#Medsky
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, used to be a death sentence. Today, it's a preventable and manageable chronic condition thanks to decades of NIH-funded research. Let's talk about one of the greatest science success stories of our lifetime. 🧵 🧪 ✊️ 🎉
November 1, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Brilliant

#MedSky 🇺🇸 vs 🇨🇦
Abdul El-Sayed talks to Canadians about healthcare and the US could do it if they wanted to

Our taxes that we pay in Canada pays for our healthcare

Example: I’ve had several operations and two births and the only thing I paid for was parking and my meds, which was less than $50 for all of this.
October 27, 2026 at 11:49 PM
November 1, 2026 at 5:32 AM
This is peak #MedSky
November 2, 2026 at 6:27 PM
#Alberta 🇨🇦
#MedSky 🩺⚕️🥼
November 2, 2026 at 3:45 AM
October 31, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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October 30, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect the environment and public health.

Rules created during the Biden administration to crack down on methane leaks are now being scaled back.
November 2, 2026 at 7:14 PM
This is the company that put $500 million into Musk’s Twitter takeover. Some thanks. #BlueSky #MedSky #LawSky
October 31, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Happy Halloween! 👻

#MedSky
October 31, 2026 at 2:14 PM
October 29, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Really amazing to see Medsky and Latinsky on those slides, amazing work @rude1.blacksky.team
Starting off day 2 of #MozFest watching @rude1.blacksky.team show off Blacksky — among the other amazing Mozilla Fellows’ demos
October 29, 2026 at 2:39 PM
🚨🧵by Zdenek Vrozina on XTwitter:

"Residual viral protein sticks around in the blood for months after COVID. A fifth of people who fully recovered have it too.
So it doesn't work as a test for long COVID - and that's not why it's interesting. 2 new..."

23-tweet🧵
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October 29, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Washington state resident dies from H5N1 Highly Infectious Avian Influenza

#H5N1 #EpiSky #MedSky #IDSky
November 2, 2026 at 1:34 PM
#MedSky 🌎
GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-1457, has SUCCEEDED in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. Phase III clinical trial results in MORE THAN 1,100 patients shows the vaccine SIGNIFICANTLY cut the risk of death OR recurrence of melanoma by ALMOST HALF.
Breakthrough vaccine for the deadliest skin cancer cut risk by almost half
The skin cancer vaccine is based on mRNA technology that helped end the coronavirus pandemic.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 2, 2026 at 5:07 PM
San Francisco friends! if you’re free on Monday night, you should def check out this AMAZING documentary made by a patient with multifocal motor neuropathy (an ultra rare disease) who bikes the Tour de France route

if you want to go but can’t afford a ticket, lmk and I’ll get one comped for you :)
No One Rides Alone - Screening with Q and A - San Francisco
Screening of feature length film No One Rides Alone - Defying Rare Disease on the Roads of the Tour de France. Followed by Q & A with Producer Clive Phillips.
events.humanitix.com
October 30, 2026 at 1:03 PM
A collection of doodles and silliness with a Halloween spirit… plus costumes present and past 😅👻
Happy Halloween!!! 🎃
#IDSky#MedSky
November 1, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Please share and donate. 25% at the goal. #blacksky #medsky #oncologysky
gofund.me/348f264fe

Thank you everyone that donated! Being a busy resident it’s hard to not have a car with late nights and early mornings. This will help me save money & fond alternate streams of income! also the hospital bill is yet another obstacle! Anything helps. below or Venmo: jbrisbon1181
Donate to Support Jonathan’s Medical Bills and Car Fund, organized by Jonathan Brisbon
Help With Unexpected Medical Bills and Reliable Transportation … Jonathan Brisbon needs your support for Support Jonathan’s Medical Bills and Car Fund
gofund.me
November 2, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Please explain to me why influenza vaccines are free but folks have to pay for SARS CoV 2 shots?

"SARS-CoV-2 was associated with a 3–4-fold higher population mortality burden than seasonal influenza A..."

#CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUp #CleanTheAir #MedSky #IDSky
New paper out in Lancet Regional Health Americas, with Alicia Grima, Natalie Wilson, Simran Mann, Ashleigh Tuite and Clara Lee. How many Ontario deaths are attributable to respiratory viruses, and how does SARS-CoV-2 compare to flu? 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
doi.org
November 1, 2026 at 12:24 AM
November 2, 2026 at 12:30 AM
1. The bottom line: SARS-CoV-2 only emerged in late 2019. No-one can know the long-term effects of repeated infections, but with anosmia and cognitive dysfunction as common symptoms, the assumption I make is that there is a tsunami of early-onset neurocognitive diseases coming.
November 1, 2026 at 12:40 PM
And with the #MedSky hashtag…

Thank you @guyvenables.bsky.social!
My cartoon for Monday's Metro
November 2, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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