Pandemic preparedness in the US has been leveled a crippling blow with the cancellation of multiple #BARDA contracts to help develop mRNA vaccines. No other vaccine platform produces vaccine so quickly; without mRNA, Americans will have a long wait for pandemic vax.

As others have noted, #pubmed ( https://t.co/nETtEzgIJu) is down, as are many/most/all servers on the https://t.co/ulIhblnbYS high level domain. Government tech advisors #18F.gov fired at midnight. Coincidence? I think not. #pubmed.gov is the index to the life sciences.

Everything, yes everything written by @snolen is consequential, vital, and deeply compassionate:

.@BCFerries what is status of late afternoon Saturna-Mayne and Mayne - SB ferries? Service notice is ambiguous...

Revisions are needed urgently for sections 5.8.2 and 5.2 - N95 for hcw in health care settings - testing of all asymptomatic exposed individuals (NAT +/- serology) depending on timing of exposure

BREAKING: Liberal MP Jenica Atwin demands a federal investigation into the growing New Brunswick neurological disease cluster, sending a terse open letter to her own Liberal party colleague, health minister @markhollandlib

Hey @UBCmedicine docs. The next time a resident or medical student roles up in a wheelchair or on a crutch on their unaffected spastic arm, do better to suppress your expression of worry. You have no idea what personal courage and strength it took to get there or the power within

. @AfricaCDC announced it's 'likely' to declare a continental health emergency over Mpox This comes after @DrTedros said @WHO will convene an EC to recommend on declaring a PHEIC under the IHR I strongly support a regional emergency but urge coordination between Geneva & Africa

Basic income would leave 80% of PEI residents with more income, while the top 20% would see a modest change (less than 2%). Canadian economist Benoit Robidoux says this is a small price to eradicate poverty on the island. https://t.co/XNbMEZM6m6

2 Postdocs (Vancouver, Canada) Infectious disease, evolution and genomic epidemiology. with @carolinecolijn at Simon Fraser University More details:

And while you visit @gastown, swing over to the public toilets the City is threatening to close #WASH#sanitation#hygiene#Prevention

I need your help. Today CBSA scheduled the Lindo family, including track and field star Tamarri, to be removed on July 10th One week after Canada day, they want to send someone who could represent Canada at the Olympics to their death More info below

.@OntScienceCtr my love of science was nurtured at your Van de Graaff generator, and was the highlight of this child from Chatham. The best day in the school year were those visits, a hint of another world that was transformative. I'll leave my political expletives out of this.

It’s remarkable that the basic scientific literacy and simple compassion Ed Yong is embodying here is so uncommon among his professional peers. Journalism is nearly dead. Good video for the denialists in your life treating you as shitty ableists do.

.@snolen Stephanie Nolan - Canada's gift to global public health. Concision and compassion. https://t.co/bJGpStkgJI

@aetiologic Give us a call and we can cancel, refund, and re-book "reservation only". Then you purchase a Thru Fare ticket on the vessel. I'll put a note on your account to waive the cancellation fee for your existing booking. 1-888-223-3779 - option "0". ^cg

.@bcferries I have reservation on upcoming Swartz Bay ->Tsawwassen ferry. I am currently getting on Skeena in Fulford Harbour. If I get a through fare ticket from the Skeena will that lower cost of reservation and fare on the SB->Tsa segment?

I have learnt about the %m-% and %m-% operators since that post!

As #measles cases keep rising, new projections suggest there's a high chance Canada may experience a "sizable outbreak" — with anywhere from dozens to thousands infected if the disease strikes communities with low vaccination rates. My latest: https://t.co/jmjzwLFI4X