Valerie Le Sage

We welcome applications for faculty positions in our department @PittTweet School of Medicine. Looking for microbiologists of all stripes interesting in medically important pathogens, including immunology of infectious disease. DM me with questions. We have a great community!

@GuzzoLabUTSC @UTSCresearch @UtscBiology @UTSC Congratulations 🎉

Grateful to receive the 2023 Principal's Pre-Tenure Faculty Research Award @UTSCresearch @UtscBiology Even more proud to accept the award with family at my side! Thanks to @UTSC for organizing a family friendly awards event, and acknowledging our supporters behind the scenes.

@linseymarr Nice.

Anecdote from my gym: 1 infected coach, 50 exposed athletes, 0 known transmission events. Owner Velvet Minnick implemented strict distancing, ventilation, and hygiene policies. At least 10 feet between athletes and lots of open doors (circled in red) during workouts. Brr, winter.

Ever wonder which public heath interventions limit COVID cases? Us too! We collected data for every state level intervention (gatherings, travel, schools, and parks) from March to end of June. Check out our interactive maps at lakdawala-lab.github.io/PHIGHT_COVID/i…

Failure to replicate in another lab

One is a mask. The other is a chin guard. No one told you to wear a chin guard. Wear a mask.

90 new cases in Allegheny County today. An all-time high. Cases continue to be in younger resudneta with people traveling and going to bars/restaurants. Please please behave like yourr parents and grandparents are the ones at risk from your actions - oh wait - they are

When you’re ventilated a doctor puts a tube down your throat and you can’t breathe or talk on your own When you wear a mask you choose to put on a thin layer of fabric that allows you to do virtually everything you would normally do Your call, defenders of freedom

Normalize mask wearing! 😷

1/2 Finished! #MOVEPittsburgh

Wow. Preprint on patient group of 368 hospitalized veterans with COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine treatment: *higher* death rates than treatment without HC. "Rates of death in the HC, HC+AZ, and no HC groups were 27.8%, 22.1%, 11.4%, respectively." medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nothing like bagels from home!

Terrible experience with Scan Pay & Go. @GiantEagle why am I allowed to take a scanner when the register to check out is closed? I stood for 10 min with my two children screaming with no help. We left and won’t be going back.

A blast from my McGill PhD past! Thanks for the great meeting @shanluliu! #MidwestViro2019

Having a great time with all our @PittCVR friends @Lakdawala_Lab @RogueRifter @fablabpitt at the 1st Midwest Virology Symposium! #MidwestViro2019

@Lakdawala_Lab swag makes you run faster!

Me: “Hey lab I have an idea for a crazy experiment who wants to do it?” Lab: