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Eli Perencevich

@eliowa.bsky.social

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doc+epidemiologist in Iowa studying antimicrobial resistance. Columbus Crew ignore the noise, always forward opinions are mine aren’t medical advice

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · Feb 13

Do Americans want safe food?

Which Departments are responsible for food safety?

USDA
HHS -> FDA and CDC
Commerce -> NOAA (fisheries)

If one Department is disabled, we don’t have safe food

Enjoy your dinner 🍲

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 7h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 8h

Plenty of other viruses circulating at the moment syndromictrends.com

Graph of respiratory viruses circulating at the moment with rhinoviruses being the most prevalent

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 18h

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 2d

Very sad news: State Senator Claire Celsi has passed away.
I knew her before she ran for office and considered her a friend. After redistricting in 2021 she became my senator.
Let me know if you'd like to share any memories for a Bleeding Heartland post about her.
(photo by @greghauenstein.com)

Photo of Claire Celsi in 2018 (taken by Greg Hauenstein for her Iowa Senate campaign)

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

www.choosechicago.com

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 1d

Yup

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 1d

@modestholdings.com can correct me, but i think Iowa has non-partisan redistricting, so I wouldn’t blame this on gerrymandering

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 1d

And it was 3 of 4 D in 2018. No system is perfect but it seems Iowa has the least bad approach

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

#IA01 Miller-Meeks says she will hold a town hall "when hell freezes over."
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

A swing-district Iowa Republican says she’ll hold town halls ‘when hell freezes over’ | CNN Politics

Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks told Johnson County Republicans in an August meeting that she’ll hold town hall meetings “when hell freezes over.”

www.cnn.com

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 1d

@modestholdings.com can correct me, but i think Iowa has non-partisan redistricting, so I wouldn’t blame this on gerrymandering

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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 2d

He's running share.google/xHBEckykLsoV...

Crown Prince of Norway makes stop in Iowa

The crown prince was in town to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first organized Norwegian emigration to the United States.

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JAMA Network Open @jamanetworkopen.com · 2d

Implementation of the SIPS surgical handover system was associated with improvements in handover quality, patient physiology, and staff perceptions of safety without prolonging handover meetings. ja.ma/46PxqsE

Line graph showing "Handovers/wk where interention was used, %" vs "Intervention week". The graph starts from 0 and rises sharply to 80% by week 2, plateaus around 100% between weeks 5-14, then fluctuates between 80% and 100% until week 20.

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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 2d

“The notion that hepatitis B is only confined to transmission for prostitutes, drug users, etc., is such an ignorant and uninformed way of approaching infectious disease” - Dr. Jason Goldman of @acpimphysicians.bsky.social.

Bingo... #MedSky + #IDSky

www.medscape.com/s/viewarticl...

CDC Panel Sidesteps Key Exposure Risk in Hep B Vax Debate

The Trump administration is continuing its push to revise federal guidelines to delay the hepatitis B vaccine newborn dose for most children.

www.medscape.com

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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 2d

The flash apparently official. CBS News died at 1pm central standard time, 2pm eastern standard time, some 38 minutes ago.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

I've redacted the name in this excerpt to be polite because I think this is a completely insane thing to say in the paper of record.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · Jul 7

Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system:

The Tetanus vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine

- @hislopmd.bsky.social

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TRAstonDrs @castltrastondrs.bsky.social · 4d

Pfizer has 2 Phase 3 trials underway for ibuzatrelvir. One trial (NCT06679140) is evaluating ibuzatrelvir's effectiveness & safety in preventing severe illness in high-risk, non-hospitalized patients. Another study (NCT07013474) focusses on severely immunocompromised adults with symptomatic #COVID

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TRAstonDrs @castltrastondrs.bsky.social · 4d

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #pharmsky #publichealth If you are test +ve for #COVID & are unable to take #Paxlovid due to Rx interactions or liver/kidney issues,
academic.oup.com/cid/article/...

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

A Structural Comparison of Oral SARS-CoV-2 Drug Candidate Ibuzatrelvir Complexed with the Main Protease (Mpro) of SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV

Ibuzatrelvir (1) was recently disclosed and patented by Pfizer for the treatment of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It has received fast-track status from the USA Food an...

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JAMA Network Open @jamanetworkopen.com · 5d

Among Mexican-American adults living at the border, almost all individuals with #obesity by BMI had excess body fat, while a substantial number of those who were overweight with BMI below 30 also had excess adiposity that BMI alone did not identify. ja.ma/3WijBhs

JAMA Network "Excess Adiposity Without Obesity in a High-Risk Population" by Alexandra B. Palmer, Rashedeh Roshani, and Joseph B. McCormick. Published online October 3, 2025.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 4d

1500th bat species discovered in Africa www.batcon.org/press/1500th...

1,500th Bat Species Discovered in Africa's Equatorial Guinea

Breakthrough marks global milestone in biodiversity.

www.batcon.org

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 4d

So is Medicare

Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 4d

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money!

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 4d

“People are going to have to travel longer distances, or they’re going to go without care,” said Olivia Pennington, director of advocacy for Maine Family Planning. “We are a cornerstone of Maine’s health care system, and forcing us into this position puts even greater strain on that system.”

A Freeze on Medicaid Payments Is Forcing Cuts to Rural Health Care

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 5d

Making health insurance affordable and offering Medicaid/Medicare are the correct and moral things to do. And neither “grows the government”

This is what we want our taxes to pay for!

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 6d

Some perspective: The ACA part of the shutdown fight is a little less than 0.1% of GDP.
Or ~0.5% of the federal budget.
It's in same ballpark as cost of Trump's estate tax cut.
It's much less than Elon Musk's potential $1 trillion compensation package.

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 6d

Hasn’t this happened in prior shutdowns?

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