefined) [@vbruttel](/creator/undefined) [@elsvaccine](/creator/undefined) [@drjbhattacharya](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Spike (SPIKE)](/topic/spike) [fuckcoin (FUCKCOIN)](/topic/fuck) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "There's a new report in @ChinaCDCWeekly that infectious #SARSCoV2 #HCoV19 #COVID19 #coronavirus can be found in stool. This confirms that fecal transmission is possible. Again.WASH YOUR HANDS especially after using the bathroom. http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/ffa97a96-db2a-4715-9dfb-ef662660e89d http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/ffa97a96-db2a-4715-9dfb-ef662660e89d" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1234156788670443521) 2020-03-01T16:41Z 481.4K followers, [---] engagements "@edrybicki @WHO Im aware of that. However theres no reason that ICTV should not follow WHO guidelines though I realize thats not always the case. And Trump is obviously not on an ICTV study group" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1240621998264340482) 2020-03-19T12:51Z 481.7K followers, [--] engagements "So.anthroponotic infection presumably from a zookeeper Any indication of prevalence among the zoo staff BREAKING: Bronx Zoo says one of its tigers has tested positive for coronavirus BREAKING: Bronx Zoo says one of its tigers has tested positive for coronavirus" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1246912955725148165) 2020-04-05T21:29Z 481.1K followers, [---] engagements "Attention all major institutions (colleges universities the NFL) touting how safe and controlled their openings will be: Clemson has had [--] student-athletes/staff test positive for the coronavirus. I'm told [--] of those are football players https://t.co/fxfrvuQQbc Clemson has had [--] student-athletes/staff test positive for the coronavirus. I'm told [--] of those are football players https://t.co/fxfrvuQQbc" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1274100326371487744) 2020-06-19T22:02Z 458.2K followers, [----] engagements "@elonmusk @hot_rod_co Furthermore hospitalizations are not decreasing. They are a lagging indicator and patients testing positive take time to progress to severe disease after diagnosis. Here's today's latest ICU occupancy from Arizona's DOH. ICU bed usage has been steadily increasing" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1278735171353669632) 2020-07-02T16:59Z 465.1K followers, [----] engagements "@Craig_A_Spencer Drink some whiskey. Toast to Tesla stock" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1278891404249333760) 2020-07-03T03:20Z 465.1K followers, [--] engagements "@zeynep @geunsmeyer @jljcolorado @linseymarr @ShellyMBoulder @CathNoakes @Don_Milton @SaskiaPopescu @eliowa @GidMK .what's the difference between a [--] um aerosol vs a slightly larger airborne droplet Not having good terminology muddies the water and makes it hard to communicate effectively with each other and with the public" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1282435378318766080) 2020-07-12T22:03Z 473.8K followers, [--] engagements "Reject a manuscript because the hypothesis is flawed the experiments are not properly controlled the work is shoddy or the conclusions are unsupported but publicly bragging about rejecting a ms because you dont like one sentence Peer review isnt supposed to work like this. So today I rejected a paper because it had in times of COVID-19 in the 1st paragraph. So today I rejected a paper because it had in times of COVID-19 in the 1st paragraph" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1287920220984627200) 2020-07-28T01:18Z 481.2K followers, [---] engagements "Now what the hell kind of CDC recommendation is this We need to be doing MORE testing not less. 🚨The CDC no longer recommends asymptomatic testing even post-exposure.🚨 https://t.co/V8BBGK1yzg https://t.co/VvGJMjKW3N 🚨The CDC no longer recommends asymptomatic testing even post-exposure.🚨 https://t.co/V8BBGK1yzg https://t.co/VvGJMjKW3N" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1298003530033147904) 2020-08-24T21:05Z 473.8K followers, [----] engagements "@imyourmoderator @bruce_y_lee He was wrong about masks in the spring as was I. Then again I don't particularly care if you think I'm credible since you are spreading blatantly false information about presymptomatic transmission" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1298084738826027008) 2020-08-25T02:28Z 473.9K followers, [--] engagements ""Once you step back from" the over [--] million cases and the [------] human beings who lost their lives the F- grade for the American pandemic response rises to a C+. "If you ignore the deaths this isn't a catastrophe" is quite a take from the @nytimes resident pro-life zealot Likewise once you step back from deaths and case rates to other measurements of response capacity the US looks anywhere from slightly-below to slight-above average rather than catastrophic compared to W. Europe and the Americas. Likewise once you step back from deaths and case rates to other measurements of response" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1303717739366809605) 2020-09-09T15:31Z 474.6K followers, [---] engagements "Id be honoured to fly the Canadian colours. Id gladly mould my cultural habits. Id learn competent Franais. Id write a cheque for the privilege. How do I apply Id like to get in front of the other handmaids and marthas" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1311145279815524353) 2020-09-30T03:26Z 474.6K followers, [---] engagements "Is it weird that we havent heard a peep out of POTUS tonight Biden is giving a speech showing his statesmanship on a very anxious night with crickets from the WH. While Im sure its a good idea to keep Trump off twitter is it an advantage to let Biden do the talking tonight" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1323863981975429122) 2020-11-04T05:45Z 474.7K followers, [---] engagements "Personal/professional update: This was my last week at Columbia. I'm deeply grateful for the extraordinary colleagues and friends I've had the privilege of working with here during both my tenure as a graduate student and as faculty" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1327441694464172036) 2020-11-14T02:42Z 473.8K followers, [----] engagements "Hold up. The accidental low dose in the AstraZeneca trial was because Oxford insisted that NANODROP was more accurate than qPCR Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine-sp-idUSKBN28Y0XU https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine-sp-idUSKBN28Y0XU" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1343027864162107392) 2020-12-27T02:56Z 456.6K followers, [----] engagements "And while we should objectively explore and investigate all possible hypotheses the "I'm just asking questions this is all very suspicious what about (insert non-evidence here)" has been extremely harmful both individually to the scientific community & to society as a whole" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1349754586957901824) 2021-01-14T16:25Z 471.2K followers, [---] engagements "Arguing with the lab leak proponents is like talking to anti-vaxxers. They'll say they aren't conspiracy theorists but then hit all the major conspiracy theory talking points: -Answering questions with questions -Strawman arguments about gain-of-function research & COI" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1349754588069388288) 2021-01-14T16:25Z 470.4K followers, [---] engagements "@gabbystern Inhaled rather than airborne" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1355649728155815939) 2021-01-30T22:50Z 473.9K followers, [--] engagements "Gotta love all of these stupid FDA who do they think they are why are they refusing to authorize AstraZeneca takes from dudes with opinions. AstraZeneca has not yet submitted an application for EUA to the FDA. Denmark says AstraZenica has sufficiently shown safety and efficacy for people younger than [--]. Do you think we know better than the Danes https://t.co/Nlt7b3JTKK Denmark says AstraZenica has sufficiently shown safety and efficacy for people younger than [--]. Do you think we know better than the Danes https://t.co/Nlt7b3JTKK" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1357324387267928066) 2021-02-04T13:45Z 481.7K followers, [---] engagements "It has come to my attention that noted anti-vaccine zealot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is releasing a film tomorrow targeting the Black community with some appalling misinformation. It is not just filled with falsehoods. Despite claiming to be anti-racist it is racist as hell" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1367262593417498626) 2021-03-03T23:56Z 465.1K followers, [----] engagements "This is a huge story. An Australian virologist at WIV in late [----] notes: -no sick employees at WIV -best-practice biosafety protocols in place -did not witness GoF work which she's qualified to recognize Lab leak odds just got even longer. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-27/did-covid-come-from-a-lab-scientist-at-wuhan-institute-speaks-out https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-27/did-covid-come-from-a-lab-scientist-at-wuhan-institute-speaks-out" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1409287320776462344) 2021-06-27T23:07Z 465K followers, [----] engagements "😍😍😍 You call that a pipette This is a pipette https://t.co/XMeIGY7MhO You call that a pipette This is a pipette https://t.co/XMeIGY7MhO" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1413539500630945795) 2021-07-09T16:44Z 479.9K followers, [--] engagements "Death is not the only negative consequence of having COVID-19. Please get vaccinated. Vaccines work. 🎥 If everyone knew THIS was #COVID wed get 80% #Vaccination. This video shows TYPICAL long-term ICU #COVID19. My patient & family want to share this to help you & your loved ones avoid #LongCOVID PROTECT YOURSELF today w the #VACCINE. #MedTwitter #NurseTwitter https://t.co/nORyyBaO3n 🎥 If everyone knew THIS was #COVID wed get 80% #Vaccination. This video shows TYPICAL long-term ICU #COVID19. My patient & family want to share this to help you & your loved ones avoid #LongCOVID PROTECT" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1414689711281606656) 2021-07-12T20:54Z 468.1K followers, [---] engagements "Lol this sentient beard invented mRNA vaccines like Al Gore invented the internet" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1420719152881299456) 2021-07-29T12:13Z 481.8K followers, [---] engagements "Serious topic aside fast forward to 1:02 to see a surprise guest appearance from my dog Ripley who is perpetually unconcerned about showing up in the background of Zoom meetings and prioritizes investigating whether my spouse is eating cheese in another room. Was it a mistake for the CDC to tell vaccinated Americans it was ok to unmask back in May @angie_rasmussen tells @MehdiRHasan: I do think it was a mistake It was a one-size-fits-all for the country and the country is in very different places. https://t.co/cDOBBNopm5 Was it a mistake for the CDC to tell vaccinated Americans it was ok to" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1422019887459966981) 2021-08-02T02:22Z 482.1K followers, [---] engagements "@KatherineJWu @wanderer_jasnah Its so hard to pick just one" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1432707292282204168) 2021-08-31T14:10Z 480K followers, [--] engagements "PSA: the Moderna vaccine doesnt contain luciferase. And luciferase isnt named after Lucifer 😈its a common biological reporter that produces light which can be measured. Lucifer is Latin for light bearer. Luciferase is a natural enzyme that makes fireflies asses light up. This is Newsmax's White House correspondent https://t.co/hpmk7MXMxt This is Newsmax's White House correspondent https://t.co/hpmk7MXMxt" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1455526759491850246) 2021-11-02T13:26Z 455.5K followers, [----] engagements "Pro tip: if you dont understand something and multiple people who do tell you that you are wrongmaybe consider not writing about it" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1465684518929633281) 2021-11-30T14:09Z 481.4K followers, [---] engagements "Heres a great thread from @jallepap explaining why this article is factually incorrect. Bonus points for a scientific takedown that scathingly invokes Lamarck" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1465684519885942790) 2021-11-30T14:09Z 481.1K followers, [---] engagements "We bought a little sheepskin rug and my husband put it on the couch while he vacuumed. Ripley has now staked her claim and I fear for both the sheepskins longevity and our future ability to access most of the couch" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1470085447481102336) 2021-12-12T17:37Z 467.9K followers, [---] engagements "Update: Ripley went outside to check on the magpie situation in the yard (magpies are her mortal enemies). And it appears it was one of her elaborate magic tricks that causes Barkbox toys to materialize out of thin air because this was the scene [--] seconds after I let her in" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1470092073294434308) 2021-12-12T18:03Z 467.9K followers, [---] engagements "Let me clarify: it would be great if cannabis-derived compounds that are orally bioavailable and have a great safety record work as antivirals. But doing a screen for entry inhibitors in cell culture does not demonstrate that it is effective in a person" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1483489744696844302) 2022-01-18T17:21Z 473.8K followers, [---] engagements "@Wahlfred2 I think I just encouraged people to get vaccinated and boosted and discouraged lifting vaccine mandates in the middle of a huge surge in cases" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1489622521586593803) 2022-02-04T15:30Z 473.9K followers, [--] engagements "Its been a couple decades since I read The Scarlet Letter in high school American lit but I seem to recall the main issue with it wasnt that it was inconvenient. Walensky continues to advise masks for now but describes this way I just know people are tired. The scarlet letter of this pandemic is the mask. It may be painless it may be easy but its inconvenient its annoying and it reminds us that were in the middle of a pandemic. Walensky continues to advise masks for now but describes this way I just know people are tired. The scarlet letter of this pandemic is the mask. It may be painless it" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1496115728356982784) 2022-02-22T13:32Z 473.9K followers, [---] engagements "@gregggonsalves @drlucymcbride Wtf is coronaphobia" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1525710513190993920) 2022-05-15T05:31Z 473.7K followers, [--] engagements "About time. COVID News: FDA examiners consider Moderna and Pfizer vaccines safe & effective for kids [--]. Approvals could come this week after a review on Wednesday. 1/ COVID News: FDA examiners consider Moderna and Pfizer vaccines safe & effective for kids [--]. Approvals could come this week after a review on Wednesday. 1/" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1536353106065334274) 2022-06-13T14:21Z 473.8K followers, [---] engagements "Im very glad I already moved to Canada" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1540341696394940417) 2022-06-24T14:30Z 473.8K followers, [---] engagements "I study mechanisms of viral pathogenesis specifically how the host response to viral infection determines the features & severity of disease. Thats how I know that long COVID is nothing like HIV HCV or latent herpesvirus infection & the comparisons are offensive & misleading" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1547587283728994306) 2022-07-14T14:22Z 474.7K followers, [----] engagements "Some good news to end your Friday in the form of a review from [--] of the best immunologists in the business: @profshanecrotty & @SetteLab. Both infection and/or vaccination induce robust memory immune responses. SARS-CoV-2 infection doesn't cause functional immune suppression. Our extensive scientific review of SARS-CoV-2 immune memory is published. Antibodies CD4 T cells CD8 T cells memory B cells and tissue resident cells. After vaccination infection or both ready to battle COVID-19. Open access: https://t.co/28R4JHja4n @SetteLab https://t.co/QIKzdeez2w Our extensive scientific review of" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1548088602004836354) 2022-07-15T23:34Z 454.5K followers, [---] engagements "Sure sex is great but have you ever gotten a notice of award for a (really cool) grant" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1554558960925134859) 2022-08-02T20:05Z 473.9K followers, [---] engagements "@StevenSalzberg1 Feel free to keep writing about it and I'll continue to point out that you are wrong. Virologists do not do this work "as if risks are low." The risk of a virus like [----] emerging is quite high which is why the benefits of virology research are also high" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1559246125772771328) 2022-08-15T18:30Z 481.7K followers, [--] engagements "But lets talk about the science in the LC report what little there is. This misrepresents some key findings: Huanan was not a human to human amplifier. It was ground zero of the pandemic. But its easy to think otherwise since our papers demonstrating this were not considered" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1570305599597862912) 2022-09-15T06:56Z 481.6K followers, [--] engagements "@jon_alessi @JAMAPediatrics No. Thats what would happen" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1574783764718551040) 2022-09-27T15:31Z 465K followers, [--] engagements "Its Canadian Thanksgiving weekend Im very grateful for vaccines rapid tests air purifiers & robust ventilation enabling me to show off my American Thanksgiving skills to a small group of colleagues from my lab. Most are not from Canada or the US so it will be their first🦃" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1578754199059210240) 2022-10-08T14:28Z 473.9K followers, [---] engagements "I had my last COVID booster in early August so I've got a couple months to wait before my bivalent. But flu season is already here. So I'm off to get my annual flu shot because vaccines are the cornerstone of my winter respiratory virus prevention plan. #VaccinesWork" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1584695233304211456) 2022-10-24T23:56Z 473.9K followers, [---] engagements "Kind of embarrassing to find yourself on the junior varsity lab leak biosecurity team with people who think MERS was a bioweapon and chronic Lyme snake oil saleswomen who think vaccines are a tool for government mind control" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1622659700977438720) 2023-02-06T18:13Z 473.9K followers, 43.6K engagements "And it wouldnt hurt to accelerate human H5N1 vaccine development either for farm workers producers vets and anyone who has lots of bird or livestock exposure. Disinfection is a key tool but doesnt compare to vaccination when it comes to prevention and mitigation" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1623729681978601472) 2023-02-09T17:04Z 474.5K followers, [----] engagements "Twitter granted me a blue check in [----] based on the reliability of my content. Why would I pay for it now that it instead means Ill be among many unreliable accounts so long as they pay In other words eat a bag of dicks. 🖕🏻 On April 1st we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks. To keep your blue checkmark on Twitter individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: https://t.co/gzpCcwOpLp Organizations can sign up for https://t.co/RlN5BbuGA3 On April 1st we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1639255689896837121) 2023-03-24T13:19Z 474.5K followers, 102.9K engagements "Thrilled to announce that my lab has received support from @CIHR_IRSC to study mpox virus pathogenesis and optimize response to treatment here at @VIDOInterVac. Quick thread on what we plan to do 👇🏼 Scientists Drs. Alyson Kelvin and Angela Rasmussen from the #USask @VIDOInterVac have received $1-million in total funding to study mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. @CIHR_IRSC #USaskResearch https://t.co/nVLbUcY52k Scientists Drs. Alyson Kelvin and Angela Rasmussen from the #USask @VIDOInterVac have received $1-million in total funding to study" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1661398800961814529) 2023-05-24T15:48Z 460.2K followers, 20.6K engagements "Thanks to @VIDOInterVac & @usask for providing such a wonderful cutting-edge and safe environment to do this essential emerging virus research. But most of all thanks to @CIHR_IRSC for supporting this program which will immensely benefit Canadians & people around the world" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1661398829835452420) 2023-05-24T15:48Z 473.8K followers, [----] engagements ""The lab-leak conspiracy gang has smeared scientists and misled the public into believing a theory that has no factual support whatsoever. They should be ashamed." Once again @hiltzikm nails it by calling a conspiracy theory by its name" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1673465817357328385) 2023-06-26T22:58Z 450K followers, [----] engagements "Case in point. On January [--] [----] there were fewer than [--] cases of nCoV-2019 (SARS-CoV-2) in the US. In a month I changed my mind as new evidence emerged something this leading light of the lab leak conspiracy theorists consistently refuses to do" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1673511241803870209) 2023-06-27T01:59Z 450.1K followers, [---] engagements "At least I never made anything up for example claiming without evidence that [--] scientistsone of whom didnt even do lab workcaused a lab leak and started a pandemic that killed 20M+ people. Then again I dont know what passes for truth on Area [--] Substack these days" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1674603025493803008) 2023-06-30T02:17Z 446.2K followers, [---] engagements "@MarkC_LVB Pfizer did not take money for research from the US government. However BioNTech did receive massive subsidies from the German government and Pfizer had lucrative advance purchase agreements from the US government. They still received billions in federal subsidies" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1691073868679778305) 2023-08-14T13:06Z 450.2K followers, [----] engagements "No interferons means that viruses can grow in Veros unhindered by innate antiviral mechanisms that would block or inhibit viral replication. As a result its easier to grow viruses in Veros and its easier to grow more of them. My lab uses Veros to grow stocks of SARS-CoV-2" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1691435286616588289) 2023-08-15T13:02Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements "Because SARS-CoV-2 does grow well in Veros. It also grows in a lot of different cell lines from humans non-human primates and other species. SARS-CoV-2 is promiscuous and can infect many hostsas it does it adapts to them" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1691435289330212864) 2023-08-15T13:02Z 448K followers, [--] engagements "Yet the brain trust over at lab leak HQ would have you believe that serial passage in Veros magically allows for a mundane bat virus to become a pandemic despite Veros causing SARS-CoV-2 a feature that is essential for transmission between hosts and disease severity" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1691435306271055873) 2023-08-15T13:02Z 450K followers, [----] engagements "@wanderer_jasnah @RVirologist Rereading the NY Mag piece reveals that it has not improved with age" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1693500376438472995) 2023-08-21T05:48Z 446.2K followers, [---] engagements "I did know which is why me & my family get an annual flu vaccine. Its a simple way to keep myself & my loved ones healthy. But you might not know. You might also not know that flu kills 30k-60k people/year in just the US which is why everyone should get a flu shot too" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1696496172402372800) 2023-08-29T12:13Z 450.1K followers, 36.6K engagements "PS this dish does not actually contain any raccoon dog. It was very good" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1696720714995269720) 2023-08-30T03:05Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements "I have an idea if this true. Heavy rains and flooding might result in a dysentery outbreak but Ebola Nah" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1698122223444545849) 2023-09-02T23:54Z 450.1K followers, 82.6K engagements "We should be taking steps to strengthen international collaborations and give scientists around the globe the tools needed to rapidly respond to emerging viruses. Instead the US government is doing everything in its power to annihilate readiness and capacity" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1700238716206256322) 2023-09-08T20:04Z 450.2K followers, 42.6K engagements "Short-sighted and/or politically motivated policies enable all these bad things by misdirecting our efforts and investments result in neglect of essential mitigation of zoonotic risk (which is much much greater than pandemics emerging from labs)" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1700250997195694401) 2023-09-08T20:53Z 445.9K followers, [---] engagements "Our alternatives: -sustained funding across sectors -focus on One Health -equitable partnerships around the globe -prioritize multiple prevention efforts: ecological clinical & lab-based interventions -unified evidence-based opposition to ideologically-motivated disinformation" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1700250999750046032) 2023-09-08T20:53Z 446.2K followers, [---] engagements "If there was a vaccine that protected against ankle injuries from getting sacked on the first offensive drive of the season do you think Aaron Rodgers would get it" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1701410443187609701) 2023-09-12T01:40Z 450.1K followers, 62K engagements "Columbia Universitys determination to protect abusers doesnt end with Robert Hadden. The same thing happened to me & others re Ian Lipkin down to the same Columbia lawyer Patricia Catapano. Reputation over all at the expense of the victims. Its an institutional sickness" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1701581155835752664) 2023-09-12T12:58Z 446.2K followers, 43.3K engagements "And this where Columbia Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs ignored repeated complaints of harassment sexual misconduct abuse anti-semitism and racial discrimination for over a decade" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1701588764827742228) 2023-09-12T13:29Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements "Even in the rare circumstances that Columbia has found allegations of sexual misconduct credible they preserved the abusers position and ability to continue their abuse. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emaoconnor/columbia-thomas-roma-professor-student-sexual-harassment https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emaoconnor/columbia-thomas-roma-professor-student-sexual-harassment" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1701590299657850893) 2023-09-12T13:35Z 465K followers, [----] engagements "The select subcommittees favorite MO: if you dont have any evidence that withstands scientific scrutiny for your beloved lab leak hypothesis just invent a new conspiracy theory Bonus for involving intelligence agenciesnobody can fact-check the CIA" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1701953560571793611) 2023-09-13T13:38Z 450.1K followers, 45K engagements "When this many women independently describe decades of sexual assault it is not evidence of a coordinated mainstream attempt to silence Russell Brands conspiracy-mongering influencer grift. It is evidence that Russell Brand is a serial rapist" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1703113213741797565) 2023-09-16T18:26Z 444.5K followers, 57K engagements "Somehow my bag got lost in the course of connecting between @united and @AerLingus flights and it decided to stay awhile in Dublin. Praying to the patron saint of lost luggage that I dont end up giving professional talks in yoga pants and a t-shirt" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1704471764514820398) 2023-09-20T12:25Z 450.1K followers, 10.3K engagements "@florian_krammer @camilahcoelho For me its the living hell otherwise known as Toronto Pearson International Airport. Ive stayed at that airport hotel so many timesrepeatedly unplannedthat I no longer need to look at the room service menu to order food" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1705095695303065998) 2023-09-22T05:44Z 450.1K followers, [---] engagements "Russell Brand was rightthere is another agenda at play. An agenda to further profit from his grift at the expense of the women he targeted assaulted and traumatized" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1705535364100735090) 2023-09-23T10:51Z 450.2K followers, [----] engagements "A reminder that former @TheLancet COVID-19 Commission chair Jeffrey Sachs has appeared on racist antivaxer RFK Jrs podcast & alleged serial rapist antivaxer Russell Brands Rumble channel *multiple* times. Should we take him seriously if he chooses such unserious venues" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1706927128497865088) 2023-09-27T07:01Z 450.1K followers, 30.5K engagements "Sachs took his traveling shitshow to former judge & current maple syrup farmer/vlogger Andrew Napolitano who replaced Glenn Beck as chief paranoid delusion spreader at Fox News (ie Obama tapped his phone) until he racked up so many sexual assault allegations that he was fired" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1706927132008444219) 2023-09-27T07:01Z 465K followers, [---] engagements "Getting fired for sexual misconduct at Fox News is actually kind of impressive considering the network is so famous for its institutional embrace of sex pests theres a movie about it" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1706927134910841284) 2023-09-27T07:01Z 465.1K followers, [--] engagements "@MarieMyungOkLee @TheLancet Yephes been very bad for awhile. Besides all the lab leak and anti-vax adjacent stuff in his Napolitano Russell Brand and RFK Jr. Interviews hes also accused NATO of provoking Russias invasion of Ukraine and has repeatedly claimed the US blew up the NordStream pipeline" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1707112935066067252) 2023-09-27T19:20Z 450.1K followers, [--] engagements "A supposed defense of scientists that explores and dignifies their humanity headlined with an obvious reference to the Nazi architect of the Holocausts criminal trial is quite the creative choice" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1707448320979849248) 2023-09-28T17:32Z 446.2K followers, 10K engagements "I do love the visual of Lynch and Wilson going to a function together as youd be hard-pressed to find two guys in the NFL with more opposite vibes. ✔ Also supports my hypothesis that Russell Wilson is the most annoying Seahawk in franchise history" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1709759481431650568) 2023-10-05T02:36Z 450K followers, 11.1K engagements "So let me get this straight: the Covid Hunters gang teamed up with DRASTIC and Bret Weinstein to manipulate a Sky News editor to pressure Nature schemed to take the lab leak show to Joe Rogan & were trying to work in an anti-vax angle in [----] And they call us propagandists" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1710061896403956050) 2023-10-05T22:38Z 450.1K followers, 62.3K engagements "@dennis_crork Judging by the Pureblood and Nuremberg2 hashtags in your bio however I suspect that we have fundamentally different definitions of resources available" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1710526123417948312) 2023-10-07T05:23Z 450.1K followers, [--] engagements "Mr. Pfizer is a compliment coming from Mr. Anti-Vax Bullshit though to be fair Aaron Rodgers cant throw actual footballs from the sidelines so I guess weak shade will have to suffice" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1710530152407675187) 2023-10-07T05:39Z 450.1K followers, 20.6K engagements "Happy Thanksgiving hey" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1710891779686367261) 2023-10-08T05:36Z 450.1K followers, 11.4K engagements "Although that would be a fun excuse to get together with @PeterHotez & @mtosterholm it's less fun that Aaron Rodgers is further mainstreaming his anti-vax bullshit by leveraging Travis Kelce's popularity. Hopefully Kelce ignores him" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1712190729391325663) 2023-10-11T19:37Z 450.1K followers, 18.1K engagements "I truly believe that most people want a world in which public health is valued and expected. A world where people doing this work are respected not threatened. That is not the world we live in" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1712647348612915691) 2023-10-13T01:52Z 450.1K followers, 82.7K engagements "While we didnt see SARS-CoV-2 coming specifically we *did* know that emergent sarbecoviruses were a real risk. We were able to develop vaccines & antiviral drugs in record time because of the virology research that occurred prior to the first spillover at the Huanan market" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1712897940614783179) 2023-10-13T18:27Z 450.1K followers, [---] engagements "Its not just anti-vax. They along with lab leakers climate change deniers & wellness grifters have united under the same anti-science banner. An essential piece through the lens of @PeterHotezs excellent book about what scientists are going through & what were up against" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1716110770625257649) 2023-10-22T15:14Z 444.5K followers, 77K engagements "Example of a COVID grifter in action. 👇🏻 Tracy Heg is a sports medicine doctor who rose to pandemic stardom by putting out a bunch of dubious anti-vax/anti-mask papers a la Vinay Prasad. Predictably she now has a podcast for the vaccine curious and OMG ITS BEING CENSORED" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1716442466704851053) 2023-10-23T13:12Z 445.1K followers, 98.5K engagements "So lets critically review this tweet complaining about how her vaccine-curious ideas are just too free & progressive for the truth police over at LinkedIn. Even now people could be browsing CVs of would-be professional contacts without access to Tracys anti-vax horseshit" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1716442474183643543) 2023-10-23T13:12Z 444.5K followers, [----] engagements "Of course for a good con artist even a setback is an opportunity so Tracy thinks this means she was on to something by falsely claiming the Pfizer mRNA vaccine has dangerous SV40 DNA in it and hep B vaccines are unnecessary and maybe unsafe in infants" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1716442476607910255) 2023-10-23T13:12Z 444.7K followers, [----] engagements "Happy Halloween. My costume was a freshly COVID and flu-vaccinated Costco enthusiast which is also conveniently descriptive of me at any time of year" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1719531131551236480) 2023-11-01T01:45Z 445.9K followers, 67.6K engagements "@mikechenwriter Except Id creep up on people and hit triangle to give them a booster" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1719539653819158537) 2023-11-01T02:19Z 450.1K followers, [---] engagements "@jeffryhouse I did it willingly" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1719539885898367395) 2023-11-01T02:20Z 444.5K followers, [---] engagements "Fantastic opportunity to work in a world-class lab (Tony gave me a tour on a recent visit and I got to meet his bats.they are amazing creatures) This is a dream job for any prospective post-doc who is interested in bat viruses and their fascinating biology. Apply 👇🏼" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1719812771359924310) 2023-11-01T20:24Z 447K followers, 20K engagements "California confirms 2nd local dengue case it sucks when things you wrote in grant significance sections years ago start coming true https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/dengue/california-confirms-2nd-local-dengue-case https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/dengue/california-confirms-2nd-local-dengue-case" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1720281056824131821) 2023-11-03T03:25Z 473.9K followers, 55.1K engagements "I hate to unblow anyones mind but this isnt how DNA codons or viruses work" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1720924138775162943) 2023-11-04T22:01Z 445.9K followers, 127.9K engagements "Gain of function research gave us drugs vaccines & modern medicine. Engineering a cell line to make insulin is GOF. Gene therapy is GOF. Vaccines & antiviral drugs are the result of GOF. GOF never caused a pandemic but ending it will stop us from fighting the next one" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1724771512249438683) 2023-11-15T12:49Z 446.5K followers, 163.6K engagements "Know any good vets looking for research opportunities Consider coming to VIDO Our Animal Services staff does incredible work on all of our in vivo studies from mice to bison. Come join us in beautiful Saskatoon and be part of Canada's National Pandemic Research Centre 👇🏼" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1726738166969774387) 2023-11-20T23:03Z 446.4K followers, 37K engagements "Well would you look at that.looks like furin cleavage sites evolve naturally in sarbecoviruses. Just like they do in all those other betacoronaviruses. It's almost like there's nothing inherently artificial or suspicious about furin cleavage sites at all" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1726743445488689521) 2023-11-20T23:24Z 450.1K followers, 54.1K engagements "And since Im eternally grateful to have dogs in my life heres a gratuitous photo of Ripley and Boney rocking their Kirk Sig merch and wishing all of you and your dogs a happy and mystery pathogen-free Thanksgiving" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1727681838536151345) 2023-11-23T13:33Z 446.2K followers, [----] engagements "@fallenigloos Yeah I saw someone claiming the dogs all have pneumonia therefore its Covid and if its not its because the dogs all had Covid and Covid causes AIDS. Or they have long Covid. For your senior dog its reasonable to be concerned. Is mobile grooming an option" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1727715303134531600) 2023-11-23T15:46Z 446.5K followers, [---] engagements "@weese_scott I also defer to your expertise as a vet especially with the issue you raise about timing of sampling. But what is this new bacterium common to these cases And the suggestion it may respond to doxy I hate news articles vs actual papers for this" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1727958261595300005) 2023-11-24T07:52Z 446.4K followers, [----] engagements "If youve heard/read scary stuff about virology/microbiology/pathogen research and the inevitable apocalypse it will bring please know most of that shit is made up and funded by the factions of existential doomers warring as described in this excellent thread" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1729367338581901334) 2023-11-28T05:11Z 447.2K followers, 53.8K engagements "As Ive stated before many times research on emerging pathogens presents myriad risks. But the risks can be mitigated and this research is essential for fighting the pandemics of tomorrow. Wealthy tech dudes with derivative imaginations are trying to stop this essential work" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1729367341765455990) 2023-11-28T05:11Z 446.1K followers, [---] engagements "In reality I dont spend a lot of time thinking about viruses with 100% mortalityI have a rabies vaccine and so do my dogs. I certainly dont spend my time thinking about how to make them much less asking LLMs how to do that. I worry about more realistic things" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1729367347717148986) 2023-11-28T05:11Z 446.2K followers, [---] engagements "Things like MERS-CoV-2 or SARS-CoV-3. Or the next flu pandemic. Or more transmissible Nipah. Or any number of emerging arboviruses that could establish themselves in new populations that we have no immunity to & we have no defenses for because they mostly impact poor people now" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1729367350627983852) 2023-11-28T05:11Z 446.2K followers, [----] engagements "And yet Ive done nothing but read pearl-clutching concern after concern from academically credentialed men (and a few women) saying this very thing is not only possible its incredibly likely. Except its not" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1729367362409754682) 2023-11-28T05:11Z 446.1K followers, [---] engagements "Pathogen research has risks. These can be mitigated. Nature has viruses. Millions of them thousands (at minimum) of which are potential human pathogens. Climate change accelerates spillover. These risks are harder to mitigate" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1729367365341561309) 2023-11-28T05:11Z 446.1K followers, [---] engagements "@InfiniteKB_Com Because climate change is one of the key drivers of pathogen spillover" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1729739820979650716) 2023-11-29T05:51Z 446.2K followers, [---] engagements "Thank you Facebook for reminding me what a delightful time I had with my PhD research" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1732045545739628551) 2023-12-05T14:33Z 446.8K followers, [----] engagements "Remarkable that when confronted with evidence of his lies RFK Jr just lies some more that his lies are true" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1736055771421364351) 2023-12-16T16:08Z 447.5K followers, 26.4K engagements "Almost everyoneregardless of edicational background or position on masks vaccines or public health measuresoperating in good faith knows the simple and obvious truth that all viruses are not the same. If you dont you have no business dispensing advice about them" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1736384980970848262) 2023-12-17T13:56Z 447.5K followers, 31.3K engagements "@BB0941167867205 @42Gnome @TreatHunterDog @AccofLafler @PlatoonOps @WillioHydro @tHeBohem7 @West_of_US395 @AnnoyedTaurus @TomDoubting @SheilaReturns @VictorJennpaul @DragonHawk1959 @Missy8008135 @MrLarsonsFoot @hellosf77 @pan_dejo_ @Bruh888888888 @JDS44894884 @8BrianVogel4 @Summer0fLove_ @Godslightangel7 @Evry1H8sGrtzLOL @Wanderinglord @KARMA92630394 @darkstar32222 @Pis0Mojado @ShellyRKirchoff @IZMKS44 @MagaPhoenix73 @cbeckj @AFreeQueen @LaneArroyo_ @Caddy4Gilmore @Littlwritergir1 @ThunderousAppl4 @WhiteRonin614 @dulcieburt @jbizzy6969 @AntWindmill @itisjustmebabe @freemasongeorg5 @laneisrad" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1738289080696295745) 2023-12-22T20:03Z 448K followers, [---] engagements "I recommend spending Christmas Eve chilling with your loved ones or engaging in other relaxing leisure activities as opposed to thinking about the pandemic. But if you insist on making SARS-CoV-2 part of your day check out this excellent thread 👇🏻 We are now officially into year [--] of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic/endemic. I gave a lecture to my virology class this Fall about the history of the pandemic through the lens of viral genotypes. I thought I would share that lecture as a thread. This is a long one. 1/ We are now officially into year [--] of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic/endemic. I gave a lecture" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1738968279702511831) 2023-12-24T17:02Z 448K followers, 50.4K engagements "Its not Taylor Swifts fault (Charlie) Kirk and other men hate a powerful woman. You dont blame a woman who doesnt play in the NFL for a team full of men not fulfilling their potential. Unfortunately they can and they do. Problem with Kansas City Chiefs Patrick Mahomes is not Taylor Swift https://t.co/VEh9ruRA1x Problem with Kansas City Chiefs Patrick Mahomes is not Taylor Swift https://t.co/VEh9ruRA1x" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1740017196775141774) 2023-12-27T14:30Z 444.5K followers, 10.4K engagements "@CCSDMaskUp If you read the perspective (or the rest of my thread) you will see that we are not opposed to robust biosafety regulation. We are arguing that experts need to be consulted on how that regulation will maximize both safety and benefits of the research itself" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743062786987504107) 2024-01-05T00:12Z [--] followers, 42.2K engagements "Good morning winter 🥶" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1745454208126783777) 2024-01-11T14:34Z 450.1K followers, 10.7K engagements "The weather tolerability situation continues to decline" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1745806827936157713) 2024-01-12T13:55Z 450.1K followers, 11.4K engagements "Disease X is trending due to this anti-vax bullshit making the rounds. Disease X is a placeholder term for any number of novel pathogens that could emerge in the future. Its not code for a bioweapon or a planned release & its not currently emerging in China or anywhere else" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1746609555583189311) 2024-01-14T19:05Z 450.1K followers, 87.5K engagements "If Disease X were actually a secret conspiracy to intentionally start a plandemic its planners havent done a very good job at keeping it a secret considering Wikipedia has everything you need to know about it:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1746613033273627084) 2024-01-14T19:19Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "God I love it when the Cowboys are getting their asses decisively kicked I am DEVASTATED. I am DEVASTATED" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1746680133191180342) 2024-01-14T23:46Z 473.9K followers, 25.9K engagements "The only things created or crafted here are these grossly incorrect heaps of horseshit generated by @caitlintilley @DailyMail & @nypost. This article and others like it are very misleading. This was not gain-of-function research no matter how many loud non-experts say it is" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1748449163187204504) 2024-01-19T20:55Z 450K followers, 47.5K engagements "This article describes this recent preprint published on @biorxivpreprint. Briefly scientists in Beijing cloned a pangolin SARS-related coronavirus they had isolated & infected human ACE2 transgenic mice with it. All the mice died" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1748449166064599267) 2024-01-19T20:55Z 450.2K followers, [----] engagements "These CAG-hACE2 mice are expressing human ACE2 EVERYWHERE at extremely high levels. So you infect these mice with a virus that uses hACE2 as a receptor and it often kills them all. And it often happens with viruses that dont kill 100% of humans. Example: SARS-CoV-2" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1748449176751689861) 2024-01-19T20:55Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements "SARS2 obviously doesnt kill 100% of the humans it infects or I wouldnt be here typing this since I had COVID last year. But it kills 100% of these hACE2 transgenic mice (in this model hACE2 is expressed by a cytokeratin promoter):" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1748449178731299158) 2024-01-19T20:55Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements "Yet that didnt stop the experts (narrator: they are not actually experts) from weighing in with their $0.02. Dr. Balloux doesnt seem to understand that humanized refers to abnormally high ubiquitous expression of a human transgene that doesnt resemble a human at all" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1748449190995534162) 2024-01-19T20:55Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements "And this isnt a random virus either. Its a pangolin sarbecovirus with enough similarity to SARS-CoV-2 that was already identified as a spillover risk and already tested in hamsters and wild-type mice. Its reasonable to test in a transgenic model" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1748449197307875385) 2024-01-19T20:55Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements "While reasonable people can disagree on what's appropriate or not & it's perfectly valid to assess risk differently it's not valid to transmogrify ignorance into fearmongering. It's fine to be critical. It's not fine to bring unsupported criticisms to a discussion of evidence" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1748450288590111113) 2024-01-19T21:00Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements "Because this work IS NOT pointless. There are millions of viruses out there. We don't know which ones will cause the next pandemic but we do need to try to make a shortlist if we want to be prepared to respond to them much less prevent them in the first place" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1748453488957268352) 2024-01-19T21:12Z 446.5K followers, [----] engagements "You can tell a lot about what people truly believe when you look at the organizations they choose to champion and the company that they keep. @simon_gordon_ However do they do it https://t.co/NPHbLrmgmN @simon_gordon_ However do they do it https://t.co/NPHbLrmgmN" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1751301751716667405) 2024-01-27T17:50Z 456.3K followers, 33.5K engagements "Hate to contradict an Alpha Males opinion on financially-motivated romantic relationships but Travis Kelces bonus check is a rounding error for Taylor Swifts accountants. By being on the team that won the AFC Championship Travis Kelce will received a bonus check of around $70000. For those wondering why Taylor Swift is dating Travis Kelce: are things beginning to make sense now By being on the team that won the AFC Championship Travis Kelce will received a bonus check of around $70000. For those wondering why Taylor Swift is dating Travis Kelce: are things beginning to make sense now" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1751856242027303096) 2024-01-29T06:34Z 454K followers, 45.1K engagements "Animal useespecially for NHPsrequires justification by showing there is no other way to get information and the studies are critical to advance human or animal health. Not to let a billionaire install convenience apps into a brain interface for profit" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1752307280647696880) 2024-01-30T12:26Z 450K followers, [----] engagements "And reports of severe neurological dysfunction in the Neuralink monkeys including leaving an animals cerebral cortex focally tattered should have triggered a humane endpoint weeks before. Its cruel & reprehensible to treat NHP test subjects this way" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1752307282400985376) 2024-01-30T12:26Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements "The evidence to date supports the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 emerged via zoonotic spillover at the Huanan Market. But if you're confused about what scientists actually think I highly recommend this thread explaining why dismissing evidence-based consensus undermines science. Silver is making a number of errors here including conflating best sampling procedures for population-level work w/ sampling of research experts. More pernicious however is that Silver is moving us further from any kind of shared truth thru undermining expertise more broadly Silver is making a number of errors here" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1754249268452298945) 2024-02-04T21:03Z 465.3K followers, 98K engagements "Everyone is all worked up about the rat's AI-augmented monster junk but I'm more offended by what's been done to the JAK/STAT signaling pathway" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1758287202013134872) 2024-02-16T00:28Z 457.7K followers, 61.7K engagements "If Dark Brandons virology unit managed to pandemic up a previously unknown bat virus by inserting a suboptimal furin cleavage site & independently introducing [--] separate lineages via semi-clandestine live animal sales they should get a Nobel prize along with the stolen election" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1759935606778421341) 2024-02-20T13:38Z 457.9K followers, 15.4K engagements "Fantastic @mehdirhasan is consistently one of the sharpest toughest journalists out there (especially on scientific/pandemic topics that so many others have gotten so wrong). He is a bright spot in an otherwise grim media landscape & I hope his new venture is wildly successful 🚨Some personal & professional news: I'm launching a new media company It's called Zeteo. And in this era of war abroad fascism at home and propaganda everywhere I hope I can count on your support. Please do sign up today and subscribe here: https://t.co/je2PVGmCWH https://t.co/wKKOvLQdDA 🚨Some personal & professional" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1762840115477717247) 2024-02-28T14:00Z 459.2K followers, 32.8K engagements "Poliovirus is not a harmless virus. It is a pathogen that infects and kills motor neurons causing permanent paralysis and disability. Polio vaccines prevent poliomyelitis. We have almost [--] years of data showing they are safe & effective. A RFK Jr presidency will kill people. Almost exactly what denialists claim about HIV. One short step to full-on germ theory denial from there--and the person who leads the group wants to be President. https://t.co/kjZQPT1x4o Almost exactly what denialists claim about HIV. One short step to full-on germ theory denial from there--and the person who leads the" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1764084824677941576) 2024-03-03T00:26Z 460.8K followers, 60.6K engagements "This just in: Ivermectin still doesnt work to treat COVID. The final large published trial on ivermectin for COVID-19 PRINCIPLE is now out. Main findings: [--]. Clinically unimportant (1-2day reduction) in time to resolution of symptoms. [--]. No benefit for hospitalization/death. https://t.co/ETKIzkyXPk The final large published trial on ivermectin for COVID-19 PRINCIPLE is now out. Main findings: [--]. Clinically unimportant (1-2day reduction) in time to resolution of symptoms. [--]. No benefit for hospitalization/death. https://t.co/ETKIzkyXPk" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1765000872176611515) 2024-03-05T13:06Z 462.1K followers, 117.9K engagements "Congratulations to the U.S. government on getting us that much closer to the dark ages. So much for American innovation" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1765600677663809550) 2024-03-07T04:49Z 460.8K followers, 10.6K engagements "@Sander_vdLinden @GYamey I see you also got the unflattering B&W photo/grossly inaccurate hit piece treatment from Thacker. Gavin youre nexthe might have trouble making you look sinister since youre so stylish though. Still not gonna reward his pathetic rage farming with engagement" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1766178814021816641) 2024-03-08T19:06Z 454.2K followers, [---] engagements "Pretend this is true & isnt just regurgitating anti-vax creationist conspiracies for political points. If SARS-CoV-2 was developed with US funding in 2017-2019 then the GOP Senate majority & Trump funded all this god-playing & stood by while it killed a million Americans. Theres an explanation for why the U.S. government pushed the false narrative that COVD came from the wild and not a lab: COVID was created with U.S. funded technology. They were playing god with new viruses to create new vaccines. They gave us both. Stop funding the madness. Theres an explanation for why the U.S. government" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1767257333380304957) 2024-03-11T18:32Z 462K followers, 24.4K engagements "Im no politician but it seems to me that insinuating that the Trump administrations only meaningful pandemic successfunding & deploying safe effective vaccines in record timewas actually evil & bad is kind of self-defeating when your party was responsible for funding it" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1767261694009500076) 2024-03-11T18:49Z 462K followers, [----] engagements "Unfortunately for Aaron Rodgers homeopathic vaccines offer no protection from Twitter evisceration💀 A quick open letter to NY Jets quarterback and massive weirdo Aaron Rodgers from me an attorney who for many years represented several Sandy Hook parents. 🧵 https://t.co/nAHjQoZxvk A quick open letter to NY Jets quarterback and massive weirdo Aaron Rodgers from me an attorney who for many years represented several Sandy Hook parents. 🧵 https://t.co/nAHjQoZxvk" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1768251287903015270) 2024-03-14T12:22Z 461.6K followers, 15.2K engagements "Speaking from personal experience [--] years of being relentlessly drowned in a deluge of misogyny exacts a terrible toll. The ongoing professional harm and emotional pain these men have inflicted on me with @RutgersUs tacit approval demonstrates they have never been silenced. These [--] menthe [--] most vocal & famous proponents of the lab leak theoryhave mercilessly harassed scientists for years in the most deeply unpleasant way especially women scientists (theyve sent plenty of harassment my way & I dont even work on viral origins 🤷♂) These [--] menthe [--] most vocal & famous proponents of the lab leak" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1769071911634420044) 2024-03-16T18:43Z 464.2K followers, 179.6K engagements "👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Lisbon is great and this is a fantastic conference Submit your abstract Contribute your research by3 May [----] to the 18th Vaccine Congress by [--] May [----]. Leading scientists will share their knowledge on current developments & discoveries in the field #18vaccinecongress. https://t.co/dqbbEntgsP https://t.co/IB7MJmYpTk Submit your abstract Contribute your research by3 May [----] to the 18th Vaccine Congress by [--] May [----]. Leading scientists will share their knowledge on current developments & discoveries in the field #18vaccinecongress. https://t.co/dqbbEntgsP https://t.co/IB7MJmYpTk" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1770650713405661657) 2024-03-21T03:16Z 463.4K followers, 12.5K engagements "Cross-species virus transmission strikes again. When it comes to viral diseases herpes encephalitis is a particularly lousy way to go. Poor Flaco. Flaco's final necropsy results reveal "two significant underlying conditions . a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons . and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides ." https://t.co/RGUoTM9Kr8 Flaco's final necropsy results reveal "two significant underlying conditions . a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons . and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides ." https://t.co/RGUoTM9Kr8" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1772393269059539250) 2024-03-25T22:40Z 466.9K followers, 17.2K engagements "These strategic stockpiles remind me a lot of lab leak-inspired efforts to stop virology research: they use purely hypothetical risks to justify denial of lifesaving treatments from those who are actually dying from these viruses in reality. Its inequitable & profoundly wrong. [--] years after the horrific West African Ebola epidemic we have life-saving treatments Yet they remain under the control of just two US pharma corporations And they're almost exclusively kept in a US stockpile for national security purposes From @MSF 👇https://t.co/214epFEqAc [--] years after the horrific West African" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1773167417079841065) 2024-03-28T01:57Z 473.9K followers, 16K engagements "Strong hyping of precise numbers based on weak evidence & lots of hedging & fudging.These expected value pronouncements thus fit the most philosophically rigorous definition of bullshit. The most accurate portrait of effective altruism ever painted. https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/ https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1773326563502592150) 2024-03-28T12:29Z 464.1K followers, [----] engagements "Without question this is all cause for concern as discussed by Dr. Moncla in this interview with @LaurenPelley. RNA viruses will adapt as they get more opportunities to infect a given host species. We need to deprive them of opportunities to adapt. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7162626 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7162626" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1776247511788753354) 2024-04-05T13:56Z 454.8K followers, [----] engagements "So let me get this straight: hundreds of NIH-funded investigators can engage in sexual misconduct assault trainees abuse colleagues on social media spread misinformation etc and thats all good but dont you dare retire without submitting your final RPPR. a tragic but unfortunately hilarious story that boils down to: one man didn't do his homework and the whole school is being punished https://t.co/Vyp11rr4LV https://t.co/O0e0QmYwpZ a tragic but unfortunately hilarious story that boils down to: one man didn't do his homework and the whole school is being punished https://t.co/Vyp11rr4LV" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1778302398546743757) 2024-04-11T06:01Z 454.7K followers, 10.6K engagements "Arrived in Stellenbosch & my hotel greeted me with a glass of wine My kind of place. Stoked to share our work on zoonosis & host susceptibility to emerging viruses. Heres to Jason @edrybicki & all the terrific scientists at Virology Africa [----] Thanks for inviting me Good morning from Cape Town Looking very forward to sharing our consortiums #mpox work here at the #VirologyAfrica2024 conference in Stellenbosch Good morning from Cape Town Looking very forward to sharing our consortiums #mpox work here at the #VirologyAfrica2024 conference in Stellenbosch" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1779527771741417663) 2024-04-14T15:10Z 474.5K followers, 26K engagements "@Tuliodna gives a riveting talk on his and his colleagues outstanding collaborative efforts in pandemic and variant responses and research. The future of virology in South Africa is bright. #VirologyAfrica" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1780534636411564395) 2024-04-17T09:51Z 455.4K followers, [----] engagements "Highly recommend visiting South Africa for the scenery alone" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1780693834093203832) 2024-04-17T20:24Z 473.9K followers, [----] engagements "Perhaps this opinion is unpopular but its based on a set of evidence that is currently expanding every day that key epidemic response data continues to be hoarded by government agencies that are acting contrary to the interests of the constituents they are supposed to serve. Unpopular opinion: If a zoonotic virus emerges but its control or even transparent information on the situation will interfere with industrys interests the safety of all of us will be thrown under the bus. Looking at you wildlife traders fur farms meat & dairy industry Unpopular opinion: If a zoonotic virus emerges but" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1782737780143001789) 2024-04-23T11:46Z 453.6K followers, 42.8K engagements "5+. I'm not attributing this to malice incompetence territorialism bureaucracy or anything else but it's very clear that this apparent lack of transparency and urgency to share these relevant data are greatly harming both the US and global capacity to respond" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1782933820989169847) 2024-04-24T00:45Z 453.4K followers, 10.9K engagements "We know that if you don't want an outbreak to become an epidemic or a pandemic it needs to be contained quickly. This news further shows that it has neither been contained and there is no evident rush to do so. This is both alarming and profoundly depressing" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1782933822675243200) 2024-04-24T00:45Z 453.4K followers, 23.7K engagements "Many have correctly commented about the loss of trust in public health that this is furthering but the problem goes beyond that. Here the agencies leading this response have forfeited leveraging the full capacity of the international scientific community to respond" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1782933824336196087) 2024-04-24T00:45Z 453.5K followers, 10K engagements "Pandemics are global events by definition. The USthe country where I am from was trained still work extensively in and once claimed leadership in pandemic preparednessis not the only country impacted. It's a matter of time before we find infected cows elsewhere" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1782933825972015194) 2024-04-24T00:45Z 453.5K followers, [----] engagements "Cattleboth dairy and beef productionis big business around the world. There are billions of cows. Failing to share information rapidly not only hurts food security the economy and human/animal health in the US it's preventing a global response to a major global threat" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1782933827540619512) 2024-04-24T00:45Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements "I am frequently asked to comment on "lessons learned" from SARS-CoV-2. Now I have yet another example of a critical lesson that has decidedly not been learned: if there's an emerging pandemic threat you leverage all your resources to respond as fast and effectively as possible" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1782933829205795206) 2024-04-24T00:45Z 453.6K followers, 36.9K engagements "The lack of data and information sharing occurring here is disgraceful and inexcusable. The global scientific community is eager to leverage what we've learned from the last pandemicat devastating cost to us allto prevent another one. The government needs to help not hinder" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1782933830958989546) 2024-04-24T00:45Z 453.4K followers, 23.9K engagements "Normally I hate Friday afternoon data drops but it's a different story when eagerly awaited H5N1 metadata is involved. Below is freshly mined metadata () with more detailed info on sample collection date & location. Essential for studying the outbreak. https://github.com/andersen-lab/avian-influenza/blob/master/metadata/PRJNA1102327_metadata.csv Important update on metadata of H5N1 in cattle (and back to birds): Thanks to the extraordinary detective skills of @flodebarre we are pleased to be able to share this table containing locations and dates for several H5N1 cases in cattle and birds:" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1783969905965944833) 2024-04-26T21:22Z 454K followers, 63.4K engagements "What is metadata you might ask Sounds technical & boring. It often is. In this case it refers to more details about sequences released by @USDA/@USDA_APHIS last Sunday. This specifically provides more info about when & where those samples were collected beyond 2024/USA" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1783993442483269715) 2024-04-26T22:55Z 453.5K followers, [----] engagements "Future: And this metadata helps with that too. By helping us understand how this virus has evolved in the past we can start to predict how it will evolve in the future including whether it might adapt further to threaten human or animal health or the food supply" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1783993479753781541) 2024-04-26T22:56Z 453.5K followers, [---] engagements "Future: Risk assessment is critical to implementing effective prevention and surveillance strategies but it cannot be based on concerns vibes or hyperbolic 🚨 tweets about imminent pandemics. Accurate risk assessment is necessarily dependent upon high quality evidence" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1783993481494413566) 2024-04-26T22:56Z 453.5K followers, [---] engagements "Here's where we are: Asymptomatic cows shed H5N1 into the milk supply Pasteurization inactivates the virus and renders it non-infectious @US_FDA & @USDA showed inactivation by inoculating eggs with PCR+ dairy products BUT DO NOT DRINK UNPASTEURIZED MILK https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/updates-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/updates-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1785764635217404250) 2024-05-01T20:14Z 454.3K followers, 26.4K engagements "Out now on @virological_org: preliminary report on the genomic epidemiology of H5N1 sequences in cattle. This complements the preprint @USDA put out yesterday. There was a lot of data to work with so it's split in two parts 👇🏼 https://virological.org/t/preliminary-report-on-genomic-epidemiology-of-the-2024-h5n1-influenza-a-virus-outbreak-in-u-s-cattle-part-2-of-2/971 https://virological.org/t/preliminary-report-on-genomic-epidemiology-of-the-2024-h5n1-influenza-a-virus-outbreak-in-u-s-cattle-part-1-of-2/970" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1786531532301103157) 2024-05-03T23:01Z 454.7K followers, 112.4K engagements "4. It also probably started in Texas where sick cows were first observed. An important caveat: most of the available samples to analyze are from Texas which could bias this result. More sequences with precise metadata about sampling date & location could help resolve this" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1786531551032828092) 2024-05-03T23:01Z 454.3K followers, [----] engagements "5. The cow viruses contain putative mammalian adaptive mutations in the polymerase complex. Influenza has [--] segments encoding the viral polymerase (enzyme that copies the genome): PA PB1 PB2. For a virus to replicate the polymerase has to interact with host proteins" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1786531553629131063) 2024-05-03T23:01Z 454.3K followers, [----] engagements "I hope this is a testament to the value of rapid open data sharing between both government and academic networks during outbreaks and that this information helps USDA and other health officials. We need more testing more surveillance more research and more collaboration" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1786531587263217808) 2024-05-03T23:01Z 454.3K followers, [----] engagements "This is great news. I'm very glad @GovCanHealth and @InspectionCan are actively going to look for H5N1 in Canadian cattle. Canada and Mexico are the top two importers of American cattle in the world and viruses don't care about borders. BREAKING: The Canadian Food Inspection Agency Public Health Agency of Canada jointly announce Canada will be expanding surveillance of #H5N1 including cattle and retail milk testing amid ongoing outbreak among U.S. dairy cattle. More from their new statement: https://t.co/rtafzXjGo7 BREAKING: The Canadian Food Inspection Agency Public Health Agency of Canada" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1786536396095627574) 2024-05-03T23:20Z 473.9K followers, 17.7K engagements "@SafeFoodCanuck @GovCanHealth @InspectionCan For milk safety not much. To identify potentially infected herds could be important" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1786574641940619632) 2024-05-04T01:52Z 473.9K followers, [---] engagements "Where will it end That depends on us answering critical scientific questions first. Specifically we must: -expand testing -enable critical research on susceptibility tropism transmission & pathogenesis -share all the epi data And we must do it now. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01333-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01333-9" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1788343956746473557) 2024-05-08T23:03Z 454.4K followers, 23.2K engagements "@KarenEJPerry We can end the cattle outbreak but that depends first on understanding the full scale of it & then applying knowledge about how it's spreading between cows cows & other species and how that impacts disease severity & shedding. We still need to gain much of that knowledge" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1788347537448894850) 2024-05-08T23:17Z 454.2K followers, [---] engagements "Spoiler alert (except not because this is completely unsurprising): it's @AirCanada https://www.thestreet.com/travel/what-airline-is-the-most-hated https://www.thestreet.com/travel/what-airline-is-the-most-hated" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1788591620029378634) 2024-05-09T15:27Z 473.9K followers, [----] engagements "If this turns out to be a filovirus (Ebola Marburg) then it will mark the first instance of these viruses emerging in Burundi. These viruses are devastating and the list of countries at risk for outbreaks continues to grow. It's essential to be proactive about containment. #Bujumbura : Burundian authorities are still awaiting the results of a suspected case of #Ebola virus disease discovered at the #Kamenge military hospital a week ago. #Bujumbura : Burundian authorities are still awaiting the results of a suspected case of #Ebola virus disease discovered at the #Kamenge military hospital a" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1788964809955811771) 2024-05-10T16:10Z 454.3K followers, 16.8K engagements "Its clear that much more surveillance is needed. Detection of H5N1 in wastewater is a great demonstration of how every extra piece of information is helpful. If we want to finish the puzzle we need every piece. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.10.24307179v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.10.24307179v1" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1789354788997537886) 2024-05-11T18:00Z 474.5K followers, 14.4K engagements "Live from the ionosphere its Saturday night" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1789515262141829422) 2024-05-12T04:37Z 454.7K followers, 21.6K engagements "The barriers to H5N1 becoming pandemic are high but not insurmountable as discussed in this excellent thread. Theres a lot we dont know but we do know that viruses are full of surprises. Lets keep up with this one so we arent caught off guard. With #H5N1 #birdflu spreading amongst dairy cows one of the most important things to think about right now is what would need to happen for this virus to actually start a pandemic. I'm on a train so a brief thread. With #H5N1 #birdflu spreading amongst dairy cows one of the most important things to think about right now is what would need to happen for" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1789709006212149323) 2024-05-12T17:27Z 454.6K followers, 37.4K engagements "Yesterday we noticed our dogs constantly sniffing around a corner of our backyard. Today we found out why: they were investigating a dead bird obscured by some weeds. Now the dogs are on symptom watch & husband is in trouble (he disposed of the bird before I could sample it). Cats frequently interact with other susceptible species such as cows skunks and birds in these cases. They also interact with humans. Keep pet cats (and dogs) away from dead animals especially birds or carnivores (skunks foxes). For their safety and for yours. Cats frequently interact with other susceptible species such" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1789770478808089012) 2024-05-12T21:31Z 454.5K followers, 30.3K engagements "In my husbands defense I had only instructed him to keep the dogs away from dead birds or dead animals (the dogs go after live birds but havent figured out how to fly so they havent caught one yet). I told him to stay away from bird corpses not save them for me" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1789772107997491687) 2024-05-12T21:38Z 454.5K followers, [----] engagements "McAfee founder of Fresnos Raw Farm & the Raw Milk Institute said his phone has been ringing off the hook w/customers asking for H5N1 milk because they want immunity from it. This isnt how you get immunity to H5N1. It might be how you die from it. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-12/raw-milk-enthusiasts-uncowed-by-bird-flu-risk-in-dairy https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-12/raw-milk-enthusiasts-uncowed-by-bird-flu-risk-in-dairy" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1790020739757752706) 2024-05-13T14:06Z 473.9K followers, 504.1K engagements "This is great preliminary news from @InspectionCan It would be even better if there were more details about where the samples were collected how they assessed no evidence of disease how many cows were tested what tests were used and what future surveillance plans are. NEW: Canadian Food Inspection Agency has first results from commercial #H5N1 milk testing. CFIA tested [---] milk samples from across Canada. As of today none tested positive for fragments of virus behind avian flu "with no evidence of disease in dairy cattle detected in milk." NEW: Canadian Food Inspection Agency has first" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1790477569839538539) 2024-05-14T20:21Z 454.8K followers, 16.4K engagements "This is great news as more testing is urgently needed but there are some caveats. Wastewater data can be difficult to interpret. It can be especially difficult to identify the source and wont catch anything not connected to municipal sewage systems (many farms are not). Wastewater testing for #H5N1 #birdflu is about to go next level in a 190-site network operated by scientists from Stanford Emory and Verily Life Sciences @MeganMolteni reports. Instead of just searching for flu A viruses they'll search for H5. https://t.co/kpGF46Lj8Y Wastewater testing for #H5N1 #birdflu is about to go next" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1793624146129396011) 2024-05-23T12:44Z 474.5K followers, 12.5K engagements "This is an unwelcome report that's also not a huge surprise. Alpacas are known to be susceptible to influenza & this farm had been depopulated (culled) in May due to a poultry outbreak. Delayed reporting doesn't help a rapid response though. And where's the virus sequence .@USDA reports #H5N1 #birdflu in alpacas on an Idaho farm that had a poultry outbreak in March the first detection of H5 in alpacas. This is the same virus that's been found in cows. Confirmed on May 16; not clear why USDA took so long to report. https://t.co/jMTTPgGVY1 .@USDA reports #H5N1 #birdflu in alpacas on an Idaho" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1795580643788886153) 2024-05-28T22:19Z 455.2K followers, 19.5K engagements "I said goodbye to my uncle today. It was very sad. I also had the opportunity to revisit this amazing early 1980s photo of me helping him wax the Wonder Truck. Then as now I despised chores. RIP Uncle Don you were as much of a wonder as your incredible truck and outfits" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1796425250701562114) 2024-05-31T06:15Z 456.5K followers, 24.4K engagements "This is not an objective or evidence-driven scientific inquiry no matter what lab leak proponents might say about oversight. Its an explicitly political show trial. My reflections on Covid subcommittee hearings ahead of Dr Faucis testimony this week on @NPR https://t.co/i9ApgaOp8b https://t.co/EOq3C09XIk My reflections on Covid subcommittee hearings ahead of Dr Faucis testimony this week on @NPR https://t.co/i9ApgaOp8b https://t.co/EOq3C09XIk" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1797284741231657124) 2024-06-02T15:10Z 456.6K followers, 55K engagements "Its not every day that elected officials promise to waste taxpayer money on performative political bullshit (while possibly dragging in the legacy of John Lewis in the process) but heymark your calendars for tomorrow. Tomorrow. https://t.co/1yWDzc6r3X Tomorrow. https://t.co/1yWDzc6r3X" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1797503428702388431) 2024-06-03T05:39Z 456.5K followers, 26.5K engagements "Key points arent actually very key when they are factually incorrect. Good of the @nytopinion to help the mob sharpen their pitchforks for Faucis Select Subcommittee hearing by enshrining the lies that he will be attacked with as truth in the paper of record" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1797618535239405926) 2024-06-03T13:17Z 457.3K followers, 1.2M engagements "People asking why this is factually incorrectIm at a conference today so am pressed for time but Ill quickly address each of the [--] key points. Bottom line: You can dress up unsupported horseshit in as much polished data viz as you want but it still stinks" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1797798090621231565) 2024-06-04T01:10Z 481.6K followers, 1.2M engagements "Yes the virus emerged in Wuhan & the WIV is there & studies SARS-related CoVs but thats where the truth ends. Shi Zhenglis lab does great work on SARSr-CoVs but they arent the only lab in the world doing so. They arent even the only lab in China doing this work" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1797798108946174023) 2024-06-04T01:10Z 456.6K followers, 44.3K engagements "In fact people all over the world have been studying these virusesincluding those isolated from batssince SARS1 emerged in [----]. In the US Australia Hong Kong Singapore the UK the Netherlands Japan France Canada and so on" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1797798113199214609) 2024-06-04T01:10Z 456.6K followers, 42.5K engagements "For all the discussion of how mean and unfairly people selling books jockeying for power or influencer brand-building have been treated consider the impact their unfounded accusations will have on pandemic risk assessment as we lose talented scientists like Dr. Firth. It's crazy to see the death knell of my scientific career mentioned so casually https://t.co/ss5dLEqh50 It's crazy to see the death knell of my scientific career mentioned so casually https://t.co/ss5dLEqh50" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1798338045462384734) 2024-06-05T12:56Z 457K followers, 24.4K engagements "Lab origin of the pandemic has always been a plausible hypothesis. It just hasnt stood up to testing. Whatever your past beliefs on the topic ultimately evidence shows that zoonosis is the likely truth. Great piece by @Justin_Ling in the @TorontoStar. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/we-were-too-quick-to-reject-the-lab-leaks-theory-but-we-shouldn-t-be/article_2300bb66-24e1-11ef-aa69-b3b079f7ab71.html https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/we-were-too-quick-to-reject-the-lab-leaks-theory-but-we-shouldn-t-be/article_2300bb66-24e1-11ef-aa69-b3b079f7ab71.html" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1800158087057461636) 2024-06-10T13:28Z 457.3K followers, 82.4K engagements "Hey @WSJ this article does not describe "boundary-blurring relationships." This contains multiple detailed accounts of illegal sexual harassment and gender discrimination. https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-spacex-employee-relationships-8bca2806 https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-spacex-employee-relationships-8bca2806" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1801283256173707596) 2024-06-13T15:59Z 457.2K followers, [----] engagements "Because I a virologist with [--] masters & a PhD [--] yrs experience with emerging viruses & whose life at the time was like the forced reeducation scene in Clockwork Orange except with COVID data was less skillful at interpreting basic epi data than a rich dude with opinions" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1802371187961450706) 2024-06-16T16:02Z 457K followers, [----] engagements "This was a very stupid Twitter fight. Its subjective who wonand certainly there were a lot of fanboys mad that I blasphemed their savior & ruined their fucking Mars colonization fantasiesbut the consensus was that Elon was factually incorrect. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/elon-musk-coronavirus-mansplaining-angela-rasmussen-twitter-a9598976.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/elon-musk-coronavirus-mansplaining-angela-rasmussen-twitter-a9598976.html" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1802371190758977731) 2024-06-16T16:02Z 465.2K followers, [----] engagements "But all of this exhausting discourse about being right or wrong on Twitter devalues the real issue: people were dying in droves before the eyes of my clinical colleagues like Craig and they did everything they could to save them. It wasnt enough in many cases" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1802371197520212042) 2024-06-16T16:02Z 457K followers, [----] engagements "Some of those lives were lost because they listened to people they agreed with like the narcissistic scion of a colonialist emerald miner who grew up to be an aspiring fascist billionaire with weird ideas about saving civilization by impregnating as many women as possible" [X Link](https://x.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1802371199369982379) 2024-06-16T16:02Z 457.1K followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Social topic influence rfk #56, canada, health #3034, pandemic, science, if you, china, has been, twitter, money
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @rebecca21951651 @baneppgofroc @brycenickels @biorealism @sigridbratlie @seckennedy @justinmsizemore @angierasmussen @stevenemassey @sciencemagazine @stavarune @dissenting2020 @michaelworobey @jepekar @rwlander @sylviosi @ayjchan @vbruttel @elsvaccine @drjbhattacharya
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"There's a new report in @ChinaCDCWeekly that infectious #SARSCoV2 #HCoV19 #COVID19 #coronavirus can be found in stool. This confirms that fecal transmission is possible. Again.WASH YOUR HANDS especially after using the bathroom. http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/ffa97a96-db2a-4715-9dfb-ef662660e89d http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/ffa97a96-db2a-4715-9dfb-ef662660e89d"
X Link 2020-03-01T16:41Z 481.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@edrybicki @WHO Im aware of that. However theres no reason that ICTV should not follow WHO guidelines though I realize thats not always the case. And Trump is obviously not on an ICTV study group"
X Link 2020-03-19T12:51Z 481.7K followers, [--] engagements
"So.anthroponotic infection presumably from a zookeeper Any indication of prevalence among the zoo staff BREAKING: Bronx Zoo says one of its tigers has tested positive for coronavirus BREAKING: Bronx Zoo says one of its tigers has tested positive for coronavirus"
X Link 2020-04-05T21:29Z 481.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Attention all major institutions (colleges universities the NFL) touting how safe and controlled their openings will be: Clemson has had [--] student-athletes/staff test positive for the coronavirus. I'm told [--] of those are football players https://t.co/fxfrvuQQbc Clemson has had [--] student-athletes/staff test positive for the coronavirus. I'm told [--] of those are football players https://t.co/fxfrvuQQbc"
X Link 2020-06-19T22:02Z 458.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@elonmusk @hot_rod_co Furthermore hospitalizations are not decreasing. They are a lagging indicator and patients testing positive take time to progress to severe disease after diagnosis. Here's today's latest ICU occupancy from Arizona's DOH. ICU bed usage has been steadily increasing"
X Link 2020-07-02T16:59Z 465.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@Craig_A_Spencer Drink some whiskey. Toast to Tesla stock"
X Link 2020-07-03T03:20Z 465.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@zeynep @geunsmeyer @jljcolorado @linseymarr @ShellyMBoulder @CathNoakes @Don_Milton @SaskiaPopescu @eliowa @GidMK .what's the difference between a [--] um aerosol vs a slightly larger airborne droplet Not having good terminology muddies the water and makes it hard to communicate effectively with each other and with the public"
X Link 2020-07-12T22:03Z 473.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Reject a manuscript because the hypothesis is flawed the experiments are not properly controlled the work is shoddy or the conclusions are unsupported but publicly bragging about rejecting a ms because you dont like one sentence Peer review isnt supposed to work like this. So today I rejected a paper because it had in times of COVID-19 in the 1st paragraph. So today I rejected a paper because it had in times of COVID-19 in the 1st paragraph"
X Link 2020-07-28T01:18Z 481.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Now what the hell kind of CDC recommendation is this We need to be doing MORE testing not less. 🚨The CDC no longer recommends asymptomatic testing even post-exposure.🚨 https://t.co/V8BBGK1yzg https://t.co/VvGJMjKW3N 🚨The CDC no longer recommends asymptomatic testing even post-exposure.🚨 https://t.co/V8BBGK1yzg https://t.co/VvGJMjKW3N"
X Link 2020-08-24T21:05Z 473.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@imyourmoderator @bruce_y_lee He was wrong about masks in the spring as was I. Then again I don't particularly care if you think I'm credible since you are spreading blatantly false information about presymptomatic transmission"
X Link 2020-08-25T02:28Z 473.9K followers, [--] engagements
""Once you step back from" the over [--] million cases and the [------] human beings who lost their lives the F- grade for the American pandemic response rises to a C+. "If you ignore the deaths this isn't a catastrophe" is quite a take from the @nytimes resident pro-life zealot Likewise once you step back from deaths and case rates to other measurements of response capacity the US looks anywhere from slightly-below to slight-above average rather than catastrophic compared to W. Europe and the Americas. Likewise once you step back from deaths and case rates to other measurements of response"
X Link 2020-09-09T15:31Z 474.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Id be honoured to fly the Canadian colours. Id gladly mould my cultural habits. Id learn competent Franais. Id write a cheque for the privilege. How do I apply Id like to get in front of the other handmaids and marthas"
X Link 2020-09-30T03:26Z 474.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Is it weird that we havent heard a peep out of POTUS tonight Biden is giving a speech showing his statesmanship on a very anxious night with crickets from the WH. While Im sure its a good idea to keep Trump off twitter is it an advantage to let Biden do the talking tonight"
X Link 2020-11-04T05:45Z 474.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Personal/professional update: This was my last week at Columbia. I'm deeply grateful for the extraordinary colleagues and friends I've had the privilege of working with here during both my tenure as a graduate student and as faculty"
X Link 2020-11-14T02:42Z 473.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Hold up. The accidental low dose in the AstraZeneca trial was because Oxford insisted that NANODROP was more accurate than qPCR Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine-sp-idUSKBN28Y0XU https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine-sp-idUSKBN28Y0XU"
X Link 2020-12-27T02:56Z 456.6K followers, [----] engagements
"And while we should objectively explore and investigate all possible hypotheses the "I'm just asking questions this is all very suspicious what about (insert non-evidence here)" has been extremely harmful both individually to the scientific community & to society as a whole"
X Link 2021-01-14T16:25Z 471.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Arguing with the lab leak proponents is like talking to anti-vaxxers. They'll say they aren't conspiracy theorists but then hit all the major conspiracy theory talking points: -Answering questions with questions -Strawman arguments about gain-of-function research & COI"
X Link 2021-01-14T16:25Z 470.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@gabbystern Inhaled rather than airborne"
X Link 2021-01-30T22:50Z 473.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Gotta love all of these stupid FDA who do they think they are why are they refusing to authorize AstraZeneca takes from dudes with opinions. AstraZeneca has not yet submitted an application for EUA to the FDA. Denmark says AstraZenica has sufficiently shown safety and efficacy for people younger than [--]. Do you think we know better than the Danes https://t.co/Nlt7b3JTKK Denmark says AstraZenica has sufficiently shown safety and efficacy for people younger than [--]. Do you think we know better than the Danes https://t.co/Nlt7b3JTKK"
X Link 2021-02-04T13:45Z 481.7K followers, [---] engagements
"It has come to my attention that noted anti-vaccine zealot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is releasing a film tomorrow targeting the Black community with some appalling misinformation. It is not just filled with falsehoods. Despite claiming to be anti-racist it is racist as hell"
X Link 2021-03-03T23:56Z 465.1K followers, [----] engagements
"This is a huge story. An Australian virologist at WIV in late [----] notes: -no sick employees at WIV -best-practice biosafety protocols in place -did not witness GoF work which she's qualified to recognize Lab leak odds just got even longer. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-27/did-covid-come-from-a-lab-scientist-at-wuhan-institute-speaks-out https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-27/did-covid-come-from-a-lab-scientist-at-wuhan-institute-speaks-out"
X Link 2021-06-27T23:07Z 465K followers, [----] engagements
"😍😍😍 You call that a pipette This is a pipette https://t.co/XMeIGY7MhO You call that a pipette This is a pipette https://t.co/XMeIGY7MhO"
X Link 2021-07-09T16:44Z 479.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Death is not the only negative consequence of having COVID-19. Please get vaccinated. Vaccines work. 🎥 If everyone knew THIS was #COVID wed get 80% #Vaccination. This video shows TYPICAL long-term ICU #COVID19. My patient & family want to share this to help you & your loved ones avoid #LongCOVID PROTECT YOURSELF today w the #VACCINE. #MedTwitter #NurseTwitter https://t.co/nORyyBaO3n 🎥 If everyone knew THIS was #COVID wed get 80% #Vaccination. This video shows TYPICAL long-term ICU #COVID19. My patient & family want to share this to help you & your loved ones avoid #LongCOVID PROTECT"
X Link 2021-07-12T20:54Z 468.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Lol this sentient beard invented mRNA vaccines like Al Gore invented the internet"
X Link 2021-07-29T12:13Z 481.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Serious topic aside fast forward to 1:02 to see a surprise guest appearance from my dog Ripley who is perpetually unconcerned about showing up in the background of Zoom meetings and prioritizes investigating whether my spouse is eating cheese in another room. Was it a mistake for the CDC to tell vaccinated Americans it was ok to unmask back in May @angie_rasmussen tells @MehdiRHasan: I do think it was a mistake It was a one-size-fits-all for the country and the country is in very different places. https://t.co/cDOBBNopm5 Was it a mistake for the CDC to tell vaccinated Americans it was ok to"
X Link 2021-08-02T02:22Z 482.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@KatherineJWu @wanderer_jasnah Its so hard to pick just one"
X Link 2021-08-31T14:10Z 480K followers, [--] engagements
"PSA: the Moderna vaccine doesnt contain luciferase. And luciferase isnt named after Lucifer 😈its a common biological reporter that produces light which can be measured. Lucifer is Latin for light bearer. Luciferase is a natural enzyme that makes fireflies asses light up. This is Newsmax's White House correspondent https://t.co/hpmk7MXMxt This is Newsmax's White House correspondent https://t.co/hpmk7MXMxt"
X Link 2021-11-02T13:26Z 455.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Pro tip: if you dont understand something and multiple people who do tell you that you are wrongmaybe consider not writing about it"
X Link 2021-11-30T14:09Z 481.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Heres a great thread from @jallepap explaining why this article is factually incorrect. Bonus points for a scientific takedown that scathingly invokes Lamarck"
X Link 2021-11-30T14:09Z 481.1K followers, [---] engagements
"We bought a little sheepskin rug and my husband put it on the couch while he vacuumed. Ripley has now staked her claim and I fear for both the sheepskins longevity and our future ability to access most of the couch"
X Link 2021-12-12T17:37Z 467.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Update: Ripley went outside to check on the magpie situation in the yard (magpies are her mortal enemies). And it appears it was one of her elaborate magic tricks that causes Barkbox toys to materialize out of thin air because this was the scene [--] seconds after I let her in"
X Link 2021-12-12T18:03Z 467.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Let me clarify: it would be great if cannabis-derived compounds that are orally bioavailable and have a great safety record work as antivirals. But doing a screen for entry inhibitors in cell culture does not demonstrate that it is effective in a person"
X Link 2022-01-18T17:21Z 473.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@Wahlfred2 I think I just encouraged people to get vaccinated and boosted and discouraged lifting vaccine mandates in the middle of a huge surge in cases"
X Link 2022-02-04T15:30Z 473.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Its been a couple decades since I read The Scarlet Letter in high school American lit but I seem to recall the main issue with it wasnt that it was inconvenient. Walensky continues to advise masks for now but describes this way I just know people are tired. The scarlet letter of this pandemic is the mask. It may be painless it may be easy but its inconvenient its annoying and it reminds us that were in the middle of a pandemic. Walensky continues to advise masks for now but describes this way I just know people are tired. The scarlet letter of this pandemic is the mask. It may be painless it"
X Link 2022-02-22T13:32Z 473.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@gregggonsalves @drlucymcbride Wtf is coronaphobia"
X Link 2022-05-15T05:31Z 473.7K followers, [--] engagements
"About time. COVID News: FDA examiners consider Moderna and Pfizer vaccines safe & effective for kids [--]. Approvals could come this week after a review on Wednesday. 1/ COVID News: FDA examiners consider Moderna and Pfizer vaccines safe & effective for kids [--]. Approvals could come this week after a review on Wednesday. 1/"
X Link 2022-06-13T14:21Z 473.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Im very glad I already moved to Canada"
X Link 2022-06-24T14:30Z 473.8K followers, [---] engagements
"I study mechanisms of viral pathogenesis specifically how the host response to viral infection determines the features & severity of disease. Thats how I know that long COVID is nothing like HIV HCV or latent herpesvirus infection & the comparisons are offensive & misleading"
X Link 2022-07-14T14:22Z 474.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Some good news to end your Friday in the form of a review from [--] of the best immunologists in the business: @profshanecrotty & @SetteLab. Both infection and/or vaccination induce robust memory immune responses. SARS-CoV-2 infection doesn't cause functional immune suppression. Our extensive scientific review of SARS-CoV-2 immune memory is published. Antibodies CD4 T cells CD8 T cells memory B cells and tissue resident cells. After vaccination infection or both ready to battle COVID-19. Open access: https://t.co/28R4JHja4n @SetteLab https://t.co/QIKzdeez2w Our extensive scientific review of"
X Link 2022-07-15T23:34Z 454.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Sure sex is great but have you ever gotten a notice of award for a (really cool) grant"
X Link 2022-08-02T20:05Z 473.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@StevenSalzberg1 Feel free to keep writing about it and I'll continue to point out that you are wrong. Virologists do not do this work "as if risks are low." The risk of a virus like [----] emerging is quite high which is why the benefits of virology research are also high"
X Link 2022-08-15T18:30Z 481.7K followers, [--] engagements
"But lets talk about the science in the LC report what little there is. This misrepresents some key findings: Huanan was not a human to human amplifier. It was ground zero of the pandemic. But its easy to think otherwise since our papers demonstrating this were not considered"
X Link 2022-09-15T06:56Z 481.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@jon_alessi @JAMAPediatrics No. Thats what would happen"
X Link 2022-09-27T15:31Z 465K followers, [--] engagements
"Its Canadian Thanksgiving weekend Im very grateful for vaccines rapid tests air purifiers & robust ventilation enabling me to show off my American Thanksgiving skills to a small group of colleagues from my lab. Most are not from Canada or the US so it will be their first🦃"
X Link 2022-10-08T14:28Z 473.9K followers, [---] engagements
"I had my last COVID booster in early August so I've got a couple months to wait before my bivalent. But flu season is already here. So I'm off to get my annual flu shot because vaccines are the cornerstone of my winter respiratory virus prevention plan. #VaccinesWork"
X Link 2022-10-24T23:56Z 473.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Kind of embarrassing to find yourself on the junior varsity lab leak biosecurity team with people who think MERS was a bioweapon and chronic Lyme snake oil saleswomen who think vaccines are a tool for government mind control"
X Link 2023-02-06T18:13Z 473.9K followers, 43.6K engagements
"And it wouldnt hurt to accelerate human H5N1 vaccine development either for farm workers producers vets and anyone who has lots of bird or livestock exposure. Disinfection is a key tool but doesnt compare to vaccination when it comes to prevention and mitigation"
X Link 2023-02-09T17:04Z 474.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Twitter granted me a blue check in [----] based on the reliability of my content. Why would I pay for it now that it instead means Ill be among many unreliable accounts so long as they pay In other words eat a bag of dicks. 🖕🏻 On April 1st we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks. To keep your blue checkmark on Twitter individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: https://t.co/gzpCcwOpLp Organizations can sign up for https://t.co/RlN5BbuGA3 On April 1st we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified"
X Link 2023-03-24T13:19Z 474.5K followers, 102.9K engagements
"Thrilled to announce that my lab has received support from @CIHR_IRSC to study mpox virus pathogenesis and optimize response to treatment here at @VIDOInterVac. Quick thread on what we plan to do 👇🏼 Scientists Drs. Alyson Kelvin and Angela Rasmussen from the #USask @VIDOInterVac have received $1-million in total funding to study mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. @CIHR_IRSC #USaskResearch https://t.co/nVLbUcY52k Scientists Drs. Alyson Kelvin and Angela Rasmussen from the #USask @VIDOInterVac have received $1-million in total funding to study"
X Link 2023-05-24T15:48Z 460.2K followers, 20.6K engagements
"Thanks to @VIDOInterVac & @usask for providing such a wonderful cutting-edge and safe environment to do this essential emerging virus research. But most of all thanks to @CIHR_IRSC for supporting this program which will immensely benefit Canadians & people around the world"
X Link 2023-05-24T15:48Z 473.8K followers, [----] engagements
""The lab-leak conspiracy gang has smeared scientists and misled the public into believing a theory that has no factual support whatsoever. They should be ashamed." Once again @hiltzikm nails it by calling a conspiracy theory by its name"
X Link 2023-06-26T22:58Z 450K followers, [----] engagements
"Case in point. On January [--] [----] there were fewer than [--] cases of nCoV-2019 (SARS-CoV-2) in the US. In a month I changed my mind as new evidence emerged something this leading light of the lab leak conspiracy theorists consistently refuses to do"
X Link 2023-06-27T01:59Z 450.1K followers, [---] engagements
"At least I never made anything up for example claiming without evidence that [--] scientistsone of whom didnt even do lab workcaused a lab leak and started a pandemic that killed 20M+ people. Then again I dont know what passes for truth on Area [--] Substack these days"
X Link 2023-06-30T02:17Z 446.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@MarkC_LVB Pfizer did not take money for research from the US government. However BioNTech did receive massive subsidies from the German government and Pfizer had lucrative advance purchase agreements from the US government. They still received billions in federal subsidies"
X Link 2023-08-14T13:06Z 450.2K followers, [----] engagements
"No interferons means that viruses can grow in Veros unhindered by innate antiviral mechanisms that would block or inhibit viral replication. As a result its easier to grow viruses in Veros and its easier to grow more of them. My lab uses Veros to grow stocks of SARS-CoV-2"
X Link 2023-08-15T13:02Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Because SARS-CoV-2 does grow well in Veros. It also grows in a lot of different cell lines from humans non-human primates and other species. SARS-CoV-2 is promiscuous and can infect many hostsas it does it adapts to them"
X Link 2023-08-15T13:02Z 448K followers, [--] engagements
"Yet the brain trust over at lab leak HQ would have you believe that serial passage in Veros magically allows for a mundane bat virus to become a pandemic despite Veros causing SARS-CoV-2 a feature that is essential for transmission between hosts and disease severity"
X Link 2023-08-15T13:02Z 450K followers, [----] engagements
"@wanderer_jasnah @RVirologist Rereading the NY Mag piece reveals that it has not improved with age"
X Link 2023-08-21T05:48Z 446.2K followers, [---] engagements
"I did know which is why me & my family get an annual flu vaccine. Its a simple way to keep myself & my loved ones healthy. But you might not know. You might also not know that flu kills 30k-60k people/year in just the US which is why everyone should get a flu shot too"
X Link 2023-08-29T12:13Z 450.1K followers, 36.6K engagements
"PS this dish does not actually contain any raccoon dog. It was very good"
X Link 2023-08-30T03:05Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements
"I have an idea if this true. Heavy rains and flooding might result in a dysentery outbreak but Ebola Nah"
X Link 2023-09-02T23:54Z 450.1K followers, 82.6K engagements
"We should be taking steps to strengthen international collaborations and give scientists around the globe the tools needed to rapidly respond to emerging viruses. Instead the US government is doing everything in its power to annihilate readiness and capacity"
X Link 2023-09-08T20:04Z 450.2K followers, 42.6K engagements
"Short-sighted and/or politically motivated policies enable all these bad things by misdirecting our efforts and investments result in neglect of essential mitigation of zoonotic risk (which is much much greater than pandemics emerging from labs)"
X Link 2023-09-08T20:53Z 445.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Our alternatives: -sustained funding across sectors -focus on One Health -equitable partnerships around the globe -prioritize multiple prevention efforts: ecological clinical & lab-based interventions -unified evidence-based opposition to ideologically-motivated disinformation"
X Link 2023-09-08T20:53Z 446.2K followers, [---] engagements
"If there was a vaccine that protected against ankle injuries from getting sacked on the first offensive drive of the season do you think Aaron Rodgers would get it"
X Link 2023-09-12T01:40Z 450.1K followers, 62K engagements
"Columbia Universitys determination to protect abusers doesnt end with Robert Hadden. The same thing happened to me & others re Ian Lipkin down to the same Columbia lawyer Patricia Catapano. Reputation over all at the expense of the victims. Its an institutional sickness"
X Link 2023-09-12T12:58Z 446.2K followers, 43.3K engagements
"And this where Columbia Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs ignored repeated complaints of harassment sexual misconduct abuse anti-semitism and racial discrimination for over a decade"
X Link 2023-09-12T13:29Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Even in the rare circumstances that Columbia has found allegations of sexual misconduct credible they preserved the abusers position and ability to continue their abuse. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emaoconnor/columbia-thomas-roma-professor-student-sexual-harassment https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emaoconnor/columbia-thomas-roma-professor-student-sexual-harassment"
X Link 2023-09-12T13:35Z 465K followers, [----] engagements
"The select subcommittees favorite MO: if you dont have any evidence that withstands scientific scrutiny for your beloved lab leak hypothesis just invent a new conspiracy theory Bonus for involving intelligence agenciesnobody can fact-check the CIA"
X Link 2023-09-13T13:38Z 450.1K followers, 45K engagements
"When this many women independently describe decades of sexual assault it is not evidence of a coordinated mainstream attempt to silence Russell Brands conspiracy-mongering influencer grift. It is evidence that Russell Brand is a serial rapist"
X Link 2023-09-16T18:26Z 444.5K followers, 57K engagements
"Somehow my bag got lost in the course of connecting between @united and @AerLingus flights and it decided to stay awhile in Dublin. Praying to the patron saint of lost luggage that I dont end up giving professional talks in yoga pants and a t-shirt"
X Link 2023-09-20T12:25Z 450.1K followers, 10.3K engagements
"@florian_krammer @camilahcoelho For me its the living hell otherwise known as Toronto Pearson International Airport. Ive stayed at that airport hotel so many timesrepeatedly unplannedthat I no longer need to look at the room service menu to order food"
X Link 2023-09-22T05:44Z 450.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Russell Brand was rightthere is another agenda at play. An agenda to further profit from his grift at the expense of the women he targeted assaulted and traumatized"
X Link 2023-09-23T10:51Z 450.2K followers, [----] engagements
"A reminder that former @TheLancet COVID-19 Commission chair Jeffrey Sachs has appeared on racist antivaxer RFK Jrs podcast & alleged serial rapist antivaxer Russell Brands Rumble channel multiple times. Should we take him seriously if he chooses such unserious venues"
X Link 2023-09-27T07:01Z 450.1K followers, 30.5K engagements
"Sachs took his traveling shitshow to former judge & current maple syrup farmer/vlogger Andrew Napolitano who replaced Glenn Beck as chief paranoid delusion spreader at Fox News (ie Obama tapped his phone) until he racked up so many sexual assault allegations that he was fired"
X Link 2023-09-27T07:01Z 465K followers, [---] engagements
"Getting fired for sexual misconduct at Fox News is actually kind of impressive considering the network is so famous for its institutional embrace of sex pests theres a movie about it"
X Link 2023-09-27T07:01Z 465.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@MarieMyungOkLee @TheLancet Yephes been very bad for awhile. Besides all the lab leak and anti-vax adjacent stuff in his Napolitano Russell Brand and RFK Jr. Interviews hes also accused NATO of provoking Russias invasion of Ukraine and has repeatedly claimed the US blew up the NordStream pipeline"
X Link 2023-09-27T19:20Z 450.1K followers, [--] engagements
"A supposed defense of scientists that explores and dignifies their humanity headlined with an obvious reference to the Nazi architect of the Holocausts criminal trial is quite the creative choice"
X Link 2023-09-28T17:32Z 446.2K followers, 10K engagements
"I do love the visual of Lynch and Wilson going to a function together as youd be hard-pressed to find two guys in the NFL with more opposite vibes. ✔ Also supports my hypothesis that Russell Wilson is the most annoying Seahawk in franchise history"
X Link 2023-10-05T02:36Z 450K followers, 11.1K engagements
"So let me get this straight: the Covid Hunters gang teamed up with DRASTIC and Bret Weinstein to manipulate a Sky News editor to pressure Nature schemed to take the lab leak show to Joe Rogan & were trying to work in an anti-vax angle in [----] And they call us propagandists"
X Link 2023-10-05T22:38Z 450.1K followers, 62.3K engagements
"@dennis_crork Judging by the Pureblood and Nuremberg2 hashtags in your bio however I suspect that we have fundamentally different definitions of resources available"
X Link 2023-10-07T05:23Z 450.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Mr. Pfizer is a compliment coming from Mr. Anti-Vax Bullshit though to be fair Aaron Rodgers cant throw actual footballs from the sidelines so I guess weak shade will have to suffice"
X Link 2023-10-07T05:39Z 450.1K followers, 20.6K engagements
"Happy Thanksgiving hey"
X Link 2023-10-08T05:36Z 450.1K followers, 11.4K engagements
"Although that would be a fun excuse to get together with @PeterHotez & @mtosterholm it's less fun that Aaron Rodgers is further mainstreaming his anti-vax bullshit by leveraging Travis Kelce's popularity. Hopefully Kelce ignores him"
X Link 2023-10-11T19:37Z 450.1K followers, 18.1K engagements
"I truly believe that most people want a world in which public health is valued and expected. A world where people doing this work are respected not threatened. That is not the world we live in"
X Link 2023-10-13T01:52Z 450.1K followers, 82.7K engagements
"While we didnt see SARS-CoV-2 coming specifically we did know that emergent sarbecoviruses were a real risk. We were able to develop vaccines & antiviral drugs in record time because of the virology research that occurred prior to the first spillover at the Huanan market"
X Link 2023-10-13T18:27Z 450.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Its not just anti-vax. They along with lab leakers climate change deniers & wellness grifters have united under the same anti-science banner. An essential piece through the lens of @PeterHotezs excellent book about what scientists are going through & what were up against"
X Link 2023-10-22T15:14Z 444.5K followers, 77K engagements
"Example of a COVID grifter in action. 👇🏻 Tracy Heg is a sports medicine doctor who rose to pandemic stardom by putting out a bunch of dubious anti-vax/anti-mask papers a la Vinay Prasad. Predictably she now has a podcast for the vaccine curious and OMG ITS BEING CENSORED"
X Link 2023-10-23T13:12Z 445.1K followers, 98.5K engagements
"So lets critically review this tweet complaining about how her vaccine-curious ideas are just too free & progressive for the truth police over at LinkedIn. Even now people could be browsing CVs of would-be professional contacts without access to Tracys anti-vax horseshit"
X Link 2023-10-23T13:12Z 444.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Of course for a good con artist even a setback is an opportunity so Tracy thinks this means she was on to something by falsely claiming the Pfizer mRNA vaccine has dangerous SV40 DNA in it and hep B vaccines are unnecessary and maybe unsafe in infants"
X Link 2023-10-23T13:12Z 444.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Happy Halloween. My costume was a freshly COVID and flu-vaccinated Costco enthusiast which is also conveniently descriptive of me at any time of year"
X Link 2023-11-01T01:45Z 445.9K followers, 67.6K engagements
"@mikechenwriter Except Id creep up on people and hit triangle to give them a booster"
X Link 2023-11-01T02:19Z 450.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@jeffryhouse I did it willingly"
X Link 2023-11-01T02:20Z 444.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Fantastic opportunity to work in a world-class lab (Tony gave me a tour on a recent visit and I got to meet his bats.they are amazing creatures) This is a dream job for any prospective post-doc who is interested in bat viruses and their fascinating biology. Apply 👇🏼"
X Link 2023-11-01T20:24Z 447K followers, 20K engagements
"California confirms 2nd local dengue case it sucks when things you wrote in grant significance sections years ago start coming true https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/dengue/california-confirms-2nd-local-dengue-case https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/dengue/california-confirms-2nd-local-dengue-case"
X Link 2023-11-03T03:25Z 473.9K followers, 55.1K engagements
"I hate to unblow anyones mind but this isnt how DNA codons or viruses work"
X Link 2023-11-04T22:01Z 445.9K followers, 127.9K engagements
"Gain of function research gave us drugs vaccines & modern medicine. Engineering a cell line to make insulin is GOF. Gene therapy is GOF. Vaccines & antiviral drugs are the result of GOF. GOF never caused a pandemic but ending it will stop us from fighting the next one"
X Link 2023-11-15T12:49Z 446.5K followers, 163.6K engagements
"Know any good vets looking for research opportunities Consider coming to VIDO Our Animal Services staff does incredible work on all of our in vivo studies from mice to bison. Come join us in beautiful Saskatoon and be part of Canada's National Pandemic Research Centre 👇🏼"
X Link 2023-11-20T23:03Z 446.4K followers, 37K engagements
"Well would you look at that.looks like furin cleavage sites evolve naturally in sarbecoviruses. Just like they do in all those other betacoronaviruses. It's almost like there's nothing inherently artificial or suspicious about furin cleavage sites at all"
X Link 2023-11-20T23:24Z 450.1K followers, 54.1K engagements
"And since Im eternally grateful to have dogs in my life heres a gratuitous photo of Ripley and Boney rocking their Kirk Sig merch and wishing all of you and your dogs a happy and mystery pathogen-free Thanksgiving"
X Link 2023-11-23T13:33Z 446.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@fallenigloos Yeah I saw someone claiming the dogs all have pneumonia therefore its Covid and if its not its because the dogs all had Covid and Covid causes AIDS. Or they have long Covid. For your senior dog its reasonable to be concerned. Is mobile grooming an option"
X Link 2023-11-23T15:46Z 446.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@weese_scott I also defer to your expertise as a vet especially with the issue you raise about timing of sampling. But what is this new bacterium common to these cases And the suggestion it may respond to doxy I hate news articles vs actual papers for this"
X Link 2023-11-24T07:52Z 446.4K followers, [----] engagements
"If youve heard/read scary stuff about virology/microbiology/pathogen research and the inevitable apocalypse it will bring please know most of that shit is made up and funded by the factions of existential doomers warring as described in this excellent thread"
X Link 2023-11-28T05:11Z 447.2K followers, 53.8K engagements
"As Ive stated before many times research on emerging pathogens presents myriad risks. But the risks can be mitigated and this research is essential for fighting the pandemics of tomorrow. Wealthy tech dudes with derivative imaginations are trying to stop this essential work"
X Link 2023-11-28T05:11Z 446.1K followers, [---] engagements
"In reality I dont spend a lot of time thinking about viruses with 100% mortalityI have a rabies vaccine and so do my dogs. I certainly dont spend my time thinking about how to make them much less asking LLMs how to do that. I worry about more realistic things"
X Link 2023-11-28T05:11Z 446.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Things like MERS-CoV-2 or SARS-CoV-3. Or the next flu pandemic. Or more transmissible Nipah. Or any number of emerging arboviruses that could establish themselves in new populations that we have no immunity to & we have no defenses for because they mostly impact poor people now"
X Link 2023-11-28T05:11Z 446.2K followers, [----] engagements
"And yet Ive done nothing but read pearl-clutching concern after concern from academically credentialed men (and a few women) saying this very thing is not only possible its incredibly likely. Except its not"
X Link 2023-11-28T05:11Z 446.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Pathogen research has risks. These can be mitigated. Nature has viruses. Millions of them thousands (at minimum) of which are potential human pathogens. Climate change accelerates spillover. These risks are harder to mitigate"
X Link 2023-11-28T05:11Z 446.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@InfiniteKB_Com Because climate change is one of the key drivers of pathogen spillover"
X Link 2023-11-29T05:51Z 446.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Thank you Facebook for reminding me what a delightful time I had with my PhD research"
X Link 2023-12-05T14:33Z 446.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Remarkable that when confronted with evidence of his lies RFK Jr just lies some more that his lies are true"
X Link 2023-12-16T16:08Z 447.5K followers, 26.4K engagements
"Almost everyoneregardless of edicational background or position on masks vaccines or public health measuresoperating in good faith knows the simple and obvious truth that all viruses are not the same. If you dont you have no business dispensing advice about them"
X Link 2023-12-17T13:56Z 447.5K followers, 31.3K engagements
"@BB0941167867205 @42Gnome @TreatHunterDog @AccofLafler @PlatoonOps @WillioHydro @tHeBohem7 @West_of_US395 @AnnoyedTaurus @TomDoubting @SheilaReturns @VictorJennpaul @DragonHawk1959 @Missy8008135 @MrLarsonsFoot @hellosf77 @pan_dejo_ @Bruh888888888 @JDS44894884 @8BrianVogel4 @Summer0fLove_ @Godslightangel7 @Evry1H8sGrtzLOL @Wanderinglord @KARMA92630394 @darkstar32222 @Pis0Mojado @ShellyRKirchoff @IZMKS44 @MagaPhoenix73 @cbeckj @AFreeQueen @LaneArroyo_ @Caddy4Gilmore @Littlwritergir1 @ThunderousAppl4 @WhiteRonin614 @dulcieburt @jbizzy6969 @AntWindmill @itisjustmebabe @freemasongeorg5 @laneisrad"
X Link 2023-12-22T20:03Z 448K followers, [---] engagements
"I recommend spending Christmas Eve chilling with your loved ones or engaging in other relaxing leisure activities as opposed to thinking about the pandemic. But if you insist on making SARS-CoV-2 part of your day check out this excellent thread 👇🏻 We are now officially into year [--] of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic/endemic. I gave a lecture to my virology class this Fall about the history of the pandemic through the lens of viral genotypes. I thought I would share that lecture as a thread. This is a long one. 1/ We are now officially into year [--] of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic/endemic. I gave a lecture"
X Link 2023-12-24T17:02Z 448K followers, 50.4K engagements
"Its not Taylor Swifts fault (Charlie) Kirk and other men hate a powerful woman. You dont blame a woman who doesnt play in the NFL for a team full of men not fulfilling their potential. Unfortunately they can and they do. Problem with Kansas City Chiefs Patrick Mahomes is not Taylor Swift https://t.co/VEh9ruRA1x Problem with Kansas City Chiefs Patrick Mahomes is not Taylor Swift https://t.co/VEh9ruRA1x"
X Link 2023-12-27T14:30Z 444.5K followers, 10.4K engagements
"@CCSDMaskUp If you read the perspective (or the rest of my thread) you will see that we are not opposed to robust biosafety regulation. We are arguing that experts need to be consulted on how that regulation will maximize both safety and benefits of the research itself"
X Link 2024-01-05T00:12Z [--] followers, 42.2K engagements
"Good morning winter 🥶"
X Link 2024-01-11T14:34Z 450.1K followers, 10.7K engagements
"The weather tolerability situation continues to decline"
X Link 2024-01-12T13:55Z 450.1K followers, 11.4K engagements
"Disease X is trending due to this anti-vax bullshit making the rounds. Disease X is a placeholder term for any number of novel pathogens that could emerge in the future. Its not code for a bioweapon or a planned release & its not currently emerging in China or anywhere else"
X Link 2024-01-14T19:05Z 450.1K followers, 87.5K engagements
"If Disease X were actually a secret conspiracy to intentionally start a plandemic its planners havent done a very good job at keeping it a secret considering Wikipedia has everything you need to know about it:"
X Link 2024-01-14T19:19Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"God I love it when the Cowboys are getting their asses decisively kicked I am DEVASTATED. I am DEVASTATED"
X Link 2024-01-14T23:46Z 473.9K followers, 25.9K engagements
"The only things created or crafted here are these grossly incorrect heaps of horseshit generated by @caitlintilley @DailyMail & @nypost. This article and others like it are very misleading. This was not gain-of-function research no matter how many loud non-experts say it is"
X Link 2024-01-19T20:55Z 450K followers, 47.5K engagements
"This article describes this recent preprint published on @biorxivpreprint. Briefly scientists in Beijing cloned a pangolin SARS-related coronavirus they had isolated & infected human ACE2 transgenic mice with it. All the mice died"
X Link 2024-01-19T20:55Z 450.2K followers, [----] engagements
"These CAG-hACE2 mice are expressing human ACE2 EVERYWHERE at extremely high levels. So you infect these mice with a virus that uses hACE2 as a receptor and it often kills them all. And it often happens with viruses that dont kill 100% of humans. Example: SARS-CoV-2"
X Link 2024-01-19T20:55Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements
"SARS2 obviously doesnt kill 100% of the humans it infects or I wouldnt be here typing this since I had COVID last year. But it kills 100% of these hACE2 transgenic mice (in this model hACE2 is expressed by a cytokeratin promoter):"
X Link 2024-01-19T20:55Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Yet that didnt stop the experts (narrator: they are not actually experts) from weighing in with their $0.02. Dr. Balloux doesnt seem to understand that humanized refers to abnormally high ubiquitous expression of a human transgene that doesnt resemble a human at all"
X Link 2024-01-19T20:55Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements
"And this isnt a random virus either. Its a pangolin sarbecovirus with enough similarity to SARS-CoV-2 that was already identified as a spillover risk and already tested in hamsters and wild-type mice. Its reasonable to test in a transgenic model"
X Link 2024-01-19T20:55Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements
"While reasonable people can disagree on what's appropriate or not & it's perfectly valid to assess risk differently it's not valid to transmogrify ignorance into fearmongering. It's fine to be critical. It's not fine to bring unsupported criticisms to a discussion of evidence"
X Link 2024-01-19T21:00Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Because this work IS NOT pointless. There are millions of viruses out there. We don't know which ones will cause the next pandemic but we do need to try to make a shortlist if we want to be prepared to respond to them much less prevent them in the first place"
X Link 2024-01-19T21:12Z 446.5K followers, [----] engagements
"You can tell a lot about what people truly believe when you look at the organizations they choose to champion and the company that they keep. @simon_gordon_ However do they do it https://t.co/NPHbLrmgmN @simon_gordon_ However do they do it https://t.co/NPHbLrmgmN"
X Link 2024-01-27T17:50Z 456.3K followers, 33.5K engagements
"Hate to contradict an Alpha Males opinion on financially-motivated romantic relationships but Travis Kelces bonus check is a rounding error for Taylor Swifts accountants. By being on the team that won the AFC Championship Travis Kelce will received a bonus check of around $70000. For those wondering why Taylor Swift is dating Travis Kelce: are things beginning to make sense now By being on the team that won the AFC Championship Travis Kelce will received a bonus check of around $70000. For those wondering why Taylor Swift is dating Travis Kelce: are things beginning to make sense now"
X Link 2024-01-29T06:34Z 454K followers, 45.1K engagements
"Animal useespecially for NHPsrequires justification by showing there is no other way to get information and the studies are critical to advance human or animal health. Not to let a billionaire install convenience apps into a brain interface for profit"
X Link 2024-01-30T12:26Z 450K followers, [----] engagements
"And reports of severe neurological dysfunction in the Neuralink monkeys including leaving an animals cerebral cortex focally tattered should have triggered a humane endpoint weeks before. Its cruel & reprehensible to treat NHP test subjects this way"
X Link 2024-01-30T12:26Z 450.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The evidence to date supports the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 emerged via zoonotic spillover at the Huanan Market. But if you're confused about what scientists actually think I highly recommend this thread explaining why dismissing evidence-based consensus undermines science. Silver is making a number of errors here including conflating best sampling procedures for population-level work w/ sampling of research experts. More pernicious however is that Silver is moving us further from any kind of shared truth thru undermining expertise more broadly Silver is making a number of errors here"
X Link 2024-02-04T21:03Z 465.3K followers, 98K engagements
"Everyone is all worked up about the rat's AI-augmented monster junk but I'm more offended by what's been done to the JAK/STAT signaling pathway"
X Link 2024-02-16T00:28Z 457.7K followers, 61.7K engagements
"If Dark Brandons virology unit managed to pandemic up a previously unknown bat virus by inserting a suboptimal furin cleavage site & independently introducing [--] separate lineages via semi-clandestine live animal sales they should get a Nobel prize along with the stolen election"
X Link 2024-02-20T13:38Z 457.9K followers, 15.4K engagements
"Fantastic @mehdirhasan is consistently one of the sharpest toughest journalists out there (especially on scientific/pandemic topics that so many others have gotten so wrong). He is a bright spot in an otherwise grim media landscape & I hope his new venture is wildly successful 🚨Some personal & professional news: I'm launching a new media company It's called Zeteo. And in this era of war abroad fascism at home and propaganda everywhere I hope I can count on your support. Please do sign up today and subscribe here: https://t.co/je2PVGmCWH https://t.co/wKKOvLQdDA 🚨Some personal & professional"
X Link 2024-02-28T14:00Z 459.2K followers, 32.8K engagements
"Poliovirus is not a harmless virus. It is a pathogen that infects and kills motor neurons causing permanent paralysis and disability. Polio vaccines prevent poliomyelitis. We have almost [--] years of data showing they are safe & effective. A RFK Jr presidency will kill people. Almost exactly what denialists claim about HIV. One short step to full-on germ theory denial from there--and the person who leads the group wants to be President. https://t.co/kjZQPT1x4o Almost exactly what denialists claim about HIV. One short step to full-on germ theory denial from there--and the person who leads the"
X Link 2024-03-03T00:26Z 460.8K followers, 60.6K engagements
"This just in: Ivermectin still doesnt work to treat COVID. The final large published trial on ivermectin for COVID-19 PRINCIPLE is now out. Main findings: [--]. Clinically unimportant (1-2day reduction) in time to resolution of symptoms. [--]. No benefit for hospitalization/death. https://t.co/ETKIzkyXPk The final large published trial on ivermectin for COVID-19 PRINCIPLE is now out. Main findings: [--]. Clinically unimportant (1-2day reduction) in time to resolution of symptoms. [--]. No benefit for hospitalization/death. https://t.co/ETKIzkyXPk"
X Link 2024-03-05T13:06Z 462.1K followers, 117.9K engagements
"Congratulations to the U.S. government on getting us that much closer to the dark ages. So much for American innovation"
X Link 2024-03-07T04:49Z 460.8K followers, 10.6K engagements
"@Sander_vdLinden @GYamey I see you also got the unflattering B&W photo/grossly inaccurate hit piece treatment from Thacker. Gavin youre nexthe might have trouble making you look sinister since youre so stylish though. Still not gonna reward his pathetic rage farming with engagement"
X Link 2024-03-08T19:06Z 454.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Pretend this is true & isnt just regurgitating anti-vax creationist conspiracies for political points. If SARS-CoV-2 was developed with US funding in 2017-2019 then the GOP Senate majority & Trump funded all this god-playing & stood by while it killed a million Americans. Theres an explanation for why the U.S. government pushed the false narrative that COVD came from the wild and not a lab: COVID was created with U.S. funded technology. They were playing god with new viruses to create new vaccines. They gave us both. Stop funding the madness. Theres an explanation for why the U.S. government"
X Link 2024-03-11T18:32Z 462K followers, 24.4K engagements
"Im no politician but it seems to me that insinuating that the Trump administrations only meaningful pandemic successfunding & deploying safe effective vaccines in record timewas actually evil & bad is kind of self-defeating when your party was responsible for funding it"
X Link 2024-03-11T18:49Z 462K followers, [----] engagements
"Unfortunately for Aaron Rodgers homeopathic vaccines offer no protection from Twitter evisceration💀 A quick open letter to NY Jets quarterback and massive weirdo Aaron Rodgers from me an attorney who for many years represented several Sandy Hook parents. 🧵 https://t.co/nAHjQoZxvk A quick open letter to NY Jets quarterback and massive weirdo Aaron Rodgers from me an attorney who for many years represented several Sandy Hook parents. 🧵 https://t.co/nAHjQoZxvk"
X Link 2024-03-14T12:22Z 461.6K followers, 15.2K engagements
"Speaking from personal experience [--] years of being relentlessly drowned in a deluge of misogyny exacts a terrible toll. The ongoing professional harm and emotional pain these men have inflicted on me with @RutgersUs tacit approval demonstrates they have never been silenced. These [--] menthe [--] most vocal & famous proponents of the lab leak theoryhave mercilessly harassed scientists for years in the most deeply unpleasant way especially women scientists (theyve sent plenty of harassment my way & I dont even work on viral origins 🤷♂) These [--] menthe [--] most vocal & famous proponents of the lab leak"
X Link 2024-03-16T18:43Z 464.2K followers, 179.6K engagements
"👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Lisbon is great and this is a fantastic conference Submit your abstract Contribute your research by3 May [----] to the 18th Vaccine Congress by [--] May [----]. Leading scientists will share their knowledge on current developments & discoveries in the field #18vaccinecongress. https://t.co/dqbbEntgsP https://t.co/IB7MJmYpTk Submit your abstract Contribute your research by3 May [----] to the 18th Vaccine Congress by [--] May [----]. Leading scientists will share their knowledge on current developments & discoveries in the field #18vaccinecongress. https://t.co/dqbbEntgsP https://t.co/IB7MJmYpTk"
X Link 2024-03-21T03:16Z 463.4K followers, 12.5K engagements
"Cross-species virus transmission strikes again. When it comes to viral diseases herpes encephalitis is a particularly lousy way to go. Poor Flaco. Flaco's final necropsy results reveal "two significant underlying conditions . a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons . and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides ." https://t.co/RGUoTM9Kr8 Flaco's final necropsy results reveal "two significant underlying conditions . a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons . and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides ." https://t.co/RGUoTM9Kr8"
X Link 2024-03-25T22:40Z 466.9K followers, 17.2K engagements
"These strategic stockpiles remind me a lot of lab leak-inspired efforts to stop virology research: they use purely hypothetical risks to justify denial of lifesaving treatments from those who are actually dying from these viruses in reality. Its inequitable & profoundly wrong. [--] years after the horrific West African Ebola epidemic we have life-saving treatments Yet they remain under the control of just two US pharma corporations And they're almost exclusively kept in a US stockpile for national security purposes From @MSF 👇https://t.co/214epFEqAc [--] years after the horrific West African"
X Link 2024-03-28T01:57Z 473.9K followers, 16K engagements
"Strong hyping of precise numbers based on weak evidence & lots of hedging & fudging.These expected value pronouncements thus fit the most philosophically rigorous definition of bullshit. The most accurate portrait of effective altruism ever painted. https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/ https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/"
X Link 2024-03-28T12:29Z 464.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Without question this is all cause for concern as discussed by Dr. Moncla in this interview with @LaurenPelley. RNA viruses will adapt as they get more opportunities to infect a given host species. We need to deprive them of opportunities to adapt. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7162626 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7162626"
X Link 2024-04-05T13:56Z 454.8K followers, [----] engagements
"So let me get this straight: hundreds of NIH-funded investigators can engage in sexual misconduct assault trainees abuse colleagues on social media spread misinformation etc and thats all good but dont you dare retire without submitting your final RPPR. a tragic but unfortunately hilarious story that boils down to: one man didn't do his homework and the whole school is being punished https://t.co/Vyp11rr4LV https://t.co/O0e0QmYwpZ a tragic but unfortunately hilarious story that boils down to: one man didn't do his homework and the whole school is being punished https://t.co/Vyp11rr4LV"
X Link 2024-04-11T06:01Z 454.7K followers, 10.6K engagements
"Arrived in Stellenbosch & my hotel greeted me with a glass of wine My kind of place. Stoked to share our work on zoonosis & host susceptibility to emerging viruses. Heres to Jason @edrybicki & all the terrific scientists at Virology Africa [----] Thanks for inviting me Good morning from Cape Town Looking very forward to sharing our consortiums #mpox work here at the #VirologyAfrica2024 conference in Stellenbosch Good morning from Cape Town Looking very forward to sharing our consortiums #mpox work here at the #VirologyAfrica2024 conference in Stellenbosch"
X Link 2024-04-14T15:10Z 474.5K followers, 26K engagements
"@Tuliodna gives a riveting talk on his and his colleagues outstanding collaborative efforts in pandemic and variant responses and research. The future of virology in South Africa is bright. #VirologyAfrica"
X Link 2024-04-17T09:51Z 455.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Highly recommend visiting South Africa for the scenery alone"
X Link 2024-04-17T20:24Z 473.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Perhaps this opinion is unpopular but its based on a set of evidence that is currently expanding every day that key epidemic response data continues to be hoarded by government agencies that are acting contrary to the interests of the constituents they are supposed to serve. Unpopular opinion: If a zoonotic virus emerges but its control or even transparent information on the situation will interfere with industrys interests the safety of all of us will be thrown under the bus. Looking at you wildlife traders fur farms meat & dairy industry Unpopular opinion: If a zoonotic virus emerges but"
X Link 2024-04-23T11:46Z 453.6K followers, 42.8K engagements
"5+. I'm not attributing this to malice incompetence territorialism bureaucracy or anything else but it's very clear that this apparent lack of transparency and urgency to share these relevant data are greatly harming both the US and global capacity to respond"
X Link 2024-04-24T00:45Z 453.4K followers, 10.9K engagements
"We know that if you don't want an outbreak to become an epidemic or a pandemic it needs to be contained quickly. This news further shows that it has neither been contained and there is no evident rush to do so. This is both alarming and profoundly depressing"
X Link 2024-04-24T00:45Z 453.4K followers, 23.7K engagements
"Many have correctly commented about the loss of trust in public health that this is furthering but the problem goes beyond that. Here the agencies leading this response have forfeited leveraging the full capacity of the international scientific community to respond"
X Link 2024-04-24T00:45Z 453.5K followers, 10K engagements
"Pandemics are global events by definition. The USthe country where I am from was trained still work extensively in and once claimed leadership in pandemic preparednessis not the only country impacted. It's a matter of time before we find infected cows elsewhere"
X Link 2024-04-24T00:45Z 453.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Cattleboth dairy and beef productionis big business around the world. There are billions of cows. Failing to share information rapidly not only hurts food security the economy and human/animal health in the US it's preventing a global response to a major global threat"
X Link 2024-04-24T00:45Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I am frequently asked to comment on "lessons learned" from SARS-CoV-2. Now I have yet another example of a critical lesson that has decidedly not been learned: if there's an emerging pandemic threat you leverage all your resources to respond as fast and effectively as possible"
X Link 2024-04-24T00:45Z 453.6K followers, 36.9K engagements
"The lack of data and information sharing occurring here is disgraceful and inexcusable. The global scientific community is eager to leverage what we've learned from the last pandemicat devastating cost to us allto prevent another one. The government needs to help not hinder"
X Link 2024-04-24T00:45Z 453.4K followers, 23.9K engagements
"Normally I hate Friday afternoon data drops but it's a different story when eagerly awaited H5N1 metadata is involved. Below is freshly mined metadata () with more detailed info on sample collection date & location. Essential for studying the outbreak. https://github.com/andersen-lab/avian-influenza/blob/master/metadata/PRJNA1102327_metadata.csv Important update on metadata of H5N1 in cattle (and back to birds): Thanks to the extraordinary detective skills of @flodebarre we are pleased to be able to share this table containing locations and dates for several H5N1 cases in cattle and birds:"
X Link 2024-04-26T21:22Z 454K followers, 63.4K engagements
"What is metadata you might ask Sounds technical & boring. It often is. In this case it refers to more details about sequences released by @USDA/@USDA_APHIS last Sunday. This specifically provides more info about when & where those samples were collected beyond 2024/USA"
X Link 2024-04-26T22:55Z 453.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Future: And this metadata helps with that too. By helping us understand how this virus has evolved in the past we can start to predict how it will evolve in the future including whether it might adapt further to threaten human or animal health or the food supply"
X Link 2024-04-26T22:56Z 453.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Future: Risk assessment is critical to implementing effective prevention and surveillance strategies but it cannot be based on concerns vibes or hyperbolic 🚨 tweets about imminent pandemics. Accurate risk assessment is necessarily dependent upon high quality evidence"
X Link 2024-04-26T22:56Z 453.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Here's where we are: Asymptomatic cows shed H5N1 into the milk supply Pasteurization inactivates the virus and renders it non-infectious @US_FDA & @USDA showed inactivation by inoculating eggs with PCR+ dairy products BUT DO NOT DRINK UNPASTEURIZED MILK https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/updates-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/updates-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai"
X Link 2024-05-01T20:14Z 454.3K followers, 26.4K engagements
"Out now on @virological_org: preliminary report on the genomic epidemiology of H5N1 sequences in cattle. This complements the preprint @USDA put out yesterday. There was a lot of data to work with so it's split in two parts 👇🏼 https://virological.org/t/preliminary-report-on-genomic-epidemiology-of-the-2024-h5n1-influenza-a-virus-outbreak-in-u-s-cattle-part-2-of-2/971 https://virological.org/t/preliminary-report-on-genomic-epidemiology-of-the-2024-h5n1-influenza-a-virus-outbreak-in-u-s-cattle-part-1-of-2/970"
X Link 2024-05-03T23:01Z 454.7K followers, 112.4K engagements
"4. It also probably started in Texas where sick cows were first observed. An important caveat: most of the available samples to analyze are from Texas which could bias this result. More sequences with precise metadata about sampling date & location could help resolve this"
X Link 2024-05-03T23:01Z 454.3K followers, [----] engagements
"5. The cow viruses contain putative mammalian adaptive mutations in the polymerase complex. Influenza has [--] segments encoding the viral polymerase (enzyme that copies the genome): PA PB1 PB2. For a virus to replicate the polymerase has to interact with host proteins"
X Link 2024-05-03T23:01Z 454.3K followers, [----] engagements
"I hope this is a testament to the value of rapid open data sharing between both government and academic networks during outbreaks and that this information helps USDA and other health officials. We need more testing more surveillance more research and more collaboration"
X Link 2024-05-03T23:01Z 454.3K followers, [----] engagements
"This is great news. I'm very glad @GovCanHealth and @InspectionCan are actively going to look for H5N1 in Canadian cattle. Canada and Mexico are the top two importers of American cattle in the world and viruses don't care about borders. BREAKING: The Canadian Food Inspection Agency Public Health Agency of Canada jointly announce Canada will be expanding surveillance of #H5N1 including cattle and retail milk testing amid ongoing outbreak among U.S. dairy cattle. More from their new statement: https://t.co/rtafzXjGo7 BREAKING: The Canadian Food Inspection Agency Public Health Agency of Canada"
X Link 2024-05-03T23:20Z 473.9K followers, 17.7K engagements
"@SafeFoodCanuck @GovCanHealth @InspectionCan For milk safety not much. To identify potentially infected herds could be important"
X Link 2024-05-04T01:52Z 473.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Where will it end That depends on us answering critical scientific questions first. Specifically we must: -expand testing -enable critical research on susceptibility tropism transmission & pathogenesis -share all the epi data And we must do it now. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01333-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01333-9"
X Link 2024-05-08T23:03Z 454.4K followers, 23.2K engagements
"@KarenEJPerry We can end the cattle outbreak but that depends first on understanding the full scale of it & then applying knowledge about how it's spreading between cows cows & other species and how that impacts disease severity & shedding. We still need to gain much of that knowledge"
X Link 2024-05-08T23:17Z 454.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Spoiler alert (except not because this is completely unsurprising): it's @AirCanada https://www.thestreet.com/travel/what-airline-is-the-most-hated https://www.thestreet.com/travel/what-airline-is-the-most-hated"
X Link 2024-05-09T15:27Z 473.9K followers, [----] engagements
"If this turns out to be a filovirus (Ebola Marburg) then it will mark the first instance of these viruses emerging in Burundi. These viruses are devastating and the list of countries at risk for outbreaks continues to grow. It's essential to be proactive about containment. #Bujumbura : Burundian authorities are still awaiting the results of a suspected case of #Ebola virus disease discovered at the #Kamenge military hospital a week ago. #Bujumbura : Burundian authorities are still awaiting the results of a suspected case of #Ebola virus disease discovered at the #Kamenge military hospital a"
X Link 2024-05-10T16:10Z 454.3K followers, 16.8K engagements
"Its clear that much more surveillance is needed. Detection of H5N1 in wastewater is a great demonstration of how every extra piece of information is helpful. If we want to finish the puzzle we need every piece. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.10.24307179v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.10.24307179v1"
X Link 2024-05-11T18:00Z 474.5K followers, 14.4K engagements
"Live from the ionosphere its Saturday night"
X Link 2024-05-12T04:37Z 454.7K followers, 21.6K engagements
"The barriers to H5N1 becoming pandemic are high but not insurmountable as discussed in this excellent thread. Theres a lot we dont know but we do know that viruses are full of surprises. Lets keep up with this one so we arent caught off guard. With #H5N1 #birdflu spreading amongst dairy cows one of the most important things to think about right now is what would need to happen for this virus to actually start a pandemic. I'm on a train so a brief thread. With #H5N1 #birdflu spreading amongst dairy cows one of the most important things to think about right now is what would need to happen for"
X Link 2024-05-12T17:27Z 454.6K followers, 37.4K engagements
"Yesterday we noticed our dogs constantly sniffing around a corner of our backyard. Today we found out why: they were investigating a dead bird obscured by some weeds. Now the dogs are on symptom watch & husband is in trouble (he disposed of the bird before I could sample it). Cats frequently interact with other susceptible species such as cows skunks and birds in these cases. They also interact with humans. Keep pet cats (and dogs) away from dead animals especially birds or carnivores (skunks foxes). For their safety and for yours. Cats frequently interact with other susceptible species such"
X Link 2024-05-12T21:31Z 454.5K followers, 30.3K engagements
"In my husbands defense I had only instructed him to keep the dogs away from dead birds or dead animals (the dogs go after live birds but havent figured out how to fly so they havent caught one yet). I told him to stay away from bird corpses not save them for me"
X Link 2024-05-12T21:38Z 454.5K followers, [----] engagements
"McAfee founder of Fresnos Raw Farm & the Raw Milk Institute said his phone has been ringing off the hook w/customers asking for H5N1 milk because they want immunity from it. This isnt how you get immunity to H5N1. It might be how you die from it. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-12/raw-milk-enthusiasts-uncowed-by-bird-flu-risk-in-dairy https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-12/raw-milk-enthusiasts-uncowed-by-bird-flu-risk-in-dairy"
X Link 2024-05-13T14:06Z 473.9K followers, 504.1K engagements
"This is great preliminary news from @InspectionCan It would be even better if there were more details about where the samples were collected how they assessed no evidence of disease how many cows were tested what tests were used and what future surveillance plans are. NEW: Canadian Food Inspection Agency has first results from commercial #H5N1 milk testing. CFIA tested [---] milk samples from across Canada. As of today none tested positive for fragments of virus behind avian flu "with no evidence of disease in dairy cattle detected in milk." NEW: Canadian Food Inspection Agency has first"
X Link 2024-05-14T20:21Z 454.8K followers, 16.4K engagements
"This is great news as more testing is urgently needed but there are some caveats. Wastewater data can be difficult to interpret. It can be especially difficult to identify the source and wont catch anything not connected to municipal sewage systems (many farms are not). Wastewater testing for #H5N1 #birdflu is about to go next level in a 190-site network operated by scientists from Stanford Emory and Verily Life Sciences @MeganMolteni reports. Instead of just searching for flu A viruses they'll search for H5. https://t.co/kpGF46Lj8Y Wastewater testing for #H5N1 #birdflu is about to go next"
X Link 2024-05-23T12:44Z 474.5K followers, 12.5K engagements
"This is an unwelcome report that's also not a huge surprise. Alpacas are known to be susceptible to influenza & this farm had been depopulated (culled) in May due to a poultry outbreak. Delayed reporting doesn't help a rapid response though. And where's the virus sequence .@USDA reports #H5N1 #birdflu in alpacas on an Idaho farm that had a poultry outbreak in March the first detection of H5 in alpacas. This is the same virus that's been found in cows. Confirmed on May 16; not clear why USDA took so long to report. https://t.co/jMTTPgGVY1 .@USDA reports #H5N1 #birdflu in alpacas on an Idaho"
X Link 2024-05-28T22:19Z 455.2K followers, 19.5K engagements
"I said goodbye to my uncle today. It was very sad. I also had the opportunity to revisit this amazing early 1980s photo of me helping him wax the Wonder Truck. Then as now I despised chores. RIP Uncle Don you were as much of a wonder as your incredible truck and outfits"
X Link 2024-05-31T06:15Z 456.5K followers, 24.4K engagements
"This is not an objective or evidence-driven scientific inquiry no matter what lab leak proponents might say about oversight. Its an explicitly political show trial. My reflections on Covid subcommittee hearings ahead of Dr Faucis testimony this week on @NPR https://t.co/i9ApgaOp8b https://t.co/EOq3C09XIk My reflections on Covid subcommittee hearings ahead of Dr Faucis testimony this week on @NPR https://t.co/i9ApgaOp8b https://t.co/EOq3C09XIk"
X Link 2024-06-02T15:10Z 456.6K followers, 55K engagements
"Its not every day that elected officials promise to waste taxpayer money on performative political bullshit (while possibly dragging in the legacy of John Lewis in the process) but heymark your calendars for tomorrow. Tomorrow. https://t.co/1yWDzc6r3X Tomorrow. https://t.co/1yWDzc6r3X"
X Link 2024-06-03T05:39Z 456.5K followers, 26.5K engagements
"Key points arent actually very key when they are factually incorrect. Good of the @nytopinion to help the mob sharpen their pitchforks for Faucis Select Subcommittee hearing by enshrining the lies that he will be attacked with as truth in the paper of record"
X Link 2024-06-03T13:17Z 457.3K followers, 1.2M engagements
"People asking why this is factually incorrectIm at a conference today so am pressed for time but Ill quickly address each of the [--] key points. Bottom line: You can dress up unsupported horseshit in as much polished data viz as you want but it still stinks"
X Link 2024-06-04T01:10Z 481.6K followers, 1.2M engagements
"Yes the virus emerged in Wuhan & the WIV is there & studies SARS-related CoVs but thats where the truth ends. Shi Zhenglis lab does great work on SARSr-CoVs but they arent the only lab in the world doing so. They arent even the only lab in China doing this work"
X Link 2024-06-04T01:10Z 456.6K followers, 44.3K engagements
"In fact people all over the world have been studying these virusesincluding those isolated from batssince SARS1 emerged in [----]. In the US Australia Hong Kong Singapore the UK the Netherlands Japan France Canada and so on"
X Link 2024-06-04T01:10Z 456.6K followers, 42.5K engagements
"For all the discussion of how mean and unfairly people selling books jockeying for power or influencer brand-building have been treated consider the impact their unfounded accusations will have on pandemic risk assessment as we lose talented scientists like Dr. Firth. It's crazy to see the death knell of my scientific career mentioned so casually https://t.co/ss5dLEqh50 It's crazy to see the death knell of my scientific career mentioned so casually https://t.co/ss5dLEqh50"
X Link 2024-06-05T12:56Z 457K followers, 24.4K engagements
"Lab origin of the pandemic has always been a plausible hypothesis. It just hasnt stood up to testing. Whatever your past beliefs on the topic ultimately evidence shows that zoonosis is the likely truth. Great piece by @Justin_Ling in the @TorontoStar. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/we-were-too-quick-to-reject-the-lab-leaks-theory-but-we-shouldn-t-be/article_2300bb66-24e1-11ef-aa69-b3b079f7ab71.html https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/we-were-too-quick-to-reject-the-lab-leaks-theory-but-we-shouldn-t-be/article_2300bb66-24e1-11ef-aa69-b3b079f7ab71.html"
X Link 2024-06-10T13:28Z 457.3K followers, 82.4K engagements
"Hey @WSJ this article does not describe "boundary-blurring relationships." This contains multiple detailed accounts of illegal sexual harassment and gender discrimination. https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-spacex-employee-relationships-8bca2806 https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-spacex-employee-relationships-8bca2806"
X Link 2024-06-13T15:59Z 457.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Because I a virologist with [--] masters & a PhD [--] yrs experience with emerging viruses & whose life at the time was like the forced reeducation scene in Clockwork Orange except with COVID data was less skillful at interpreting basic epi data than a rich dude with opinions"
X Link 2024-06-16T16:02Z 457K followers, [----] engagements
"This was a very stupid Twitter fight. Its subjective who wonand certainly there were a lot of fanboys mad that I blasphemed their savior & ruined their fucking Mars colonization fantasiesbut the consensus was that Elon was factually incorrect. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/elon-musk-coronavirus-mansplaining-angela-rasmussen-twitter-a9598976.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/elon-musk-coronavirus-mansplaining-angela-rasmussen-twitter-a9598976.html"
X Link 2024-06-16T16:02Z 465.2K followers, [----] engagements
"But all of this exhausting discourse about being right or wrong on Twitter devalues the real issue: people were dying in droves before the eyes of my clinical colleagues like Craig and they did everything they could to save them. It wasnt enough in many cases"
X Link 2024-06-16T16:02Z 457K followers, [----] engagements
"Some of those lives were lost because they listened to people they agreed with like the narcissistic scion of a colonialist emerald miner who grew up to be an aspiring fascist billionaire with weird ideas about saving civilization by impregnating as many women as possible"
X Link 2024-06-16T16:02Z 457.1K followers, [----] engagements
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