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Brian Chow, MD

@brianchowmd.bsky.social

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🦠ID/HIV doc 🐱cat dad 🏃🏻runner 🏳️‍🌈👬🏻views my own or borrowed from someone else

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Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · 3h

#IDWeek2025 “You’ll swim with the fishes.”

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · 9h

But UW broad range PCR saves the day #TID #IDWeek2025

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · 9h

Karius. “You win some, you lose some.”

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · 12h

Harbor-UCLA at #IDWeek2025

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · 1d

#TeamCeftobiprole buttons coming next year!

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

Good news for global health - Fiji has become the 26th country to eliminate trachoma, a neglected tropical disease and the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness.

A great example of the power of institutions and communities working together to advance public health for all.

Fiji becomes the 26th country to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem

In a landmark public health achievement, Fiji has been validated by the World Health Organization (WHO) for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem.

www.who.int

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Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · 1d

When in Rome

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Dr Feinberg.
Let’s meet our patients where they are.

#IDWeek2025

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · 1d

No need for #TeamCefazolin here. All TB. #IDWeek2025

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · 1d

Pulling out the @pidsociety.bsky.social socks for tonight’s PIDS Foundation dinner

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · 2d

Been there. Done that. Bought the T-shirt.

Support @idsainfo.bsky.social #IDSAFoundation

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · 2d

Find me for MSSA swag at #IDWeek2025. Limited quantities. #TeamCefazolin #TeamOxacillin #TeamNafcillin and for our non-US colleagues #TeamFlucloxicillin

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Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · 2d

Real life tags coming!

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · 3d

Welcome to #IDWeek2025

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · 27d

Eating local without iodized salt is how we get iodine deficiency and goiters in inland areas.

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · Aug 27

Not sure about the others, but orange is azithromycin to me.

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · Aug 26

When in Rome?

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · Aug 26

Wait! It’s not actual chocolate?!?

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Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · Aug 26

I made buttons. Can you guess which is winning at my hospital? #IDsky #TeamCefazolin #TeamOxacillin #AntimicrobialStewardship #ASP

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · Jul 19

During COVID, we saw what we already knew on full display: society depends on the uncelebrated people clocking in and out for far less than their work produces. Not on the billionaires constantly crowing about their importance.

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Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · Jul 17

A pediatrician in clinical practice making $1 million a year. 😂😂😂😂.

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Ed Belongia MD @belongia.bsky.social · Jul 15

New Danish cohort study with over 1 million kids confirms safety of aluminum in childhood vax. They looked at 50 different conditions, including autoimmune, allergic & neurodevelopmental (eg autism).

This should end further debate on this topic (but probably won't).

Annals Intern Med 15 July 2025

Abstract from research paper in Annals of Internal Med, July 15, 2025. Conclusion: "This nationwide cohort study did not find evidence supporting an increased risk for autoimmune, atopic or allergic, or neurodevelopmental disorders associated with early childhood exposure to aluminum-adsorbed vaccines..."

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Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · Apr 21

Who carries $3000 in cash these days?
Who carries check books these days?
Apparently the Secretary of Homeland Security

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · Mar 28

www.npr.org/2025/03/28/n...

Trump signs order ending union bargaining rights for wide swaths of federal employees

President Trump's new executive order ends collective bargaining for wide swaths of federal employees, as part of his broader campaign to reshape the government's workforce. Unions are vowing to sue.

www.npr.org

Brian Chow, MD @brianchowmd.bsky.social · Mar 28

Then they came for the trade unionists,and I did not speak out-Because I was not a trade unionist.