David Gregory

Innate immunologist and molecular biologist with interest in public and global health.
Boston and Revere. @[email protected]

[David Gregory @davidj_gregory]

Trying that woolly mammoth thing: @[email protected]

[Adam Gaffney @awgaffney]

Another example of this: while only about 1/5 adults have had a bivalent booster, only about 1/5 adults say they have *no* plans of getting a bivalent booster!

The remaining ~3/5 say they will "definitely" or "probably" get a bivalent booster!

I find...
https://t.co/JSUojKA16Z

[David Gregory @davidj_gregory]

The handy tweetorials on how to switch to Mastodon that were in my timeline just a few days ago have already sunk beneath the political histrionics and other junk from the algorithm. So I guess I have to work it out myself if I want to continue wasting my time on social media.

[David Gregory @davidj_gregory]

My car just told me I am 80% economical, 20% normal, 0% aggressive and I don't know what to do with this information.

[eLife - the journal @eLife]

Today, we’re introducing a new model that eliminates accept/reject decisions.

By publishing every paper with eLife reviews as a Reviewed Preprint, we plan to restore autonomy to authors, ensuring that they will be judged by what, not where, they publish. https://t.co/OAsiOVFStI

[David Gregory @davidj_gregory]

I guess its a form of balance when the Twitter algorithm shows me a tweet from someone I have never heard of, followed by a bunch of (re-)tweets from people I follow debunking it.

(Specifics of the claim are outside my competency.)

[David Fisman @DFisman]

More good news on sars-2 vaccines: they appear to prevent long covid (we've been waiting for answers to this question). A propensity matched cohort from the UK found that 2+ doses of vaccine decreased adjusted long covid risk by 41% (95% CI 31%-50%).

[Lauren Wilson MD @DrLaurenWilson]

Hey @AnthemBCBS. Been a little while since we talked. That girl with #crohnsdisease whose Humira you approved, after my tweet went viral?

Well, she isn't yet in remission, and her GI doc prescribed Inflectra.

Denial letter came Friday.

She's back in the hospital now.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

In the underreported background, progress continues: Elimination of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem validated in Equatorial Guinea https://t.co/KhLy1eXEME

[David Gregory @davidj_gregory]

This is very not good

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: A routine sewage inspection has found traces of the polio virus in London, leading the UK Health Security Agency to declare a national incident.

@ashishskynews has the details.

https://t.co/2EK0YiLoOI

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

[David Gregory @davidj_gregory]

Would love to read discussion of this one

[Hannah Davis @ahandvanish]

New study shows white Americans who learn about Covid's racial disparities have:

1) reduced fear about Covid
2) reduced empathy for those vulnerable to Covid
3) reduced support for Covid protections

White supremacy directly increases Covid's harms.

https://t.co/fYqY2NUjCY

[David Gregory @davidj_gregory]

But it has always been this way: the vulnerable are relevant only until the privileged feel protected. We were foolish to think it could be different this time.

[David Gregory @davidj_gregory]

The grief and dismay on public health Twitter at the moment is quite something to behold.

[Amy Webb 🤷🏻‍♀️ @amywebb]

Causes of death, London 1632. All I can say is hug your dentist. 🦷☠️

[David Gregory @davidj_gregory]

One of the good things about being an immunologist is that, when feeling utterly awful following the booster, you know it's just part of a healthy immune response and will pass in a few hours. Could be a pretty unsettling experience for non-immunologists.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

7. This vaccine can be made locally all over the world, and we've now technology transferred our Texas Children's vaccine to producers in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Botswana.
8. Our Texas Children's Center does not plan to make money on this, it's = a gift to the world

[David Gregory @davidj_gregory]

Here's an interesting perspective ....

[David Gregory @davidj_gregory]

Great to contribute to this work from @BalazsLab @wilfredo_nk @vivek_naranbhai and crew!

[Balazs Lab @BalazsLab]

MedRxiv got our preprint processed in record time! Now online at:
https://t.co/AlsLnk8NG4

[BNO News @BNOFeed]

NEW: UK says all African countries will be removed from travel red list