Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 ✓

@celinegounder · New York, NY, USA · joined 18 Jul 2009

Medicine / Infectious Disease / Epidemiology / @KFF @CBSNews @NYUGrossman @BellevueHosp doc / Threads @drcelinegounder / Bluesky @celinegounder.com

104 644Followers

1 065Following

22 680Posts total

65.4KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views12 519this account22 159median for 100K–1M

Reach, %11.96%this account6.71%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.74%this account1.18%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	12 519	22 159	0.56×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	11.96%	6.71%	1.78×
Engagement rate	0.74%	1.18%	0.63×

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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

3.6K29 Aug

27.7K

12.5K31 Aug

19.9K2 Sep

1.8K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

3.19%29 Aug

0.71%

3.14%31 Aug

0.74%2 Sep

0.56%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.18%.

What the audience does

Likes42.4%389 in total

Reposts10.4%95 in total

Replies39.0%358 in total

Quotes2.1%19 in total

Bookmarks6.1%56 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

Flu peptide-maxxing costs $0 and has randomized trials behind it. Four medical societies recommend it: the AAP, ACOG, AAFP, and IDSA. Save and send to a parent: https://t.co/gpgJVinEZK Read & subscribe for free: https://t.co/yjIDWlTmf2 https://t.co/Qb3ijKzYnO 1.8K views · 7 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 I think of measles as a mini HIV. Both infect the immune system itself. HIV takes the power to fight. Measles takes what you already learned, erasing 11% to 73% of antibodies in 77 unvaccinated children. Send to a parent unsure about vaccinating: https://t.co/3hLGL59lhG https:/ 19.9K views · 84 likes · 24 reposts · 33 replies 02 Sep 2026 A drunk driver runs a red light and kills you. The certificate says "blunt force trauma." Nobody argues about whether a drunk driver killed you or not. An unvaccinated mother got measles in pregnancy. Her newborn died from measles. https://t.co/ha3EQx4pRk https://t.co/jQl9CivkN 12.5K views · 153 likes · 37 reposts · 198 replies 31 Aug 2026 Pennsylvania reported 2 measles-associated deaths, the first in the US this year. One was a newborn. On Aug 28 the coroner listed measles as a contributing factor. Save and send to a parent: https://t.co/AuOMO7S2pY Read & subscribe: https://t.co/yjIDWlTmf2 https://t.co/SGmET 27.7K views · 58 likes · 10 reposts · 121 replies 29 Aug 2026 FDA approved this year's COVID shots. No federal committee has voted on who should get them. Whether you can walk into a pharmacy depends on your state, your age, and whether you have a qualifying condition. Save and send to a caregiver. Read & subscribe: https://t.co/yjIDWl 3.6K views · 87 likes · 21 reposts · 6 replies 29 Aug 2026