Measles cases are on the rise in several parts of the country. If you have a young child who is not yet fully immunized, know who else will be visiting and ask about vax status. Unfortunately, measles can stay viable in the air for 2 hours after an infected person has been there!

Over 450 cases of pertussis in Arkansas this year. If you have never heard the whoop of whooping cough, beware, it is anxiety provoking just to listen: youtu.be/DB70izafC1Y

National Academies building in Washington. Gives me hope that we will return one day to a nation of virtue.

Pull up a seat America 🔆☕

In the US, RSV is the leading cause of infant hospitalizations so as we head into respiratory viral season, please wash your hands, cover your cough, wear a mask (even if you think “it’s allergies”), and get vaccinated. National surveillance is currently unavailable. Thanks, Trump.

THIS.

That a US president would willfully withhold SNAP funding while building the world tackiest ballroom is America’s “let them eat cake“ moment

Probably not necessary to say this on this particular forum but: The Democrats are NOT “holding out for healthcare for illegal immigrants” but some other people may be playing chicken in a sad game of the Epstein Files v Hungry Children. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

I do not understand local governments giving tax breaks to businesses that then pay their employees so little they qualify for public assistance. Who thinks the “let’s take in less money so we have to give out more money” model is smart business??

youtu.be/UgvE_gPi7Kc Georgians have a chance to take back their utilities @hankgreen.bsky.social

@atlairport.bsky.social Come on, ATL! Do the right thing!

I'm thrilled to be leading, along with AJ Prussin II, an ARPA-H BREATHE team that will integrate new biosensors, risk assessment software, and engineering controls to bring clean and healthy indoor air to more buildings. arpah.gov/news-and-eve...

I am sure “fecal filtrate” and “donor stool” are ideas that immediately induce an ICK response but dying of a diarrheal illness like c. diff is awful and FMT works!

🚨 Following the #Ebola outbreak in the #DRC, WHO is launching a US$ 21 million appeal to help the country: - Scale up operations - Interrupt transmission chains - Prevent further spread - Mitigate the impact on human health Full donor support is critical to halt the outbreak 👉 bit.ly/3KtjsVG

If you read 1 thing today, please make it this: my so-talented colleague @ericboodman.bsky.social explains why babies in the US are vaccinated at birth against hep B — and what the human costs of changing that policy would be. www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/n...

September is National Suicide Prevention Month & this week is dedicated to Construction Suicide Prevention. Lots of people suffer, there aren’t enough mental health resources available, tough economic times make it worse. Reach out, check in, get help. call #988 or text HOME OR HOLA to 741741

A remote area of the DRC has been hit with another outbreak of Ebola. Unfortunately, most viral hemorrhagic fevers start with very common symptoms of fever, body aches, nausea. That puts healthcare workers and others at risk. ALL patients with fever are potentially contagious; act accordingly.

We should be protective of what we take in, in every way. What we inhale, eat, drink, and consume from every source. Aerosol scientists - like the brilliant Linsey Marr - are helping us all understand the particles, pollution, and pathogens we encounter in the air.

🚨 Ready to take your facility’s HCID preparedness to the next level? NETEC’s new NSPS Level 2 Resource Guide offers step-by-step tools, checklists, and resources to strengthen readiness. 🔗 Blog: netec.org/2025/09/02/r... #NSPS #HCIDPreparedness #NSPSLevel2ResourceGuide

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

This is what integrity looks like.

an immense and seemingly unending loss

🎙 Get ready—Transmission Interrupted returns August 6! Host @jill-morgan.bsky.social (Emory University) interviews Angela Vasa, RN of Nebraska Medicine, diving into the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Checklist—a frontline-ready tool for HCID response. 🎥 Watch the sneak peek now 🎧 Subscribe today!

I am so grateful none of our CDC colleagues were physically injured in the shooting yesterday. I am so sorry a police officer lost his life. We need a better mental health and crisis intervention system and to stop demonizing science, public health, and vaccines. 💔

Infectious and environmental diseases don’t always make the news unless it’s something scary like Ebola. But we need information and sadly, regulation, in order to keep people safer. Warmer, dirtier air and water will increase illnesses and deaths and make our communities less safe. 💔🫁🦠

Huge voluntary withdrawal of some of the most popular respirators for healthcare: www.cdc.gov/niosh/media/... Sourcing and the fit testing everyone in new respirators will be VERY expensive.

🎙️ @syramadad.bsky.social (@nychealthsystem.bsky.social) explains drills & exercises: “A drill is a smaller-scale, focused activity—often testing a single function. An exercise, on the other hand, is broader in scope & tests multiple capabilities & coordination.” 🎧 netec.org/transmission...

I think an easy to overlook problem is that even those of us who live in big cities where we have many hospital options (ignoring network issues) will be impacted by this. We all drive! Heading thru ATL in your way to Florida? You might end up hours away from a trauma center & that can = death.

A lovely way to put Monday into perspective.

When Zoom became our de facto work environment in the early days of Covid, we were reminded at the start of many meetings, “your silence is agreement”. It startled me at first; no opportunity to have sidebar conversations or to delve into something further over lunch. But now I see it’s truth.

You know when most of us think about bringing something back from the past, we mean something good, like milk being delivered or making your Christmas wishlist from the Sears Catalog, but instead we get vaccine preventable diseases. 🤦🏼

Outside the VA in Decatur! Peaceful, naturally. We the People are not the problem.

Pathogens, Preparedness, and PPE! @netec.org @cedarssinai.bsky.social

I loved my Mom so much and miss her everyday. I know I was lucky. She was a force! She did a lot of good in this world not the least of which was raising 5 pretty good kids. ❤️

They are dismantling so much that has made us a great nation for what?

If you have never seen whooping cough be prepared for the awful SOB that follows the whoop. Or vaccinate.

Word of the day, from Pennsylvanian Dutch, is ‘ferhoodled’, meaning ‘tangled’ or ‘all mixed up’. Can be used of anything from a sock drawer to life.

I love a good walk in the woods and am having trouble understanding why the proposed federal budget would essentially end the US Forest Service. Didn’t anyone read The Lorax?

NIOSH researchers study the PPE that keeps me safe. No one else does what they do and we won’t be safe with them.

I’ll say this as many times as I have to. No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.

@ossoff.bsky.social Please explain your vote on the crypto bill! why, why, why??

Now is a great time to reach out to your member of Congress who promised not to cut Medicaid. Or to your conservative friends who don't think we should be exploding the debt. Because today, Donald Trump met with Republicans on Capitol Hill, trying to pass a bill that would do both.

At yesterday's U.S. Capitol press conference with Community Change Action and @economicsecurityproject.org, SSN member Harry Holzer spoke out against plans to gut Medicaid & SNAP. Watch his 3-min speech on how this plan hurts families & the economy. ⬇️

I didn't realize that calls for the removal of lead in gasoline started in the 1920s with Alice Hamilton, first woman to join the faculty at Harvard. It took 70 years until lead was finally banned from gasoline. She was a trailblazer for occupational health! www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/05/hist...

The current choices for respiratory protection are pretty lousy - tight fitting disposable N95s (hot, can shift/leak during use, tough for HOH pts) or expensive powered helmet systems that have different challenging issues. We need better, we need innovation! But for that we also need NIOSH. ☹️

The message isn’t “higher income countries have too many nurses” it is lower resource countries have way too few. We need more sharing of knowledge & skills - from areas (ICU + ED <> home health & LTC) and countries.

I am grateful for all the lessons from Mom I didn’t want to learn. She expected a lot and I’d like to believe we eventually measured up. Our first Mother’s Day without her. ❤️

WATCH: “This is how Fox spreads disinformation. It’s sad to see Alexis McAdams be part of that machine.” Receipts of Fox News lying to their audience about the arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka with false headlines and selectively edited clips. As usual.