Tim Lahey
@timlaheymd.bsky.social
Infectious diseases doc, ethicist, and medical educator in Vermont ❤️🏳️🌈🕊️
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Controversial Danish vaccine research group faces new allegations: new paper shows many of their trial results have not been published.
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Controversial Danish vaccine research group faces new allegations
Researchers say they couldn’t find complete data for 10 trials that together enrolled tens of thousands of children in Guinea-Bissau
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February 6, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Controversial Danish vaccine research group faces new allegations: new paper shows many of their trial results have not been published.
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With severe funding cuts to global health efforts aimed at disease elimination we are poised to see resurgence of neglected tropical diseases that cause a great deal of human suffering and disproportionately impact people living in the Global South.
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‘Biblical Diseases’ Could Resurge in Africa, Health Officials Fear
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February 5, 2026 at 2:31 PM
With severe funding cuts to global health efforts aimed at disease elimination we are poised to see resurgence of neglected tropical diseases that cause a great deal of human suffering and disproportionately impact people living in the Global South.
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74,000 patients enrolled in clinical trials were affected.
You don’t terminate funding for clinical trials midway & “order” patient care to continue.
That’s not how it works.
I can’t tell whether Jay Bhattacharya is lying or just showing off his sparkling incompetence.
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You don’t terminate funding for clinical trials midway & “order” patient care to continue.
That’s not how it works.
I can’t tell whether Jay Bhattacharya is lying or just showing off his sparkling incompetence.
🧪 archive.today/ooHj6
February 3, 2026 at 7:02 PM
74,000 patients enrolled in clinical trials were affected.
You don’t terminate funding for clinical trials midway & “order” patient care to continue.
That’s not how it works.
I can’t tell whether Jay Bhattacharya is lying or just showing off his sparkling incompetence.
🧪 archive.today/ooHj6
You don’t terminate funding for clinical trials midway & “order” patient care to continue.
That’s not how it works.
I can’t tell whether Jay Bhattacharya is lying or just showing off his sparkling incompetence.
🧪 archive.today/ooHj6
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“No.”
Do pediatricians make large profits from vaccines? We followed the money. www.statnews.com/2026/01/29/p...
Do pediatricians make large profits from vaccines?
Vaccine critics like to say that pediatricians profit from vaccines. This report found something very different.
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February 1, 2026 at 4:57 PM
“No.”
Bioethicists point to “a profound misapplication of pediatric bioethics principles” in government’s transphobic report
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7 pediatric bioethicists: Proposed ban on Medicaid funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care for minors is deeply unethical
7 pediatric bioethicists on what’s wrong with the proposed ban on Medicaid funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care for minors.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Bioethicists point to “a profound misapplication of pediatric bioethics principles” in government’s transphobic report
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The EPA just erased a century of public health progress www.statnews.com/2026/02/02/e... via @statnews.com
"What is the value of a human life? According to the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, the answer is zero dollars."
"What is the value of a human life? According to the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, the answer is zero dollars."
The EPA just erased a century of public health progress
Former Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dean Michelle A. Williams on the EPA’s incorrect and morally wrong decision.
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February 2, 2026 at 11:54 AM
The EPA just erased a century of public health progress www.statnews.com/2026/02/02/e... via @statnews.com
"What is the value of a human life? According to the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, the answer is zero dollars."
"What is the value of a human life? According to the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, the answer is zero dollars."
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@bradspellberg.bsky.social and other ID gurus -
Does this look OK to you?
Any critiques and/or additional thoughts you would pass along to front-line clinicians about implementing this regimen in real life?
(disclosure: my hatred of ampho-induced AKI runs deep)
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Does this look OK to you?
Any critiques and/or additional thoughts you would pass along to front-line clinicians about implementing this regimen in real life?
(disclosure: my hatred of ampho-induced AKI runs deep)
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February 1, 2026 at 5:14 PM
@bradspellberg.bsky.social and other ID gurus -
Does this look OK to you?
Any critiques and/or additional thoughts you would pass along to front-line clinicians about implementing this regimen in real life?
(disclosure: my hatred of ampho-induced AKI runs deep)
emcrit.org/ibcc/cryptoc...
Does this look OK to you?
Any critiques and/or additional thoughts you would pass along to front-line clinicians about implementing this regimen in real life?
(disclosure: my hatred of ampho-induced AKI runs deep)
emcrit.org/ibcc/cryptoc...
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Measles reported at a Texas ICE detention center where 5yo Liam Ramos was held.
Measles is airborne with an R₀ of 12–18—one infected person can spread it to up to 18 others. 1 in 5 unvax'd patients require hospitalization. DHS says cases are quarantined—but overcrowded, poorly ventilated 1/2
Measles is airborne with an R₀ of 12–18—one infected person can spread it to up to 18 others. 1 in 5 unvax'd patients require hospitalization. DHS says cases are quarantined—but overcrowded, poorly ventilated 1/2
Source: Measles outbreak reported at ICE's Dilley family detention facility
DPS troopers stand guard in front of the Dilley detention center during a protest last weekend. After a week of public outcry over the South Texas Family
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February 2, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Measles reported at a Texas ICE detention center where 5yo Liam Ramos was held.
Measles is airborne with an R₀ of 12–18—one infected person can spread it to up to 18 others. 1 in 5 unvax'd patients require hospitalization. DHS says cases are quarantined—but overcrowded, poorly ventilated 1/2
Measles is airborne with an R₀ of 12–18—one infected person can spread it to up to 18 others. 1 in 5 unvax'd patients require hospitalization. DHS says cases are quarantined—but overcrowded, poorly ventilated 1/2
“No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors”
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Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
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January 30, 2026 at 2:46 PM
“No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors”
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"For all the sorrow and horror over what is happening in Minneapolis, the people there are an example to the rest of us. They are organizing to defend their city, but more importantly to care for each other...an example of another kind of social organization built on solidarity and community..."
Alex Pretti was part of a proud tradition of healthcare workers standing up to fascism. https://bit.ly/3LJMzFv
Healthcare Workers Must Continue Alex Pretti’s Fight
Pretti was one of us. We have to carry on his struggle.
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January 30, 2026 at 11:13 AM
"For all the sorrow and horror over what is happening in Minneapolis, the people there are an example to the rest of us. They are organizing to defend their city, but more importantly to care for each other...an example of another kind of social organization built on solidarity and community..."
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“I’m not a doctor, and I don’t want to have to do all the research,” said Cori Folkman, 48, a mother of two near Seattle, who is switching her children to a pediatrician who was vocal about sticking to the A.A.P. schedule. “I want to be able to rely on my doctor to know” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Parents Navigate a Fracturing Vaccine Landscape
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January 30, 2026 at 3:31 AM
“I’m not a doctor, and I don’t want to have to do all the research,” said Cori Folkman, 48, a mother of two near Seattle, who is switching her children to a pediatrician who was vocal about sticking to the A.A.P. schedule. “I want to be able to rely on my doctor to know” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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Forget who I stole this from but it’s perfect
January 30, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Forget who I stole this from but it’s perfect
Helpful tutorial from Dr Glaucomflecken on eye safety if you get pepper sprayed somewhere in the United States at a protest or walking your dog or, you know, going outside for any reason …
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What if you get pepper sprayed?
TikTok video by Dr. Glaucomflecken
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January 30, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Helpful tutorial from Dr Glaucomflecken on eye safety if you get pepper sprayed somewhere in the United States at a protest or walking your dog or, you know, going outside for any reason …
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8a13tkQ/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8a13tkQ/
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It’s not going to be a health care election but it will partly be a health cost election.
Our new poll: on.kff.org/3LGVtUh
Our new poll: on.kff.org/3LGVtUh
January 29, 2026 at 5:47 PM
It’s not going to be a health care election but it will partly be a health cost election.
Our new poll: on.kff.org/3LGVtUh
Our new poll: on.kff.org/3LGVtUh
What to do if your Republican state decides to defund the standard of care for #HIV?
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Florida Moves to Cut AIDS Drug Assistance Program -- and Drops the Most Prescribed HIV Regimen in the Country
Share Tweet Pin Mail SMS We prescribers of HIV medications — and our patients — have for the most part lived in a very ...
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January 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM
What to do if your Republican state decides to defund the standard of care for #HIV?
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The scale of the loss is unimaginable.
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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January 28, 2026 at 12:48 PM
The scale of the loss is unimaginable.
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CDC sidelined as most trusted source of vaccine information for children
A temporary accommodation for federal madness or the long-term solution?
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A temporary accommodation for federal madness or the long-term solution?
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January 29, 2026 at 11:55 AM
CDC sidelined as most trusted source of vaccine information for children
A temporary accommodation for federal madness or the long-term solution?
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
A temporary accommodation for federal madness or the long-term solution?
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
After Donations, Trump Administration Revoked Rule Requiring More Nursing Home Staff
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January 28, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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“He was a calm presence amid hospital chaos. A mentor who taught kindness and patience to younger friends and colleagues. A singer with a knack for dancing. A bicyclist who treasured the beauty of Minnesota… He was the kind of nurse patients remembered, colleagues said, and he was a beloved mentor”
Alex Pretti’s Friends and Family Denounce ‘Sickening Lies’ About His Life
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January 26, 2026 at 12:56 PM
“He was a calm presence amid hospital chaos. A mentor who taught kindness and patience to younger friends and colleagues. A singer with a knack for dancing. A bicyclist who treasured the beauty of Minnesota… He was the kind of nurse patients remembered, colleagues said, and he was a beloved mentor”
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This #Marburg outbreak in Ethiopia has been declared over. The country went 42 days — 2 incubation periods — without finding any new cases. The final count of confirmed cases is 14. Nine of those people died.
Ethiopia is responding to its first documented outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD). As of Dec 16, 14 confirmed cases have been reported in the South & Sidama regions, with 9 deaths and 5 recoveries. Small numbers, but a high fatality rate.
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Marburg Virus Disease Response, Ethiopia: Situation Report #2 (Situation update December 16, 2025) - Ethiopia
Situation Report in English on Ethiopia about Coordination, Health, Epidemic and more; published on 17 Dec 2025 by IMC
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January 26, 2026 at 2:36 PM
This #Marburg outbreak in Ethiopia has been declared over. The country went 42 days — 2 incubation periods — without finding any new cases. The final count of confirmed cases is 14. Nine of those people died.
These idiots are coming for every public health dollar they can find - guaranteed there is grift at the core of this
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Freeze of public health funds for states, then reversal, sows confusion
A sense of whiplash spread across state public health agencies after the Trump administration paused $5 billion in federal spending, only to quickly say it would lift the pause on Saturday.
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January 26, 2026 at 11:19 AM
These idiots are coming for every public health dollar they can find - guaranteed there is grift at the core of this
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“It’s very frustrating for those of us who spend our careers trying to do what we can to improve the health of children to see harm coming to children because of an ideological agenda not grounded in science.”
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Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
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January 26, 2026 at 11:12 AM
“It’s very frustrating for those of us who spend our careers trying to do what we can to improve the health of children to see harm coming to children because of an ideological agenda not grounded in science.”
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