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Shandana Nawaz, MD

@nawazshandana.medsky.social

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Proudly an OBGyn, not your regular though. Avid procrastinator. Prolific egotist . Travel, ArsenalFC, Caffeine junkie. Not your regular Yanqui too. Probably at the hospital right now.

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Shandana Nawaz, MD @nawazshandana.medsky.social · Jan 18

To any woman who needs to hear this:
aidaccess.org will mail reproductive healthcare to your house discreetly and will work with you on prices. woman will donate money to help other women get the care they need.

PASS IT ON folks.
#Obgynsky #Medsky

Aid Access

Get abortion and miscarriage care, wherever you are.

aidaccess.org

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

You can't make this up.

Another host, Eugene Daniels, asked Mr. Cuomo what he meant by diversity being a “weakness.”

“Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black.

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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 3d

NEW @nejm.org: We synthesized 511 recent studies on Covid-19, RSV & flu vaccines for 2025-26. With federal advisory processes disrupted, clinicians & the public need rigorous, independent evidence synthesis.

Here's what we found: 🧵
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Updated Evidence for Covid-19, RSV, and Influenza Vaccines for 2025–2026 | NEJM

Changes in the vaccine advisory process in the United States have disrupted immunization guidance, which reinforces the need for independent evidence review to inform decisions regarding immunizati...

www.nejm.org

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Shandana Nawaz, MD @nawazshandana.medsky.social · 8d

Omg, you need to be resting, take lots of care. Sending love♥️

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Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social · 8d

Doctor patient communication is important but a little more than half have received training @acogd2.bsky.social #D2ADM “we never train for connection”—- Rebecca Harlow

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Shandana Nawaz, MD @nawazshandana.medsky.social · 8d

Where had you been all these past days! Welcome back foxy.x

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 12d

This is such a failure; when I was in training (1998-2009) we had ~100 cases a year; the worst year being 2008 with 140. This latest outbreak will push us over 1,700, with a few months to go in 2025. America was declared measles-free in 2000 (defined as 12 months with no endemic transmission) 1/3

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12d

A measles outbreak along the border of Utah and Arizona has sickened more than 100 people. A majority of the cases are in unvaccinated people.

More Than 100 Cases of Measles Reported in Utah and Arizona

In the hardest-hit counties, childhood vaccination rates steeply declined during the pandemic.

nyti.ms

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Michael Le Page @mjflepage.bsky.social · 17d

mRNA vaccines 🧬 are already great but they can be made even more effective by making them code for virus-like nanoparticles 🦠 rather than just single proteins 🧪

This means a lower dose is required, which should reduce side effects

www.newscientist.com/article/2500...

Why the next generation of mRNA vaccines is set to be even better

mRNA vaccines are quick and easy to make, while virus-like nanoparticles produce a stronger immune response - now the two approaches are being combined to give us the best of both worlds

www.newscientist.com

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Shandana Nawaz, MD @nawazshandana.medsky.social · 17d

AI is horrifying and so is meta. I personally think sharing of photos should be as less as possible, specially our children's.

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ReneePaints @painthike.bsky.social · 20d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

Photo of rock formations in Monument Valley, Arizona

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Shandana Nawaz, MD @nawazshandana.medsky.social · 21d

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 23d

The people getting laid off are some of the highest-trained and most specialized people in healthcare. They don’t just get replaced by hiring some new people when a sane administration takes over. This is a huge loss for America.

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

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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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 26d

The nazis themselves were not some clever masterminds where everything they did went perfect. They were also comical idiots who did ridiculous things, like invading Russia in the winter.

They gained power because the opposition couldn’t understand that the fascists were not rational agents.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 29d

She had a reputation for working with Republicans and Democrats alike. But @drdebhoury.bsky.social was never once able to brief RFK Jr. In fact, she only met him once — when he toured the empty CDC after a gunman killed Officer David Rose and traumatized staff.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A ‘hostile takeover’: ousted CDC official raises alarm over RFK Jr approach to infectious disease

Debra Houry speaks after testifying on eight months under Kennedy, who critics say shuns science and spreads falsehoods

www.theguardian.com

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Shandana Nawaz, MD @nawazshandana.medsky.social · Oct 3

Sending you love and prayers, stay strong girl.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Sep 30

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 26

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

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Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social · Sep 23

This is what demonizing Tylenol will wreak.

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · Sep 23

A sweet and happy new year to everyone, except for the government of Israel, the IDF, Stephen miller, and a few others. To the people of Palestine, to the immigrants to the United States, may god bestow all blessings upon you, and may he give you peace.

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Shandana Nawaz, MD @nawazshandana.medsky.social · Sep 23

The CEO at Tylenol's should rename
'Acetaminophen' to 'Epsteinaminophen'
#Tylenol
#Autism

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Ben Canham @bencanham.bsky.social · Sep 23

I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol.
Not because of vaccines.
Not because of some headline.
I’m autistic because that’s how
my brain works. Stop treating us
like a problem. Start listening to us.

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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · Sep 18

Dr. Malone asked about adjuvants in MMR. Live-attenuated vaccines like MMR don’t use adjuvants. Because the weakened virus replicates a bit in the host, it naturally provides the innate immune stimulus — the very role adjuvants play in non-live vaccines.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · Sep 18

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

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Shandana Nawaz, MD @nawazshandana.medsky.social · Sep 13

Great job

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 13

The “medical freedom” movement claims to be about choices, like to not vaccinate their kids.

But they already have that choice. Absolutely nobody in the U.S. has to vaccinate their kid.

But what about everyone whose choice is for their infant to not get exposed to a vaccine-preventable disease?

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Sep 6

I completely agree. Throw in low covid vaccine and flu vaccine rates given the ongoing misinformation and access barriers from the top, the threat of birdflu that never really went away and we are entering a very uncertain respiratory virus season in the US.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Oh hey, H5N1 in Texas dairy cows! Are you a new spillover or have you always been there, undetected b/c of insufficient testing?

It’s migration season, almost flu season, & we’ve never had a handle on the cow outbreak. Bird flu is here & we ignore at our peril

www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

H5N1 detected in Texas dairy herd; researchers can't pinpoint source of California child's illness

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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