Kudos to NashvilleHealth for executing such a well-organized and efficient mass vaccination event at Nissan stadium! Also had a real life Alex Jahangir sighting!

We recommend Asian Americans, a 5-hour series that delivers a bold, fresh perspective on a history that matters today, more than ever. In episode 1, "Breaking Ground," immigrants arrive and adapt to life in America in an era of exclusion and U.S. empire. pbs.org/video/breaking…

Questions about the COVID-19 vaccines? Don't miss our online town hall discussion this Friday! Starting at 6pm, our panel of infectious disease and health experts will appear LIVE on our Facebook page to answer your questions about the vaccines.

Vaccine hesitancy among Black seniors isn’t connected to the history of Tuskegee as much as it is to the racism presently in the healthcare community. npr.org/sections/healt…

Send fluid and tissue!

😂but also scary flashback inducing

♻️ Knowing what to recycle is confusing. Here's a look at which plastics are actually recyclable — and which just become trash. trib.al/4zEFu8Y

Vaccinated xkcd.com/2460

What the cysts of neurocysticercosis actually look like 👀 🎥 Talal Alfallaj #MedTwitter

Immune Factory xkcd.com/2491

Why do prior vaccinations with measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) or tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (Tdap) provide some protection against Covid severity? cell.com/med/fulltext/S… T cell breadth cell.com/med/fulltext/S… Med by Cell Press

I have come to recognize that our main purpose in life is to help those around us and to try and leave the world at least slightly better than we found it. The rest is detail.

Vaccines can elicit a wide range of immune responses & describing protection conferred by a vaccine is not always straightforward. Colleagues Bin Ni, MD, PhD Ahmad Yanis NATASHA HALASA review challenges in how we define and measure vaccine benefits #vaccines onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

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OFID: In a low-income cohort in the southeastern U.S., 5% of individuals avoided emergency medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily due to fear and visitor restrictions. #OpenForumInfectDis 📄:bit.ly/37i3sTd Paul Sax Jonathan Li Andrej Spec, MD, MSCI Laila Woc-Colburn, MD VUMC Epidemiology

Happening this afternoon at AmericanTransplantCongress! Duke Infectious Diseases faculty @tkcirtap presents a 🔥Rapid Fire 🔥 oral abstract: "How to 'B' Safe in Expanding the Donor Pool: Use of HBV Viremic Donors in Non-Hepatic Solid Organ Transplantation." #ATC2024 #TxID

Cheers to the Infectious Diseases Community of Practice - AST MDRO workgroup - who met today at #ATC2024Philly with an incredible turnout! So many dedicated #TxID physicians working on solving problems!! Chairs: Marcus Pereira Aaron Mishkin

Thanks to everyone who came out for our social tonight at #ATC2024Philly. Sorry if we missed you for the group pic - incredible turnout & awesome convos! Appreciate the continued support of TxID Early Career Network from #TxID community American Society of Transplantation (AST) Infectious Diseases Community of Practice - AST Please tag if we missed you!

Great talk by Emily Eichenberger on BK risk with belatacept use. BK risk with belatacept similar to that for tacrolimus. Infectious Diseases Community of Practice - AST

Real-world experience with maribavir for treatment of CMV infection in high-risk solid organ transplant recipients Bin Ni, MD, PhD / Eileen Maziarz etc Duke Infectious Diseases #TxID High rates (47%) of failure d/t Rx-emergent maribavir resistance / early recurrence academic.oup.com/ofid/article/d…