Dr. Deepti Gurdasani
@dgurdasani1
Clinical epidemiology, machine learning, NLP, global health. Intersectional feminist. she/her. Also on @[email protected] @dgurdasani1.bsky.social
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NEW Correspondence—80+ researchers warn that a so-called #herdimmunity approach to managing #COVID19 is “a dangerous fallacy unsupported by the scientific evidence” #WCPH2020 hubs.li/H0xZVrs0
If you haven’t already please try to also follow non-journalist accounts in Gaza - there is so much suffering that perhaps does not rise to the level of news and so much resilience, patience and perspective on it. A thread to start you off :
Yesterday during a lab meeting, my mentor informed me that I may no longer progress in my career due to my so-called 'infamy.' I was told that I was to blame for the challenges I've been facing in publishing my work—that my 'negative' political activism might be provoking the…
we are working tirelessly for a ceasefire
BREAKING: U.S. vetoes UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, with 14 votes in favor and only the U.S. voting against.
70 Palestinians in one attack. Will it merit coverage? Why are Palestinians just expected to die? Why won’t Israel be stopped?
Seventy Palestinians, the majority of them women and children, were killed by Israel in a single airstrike on a neighborhood near a hospital in northern Gaza.
Sickening.
The U.N. Security Council voted 14-1 in favor of the resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the war in Gaza, but it was not adopted because of the U.S. veto
Removing vaccine offer for pregnant women is just bloody ridiculous, it's going to cause preventable harm and it's going to have antivaxxers claiming this proves they were right which increases the risk of hesitancy for other vaccines too
There is seemingly no end to the JCVI preventing vulnerable groups from being protected during a pandemic... Brilliant stuff from @sheencr and @chrischirp theconversation.com/the-uk-is-no-l…
The state of our news media is such that Ben & Jerry’s is educating the public about the authoritarian implications of HR 9495, while mainstream news outlets have remained largely silent about it.
Congress is working to pass a bill that would have a devastating, chilling effect on free speech and give the Trump administration power to strip tax-exempt status from nonprofits without due process or even a clear explanation (1/3).
Cases without known contact with infected poultry or livestock suggests potential silent transmission among humans. This is very very concerning.
Nothing makes me more apprehensive regarding H5N1 than human cases in which the route of infection is unknown. The previously hospitalised patient in Missouri in August. The Canadian teenager with severe illness. Now the child in California.
Hossam is one of the journalists the Israeli military put on a target list a few weeks ago and one of the few journalists remaining in north Gaza to share what is happening. Where is the outrage from his fellow journalists in the West?
Photos like this aren’t viral and don’t generate more outrage because of anti-Palestinian bigotry
In the dark and very cold weather! Ethnic cleansing in #NorthernGaza is still continuous!
Nothing makes me more apprehensive regarding H5N1 than human cases in which the route of infection is unknown. The previously hospitalised patient in Missouri in August. The Canadian teenager with severe illness. Now the child in California.
Don't look away. Dr. Badran's "face bears the look of a man who has given all of himself to others, only to have the most precious pieces of his life taken from him. His grief is a grief that no words can capture, a pain so vast it feels as if the world itself might break."
In the photo, you see Dr. Hani Badran, a cardiologist known not only for his medical expertise but for the boundless warmth and kindness he extended to everyone around him. He had a smile that could soften even the hardest day, a laugh that brightened his patients’ spirits, and a…
Am I high?
The situation in the Middle East requires an urgent diplomatic solution. For more than a year, we have seen devastating civilian suffering in Israel and Gaza, in the West Bank, and Lebanon. And we have seen upheaval and unprecedented attacks by Iran and its proxies. Only…
Petition for clean air and PPE in UK healthcare - please sign and share.
Getting this petition to 100,000 signatures is what we need to push the new Labour government to act on improved mitigations in hospitals Please SIGN and SHARE 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7003… @LongCovidSOS @DaviesLunt @long_covid @VosperSioux @hazardscampaign @1goodtern #covid
JCVI's exceptionalism & anti-science positions once again putting UK public at risk, as vax restricted to very limited grps. Once again the impact of long-COVID isn't considered in calculations of benefit & cost-effectiveness. Unlike the US where these vaccines are offered to all
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT: Our open letter, signed by leading scientists & HCPs, urges the JCVI & UK Gov to reverse the decision denying Covid vaccines to millions of Clinically Vulnerable people who still qualify for 'flu vaccines. A "willingness-to-pay" approach puts lives at risk. 1/
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT: Our open letter, signed by leading scientists & HCPs, urges the JCVI & UK Gov to reverse the decision denying Covid vaccines to millions of Clinically Vulnerable people who still qualify for 'flu vaccines. A "willingness-to-pay" approach puts lives at risk. 1/
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