www.gavi.org/news/media-r... Commitment to public health and vaccines is not waning everywhere. Worldwide, gains are still being made in life-saving implementation. We need the US to return to leadership instead of the pseudoscience of RFK Jr and DJT.

Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the omicron era (RECOVER-EHR): The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Important study in US children showing risk of long COVID doubled after 2nd episode of COVID-19.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Sober data on the impact war and TBI have on subsequent suicide risk in Veterans post 9/11 conflicts c/w general population. This should inform our need for supporting Veteran’s mental health and treatment. And the need to recognize/reduce TBI risk in the military.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... on a completely different inequity... it's beyond time for WNBA players to get compensated more in line with the NBA.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... An analysis that shows the US continues to lag peer developed countries in avoiding premature mortality when adjusted for GDP. Also, we are diverging from the trend in many parts of world of improving mortality over past 20+ yrs. Many causes; MAHA is not the answer.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h... RFK, Jr is gutting NIAID of outstanding leadership by firing Dr Marrazzo. Will Whistle-Blower status (by Marrazzo) be enough for the courts to punish RFK's for his corrupt management?

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... With ~1.2 million infections, >50K new infections/yr, 16 regions where HIV in pregnancy exceeds 1%, military spread, stigma, neglect and shortages of Rx; that's a crisis. Another failure by Putin to protect Russian life and health. HIV and autocracy- lethal!

www.jsonline.com/story/news/p... hardship for WI soybean farmers... how will the administration respond to a problem it created?

www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va... The CDC may no longer generate the messaging usually seen at this time of year reminding us of the benefits of vaccines. Now’s the time for flu shots for all. 281 pediatric deaths and > 25,000 deaths overall in US in ‘24-25; many can be prevented by vaccination.

journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/can-... An overview of the extent of PE investment in Health Care and the many risks and ?-able benefits. Much reform and regulation needed.

kffhealthnews.org/news/article... F/U of 9/27 identifying high cost, low performance hospitals, often for-profit; now cosmetic surgery chains, often private equity (PE) owned, with disregard for outcomes by employing poorly trained or incompetent physicians. Reform & ban PE from owning practices.

substack.com/redirect/dea... Paul Krugman- on Trump's declarations that China builds wind turbines but barely uses wind power; Krugman reminds that China has the largest windpower generation worldwide! Krugman is correct: Trump energy policy isnt rational, it's a billionaire led culture-war policy.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... For all who seek some clarity: the author of a Swedish study using sibling controls found no association between autism and acetaminophen; he discusses the study, the state of knowledge and questions about the use of acetaminophen in pregnancy.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Hmmm, 10% of hospitals were outliers-marking up costs ~8fold, had worse outcomes c/w those not gouging (as much); they also tended to be investor-owned. If HHS is serious about MAHA and waste, let's reform these outliers. Why even allow investor-owned hospitals?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o... Prof. Nicholas Creel shares how a respectful approach by both faculty and students with vastly different views can allow dialogue and learning. Bravo, more needed.

content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WID... H5N1 (Bird Flu) in Jefferson County poultry flock of 3 million birds; first in WI commercial poultry in 5+ mo. Clinicians in SE WI and farmers in Jefferson Cty need to be aware to detect any potential spread to livestock or humans in contact with outbreak.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... George Packer on our challenges to reclaim our democracy and our agency.

www.rev.com/transcripts/... POTUS delivers a speech at the UN so unhinged and delusional... read it Americans and realize no guardrails presently exist from Congress or the Cabinet (25th amendment). It's up to the Courts and the people to peacefully restrain his pathology. Then vote for sanity.

www.cleanwisconsin.org/ai-data-cent... And their electricity costs will be well under the combined costs of WI households for their electricity, not to mention the AI centers demand for power will raise costs for WI residents. Thanks to that AI revolution...

www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc.... "Russia is a Chinese satellite now. I always call it, you know, it’s a Chinese gas station with nukes." Kasparov "What you see in the broader world is almost total collapse of faith and belief in the United States..." Applebaum

Trump’s Most Lethal Policy www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o... Nick Kristof tells the stories of children dying because of Trump/Rubio policies.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o... Not only did the US fail to hold Trump to account for January 6, the authors point out the ways Trump is punishing Brazil and its judiciary for its democratic success.

Totalitarianism Can Be Terrifying. It Can Also Be Thrilling. He Taught Us Why. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o... Masha Gessen reflects on the life and ideas of Robert Jay Lifton. With political violence in the US on the rise and conflict in the world seeming intractable, his work has more resonance.

asm.org/press-releas... It's past time for RFK Jr to resign or be fired. Neither is likely, nor is the Senate likely to convict if impeached. Remember Caroline Kennedy's admonition to the Senators before confirmation? "Bobby is unqualified... he himself is a predator". We are seeing him, Caroline.

Jon Ossoff on Dear Leader: “So Trump promised to attack a broken system, I get it. Ripe target. But here’s the thing. He’s a crook. And a con man. And he wants to be a king. Yes, the system really is rigged, but Trump’s not unrigging it. He’s re-rigging it for himself.” (of, by and for Republicans)

NASA Planning for Unauthorized Shutdown of Carbon Monitoring Satellites eos.org/research-and... Stupidity and head-in-the-sand denialism of climate change drive Trump and WI's own Sean Duffy to illegally plan decommision of weather monitoring satellites. WI (and all) farmers will suffer the loss.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o... Robert Pape has been a student of political and individual terrorism for decades; pay attention to his warning of the consequences of Trump's plan to occupy Chicago.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Remarkable randomized controlled trial showing a common over the counter nasal allergy spray reduced risk of COVID-19 as well as trends of less infections by other upper respiratory viruses. Stay tuned.

Columbian mammoth mitogenomes from Mexico uncover the species’ complex evolutionary history | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Wow, didn't know Columbian Mammoths lived in the Mexican basin (Mexico City) until ~11,000 yrs ago. Bones discovered when new airport was being excavated...

Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r... via @statnews.com "In the meantime, be clear. Kennedy’s words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus. Americans deserve better."

www.fool.com/research/ren... WI ranks 31st of 50 states in renewable energy (~9%) and lags its Midwest peers in WIND energy production by 3x->10x. IOWA leads in renewables in Midwest with over 60% energy from WIND. C'mon Badgers, dig in and get going!

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r... Can we learn from Europe on housing-- Swiss coops, Viennese Gemeinndebauten (social housing w/ affordable rents)? River Trail Commons in Milwaukee one answer?

open.substack.com/pub/charlies... Read all of Pritzker’s speech. We need his voice and everybody to support the call to oppose Trump’s descent into authoritarian rule.

Trump, in a Move With Little Precedent, Says He Is Firing a Fed Governor www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u... Firing w/out establishing cause, planning troops in CHICAGO, saying no more mail-in voting, mass deportations; the fire hose of illegality by POTUS is ramping up and needs to be resisted.

www.acog.org/news/news-re... Now both the Pediatrics and OB/GYN communities have recommended COVID-19 vaccination for all 6-23 month children, pregnant and lactating mothers. A win for evidence based guidelines. Marginalize RFK Jr's anti vaccine agenda. Will payors follow the evidence or RFKJr?

Multidrug-resistant bacteria amid health-system collapse in Gaza - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Also noted in Ukrainian hospitals, war and conflict lead to spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria from the wounded to much wider communities.

International hunger watchdog faces political attacks over Gaza famine reports | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... If you don't like the message, and Israel clearly does not, then attack the messenger. End the famine, Netanyahu.

www.who.int/news/item/22... 2 million Gazans face crisis to catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Israel and Hamas must agree to a cease fire and allow massive humanitarian aid to avoid widescale starvation in Gaza.

Kilowatt Madness open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... We need Public Service Commission in WI to step up and advocate for consumers, the environment and business consumers of electricity over the interests of data centers and WE Energies. Trumpian lies about renewables only obfuscate.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The prosecution of the war against Hamas by Israel includes evident war crimes by Netanyahu's government. One is the systematic destruction and constriction of health care including maternal and perinatal care.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... RFK Jr is making pseudoscience an embedded part of his and Trump's HHS. David Geier is a charlatan, but on a mission with RFK Jr to create "evidence" of autism's cause.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/o... Timely words by a former military judge advocate, David French.

contrarian.substack.com/p/bondis-ill... Who will do the most lasting damage? AG Bondi? HHS Kennedy? Defense Hegseth? State Rubio? Treasury Bessent? Citizens: sue, resist and vote out the Republicans in 2026.

www.jsonline.com/story/opinio... Wise words from a colleague at the Marshfield Clinic. My experience as an adult Infectious Disease doc was similar. Vaccinations remain a life-saving preventive step that has benefit for the vaccinated and the wider community. Please vaccinate, WI.

ourworldindata.org/grapher/elec... drill, baby drill, has been the mantra of Republicans for more than a decade and we will swelter, burn and drown because of the intransigence of the fossil fuel fanatics in the US and the world.

ourworldindata.org/grapher/elec... The EU generates more of its electricity from renewables than than fossil fuel and nearly 70% of total electricity from non-fossil fuel. Wait for US (next post).

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/b... When economists from right leaning American Institute for Economic Research & American Enterprise Institute criticize you, will the Senate reject? Reject him senators!

RFK Jr.’s “Scienze” open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... More of Paul Offit, MD, piercing through RFK Jr's disinformation campaign to sideline mRNA vaccine technology and place doubts on all vaccines. RFK Jr is deadly wrong, only the deaths will come to those following this malign pied piper.

War wounds caused by explosive weapons in Gaza: data from a 2024 study by Médecins Sans Frontières - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Doctors Without Borders report on Gaza. Israel must resume a ceasefire and allow full flow of humanitarian aid in Gaza

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Neisseria meningitidis meningitis is uncommon but devastating; an effective vaccine is recommended for all adolescents in US. There is no vaccine for N. gonorrhoeae (gonorrhea), a related bacteria. The meningitis vaccine has modest protection vs gonorrhea.