Barcelona Is Made of Math www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In this placebo-controlled, randomised, double-blind, phase 2 trial we publish today in Lancet Infectious Diseases, no difference was observed between three nirmatrelvir-ritonavir treatment durations (5, 10 and 15 days) in the primary endpoint, i.e: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper out: the largest and most international paper to date on clustering of #longcovid patients 🧪 @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Es presenta l'IRIS, el nou institut de referència en recerca i innovació en salut de la #UPC ✅ Integrarà 12 grups de recerca acreditats i més de 170 investigadors i investigadores, ubicats en 5 campus de l'àrea metropolitana de Barcelona. www.lavanguardia.com/launi/202506...

One Hundred Days, Incalculable Losses Emily Erbelding (NIAID/NIH) "Every day brought more chaos." Termination of training grants reflected "an intentional choice to lose a generation of scientists. Recovering from [this]... will take years and probably decades." academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

When will we ever learn?

I’ve always believed that parents who allow their kids (which are the most precious and beloved treasure they have) to enroll in a first ever trial are the most honorable individuals in our society. I can’t think of a greater commitment to our common good. Honor to all the Yameys in this world!

🎙️ En @rutgerwalls.bsky.social, director científic de la Fundació, explica a "La primera pedra" de @rac1oficial.bsky.social l’impacte de l’acord de l’OMS per a la lluita contra les malalties infeccioses. #SalutGlobal #Infeccions #OMS @who.int www.rac1.cat/a-la-carta/d...

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

Many thanks to @pulitzercenter.bsky.social for making this possible. And of course to my fabulous editor, @martinenserink.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...

Quick COVID update from me discussing latest variants and prospects for summer here. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

WHO Member States, meeting today in Committee A of the #WHA78, approved a resolution that calls for the adoption of a historic global compact to make the world safer from future pandemics. Read: bit.ly/4kjM6p4

A truly historic evening at the #WHA78: the #PandemicAccord resolution was approved in Committee A with 124 in favour, 0 against and 11 abstentions. The final step: adoption in plenary tomorrow morning. My thanks once again to @who.int Member States for choosing to keep the world safer. 🙏

We find that the closest-inferred ancestors of SARS-CoV-1 likely circulated in western China (Yunnan, Sichuan, or Guizhou), and that of SARS-CoV-2 in Yunnan, China, or Northern Laos, overlapping with contiguous karst and cave landscapes extending through these regions.

Next week, we are hosting an international scientific workshop focused on the pathogenesis of #LongCovid at @yalemed.bsky.social. Please join us on May 15th to learn about what we know and what we need to investigate next to get to the root causes to accelerate therapies 👇🏼👇🏼

No one can ban a rainbow #DEIintheSky

Retweeting again in the hopes that members of the media can use this awesome resource when they report on vaccines and calls for "new" placebo controlled trials. @statnews.com @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @carlzimmer.com @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

Prof Anna Goodman, UK SNAP lead, will be sharing final results at this meeting. Don’t miss out #IDSky Virtual & in person options available

Proud to be part of this family. Thank you editors-in-chief “The current climate demands that we, as scientists, educators, and healthcare professionals, remain vigilant and vocal in defending the principles of scientific integrity and global health equity.” (…) academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

JUST IN: Harvard University has sued the Trump administration following demands that it turn over all campus reports on antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias since October 2023. cnn.it/4jNTMzL

The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵

Breaking News: Trump officials blame a mistake for setting off the tectonic confrontation with Harvard. nyti.ms/4ioHtIT

How powerful the pandemic treaty will turn out to be depends on how seriously countries take it, says @nschwalbe.bsky.social.“This agreement definitely provides a recipe and all the ingredients for a world safer from pandemics,” she says. “Countries now need to make it happen.” 🧪 #IDsky

Couldn’t be a worse time to “pause infectious diseases”

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

MIT following Harvard's lead here

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"Even presenting the self-evident truths of medical progress in the battle against infectious disease, cancer or autoimmunity becomes challenging in a ‘post-truth’ age."

When biomedical science and global health face existential threat, by @daltmann.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social @natrevimmunol.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... "The attack on some of us is an attack on all of us, and we must stand together."

'Quan tots anem a l’una' No us perdeu l'article d'opinió de la catedràtica #UPC @pratsclara.bsky.social, investigadora del grup de recerca @biocomsc-upc.bsky.social, a @elpuntavui.cat. www.elpuntavui.cat/societat/art...

Use proviral DNA wisely, if you have to 👇🏼

As I describe in an infographic in my new @plos.org article, given the massive size of our awful 4-state measles epidemic that began in West Texas, a second measles death is sadly predictable and >50 hospitalizations. This is so sad and was totally unnecessary journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

I have a trade deficit with Trader Joe's, who are so unfair because they never buy anything back from me, so I will have to impose some tariffs.

It’s the second pandemic in 5 years

Roger Paredes (@rutgerwalls.bsky.social) s’incorpora com a coordinador mèdic del pla d’estudis del nou grau en #Medicina de la #UPC. El nou grau s’impartirà a partir del curs 2026-2027, inicialment a les instal·lacions de la @foot.upc.edu. 🔗 www.upc.edu/ca/sala-de-p...

Mr. Trump, this statute at the National Museum of African American History and Culture does not "undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States". It does not "fosters a sense of national shame." It does not "advance a corrosive ideology." It is literally what might redeem the USA.

Everyone

NIH research for #LongCovid, the RECOVER project, DOGE'd cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

Que important és el periodisme www.ara.cat/1_514d02 La revista 'The Atlantic' s'enfronta a Trump i publica els plans d'atac del xat de Signal

“Pandemic is over” as rationale to terminate grants on coronavirus vaccines and potential pandemic pathogens www.science.org/content/arti...

Decades of Silicon Valley blurb ended by a gasoline chainsaw

Nature is stubborn and sooner than later will show us, again, how stupid we are

Thank you @ericmeyerowitz.bsky.social and @germhuntermd.bsky.social for speaking the truth

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

Dengue, an arboviral infection transmitted by Aedes mosquitos, is endemic in more than 100 countries. This practice article discusses assessment and management of dengue www.bmj.com/content/388/...

He won’t stop until he destroys American democracy and its founding principles

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

Biotech and Pharma, are you going to sit passively on the sidelines while your future innovation and intellectual property is destroyed?