Putrino Lab

@PutrinoLab · New York, USA · joined 23 Jun 2014

We make people (and technology) better at Mount Sinai. Opinions are my own.

36 379Followers

407Following

9 561Posts total

246.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

26 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views6 005this account1 540median for 10K–100K

Reach, %16.51%this account4.74%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %4.49%this account1.87%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 005	1 540	3.90×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	16.51%	4.74%	3.48×
Engagement rate	4.49%	1.87%	2.41×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

6.8K31 Aug

12.8K

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8.7K

9.1K1 Sep

10.6K2 Sep

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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

4.37%31 Aug

2.45%

5.38%

4.74%

6.10%

9.65%

5.59%

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2.13%1 Sep

5.06%2 Sep

3.16%

4.75%

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3.41%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.87%.

What the audience does

Likes84.6%7 108 in total

Reposts6.3%531 in total

Replies2.2%188 in total

Quotes1.0%83 in total

Bookmarks5.9%495 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@PutrinoLab True, but I think important not to make theory of viral persistence as a driver of Long Covid an orthodoxy, and look also to other explanations (exacerbation of mast cell disease and so on) 558 views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Novel approaches to mechanistically addressing these issues could be crucial to treating cognitive symptoms in #LongCOVID 👀 A large-scale RCT of this technology cannot come fast enough. https://t.co/rlxELsmIWW 6K views · 96 likes · 18 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 @PutrinoLab @DeeJaySas For sure! Have you got any plans to do trials with things that actually degrade viral RNA rather than just block replication? siRNA (SNS812 has Ph2 data), RIBOTACs, CRISPR-Cas13, etc 779 views · 31 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 @PutrinoLab And: it maybe needs other substances in a useful combination (thinking about Pridgen Protocol ) 729 views · 19 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 Just a reminder (many seem to need it): A failed Paxlovid trial in #LongCOVID does not erase the validity of all the careful work demonstrating SARS-CoV-2 persistence LC, it just shows us that drugs that target acute infection don’t always work on chronic infection. That’s it. 10.6K views · 424 likes · 80 reposts · 27 replies 02 Sep 2026 Researchers link cognitive problems after COVID-19 to neuroinflammation, microglial activation, blood-brain barrier damage, and vascular dysfunction. These processes may help sustain long-lasting brain fog. https://t.co/bV461avQrs 9.1K views · 149 likes · 39 reposts · 3 replies 01 Sep 2026 Delighted to announce some new progress on our #LongCOVID trial with Fareon and their first-in-human microtesla magnetic therapy (MMT) device. As you may recall, we pre-printed the safety/feasibility work not too long ago: https://t.co/XlUzMHV5y1 In this triple-blind placebo- 1/ 8.7K views · 177 likes · 41 reposts · 5 replies 31 Aug 2026 @PutrinoLab Masks: When experts mask, it's a message to the population abt aerosole transmission, abt asymptomatic transmission and abt the fact that if we want to be protected and protect others, we have to mask until a sterilizing vaccine comes up. So please mask🙏 930 views · 50 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 Let's meet this moment and change the face of medicine. Together. 🙏 /end (p.s. I'm probably going to step away from social media now and touch grass) 6K views · 528 likes · 17 reposts · 34 replies 31 Aug 2026 need to be bold enough and humble enough to work with people we disagree with, even vehemently, to get to the truth. We have an opportunity, collectively, to be part of a solution to problems that have caused untold and horrific suffering for millions of people for decades. 17/ 6K views · 348 likes · 13 reposts · 4 replies 31 Aug 2026 me. It is my opinion that they have demonstrated poor judgement online and I sincerely hope that they turn this behavior around and start to comport themselves with the intelligence, care and compassion that I know them to possess. I will end here with a final thought: 15/ 5.8K views · 268 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 Whether you believe me or not, I truly believe that we are getting close to having actionable treatments and biomarkers for #LongCOVID, #MECFS, chronic tick- and vector-borne illness and many related diagnoses. Closer than ever before. But we need to work together on this. We 16/ 9.9K views · 485 likes · 38 reposts · 7 replies 31 Aug 2026 colleagues here, including Drs Buonsenso and Joffe who have recently been making comments that I find quite jarring and shocking to read. I know these two to be passionate and caring people with their patients, which is precisely why this online behavior is disappointing to 14/ 12.8K views · 297 likes · 12 reposts · 2 replies 31 Aug 2026 every single aspect of how this conference was carried out and that is your right to do so, but spreading misinformation, lies and false rumors about people places them at risk. We should be able have discourse without it. Similarly, I do also have to call out some of my 13/ 6.8K views · 282 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies 31 Aug 2026 the last few days at a conference being quietly shadowed by 4 security guards because the Dutch police, independent of the conference, decided that there were credible threats of harm against me I can say that this hits home for me. I was also devastated to learn that similar 11/ 50.3K views · 425 likes · 28 reposts · 25 replies 31 Aug 2026 threats were made against @miketweetchap, a fundamentally decent and kind man living with #LongCOVID who put literally everything he had into this conference with nothing but the purest intentions of making a difference for the community. You may say that you disagree with 12/ 8.8K views · 348 likes · 12 reposts · 3 replies 31 Aug 2026 misinformation. X can be a wild place and people can, and often do, say whatever they want. I think it is important if untrue claims are being made about researchers or clinicians that all members of the community take the time to call them out. As someone who has just spent 10/ 5.9K views · 225 likes · 9 reposts · 2 replies 31 Aug 2026 specific field of research or clinical practice isn't working out, you can also leave without making threats. This isn't an airport - no need to announce your departure. 3) Researchers and clinicians DO have a right to speak out and respectfully set straight sources of 9/ 5.6K views · 249 likes · 10 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 non-stop abuse or angst or attacks online, I'm just reminding my colleagues that this platform is just one way of interacting with a community, and that you hold a position of power that must be acknowledged. If being on X isn't working for you, don't do it. If working in a 8/ 5.4K views · 273 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 understand that there is a power differential between you and the patient community. This power differential must be acknowledged and honored. Full stop. It is healthy and wise to take breaks from social media if you are feeling attacked online. It is also healthy to sometimes 6/ 6.2K views · 310 likes · 16 reposts · 5 replies 31 Aug 2026 reset and decide if you even want to continue to engage with online communities on X. It is NOT OK to threaten folks with leaving the field or halting research unless people online "act right". TBC: I'm not saying that every clinician and researcher should have to withstand 7/ 5.9K views · 309 likes · 12 reposts · 2 replies 31 Aug 2026 problem (e.g. "lumpers" vs. "splitters"...I am a splitter) and if I'm being brutally honest, its hard not to feel like a failure as a clinician or a researcher most days. Here are a few truths and I hope people are prepared to really hear them: 1) Patients and their allies 3/ 7.3K views · 270 likes · 8 reposts · 3 replies 31 Aug 2026 have every right to criticize, question and press researchers and clinicians. It would be great if this could be done respectfully, but the research and clinical communities must also understand and accept when frustration and anger come through. This is a frustrating 4/ 5.9K views · 282 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 situation and anger is a reasonable emotion. To everyone on here working on or living these extraordinarily hard problems: you have every right to your frustration and anger, but please try to stop short of abuse and ad hominem attacks. 2) Clinicians and researchers: Please 5/ 5.8K views · 277 likes · 9 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 This feels like a very tense moment online for many people who are part of the clinical, scientific and patient communities in #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other related complex chronic illnesses. People are angry and with very good reason: we have a number of complex chronic 1/ 45.5K views · 682 likes · 122 reposts · 45 replies 31 Aug 2026 illness diagnoses that are associated with devastating effects on quality of life and severe disability and we still have no biomarkers, no approved treatments and minimal amounts of access to informed and compassionate care. There is vehement disagreement on how to parse the 2/ 9.4K views · 286 likes · 9 reposts · 3 replies 31 Aug 2026 With some new followers on board, I wanted to take the time to re-introduce myself to the #LongCovid community (and everyone else). I’m David Putrino: Director of Rehab Innovation at @MountSinaiNYC, Associate Prof at @MountSinaiRehab for @IcahnMountSinai 1/ https://t.co/8pex6kxR7 0 views · 1.1K likes · 129 reposts · 79 replies 12 Sep 2022

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