Anytime you cite Christ in your argument for hate or violence you prove you haven't read the Gospel.

Time to break out the chart

I am once again humbly asking, what is the purpose of restricting citation numbers? Writers should cite as much as indicated. No more, no less. Editors can remove citations they deem unneccessary. Restricting citations leads to under and improperly citing of work.

The Wall Street Journal just published the photo of the birthday letter from Trump to Epstein. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Heart Doctor here👋 -The American College of Cardiology now recommends that adults with heart disease get #vaccines against influenza, #COVID-19, & #RSV, citing their higher risk for severe respiratory infections, hospitalization, and death. #medsky #publichealth #cardiology ms.spr.ly/6186swiZp

For us ID doctors, the CDC has been a rock. Data, guidelines, surveillance, travel advice -- all there, vetted by experts, referenced, reliable. Perfect? No. But watching its dismantling now breaks my heart. Some thoughts: blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

Sorry, I'm sick of myself even as I type these words, but when I hear "we should never have used it for young people" all I see is someone who has never practiced medicine and certainly did not spend 2020 and 2021 watching healthy 30 year-olds get ARDS.

You can't teach U.S. history without "divisive" narratives. Slavery wasn't "unifying." The Japanese incarceration wasn't "unifying." The anti-immigrant Operation Wetback (real name) wasn't "unifying." It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.

🎤💧 "There was no control group because in Denmark, only 2% of children are unvaccinated, which is too small for meaningful comparison" Hviid added www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Note also that the lawsuit alleges that because race and class are correlated, providing free tuition to lower income students is also racial preference. They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth

Yup. @paulnoth.bsky.social in the @newyorker.com #medSky #OBBB

This one hits close to home as I recently had a (well meaning, very loving) cousin inquire about it's use for my dad's colon cancer. The unfounded, conspiratorial, claims promoting ivermectin pushed by people in power, have serious consequences for patients. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Excellent excellent excellent from Princeton president and constitutional/ political theorist Chris Eisgruber. There's been far too little of this kind of thing; here's hoping others follow his good example. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

While Hopkins is one of the most dramatic examples, this is not a unique formula and is not unique to blue, purple, or red states. Some pertinent examples (to perhaps change the administrations mind) for the media to highlight: Penn, Cleveland Clinic, U of Wisconsin, Emory, U of Michigan...

Hopkins is the largest recipient of NIH grants in the country. Hopkins is the largest healthcare organization in the state of Maryland Hopkins is the largest employer in the state of Maryland. Stopping NIH grants will gut, not just science, but also healthcare and the economy.

University leaders have not been especially vocal about the new administration *because* they were so worried about Trump just gutting the research infrastructure. And now they have done so anyway.

“This is a blatant attempt to gut the universities and health research that have saved so many lives and given economic opportunity to so many people.” @iwashyna.bsky.social on impact of new NIh order to cut research indirect costs. www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

I made an extra donation beyond my monthly contribution to @partnersinhealth.bsky.social as a small action but tangible action against the heartless cuts to USAID and PEPFAR. It is not enough but it is something. Consider joining me (or doing something similar).

Being an ID/HIV doc over the last 3 weeks #IDSky #HIVSky

Life is really rough right now. Today I got to tell a patient they were undetectable for the first time. It was a beautiful sliver of hope.

From USAID colleague, with permission to share. It's not just chaos it is devastation and tearing apart of families and communities. Not to talk of systems that kept us safe. This is just one story, multiple this by 10,000. Is this really making America great?

And this is precisely why all the pseudo exemption being put out don't mean much for the realities on the ground. Supply chains, implementation partners, grantees all need staff and a functioning ecosystem for it to work. You gut it, you kill it, people die.

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

This article makes me physically ill, both as a scientist (years and years and years of slow, painstaking work, done out of a deep desire to help people, wiped out in an instant) and as a physician (the betrayal of every moral obligation we owe to our patients). www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

This is a very valuable resource: it estimates the HIV infections and deaths that are likely to occur due to the U.S. aid freeze. Suddenly freezing health aid, with no careful plan to fill the funding gap, is a death sentence for many people. This is human-caused misery, suffering, and mortality.

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” ― Leo Tolstoy

I'm on service in the MICU this week, a place that is defined by a huge outlay of resources for what is often a small chance of saving one life. Just thinking about what's happened to USAID – arguably one of the best ROI you could ever hope to achieve in human health and flourishing? – is very hard.

now that's how you write a headline www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Yes please and thank you

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

300 children under 5 years old die every day from measles around the world. Over 60 million children lived to see their 5th birthday since 2000 because of measles vaccine. This is in large part due to the work of Gavi, the vaccine alliance and USAID is their second largest donor.

Clinicians and scientists trying to decide about speaking out on behalf of democracy and the rule of law, Beyoncé would like to offer you a word of encouragement…

USAID= .5% of fed budget. Americans spend more on bubblegum than on aid. ROI in terms of power projection, soft power & institution shaping— never mind lives saved/societies rebuilt— makes it one of smartest things US does. Its why China, despite flat growth, will now increase aid budget. Just watch

PEPFAR has received a memo to resume limited programming - live saving ART - interventions to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV. The tight wording still means funding for important programs like cervical cancer screening and others cannot resume. Hoping the worst can be averted. #Advocate

You can find em at nnptc.org, we saved em

@germhuntermd.bsky.social cyberbullying the IDSA into saying dismantling the CDC might be bad

So when is the March for science?

A tour de force DOM grand rounds today-former co-ACSs & expert cardiologists #kavitasharma and #lorrelltoftbrown share their important work that has advanced the field of cards followed by a fantastic ImageofO by #flagship ACS @mikerosemdmph.bsky.social #oslerpride

PEPFAR has a long history of bipartisan support In 2017, a high-profile Republican senator gave it a glowing endorsement -- noting that he'd voted to maintain funding, even though the president (Trump) wanted a cut Guess who the senator was www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Hopkins is the largest recipient of NIH grants in the country. Hopkins is the largest healthcare organization in the state of Maryland Hopkins is the largest employer in the state of Maryland. Stopping NIH grants will gut, not just science, but also healthcare and the economy.

RFK Jr is a nutty conspiracy theorist. But he's also a master manipulator of evidence. This skill gives him a veneer of credibility that will be hard to counter. My latest story for The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Idiotic, damaging, & dangerous for both US public health and global health CDC has world-renowned experts who work with WHO on a range of health challenges, from outbreaks to cancer prevention to polio eradication - work that now stops How is this good for America? apnews.com/article/cdc-...

Proud to be friends with one of the few writers nailing how much of a fraudster RFK is.