Dr. Lynda Coughlan 🔬

Irish virologist/vaccinologist @UMmedschool @UMCVD, Associate Prof, viruses, adenoviral vectors, influenza, vaccines, immunology, scicomm, STEM

[Dr. Lynda Coughlan 🔬 @Virusnerdette]

Our lab turned 4 years last week! The last >year has been so fun scientifically with lots of successes (prizes, great grant scores, grad school admissions). We've also recruited some really great new lab members to help build up our expertise, skills & forward-thinking science☺️

[Florian Krammer @florian_krammer]

Registration for our fabulous ISIRV Correlates of Protection for Influenza meeting in Vienna closes on September 30th. Register! https://t.co/4JSooxzB4M

[Dr. Lynda Coughlan 🔬 @Virusnerdette]

Finally got some good grant news last week as @cosettegrace's F31 was awarded (only 5 months after submitting JIT & 10months after a fundable score). Better late than never I guess! Congrats Cosette, we are super proud of you & thankful to fantastic co-mentors/collaborators🎉

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

SUMMARY OF H-1B EXECUTIVE ORDER

- ENTRY BAN: No H-1B visa holder may enter the United States beginning Sunday September 21st, including current visa holders, unles they pay $100K to enter.

- VISA FEE: New H-1B and H-1B extensions must pay 100K to be processed and 100K per year every year thereafter to maintain them.

This will effectively end the H-1B program completely. No one, even the highest paid at 500K will be paying an extra 100K a year to the government.

It will destroy the health care, higher education, and technology sectors as we know them if this isn't struck down in court.

[Prof. Nikolai Slavov @slavov_n]

A timeless model for writing a research summary.

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[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

It's like we're living a nightmare. We have conspiracy wackos running our nation's most important health agencies. And people are going to die.

This shouldn't be another left/right, red/blue issue. RFK Jr. has to go. And Republicans should just say what they know is true.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

We need a Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Not a Secretary of Conspiracies.

Not a Secretary of Measles and Food Poisoning.

Not a Secretary of Cancelled Research and Chemtrail Nonsense.

RFK Jr. is burning down our public health system from the inside.

Fire him.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

Wow. California, Oregon and Washington have joined forces to create their own health alliance saying that the CDC has become “a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science.”

[Dr. Lynda Coughlan 🔬 @Virusnerdette]

Worth a read. Very proud to have worked with @kathleen_neuzil in the past and so thankful to both of these incredible #scientists for standing up for #vaccines and #publichealth. Whistle-Blower Complaints Detail Tension Over Vaccines at N.I.H. https://t.co/RfGUR7Fwwb

[Max Kozlov @maxdkozlov]

The former NIH infectious-diseases and the international-research chiefs allege in a whistleblower complaint they were demoted after objecting to Trump's efforts to undermine vaccines, flout court orders, and withhold research money, NYT reports.

https://t.co/zO69D9DhtD

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

As I told CNN last night, RFK Jr. never should have been confirmed. He’s already done immense damage to public health infrastructure and trust in vaccines. The stakes are too high to let this continue. He needs to go.

[U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. @SenBillCassidy]

People objecting to hepatitis B vaccination apparently have never treated patients like this. Their life ending with a terrible liver disease or else requiring a transplantation. This is about preventing illnesses like this. I have the experience of treating patients infected with hepatitis B at birth, who end up terribly ill like this. Why would anyone want someone to end up like this?

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

Florida eliminated vaccine requirements for polio, measles, and other diseases that will now cause preventable suffering for children and many others. They're destroying one of humanity's greatest public health triumph for absolutely no reason.
https://t.co/Yl2rJnlPRt

[Dr. Lynda Coughlan 🔬 @Virusnerdette]

@GeauxGabrielle So sad. A lot of children will die before they realise and reverse this in years to come. Incredibly sad

[Jason Shepherd @JasonSynaptic]

Whatever you may think about DEI. The bottom line is that every NIH grant goes through a rigorous peer review process to vet the science and the people doing it. Only the top scored grants get funded. The funding cuts/ chaos are stopping research programs. People are losing jobs.

[Dr. Tom Frieden @DrTomFrieden]

During his tenure, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has followed a consistent playbook: deny, distract, and destroy. Every American, regardless of political belief, should be alarmed at the assault that’s taking place against our health protections.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.

[Dr. Lynda Coughlan 🔬 @Virusnerdette]

@drugmonkeyblog The worst is how hard F grants have been hit. For many of these students this has been their first experience with federal funding and being a PI on a grant, and they are just being ghosted. Not blaming NIH officials at all here, they are incredible. I’m just so sad for our ECRs

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

So the theory is that CDC, FDA, NIH, DoD, EMA, ECDC, WHO, MHRA (UK), Health Canada, TGA (Australia), PMDA (Japan), Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Germany), ANSM (France), Swissmedic (Switzerland), and regulators across Asia, along with NEJM, JAMA, Lancet, BMJ, Nature Medicine, Science, and every major medical society — IDSA, AAP, ACOG, American Heart Association, European Society of Cardiology — have all been colluding for years to hide “the truth” about vaccines just to help pharma profit?

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

Senator @SenBillCassidy is absolutely correct: hepatitis B vaccine has saved a generation of Americans from liver cancer https://t.co/minB9AuPQ5

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Nine former CDC directors who served under Republican and Democratic presidents warn that the damage RFK Jr is doing to America's public health system is "unlike anything our country has ever experienced."