Michael Mina
@michaelmina_lab
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Physician-Scientist, MD,PhD. Immunology, Epidemiology, Infectious disease, CSO, CMO. Past: Harvard Faculty. BlueSky @michaelmina.bsky.social
Boston, MA
Joined February 2019
With all the news of vaccines & immunity, did you know measles infections destroy immunity and cause “Immune Amnesia”, increasing risk of all other infections Our research in ‘15 & ‘19 discovered this & the abbreviated story is written up nicely here: 1/ https://t.co/t5DKoQljxM
medicalrepublic.com.au
Long seen as a relatively trivial childhood disease, the measles virus is finally being outed for the insidious killer it is
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The Public health “establishment” has basically lost the trust of millions of Americans We now see the ramifications - and its only ramping up - dramatically There are ways to work towards common ground, to rebuild trust - and it’s going to take compromise, and listening.
@ScienceMagazine As we move into a loss of measles elimination in places like U.S…. We have to contemplate how to reverse the tides My view: Step 1 - “Established Public Health” must recognize its part. A failure to LISTEN w empathy to publics concerns contributes to vaccine hesitancy 11/
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On #Measles For those who need to hear it If a child gets measles and soon after does from bacterial infection measles WAS THE DRIVER of the severity of the INFECTION. Measles is NOT an innocent bystander Like 1918 Flu, measles deaths are v often from secondary infections
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Congrats to @SetPointMed for this landmark study in @NatureMedicine that led to FDA approval for targeting the vagus nerve inflammatory reflex to treat rheumatoid arthritis. https://t.co/7ke5SK3xMP.
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To me this is most interesting from a manufacturing prospective. They will have to manufacture much more difference is how the body absorbs it. W/ pills, the absorption or at least bioavailability is markedly reduced - so while consuming more, daily, via pill it’s mostly wasted
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Also, I say “New” bc an identical semaglutide pill - with a different mg… up to 14mg - has been on the market as Rybelsus for years.
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Here’s something crazy about the “new” oral GLP-1 semaglutide pill from Novo that was just approved for weight loss. New pill = 25mg DAILY Wegovy injection = 2.4mg WEEKLY That means you consume 73x the amount of semaglutide weekly vs the shot Wow! https://t.co/YhkWcQIkCN
statnews.com
The FDA has approved the oral version of Novo Nordisk’s injectable weight loss drug Wegovy, making it the first GLP-1 pill to be cleared by regulators for obesity.
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I talked to @michaelmina_lab , @cmyeaton , @acsifferlin & @EllerbeckAlex for @nytopinion about end of year developments in public health , trust, vaccines, ETCETERA Mike & Caitlin both so smart - I love learning from colleagues during these conversations
nytimes.com
Making sense of a year of change.
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I joined colleagues @michaelmina_lab and @RBMD1982 for a wide-ranging conversation about the changes unfolding in public health, and what it means for the future. Thanks to @AlexEllerbeck and @acsifferlin for bringing us together.
nytimes.com
Making sense of a year of change.
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Regarding the birth dose of HBV vaccine, I recently listened to the very sincere discussion between @michaelmina_lab and @DrPaulOffit at the "Why should I trust you podcast (@WSITYpod)". Highly recommended to all pro-, anti-, and skeptics of vaccines.
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Podcast Episode · Why Should I Trust You? · 09/18/2025 · 1h 22m
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🎙️The ACIP conversation we wish had happened. Spoiler: every guest on our show was open to flexibility on the birth dose, due to increasing vax hesitancy. But were not ok where this ACIP landed. 🙏@RBMD1982 @Craig_A_Spencer @michaelmina_lab
https://t.co/RvJBYB1a5x
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Podcast Episode · Why Should I Trust You? · 12/11/2025 · 1h 18m
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It's my privilege to announce that I've been invited to serve on the panel for The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services upcoming roundtable discussion on Lyme. This is an unprecedented & historic opportunity to speak to the heads of the major federal health agencies about
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An important study elucidating the mechanism by which mRNA vaccines cause myocarditis The risk is rare The risk of myocarditis from covid is about 10 times higher But understanding how a vaccine might have negative side effects is a key part of making vaccines even safer
A new Stanford Medicine study shows why mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis. https://t.co/wy6QO55HSu
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Also - it seems to me that this group, in discussing, weirdly, the use of antibody serology of the babies to determine 1, 2 vs 3 HepB vaccines a) is doing so w zero data and b) is entirely ignoring then that they would be requiring every baby to get needle sticks for blood
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Watching the ACIP meeting on HepB I sure wish there was at least one person who actually really understood vaccine immunology anywhere in the discussion There doesnt seem to be. So many other thoughts…
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A lot of public health ppl today are talking about HepB ahead of ACIP meeting tomorrow & pointing to this new modeling study of impacts of delayed doses / making striking conclusions https://t.co/rzucmAYknR NOTE: this is literally one of the worst, least informative, wildly
medrxiv.org
Introduction Children who acquire hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in early childhood through perinatal, household or community exposures are at highest risk of all age groups for experiencing...
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This is concerning 2 Cases of more severe/lethal mpox Clade 1 virus in California picked up in hospitalized patients Cases NOT linked to each other nor Travel Previously, a mild Clade II version swept the US This is the much worse Clade 1 virus https://t.co/FsHzVIDnz8
apnews.com
Investigators suspect that two Californians diagnosed with mpox may be the first U.S. cases resulting from the local spread of a different version of the virus.
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T-regs for the win! Love to see immunologists win the Nobel prize. The discovery of Foxp3 expressing T-regulatory cells has transformed our understanding of how the immune system does not attack itself. It used to be thought that the thymus was the gate keeper. in the late
BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
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Shattered by the passing of Jane Goodall. She showed how one person’s love for the forest can change the world. She inspired 1 Trillion Trees & reminded us never to lose hope. I love you, Jane, & will miss you deeply. May the one who brings peace bring peace to all. ❤️
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Jane Goodall inspired generations. not only to study primates and people, but to be caring and courageous scientists and humans. She was my first major scientific inspiration from as early as I can remember. She leaves a huge legacy and will be missed https://t.co/aIlzjRkkqa
nytimes.com
Her discoveries as a primatologist in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behave in the wild were hailed as “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.”
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