Thomas Voss
@tomthevirusdoc.bsky.social
I’m a fly-fishing virologist with 5 kids, and twin grandsons. I have a passion for viruses, vaccines, and antivirals. And for food, travel, and sailing. And democracy too!
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
He’s the richest person on earth. He can’t afford his own transportation and hotel room? Do we have have to pay that for him?
🚨 BREAKING: This is beyond outrageous. Elon Musk, his cranky mother Maye, and one of his young kids were chauffeured in Air Force One and Marine One—straight to the White House, where they’re apparently staying.
WTF is going on? It goes without saying, this is not normal. 🙄
WTF is going on? It goes without saying, this is not normal. 🙄
March 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
He’s the richest person on earth. He can’t afford his own transportation and hotel room? Do we have have to pay that for him?
No kidding. It was 78 here in New Orleans today. A beautiful global warming kind of day!🤣🤪😡🥵🤬
52 degrees and a loud thunderstorm ⛈️ on New Year’s Eve in DC. Weird, but what isn’t these days.
December 31, 2024 at 10:42 PM
No kidding. It was 78 here in New Orleans today. A beautiful global warming kind of day!🤣🤪😡🥵🤬
Scum and scummer.
December 23, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Scum and scummer.
No kidding. Also how in the heck did the speaker and leader of the congressional republicans not know one of his members was in memory care?
Congratulations to Mike Johnson for trying to pressure the House Ethics Committee into burying a report that found the then-nominee for attorney general had engaged in sexual activity with a minor.
Party of Family Values, am I right?
Party of Family Values, am I right?
December 23, 2024 at 9:36 PM
No kidding. Also how in the heck did the speaker and leader of the congressional republicans not know one of his members was in memory care?
Thats 389 years! If they were one person they were born in 1635… and witnessed the great colonial hurricane (NY), the Franco-Spanish war, capture of Tortuga, establishment of the royal mail, founding of academie Francaise. Wow! They’ll be able to apply their life’s experience to today’s challenges.
December 18, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Thats 389 years! If they were one person they were born in 1635… and witnessed the great colonial hurricane (NY), the Franco-Spanish war, capture of Tortuga, establishment of the royal mail, founding of academie Francaise. Wow! They’ll be able to apply their life’s experience to today’s challenges.
It’s like they’ve all been channeling Susan Collins…
A friend described the current Democratic response to the political moment “bringing a strongly worded letter to a knife fight” and I can tell that’s one of those phrases that’s going to be sticking
December 18, 2024 at 2:56 AM
It’s like they’ve all been channeling Susan Collins…
So much for keeping Christ in Christmas….
December 18, 2024 at 2:45 AM
So much for keeping Christ in Christmas….
Look I really like Gerry Connolly, but come on. It’s past time to turn the page, pass the torch, make a change whatever you want to call it. The Dems lost the White House because they couldn’t tell Biden it was time-and he wouldn’t admit it. Trump and MAGA haven’t cornered the market on stupid.
The Democratic Party Sacrifices Its Young To Protect The Establishment
By selecting Rep. Connolly over AOC to lead the House Oversight Committee, the Democratic Party chooses to continue the ossified status quo instead of much-needed reform & growth.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-democr...
By selecting Rep. Connolly over AOC to lead the House Oversight Committee, the Democratic Party chooses to continue the ossified status quo instead of much-needed reform & growth.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-democr...
The Democratic Party Sacrifices Its Young To Protect The Establishment
By selecting 74-year-old Rep. Connolly over Rep. AOC to lead the House Oversight Committee, the Democratic Party chooses to continue the ossified status quo instead of much-needed reform and growth.
thelefthook.substack.com
December 18, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Look I really like Gerry Connolly, but come on. It’s past time to turn the page, pass the torch, make a change whatever you want to call it. The Dems lost the White House because they couldn’t tell Biden it was time-and he wouldn’t admit it. Trump and MAGA haven’t cornered the market on stupid.
A punch in the nose won’t solve the problem but it will make us both feel better.
guy with a “fuck your feelings” shirt at the elementary school band concert. like what do you even do with that
December 18, 2024 at 2:21 AM
A punch in the nose won’t solve the problem but it will make us both feel better.
That guy couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket…. If he ever went to a Prince concert he would have turned out to be a much more fun person.
The time evangelical Christian James Dobson, with disdain, read the lyrics of Prince’s "Darling Nikki" to the congregation…
December 18, 2024 at 2:19 AM
That guy couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket…. If he ever went to a Prince concert he would have turned out to be a much more fun person.
They look great (your teeth) so I can see why you didn’t let her get away. Lucky you.
On This Day in 1978:
I married my dental hygienist, Marilou York.
She cleaned my teeth & the rest... is history.
#HappyAnniversary2TheLoveOfMyLife. ❤️ 🎆 🙏
I married my dental hygienist, Marilou York.
She cleaned my teeth & the rest... is history.
#HappyAnniversary2TheLoveOfMyLife. ❤️ 🎆 🙏
December 18, 2024 at 2:14 AM
They look great (your teeth) so I can see why you didn’t let her get away. Lucky you.
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🚨🚨Just 2 days after the 12 year anniversary of Sandy Hook and we have another school shooting this time in Madison, WI. Now 3 kids will never come home from school again, it’s time #EndGunViolenceNow we don’t have to live like this. Enough is enough!
December 16, 2024 at 9:00 PM
🚨🚨Just 2 days after the 12 year anniversary of Sandy Hook and we have another school shooting this time in Madison, WI. Now 3 kids will never come home from school again, it’s time #EndGunViolenceNow we don’t have to live like this. Enough is enough!
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Vaccines reducing cancer mortality (specifically the number of deaths from cervical cancer).
Astonishing. #Vaccineswork
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Astonishing. #Vaccineswork
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cervical Cancer Mortality Among US Women Younger Than 25 Years
This study examines trends in cervical cancer mortality in US women aged younger than 25 years before and after the introduction of human papillomavirus vaccines.
jamanetwork.com
December 14, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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We MUST keep vaccines.
have you written your Senator to let them know?
have you written your Senator to let them know?
December 14, 2024 at 8:03 PM
We MUST keep vaccines.
have you written your Senator to let them know?
have you written your Senator to let them know?
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Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm
See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases
www.science.org
December 14, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
The former six flags in New Orleans has been abandoned since hurricane Katrina in 2005. The marsh is slowly reclaiming the park but it has great lair potential IMHO.
December 13, 2024 at 6:09 AM
The former six flags in New Orleans has been abandoned since hurricane Katrina in 2005. The marsh is slowly reclaiming the park but it has great lair potential IMHO.
That may be the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen in a while. And that’s saying something.
Down with the ever-tightening iron-fisted grip of taxonomic dictators. Latinized binomial nomenclature for viruses is a solution for a non-problem, except possibly the handful of mostly men on ICTV with nothing better to do than make up Linnean-sounding species names nobody asked for.
HIV-1 has, for decades, been called, well, HIV-1. But no, according to the ICTV, that will no longer do, so the new name for this virus is "Lentivirus humimdef1".
Yup, you read that right.
Somebody needs to take away whatever drugs the committee is on. All viruses renamed - it's insane.
Yup, you read that right.
Somebody needs to take away whatever drugs the committee is on. All viruses renamed - it's insane.
December 13, 2024 at 6:00 AM
That may be the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen in a while. And that’s saying something.
Yikes
⚠️ BREAKING:
Marin County, California, is investigating a potential case of H5N1 bird flu in a child.
Local authorities are working alongside the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the CDC to determine the source of the child's exposure.
Marin County, California, is investigating a potential case of H5N1 bird flu in a child.
Local authorities are working alongside the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the CDC to determine the source of the child's exposure.
December 8, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Yikes
Cannot wait for it!
December 8, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Cannot wait for it!
Hahahahahahaha. That’s a good one.
December 8, 2024 at 2:16 AM
Hahahahahahaha. That’s a good one.
She is right. That is not how we address grievances- if that is the killer’s motive - in this country.
December 8, 2024 at 2:11 AM
She is right. That is not how we address grievances- if that is the killer’s motive - in this country.
Hilarious!
December 7, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Hilarious!
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🚨 Experts are being deployed to Panzi, in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the #Congo, to support health authorities in investigating a yet undiagnosed disease. Laboratory tests are underway to identify the cause.
December 6, 2024 at 4:07 PM
🚨 Experts are being deployed to Panzi, in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the #Congo, to support health authorities in investigating a yet undiagnosed disease. Laboratory tests are underway to identify the cause.