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Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH

@claytonmowrer.bsky.social

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Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Infectious Diseases at UNMC/Children's Nebraska | Epi nerd | Emerging and high-consequence pathogens and pandemic preparedness | Biosecurity | LEAP grad ('23) #IDSky #PedsIDSky #EpiSky

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Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH @claytonmowrer.bsky.social · Nov 15

Hi all!

Been a while since I’ve been active on social media, so I figured it’s time for a proper intro. 👋

I’m an internal medicine/pediatrics ID doc at UNMC, focused on emerging and high-consequence pathogens—think epidemiology, surveillance, therapeutics, and especially operational guidance. 🦠

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Alice (SHE/HER) Sato, MD PhD @asato4kids.bsky.social · Sep 11

Only a few days away from our livestream! Please join us starting 11am EST on September 16th!

Details at saveaidsresearch.org

#HIV #IDSky #NIH #PedsID #TBSky

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Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH @claytonmowrer.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is beyond heartbreaking

T. Neil Ku, MD, FSHEA, FIDSA @kutneil.bsky.social · Sep 11

This case emphasizes the importance of herd immunity in protecting those who cannot be vaccinated, as this child was infected with measles before being old enough to receive the MMR vaccine.
#vaccination #measles #publichealth
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Child dies from complication of measles contracted years earlier

A school-age child in California has died from a rare complication of measles contracted as an infant. Los Angeles County health officials announced the death Thursday.

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Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH @claytonmowrer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Like seriously. Wtaf

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · Sep 4

Who in the real world would actually say out loud that they were an untrustworthy person? Did he confuse the CDC head with Littlefinger from Game of Thrones?!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 4

WARREN: Did you tell the head of the CDC that if she refused to sign off on your changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, that she had to resign?

RFK Jr: No. I told her she had to resign because I asked her 'are you a trustworthy person?" and she said no

WARREN: This is not what she has said

Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH @claytonmowrer.bsky.social · Jun 20

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UNMC Infectious Diseases Division @unmc-id.bsky.social · Jun 20

New from Drs. Nada Fadul, @estohs.bsky.social, @m-salman-ashraf.bsky.social and a fantastic collaborative team in JMIR Research Protocols:

"Providing Education and Training to Health Care Professionals to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities"

#IDSky

www.researchprotocols.org/2025/1/e60901/

Providing Education and Training to Health Care Professionals to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities: Protocol for Implementation Project Using Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Main...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for targeted interventions to address health care disparities among specific health care professionals and mitigate the impact of the virus. ...

www.researchprotocols.org

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Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH @claytonmowrer.bsky.social · Jun 18

Ha fair enough. Definitely also happy to see the art was kept

Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH @claytonmowrer.bsky.social · Jun 18

I like it, I think. Maybe cause it's new, but it's rather well-designed in its simplicity. Thought the same of the new JID that just arrived 😁

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Alice (SHE/HER) Sato, MD PhD @asato4kids.bsky.social · Jun 12

Description of our response to a large community TB exposure involving young kids.

We hope this helps other academic centers be able to partner with public health more easily- costs included to help convince your C suite that it’s a good idea!

@claytonmowrer.bsky.social #PedSky #IDSky #PedsID

ASHE Journal @ashejournal.bsky.social · Jun 12

A health department identified a large pediatric TB exposure at a drop-in daycare. An academic medical center partnered with public health to establish a rapid-response TB Exposure Clinic. This article detailed the experience and challenges. (@asato4kids.bsky.social‬ et al)
doi.org/10.1017/ash....

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · Jun 9

New moment of “WTF”:

-pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity)
-nl times: reach out to CDC for testing
-now: “they confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serology…they suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Center”

😳😳😳

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · Jun 9

“appears to contradict a pledge he made”

Such generous editors you have, @washingtonpost.com - It DIRECTLY contradicts a pledge he made.

Use your words. It’s all you have 🤬🤦🏻‍♂️

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jun 9

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ousting all members of a key CDC vaccination advisory committee and replacing them with his own picks.

The move appears to contradict a pledge he made during his confirmation process.

RFK Jr. ousts all members of CDC vaccine advisory panel

Kennedy said the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a group of experts who recommend vaccines, has been "plagued with persistent conflicts of interest."

www.washingtonpost.com

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Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH @claytonmowrer.bsky.social · May 29

I agree. Need to be much more aggressive with positions and recommendations.

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Andrew Pavia @andrewpaviamd.bsky.social · May 28

#IDSky #MedSky
IDSA speaks out on RFK jr's unilateral, unscientific. and destructive changes to COVID vaccine recommendations. We have a robust, transparent and thoughtful process that can and would have addressed any changes that might be appropriate. www.idsociety.org/news--public...

New COVID vaccine recommendations threaten access, undermine choice and will negatively impact health

www.idsociety.org

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Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH @claytonmowrer.bsky.social · May 29

Wonder how NEJM must feel right now, allowing that garbage commentary (by certain "officials"), followed by RFK Jr now hoping to bar NIH scientists from publishing there... Karma huh?

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · May 1

Americans are living in a Renaissance, not of sculpture and painting but of food. We decided to do a bonfire of the vanities about it.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 30

A LOT of people do not want to hear it but in the United States at least, food has never been safer to eat, not to mention tastier

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Apr 30

We are living in one of the few times in human history where you can buy a loaf of bread and if it says it’s made with wheat flour and salt and yeast and water and nothing else, it’s probably made from just those ingredients, and some people want to END this.

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Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH @claytonmowrer.bsky.social · Apr 21

Costco is along my favorite companies, in large part because of the founders

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Apr 20

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Apr 20

“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Apr 16

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.”

— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

Seth Rogen presenting the Breakthrough Prize for physics (Getty)

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Alicia Ault @aliciaault.bsky.social · Apr 15

RFK Jr. is holding an emergency press briefing at #HHS HQ tomorrow at 11am ET on the "autism epidemic." There has not been such a briefing on the measles epidemic.

#CDC #politics #science #MedSky #IDSky #PsychSky #PedSky

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Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH @claytonmowrer.bsky.social · Apr 16

To be clear, this was an MMWR from mid-2024. Not from today.

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Aske Kammer @askekammer.dk · Apr 15

Just tought you might all need this (from "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers").

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. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.

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Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH @claytonmowrer.bsky.social · Apr 15

THIS is how you do it. Cheers, Harvard.

Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · Apr 14

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

Harvard University

Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.

www.harvard.edu

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Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️ @jabarocas.bsky.social · Apr 2

For what it’s worth, Jeanne Marrazzo is a national treasure.

RFK Jr is a national embarrassment.

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Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH @claytonmowrer.bsky.social · Mar 29

Woah. This is a powerful piece. Please take the time to read.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Mar 29

Hillary Clinton: How Much Dumber Will This Get?

"The Trump approach is dumb power. Instead of a strong America using all our strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Trump's America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and friendless." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...

Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb

The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.

www.nytimes.com

Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH @claytonmowrer.bsky.social · Mar 29

This is an incredible list. There's so much amazing work here. I've read a few, but still have so much more reading to do

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Mar 29

I've updated this list of terrific global health books!

New books by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, @adamjkucharski.bsky.social, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, @carlzimmer.com & Bill Foege are included

communities.springernature.com/posts/if-you...

If you had to read one book on global health...

If there is 1 book that you would like all global health students to read, it would be.....? Here is an impressive list of over 430 books generated by this question on Twitter!

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Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH @claytonmowrer.bsky.social · Mar 29

Completely predictable first move

Hours after NIH director confirmed, the agency tackles one of his priorities — ending ‘censorship’ in science

Hours after Jay Bhattacharya was confirmed as NIH director, the agency directed staff to identify contracts related to “fighting misinformation or disinformation”

www.statnews.com

Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH @claytonmowrer.bsky.social · Mar 29

“However, it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Marks wrote.

Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · Mar 29

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist wapo.st/4hQn8fm via @ddiamond.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist

Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”

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