Alex Yonts
@pidringer.bsky.social
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician, Pediatric Long COVID care provider, wife, toddler mom, handbell ringer and newly minted Swiftie. Lover of baking, pickles, music, Nebraska and Cleveland sports and the Washington Spirit. Opinions are my own.
Great read! I basically had this same discussion with residents at noon conference this week.
the Danish Health Authority’s Vaccination Council “…has discussed the need for new professional assessments of the childhood vaccination program against chickenpox, hepatitis B, & rotavirus—none of which the country currently recommends universally...” 🫠
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New Immunization Schedule Sparks Grave Concern
This Medical News article discusses changes to the US government’s childhood and adolescent immunization schedule and what they mean for clinicians and families.
jamanetwork.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Great read! I basically had this same discussion with residents at noon conference this week.
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Gender affirming care for me, but not for thee.
“Panelists claimed that testosterone would prevent cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis, despite a stunning lack of evidence in support of these claims,” PharmedOut said.
I don't quite understand where this HHS obsession with hormones for certain populations comes from...
I don't quite understand where this HHS obsession with hormones for certain populations comes from...
US FDA, HHS Leadership Push Broader Testosterone Indication At Expert Panel
At an expert panel overwhelmingly composed of people favoring expanded testosterone use and loosened safety warnings, career FDA staff suggested new clinical trials would be required to approve some o...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Gender affirming care for me, but not for thee.
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Good Morning!
New shocking discovery: ACIP and Real Housewives of Atlanta share the same plot structure.
• Filmed in Atlanta
• Chaos
• Wild claims
• Cast members powered by “I don’t need evidence, I have vibes.”
Tune in today to watch the continued erosion of public health, sponsored by RFK.
New shocking discovery: ACIP and Real Housewives of Atlanta share the same plot structure.
• Filmed in Atlanta
• Chaos
• Wild claims
• Cast members powered by “I don’t need evidence, I have vibes.”
Tune in today to watch the continued erosion of public health, sponsored by RFK.
a man in a suit holds his hand to his forehead in front of a microphone with the words brain worm intensifies below him
ALT: a man in a suit holds his hand to his forehead in front of a microphone with the words brain worm intensifies below him
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Good Morning!
New shocking discovery: ACIP and Real Housewives of Atlanta share the same plot structure.
• Filmed in Atlanta
• Chaos
• Wild claims
• Cast members powered by “I don’t need evidence, I have vibes.”
Tune in today to watch the continued erosion of public health, sponsored by RFK.
New shocking discovery: ACIP and Real Housewives of Atlanta share the same plot structure.
• Filmed in Atlanta
• Chaos
• Wild claims
• Cast members powered by “I don’t need evidence, I have vibes.”
Tune in today to watch the continued erosion of public health, sponsored by RFK.
ACIP has officially just become the worst, trashiest reality show of all time. And I know that me talking about it right now is literally the only thing that the Trump administration wants #attentionwhores but I cannot emphasize enough what a farce this entire committee has become.
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
ACIP has officially just become the worst, trashiest reality show of all time. And I know that me talking about it right now is literally the only thing that the Trump administration wants #attentionwhores but I cannot emphasize enough what a farce this entire committee has become.
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At this point, people on the ACIP just want to hear themselves talk because evidence, data, and science have left the building. They want us to believe them because they say it is true- but we are smarter than that. We know how to look at decades of literature and have the ability to reason.
December 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
At this point, people on the ACIP just want to hear themselves talk because evidence, data, and science have left the building. They want us to believe them because they say it is true- but we are smarter than that. We know how to look at decades of literature and have the ability to reason.
Wtf is Tracy Beth talking about? The WHO recommends Hepatitis B immunization for all infants, ideally with 24 hours of birth, which is the policy in 117 countries worldwide, including most of the Americas, Eastern Europe, Asia, Australia and North Africa. Europe is the outlier...
December 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Wtf is Tracy Beth talking about? The WHO recommends Hepatitis B immunization for all infants, ideally with 24 hours of birth, which is the policy in 117 countries worldwide, including most of the Americas, Eastern Europe, Asia, Australia and North Africa. Europe is the outlier...
Also, respectfully, you would have more time to hear comments or questions if you didnt defensively respond to every comment, Dr. Malone. Look to your past, pre-2025, ACIP chairs as an example...
December 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Also, respectfully, you would have more time to hear comments or questions if you didnt defensively respond to every comment, Dr. Malone. Look to your past, pre-2025, ACIP chairs as an example...
Even the "set change" that ACIP has undertaken (getting rid of the round table and going with a "head of the class/lecture" set up) speaks volumes about their mindset and how much they care about any input from anyone in the scientific and medical community that isn't in their "clique".
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Even the "set change" that ACIP has undertaken (getting rid of the round table and going with a "head of the class/lecture" set up) speaks volumes about their mindset and how much they care about any input from anyone in the scientific and medical community that isn't in their "clique".
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RFK Jr, Makary, and Prassad prepping for the ACIP meeting like…
December 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
RFK Jr, Makary, and Prassad prepping for the ACIP meeting like…
You just GOTTA make it to the 8am session when Dr. Hamdy is sharing the latest, practice-changing papers on BSI and UTI treatment duration and adjunctive steroids in meningitis for the pediatric population! #IDWeek2025 #PIDS
October 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
You just GOTTA make it to the 8am session when Dr. Hamdy is sharing the latest, practice-changing papers on BSI and UTI treatment duration and adjunctive steroids in meningitis for the pediatric population! #IDWeek2025 #PIDS
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#idweek2025 @drdemetre.bsky.social #hivma award 🎉 standing ovation 👏 #weareid @hivma.bsky.social we need to lead with moral courage & fidelity to science #advocacy
October 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
#idweek2025 @drdemetre.bsky.social #hivma award 🎉 standing ovation 👏 #weareid @hivma.bsky.social we need to lead with moral courage & fidelity to science #advocacy
Not one of our Med-Peds ID fellows winning the IDWeek/PIDS best abstract award 🔥🔥🔥
October 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Not one of our Med-Peds ID fellows winning the IDWeek/PIDS best abstract award 🔥🔥🔥
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“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.”
It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.
It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.
Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation
Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.”
It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.
It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.
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Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long Covid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found.
Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds
The new research provides evidence that Covid reinfections can increase the risk of long-term health consequences.
nyti.ms
October 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long Covid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found.
Starting off 2025-2026 GWIDS strong in our new home with presentations from the NIH, including a case of thrice-baked malaria from crit care/ID/Peds ID triple threat Ian Drobish! @dcpedsid.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Starting off 2025-2026 GWIDS strong in our new home with presentations from the NIH, including a case of thrice-baked malaria from crit care/ID/Peds ID triple threat Ian Drobish! @dcpedsid.bsky.social
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COVID vaccine ✅️ Flu vaccine ✅️ #vaccineswork #trustyourdoctornotrfkjr
September 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
COVID vaccine ✅️ Flu vaccine ✅️ #vaccineswork #trustyourdoctornotrfkjr
It was my absolute pleasure to raise awareness and provide some clinical strategies for managing pediatric Long COVID Pediatric Grand Rounds at USUHS this week #longcovid #iaccs
Grateful to Dr Alexandra Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social from Children’s National and George Washington University for joining us at Uniformed Services University Pediatric Grand Rounds today to speak on the topic of Pediatric Long Covid
September 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
It was my absolute pleasure to raise awareness and provide some clinical strategies for managing pediatric Long COVID Pediatric Grand Rounds at USUHS this week #longcovid #iaccs
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I just left a comment. It doesn't have to be long or detailed. Some nice information here: peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...
May 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I just left a comment. It doesn't have to be long or detailed. Some nice information here: peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...
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I need every single journalist covering vaccine stuff at the FDA to be explicit about this. Thank you @katherinejwu.com.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
There is a genuine open question regarding the degree of benefit for otherwise healthy kids to get seasonal COVID-19 boosters.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
There is a genuine open question regarding the degree of benefit for otherwise healthy kids to get seasonal COVID-19 boosters.
May 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I need every single journalist covering vaccine stuff at the FDA to be explicit about this. Thank you @katherinejwu.com.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
There is a genuine open question regarding the degree of benefit for otherwise healthy kids to get seasonal COVID-19 boosters.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
There is a genuine open question regarding the degree of benefit for otherwise healthy kids to get seasonal COVID-19 boosters.
Booooo, this guy? Of course the Trump administration would replace a well respected scientist and public health hero with a money and attention grubbing Twitter "celebrity"https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/06/vinay-prasad-fda-center-for-biologics-evaluation-and-research-peter-marks-hhs-rfk-jr-makary/
Vinay Prasad tapped to run FDA center that regulates vaccines, gene therapies
Vinay Prasad will be the next director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, after Peter Marks was forced out.
www.statnews.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Booooo, this guy? Of course the Trump administration would replace a well respected scientist and public health hero with a money and attention grubbing Twitter "celebrity"https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/06/vinay-prasad-fda-center-for-biologics-evaluation-and-research-peter-marks-hhs-rfk-jr-makary/
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Several of the previously healthy children with severe life threatening infections that I cared for this past week, and their families, might like a word here….
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”
That is dangerously false.
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That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments
The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
www.medscape.com
April 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Several of the previously healthy children with severe life threatening infections that I cared for this past week, and their families, might like a word here….
I'd love to know at what point an illness becomes chronic. 10 years? 15 years? When, RFK Jr, when? Bc apparently 5 years of disabling fatigue, brain fog, dizziness, pain, nausea, isn't long enough...
The callousness and hypocrisy of this administration is staggering 💔 😥🤬
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The callousness and hypocrisy of this administration is staggering 💔 😥🤬
cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
March 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I'd love to know at what point an illness becomes chronic. 10 years? 15 years? When, RFK Jr, when? Bc apparently 5 years of disabling fatigue, brain fog, dizziness, pain, nausea, isn't long enough...
The callousness and hypocrisy of this administration is staggering 💔 😥🤬
cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
The callousness and hypocrisy of this administration is staggering 💔 😥🤬
cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
Standing UP for science!
March 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Standing UP for science!
What horrors await us at 5pm on a Friday this week?
February 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
What horrors await us at 5pm on a Friday this week?