Doug Reed, Ph.D. 🔬🦠🤒⚽🎮

Aerobiologist. Respiratory Infections, Immunity, Vaccines. #birdflu @PittCVR @Pitt_PMI

[Doug Reed, Ph.D. 🔬🦠🤒⚽🎮 @DougSReed]

Are you interested in respiratory infections and BSL-3 containment? Curious about aerosols? The Reed lab is looking for a postdoc willing to learn about aerobiology and test vaccines and therapeutics to treat nasty viral infections like eastern equine encephalitis and bird flu

[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

In 2025, we are losing our measles-free status, just 25 years after we eliminated measles from the US because of vaccines.

It’s not because our sanitation systems have been eliminated.

It’s because people aren’t getting vaccinated.

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[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

Vaccines are scientific miracles

[Doug Reed, Ph.D. 🔬🦠🤒⚽🎮 @DougSReed]

@florian_krammer Kind of an important detail

[Doug Reed, Ph.D. 🔬🦠🤒⚽🎮 @DougSReed]

@DrNeilStone Did you read the whole article? Because he never actually says people should get vaccinated - just that the vaccine will be available "for those that want it". He then goes on to say that 98% of measles deaths were prevented by hygiene and to promote Vitamin A therapy

[Doug Reed, Ph.D. 🔬🦠🤒⚽🎮 @DougSReed]

@DrNeilStone Well, I guess if in a week to 10 days you are dead...problem solved!

[Doug Reed, Ph.D. 🔬🦠🤒⚽🎮 @DougSReed]

@NursePat16066 @pgh_scanner should be easy this time of day on 376 you're not going anywhere fast

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

Well I was happy the CDC showed up to the strain selection meeting but it doesn’t matter if the FDA isn’t going to approve it.

Get ready for a flu-filled 2025-2026 season, America

[Samuel Hume @DrSamuelBHume]

Does taking vitamin D make you less likely to get sick?

This is the largest and most up-to-date dataset: 46 randomised trials with 65,000 people total, looking to see whether vitamin D supplementation (vs. placebo) prevents respiratory infections

The answer? No effect:

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

In normal times, I'd have written about this #MMWR report about some of the kids who've died from #flu this year having had a severe neurological condition called influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis. Glad to see @CIDRAP did write! https://t.co/EH4xGF9M5a

[Doug Reed, Ph.D. 🔬🦠🤒⚽🎮 @DougSReed]

https://t.co/jleS0lEKCD

[Doug Reed, Ph.D. 🔬🦠🤒⚽🎮 @DougSReed]

@DrNeilStone Which is more important for pharma - TV ads that leave you unclear on what a drug even does, or efforts to lobby doctors to hawk their wares for them?

[Amesh Adalja @AmeshAA]

“Pennsylvania’s dairy industry continues to remain HPAI-free after testing results for over 20,000 samples were completed. It’s the 1st major dairy-producing state to reach this status” https://t.co/VixCYByKzb

[Doug Reed, Ph.D. 🔬🦠🤒⚽🎮 @DougSReed]

@BNOFeed Do you have a source for this?

[Olivier Moncorgé @MoncorgeOlivier]

Negative Strand RNA Virus meeting #NSV2025 registration is now open!

Visit https://t.co/tjtGi1nXpK

[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

RFK Jr:
Screams about dyes in food which ARE regulated for safety
and
Screams about vaccine ingredients which ARE tested and regulated for safety

While consuming a synthetic dye, methylene blue, that is NOT regulated OR tested for safety & encouraging others to do so too.

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[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

A bunch of "doctors" wrote a letter in support of RFK Jr's nomination as HHS secretary.
Some weren't doctors. Some were doctors who'd lost their licenses.
Smart reporting by @AP . https://t.co/W78z78wBAC

[Doug Reed, Ph.D. 🔬🦠🤒⚽🎮 @DougSReed]

https://t.co/VanOSqGRry
Super excited to see this out in print. Our efforts to show that MEDI8852, a broadly-neutralizing flu HA mAb, could protect macaques against lethal H5N1 challenge. Work with @sbarrattboyes and Masaru Kanekiyo at the NIH's Vaccine Research Center

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Someone should show this chart to RFK Jr at his confirmation and ask him whether he thinks vaccines are effective

[Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician) @jeremyfaust]

The CDC’s MMWR medical journal did not come out last week.

The first time in generations.

Hasn’t come out today and I can almost assure you it will not.

Why? Trump wants it reviewed *by a political appointee*

Regardless of your view of that journal, *that is censorship*.

[Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea]

RFK Jr: “I’m pro-vaccine.”

Bernie Sanders: “You sell anti-vaccine baby onesies for $26 each.”

RFK Jr: “I’m pro-vaccine.”