The sicker the patient, the more air quality matters. 🌁 In a nationwide study of >2.1 million deaths in China, mortality risk associated with air pollution increased progressively with hypertensive disease severity. More in 🆕 issue of #JACC: https://bit.ly/3PCSRbI #hypertension #CardioSky

This looks interesting.

The linked pdf explains what is know about transmission of the cruise ship Hunta Virus. I hope CDC reads it. I’m wonder how many virologists are still working at the CDC. Pedophile protecting political hacks running the cdc worries me more than Hunta.

I’m looking forward to Florian Krammer hope to be coming soon podcast on Hantavirus. If you like virology, I recommend you check his pod out. I’ve been pulling garlic mustard while listening to them.

Hantavirus Response Shows How Trump Cuts Have Compromised U.S. Preparedness www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/h...

It’s not "normal" to pretend a disease doesn’t exist—or nothing can be done to reduce harm. Leaving kids, communities, and ourselves exposed isn’t “moving on,” it’s neglect, coerced, morally repugnant, indifference. If that upsets you, ask yourself: are you an arseolist?

Yay ACEP! I was hoping they would get involved. A lot of residents in all specialties are at risk of abduction. This is bad for patients. Even MAGA patients.

Typhoon #Sinlaku topped out with 155 kt winds, very close to its Maximum Potential Intensity (MPI), based on the existing ocean temperatures and atmospheric profiles of temperature and humidity. Rare to see a storm reach its MPI. Graphic from tropic.ssec.wisc.edu

Please share this story far and wide, not just on this platform, especially if you live in an area with an outbreak right now (like ours in Southest Michigan where there is an official #publichealth department recommendation for early MMR vaccination for babies 6-11 months old right now)

This guy is much better at this than Karoline Leavitt

This looks fun!

It was remarkable witnessing the drop in Hib. Maybe not as impressive as seeing polio disappear, but still amazing. I can’t imagine the guilt loving parents will be feeling these next couple decades when their kid gets a permanent disability from a vaccine preventable illness.

Experts have poo-pooed the idea, but the new Google Deepdoodoo seasonal hurricane forecast model, trained on poop data from sea turtles, outperforms the traditional models from CSU, NOAA, and TSR. I have the details: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/ai-t...

Grid scale solar and batteries are becoming economically inevitable and the costs are still going down

1 in 41 people in Michigan contagious with Covid right now. I wonder what post spring break will look like.

The multiple 112° readings today are just 1° short of the national April record, which happened in Death Valley with 113° on April 24, 1946 and also on April 22, 2012. Note that those occurred in late April (h/t to weather historian Chris Burt).

I just saw Hail Mary. So fun! I liked the book but I loved the movie.

Hey Michigan, can we try something clever too? heatmap.news/energy/washi...

The Morrill Fire in Nebraska has killed 1 and consumed 549,000 acres with 0% containment. This is more than 10% of the entire area burned by U.S. wildfires in 2025, and makes it one of the 20 largest fires in U.S. history. Sunday forecast is grim: High Wind Warning, 25-35 mph winds, gusting to 50.

The Gelman 1-4, dioxane plume, a poster child of Michigan's dismantled environmental protections, has been added to the Superfund National Priorities List. This site is a very good reason why we need to reinstitute polluter pay laws. #huronriver #annarbor

Look what Spring break has done to Covid at disney in southwest orange county Florida.

@cardiacpa1.medsky.social Does anyone know if it would be legal for patient's medical records to be encrypted with only the patient having the key? www.statnews.com/2026/03/06/t...

Well, this headline is blunt. I’m glad Rep Steven’s put forth articles of impeachment www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A nice map from a 2024 paper showing which counties have the highest vulnerability to their power grid, based on power outage data from 2014-2023. It rated the counties holding Los Angeles/Riverside/San Bernardino, Houston, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Detroit as ones facing "extreme" risk.

I don’t get chills. This gave me chills.

Colbert is so good

According to Wired, ICE has leased space in Southfield, Mi. The feds are being all hush hush about it. Maybe we should throw a welcome party for them, complete with whistles. WIRED CITY Southfield STATE Michigan ADDRESS One Towne Square

World pulses day!

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Repost and call your radio station youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

Rasmussen’s polio class is in session, along with an excellent review of the public health activities of Jesus. You’d think a Christian pediatric cardiologist wouldn’t be evil, but you’d be thinking wrong. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/jesus-woul...

Can I pause paying my taxes this year? I’m clearly not getting what I paid for. Do healthcare workers get an execution risk discount? www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Wasn’t sure if I was going to #SundayFishSketch today because I’m tired and angry, but this felt right

“All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dem[ocrat]s to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump—3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.”

🙂

1 in 25 people in Michigan are able to give you COVID today, assuming you didn’t give it to them last week.

The Grid and the Scam.

Great thread on the science of tear gas.

Not a fan of this sort of thing but I couldn’t resist.

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I’m sure forms submitted here are ignored but maybe when the shit show is over this paper trail may be useful. I wonder if they have to keep them for awhile www.ice.gov/about-ice/opr

Fabulous! 😍

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about: Adjusting mask fit CO2 monitoring Improving ventilation for infection control Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

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We've gone through this before. We need to learn instead of letting history repeat itself.

This is tragic. I’m so glad to see Ob/cards posts on #cardiosky. www.propublica.org/article/nort...

Ugh

Yay Detroit!

Isostatic rebound from the end of the Ice Age will cause Lake Superior waters to rise by 9.2" and 4.8" per century at Duluth and Marquette, respectively, with falls of 11.4"/century at the NE end of the lake. A repeat of Duluth's costly Jun 21 storm (archive.is/G0eTK) will be costlier in the future.