Jamie Weisman
@jamieweisman.bsky.social
Immunodeficient medical dermatologist, clinical trialist, evidence based medicine, vaccines save lives, climate change is real.
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Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported
April 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported
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Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊
February 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊
I am a Covid alarmist. It brings me no joy to be right. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/o...
February 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I am a Covid alarmist. It brings me no joy to be right. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/o...
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Breaking it, then profiting off the *fix*
The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc…
They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.
The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc…
They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.
February 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Breaking it, then profiting off the *fix*
The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc…
They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.
The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc…
They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
Hope this holds up for influenza
2021. This was known in 2021.
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Upgrading PPE for staff working on COVID-19 wards cut hospital-acquired infections dramatically
When Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge upgraded its face masks for staff working on COVID-19 wards to filtering face piece 3 (FFP3) respirators, it saw a
www.cam.ac.uk
February 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Hope this holds up for influenza
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Indirect costs support our entire research infrastructure. Without indirect costs, we wouldn’t have been able to develop this vaccine against H5N1 bird flu. If indirect costs are cut, we won’t be able to prepare and respond to our next pandemic threat.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Development of a nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine against clade 2.3.4.4b H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus - Nature Communications
Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses from H5 clade 2.3.4.4b are circulating widely in birds and have recently caused large outbreaks in mammals. Here, Furey et al. develop a clade 2.3.4.4b HA-exp...
www.nature.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Indirect costs support our entire research infrastructure. Without indirect costs, we wouldn’t have been able to develop this vaccine against H5N1 bird flu. If indirect costs are cut, we won’t be able to prepare and respond to our next pandemic threat.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This seems important
SCOOP: FBI director nominee Kash Patel disclosed he received up to $5M in shares of a mysterious entity in the Cayman Islands called Elite Depot. Elite Depot is a parent organization of fast-fashion giant Shein, according to corporate records I reviewed www.wired.com/story/kash-p...
Trump's FBI Pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock from Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein
Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form says were received in exchange for consulting services.
www.wired.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This seems important
If Elon Musk wants to find Medicare fraud he can start with Rick Scott and Bill Frist.
February 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
If Elon Musk wants to find Medicare fraud he can start with Rick Scott and Bill Frist.
Thank you for writing thid @danielleofri - would add that I exhort EVERY medical professional ti tell patients that they can decline to answer about citizenship and EVERY patient to decline. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...
Opinion | How Doctors and Nurses Can Protect Undocumented Immigrants
Doctors have a responsibility to reassure their patients, regardless of immigration status, that they are welcome and protected.
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Thank you for writing thid @danielleofri - would add that I exhort EVERY medical professional ti tell patients that they can decline to answer about citizenship and EVERY patient to decline. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...
Act two. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots
An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.
www.npr.org
December 28, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Act two. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
A tragedy in two acts. Intubated bird flu patients in Louisiana. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/h...
Bird Flu Samples From Very Ill Patient Had ‘Concerning’ Mutations (Gift Article)
Tiny genetic alterations could help the bird flu virus enter cells in the upper respiratory tract, the C.D.C. said. But there is no sign that mutations are widespread in nature.
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2024 at 10:14 AM
A tragedy in two acts. Intubated bird flu patients in Louisiana. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/h...
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When you don’t know how anything works, everything is a conspiracy
December 14, 2024 at 9:54 PM
When you don’t know how anything works, everything is a conspiracy
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I know there’s a lot of news happening right now, but I really don’t want to lose sight of the fact that in a few months—if he gets his way—Donald Trump will stack our critical public health agencies with unqualified cranks.
December 4, 2024 at 12:13 AM
I know there’s a lot of news happening right now, but I really don’t want to lose sight of the fact that in a few months—if he gets his way—Donald Trump will stack our critical public health agencies with unqualified cranks.
100% this
If you are looking for a new doctor a good rule of thumb is to avoid those that sell supplements
November 24, 2024 at 12:52 AM
100% this
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A government run by billionaires will never be for the people.
November 23, 2024 at 2:44 PM
A government run by billionaires will never be for the people.
There is very little more satisfying than learning something at a conference, then seeing it IRL and using your new knowledge to make a patient better.
November 23, 2024 at 2:33 PM
There is very little more satisfying than learning something at a conference, then seeing it IRL and using your new knowledge to make a patient better.
The red hot hatred I have for these people who tapped out lies while I, a profoundly immunocompromised doctor, worked through the pandemic to pay my bills will never stop burning in my heart.
Laptop class, pro-infection doctors like Scott Atlas and Jay Bhattacharya are full of contempt, loathing, and immature insults towards doctors who treat patients.
No wonder we all left X.
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/laptopdoctors/
No wonder we all left X.
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/laptopdoctors/
Laptop Class Doctors Think Doctors Who Treat Patients Are Lazy, Dumb, Cowardly, Sheep | Science-Based Medicine
Had laptop class doctors been willing to listen to doctors who worked on COVID units, they wouldn't have said so many absurd things.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
November 23, 2024 at 12:54 PM
The red hot hatred I have for these people who tapped out lies while I, a profoundly immunocompromised doctor, worked through the pandemic to pay my bills will never stop burning in my heart.
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ADHD is often an excess of attention than a deficit.
Autism is often an excess of empathy rather than a lack of.
Autism is often an excess of empathy rather than a lack of.
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
(Bringing back a 2018 Twitter hit): Keeping honey bees to save the bees is like keeping chickens to save the birds. They're a managed species and not at risk of extinction. The bees at risk of extinction are wild species.
(Bringing back a 2018 Twitter hit): Keeping honey bees to save the bees is like keeping chickens to save the birds. They're a managed species and not at risk of extinction. The bees at risk of extinction are wild species.
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
Ants often act like inefficient goofballs. They got lost, accidentally drop their good and walk in circles trying to find it but eventually give up and go home, half of the ants in a nest just sit there 24/7 and do absolutely nothing.
Ants often act like inefficient goofballs. They got lost, accidentally drop their good and walk in circles trying to find it but eventually give up and go home, half of the ants in a nest just sit there 24/7 and do absolutely nothing.
November 21, 2024 at 5:14 AM
ADHD is often an excess of attention than a deficit.
Autism is often an excess of empathy rather than a lack of.
Autism is often an excess of empathy rather than a lack of.
600,000 people would go on to die of Covid in the United States after this video was made.
Journalists writing about Dr. Marty Makary as a potential head of FDA should link to this video or others I’ve collected.
Educate your readers.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gg0O...
Educate your readers.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gg0O...
Dr. Marty Makary says we have herd immunity and COVID is the flu, May 2021
YouTube video by Jonathan Howard
m.youtube.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:11 AM
600,000 people would go on to die of Covid in the United States after this video was made.
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im on every app. im in your city, in your neighborhood. the sales associate who handed you a large when you asked for a medium? that was me. i am now behind you.
November 20, 2024 at 7:00 AM
im on every app. im in your city, in your neighborhood. the sales associate who handed you a large when you asked for a medium? that was me. i am now behind you.
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how about just don't teach women to fear?
is that too much to ask?
is that too much to ask?
November 18, 2024 at 2:52 PM
how about just don't teach women to fear?
is that too much to ask?
is that too much to ask?
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Dismantling protections against political disinformation is not becoming "less political". By using that framing, @sheeraf.bsky.social parrots Zuckerberg's PR instead of telling the truth. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/t...
November 17, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Dismantling protections against political disinformation is not becoming "less political". By using that framing, @sheeraf.bsky.social parrots Zuckerberg's PR instead of telling the truth. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/t...