Eric Schultz
@ericschul.bsky.social
hospitalist, medical educator, lifelong learner, New Yorker
Ensured job security for hepatologists I suppose
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Ensured job security for hepatologists I suppose
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Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
monsters
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
monsters
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Opinion | We Have a Way to Pay for Free Buses. It Means Free Street Parking Is Over.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Many people are saying www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
It’s so appalling
Such an unprofessional and unserious group of grifters in charge of our governement's health departments
A year ago, Tracy Hoeg was selling people unproven therapies (like injecting your own blood into your knees) for cash. She is trained in physical medicine & rehabilitation, & does not have any relevant background for this position other than being a prolific & extreme antivaxxer and disease promoter
December 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
It’s so appalling
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12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.
December 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.
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We are past the point when advocates need to think long and hard if they are complicit in legitimizing current HHS leadership by participating in agency promotion of policy changes. Advocates shouldn't give any legitimacy to Prasad, Makary, Kennedy & others by sharing a microphone.
Big change: FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements under RFK Jr ally
Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more
Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall
with @rachelroubein.bsky.social
Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more
Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall
with @rachelroubein.bsky.social
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM
We are past the point when advocates need to think long and hard if they are complicit in legitimizing current HHS leadership by participating in agency promotion of policy changes. Advocates shouldn't give any legitimacy to Prasad, Makary, Kennedy & others by sharing a microphone.
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this is as absurd and stupid as it sounds wapo.st/49GmNLP
“‘I remain open to vigorous discussions and debate,’ Prasad wrote to his team, adding that staff who did not agree with the core principles of his new approach should submit their resignations.”
“‘I remain open to vigorous discussions and debate,’ Prasad wrote to his team, adding that staff who did not agree with the core principles of his new approach should submit their resignations.”
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
wapo.st
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
this is as absurd and stupid as it sounds wapo.st/49GmNLP
“‘I remain open to vigorous discussions and debate,’ Prasad wrote to his team, adding that staff who did not agree with the core principles of his new approach should submit their resignations.”
“‘I remain open to vigorous discussions and debate,’ Prasad wrote to his team, adding that staff who did not agree with the core principles of his new approach should submit their resignations.”
Some impressive public health chops on the Mamdani transition health committee
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Some impressive public health chops on the Mamdani transition health committee
this is the way
#TipsForNewDocs
I really try to be super nice to nurses, techs etc I work with mostly because why not, makes it better for everyone but also has the added benefits of they help me out, point out when I may have erred, invite to eat at potlucks, and when I have less common requests are happy to help
I really try to be super nice to nurses, techs etc I work with mostly because why not, makes it better for everyone but also has the added benefits of they help me out, point out when I may have erred, invite to eat at potlucks, and when I have less common requests are happy to help
i say thank you to the bus driver when i get on and yell thank you when i get off every day i ride the bus, and i take two buses to and from work, being nice and friendly costs you nothing and should be your default expectation for yourself because it improves your day and everyone else’s day
November 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
this is the way
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The transit riders vs drivers election.
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The transit riders vs drivers election.
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In this survey of hospice-eligible patients with blood cancers, transfusion access had the highest importance compared to routine hospice services, highlighting the need for novel hospice models with access to palliative transfusions. ja.ma/3WHqdGt
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In this survey of hospice-eligible patients with blood cancers, transfusion access had the highest importance compared to routine hospice services, highlighting the need for novel hospice models with access to palliative transfusions. ja.ma/3WHqdGt
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The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
Happy to see a campaign based on optimism and love of New York City prevail.
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Happy to see a campaign based on optimism and love of New York City prevail.
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My "people don't like any of this shit" prediction is holding up so far tonight.
I suppose I should make a prediction, this is the most confident I've been heading into an election since 2019. I just don't think that people like any of this shit.
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
My "people don't like any of this shit" prediction is holding up so far tonight.
Yikes, risk of arrhythmias with over-repletion of potassium
Oooh - this is a dangerous recall
KCl 20 mmol labelled as 10 mmol from the overwrap
#nephsky #pharmsky #emimcc
www.fda.gov/safety/recal...
KCl 20 mmol labelled as 10 mmol from the overwrap
#nephsky #pharmsky #emimcc
www.fda.gov/safety/recal...
November 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Yikes, risk of arrhythmias with over-repletion of potassium
Cam Schlittler, that is all
October 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Cam Schlittler, that is all
Finding pediatric COVID vaccination appointments in NYC has been a challenge (peds offices I've spoken to don't have the vaccine in yet). CVS/Walgreens pharmacies don't vax younger kids. CVS Minute Clinic seems like the best option so far, (though there are only a few sites).
September 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Finding pediatric COVID vaccination appointments in NYC has been a challenge (peds offices I've spoken to don't have the vaccine in yet). CVS/Walgreens pharmacies don't vax younger kids. CVS Minute Clinic seems like the best option so far, (though there are only a few sites).
Not great Bob
Exclusive at WaPo: RFK Jr's aides are prepping new bid to crack down on covid vaccine by linking it to 25 child deaths
They appear to be citing submissions to vaccine-report database VAERS — despite caution that it's unreliable.
@lenasun.bsky.social @rachelroubein.bsky.social w little help from me
They appear to be citing submissions to vaccine-report database VAERS — despite caution that it's unreliable.
@lenasun.bsky.social @rachelroubein.bsky.social w little help from me
Trump officials to link child deaths to covid shots, alarming career scientists
The move to link coronavirus vaccines to 25 child deaths alarms career scientists who say the shots have been extensively studied.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Not great Bob
That ship has sailed Bill
Bill Cassidy on why he’s holding this hearing
September 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
That ship has sailed Bill
Very easy NYC COVID vaccine experience at CVS today.
September 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Very easy NYC COVID vaccine experience at CVS today.
Hospitalized patients awaiting rehab placement for prolonged periods is such a waste of scarce inpatient beds
September 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Hospitalized patients awaiting rehab placement for prolonged periods is such a waste of scarce inpatient beds
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We think this reflects the incentives in Medicare Advantage to have very tight networks of nursing homes that they cover and requiring prior authorization. This has been the subject of congressional reports and intense scrutiny.
www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Releases Majority Staff Report Exposing Medicare Advantage Insurers' Refusal of Care for Vulnerable Seniors | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connect...
[WASHINGTON, DC] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chair of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), released a...
www.blumenthal.senate.gov
September 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
We think this reflects the incentives in Medicare Advantage to have very tight networks of nursing homes that they cover and requiring prior authorization. This has been the subject of congressional reports and intense scrutiny.
www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
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Overall, we estimate that longer hospital stays for Medicare Advantage patients are contributing to close to 2 million extra hospital bed days occupied by people who don't need to be there any more annually. This is a huge waste and bad for patient care.
Why is this happening?
Why is this happening?
September 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Overall, we estimate that longer hospital stays for Medicare Advantage patients are contributing to close to 2 million extra hospital bed days occupied by people who don't need to be there any more annually. This is a huge waste and bad for patient care.
Why is this happening?
Why is this happening?
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New paper w/ Brian McGarry, Ashvin Gandhi, and Drew Wilcock in @jamainternalmed.com!
Hospitals are complaining across the US that patients are "stuck" waiting for rehab beds at nursing homes when they are medically stable and ready for discharge. What is going on??
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Hospitals are complaining across the US that patients are "stuck" waiting for rehab beds at nursing homes when they are medically stable and ready for discharge. What is going on??
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
September 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
New paper w/ Brian McGarry, Ashvin Gandhi, and Drew Wilcock in @jamainternalmed.com!
Hospitals are complaining across the US that patients are "stuck" waiting for rehab beds at nursing homes when they are medically stable and ready for discharge. What is going on??
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Hospitals are complaining across the US that patients are "stuck" waiting for rehab beds at nursing homes when they are medically stable and ready for discharge. What is going on??
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...