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Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Indiana University @iuidfellowship.bsky.social · 1d

#idweek2025 @drdemetre.bsky.social #hivma award 🎉 standing ovation 👏 #weareid @hivma.bsky.social we need to lead with moral courage & fidelity to science #advocacy

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 1d

Not one of our Med-Peds ID fellows winning the IDWeek/PIDS best abstract award 🔥🔥🔥

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4d

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.”

It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation

Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19d

Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long Covid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found.

Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds

The new research provides evidence that Covid reinfections can increase the risk of long-term health consequences.

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 19d

75% of the children in the study had never had a COVID vaccine.

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · Sep 16

Starting off 2025-2026 GWIDS strong in our new home with presentations from the NIH, including a case of thrice-baked malaria from crit care/ID/Peds ID triple threat Ian Drobish! @dcpedsid.bsky.social

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · Sep 15

Same thing with me last week! Maryland (has thus far) made it easy. I wish everyone could have this level of access if they desire.

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Danilo Buonsenso @buonsenso.bsky.social · Sep 14

What Is ME/CFS — And Why Should Pediatricians Care?

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What Is ME/CFS — And Why Should Pediatricians Care?

ME/CFS is a complex, multi-system chronic illness that can strike both adults and children.

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · Sep 5

COVID vaccine ✅️ Flu vaccine ✅️ #vaccineswork #trustyourdoctornotrfkjr

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · Sep 5

It was my absolute pleasure to raise awareness and provide some clinical strategies for managing pediatric Long COVID Pediatric Grand Rounds at USUHS this week #longcovid #iaccs

Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · Sep 3

Grateful to Dr Alexandra Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social from Children’s National and George Washington University for joining us at Uniformed Services University Pediatric Grand Rounds today to speak on the topic of Pediatric Long Covid

A title slide: What Doesn’t Kill You Doesn’t Always Make You Stronger: Understanding Long COVID in Children” by Alexandra Yonts, MD. The title is overlaid on a strikingly haunting image in a range of blue hues of a child with mid length curly hair looking over their right shoulder.

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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · May 21

I just left a comment. It doesn't have to be long or detailed. Some nice information here: peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · May 22

I need every single journalist covering vaccine stuff at the FDA to be explicit about this. Thank you @katherinejwu.com.

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There is a genuine open question regarding the degree of benefit for otherwise healthy kids to get seasonal COVID-19 boosters.

When describing this shift in an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine, as well as in a livestreamed FDA press conference, Prasad and Makary—neither of whom has formal training in infectious disease or vaccinology—focused primarily on the implications for COVID boosters for young, healthy adults.

In the past, the U.S. government has seen fit to restrict or pull vaccines only under extraordinary circumstances: major new safety concerns, a better immunization option, eradication of disease. And those decisions have generally come only after political leaders consulted multiple scientific experts in the field, which Prasad and Makary chose not to do through their agency’s typical channels. (The FDA’s panel of independent vaccine experts is scheduled to meet tomorrow.) Rather, political appointees with preexisting opinions on COVID vaccines appear to have enacted policy unilaterally. Prasad and Makary publicly went after COVID boosters. But kids’ first defenses against the virus are likely to be that attack’s collateral damage.

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · May 21

With nary a word about Long COVID and protection for those who desire it....

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · May 6

Booooo, this guy? Of course the Trump administration would replace a well respected scientist and public health hero with a money and attention grubbing Twitter "celebrity"https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/06/vinay-prasad-fda-center-for-biologics-evaluation-and-research-peter-marks-hhs-rfk-jr-makary/

Vinay Prasad tapped to run FDA center that regulates vaccines, gene therapies

Vinay Prasad will be the next director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, after Peter Marks was forced out.

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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · Apr 12

Several of the previously healthy children with severe life threatening infections that I cared for this past week, and their families, might like a word here….

David Higgins @drhigginsmd.bsky.social · Apr 11

The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”

That is dangerously false.

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments

The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · Mar 29

Very vocal patient advocate community and some champions (and long covid patients, like Tim Kaine himself) on HELP! It is a slight relief to see that speaking up can make a difference some times.

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · Mar 28

I'd love to know at what point an illness becomes chronic. 10 years? 15 years? When, RFK Jr, when? Bc apparently 5 years of disabling fatigue, brain fog, dizziness, pain, nausea, isn't long enough...
The callousness and hypocrisy of this administration is staggering 💔 😥🤬

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · Mar 7

Standing UP for science!

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · Feb 21

What horrors await us at 5pm on a Friday this week?

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · Feb 20

Helping fight chronic disease, you say? Bull$hit. Long COVID IS a chronic disease. Getting rid of the AC before we've even had a chance to begin our work is a travesty and a slap in the face to Americans with Long COVID and other infection associated chronic conditions.

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · Feb 14

Preventing 👏infectious 👏 disease 👏 IS 👏 preventing 👏 chronic 👏 disease
www.cdc.gov/chronic-symp...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK836...

OVERVIEW

Chronic diseases cause 70 percent of all deaths in the United States. Yet the factors that cause many of these conditions have been poorly understood until recently. Advances in numerous detection and...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Feb 14

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

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Annie Andrews, MD @drannieandrews.com · Feb 3

REQUIRED READING FOR DOCTORS, NURSES, HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATORS, & LEADERS OF MEDICAL ORGANIZATIONS

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How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration?

This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · Feb 3

Workers in DC are fighting to block Musk's minions.

"About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors." dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...

Federal Workers Block Doors of Admin Building Over Elon Musk Data Breach - DCMediaGroup

Nearly 100 Federal employees took part in a protest now into its second day of a takeover by Elon Musk surrogates of the high administration arm of the Federal government. Photo: DCMediaGroup Washingt...

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · Jan 31

This is 1930s Germany ish. Go download, save and print all national public health guidelines ASAP, before they too disappear.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

CDC Data Is Disappearing

The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

www.theatlantic.com

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