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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · 25d

I feel personally attacked 😆

NEJM.org @nejm.org · 25d

Plague is a high-consequence infectious disease with epidemic potential.

The latest video in our partnership with @glaucomflecken.bsky.social summarizes new research evaluating ciprofloxacin versus aminoglycoside–ciprofloxacin for bubonic plague in Madagascar. 👉 nej.md/DrG27

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Sep 12

Love this!! Great work!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 3

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

How quick we forget.

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Sep 3

So it’s weird to see the state rejecting everything it ever taught me.9/9

Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Sep 3

You have to understand how odd it is. The things I learned while living in Florida propelled me into becoming a disease specialist. My formative years there taught me how important all this stuff is. 8/9

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Sep 3

Florida is about to become a dangerous place for all those Make-A-Wish kids going to Disney World. 7/9

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Sep 3

In the past month, my former home painted over a rainbow crosswalk under cover of darkness. Today the surgeon general of my childhood home declared that vaccine requirements for school were basically slavery. Abandoning all pretense and immunologic protection. Going full pro-disease.6/9

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Sep 3

The thing about Florida, is it’s always been weird. It’s a weird place to live. “Florida man” and all that. But we liked it. We were proud of it. The neon flamingos, the alligators in the swimming pools. Mickey Mouse and South Beach, Florida used to be the place for the weird. 5/9

a man is kneeling on top of a large alligator in the grass .

ALT: a man is kneeling on top of a large alligator in the grass .

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Sep 3

I was in Florida in med school learning from some of the best minds at USF public health when I decided to venture out to try a new state. 4/9

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Sep 3

I was 19 that summer I left Florida for a summer internship at the CDC. I was 20 when I started volunteering at the local Northeast Florida AIDS network - helping people living with HIV in Jacksonville in the late 90s. 3/9

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Sep 3

I was living there the first time I watched the HBO movie, “And the Band Played On…” I was home sick from high school and became riveted by the depiction of these passionate disease fighters at the CDC.

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Sep 3

Once upon a time I grew up in Florida. I drank slurpees from 7-11 and burned my bare feet on hot asphalt. 1/9

a man is drinking a 7 eleven pepsi through a straw

ALT: a man is drinking a 7 eleven pepsi through a straw

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Sep 3

Bad news for all the Make-A-Wish kids who go to Disney World in between chemo treatments. 😭

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Sep 3

We are Through the Looking Glass now. Ladapo is barking mad, and I mean actually deranged. And please stop calling him a skeptic. He’s a full out anti-vaxxer and denialist. This only ends badly not just for Florida, but for the entire country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Florida to end vaccine mandates for children as state’s surgeon general likens them to ‘slavery’

Joseph Ladapo, a long-time vaccine skeptic, says that every state vaccine requirement would be repealed

www.theguardian.com

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Sep 1

This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Jul 21

When I ask older patients if they’ve ever been exposed to TB, most say no. If I phrase it, “Have you ever known anyone who had TB?” they tell me stories of people they knew who went to McCain. www.dncr.nc.gov/blog/2024/01...

State Sanatorium (I-47)

Opened in 1908. First state institution in North Carolina for treating tuberculosis. Sponsored by Dr. J. E. Brooks of Greensboro.

www.dncr.nc.gov

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · May 9

ID:
1. Antiretroviral management when the management is “just don’t stop their Biktarvy.”
2. Cavitary lung lesion when the patient is not on isolation and no sputums have been sent because they are “waiting on the Quantiferon Gold”.
3. “Extensive purulence encountered, no cultures sent.”

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · May 8

My daughter: here I have a doctor’s note.
Teacher: this says, “Sorry she’s late, the barista at Starbucks started crying so our drinks took forever.”
My daughter: …
Teacher: …
My daughter: she IS a doct-
Teacher: Go to class.

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Apr 18

Is this a plug for #ThePitt ?

a woman wearing glasses and a black shirt is smiling in front of a telephone .

Alt: a woman wearing glasses and a black shirt gives an awkward high five .

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Mar 20

Thank you for telling the story! Pathology’s win for sure!

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Mar 18

Trying not to let the Hospitalist on the phone hear me googling in the background…

Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists - SIDP @sidpharm.bsky.social · Mar 18

We’ve all been there 🙂‍↕️
#stewardship #microbiology

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Feb 12

Is the best thing about the @wintercourseid.bsky.social week the amazing lectures? Getting to know ID colleagues better? Probably. But this Campfire Hot Cocoa during the break tastes a little like magic…

A ridiculously decadent hot cocoa with toasted marshmallow fluff and graham cracker crumbs. Enjoyed in front of a fire when it’s 1 degree outside.

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Brendan J. Kelly @bjklab.bsky.social · Feb 7

Infectious disease doctors watching them mess with public health and USAID

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Jan 16

When I find one of those, we usually have a blissful honeymoon period for about two months when everyone is happy at least one night a week. Then someone decides they’re sick of it.

a young boy is sitting in a chair with his mouth open .

Alt: Child at dinner table looking disgusted

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Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Jan 14

Skepticism is good. Blindly ignoring decades of data? Not good.

BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Jan 13

"Given the lack of appropriate guardrails that would normally prevent an anti-vaccine activist, science denialist and conspiracy theorist from heading the country’s most important public health agency, it’s a dangerous time to be a child in the USA."
Read this!
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

Opinion | RFK Jr. Is a Vaccine Cynic, Not Skeptic. (Gift Article)

My job is to ask tough questions of vaccine makers. That’s not what he is doing.

www.nytimes.com

Gretchen Arnoczy MD @gretchengerms.bsky.social · Dec 24

THE CHOCOLATE CHIPS 💀
#IDsky

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