Patrick Hoscheit

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

YouTube video by Ndlovu Youth Choir Ndlovu Youth Choir - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Music Video) isiZulu version

This just might be the coolest thing you see today. And without @npr.org, I may have never known it existed. Give it a spin, then check link in the comments for the backstory.

#Queen #Zulu

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Inside the CDC director's ouster: Kennedy demanded acceptance of new vaccine policies; Susan Monarez refused Susan Monarez’s resistance to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s moves to assert control over vaccine guidance is at the center of her dismissal as CDC director

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Inside the CDC director’s ouster: Kennedy demanded acceptance of new vaccine policies; Susan Monarez refused
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one thing that's making me feel particularly insane lately is how there is no longer any limit to the amount of wrong you can be

How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.

You’ve been badly misled over COVID origins theconversation.com/how-conspira...

Where Has All the Bird Flu Gone? All quiet on the American front for H5N1, but not necessarily the good kind of quiet

“…by the time we recognize there are a bunch of H5N1 patients in a hospital, it will already be too late to contain.”

My thoughts exactly. And the level of arse covering that will follow will be unprecedented.

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Preprint: Dairy Cows Infected with Influenza A(H5N1) Reveals Low Infectious Dose and Transmission Barriers Credit EID Journal #18,763 Today we have a preprint that suggests that a long-held belief about how HPAI H5 has been transmitting between ...

AFD Blog `Preprint: Dairy Cows Infected with Influenza A(H5N1) Reveals Low Infectious Dose and Transmission Barriers' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/06/prep...

Excited to share my new preprint developed with @matsen.bsky.social, in collaboration with Marius Brusselmans, Luiz Carvalho, @msuchard.bsky.social, and @guybaele.bsky.social, on the biological causes and impacts of tree space ruggedness in phylodynamic inference. 1/
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Postdoctoral positions in epidemic mathematical/statistical modelling - Research Job description We are recruiting postdocs to contribute to research projects in the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, at Institut Pasteur in Paris. The candidates will be expected t...

New postdoc positions with a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in our Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 26th June.
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Good Lord. This is amazing. Not just the rescaling stuff, all the other features are extremely useful.

It's 23.53 here in Paris, so there's still time to wish you all a happy Glorious 25th. For truth, justice, freedom. And a hard-boiled egg.

Ambitious project to develop low-cost genome sequencing for pathogens known and unknown - University of Birmingham Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

The Truth About the Covid App Myths about its cost and effectiveness stop us learning lessons

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... This post about the importance of knowing the difference between truth tellers and myth makers in healthcare has already attracted a comment from a member of the “plandemic” community which nicely makes my point about the dangers of disinformation

Opinion | The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention

An important read for this morning. A Harvard scientist wanting to perform research but detained in an ICE detention center in Louisiana for at least 3 months. 🧪 #science

Gift 🎁 link:
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The message is clear: avoid the US. It is truly shocking to see these brilliant, dedicated scientists having to find contingency solutions to make up for funding shortfalls. A country willingly giving up scientific leadership. For what?

This week, I was attending the International Dynamics & Evolution of Human Viruses conference. 32nd meeting of the conference, first time for me. Today, the locations of the next meetings in the series was announced: Canada next year, Europe in 2027 and Mexico the year after that.

I love the idea of creating a maze for AI crawlers to get lost. Next time I'm teaching Markov chains, I will add a section on tarpitting for sure.

The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 Recombination-aware evolutionary analyses of the entire genomes of SARS-CoV-1-like and SARS-CoV-2-like viruses indicate that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 descend from bat coronaviruses that circulated as...

Comparative phylogeography and recombination patterns of SARS CoV-1 and SARS CoV-2 related viruses. Both are derived from recent recombinations in their host bats, and then emerged in human hundreds of miles from their wild reservoirs.

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such situations before, and that people back then were just as scared and confused as I was at the time. I'm thankful to pope Francis for reminding me about our shared humanity, not only with people in the world today, but also across the centuries.

The crucifix that was used for this ceremony was first used for this purpose in 1522, during an outbreak of "the plague" in Rome (I can't find evidence whether it was indeed the black plague, but I'd say it's pretty likely). Seeing this made me feel very deeply that humankind had faced

were a powerful image of all the sacrifices people were making to fight Covid-19. The pope was doing what he thought most useful, which is to pray for the world. But mostly, the image of the pope praying made me feel connected to the people in previous times facing similar epidemics.

Seeing the pope perform this prayer and this blessing meant a lot to me, not only because of its religious significance. First of all, I remember St. Peter's square totally empty, in stark contrast to the crowds that we are used to seeing. This, and the flashing lights of the ambulances

At the time of this picture (March 27th, 2020), everything was very scary. France had entered lockdown 10 days earlier, and all the curves were still going up, including in Italy where the epidemic had started earlier. It wasn't clear whether the healthcare system would hold.

Pope Francis holding a monstrance in front of an empty St Peter's Square, in a gesture of blessing.

I am starting to think about posting again. I'll probably split my account into a personal and a professional one. In the meantime, here's something at the intersection of both. This is the image I will most strongly remember of Pope Francis, who will be buried today in Santa Maria Maggiore.

J'ai déjà marre des nécrologies écrites il y a des années et des takes claquées au sol genre "What the death of Francis means for crypto 🚀".

Ensuite, clairement, il y a une montée en puissance qui commence par l'exultet et qui s'achève par l'alleluia. En passant par cheval et cavalier, et le gloria.

Alors, oui, mais émotionnellement, pour moi ça commence à "...en cette nuit très sainte où notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ est passé de la mort à la vie, l’Église invite tous ses enfants...".

Écoutez, moi pour l'instant je suis sur la vibe des apôtres le mercredi soir. Demain je vais bouffer avec Jésus, ça va être sympa. Comme eux, je ne vois pas encore le bout du chemin.

"Trois personnes, en union hypostatique, engendrant, non pas créant, un espace de dimension trois"?

Pendant la procession d'entrée, génuflexion devant l'autel. Pendant la messe, inclination vers l'autel seulement, sauf si le Saint-Sacrement est sur l'autel. Dans ce cas, génuflexion si on passe devant ou derrière.