Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
Absolutely incredible story on many levels--more than a significant technological advance, the seemingly unlimited ability of the Ukrainians to persevere, innovate with limited resources, sacrifice everything for one another--it's humbling and inspiring and makes me ashamed we aren't doing more.
The Ken Harbaugh Show@thekenharbaughshow.bsky.social · yesterdayUkraine's military goes to extreme lengths to save injured soldiers. Meanwhile, Russia's wounded-to-killed ratio is worse than during WWI. My latest in The Atlantic (gift article):
Prior to cancer immunotherapy, vaccination of any kind, not only mRNA Covid (as previously reported), is associated with a small and transient (~6 months) benefit of improved survival www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Marked benefit of Covid updated or booster vaccination in people with autoimmune conditions Real world evidence for over 60,000 individuals with major (40-70%) reduction of hospitalization acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Updated <fc>COVID</fc>‐19 Vaccines and Health Outcomes in Patients With Autoimmune Rheumatic Conditions
Objective We aimed to assess the association between COVID-19 vaccination status and COVID-19-related hospital admissions, need for mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECM...
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Getting the flu shot dramatically reduces risk—40%!!— of getting Alzheimer’s www.tiktok.com/t/ZTUkfsevE/
In a study of nearly a million adults age 65 and older, those who received a flu vaccine had a 40 percent lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease than those who were never vaccinated. Dr. Trisha ...
TikTok video by The Washington Post
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Advances in treating childhood cancer, particularly leukemia. In the early 1960s, the survival rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia was 4%. Today, the 5y survival rate is roughly 95%.
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 2mo agoI like this brainstorm: greatest achievements since 1969. Number one for me: eradicating smallpox What else?
I have presided over the traditional Massacre of the Tabs
Pediatricians have long understood that one infection can create the conditions for a second organism to exploit localized or systemic injury. Quantifying this interaction- particularly from the standpoint of protective benefit on an off target organism for an immunization / immunoglobulin is 👏👏👏👏
CIDRAP@cidrap.bsky.social · 2mo agoOne immunization may protect newborns against 2 serious diseases Newborns immunized against RSV also had a 36% lower risk of infection with a life-threatening illness called invasive pneumococcal disease. Read more: https://bit.ly/4yTZY1s
mRNA outperforms: 🧬 “The mRNA vaccine lowered the risk of infection by 26.6% compared to the standard flu vaccine. Again, this is measuring an improvement over the existing vaccine rather than a comparison to nothing, so this relative improvement is more impressive than the number might sound.”
Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH@rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 2mo agoGreat explainer by @drjenndowd.bsky.social on this hopeful news. 🧪😷🛟 Sociology health policy demography idsky
Dr. Peter L. Salk is an American physician, professor, and public health advocate. Peter previously served as president of the Jonas Salk Legacy, an organization dedicated to preserving and extending the contributions of his father, Dr. Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation. #WeAreAmerica250
Study after study after study Important to reduce mortality Important to reduce hospital admissions Important to reduce myocarditis Important to reduce ER visits Important to reduce sick days from school or work Important for military force health protection jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Interim Estimated Effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults
This case-control study estimates vaccine effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccines among adults with COVID-19–associated emergency department or urgent care encounters and COVID-19–associated hosp...
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The overwhelming ... OVERWHELMING ... benefits of the COVID vaccines are undeniable. There is a terrible disinformation campaign underway to undermine the science.
Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 3mo ago3 new papers on Covid boosters today 1. Less major adverse cardiovascular events in US Veterans jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 2. High effectiveness for older adults jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 3. Improved outcomes across all adults jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Three scientific papers that raised questions about vaccine safety and were used by the Trump administration to justify controversial changes to US vaccine policies have over the last two months been removed, retracted or placed under investigation by the journals that published them.
Three studies used by RFK Jr and allies to justify controversial vaccine policy changes facing new scrutiny
Scientists praise moves to investigate, retract or remove controversial studies. The authors stand by their work
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www.biospace.com/fda/fdas-own... Safe and it worked beyond belief. Science for the win.
FDA’s own report shows no child deaths definitively caused by COVID vaccination
Despite having no definitive data, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) in a letter to health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suggested there was a conscious effort by the Biden administration’s FDA to cover up t...
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Hey Homer do you care if we cast a black woman as Helen of Troy
AI: "Army's involvement spanned ~ 3 decades before the vaccine received a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency in 2015 and WHO rec for broad use in 2021...stands as one of the most notable examples of a military research institution contributing to a major global health breakthrough."
Patrick Hickey, MD@pwhickey.bsky.social · 4mo ago👏👏👏👏
This essay is extraordinary. By a 93-year-old who remembers what life was like before modern vaccines.
The Depeche Mode prophecy has been fulfilled.
Steven D. Greydanus@decentfilms.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis may be a fundamentally new kind of sin blending blasphemy, idolatry, divination, and simony, among others. Those who are not horrified at this may be entirely lacking in authentic religious awareness and feeling.
Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.
CDC delays publishing report showing covid vaccine benefits
The acting CDC director cited concerns with the methodology, but the design has long been used to test vaccine effectiveness.
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It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 6mo agoPeople don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced
Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
The Shingles vaccine is linked w/ reduced risk of Alzheimer's in 4 large natural experiments Today, the potential of high-dose flu vaccines vs standard dose in a large retrospective age 65+ cohort for less Alzheimer’s. More pronounced in women (like Shingles vaccines) neurology.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
"Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available." Polio: 23k paralyzed Measles: 290k deaths Rubella: 41k born w/ congenital rubella syndrome Diphtheria: 138k-1M deaths
ProPublica@propublica.org · 6mo agoNEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety. This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.
Not only did Mueller do more to make DC safe than Trump's National Guard troops loitering in the Metro, he also took a huge step down the elite career ladder in order to do meaningful work, for three years. That's a serious commitment to public service that I haven't seen often, and deserves respect
A point in Robert Mueller's career that I haven't seen mentioned much: In 1995, having been Asst Atty General, he left a law firm and returned to the DC US Atty's office as an AUSA prosecuting homicides--a role often held by recent law school graduates. Homicide rate in DC was almost 3x recent #s
A great example of just much of a headache military leaders throughout history have had in dealing with the simple act of getting their soldiers to poop in the right place (Source: “The Gentlemen and the Roughs,” Lorien Foote, p. 52)
