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Kai Kupferschmidt
@kakape
@kakape.bsky.social science journalist. molecular biologist. curious. writer at @sciencemagazine part of @pandemiapodcast, all things #blue
Berlin, Germany
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    Kai Kupferschmidt
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    Oct 30, 2024
    I’ve reported on infectious diseases for 15 years, but during the covid-19 pandemic and even more during the global outbreak of mpox clade IIb, I was shocked by the amount of misinformation I was seeing. Misinfo had always been part of any outbreak, but this felt different.
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    Kai Kupferschmidt
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    Nov 7, 2020
    Here’s the entire clip of @VanJones68. It’s beautiful and heartfelt, it will always be how I remember this moment and it made me uglycry 🤷‍♂️
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    Kai Kupferschmidt
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    Mar 12, 2024
    So sad to hear that Paul Alexander passed yesterday at age 78 from Covid-19. Paul contracted polio in 1952, when he was just six years old. He ended up in an iron lung and while he could live outside it for extended periods of time he never really left it.
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    Kai Kupferschmidt
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    Dec 3, 2021
    I’m so tired of this but I’ll say it once more: If #omicron turns out to be as dangerous as it well might and we once again do little to prepare for it with the time we have, then we are compounding the biggest collective political failure I have witnessed in my lifetime.
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    Kai Kupferschmidt
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    Nov 30, 2021
    Fuck you and your ahistorical, despicable, cynical bullshit. If you ever come to Germany I am happy to give you a tour of a few concentration camps and talk about the role spineless careerists played in the propaganda that led to the horror of the Holocaust. Signed: Germany
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    Oliver Darcy
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    Nov 30, 2021
    Fox host Lara Logan says that people tell her that Dr. Fauci doesn't represent science, but represents Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor known as the "Angel of Death" for performing medical experiments at Auschwitz: "I am talking about people all across the world are saying this"
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    Kai Kupferschmidt
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    Dec 29, 2020
    My plan for beating #covid19 after watching this pandemic for one year? Easy: Test like a Korean, track and trace like a Singaporean, sequence like a Brit, crush the curve like a New Zealander, vaccinate like an Israeli - and behave like a human being...
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    Kai Kupferschmidt
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    Oct 29, 2020
    Angela Merkel this morning in parliament: “Lies and misinformation, conspiracy and hate do not only harm our democratic debate, they also hamper our fight against the virus.”
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    Kai Kupferschmidt
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    Feb 22, 2020
    For me and for everyone I know who has been following #covid19, the last few days have felt like a profound shift in the epidemic. We are clearly entering a new phase. And since I've had some time to digest recent news, here is a short thread about that „window of opportunity“
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    Kai Kupferschmidt
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    Nov 19, 2021
    We have the knowledge. We have the vaccines. We have the money. Germany should not be in the situation it is in two years into this pandemic. What we lack is evidence-based politics. What we lack is social medicine. What we lack is empathy.
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    Kai Kupferschmidt
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    May 19, 2020
    One of the things I love about my job is that I learn so many new things with every story. That was particularly true in my reporting for this story about #covid19 clusters and susperspreading events. Read it here and/or bear with me for a thread... sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/w…
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    Kai Kupferschmidt
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    Jun 3, 2022
    Once again I am watching researchers scramble to understand a virus spreading and am getting a sinking feeling in my stomach as I watch new information come in… So a #monkeypox thread on worries and whys
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    Kai Kupferschmidt
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    Dec 14, 2021
    “#Omicron is spreading at a rate we have not seen with any previous variant”, says @DrTedros in @WHO presser on #covid19. “We're concerned that people are dismissing Omicron as mild. Surely we have learned by now that we underestimate this virus at our peril."
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    Kai Kupferschmidt
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    Nov 7, 2020
    Unsurprisingly, there is a sense of relief today across the political spectrum in Germany and I thought I’d give you a flavor of sentiments here:
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    Kai Kupferschmidt
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    Dec 17, 2021
    Going by what we know so far, places like Germany or the US are in for a world of trouble in the coming weeks. 
 So I want to make a few general points here once that go beyond the science (will do the rest later):