Eric Houpt

UVA, Infectious Disease, Global Health, Tuberculosis, Triathlon, Family, tweets mine

[Eric Houpt @HouptEric]

Some math: 58% of Floridians voted for Republican House candidates, but 71% won. Or, 42% of Floridians voted for Democrat candidates but only 29% won. Florida is rated ‘F’ by Gerrymander Project.

[Yusra Alkabab يسرا محمد الكباب @yusraalkabab]

I am excited to join the #ASTMH 2022 meeting and presenting our work on therapeutic drug monitoring and treatment outcomes in patients with TB+DM in a multi state cohort in the USA @ID_MUSC @ResearchMUSC @MUSChealth @BWFUND @UVA_ID @ASTMH

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

We are all here on this planet, as tourists, as it were. None of us can live here forever. The longest we might live is a hundred years. So while we are here we should try to have a good heart and to make something positive and useful of our lives.

[UVA Department of Medicine @UvaDOM]

Congratulations and happy celebrations Dr. Guerrant!

[UVA ID @UVA_ID]

Congratulations to UVA ID's Dr. Shannon Moonah on a new R01 grant: CD74 and Wound Healing!
The mucosal epithelial barrier is disrupted in many conditions. This grant will characterize the role of the CD74 signaling pathway in intestinal epithelial repair and mucosal healing.

[Eric Houpt @HouptEric]

away from work for 7 days = 700 emails upon return. such an easy calculation.

[Eric Houpt @HouptEric]

@MichaelGIsonMD Exciting news Mike! Hope to see you back at UVA from time to time now that you’re a little closer

[UC San Francisco @UCSF]

"This decision will fall hardest on people who already face structural barriers to care, including Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, as well as undocumented people, and young people."

Read the full statement here: https://t.co/gXMf9leQOF

[Eric Houpt @HouptEric]

Who wrote the Constitution in 1787, which some at SCOTUS require be followed word for word? 39 MEN, 0 WOMEN. We don't live in 1787.

[Eric Houpt @HouptEric]

I don't understand the US legal system. But n=1 US District Judge - of which there are n=677 in the country - is deciding the mask policy for US airlines and transit. That = stupid.

[Eric Houpt @HouptEric]

I think Infectious Disease docs will be the last to unmask. When we are at meetings with no masks, the coast will be clear.

[Eric Houpt @HouptEric]

Quick reality check in Tanz: COVID hospitalizations low, very little mask, life is pre-COVID, and only few % vaccinated, despite vax available in the hospitals. It’s going to take A LOT more than vaccine shipments to get people vaccinated – education and $ incentives.

[Eric Houpt @HouptEric]

Hello from Tanzania celebrating 20 years of working with so many fantastic colleagues at KCMC and Haydom and kibongoto

[Eric Houpt @HouptEric]

Because the unvaxxed are the main perpetuators of the pandemic, not to mention crushing hospitals, we are stuck with some form of COVID for years longer than necessary. Yes vaccinated do get infected of course but much less.

This is our depressing reality to prepare for☹️☹️

[Eric Houpt @HouptEric]

COVID vaccines are miraculous and we should keep promoting them, but we should prepare to face facts that a large fraction of the world will never get vaccinated - ever. Clear in the USA and E Europe and many other cultures. Many of these folks also resist masking.

[Eric Houpt @HouptEric]

Sensible societies are instituting vaccine mandates,and they will fare better,but most won’t.

So the global outcome and duration of COVID lies with global unvaccinated, and the extent of their natural immunity, which will vary, but won't keep up with COVID's R0 transmissibility

[Eric Houpt @HouptEric]

The US State Department Travel Advisories are INSANE!

Level 4. DO NOT TRAVEL to Canada because of COVID.
Level 1. EXERCISE NORMAL PRECAUTIONS for Kyrgyzstan.

All travel brings COVID risk, local or abroad. Everyone in the world may have COVID. Stop trying to parse it.

[Eric Houpt @HouptEric]

With omicron, highly vaccinated countries have high cases but low hospitalization/death (Portugal, Spain, Australia, Canada).

USA has high deaths, because NOT highly vaccinated, because of “liberty”

Patrick Henry would revise to “Give me liberty AND give me death”

[Eric Houpt @HouptEric]

Today's Senate hearing beating up CDC b/c Omicron is WRONG. Ongoing spread and hospital strain are driven largely by the 37% unvaxxed, period. The only HONEST way to complain about the current US pandemic is to address the unvaxxed. You cannot blame this on CDC or testing.

[Eric Houpt @HouptEric]

Yes need more tests to reduce spread but get real we won't test our way out of this b/c WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE:
1. Don’t care about or believe in COVID so won’t test
2. Can’t afford or drive 50 miles to find tests
3. Can’t perform the test (my mom)
4. 1% of people are left