@ctorres-viera.bsky.social
Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine. Venezuela. Working in Miami. USA.
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Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
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October 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
Florida está a las puertas de una decisión que desafía la experiencia acumulada de más de dos siglos de salud pública. En nombre de una libertad entendida de manera individualista, se arriesga la seguridad colectiva. open.substack.com/pub/carlosto...
Florida frente a las vacunas: el riesgo de olvidar la historia
El gobierno del estado de Florida, a través de su cirujano general Joseph Ladapo, anunció recientemente su intención de eliminar la obligatoriedad de todas las vacunaciones, tanto en niños como en adu...
open.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Florida está a las puertas de una decisión que desafía la experiencia acumulada de más de dos siglos de salud pública. En nombre de una libertad entendida de manera individualista, se arriesga la seguridad colectiva. open.substack.com/pub/carlosto...
Florida now stands on the threshold of a decision that defies the accumulated experience of more than two centuries of public health. In the name of a narrowly individualistic vision of freedom, it risks collective security. open.substack.com/pub/carlosto...
Florida and Vaccines: The Risk of Forgetting History
The state government of Florida, through its Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, recently announced its intention to eliminate the requirement for all vaccinations, both for children and adults.
open.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Florida now stands on the threshold of a decision that defies the accumulated experience of more than two centuries of public health. In the name of a narrowly individualistic vision of freedom, it risks collective security. open.substack.com/pub/carlosto...
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The ACIP, before and after
June 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The ACIP, before and after
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Ugh
June 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Ugh
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RFK Jr has been silencing scientists and public health leaders. Now he disbands the ACIP at #CDC . #Ivax2protect #VaccinesSaveLives
“How many children must get sick and even die before Congress demands that the Trump administration answer for these preventable deaths?”
Measles resurgence highlights the toll of RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies | Opinion
“How many children must get sick and even die before Congress demands that the Trump administration answer for these preventable deaths?”
bit.ly
June 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
RFK Jr has been silencing scientists and public health leaders. Now he disbands the ACIP at #CDC . #Ivax2protect #VaccinesSaveLives
open.substack.com/pub/carlosto...
No se requiere desmantelar la infraestructura de prevención frente a enfermedades infecciosas para avanzar en otras áreas de salud pública.
No se requiere desmantelar la infraestructura de prevención frente a enfermedades infecciosas para avanzar en otras áreas de salud pública.
Las enfermedades infecciosas no esperan: no es momento de ceder terreno
Una leyenda urbana atribuye erróneamente la siguiente frase, desacreditada y claramente equivocada en su capacidad predictiva, al Dr.
open.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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No se requiere desmantelar la infraestructura de prevención frente a enfermedades infecciosas para avanzar en otras áreas de salud pública.
No se requiere desmantelar la infraestructura de prevención frente a enfermedades infecciosas para avanzar en otras áreas de salud pública.
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When I see maps like this, racism is the only word that comes to my mind
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
June 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
When I see maps like this, racism is the only word that comes to my mind
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Experimental evidence rules out mosquitoes as vectors of Lyme disease
Excellent study! The myth of mosquito transmission was based solely on a few reports of spirochete DNA in mosquitoes, but never evaluated transmission
parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#MicroSky 🦠
Excellent study! The myth of mosquito transmission was based solely on a few reports of spirochete DNA in mosquitoes, but never evaluated transmission
parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#MicroSky 🦠
Experimental evidence rules out mosquitoes as vectors of Lyme disease - Parasites & Vectors
Background Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.), is the most common vector-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere, with Ixodes ticks as its primary vectors. However, many p...
parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Experimental evidence rules out mosquitoes as vectors of Lyme disease
Excellent study! The myth of mosquito transmission was based solely on a few reports of spirochete DNA in mosquitoes, but never evaluated transmission
parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#MicroSky 🦠
Excellent study! The myth of mosquito transmission was based solely on a few reports of spirochete DNA in mosquitoes, but never evaluated transmission
parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#MicroSky 🦠
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Bird flu isn't as silent as we think — experts caution the pandemic threat is still growing. It's been months since a major update in H5N1 news, but that doesn't mean the virus has disappeared, by @carlynzwaren.bsky.social www.salon.com/2025/04/30/b... via @salonnewsroom.bsky.social #H5N1
Bird flu isn't as silent as we think — experts caution the pandemic threat is still growing
It's been months since a major update in H5N1 news, but that doesn't mean the virus has disappeared
www.salon.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Bird flu isn't as silent as we think — experts caution the pandemic threat is still growing. It's been months since a major update in H5N1 news, but that doesn't mean the virus has disappeared, by @carlynzwaren.bsky.social www.salon.com/2025/04/30/b... via @salonnewsroom.bsky.social #H5N1
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You’re going to want to read this devastating review of David Zweig’s new book about COVID-19 school closures by Wendy Orent.
Zweig has been making the rounds on legacy media, getting softball interviews.
Orent gives the book the treatment it so richly deserves.
Zweig has been making the rounds on legacy media, getting softball interviews.
Orent gives the book the treatment it so richly deserves.
An Abundance Of Bias: New COVID School Closures Book Rewrites History — AJI
AJI Science Adviser Wendy Orent reviews the new book, “An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions” by writer David Zweig, who was an early school reopening advo...
www.accountabilityjournalism.org
May 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
You’re going to want to read this devastating review of David Zweig’s new book about COVID-19 school closures by Wendy Orent.
Zweig has been making the rounds on legacy media, getting softball interviews.
Orent gives the book the treatment it so richly deserves.
Zweig has been making the rounds on legacy media, getting softball interviews.
Orent gives the book the treatment it so richly deserves.
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Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.
May 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.
Decisiones peligrosas
La recomendacion del secretario de salud de lo Estados Unidos, Robert Kennedy Jr. en relacion a la vacuna de COVID-19 es conflictiva. Mi opinion aqui.
open.substack.com/pub/carlosto...
La recomendacion del secretario de salud de lo Estados Unidos, Robert Kennedy Jr. en relacion a la vacuna de COVID-19 es conflictiva. Mi opinion aqui.
open.substack.com/pub/carlosto...
Decisiones Peligrosas
El secretario de Salud Robert Kennedy Jr. toma decisiones objetables, nuevamente en referencia a una vacuna
open.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Decisiones peligrosas
La recomendacion del secretario de salud de lo Estados Unidos, Robert Kennedy Jr. en relacion a la vacuna de COVID-19 es conflictiva. Mi opinion aqui.
open.substack.com/pub/carlosto...
La recomendacion del secretario de salud de lo Estados Unidos, Robert Kennedy Jr. en relacion a la vacuna de COVID-19 es conflictiva. Mi opinion aqui.
open.substack.com/pub/carlosto...
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For my inaugural post, Im proud to announce the publication of our Safer@Home care model. This is going to change how medicine is practiced. No need to admit pts "for IV antibiotics" anymore. Or just for IV diuresis in CHF. Or just for EtOH withdrawal. Etc.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Virtual Home Care for Patients With Acute Illness
This cohort study compares outcomes of patients receiving care in an outpatient, virtual, home-based acute care model with outcomes of patients receiving standard hospital care.
jamanetwork.com
November 30, 2024 at 9:24 PM
For my inaugural post, Im proud to announce the publication of our Safer@Home care model. This is going to change how medicine is practiced. No need to admit pts "for IV antibiotics" anymore. Or just for IV diuresis in CHF. Or just for EtOH withdrawal. Etc.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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✅ «That modern oral transitional antibiotic therapy is at
least as effective as IV only therapy for endocarditis is settled based on an overwhelming concordance of DATA»
(3/5)
least as effective as IV only therapy for endocarditis is settled based on an overwhelming concordance of DATA»
(3/5)
November 26, 2024 at 2:13 AM
✅ «That modern oral transitional antibiotic therapy is at
least as effective as IV only therapy for endocarditis is settled based on an overwhelming concordance of DATA»
(3/5)
least as effective as IV only therapy for endocarditis is settled based on an overwhelming concordance of DATA»
(3/5)
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The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 3:19 PM
The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/