Infectious Dose Podcast
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infectiousdose.com @pathogenscribe, PhD, virologist-turned-science-writer, bridges the dangerous gap between the science of infectious diseases and public misperception.
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Life Sciences Podcast · Updated Daily · Pathogen Perspectives the podcast is being relaunched as Infectious Dose, in which Heather McSharry, PhD, an expert in viral pathogenesis, brings her blog to th...
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Just FYI the explicit rating for my podcast is because of very limited, mild profanity. Sometimes I just can't help myself. Everywhere podcasts are available. If I missed somewhere let me know.
New episodes drop every Wednesday.
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RFK is lying about thimerosal.
🧪 Thimerosal = ethylmercury ≠ toxic
💉 Used safely for decades
🌍 Needed for global flu vaccine access
I explain thimerosal & everything else in vaccines.
🎧 Listen or read: www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...
#Vaccines #Science #ThimerosalTruth
🧪 Thimerosal = ethylmercury ≠ toxic
💉 Used safely for decades
🌍 Needed for global flu vaccine access
I explain thimerosal & everything else in vaccines.
🎧 Listen or read: www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...
#Vaccines #Science #ThimerosalTruth
Vaccine Safety #5 - Inside the vial: the truth about what’s actually in vaccines
Heather clarifies what components vaccines actually contain and how we know they are safe.
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June 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
RFK is lying about thimerosal.
🧪 Thimerosal = ethylmercury ≠ toxic
💉 Used safely for decades
🌍 Needed for global flu vaccine access
I explain thimerosal & everything else in vaccines.
🎧 Listen or read: www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...
#Vaccines #Science #ThimerosalTruth
🧪 Thimerosal = ethylmercury ≠ toxic
💉 Used safely for decades
🌍 Needed for global flu vaccine access
I explain thimerosal & everything else in vaccines.
🎧 Listen or read: www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...
#Vaccines #Science #ThimerosalTruth
New episode out now!!! Think COVID’s over? Think again.
OUT NOW!
COVID Critical: Complacency and Consequences in an Unfinished Pandemic
We're still living with COVID — and its consequences. Reinfections. Long COVID. Mixed messaging. Policy drift.
🎧 Listen or read here: www.infectiousdose.com/post/covid-c...
#LongCOVID #InfectiousDose
COVID Critical: Complacency and Consequences in an Unfinished Pandemic
We're still living with COVID — and its consequences. Reinfections. Long COVID. Mixed messaging. Policy drift.
🎧 Listen or read here: www.infectiousdose.com/post/covid-c...
#LongCOVID #InfectiousDose
COVID Critical: Complacency and Consequences in an Unfinished Pandemic
Heather digs into the WHO’s latest data on rising COVID-19 activity, explores the emergence of new variants like NB.1.8.1, examines the troublingly low global vaccine uptake, and connects the dots bet...
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June 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
New episode out now!!! Think COVID’s over? Think again.
Thank you AAP!!!
Today's ACIP meeting is usually a time where experts come together to inform the future of vaccines. That is not what today will be. That is not what we can stand behind. The AAP will continue to recommend its own childhood vaccine schedule -- just as we have since the 1930s
June 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Thank you AAP!!!
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This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
www.politico.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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Teen Vogue has some of the best US political analysis anywhere:
Zohran Mamdani's shocked American pundits by running on a platform that provided an alternative to Trump, the Democrats catering to him (hello, Newsom), and misogynist Andrew Cuomo. his economics-first campaign stridently protected trans rights as Dems largely refuse to. me on his win @teenvogue.com
The Democratic Party Needs to Learn from Zohran Mamdani's Guts and Backbone
Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference.
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June 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Teen Vogue has some of the best US political analysis anywhere:
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I only took one picture at the NSF. The meetings were confidential and we took our work seriously. We approached our responsibility to evaluate taxpayer-funded work with both great care & excitement about the future. It's incredibly sad to watch the casual destruction of so much hard, essential work
June 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I only took one picture at the NSF. The meetings were confidential and we took our work seriously. We approached our responsibility to evaluate taxpayer-funded work with both great care & excitement about the future. It's incredibly sad to watch the casual destruction of so much hard, essential work
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Up to 40% of Hepatitis B infections are actually acquired in childhood and kill thousands of Americans per year.
Kulldorff says Hep B is primarily sexually transmitted or by needles.
This is a common talking point for anti-vaxxers, but it’s also not true. Hep B can and does spread through casual contact.
And it’s deadly.
He also suggests separating MMR and varicella vaccines.
This is a common talking point for anti-vaxxers, but it’s also not true. Hep B can and does spread through casual contact.
And it’s deadly.
He also suggests separating MMR and varicella vaccines.
June 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Up to 40% of Hepatitis B infections are actually acquired in childhood and kill thousands of Americans per year.
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Dropping at midnight: a new Infectious Dose episode —
COVID Critical: Complacency and Consequences in an Unfinished Pandemic
Explore the cost of policy drift, reinfection risk, long COVID, and the illusion of normalcy.
The pandemic isn’t done with us.
#COVID19 #LongCOVID #InfectiousDose
COVID Critical: Complacency and Consequences in an Unfinished Pandemic
Explore the cost of policy drift, reinfection risk, long COVID, and the illusion of normalcy.
The pandemic isn’t done with us.
#COVID19 #LongCOVID #InfectiousDose
June 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Dropping at midnight: a new Infectious Dose episode —
COVID Critical: Complacency and Consequences in an Unfinished Pandemic
Explore the cost of policy drift, reinfection risk, long COVID, and the illusion of normalcy.
The pandemic isn’t done with us.
#COVID19 #LongCOVID #InfectiousDose
COVID Critical: Complacency and Consequences in an Unfinished Pandemic
Explore the cost of policy drift, reinfection risk, long COVID, and the illusion of normalcy.
The pandemic isn’t done with us.
#COVID19 #LongCOVID #InfectiousDose
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If we trust genetic engineering to save a child from leukemia, why reject it when it could save a child from blindness, malnutrition, or death?
We cure cancer with genetic engineering but ban it on the farm.
Celebrating one but demonizing the other fuels disinformation that costs lives.
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We cure cancer with genetic engineering but ban it on the farm.
Celebrating one but demonizing the other fuels disinformation that costs lives.
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June 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
If we trust genetic engineering to save a child from leukemia, why reject it when it could save a child from blindness, malnutrition, or death?
We cure cancer with genetic engineering but ban it on the farm.
Celebrating one but demonizing the other fuels disinformation that costs lives.
1/
We cure cancer with genetic engineering but ban it on the farm.
Celebrating one but demonizing the other fuels disinformation that costs lives.
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👀WTF-RFK!
RFKjr pushes vaccine lies. I push back with evidence.
My WTF-RFK segment dives into the facts behind the fictions, in my episodes on measles (Un-Vaccinated), bird flu, & COVID (dropping at Midnight).
🎙️ Listen or read at infectiousdose.com
#VaccinesSaveLives #WTF_RFK #FireRFKjr
RFKjr pushes vaccine lies. I push back with evidence.
My WTF-RFK segment dives into the facts behind the fictions, in my episodes on measles (Un-Vaccinated), bird flu, & COVID (dropping at Midnight).
🎙️ Listen or read at infectiousdose.com
#VaccinesSaveLives #WTF_RFK #FireRFKjr
June 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
👀WTF-RFK!
RFKjr pushes vaccine lies. I push back with evidence.
My WTF-RFK segment dives into the facts behind the fictions, in my episodes on measles (Un-Vaccinated), bird flu, & COVID (dropping at Midnight).
🎙️ Listen or read at infectiousdose.com
#VaccinesSaveLives #WTF_RFK #FireRFKjr
RFKjr pushes vaccine lies. I push back with evidence.
My WTF-RFK segment dives into the facts behind the fictions, in my episodes on measles (Un-Vaccinated), bird flu, & COVID (dropping at Midnight).
🎙️ Listen or read at infectiousdose.com
#VaccinesSaveLives #WTF_RFK #FireRFKjr
Don't miss the new episode dropping Wednesday at midnight! Infectiousdose.com
The current sitrep on COVID and what you need to know!
The current sitrep on COVID and what you need to know!
June 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Don't miss the new episode dropping Wednesday at midnight! Infectiousdose.com
The current sitrep on COVID and what you need to know!
The current sitrep on COVID and what you need to know!
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oops turns out some of the new ACIP members have conflicts of interest too
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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RFK Jr.’s New Vaccine Panel Includes Two Paid Witnesses Against Merck
Two new vaccine advisers tapped by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have served as paid expert witnesses for plaintiffs suing Merck & Co. over some of the drug company’s i...
www.bloomberg.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
oops turns out some of the new ACIP members have conflicts of interest too
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Very understandable and I go in-depth on why aluminum as an adjuvant or stabilizer and residual formaldehyde from inactivation are perfectly safe in vaccines in my episode:
www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...
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June 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Very understandable and I go in-depth on why aluminum as an adjuvant or stabilizer and residual formaldehyde from inactivation are perfectly safe in vaccines in my episode:
www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...
www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...
OMG THIS👇
You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.
June 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
OMG THIS👇
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"Liberate this city from socialists and burdensome leadership." If that's not regime change, I don't know what to tell you.
The inflection point is now.
The inflection point is now.
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"Liberate this city from socialists and burdensome leadership." If that's not regime change, I don't know what to tell you.
The inflection point is now.
The inflection point is now.
This thread of questions for RFKjr is for you, @aoc.bsky.social
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?s On Vaccine Lies
1. You claim vaccines cause > harm than diseases they prevent; >95% of peer-reviewed studies in top journals—Lancet, JAMA, NEJM—disagree. Name 1 large, peer-reviewed epidemiological study supporting your position that meets accepted scientific standards.
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?s On Vaccine Lies
1. You claim vaccines cause > harm than diseases they prevent; >95% of peer-reviewed studies in top journals—Lancet, JAMA, NEJM—disagree. Name 1 large, peer-reviewed epidemiological study supporting your position that meets accepted scientific standards.
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Rewording my earlier post.
RFK Jr will be testifying before Congress.
I am interested in what experts and others think would be the best way to leverage this time and opportunity for the public good.
If you were behind the dais for this hearing, what would you do? What do you want to see asked?
RFK Jr will be testifying before Congress.
I am interested in what experts and others think would be the best way to leverage this time and opportunity for the public good.
If you were behind the dais for this hearing, what would you do? What do you want to see asked?
June 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This thread of questions for RFKjr is for you, @aoc.bsky.social
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Proud to get such nice feedback from Dr. Passarelli! And RFKill is my new favorite! Doesn’t get any truer than that!
June 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Proud to get such nice feedback from Dr. Passarelli! And RFKill is my new favorite! Doesn’t get any truer than that!
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I tackle this question and discuss the linked paper in my new episode out now, about global measles outbreaks! Also debuts Hot Zone Hotline, the new Q&A segment!
Available on your favorite player, even the free ones! Also free on the website! Infectioudose.com
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Available on your favorite player, even the free ones! Also free on the website! Infectioudose.com
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June 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I tackle this question and discuss the linked paper in my new episode out now, about global measles outbreaks! Also debuts Hot Zone Hotline, the new Q&A segment!
Available on your favorite player, even the free ones! Also free on the website! Infectioudose.com
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Available on your favorite player, even the free ones! Also free on the website! Infectioudose.com
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
OUT NOW!
Heather gives updates on measles outbreaks around the world, debunks RFKjrs lies about measles in WTF-RFK! & introduces the new segment, Hot Zone Hotline, in which she answers listener questions! On your fav player or at the website.
www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...
Heather gives updates on measles outbreaks around the world, debunks RFKjrs lies about measles in WTF-RFK! & introduces the new segment, Hot Zone Hotline, in which she answers listener questions! On your fav player or at the website.
www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...
Episode 13: Un-Vaccinated - the Global Measles Emergency
Heather gives updates on the global 2025 measles outbreaks, answers listener questions, and debunks the deadly lies from RFK Jr.
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June 4, 2025 at 7:07 AM
OUT NOW!
Heather gives updates on measles outbreaks around the world, debunks RFKjrs lies about measles in WTF-RFK! & introduces the new segment, Hot Zone Hotline, in which she answers listener questions! On your fav player or at the website.
www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...
Heather gives updates on measles outbreaks around the world, debunks RFKjrs lies about measles in WTF-RFK! & introduces the new segment, Hot Zone Hotline, in which she answers listener questions! On your fav player or at the website.
www.infectiousdose.com/post/episode...