Gregg Gonsalves
I work @Yale focusing on operations research/epidemiology for infectious disease. In the real world: been an AIDS activist for ~30 yrs. Asst Prof YSPH.
Thought Leader
| #297 | Infectious Disease |
Last synced from Twitter 7m ago
White House works to discredit Dr. Fauci as coronavirus surges in U.S.
As coronavirus continues to surge in states across the U.S. White House officials are distancing themselves from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert. NBC News’ Josh Lederman reports on how the White House is working to...
Trump Aides Undercut Fauci as He Speaks Up on Virus Concerns
Administration officials moved to treat the nation’s top infectious disease expert as if he were a warring political rival, releasing a list of what they said were questionable statements he had made.
Gregg Gonsalves
Wonder who the gutless wonders are in @WhiteHouse who anonymously are trashing #Fauci. It's a confederacy of dunces over there at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
5h
Objectivity and the neutral expert
Objective science should not be without values
Debate over whether mammography screening saves lives has become front page news again in recent months. The opening salvo came in October 2001 from Gotzsche and Olsen, who argued in the Lancet that...
Gregg Gonsalves
So, this piece by @ParaFoto (at least I think it's him!) is an interesting meditation on neutrality in science and public health.
14h
Doctor, Not Chaplain: How a Deeply Religious Surgeon General Taught a Nation About HIV
The late C. Everett Koop chose to fight the AIDS epidemic at its 1980s outset, despite resistance from the conservative base that brought him into the office.
Gregg Gonsalves
It doesn't have to be that way. Follow the example of your predecessor C. Everett Koop. He was conservative, deeply religious, but did the right thing, despite the pressure he faced. 11/
16h
Hannah Arendt on “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship:” Better to Suffer Than Collaborate
When Eichmann in Jerusalem---Hannah Arendt’s book about Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann’s trial---came out in 1963, it contributed one of the most famous of post-war ideas to the discourse.
Gregg Gonsalves
Hannah Arendt on "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship:" Better to Suffer Than Collaborate openculture.com/?p=1030963 via @openculture
32h
Freedom of the Press Defense Fund Kurin v. Balter organized by Michael Balter
I have been sued for defamation for $18 million for my #MeToo reporti… Michael Balter needs your support for Freedom of the Press Defense Fund Kurin v. Balter
Missed Opportunities in the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization of Remdesivir
This Viewpoint argues that the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of remdesivir missed important opportunities to mandate further study of the drug’s safety and efficacy and to require fair drug pricing, and proposes modifications to create a...
Resolve after appalling Roger Stone commutation: Don't let Donald Trump break us, America.
COVID and Trump have brought America to its knees. The utter failure of our system has allowed him to scale new heights of corruption each week.
Gregg Gonsalves
Resolve after appalling Roger Stone commutation: Don't let Donald Trump break us, America. usatoday.com/story/opinion/… via @usatoday
34h
How to Reopen Schools: What Science and Other Countries Teach Us
The pressure to bring American students back to classrooms is intense, but the calculus is tricky with infections still out of control in many communities.
We're losing the war on the coronavirus
A loss of life equivalent to a Sept. 11 every three days.
Gregg Gonsalves
By any standard, no matter how you look at it, the U.S. is losing its war against the coronavirus.
41h
Subscribe to read | Financial Times
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
2
Gregg Gonsalves
“You have a random virus jump species from an animal to a human that is spectacularly efficient in spreading from human to human, and has a high degree, relatively speaking, of morbidity and mortality. We are living in the perfect storm right now.”
41h
'Tsunami' of COVID cases crushing Hidalgo County
“We’re in a dire situation,” said Hidalgo County’s local health authority as new COVID cases soared to nearly 1,300 and deaths jumped by 20 in one day.
4 aftershocks of the coronavirus pandemic that will be felt for years
We are only beginning to understand the direct, and indirect, consequences of Covid-19.
4
Gregg Gonsalves
We are focused on saving lives, livelihoods today, but #COVID19 will have effects that linger for years. The US needs to prepare for the aftershocks. 7/
44h
13 potential long-term effects the coronavirus pandemic could have on mental health
Business Insider spoke with experts about how the pandemic and its varying impacts might affect people's mental health.
1
Dozens More Cases of Neurological Problems in COVID-19 Reported
SARS-CoV-2 generally attacks the lungs, but researchers are also stressing its effects on the brain in a fraction of patients.
1
Gregg Gonsalves
“We’re seeing things in the way #Covid19 affects the brain that we haven’t seen before with other viruses...What we’ve seen...is you can have severe neurology, you can be quite sick, but actually have trivial lung disease." 5/
44h
Mysterious Heart Damage, Not Just Lung Troubles, Befalling COVID-19 Patients
Most of the attention in the COVID-19 pandemic has been on how the virus affects the lungs. But evidence shows that up to 1 in 5 infected patients have signs of heart damage and many are dying due …
1
Gregg Gonsalves
Now, the heart. "Jorde said that after COVID-19 patients recover, they could have long-term effects from such heart damage. But, he said, treatments exist for various forms of heart damage that should be effective once the viral infection has cleared." 4/
44h
What Coronavirus Does to the Lungs
<p>COVID-19 can cause lung damage and breathing problems that can persist even after recovery. An expert in lung disease explains.</p>
2
Gregg Gonsalves
First, the lungs: “Recovery from lung damage takes time...There’s initial injury to the lungs, followed by scarring. Over time, the tissue heals, but it can take 3 months to a year or more for a person’s lung function to return to pre #COVID19 levels.” 3/
44h
Patients struggle with long-term complications from COVID-19
As more people recover from the coronavirus, infectious disease doctors see a trend, they fear, will haunt health care systems for years.
1
Gregg Gonsalves
We're starting to see complications after initial recovery, which may mean life-long care, adjustments to our lives and the lives of our families even after surviving #COVID19. 2/
44h
Nation's Pediatricians Walk Back Support For In-Person School
In a new statement made jointly with teachers unions, the American Academy of Pediatrics now says "science and community circumstances must guide decision-making."