@KStateTurk

Father/husband, Microbiologist, Protein Biochemist, Craft beer lover, Home-brewer, K-State Wildcats fan, EMAW, Viruses aren't exosomes

 Kansas City
Joined March 2013
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K-State Turk retweeted
Dan Freedman, DO@dfreedman7Aug 25
In 1991, after measles outbreaks killed children & sickened thousands, President George HW Bush announced a vaccine public health campaign. He implored parents to protect their kids through immunization. What a different world it was 35 yrs ago.
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K-State Turk@KStateTurkFeb 12
Replying to @DavidKlemitz @GiggaMAGA @MaryanneDemasi @SecKennedy @HHS_Jim @KUPERWASSERLAB
So you can't post the source. Got it.
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Traeger Woodridge #Giveaway! What better way to host a K-State Football watch party than with a new grill! Go Cats!! 🏈💜 RT & Follow to enter! Random drawing on 8/18 at 12p. Pickup ONLY! Must be 21+ to enter! Check out FB and Insta for more chances to win and full info!
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AFC CHAMPS THREE YEARS RUNNING 🏆
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SEE YOU BACK IN THE BIG GAME, @EAGLES.
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I want to try an “unofficial” experiment. Please retweet this if your kids have been vaccinated and have NOT been “vaccine injured.” Thanks. #VaccinesWork #VaccinesSaveLives #ivax2protect #tweetiatrician #medtwitter @DrToddWo @thepedimom @doritmi @DrPanMD @ZDoggMD @mursebigford
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c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance3 Jul 2020
"Why are medical tests so inaccurate?" Let's use an analogy. You've had/seen a motion-activated security light before? Its job is to detect intruders by virtue of interrupting an infrared light beam. Have you ever seen a branch, a cat, a pile of wind-blown leaves activate it?
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Because wearing a mask is better than going extinct... again! 🦖 Dinos are back at Union Station for Dinosaur Road Trip. An exciting NEW exhibition opening July 3. Mixing a little science, geography and history with a whole lot of fun >> bit.ly/DinosaurRoadtrip.
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If you think wearing a mask is uncomfortable, you're really not going to like intubation. #MaskUp – at Chapel Hill, NC
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K-State Turk retweeted
LymeScience@LymeScience27 May 2020
Replying to @urbanx_f @KStateTurk @dfreedman7
There was a nice literature review published in the BMJ this week. Doctors want to help patients no matter what is causing their problems, but inappropriate diagnoses and treatments don’t help. bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m104…
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The wonderful @CT_Bergstrom and I wrote something for the New York Times. Herd immunity is insane! nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opini…

Opinion | What the Proponents of ‘Natural’ Herd Immunity Don’t Say (Published 2020)

Try to reach it without a vaccine, and millions will die.

nytimes.com
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Today is #WorldMeningitisDay. Meningitis is a horrible infectious disease that affects the brain & remains a common cause of epilepsy in children in other countries. Fortunately 3 vaccines protect against meningitis. Help #DefeatMeningitis by sharing this info. #VaccinesSaveLives
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K-State Turk retweeted
Trevor Bedford
@trvrb18 Apr 2020
Very interesting new preprint by Eran Bendavid and colleagues reports seroprevalence estimates from Santa Clara county. Great to have seroprevalence work start to emerge, but I'd be skeptical of the 2-4% seroprevalence result. 1/8 medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California

Background Addressing COVID-19 is a pressing health and social concern. To date, many epidemic projections and policies addressing COVID-19 have been designed without seroprevalence data to inform...

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Let’s talk about the fact that both the attack rate and the death rate among the young is indeed very low with COVID19, unlike most prior pandemics. And let’s speculate about some of the biological reasons. 1/
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K-State Turk retweeted
Marc Lipsitch
@mlipsitch27 Mar 2020
Tonight #DeborahBirx stated that models anticipating large-scale transmission of COVID-19 do not match reality on the ground. Our modeling (done by @StephenKissler based on work with @ctedijanto and @yhgrad and me) is one of the models she is talking about.
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Excellent news to pass along about K-State journalism professor Andrew Smith, who tested positive for coronavirus last week. He has been discharged from the hospital and is hoping to be back at full strength in a few months. In the meantime he plans on teaching classes remotely.
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K-State Turk retweeted
Trevor Bedford
@trvrb25 Mar 2020
A thread on #SARSCoV2 mutations and what they might mean for the #COVID19 vaccination and immunity, in which I predict it will take the virus a few years to mutate enough to significantly hinder a vaccine. 1/12
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K-State Turk retweeted
Marc Lipsitch
@mlipsitch25 Mar 2020
Zeke Emanuel gets it exactly right nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opini… – at Boston, MA

Opinion | Fourteen Days. That’s the Most Time We Have to Defeat Coronavirus. (Published 2020)

These decisive measures can prevent a decade of dislocation and extraordinary levels of deaths.

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fredhutch.org/en/news/center…
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I've made a folder with the PDF, PPT and JPEGs of my coronavirus talk from Monday as well as a couple of talks I've given in past years for kids about winter bugs. I'll be glad if these help. drive.google.com/drive/u/0/m…
Michal Tal, PhD@ImmunoFever10 Mar 2020
My talk at Stanford (and on Zoom) from today on coronavirus. The talk starts just after 2 minutes in. Slides to follow in the thread and will also be available by PPT upon request. Huge thank you to @florian_krammer for giving me his slides to build off of stanford.zoom.us/rec/share/2…
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