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Dr. Tzvi Pollock, PhD
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Microbiologist, immunologist, science communicator and editor. A safe space for the conscious 😷 and vulnerable ♿️ in society. | All opinions are my own.

Working right now as Associate Editor with @commsmed.nature.com!

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I wish I could be surprised that the most powerful people on Earth are responding to their own war crimes with crass emoji, but that's the nature of empire. Still sickening, not surprising.
At 2 p.m., Waltz responded: “Typing too fast. The first target – their top missile guy – we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed.” Vance responded a minute later: “Excellent.” Thirty-five minutes after that, Ratcliffe, the CIA director, wrote, “A good start,” which Waltz followed with a text containing a fist emoji, an American-flag emoji, and a fire emoji. The Houthi-run Yemeni health ministry reported that at least 53 people were killed in the strikes, a number that has not been independently verified.
March 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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In fact, as others have noted, most of the striking results in the post-vaccine cohort seem to be explained by those who have also been infected. Take the circulating spike figure that anti-vaccine grifters have surely already claimed as damning evidence. 3/7
A graph depicting serum concentration of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in four groups: uninfected control, infected control, uninfected post-vaccine syndrome, and infected post-vaccine syndrome. All groups are dominated by patients with zero detected spike protein. Both control groups have a small number of low-titer patients. The uninfected post-viral cohort has three seeming outliers, with high spike titer. The infected post-vaccine syndrome cohort has a high number of patients with high-titer. p-value for the uninfected post-vaccine cohort compared to the uninfected control cohort is surprisingly lower than 0.01, whereas the p-value for the infected post-vaccine cohort is only 0.02.
February 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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This place really is popping off! Hello to my infernal legions of followers! Hopefully more insightful science commentary to come after my personal life cools down a bit.
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November 25, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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Oh great, we're canceling gram negatives now? Are none of my faves unproblematic?
An email from ASM CPHM with the subject line "Let's Talk Problematic Gram-Negative Bacteria"
November 14, 2024 at 12:59 AM