jik<p><strong>“PanChol” clinical trial thread unroll</strong></p><p>In October and November 2024, I participated in a clinical trial for a cholera vaccine called “PanChol” being developed at Boston’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital (a.k.a. Mass General Brigham). Current cholera vaccines are expensive and not very effective and difficult to distribute and administer because they have strict temperature storage requirements and are injected rather than given orally. In contrast, the PanChol vaccine is given orally, and the doctors developing it believe they will be able to make it shelf-stable to be rehydrated on-site.</p><p>During the trial I had to stay in the hospital for about a week in isolation. I “live-tooted” about my stay on Mastodon. Those posts have scrolled off of everyone’s feed, so I thought it would be a good idea to capture them here, because I’m about to participate again in the next phase of the clinical trial which I’ll be posting about. I wanted to make it easy for people who are curious to go back and look at what I posted before, especially since a I subsequently deleted a couple of posts in the thread to free up space on the server so the thread isn’t contiguous when you view it in the fediverse.</p><p>Below, therefore, are all my posts with the “#PanCholLiveToot” hashtag before today.</p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113385768267486863" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113385768267486863</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113385827145137752" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113385827145137752</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113385949805187032" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113385949805187032</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113385964038084019" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113385964038084019</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113386006517341852" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113386006517341852</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113386031992291779" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113386031992291779</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113386053192915945" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113386053192915945</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113386076291635900" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113386076291635900</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113386134657061712" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113386134657061712</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113386182255222135" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113386182255222135</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113386198277860129" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113386198277860129</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113386232627375377" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113386232627375377</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113386257290593978" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113386257290593978</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113386615817815890" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113386615817815890</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113386630153673751" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113386630153673751</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113386652590260059" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113386652590260059</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113386697495508206" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113386697495508206</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113387190475691646" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113387190475691646</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113387191709149227" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113387191709149227</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113387238096635506" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113387238096635506</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113390494205867631" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113390494205867631</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113390788734605108" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113390788734605108</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113396558266945482" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113396558266945482</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113403017910706067" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113403017910706067</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113403026215960042" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113403026215960042</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113403031659784213" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113403031659784213</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113403043672831863" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113403043672831863</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113403071480609170" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113403071480609170</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113407805990692740" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113407805990692740</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113407841630549472" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113407841630549472</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113408574762529783" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113408574762529783</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113410473174217460" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113410473174217460</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113413964488963810" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113413964488963810</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113414002326890114" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113414002326890114</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113414016586114260" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113414016586114260</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113414037027571298" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113414037027571298</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113414044369582349" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113414044369582349</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113414058388673871" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113414058388673871</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113414065537916664" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113414065537916664</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113414183368438218" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113414183368438218</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113415633468159697" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113415633468159697</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113415662147124239" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113415662147124239</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113415685851142372" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113415685851142372</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113415700797873217" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113415700797873217</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113415762826943777" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113415762826943777</a></p><p>Deleted post from the thread resurrected from my backup:</p><p>“Several people at work this week have commented to me that the room I’m in looks like something out of 2001: A Space Odyssey. People in the thread here have commented as well. It’s even more true when I’m on Meet / Teams / Zoom and I turn on background blurring:”</p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/blog.kamens.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/0beb5f774c5ce95c.png?ssl=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113415879316539727" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113415879316539727</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113415891209286993" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113415891209286993</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113415908400419490" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113415908400419490</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/113419905989936266" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/113419905989936266</a></p><p>Deleted post from the thread resurrected from my backup:</p><p>“Free at last, and already failing to follow the doctor’s instructions to use sunblock until a couple days after I finish the antibiotics (doxycycline causes sun sensitivity). I did not bring sunblock with me to the hospital six days ago. 😉 Waiting for the bus. Could have taken a Lyft that they would have reimbursed me for, but does the kind of person who volunteers for clinical trials take a Lyft when there’s perfectly good public transit? No, he does not.”</p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/blog.kamens.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/dec3136c79f7caf1-scaled.jpg?ssl=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/114265543197475183" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/114265543197475183</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/114265544292941615" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/114265544292941615</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/114265552936138377" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/114265552936138377</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/114926896103129335" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/114926896103129335</a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/@jik/114926903879889071" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://federate.social/@jik/114926903879889071</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/brigham-womens-hospital/" target="_blank">#BrighamWomenSHospital</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/cholera/" target="_blank">#cholera</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/clinical-trials/" target="_blank">#clinicalTrials</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/mass-general-brigham/" target="_blank">#MassGeneralBrigham</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/panchol/" target="_blank">#PanChol</a></p>