multipletuesdays.bsky.social
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Overeducated indoor cat. Interests include tea, music, public health, international affairs, politics, and resisting the patriarchy.
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I’ve spent the past two days as pediatric ward attending and frankly we need both more and even better vaccines not fewer
December 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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If you're an academic using AI for your scholarly work, you deserve shame.

If you use AI for work that you submit, you should be banned from that forum. Whatever journal, conference, workshop series - banned.

Maybe you can appeal after a few years. Maybe.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.

It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.

And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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A recent modeling study in JAMA showed that if MMR vaccine rates drop 10% (easy to see happen with this), we’re back to 400,000-500,000 cases a year. Our current outbreak is 2,000. This turns the clock back to 1950 🚨🚨🚨
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.

It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.

And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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This is a real disaster in the making. Babies are going to die. Full-stop.

"Why Denmark’s vaccine schedule works for Denmark — but not for the United States." www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d... via @statnews.com
Why Denmark's vaccine schedule works for Denmark — but not for the United States
With its vaccine schedule, “Denmark has made a values choice to accept preventable hospitalizations and illnesses that other countries have chosen to prevent.”
www.statnews.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Here in this timeline we live in, I think about “binders full of women” at least weekly.
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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This piece stays at the right level of zoomed out and has the right take home messages imo! bsky.app/profile/josh...
On the firing and (partial) unfiring of CDC experts by an administration that uses RIFs as political retribution with blatant disregard for agency missions. It is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
October 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
October 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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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
October 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Full frontal attack on public health
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
October 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News
The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...
kffhealthnews.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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This ought to be engraved somewhere.
September 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Trump said today that he heard rumors that people in Cuba are too poor to buy acetaminophen and autism doesn’t exist there. Both of these statements are incorrect.

Rumors is a great album by Fleetwood Mac but not a great basis for public health policy.
September 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Eight states and New York City officially announced the Northeast Public Health Collaborative this week, while the West Coast Health Alliance released its first vaccination guidelines. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
States rally to offset fracturing of federal healthcare agencies: ‘Diseases don’t see state lines’
Changes to regulatory or information environments will help states decouple from federal health recommendations
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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As the RFK antivax gang dismantles vaccine access, kids will suffer, along with their families

As will the child health care work force 👇🏾
In case you’re wondering, it’s barely fall & our children’s hospital is already almost always full with kids boarding in the ER.

And the pediatric workforce is stretched thin.

Our system does not have the capacity to care for the influx of vaccine preventable diseases that is coming.
September 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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“There can be beauty, even when the worst of humanity is on display.”
24 years ago today, I fell in love in NYC. In the shadow of Ground Zero & the horrors of that day.

We have been married for 22 years now. And we have two fabulous children.

I think of this whenever I worry about the darkness.

There can be beauty, even when the worst of humanity is on display.
September 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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If you need an ad-free mental distraction from , I have found the Fruit Merge game on the CBC Kids website very addictive and fun: www.cbc.ca/kids/games/p...
Play Fruit Merge | Games | CBC Kids
Use your mouse to drop and combine fruit, making even bigger pieces of fruit!
www.cbc.ca
September 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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I know this isn't the news right now. But I have some updated info on Covid vax availability.

Several states where CVS/Walgreens weren't offering them or required Rx 1.5 wks ago now have them without Rx because of state officials' actions.

But still 13 states where CVS and/or Walgreens require Rx.
Can You Still Get the Covid Shot?
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.
September 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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"In the context of the larger fight against cancer, the failure to pass the Give Kids a Chance Act is just one of many political setbacks." A failure, a disgrace, and an abdication of congressional responsibility.
Elon Musk Torpedoed a Beloved Pediatric Cancer Bill. It’s Yet to Recover.
Sometimes, a good piece of legislation fails to become a law for one simple, stupid reason: congressional inertia.
www.thebulwark.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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If you are wondering whether or not you can get a COVID vaccine, wonder no more…

🧪#MedSky
September 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Aside from the incredibly flimsy evidence claiming a link between ASD and acetaminophen use in pregnancy, there is something remarkably cruel about effectively trying to restrict one of very few pain medications that are known to be safe in pregnancy.
September 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Don’t let them tell you he’s joking.

He’s putting armed troops in the streets.

Not a joke. Not a drill.
Trump: "The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, 'You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.'"
August 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM