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TRAstonDrs @castltrastondrs.bsky.social · 2d

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #immunosky #virosky #Publichealth Based on a study in @sciimmunology.bsky.social , a #covid booster immunization drives a germinal center mediated broadening of #Bcell responses by recalling existing #memoryBcells

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iddoctor.bsky.social @iddoctor.bsky.social · 11d

Medicare telehealth payment for services will mostly end tonight, September 30, 2025. Still works for behavioral/mental health with periodic in-person visits and rural at an approved "originating site", i.e., not the patient's home.

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iddoctor.bsky.social @iddoctor.bsky.social · 13d

Better yet get an Infectious Disease consult.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23d

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

Michael Eisner
@Michael Eisner
X.com
Where has all the leadership gone? If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment? The
"suspending indefinitely" of Jimmy Kimmel immediately after the Chairman of the FCC's aggressive yet hollow threatening of the Disney Company is yet another example of out-of-control intimidation. Maybe the Constitution should have said, "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, except in one's political or financial self-interest." By-the-way, for the record, this ex-CEO finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny.
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David M. Reiss, M.D. @dmrdynamics.bsky.social · 24d

CDC Infectious Disease Data Project Shelved www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

CDC Infectious Disease Data Project Shelved

Website was going to make data more available, but HHS put it on hold indefinitely

www.medpagetoday.com

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iddoctor.bsky.social @iddoctor.bsky.social · Jul 26

substack.com/@themouthyre...

The Mouthy Renegade Writer (@themouthyrenegadewriter)

This is incredible. She's a history teacher who explains the cult of Trumpism in less than 6 minutes. Check it out and send it to your MAGA relatives and others. I might have to publish her short t...

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Jun 4

(2/2) As of May 29, there are 1,088 confirmed measles cases in 33 jurisdictions in the US. For context, there were a total of 285 cases in all of 2024. Way to go, America! 🦅 #Measles #VaccinesSaveLives

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iddoctor.bsky.social @iddoctor.bsky.social · May 26

E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface

Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli contamination.

www.washingtonpost.com

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · May 22

Trump in 2024: we are going to deport illegal immigrants, who committed crimes, to their home country

Trump in early 2025: we are sending legal immigrants, with no criminal record, to random foreign gulags

Trump in midway through 2025: we are going to deport legal visitors studying at Harvard

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 23

Yup, one of the terminated NSF awards was #2140743, which allows Harvard to draw funding for its NSF graduate research fellows (GRFP), all current and new.

Confirmed here: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Just cruel.

Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · May 22

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · May 6

A corrupt pro wrestling promoter given the authority to shut down the nation’s oldest university is about where we’re at right now, as a country.

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · May 6

🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.

Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.

THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION
WASHINGTON, DC 20202
May 5, 2025
Dr. Alan Garber
Office of the President
Harvard University
Massachusetts Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Garber,
The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public?
Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates.
Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected?
Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then…

$running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party." Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt. If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy. At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal. Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement. They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans. The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede…$

Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University.
These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Sincerely,
Linda E. McMahon
Secretary of Education

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ACR Journals @acr-journals.bsky.social · May 4

A 27 y/o woman with hx of relapsing Kikuchi disease presented for altered mental status and 1 month of painful, bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy & fever. Brain MRI showed multiple cortical, subcortical, and callosal enhancing T2-FLAIR hyperintensities with restricted diffusion
#Medsky #Neurosky

Evolution of brain MRI findings in a 27-year-old woman with acute encephalopathy and painful bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy. Initial MRI of the brain showed multiple foci of restricted diffusion (arrows) present and involving the splenium of the corpus callosum, left periatrial white matter, and left periventricular white matter (A). Repeat MRI of the brain on hospital day two revealed multiple new and progressed sites of FLAIR hyperintensity (arrows) involving the supratentorial brain, including the thalami, right basal ganglia, bilateral temporal lobes, left insula, right frontal lobe, left parietal lobe, and splenium of the corpus callosum (B). MRI of the brain on hospital day eight demonstrated an increased extent of FLAIR hyperintensity (arrows) in the left hippocampus, left para-hippocampal gyrus, and right temporal lobe but with some decrease in the conspicuity of the FLAIR hyperintensity involving the thalami, right basal ganglia, and left frontoparietal lesions (C)

Histopathologic findings from right temporal lobe lesion brain biopsy in a 27-year-old woman with acute encephalopathy and painful bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy. Sections show brain parenchyma with patchy perivascular mononuclear, lymphohistiocyte-rich inflammation (A and B). Immunohistochemical staining highlighted CD68+ macrophages (C) and CD3+ T lymphocytes, including a mix of CD4+ and CD8+ populations (D), in prominent perivascular distributions.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · May 2

Inject the second paragraph of this footnote directly into my veins.

(And then send it to the nine firms that have bent the knee.)

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · May 2

Howell drips with disdain for the firms who capitulated to the White House and says of those who resisted "will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 1

asked by Stephen A. Smith about his Harvard shakedown, Trump starts ranting about Harlem and says "I got a very high Black vote"

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iddoctor.bsky.social @iddoctor.bsky.social · Apr 29

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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · Apr 15

"Officials at Harvard realized they have the top law school in the nation and enough money to pay the thousands of lawyers who attended it.

'Unlike Yale, whose law school curriculum seems to incude courses on bootlicking, we are confident we have the legal power to go up against Trump's DoJ,' said the Dean of Harvard Law School.”

"Yale alumni Josh Hawley and Bret Kavanaugh could not be reached for comment because their tongues were caught in Trump's shoelaces."

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Apr 15

Today Harvard University became the first university to directly refuse to comply with the Trump Administration's demands. @nathanheller.bsky.social reports on the pressure from Washington threatening America’s oldest school—and the soul of higher education.

Will Harvard Bend or Break?

Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education.

www.newyorker.com

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · Apr 14

Cancers related to CT scanning could account for 5% of all new future cancer diagnoses, annually. In this risk model, the 93 million CT scans performed in 2023 were projected to result in approximately 103,000 future cancers. (H/t Topol)

CT scans exposes patients to ionizing
#BlueSky #MedSky

Projected Lifetime Cancer Risks From Current Computed Tomography Imaging

This risk model projects how many future cancers in the United States could result from annual computed tomography examinations.

jamanetwork.com

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Zack (Snacks) Nelson, PharmD, MPH @zacrobid.bsky.social · Apr 8

Thru the CDC AR Lab Network, the Maryland and Washington State Public Health Labs offer nationwide gradient strip method antimicrobial susceptibility testing for NG - not sure if they were indirectly impacted through federal funding cuts, though.

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Paul Adamson MD MPH @padamsonmd.bsky.social · Apr 8

Thank you 🙏. Super helpful info.

Found their info here, in case helpful to others: www.cdc.gov/antimicrobia...

Also reached out to folks at our state and local health departments, because it seems there might also be some options in California.

www.cdc.gov

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Mar 28

Goodnight friends ♥️ Our hearts are with all of us at HHS who receive bad news tomorrow. And all those at health departments across the country who received bad news this week. Call us cheesy, but Lord of the Rings is on our minds.

FRODO: I can’t do this, Sam.

SAM: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.

FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam?

SAM: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

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iddoctor.bsky.social @iddoctor.bsky.social · Mar 22

Columbia doesn't have an undergraduate business major

iddoctor.bsky.social @iddoctor.bsky.social · Mar 9

I'm not an expert in this at all. The destruction of science and government is alarming and the administration wants more. On X, people are gleeful. I can't imagine how Columbia will be able to recruit new faculty and people are probably looking for the exits.

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iddoctor.bsky.social @iddoctor.bsky.social · Mar 8

Trump is in office for 4 years. It will take years to get that 400 million back if they win in court and going forward they are not getting new grants. I think the administration chose a university to destroy and Columbia was unwise in how they have been handling matters.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Feb 19

NEW: A letter from an anonymous federal worker. Please read and share: www.muellershewrote.com/p/letter-fro...

Letter From a Federal Worker

This is a heartbreaking letter that a federal worker has asked me to share with the public.

www.muellershewrote.com

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