Elizabeth Pathak, PhD

"detected viral RNA of SARS-CoV-2 in most of the infected animals' nervous systems, most notably in the brainstem, for all investigated variants...(Wuhan, Delta, Omicron/BA.1) 80 days after the acute infection phase.... the virus can continue to infect new cells even though the viral load is low.

There is no dilemma. Lawyers have an ethical obligation to make sure all sources are correct. Using generative AI without verifying sources is irresponsible and unethical #LegalWriting

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Could You Prove You’re a Citizen? — New York Magazine For Americans wrongfully detained by ICE, it can be nearly impossible to escape.

Everyone needs to read this ... EVERYONE!!

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PERIOD PERIOD PERIOD!!!!

I have been invited to so many podcasts and such to debate slew foot, knuckle dragging ass conspiracy theorists and I’ll be GODDAMNED.

I am an epidemiologist. I am a scientist. I have 3 degrees. I don’t throw my credentials to swine

Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Infants in the United States: Incidence, Severity, Fatality, and Variants of Concern - PubMed More than half a million US infants contracted COVID-19 by March 2022. Longitudinal assessment of long-term infant SARS-CoV-2 infection sequelae remains a critical research gap. Extremely low infant v...

Just going to leave this right here:

Our paper on the epidemiology of #COVID19 in infants is out in Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal

#episky #medsky #pedsICU #pedsky #publichealth

@jasonsalemi.bsky.social

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38134379/

There’s a new COVID variant driving up infections. A virologist explains what to know about NB.1.8.1 Early signs suggest NB.1.8.1 may be more transmissible than earlier variants, likely due to mutations in the spike protein. But there’s no evidence it’s more severe.

Here's a summary of Nimbus (NB.1.8.1) info:

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Or they could have just asked us 😭😭

I have news for folks: lots and lots of people who get annual physicals and bloodwork end up being diagnosed with various diseases and aggressive cancers that didn’t show up in their most recent physical. this is embodied life

everyone expressing incredulity about this seems…very young & sheletered

Colon cancer is rising in young people. Finally, scientists have a clue about why. — National Geographic As scientists question the rise in early colon cancer cases, a new study is offering some potential answers.

Wildly false statement is the headliner on this otherwise informative article:

"Colorectal cancer should be on your radar: Today, one in five people under the age of 54 is diagnosed with the disease"

🤦🏼‍♀️ #innumeracy #episky

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More details are emerging as Rep. Joaquin Castro meets with the deported family of the 11yo U.S. citizen girl in Mexico.

CBP agents *confiscated her seizure meds.*

That’s not law enforcement—it’s abuse.
Keep reposting.
Keep raising hell.
Be a voice for the voiceless.
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Rahul Bhatia on India’s turn towards authoritarianism: Southasia Review of Books podcast #22 Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

🎙️📚"It is so against the idea of this country that when I hear it and I don't see people pushing back, interviewers pushing back - that takes my breath away."

A conversation with @rahulabhatia.bsky.social on India’s turn toward authoritarianism:

U.S. pushes nations facing tariffs to approve Musk’s Starlink, cables show Some countries have turned to the satellite internet firm in preparation for trade talks, State Department staffers wrote. The U.S. has a strategic interest in countering Chinese internet providers, b...

Exclusive: A series of internal government messages obtained by The Post reveal how U.S. embassies and the State Department have pushed nations to clear hurdles for U.S. satellite companies, often mentioning Starlink by name.

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Welp... Ohio. THE VL ERSEY BE TOLEDO CONTACT SUBMIT A STORY In compliance with S81, UToledo is suspending admissions beginning with the 2025-26 academic year to the following undergraduate programs: • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Africana Studios • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Asian Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Data Analytics • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Disability Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Middle East Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Philosophy • Bochelor of Arts (B.A.) in Religious Studios • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Spanish • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Women's and Gender Studios Al these programs remain available as minors for stud In compliance with SB1, UToledo is suspending admissions beginning with the 2025-26 academic year to the following undergraduate programs: • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Africana Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Asian Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Data Analytics • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Disability Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Middle East Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Philosophy • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Religious Studies • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Spanish • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Women's and Gender

Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed.

Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs:

• Africana Studies
• Asian Studies
• Disability Studies
• Middle East Studies
• Philosophy
• Religious Studies
• Women's/Gender Studies

And…

• Spanish

American activists deliver coffins to the US State Department to protest the deadly cuts to global AIDS programmes.

Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.

"It's now been eight days since both Dorcas and her mom, Theresa, took the last of their HIV medications.

A single mom and an only child, they've always taken their medicine together at 8 p.m. each night. The change in routine has confused the little girl."

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The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

The fascist propaganda machine demands constant dehumanization of the undesirable until such a time as they become unpersons.

In Memorium: Sandra Harding (1935-2025) IN MEMORIAM: SANDRA HARDING (1935-2025) Rosi Braidotti, Sarah Bracke, and Iris van der Tuin   In the history of feminist theory, there is a before and an after Sandra Harding. She has structured th…

In March, Sandra Harding died. With colleagues from (then) Women's Studies at Utrecht University, where Harding's work was pivotal in PhD training & where I had the pleasure to organize a PhD workshop, together with María Puig de Bellacasa, with Sandra, we wrote this piece. Honoring the pioneers.

Free US family planning clinics face ruin after White House freezes funds Title X, with services like STI tests and cancer screenings, in limbo after Trump administration pauses $66m in funds

Free US family planning clinics face ruin after White House freezes funds
Title X, with services like STI tests and cancer screenings, in limbo after Trump administration pauses $66m in funds
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New 3-year data presented today for Tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) indicates 3 different patterns of weight loss
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Opinion | We are witnessing the destruction of science in America — Guardian US If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented

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Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.

3 dead so far at Krome ICE detention center in Florida. Max capacity was 500, they have over 4,000 and not enough water and food. Reports say they get 1 cup of water per day.

These are already death camps.

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Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

Why can't we stick with the classics? Oppressed and/or exploited cover most of the bases!

Musk is wrong. Empathy is not a weakness.

Peter Marks, MD, PhD Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20903 March 28, 2025 Sara Brenner, MD, MPH Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20903 Dear Dr. Brenner: It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to resign from FDA and retire from federal service as Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research effective April 5, 2025. I leave behind a staff of professionals who are undoubtedly the most devoted to protecting and promoting the public health of any group of people that I have encountered during my four decades working in the public and private sectors. I have always done my best to advocate for their well-being and I would ask that you do the same during this very difficult time during which their critical importance to the safety and security of our nation may be underappreciated. Over the past years I have been involved in enhancing the safety of our nation's blood supply, in advancing the field of cell and gene therapy, and in responding to public health emergencies. In the last of these, during the COVID-19 pandemic I had the privilege of watching the vision that I conceived for Operation Warp Speed in March 2020 in collaboration with Dr. Robert Kadlec become a reality under the leadership of HHS Secretary Azar and President Trump due to the unwavering commitment of public servants at FDA and elsewhere across the government. At FDA, the tireless efforts of staff across the agency resulted in remarkably expediting the development of vaccines against the virus, meeting the standards for quality, safety, and effectiveness expected by the American public. The vaccines undoubtedly markedly reduced morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 in the United States and elsewhere. Many of these same individuals applied learnings from the pandemic during a flawless response helping…

ongoing multistate measles outbreak that is particularly severe in Texas reminds us of what happens when confidence in well-established science underlying public health and well-being is undermined. Measles, which killed more than 100,000 unvaccinated children last year in Africa and Asia owing to pneumonitis and encephalitis caused by the virus, had been eliminated from our shores. The two-dose measles, mumps, rubella vaccine regimen (MMR) using over the past decades has a remarkably favorable benefit-risk profile. The MMR vaccine is 97% or more effective in preventing measles following the two-dose series, and its safety has been remarkably well studied. Though rarely followed by a single fever-related seizure, or very rarely by allergic reactions or blood clotting disorders, the vaccine very simply does not cause autism, nor is it associated with encephalitis or death. It does, however, protect against a potential devasting consequence of prior measles infection, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), which is an untreatable, relentlessly progressive neurologic disorder leading to death in about 1 in 10,000 individuals infected with measles. Undermining confidence in well-established vaccines that have met the high standards for quality, safety, and effectiveness that have been in place for decades at FDA is irresponsible, detrimental to public health, and a clear danger to our nation's health, safety. and security. In the years following the pandemic, at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research we have applied the same unwavering commitment to public health priorities to the development of cell and gene therapies to address both hereditary and acquired rare diseases. During my tenure as Center Director we have approved 22 gene therapies, including the first gene therapy ever to be approved in the United States. However, we know that we must do better to expedite the development of treatments for those individual suffering from any one of the thousan…

Peter Marks’s resignation letter. Everyone should read this.

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but when the Nazis first started sending Jews and other victims to camps, they called it deportation, and the camps were technically in other countries.