Wish this was true. What’s over is @POTUS’s and our government’s will to get ahead of it, with magical thinking on the new bivalent boosters. Ignores #LongCovid, inevitability of new variants, and our current incapability for blocking infections and transmission https://t.co/sZyChorhC9
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Sep 19, 2022
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol
When Biden says the pandemic is over, what he really means is that he’s cutting all the funds.
No more help.
You do you.
— Pandemic News (@mildanalyst)
Sep 19, 2022
from http://twitter.com/mildanalyst
Lifting the booster fog
The evidence supporting boosters is incontrovertible. Summary of data for 4th vs 3rd shots for survival benefit, age 50+
The unequivocal benefit is for enhanced protection vs severe Covid https://t.co/2Gpaxq8xlM— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Sep 18, 2022
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol
Credit repair companies offer to “fix your credit,” for hundreds or thousands of dollars.
We sent a DoNotPay employee to interview for jobs at credit repair companies to figure out how they do it so that we can automate it and replace them.
This is what we discovered:
— Joshua Browder (@jbrowder1)
Sep 18, 2022
from http://twitter.com/jbrowder1
Mike Farrell and I today toasting the 50th anniversary of the show that changed our lives – and our brilliant pals who made it what it was. MASH was a great gift to us. https://t.co/FGd8ZwBgIq
— Alan Alda (@alanalda)
Sep 17, 2022
from http://twitter.com/alanalda
tech ppl be like “how do i make friends outside of tech??!” and then their only hobbies are rock climbing and going to expensive restaurants
— Noa (@noanonob)
Sep 16, 2022
from http://twitter.com/noanonob
Now beyond an untreatable cancer case report (below), a potential breakthrough for severe autoimmune disease: using engineered T cells in 5 young patients with refractory lupus
https://t.co/E21ynZJ4AA
@NatureMedicine
https://t.co/wuLcxxumDC @guardianscience https://t.co/TKtZSqaDsn https://t.co/vVq3dppK6g— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Sep 16, 2022
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol
Two days ago the NYT posted an investigation into politicians trading stocks
They found that 81 Democrats & 101 Republicans filed up to 3,700 trades and $100M in possible volume
Many had 100% winners, with some perfectly timed
Here’s examples of just how good they were
— Chris Josephs (@Chrisjjosephs)
Sep 15, 2022
from http://twitter.com/Chrisjjosephs
Great to see
Persistent reduction of mortality among US hospitalized patients for Covid despite higher risk features along the course of the pandemic https://t.co/NrFbqCLBbl @CDCMMWR today https://t.co/PojF7Dgt0g— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Sep 15, 2022
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol
I’m supposed to be an objective journalist. But I’m going to admit my feelings about the subject of today’s story.
I like fog. A lot.
My infatuation led to this project (more of an experience, really, thanks to @nytclimate) and, now, this 🧵 https://t.co/N8AH7UKj1G— John Branch (@JohnBranchNYT)
Sep 15, 2022
from http://twitter.com/JohnBranchNYT
In the 57-page report, there is <1 page dedicated to #LongCovid, in which it states “Long COVID might itself be an emerging pandemic” https://t.co/xaW8oxycLh
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Sep 15, 2022
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol
More on the overlap between #LongCovid and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis #MECFS in this very good review
https://t.co/qqSbkOcaEr H/T @Laurie_Garrett https://t.co/gZuehvDXe7— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Sep 15, 2022
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol
@JasonSCampbell @mmfa https://t.co/qgNy6Ij7Pw
— Bernard Brother (@BreakfastWBeast)
Sep 14, 2022
from http://twitter.com/BreakfastWBeast
quote tweeting opinion pieces with bad takes drives attention and clicks and revenue to the bad takes and tells the algorithm “push bad takes more”
we need to start teaching this in kindergarten. brilliant people I follow and enjoy do this. i’m begging you, stop. we can end it.
— Esper Quinn (@EsperControl)
Sep 14, 2022
from http://twitter.com/EsperControl
Good to see Covid optimism @WHO @DrTedros
https://t.co/I2RYTPsuin
But world deaths are currently 34% higher than the nadir reached in June (~20% are in the US).
And the virus’s evolutionary arc is incomplete https://t.co/gzG3sCl0mw— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Sep 14, 2022
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol
Why does literally every development in the Trump saga sound like it was created from random suggestions for an improv scene https://t.co/AIZiJ6MDgv
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_)
Sep 14, 2022
from http://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_
“Too many white people like it” is absolutely an important metric you need to consider when looking for ethnic food on yelp. https://t.co/3JYHZCddGt
— Francis Manancis of Rinky Dink Records (@_NurseRatchet)
Sep 13, 2022
from http://twitter.com/_NurseRatchet
To be a writer, one must exist in a constant tug-of-war between the act of writing itself and the desire to reorganize their entire home.
Or grocery shop. Or go to the gym. Or hook up with a complete stranger. Or do literally anything else that doesn’t involve actually writing.
— Matt Charnock (@M_J_Charnock)
Sep 13, 2022
from http://twitter.com/M_J_Charnock
Time since…
first tweet: 16 years ago
first YouTube video: 17 years ago
first Facebook post: 18 years ago
first text: 30 years ago
first website: 31 years ago
first GIF: 35 years ago
first cellular call: 49 years ago
first email: 51 years ago
first phone call: 146 years ago— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman)
Sep 13, 2022
from http://twitter.com/JonErlichman
Someone who is not Christian described their general experience with white evangelicals as “people who don’t have any questions.” I immediately knew what they meant, and I’m going to thinking about that statement a long time.
— Jemar Tisby, PhD (@JemarTisby)
Sep 13, 2022
from http://twitter.com/JemarTisby
Pancreatic cancer is difficult to detect early but there are multiple shots on goal, which can be combined, and may change that
Deep learning #AI of scans
https://t.co/W5xHnbTdVf @radiology_rsna
Blood tests for cell-free tumor DNA
https://t.co/e7Fl0F8BDW https://t.co/tNNXpyBZq9— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Sep 13, 2022
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol
📈It has become conventional wisdom that EVs are scaling rapidly and will continue to do so
🚧 But maybe that’s not true
🧽 There are a lot of challenges facing EVs and it looks like they’re only going to become worse…
https://t.co/ixVZgAha17
— Olaf Sakkers (@osakkers)
Sep 13, 2022
from http://twitter.com/osakkers
It is insane to think that Russia may have lost nearly as many troops during 6 months in Ukraine as the US lost in the entire Vietnam era.
— Gary Shteyngart (@Shteyngart)
Sep 13, 2022
from http://twitter.com/Shteyngart
A Covid shot prime and nasal vaccine boost significantly reduced upper airway viral load and transmission in an experimental model, w/ perspective on other shot plus nasal vax booster clinical success
https://t.co/wpaudojNbP @SSI_dk @GKPedersen @eBioMedicine https://t.co/lAsigX4DdX— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Sep 12, 2022
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol
The protection derived from a 4th shot mRNA booster in ~40,000 people age 80+ in Singapore, compared w/ ~40,000 matched controls with 3 shots, during its BA.2 and BA.5 waves
https://t.co/mHohjlT2lx @AnnalsofIM https://t.co/t6kpxAwnZp— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Sep 12, 2022
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol
The road to cancer cures may go through the nervous system. An astute perspective on cancer-neuroscience interactions @NatureCellBio https://t.co/T4wEDD0O9B by @ChenchenPan1 @Winkler_Lab https://t.co/AGKX3CQP0z
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Sep 12, 2022
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol
Don’t be numb to this
https://t.co/t2x5LYfzZc by @jon_kamp https://t.co/qZlKRLrBdZ— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Sep 11, 2022
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol
And deaths will grow further as automakers ramp up production of EV behemoths like the Silverado EV (8k lbs), Rivian R1T (8.5k), and Hummer EV (9k).
We need weight-based taxes/fees — on EVs and gas-powered cars alike. https://t.co/gvyMlg80aG
— David Zipper (@DavidZipper)
Sep 11, 2022
from http://twitter.com/DavidZipper
“The U.S. shouldn’t live with covid. It should get beyond the virus.”
https://t.co/u0USbACt9a
On annual shots working: “that is a massive if”
“The nation needs a massive push to create a universal coronavirus vaccine against all variants and for a long duration.” https://t.co/5ABsPsdhoO— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Sep 11, 2022
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol
The first organ transplant in the US was in 1954.
Now there have been 1 million.
105,000 people are on the waiting list.
~17 die each day waiting
https://t.co/5luRM9owWJ by @LNeergaard @APHealthScience https://t.co/zhMZXLJzoR— Eric Topol (@EricTopol)
Sep 11, 2022
from http://twitter.com/EricTopol