Amy 2.0

Using this account to track global health issues. Main: @sayresneko

[Gates Foundation @gatesfoundation]

Great ideas can come from anywhere. #GrandChallenges is about empowering innovators and scientists everywhere to solve the most pressing issues in global health and development https://t.co/1VhcYGVz9L

[Gates Foundation @gatesfoundation]

Translating cutting-edge research into lives saved requires locally-led, gender-equal innovation. We are proud to announce the #GrandChallenges Call to Action, our new commitment to support science in the Global South. https://t.co/bqBXlVIlR5

[Soumya Swaminathan @doctorsoumya]

Public health in the past brought about social reform as it goes beyond biomedicine & considers the economic, environmental, political & social circumstances in which people live. We need to bring the focus back and build infrastructure & workforce in public health everywhere

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

The harsh reality of vaccine inequity: the rate of booster doses in high-income countries is approaching the low-income countries primary dose rate. This injustice costs lives and livelihoods and only prolongs the pandemic. #VaccinEquity
https://t.co/ThwluVzwfL

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

Questions are already swirling about the projected price point for Merck's experimental #Covid drug. The contract with the USG puts its cost at $712 per treatment course; but production costs are only $20, @pharmalot reports. https://t.co/Dq8FFTGc5j

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

I’m honored to be nominated to lead global health development at @USAID, including for COVID. With more COVID deaths worldwide in the first half of 2021 than in all of 2020, I’m grateful for the chance to help end this crisis and to re-strengthen public health systems worldwide.

[Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski]

If you're interested in SARS-CoV-2 variants and evolutionary dynamics, you should be following people like: @firefoxx66 @trvrb @houzhou @EvolveDotZoo @meera_chand @BallouxFrancois @AineToole @K_G_Andersen @jbloom_lab @MadsAlbertsen85 @pathogenomenick @jcbarret @TanjaStadler_CH

[The Wire @thewire_in]

The Lancet severely criticised the Narendra Modi government for its handling of the COVID-19 crisis in India, saying it has given the impression of being more occupied with “removing criticism on Twitter than trying to control the pandemic”.

https://t.co/EUMx7YKVTh

[Natalie E. Dean, PhD @nataliexdean]

The imminent FDA authorization of a vaccine for 12-15 year olds is great news, and adolescents should be able to access vaccine. But in the short term, we must also grapple with the ethics of vaccinating adolescents ahead of high-risk adults in other countries.

[Seth Berkley @DrSethBerkley]

Delighted to announce that we have put pen to paper on a deal with @Moderna that will make up to half a billion doses of their COVID-19 vaccine available to #COVAX. As continuing global supply issues prove, having a diverse portfolio is absolutely vital. https://t.co/fNBmppEfiz

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

A really innovative, smart strategy by @GovWhitmer to tie loosening of public health restrictions to vaccination rates in Michigan

Because metrics like infection #s fluctuate

But immunity through vaccinations is more durable

And lets hope this motivates folks to get the shot

[Dr. Tom Frieden @DrTomFrieden]

We don't hear very often about the epidemics that DIDN'T happen, but they hold important lessons. https://t.co/2wtmyJaa6L

[Prof Nisreen Alwan 🌻 @Dr2NisreenAlwan]

India’s problem is not just India’s problem, just like China’s problem in late 2019 needed to urgently concern the whole world. Same mistake of looking away. Stop looking away from wars, extreme poverty & suffering, pandemics... We are one world and we must stop looking away.

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

Они обалдели!

The Sputnik V vaccine Ad5 vector is evidently replication competent. The makers apparently neglected to delete E1, so getting this vaccine means being infected with live adenovirus 5.

Hence Brazil’s regulator correctly rejected it.

https://t.co/oNojQI38bi

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

1. Turning this into a small thread about pandemic leadership.

[Harvard Chan Dean @HarvardChanDean]

“We should never have anyone force us into health versus economy the way we were struggling with this a year ago." It was my great pleasure to speak with @karaswisher for the latest episode of her #Sway podcast. https://t.co/3WegNtilgT

[Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo @CKyobutungi]

Transparency & accountability around vaccine safety by rich nations shd be balanced against the harm non-nuanced communication does to vaccination efforts in countries without too many options

Western Warnings Tarnish Covid Vaccines the World Badly Needs https://t.co/Sa69SDoS5z

[Jeremy Farrar @JeremyFarrar]

Great to listen to Regina Dugan CEO ⁦@WellcomeLeap⁩ - Inspiration, Innovation, Disruption, Science & Global Health. “What if....?” https://t.co/V2fbJCBySi

[Soumya Swaminathan @doctorsoumya]

The #COVID19 pandemic has exacerbated inequities and impacted women, children & the already marginalized disproportionately. Theme of #WorldHealthDay2021 is building a fairer, healthier world for everyone. https://t.co/8IAruwxTmF

[Siddhartha Mukherjee @DrSidMukherjee]

1/3 GET VACCINATED. This Lancet study has some caveats (retrospective) but neurological and psychiatric diseases post Covid are now documented in multiple studies. There is strong evidence for long term effects— this is not “just the flu”
https://t.co/rLjQdcxhqw