Nicola Low
@nicolamlow.bsky.social
Sexually transmitted infections epidemiologist, but Covid-19 changed everything. Now also emerging infections #mpox #pandemics @BEreadycohort.bsky.social
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4817-8986
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4817-8986
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Ukrainian-born French artist Sonia Delaunay, Finlandaise, 1908 #womensart
November 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Ukrainian-born French artist Sonia Delaunay, Finlandaise, 1908 #womensart
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NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
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It’s Wednesday and that means it’s time for Defend Public Health’s Whopper of the Week!
This week @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy @benecal.bsky.social and @aetiology.bsky.social take on RFK Jr.’s AIDS Denialism. It’s a great read.
This week @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy @benecal.bsky.social and @aetiology.bsky.social take on RFK Jr.’s AIDS Denialism. It’s a great read.
Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Has Plainly Stated His Belief in the Falsehoods of AIDS Denialism | Defend Public Health
In June 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told New York Magazine, "There are much better candidates than HIV for what causes AIDS." This is blatantly false, contradicted by mountains of data and real-world ...
www.defendpublichealth.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It’s Wednesday and that means it’s time for Defend Public Health’s Whopper of the Week!
This week @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy @benecal.bsky.social and @aetiology.bsky.social take on RFK Jr.’s AIDS Denialism. It’s a great read.
This week @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy @benecal.bsky.social and @aetiology.bsky.social take on RFK Jr.’s AIDS Denialism. It’s a great read.
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Exciting news! 🚨
My new course: "Innovations in Immunizations: Epidemiology, Effectiveness, and Equity" will launch online as part of the 2026 McGill Summer Institutes in Global Health!
I designed this course to meet the moment - we are facing truly unprecedented times...
My new course: "Innovations in Immunizations: Epidemiology, Effectiveness, and Equity" will launch online as part of the 2026 McGill Summer Institutes in Global Health!
I designed this course to meet the moment - we are facing truly unprecedented times...
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Exciting news! 🚨
My new course: "Innovations in Immunizations: Epidemiology, Effectiveness, and Equity" will launch online as part of the 2026 McGill Summer Institutes in Global Health!
I designed this course to meet the moment - we are facing truly unprecedented times...
My new course: "Innovations in Immunizations: Epidemiology, Effectiveness, and Equity" will launch online as part of the 2026 McGill Summer Institutes in Global Health!
I designed this course to meet the moment - we are facing truly unprecedented times...
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New preprint: with increasing resistance to ceftriaxone, the last recommended antibiotic for gonorrhea, we urgently need new drugs. Two--zoliflodacin & gepotdiacin--are up for approval by the FDA in Dec. Here we show a point mutation can result in cross-resistance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Zoliflodacin and gepotidacin cross-resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Resistance to zoliflodacin, a first-in-class antibiotic for gonorrhea treatment, can occur through gyrBD429N, but this mutation's impact on fitness and resistance to other topoisomerase targeting drug...
www.biorxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
New preprint: with increasing resistance to ceftriaxone, the last recommended antibiotic for gonorrhea, we urgently need new drugs. Two--zoliflodacin & gepotdiacin--are up for approval by the FDA in Dec. Here we show a point mutation can result in cross-resistance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A study from Kaiser Permanente demonstrated that maternal Tdap was 90 % effective against #pertussis in the first two months of life. It was 56 % effective in the first 12 months.
Remarkably consistent with a bunch of other studies - #IDSky + #MedSky + #ObGynSky.
www.ajog.org/article/S000...
Remarkably consistent with a bunch of other studies - #IDSky + #MedSky + #ObGynSky.
www.ajog.org/article/S000...
Effectiveness of Tdap5 vaccination in pregnancy at preventing infant pertussis
Maternal vaccination with the tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (Tdap)
vaccine during pregnancy is the most effective way to prevent pertussis in infants,
especially in the first few months...
www.ajog.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A study from Kaiser Permanente demonstrated that maternal Tdap was 90 % effective against #pertussis in the first two months of life. It was 56 % effective in the first 12 months.
Remarkably consistent with a bunch of other studies - #IDSky + #MedSky + #ObGynSky.
www.ajog.org/article/S000...
Remarkably consistent with a bunch of other studies - #IDSky + #MedSky + #ObGynSky.
www.ajog.org/article/S000...
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The 2025 UNAIDS report is out and it is a stark reminder that the HIV epidemic is not over. After a decade of progress, the global HIV response was shaken this year by abrupt, deep cuts in international funding. Clinics closed. Community programmes collapsed.
www.unaids.org/en/resources...
www.unaids.org/en/resources...
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The 2025 UNAIDS report is out and it is a stark reminder that the HIV epidemic is not over. After a decade of progress, the global HIV response was shaken this year by abrupt, deep cuts in international funding. Clinics closed. Community programmes collapsed.
www.unaids.org/en/resources...
www.unaids.org/en/resources...
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Louisiana is currently experiencing higher levels of influenza than the rest of the US and still has an uncontrolled pertussis outbreak. All this rejection of science and vaccines only yield disease and death.
www.klfy.com/louisiana/lo...
www.klfy.com/louisiana/lo...
www.klfy.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Louisiana is currently experiencing higher levels of influenza than the rest of the US and still has an uncontrolled pertussis outbreak. All this rejection of science and vaccines only yield disease and death.
www.klfy.com/louisiana/lo...
www.klfy.com/louisiana/lo...
Quite pleased with Wordle 1,621 2/6
Oddly, the bot was not impressed otherwise my skill
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Oddly, the bot was not impressed otherwise my skill
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November 26, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Quite pleased with Wordle 1,621 2/6
Oddly, the bot was not impressed otherwise my skill
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Oddly, the bot was not impressed otherwise my skill
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We've had to wait a long time to get to this point! With this new pair of Cochrane systematic reviews, the weight of the evidence has tipped very heavily in favor of HPV vaccination.
My new post @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/t...
#Vaccines
My new post @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/t...
#Vaccines
This Evidence Fundamentally Shifts the Debate About the HPV Vaccine - Absolutely Maybe
We’ve had to wait a long time to get to this point. If cervical cancer develops after HPV infection, it will take…
absolutelymaybe.plos.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
We've had to wait a long time to get to this point! With this new pair of Cochrane systematic reviews, the weight of the evidence has tipped very heavily in favor of HPV vaccination.
My new post @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/t...
#Vaccines
My new post @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/t...
#Vaccines
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I fear this exactly. Failing to adequately prepare increases the likelihood of lockdowns. No one should want this.
The default pandemic strategy for many countries does now seem to be "Play it by ear then lockdown and wait for a vaccine"
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I fear this exactly. Failing to adequately prepare increases the likelihood of lockdowns. No one should want this.
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Why, Adobe, would you depict #Female and #Male hearts this way?
#Its2025 #MedSky #AcademicSky #ScienceSky
#Its2025 #MedSky #AcademicSky #ScienceSky
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Why, Adobe, would you depict #Female and #Male hearts this way?
#Its2025 #MedSky #AcademicSky #ScienceSky
#Its2025 #MedSky #AcademicSky #ScienceSky
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Kantha in Bengali means cloth, traditionally made from the best parts of old worn saris or dhotis. Also the name of a way of stitching in which variations of running stitch are worked though all the layers of cloth, quilting them together, creating intricate designs #WomensArt
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Kantha in Bengali means cloth, traditionally made from the best parts of old worn saris or dhotis. Also the name of a way of stitching in which variations of running stitch are worked though all the layers of cloth, quilting them together, creating intricate designs #WomensArt
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Some vaccines like COVID and flu don’t stop completely stop infection.
But they do reduce the risk of getting infected and greatly reduce severe illness risk.
They are still worth getting.
Since they are not 100% effective it’s also wise to add another layer of protection by wearing a mask.
But they do reduce the risk of getting infected and greatly reduce severe illness risk.
They are still worth getting.
Since they are not 100% effective it’s also wise to add another layer of protection by wearing a mask.
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Some vaccines like COVID and flu don’t stop completely stop infection.
But they do reduce the risk of getting infected and greatly reduce severe illness risk.
They are still worth getting.
Since they are not 100% effective it’s also wise to add another layer of protection by wearing a mask.
But they do reduce the risk of getting infected and greatly reduce severe illness risk.
They are still worth getting.
Since they are not 100% effective it’s also wise to add another layer of protection by wearing a mask.
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'Silhouettes' by Vermont printmaker Jeanne Amato #womensart
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
'Silhouettes' by Vermont printmaker Jeanne Amato #womensart
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Get serious, Europeans. You are your only hope.
"EU imports from Russia worth €124 billion have exceeded the amount of aid provided to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion." - stated Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard.
censor.net/en/news/3586...
censor.net/en/news/3586...
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Get serious, Europeans. You are your only hope.
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Everyone should read this piece by the CDC leadership who resigned in Sept. We appreciate their continued leadership, support, and integrity within the public health space.
We know there are so many other things they could be doing. We are stronger together.
We know there are so many other things they could be doing. We are stronger together.
"When you remove scientists from science, you don’t get truth. You get ideology. " Signed D3- Deb, Dan, and @drdemetre.bsky.social
We are former CDC officials. RFK Jr.'s change to vaccine guidance is propaganda.
Under Secretary Kennedy, CDC materials can no longer be assumed to reflect scientific authority.
www.ms.now
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Everyone should read this piece by the CDC leadership who resigned in Sept. We appreciate their continued leadership, support, and integrity within the public health space.
We know there are so many other things they could be doing. We are stronger together.
We know there are so many other things they could be doing. We are stronger together.
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Control of HIV, TB and malaria at risk after global health fund donations fall
Control of HIV, TB and malaria at risk after global health fund donations fall
Leading past donors including France, Japan and European Commission fail to contribute at pledging summit
Control of the deadly infectious diseases HIV, tuberculosis and malaria “hangs in the balance” after a shortfall in donations to a leading global health fund, advocates have warned.
Only $11.3bn of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria’s $18bn (£14bn) targeted budget for 2026 to 2028 has been confirmed so far. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Control of HIV, TB and malaria at risk after global health fund donations fall
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The small amount of aluminum used in vaccines is safe.
"One study published in Vaccine found that the amount in vaccines is much smaller than what people take in every day from food and the environment."
www.voicesforvaccines.org/jtf_topics/d...
"One study published in Vaccine found that the amount in vaccines is much smaller than what people take in every day from food and the environment."
www.voicesforvaccines.org/jtf_topics/d...
Does aluminum in vaccines harm kids?
Aluminum in vaccines doesn’t build up or harm kids. Studies show it’s safe, quickly leaves the body, and doesn’t cause chronic health problems.
www.voicesforvaccines.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The small amount of aluminum used in vaccines is safe.
"One study published in Vaccine found that the amount in vaccines is much smaller than what people take in every day from food and the environment."
www.voicesforvaccines.org/jtf_topics/d...
"One study published in Vaccine found that the amount in vaccines is much smaller than what people take in every day from food and the environment."
www.voicesforvaccines.org/jtf_topics/d...
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Man in Washington state dies of H5N5 avian flu: doh.wa.gov/newsroom/gra...
Grays Harbor County resident dies from complications of avian influenza
For immediate release: Nov. 21, 2025 (25-140) Contact: DOH Communications The person was infected with the H5N5 virus; the risk to the public remains low OLYMPIA – A Grays Harbor County resident who w...
doh.wa.gov
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Man in Washington state dies of H5N5 avian flu: doh.wa.gov/newsroom/gra...
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Scientists tell Americans not to trust the CDC.
Instead of a global leader in science, the CDC has devolved into “a propaganda machine for RFK Jr.'s fixed, immutable, science-resistant theories,” said @pauloffit.bsky.social.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
Instead of a global leader in science, the CDC has devolved into “a propaganda machine for RFK Jr.'s fixed, immutable, science-resistant theories,” said @pauloffit.bsky.social.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
After unprecedented autism-vaccine messaging change, scientists, advocates say CDC no longer trustworthy
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Scientists tell Americans not to trust the CDC.
Instead of a global leader in science, the CDC has devolved into “a propaganda machine for RFK Jr.'s fixed, immutable, science-resistant theories,” said @pauloffit.bsky.social.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
Instead of a global leader in science, the CDC has devolved into “a propaganda machine for RFK Jr.'s fixed, immutable, science-resistant theories,” said @pauloffit.bsky.social.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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I couldn’t WAIT to get nirsevimab for my baby. He barely noticed when RSV circulated in his class. It was amazing. Starkly different from when my older child had RSV as an infant and nearly needed to go to the hospital.
"In this multicenter case-control investigation, nirsevimab was 80% effective at preventing RSV-associated ICU admission and 83% effective at preventing acute respiratory failure"
More good news about RSV prevention - #IDSky + #MedSky.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
More good news about RSV prevention - #IDSky + #MedSky.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Nirsevimab Effectiveness Against Intensive Care Unit ...
This report describes a multicenter case-control investigation that found nirsevimab was 80% effective at preventing RSV-associated ICU admissions among infants.
www.cdc.gov
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I couldn’t WAIT to get nirsevimab for my baby. He barely noticed when RSV circulated in his class. It was amazing. Starkly different from when my older child had RSV as an infant and nearly needed to go to the hospital.
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Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7m to set new auction record for a female artist
Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7m to set new auction record for a female artist
The 1940 painting of Kahlo asleep in bed has surpassed the record set by the $44.4m sale of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 in 2014
A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m (£41.8m, A$84.7m) at a New York art auction, setting a new top sale price for a work by any female artist.
El sueño (La cama), or The Dream (The Bed), which depicts Kahlo asleep in a bed with a smiling skeleton wrapped in dynamite on the canopy above her, sold on Thursday night at a Sotheby’s auction of surrealist art after four minutes of bidding. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7m to set new auction record for a female artist