Podiatrists are wonderful but due to the nature of the job sometimes end up on the bottom right hand of this graph.

So tragic: Alberta baby born with congenital #measles (mother contracted measles late in pregnancy) died shortly after birth. The province, which has had a massive measles outbreak this year, says this is the 7th case of congenital measles in 2025. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Cutting funding for HIV treatment and prevention is short sighted and will reverse progress that has been achieved through decades of consistent funding and prioritization. We cannot allow this to happen. www.nbcnews.com/health/sexua...

Devastating policy failure in the US. My senior year was punctuated by columbine and it’s hard to believe we’ve only allowed things to become worse- made it easier to access guns and blaming it on everything but our gun laws.

School Shootings: A Uniquely American Tragedy And What are we Doing about it? substack.com/home/post/p-...

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This is the official communication from the FDA to physicians on acetaminophen use in pregnancy. - They acknowledge the lack of a causal link with autism - Essentially tell physicians to keep doing what we've been doing anyway It's very different from the press conference. Pass it on.

The worst thing we can do at this moment is be cynical.

Tylenol = bad Swimming in sewer water = good Vaccines = bad Guns = good Make it make sense.

Worth pointing out that the only show my kids are upset about losing is The Simpsons.

The latest in the controversy between 3 vs 2 drugs for HIV treatment -- now in advanced HIV disease, with the DOLCE study. @drlaurajwaters.bsky.social #IDSky #HIVsky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

yeah

Hepatitis B vaccine is given in infancy because children who get infected before the age of 4 cannot clear the virus and are at very high risk of developing chronic (lifelong) infection RFK Jr wants to delay hepatitis B vaccination in kids until— wait for it—age 4

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

just a casual reminder to those outside public health that RFK Jr. didn’t repair CDC’s offices before forcing staff to return monday because he wants the damage to intimidate and traumatize federal workers

The new Azalea Fresh Market is one of the coolest things I've seen in Downtown Atlanta 😍 It's a full grocery store with bread, meat, produce, cleaning products...& zero parking, just as it should be for this location. Best wishes, you beautiful thing! www.instagram.com/azaleafreshm...

Sec Kennedy said he doesn’t know how many people died of COVID in the US. But cites what percentage of world COVID deaths occurred in the US. US deaths divided by worldwide deaths X 100. So either he knows how many people died in the US or doesn’t know percentages.

Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…

Just putting this out there: When ID "stops" an antibiotic it doesn't mean it is instantaneously out of their system. Depending on the half life of the medication it can persist at therapeutic levels for some time, days in the case of IV vancomycin in a dialysis patient.

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.

Motherfucker wrote one sloppy paper in April 2020 and instead of being like oops, shit, my bad, he has kept doubling down until now he's killing most promising medical technology of the past quarter century rather than going to therapy.

mRNA vaccines are the only platform that currently allows us to go from new pathogen to millions of vaccine doses in under a year. These vaccines saved 20 million lives from COVID. I remember crying tears of joy when I got my first pfizer shot in December 2020. Do not let them rewrite history!

How can we pivot to implementation science to prioritize HIV prevention only while at thesame time banning studies on the most impacted populations in the U.S? New hiv infections are highest in Black and Latino msm, Trangender persons and Black women. www.science.org/content/arti...

this is a picture of CDC parents waiting to be reunited with their children at 11:00pm after 5 hours of lockdown

Medical cannabis as the source of Cryptococcus neoformans infection Editor's Choice Hong Nguyễn's team at @idpittstop.bsky.social #OpenAccess #MedMycoSky #IDSky #TxID academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

-3min. headways Airport to Lindbergh -10 minute headways from Doraville & Cumberland -HCT alternatives to “West Midtown” gridlock -Infill at Krog, Mechanicsville, Pershing Point, & Armour Yard -Stations at various parks (Westside, Piedmont, South River, & the Chattahoochee)

I just submitted the final report for an NIH R01 grant that provided major support for my lab's work on cellular organization since 2005. Although the report is somewhat pro forma, it was difficult. I am grateful to US taxpayers, NIH program staff, and referees for trusting us to do this work.

In Armenian, my dad often uses the Turkish phrase "falan fstikan": It means "and so on" or "stuff like that." The store sells electronics, appliances, falan fstikan. I've always known what it meant, though I don't speak Turkish. But I only recently noticed it really means "pistachios and stuff."

Instead of endless conspiracy theories it's better to focus on the evidence of this Q instead. Three 🌟 recent lay-resources 👇 @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social youtu.be/eTlur4YIAo0?... @gidmk.bsky.social gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r... @michaelhobbes.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

marta has now failed in five major events in the past eight months. ❌ Pride Parade ❌ St. Patrick's Parade ❌ Shakira ❌ Peachtree Road Race ❌ Beyonce Atlanta is not ready for the World Cup: unnavigable for tourists, unusable for crowds and suburbanites, unsafe for everyday riders.

Again, how do people rationalize to themselves remaining active on twitter?

Especially since Yaccarino didn’t say why she’s leaving, I would have included in the piece that the company had revealed a caustically antisemitic, openly pro-Hitler AI chatbot the night before her announcement.

- A new study finds that from 2007 -2023, children in the U.S. were 80% more likely to die from ages 1 -19 than their peers in other high-income countries. - Children in the U.S. were 15x more likely to die by firearms than children in other high-income countries. www.science.org/content/arti...

I am likewise happy to engage with Dr. McNutt on how to stand up for science. Science is the evidence-driven pursuit of truth. It isn’t partisan. But US science is facing an existential partisan threat. Refusing to defend it on these grounds is a failure of leadership.

Emergency departments across the country are already breaking at the seams as things stand because too many people utilize them for primary care. The system we have cannot absorb 11.8 million people losing coverage. People will die. www.statnews.com/2025/06/29/1...

RFK Jr: "My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years." Cost: $27 billion RCTs proving population health benefit: 0 Meanwhile, US contribution to Gavi vaccines: $1.2B over 4 years RCTs supporting Gavi vaccines: >300 Children vaccinated: >1 billion Lives saved: >17 million

Next we have antivaccine propaganda about thimerosal: www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa... This presentation previously had citations that did not exist, suggestive of AI bullshit (I am told this is the technical term in the field): www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/h...

I will keep saying this: it's THIS administration and THESE people who are prioritizing ideological agendas over scientific rigor and meaningful outcomes for the American people.

🔥New CDC study of covid-19 vaccine effectiveness published in @jamanetworkopen.com

Therapeutic re-evaluation of rationale for contact isolation and removal of order after discussion with infection prevention team.

The federal HIV guidelines face a shutdown. A trusted, living resource -- used by clinicians, programs, and public health agencies for decades -- may disappear due to “budget decreases and revised priorities.” Big mistake. #IDSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

“The (VA) system easily outperforms private hospitals in cleanliness, communication, and patient satisfaction; last spring, its outpatient clinics had a ninety-two-per-cent trust rating” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...