Professor of Immunology 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 Lisbon, 🇵🇹 #Immunology Time for Science, not silence https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=7vG1jLIAAAAJ&hl=en https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1478-9562 threads.net/@marc_veld https://buymeacoffee.com/mveldhoen
In stages, I watched the whole show, and a show is all it was. People yell and scream at Dr Fauci about things they did not even know existed 5-6 years ago and that they clearly still know anything about. There was really nothing else going on to even discuss. 1/6
I'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.
Claiming “the 8 vaccines given in the first 6 months of life have never been studied for a relationship to autism” is false and dangerously misleading. Decades of research have examined vaccines and autism, consistently finding no causal link.
What if the immune system doesn't primarily react to threats, but predicts them? We tend to think immunity follows a simple sequence: pathogen → detection → response. Modern immunology suggests something far more interesting. 🧵 1/3
The saddest pandemic legacy isn't COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 circulating. It's the persistence of two anti-science tribes: Anti-Vax and COVIDDOOM. Different conclusions, same flaws: ideology over evidence. Science moved on, reality evolved. But they're still arguing with 2020.
Ebola outbreak in DR Congo accelerates as health officials say Trump and Elon Musk’s aid cuts hamper response Key supplies, equipment and operational support are no longer reaching responders at the scale needed, they said.
Ebola outbreak in DR Congo accelerates as health officials say Trump and Elon Musk’s aid cuts hamper responseKey supplies, equipment and operational support are no longer reaching responders at the scale needed, they said.www.nbcnews.comWhat a time to be alive. A US president who announces a peace deal, then war, then peace, etc, several times a week. It doesn´t even make the news anymore. The latter could be the dangerous part.
They don´t want to know the pandemic is long over, that most have immune memory that protects against severe disease, just the same as against all the other respiratory viruses we regularly encounter. SARS-CoV-2 is not special, but it was new. That was all.
Adaptive immunity solved that problem by generating billions of unique receptors. Innate immunity predicts the familiar. Adaptive immunity predicts novelty. The immune system isn't just a defence system, it's the body's model of the world. open.substack.com/pu... 3/3
The immune system does not respond to realityWhat if the most important thing about your immune system is not what it sees, but what it expects to see?open.substack.comFive years of COVID taught us one thing: immunology didn’t fail, our public discourse did. My new Substack cuts through the noise with evidence, not ideology. If you want facts over fear, and science over spin, join here: marcveldhoen.substac... 1/2
What will population immunity to SARS-CoV-2 look like in a post-vaccine world?An updated outlook (2025)marcveldhoen.substack.comPersistent cytolytic CD8+ T cells recognize SARS-CoV-2 and herpesvirus epitopes in long COVID A paper pushed by PolyBio as: "supporting the role of viral persistence and herpesvirus reactivation in the disease process". Does it? www.sciencedirect.co... 1/9
Persistent cytolytic CD8+ T cells recognize SARS-CoV-2 and herpesvirus epitopes in long COVIDViral-specific CD8+ T cells play roles in protective immunity and immunopathology including during COVID-19. Leveraging combinatorial tetramers, we pr…www.sciencedirect.comSafety and efficacy of mRNA vaccines: a mechanistic and public health perspective The accumulated evidence affirms mRNA vaccines as a safe, effective, with enduring relevance for future infectious disease prevention and PH preparedness. www.thelancet.com/jo... 1/3