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Seth Boo!-ger Trueger

@mdaware.org

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ER doc at Northwestern & @BedsideMedNU.bsky.social interests include social media for medical journals and medical education, health policy, and airway management amateur guitar gear nerd opinions are mine, arent medical advice ja.ma/seth

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Seth Boo!-ger Trueger @mdaware.org · Feb 4

I don’t think non physicians realize how for real physicians, vaccines is a controversy like flat earth or creationism or birds aren’t real

"No true Scotsman" actually holds here

it's hard to really describe how baffling this is, how frustrating its been to see grow and how high the price will be

Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · Feb 4

Here is how we know that vaccines do not cause autism
The facts are available, if you look for them
🛟 medsky 🧪 😷 idsky sociology

Here is how we know that vaccines do not cause autism

Vaccines do not cause autism. You’ve almost certainly read that before — but often without a full explanation of how we know it to be true. Here's how we know.

www.statnews.com

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Seth Boo!-ger Trueger @mdaware.org · 1h

this cat has an 401k

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1h

i love this cat

Seth Boo!-ger Trueger @mdaware.org · 1h

a man with a beard is wearing a cowboy hat and holding a rifle .

Alt: Clint Eastwood hat tip.

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Seth Boo!-ger Trueger @mdaware.org · 1h

#SpoilerAlert

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@scottjshapiro.bsky.social

I happened upon this old thread (looking for an old post) and I did get that 3rd guitar and love it

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Jan 15, 2021
Terrific! I especially like the lick at 52-54
Seth Trueger
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Jan 15, 2021
thanks! that’s a good one. I like when my delivery (Vietnamese food iirc) calls at the end and turns off my iPhone amp and it takes me a minute
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Jan 15, 2021
Ha! How long have you been playing? I don’t play rock, I do improv. I just picked it up a few years ago, very hard to do in your fifties
Seth Trueger
@MDaware
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Jan 15, 2021
about 2 years? I do all the things you’re not supposed to do, mostly just look up how to play songs, most of which are way too hard
Seth Trueger
@MDaware
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Jan 15, 2021
and despite that will probably get a 3rd electric guitar for no good reason but it’s prettttty
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Jan 15, 2021
I take lessons. It really helps. But I also play recitals with five year olds.
Seth Trueger
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Jan 15, 2021
lol nice. the thought about it but seems time consuming. did most of Tom

Seth Boo!-ger Trueger @mdaware.org · 1h

*fewer relations

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 16h

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 5h

wow is this grotesque

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Seth Boo!-ger Trueger @mdaware.org · 5h

Mick "Crocodile" Dundee looking at a toilet and bidet in Crocodile Dundee (1986).

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Seth Boo!-ger Trueger @mdaware.org · Dec 4

#tbt

A crudely made PowerPoint

1st & Last Annual
@MDaware Happy Hour
> Friday May 9,2014
> 6pm
> Barrel Bar
> 613 Pennsylvania SE
> between 6th St & 7th St in
Capitol Hill
• Near Eastern Market Metro
> Near:
> Orange Line
› Blue Line

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 23h

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6h

Policy, comms, ethics, and science management (the people who clear science docs — determine whether they meet scientific standards) heavily hit.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff are gone.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 5h

"The health system also condemns the purposeful twisting of information and the spread of disinformation happening on the topic, which poses a direct threat to public health"

Debunking the recent Senate hearing. - #MedSky.

via henryfordhealth.bsky.social

www.henryford.com/news/2025/09...

Vaccine Study Henry Ford Health

DETROIT – Henry Ford Health, a nationally recognized academic medical center and research institution, has issued a cease-and-desist letter to the makers of an upcoming “documentary” that falsely and dangerously claims the health system suppressed a draft of a research paper because of its results. The health system also condemns the purposeful twisting of information and the spread of disinformation happening on the topic, which poses a direct threat to public health. There are many factors that determine whether a research paper should be submitted for consideration by scientific journals or otherwise shared with the public. In this case, a 2020 draft of a paper that aimed to compare health outcomes for vaccinated and unvaccinated children was immediately shelved upon the first internal peer review because of serious issues with its data and methodology. Those flaws included:

www.henryford.com

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 10h

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 21h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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AlwaysImBack @alwaysimback.bsky.social · 10h

They are using the shutdown as an excuse to just do it. These are pretty much the same areas in the 2026 budget talks. They went ahead and RIF now using the shutdown as an excuse.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 13h

I actually gasped. As a former public health reporter the MMWR is a big deal

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

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 21h

Illegally firing the CDC experts while he gets the latest COVID vaccine is really beyond the pale.
Marie Antoinette level of vibes.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 23h

He got the shots that his own HHS is telling you are not necessary

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 23h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 15h

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 21h

this. and states are already under tremendous additional pressure from other federal cuts (like to medicaid and WIC). most of this federal public health capacity will not be picked back up. generational damage

Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 21h

This assumes that state and local public health agencies are well funded. They are not. And the regional disparities are stark, so interstate collaboration will almost certainly drift towards those states that have better resources.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 21h

remember, most of CDC’s funding went straight back out to states and local depts

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