Ski: I wasn’t able to get out in the mountains this weekend, but I just wanted to take a moment to thank all the folks at wsdot for all the work they do, we wouldn’t be able to ski without them!

Climb: I’ve recently been spending a lot of time in cold places, but right now I’m thinking about the warm desert of Nevada. Red rocks has always been my favorite place to climb, and I hope I can get back there soon!

Sci: Big congrats to Lauren, the Pepper lab and all collaborators involved!

Ski: for my third time up St. Helens I was pleasantly surprised to find a warm summit. Truly spring like conditions for a great day in the mountains #junuary

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Time for some new CDC guidelines

Amazing work by Ed Yong is not here shedding light on the unimaginable consequence of the pandemic we have unfortunately normalized.

Every single go fund me for medical expenses makes me sad/angry #medicareforall

Amazes me that people still don’t get it. Health insurance companies don’t care about you. They want to extract money from your healthy body until you are no longer healthy, then they want you to die as quickly as possible so they can focus on other money producing bodies.

Last 48 hrs Ive been hearing all the reasons why universal health care in other countries sucks: high taxes, wait times, lower pay. All due respect to these problems, but we have system designed to make a handful of corporations immense profit by denying medical care to everybody

New Science Magazine The original (ancestral strain) booster helps against BA.5 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… The Veesler Lab

If we get universal health care and my taxes end up going for other people's health care ... I won't care at all because my premiums already pay even more for other people's health care plus a insurance executive's yacht.

Three multibillionaires now own more wealth than the bottom half of America – 160 million Americans. This is what oligarchy looks like.

Progressive policies are pro-small business. Providing everyone with healthcare is a WIN for small businesses because they’ll be able to compete with the benefits packages of large corporations. It’ll also allow more people to start businesses. 1/

New CBO report: The poorest *half* of America -- ~150 million people -- hold only *2 percent* of the country's total wealth Wealth of top 10 percent has grown markedly since 1989 That tiny little line at the bottom of this chart is half the country

If you’re at #IDWeek2022 today come check out my poster on environmental pathogen testing in homeless shelters!

A few points about RSV: 1. We are seeing a huge surge in cases 2. Main symptoms in children & older adults: cough, wheeze, difficulty breathing 3. Symptoms overlap with flu & COVID - need to test 4. Vaccines in the pipeline for infants and older adults kuow.org/stories/triple…

Seattle, please get your flu shot! Update from UW Virology and Seattle Children's: -RSV has peaked, and starting its downward decline. -Flu numbers continue to rise exponentially. All flu A so far.