Mel Symeonides

Assistant Prof at the University of Vermont, interested in HIV latency, syncytia, placenta etc. Opinions = my own. @msymeonides.bsky.social

[Nathan Roy @roybiolab]

We wanted a simple, quick, no frills spectral viewer with everything, so we made one. Importantly, there are no cookies (personal preference, I hate those extra clicks).

Anyway, here is https://t.co/nOpC6LaLLk. Let me know about bug/issues to fix.

https://t.co/MOxx87AWPj

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[Mel Symeonides @msymeonides]

@SenBillCassidy Ah yes, commitments from people known to keep their commitments.

Whatever RFK does in the future as HHS sec is now entirely on you. He has been telling us exactly what he would do for decades. You've sold us down the river.

[Mel Symeonides @msymeonides]

@ATinyGreenCell Eh, I'll keep my anti-CGRPs thank you. (Everyone should be able to access these without having to trial repurposed older stuff first!!)

[Mel Symeonides @msymeonides]

@EricPhDing To be fair, that is one of the dumbest articles I have ever read.

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@naturalistih @VPrasadMDMPH @NishaKCooch @TheFP @RobertKennedyJr I don't know dude maybe try wikipedia? I'm not your secretary

[Mel Symeonides @msymeonides]

@naturalistih @VPrasadMDMPH @NishaKCooch @TheFP @RobertKennedyJr Yep!

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@sarah_gads @goldie_brigitte @zalaly @SenSanders @BernieSanders Yep I saw both tweets. @zalaly?

[Mel Symeonides @msymeonides]

@_JoeMcKellar Very cool. Probably result from failed cytokinesis, right?

[Mel Symeonides @msymeonides]

@_JoeMcKellar Oh interesting, so these aren't infected with your virus or anything?

[Mel Symeonides @msymeonides]

@_JoeMcKellar Is that a syncytium? What made it?

[Mel Symeonides @msymeonides]

@JamesPBLloyd @JasonSynaptic @brandimwynne Like wtf even is bad news, right? If an experiment was done properly and you got results, hell yeah. Who gives a crap of your hypothesis was confirmed or not!

[Mel Symeonides @msymeonides]

@pollydoll99 @jesspipians @EricTopol It honestly looks really bad for NVX. I'm genuinely surprised that it is so poor at boosting. I'm not sure I understand why.

[Mel Symeonides @msymeonides]

@pollydoll99 @jesspipians @EricTopol The word "density" is unusual here but I think you can read that as "frequency". It is a frequency distribution plot. The height of the curve corresponds to the frequency of subjects whose values fall within a given value. The X-axis is what matters.

[Mel Symeonides @msymeonides]

@JonKHuff @EricTopol I really don't want to get into a back and forth on this but where are you seeing that the statute says that multiple boosters in one season must be covered by insurance?

[Mel Symeonides @msymeonides]

@JonKHuff @EricTopol Citation needed on being able to get a booster every 2 months covered by insurance. My insurance refuses to cover medication I actually need and am prescribed, I really don't see this happening as you describe.

[Mel Symeonides @msymeonides]

@JonKHuff @EricTopol Insurance will not cover a primary NVX series for someone who has already had one with a different vaccine. Unless you are willing to pay out of pocket and can convince someone to give you 2 boosters in one season? It's just not as good of a booster...

[Mel Symeonides @msymeonides]

@jesspipians @EricTopol The yellow trace is shifted to the left compared to the others. Yellow is NVX. Left is less anti-Spike IgG.

[Mel Symeonides @msymeonides]

@EricTopol NVX does not look good here if you are at all interested in a transient but robust Ig response to reduce infection and transmission... Probably just as good at limiting severe illness, but looks like much worse than mRNA at reducing infection/transmission. No thanks