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Michael Olesen @molesen.bsky.social · 26d

A better headline: ACIP Panel Chooses to Cause More Pain to Children with Zero Evidence.

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CDC's vaccine advisory panel, with new members picked by RFK Jr., votes on measles shot

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met Thursday to discuss and vote on the measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccine for children.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · Sep 11

A school-age child in Los Angeles has died of a rare complication from measles, years after being infected with the virus.

Los Angeles child dies from rare measles complication years after recovery

The health department said the death is a "painful reminder" of how dangerous measles can be in unvaccinated people.

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Jenn Kauffman @jennaudrey.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is a sad reminder that even after a child recovers from measles, they are not yet out of the woods — which is why it’s so important to make sure every child is protected through vaccination.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Sep 11

A school-age child in Los Angeles has died of a rare complication from measles, years after being infected with the virus.

Los Angeles child dies from rare measles complication years after recovery

The health department said the death is a "painful reminder" of how dangerous measles can be in unvaccinated people.

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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · Aug 7

This study confirms what we all saw - a surge in endemic respiratory viruses after COVID precautions lifted, and demonstrates the utility of immunoepidemiological surveillance…

#IDSky

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Dynamics of endemic virus re-emergence in children in the USA following the COVID-19 pandemic (2022–23): a prospective, multicentre, longitudinal, immunoepidemiological surveillance study

In this study, we captured immunological evidence of endemic virus re-emergence in children following lifting of pandemic NPIs, which revealed high rates of exposure to endemic respiratory pathogens i...

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thetranscendedman @atranscendedman.bsky.social · Jul 1

Japan, single case report. A 42-year-old man died from suspected SARS-CoV-2 reactivation five months after mild COVID-19, following stem cell transplant for severe aplastic anemia.

Immunosuppression likely triggered viral return and fatal pneumonia.

www.cureus.com/articles/372...

Fatal SARS-CoV-2 Reactivation After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Severe Aplastic Anemia

SARS-CoV-2 has been reported to potentially remain in the lower respiratory tract for some time after it is no longer detectable in the upper respiratory tract, and this could be a source of reactivat...

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Emily Landon @emilymichelel.bsky.social · Jul 1

Need a break from the dumpster fire that is life right now? They my friend’s new album. I love it and think you will too! music.apple.com/us/album/wha...

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what it means to be a body by wøunds on Apple Music

Album · 2025 · 11 Songs

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S. Evan Cooper 🦠 @scooper-id.bsky.social · Jul 1

Increased HIV PrEP Usage Associated With Decreased HIV Diagnosis Rates (Study) #IDSky #MedSky

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Association of state-level PrEP coverage and new HIV diagnoses in the USA from 2012 to 2022: an ecological analysis of the population impact of PrEP

Ecological evidence supports the population-level impact of PrEP in the USA and suggests that higher levels of PrEP coverage are associated with larger reductions in HIV diagnoses, even accounting for...

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Emily Landon @emilymichelel.bsky.social · Jun 21

Same

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Jun 21

RFK Jr. is anti-science, anti-vax, anti-public health, and in charge of preventing infectious disease in the United States.

If I’m flying I’m masking.

Photo of a brunette in tortoiseshell glasses sitting in an airplane seat. She is wearing a grey shirt and a white KF94 mask.

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Rossana Rosa @drrossanarosa.bsky.social · Jun 18

I look at these results and ❓- how can we communicate it to the public?
These measures are hard to implement bc the public dislikes them. How can we make vistors understand that it is their loved ones who are protected by universal 😷 and limiting # of 🏥visitors?
#IDSky
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Figure showing the impact of different interventions on the prevention of hospital-acquired RVI.

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Emily Landon @emilymichelel.bsky.social · Jun 18

Most Chicago hospitals use similar practices and Covid denialism is much less common here. When communicating, you have to be honest that it’s about risk reduction not perfection. Don’t be afraid of a little nuance. People are smart!

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Emily Landon @emilymichelel.bsky.social · Jun 18

We use masking when community prevalence levels of any resp virus are high. We start with hcw masking for direct care and increase screening of visitors and encourage masking for them and we track hai resp virus cases. We have vanishingly low transmission in the hospital with this plan.

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Emily Landon @emilymichelel.bsky.social · Jun 17

A little departure from infection stuff…. One of my favorite artists has a new album coming out soon and this set of songs is amazing! open.spotify.com/album/5WzkS9...

New Comfort

wøunds · Single · 2025 · 2 songs

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Jun 13

“We want to highlight the stories of Black prisoners that participated in this prison research in the 1950s onward and give them their due…they haven’t been properly acknowledged”

That’s good, but also worth noting that the Nazis approvingly referenced this research at the Nuremberg Trials.

New paper sheds light on experience of Black prisoners in infamous Illinois prison malaria experiments

The role of Black prisoners helped lead to the practice of using genetic testing to understand how patients will react to medications, according to the paper.

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · Jun 14

Vaccines have literally saved more than 150 million lives over the last 50 years and prevented much more morbidity but hold up guys somebody with a brain worm knows better

Figure showing number of deaths averted due to vaccines from 1974-2024

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Emily Landon @emilymichelel.bsky.social · Jun 14

One paper with erroneous citations or incorrect conclusions is grounds for formal remediation in medical training and possible termination. Two is unconscionable. Can we please put an end to this?

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RFK Jr. sent Congress 'medical disinformation' to defend COVID vaccine schedule change

A document circulated to members of Congress misinterprets studies and cites debunked research, scientists say. It could influence congressional perceptions of vaccine safety.

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Emily Landon @emilymichelel.bsky.social · Jun 13

What a great question. The answer may be different for different people but I think all physicians have to consider how we would oppose dangerous health policy.

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Voices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · Jun 12

If things continue the way they're going today, measles will be back soon in the US, and we will have more stories like this.

www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...

What Measles Did to My Family

My mom always told me that measles was what made my sister sick. I was 8 when she finally explained the whole thing.

www.voicesforvaccines.org

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Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️ @jabarocas.bsky.social · Jun 13

If you don't think the #NIH cuts affect you, you're wrong. No matter where you live--red or blue, urban or rural--these cuts affect you. A beautifully written piece by the inimitable Carey Candrian in @coloradonewsline.com
coloradonewsline.com/2025/06/13/t...

The National Institutes of Hope | Colorado Newsline

The National Institutes of Health for decades has been our vehicle for alleviating suffering. Its work has saved millions of people’s lives

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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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Emily Landon @emilymichelel.bsky.social · Jun 12

Same.

Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · Jun 11

Feeling a lot like I did in early days of the pandemic these days. It is so clear what’s coming: The people that will die because of cuts in global health, because of cuts to research, because of the concerted anti-vaccine push.
It’s clear what’s coming, but we will have to wait to count the dead.🧪

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · Jun 10

#episky
The novel approach to estimating the impact of public health interventions described in my newly published study in the Journal of Public Health Policy, suggests that the deeply flawed laissez faire approach to COVID would have nearly doubled COVID deaths. 🧪
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How wrong was Jay Bhattacharya’s Great Barrington Declaration?

A new study gives us an idea. The answer is very.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · Jun 7

I guess they’re not interested in tapping the ultra-lucrative infectious disease nerd market with this product, right @germhuntermd.bsky.social?
I see this box and think white out chest rads, ruptured eyeballs and draining tracts in the skin. Eww #IDSky

Jolly time buttered microwave popcorn. There’s a red bucket with yellow popcorn spilling out. Over this is the name of it, “BlastO Butter.”

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · Jun 7

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · Jun 5

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”

By Ruben Bolling

Genius. Click in.

A cartoon showing various activity at an airport, including an extorted luxury jet, an exploding X rocket, a ketamine enthusiast wheeling a barrow of money to his plane, many ICE officers -- some taking people to an El Salvador plane, another with a zip-tied child being blocked by a federal judge -- scientists boarding a plane to Europe, a medical self-educator covered with pox, and more. All the people are represented by various animals. The story is made in the style of a Richard Starry children's book. Alt text borrowed from Mastodon..

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