Sundar Thapaliya

[Michael Mina @michaelmina_lab]

Wondering if you should get your baby the new RSV shot?

I’ve studied respiratory viruses like RSV, and their vaccines and treatments for years

Here’s a 🧵 of key info

We just had a baby last week

We chose to protect our newborn with it

And we’re lucky we could get a dose

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[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

@Bob_Wachter Glad you are recovering well, doc. This sounds very scary.

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

@mehdirhasan @MonicaGandhi9 I say this as an admirer of how effective you are at your job, and as a public healh worker who has been working in COVID-19 response since Jan 2020, and before that worked with people living with HIV where I learned about Dr. Gandhi’s work.

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

@mehdirhasan Truth is, Mehdi each surge has been significantly different from the precious ones in terms of morbidity and mortality outcome. @MonicaGandhi9 is a harm reduction expert, that is seen to be most effective approach in getting buy-ins from folks. Fear does not work.

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

@michaelmina_lab @ccwake1 I really like this interaction between the two of you. Acknowledgement, empathy, understanding that nuances exist, and honest and respectful. May be there is a hope for twitter. Hope all will be well with your daughter, Catherine.

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

@MilanPandey @elonmusk Say what you will about Musk and there are plenty one can say, this however a very silly take.

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

@JayDahal 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

Both the airline and the governing agency are handling this tragedy horribly. Nothing new or encouraging from new government so far, seems like hell bent on getting tv, social media hits/ hollow praise.

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

Woke up this morning to very sad news from back home #Nepal #planecrash.

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

@KanakManiDixit The so called democratic culture was muddled well before NC voted in favor of PKD’s govt. The fact that PKD with little over 10 percent of votes is the PM is undemocratic. Who cares what they privately agreed on before the election. People had spoken. And yet here we are.

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

It is affront to representative democracy for a party with little over 10 percent of seats to claim prime ministership. We will continue to be f***d with this mess. At least pretend to respect the votes. #nepal

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

@JayDahal 💯

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

@sanpokh @AnupSubedee It is always special to see Brazil play World Cup. They are artist athletes.

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

good to know.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The more laundry detergent you use past a certain point, the dirtier your clothes become. You just need two tablespoons, @Wirecutter advises.
https://t.co/ugecVuRKDK

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

@KanakManiDixit Why can’t they use machines to count them? They can always manually recount if margin of victory is small or if candidates do not trust the results (for which they will have to pay for recount if original result is upheld).

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

@sanpokh Hillary called Trump voters deplorable in 2016 and might have cost her independent voters. May be impact on this on Nepali politics is not as significant but should be. You don’t threaten voters if you think you are winning.

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

@sanpokh I think he sees the rapper candidate as a threat to his party’s candidate. Very poor understanding of Russia’s war in Ukrain, obviously.

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

@michaelmina_lab Are there any scenario when Ag+ = not infectious post 10 days isolation? For eg, when one tests Ag+ on 15th day of isolation

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

@MonicaGandhi9 @Bob_Wachter @j_g_allen Hope the State considers lifting reporting requirement for single case from schools as part of the strategy. School administrators are overwhelmed and reporting each case is mandatory currently. This is in addition to labs reporting to CDPH, that will stay intact.@GavinNewsom

[Sundar Thapaliya @sundargems]

@TxPlantsman @atrupar @POTUS Some will certainly reject all of it. That is very unfortunate reality.