Author Archives: Joseph Thornton MD

Lisa Barrett ⁦‪@LisaBarrettID‬⁩ Here’s a helpful hint I hope we’ve understood well in the last 2 years: infectious diseases can’t be optimally managed without understanding and accounting for human behaviour. Including expertise in human behaviour is key, early and consistently, to explain and control outcomes. 5/20/22, 10:38 AM Joseph Thornton

BNO Newsroom ⁦‪@BNODesk‬⁩ CDC issues health advisory about monkeypox for healthcare providers across the U.S. pic.twitter.com/7DkKVIwr43 5/20/22, 8:56 PM Joseph Thornton

Jody Lanard MD ⁦‪@EIDGeek‬⁩ Dear Experts telling us to Please Go Away: People are justifiably fascinated. If you’ll help us learn stuff, we’ll absorb it, and then wait for new developments. Interest isn’t panic! Check out “Adjustment Reactions: The Teachable Moment in Crisis Comm” psandman.com/col/teachable.… 5/20/22, 7:19 PM Joseph Thornton

https://www.science.org/content/article/monkeypox-outbreak-questions-intensify-cases-soar Joseph Thornton

Toxic disinformation This is the virus I fear most J https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-pushes-bill-gates-monkeypox-conspiracy-1708789 Joseph Thornton

IDSA ⁦‪@IDSAInfo‬⁩ .⁦‪@CDCgov‬⁩ has released a Health Alert Network advisory on #monkeypox, including recommendations for clinicians, health departments and the public. emergency.cdc.gov/han/2022/han00… pic.twitter.com/ncYN74dDke 5/20/22, 3:02 PM Joseph Thornton

World Health Organization (WHO) ⁦‪@WHO‬⁩ WHO statement on #monkeypox outbreak in non-endemic countries bit.ly/3lB1qkB pic.twitter.com/CuqMQobQdK 5/20/22, 4:26 PM Joseph Thornton

World Health Organization (WHO) ⁦‪@WHO‬⁩ 🔴 What is #monkeypox? 🔴 What are the symptoms? 🔴 How does it spread from person to person? 🔴 Where in the world is there currently a risk of monkeypox? 🔴 Who is at risk of catching monkeypox? WHO Q&A on monkeypox bit.ly/3LyxX5D pic.twitter.com/XN9e49yBNG 5/20/22, 3:49 PM Joseph Thornton

https://www.nti.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NTI_Paper_BIO-TTX_Final.pdf NTI_Paper_BIO-TTX_Final.pdf Joseph Thornton

Prof. Devi Sridhar ⁦‪@devisridhar‬⁩ Hopefully we’ve learned from COVID for Monkeypox to have humility & learn from African experts who have experience managing this, to avoid overconfidence in knowledge when looking through fog with large data gaps & to constantly evolve our analysis as new info emerges. 5/20/22, 8:53 AM Joseph Thornton