David S. Kim

1. One spring day 76 years ago, a Canadian medic leapt out of a plane high above Nazi Germany and began floating toward the ground. This is the story of Toppy Topham — and how he died.

“Technical and logistic issues are the biggest barriers currently standing in the way of increasing vaccine production and deployment” - Dr Anne Moore outlines how to address the global shortage of #COVDI19 vaccines: bit.ly/3vO7dGS via @ConversationUK

in which I argue that waiving vaccine patents is a red herring, and also miserly – governments should be investing billions in vaccine manufacture, not trying to push the cost elsewhere unherd.com/thepost/waivin…

Incredible news: #TheGambia has been validated by the @WHO as achieving trachoma elimination! The Gambia is the second country in the WHO African Region to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem! Congratulations to @MohGambia and all partners involved! #endtrachoma!!

In my latest video I share one of the ideas from my new book, and tell the story of activists who fought the AIDS crisis using scout mindset youtube.com/watch?v=EzkWqp…

🇬🇧 Integrated Review better than anticipated. Tone avoided too much hubris, though bit inevitably crept in. Biden era strategy after Trump wasteland. Ideas not radical but good chorus lines, including honesty on interests; freedom to think, speak, innovate; science/tech; climate.

Astra Zeneca vaccines just arrived in #Malawi! Big team effort from @MalawiGovt @UNMalawi @gavi @CEPIvaccines. 🇬🇧 #UKaid £500m for #COVAX globally.

In nine days, UNICEF and partners have delivered over 10M #COVAX vaccines to: Angola 🇦🇴 Cambodia 🇰🇭 Côte D'Ivoire 🇨🇮 DR Congo 🇨🇩 Gambia 🇬🇲 Ghana 🇬🇭 Kenya 🇰🇪 Lesotho 🇱🇸 Moldova 🇲🇩 Nigeria 🇳🇬 Philippines 🇵🇭 Rwanda 🇷🇼 Senegal 🇸🇳 Sudan 🇸🇩 More to come! @WHO, @gavi @CEPIvaccines

@jasonhickel Hi Jason, that is a false dichotomy. The world is unjust and it is also poor. – It’s right to fight against injustice. – But it is also important that the incomes of the poorest billions increase substantially, and this means economic growth [→ ourworldindata.org/poverty-growth…]. 1/7]

I find it very wrong to suggest that the only acceptable way to end global poverty is to reduce global inequality. It is wrong to make the chance of poor people leaving poverty behind conditional on an extremely optimistic scenario of the future of inequality.

Wowser! Amazing what can happen when everyone leans in .. €850M from EU to COVAX secures 1.3Bn doses for 92 African countries **#Malawi may have vaccine for 3.8M (20% of the population), prioritising health workers, as early as March** #VaccineEquity

Such a great visual. visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pan…

I am a fan on intranasal vaccination inducing potent local immunity where it is needed 😁

When they get back from the nutrition clinic, Chifundo's siblings make a dense porridge using the nutrient-rich cereal blend from @WFP_Malawi. Grandmother feeds him the porridge, which has helped Chifundo overcome malnutrition and grow strong and healthy. 😋🍲💪

If we want that more people devote their energy to making progress against large global problems, we should make sure that more people know that it is possible to make progress against such problems. ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-g…

Have a read of this great review from @David_S_Kim and @estergeama who discuss how long we can expect immunity against SARS-CoV-2 to last.

“If a person has courage or hope, he can do anything.” Aftab is an MDR-TB survivor in Mumbai, India. As a volunteer counselor, he provides remote support to #TB patients, encouraging them to continue treatment during #COVID19 lockdowns. ow.ly/2moo50Ct6Z8 #UniteToFight

Check our last review on adaptive immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 🧐🦠😷📚📖

Are there any clues to think SARSCoV2 will elicit a long-lasting immune response? Will it be sterilising? How is it? What do we know? We reviewed SARS and SARSCoV2 literature for adaptive immune responses and here it is! @RowlandJonesLab frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

How long will immunity against COVID-19 last? With news of vaccines being rolled out, we aim to address this pertinent question in our #review published today. Very lucky to have worked with @estergeama @sarahlrj @RowlandJonesLab. doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.…