Forge Weasley

Harry Potter fan, LGBTQ+ ally, she/her. Black Lives Matter.

[Megan 🌷 @MeGood18]

10M diagnosed per year. 1.5M die per year.
660k over 20 years is 33k average per year.
33k of 10M is 0.33% of all cases in one year.

Big numbers doesn't always mean big things, J&J #PatientsNotPatents

[John Green @sportswithjohn]

You're trending again under the hashtag #patientsnotpatents, @JNJNews, and I regret to inform you that....

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

In just 22 hours, 578,000 people have watched this video about Johnson & Johnson's pursuit of secondary patents for bedaquiline and how this will lead to millions being unable to receive curative treatment for tuberculosis. https://t.co/Zy86nQE7lD #PatientsNotPatents @JNJNews

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

btw you're trending again, @JNJNews #PatientsNotPatents

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

I want to be very clear that no one is SUGGESTING that people will die because Johnson & Johnson is trying to immorally extend their patent on bedaquline an additional 4 years after its 20-year term.

Instead, people are STATING THE FACT that people will die because of Johnson & Johnson trying to immorally extend their patent on bedaquiline an additional 4 years after its 20-year term.

[Forge Weasley @Forge_Weasley78]

#releasethepatent

[Johnson & Johnson @JNJNews]

It is false to suggest—as some recently have—that our patents are being used to prevent access to SIRTURO® (bedaquiline), our medicine for MDR-TB.

In fact, we have already entered into a collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (“GDF”)—the largest procurer of TB medicines—which enables them to invite potential generic suppliers and purchase generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg. On April 5, during a World Health Organization meeting, the GDF shared its intent to launch a tender for generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg in the third quarter of 2023: https://t.co/6m49h5g7tn

In addition, we have shipped more than 660,000 courses of SIRTURO® to 159 countries since launch. Our patents made this possible, enabling us to assist countries to scale-up their use of our medicine responsibly and sustainably and invest in multiple, critical, anti-TB efforts. For instance, in the face of rising drug resistance, we support stewardship efforts that ensure MDR-TB patients can benefit from our medicine today and in the future.

Unfortunately, the most significant barrier to treatment access for patients today is the fact that millions of patients with TB go undiagnosed every year. This is a challenge that we have invested significant resources to overcome and must all get behind if we are to achieve the global goal of ending TB.

[Forge Weasley @Forge_Weasley78]

@Cecconi140 @hankgreen Goddamnit I LOL’d

[Forge Weasley @Forge_Weasley78]

@donttrythis @POFATheatre @CrookedMedia

[Forge Weasley @Forge_Weasley78]

@hankgreen Sending love and good thoughts! I recommend animal crossing, Brooklyn 99, IT Crowd, and a Bit of Fry and Laurie. Silly humor, fun, and no stakes!

[Forge Weasley @Forge_Weasley78]

@hankgreen I’m so excited for this!!!

[Forge Weasley @Forge_Weasley78]

@HeidiLWest @PodSaveAmerica @MGPforCongress I strongly agree. That interview left a bad taste in my mouth.

[Forge Weasley @Forge_Weasley78]

@USPS

[Forge Weasley @Forge_Weasley78]

@solomonmissouri Is this a joke? She’s storing her clothes at a friends house and she put the cost of building on her credit card?!

[Forge Weasley @Forge_Weasley78]

@hankgreen - the best name is definitely The Awesome Poop Club. And I’d actually join. I don’t drink coffee, but we all poop!

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

In 2010 my brother and I started posting educational videos because we had run out of ideas for our vlog.

Today, with @ASU and @Google, we’re launching https://t.co/ciWkOtX8iS a path from YouTube to real, transferable college credit, and I want to talk about why (and how).

[Forge Weasley @Forge_Weasley78]

@nytimes There’s a mistake in a photo caption. It says ms Richardson crocheted the hat but in the interview she says the actress ceocheted it.

[Forge Weasley @Forge_Weasley78]

@PressHerald I hope someone at @PressHerald keeps the memes & daily thread going!

[Janet Mills @JanetMillsforME]

I will not allow an extreme political agenda to roll back access to reproductive health care in Maine. Maine will not go backward on reproductive rights — not now, not ever.