Some highlights from CROI2026, with commentary. Enjoy. (Free to read.) #IDSky voices.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

“Definitely, I’m more successful when I have built a relationship with the family” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/h...

I am shocked that a person who has spent the latter half of his career speaking about how awful medicine & public health are has not restored trust in medicine and public health.

Can you imagine how much pain this man must have been in? Haitian man dies in #ICE custody after family says tooth infection went untreated www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/hait...

Excellent paper on the use of agentic AI for biomedical research by @moorejh.bsky.social & colleagues #bioethics

Practice-changing study: 4-week oral vancomycin taper superior to standard 2-week pulse in randomized double-blinded study of hospitalized patients Hoping head-to-head against fidaxomicin comes soon! #Cdiff jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

What a public health nightmare. “At least 14 active measles cases have been reported at a troubled El Paso tent camp holding more than 3,000 immigrants… Another 112 people in the facility are being isolated. The outbreak has closed the detention center to visitors” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

"A framework that allows any of these data points to be evaluated in isolation, or weighed against unverified case reports as though they carry equivalent value, will produce worse policy." www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...

The VA has not filled vacant healthcare professional positions, resulting in: 1,500 fewer physicians 4,900 fewer nurses 14,000 total fewer This is 5% of the VA's medical staff. #medsky

"The head of the Veterans Affairs Department has repeatedly said that the agency needs to hire more doctors, nurses and other providers 'taking care of people on the front line' .... but the V.A. has eliminated thousands of medical positions" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

More impact outside of OB/GYN than I expected www.medpagetoday.com/hospitalbase...

“An economic disaster, a public health disaster, a moral disaster” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...

Powerful intertwined narratives from two eloquent women who lost people they love to suicide www.oprahdaily.com/life/wholene...

Cannabis exposure associated with doubled risk of bipolar and psychotic disorders in Kaiser Permanente cohort study of over 400k adolescents jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Every word of this youtu.be/p5kqUujWPCs?...

I love delicious figures! These show changes in the relationship between symptom onset and viral load over time among SARS-CoV-2 variants (Fig.3) and the impact of vaccination on peak (lower) and length (shorter) of infectious virus or viral genetic material produced over time (Fig.4)

Going to be great at rejecting your insurance claims

The fallout over Anthropic and the Trump administration isn’t just a national security story It highlights a massive and looming public health risk I recently wrote for @theatlantic.com about what happens when health data is pushed through an ideologic filter www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Worried about this one www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

How Deciding to Donate a Kidney Saved My Own Life greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

Fascism is here and now part #347 www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

“H.H.S. Secretary R.F.K. Jr. and his C.D.C. are flouting decades of scientific research, ignoring credible medical experts, and threatening to strain state resources and make America’s children sicker” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/h...

Manipulative rhetoric Facts are, shall we say, adjusted to misconstrue positions that then are vigorously rebutted in service of sweeping generalizations aimed at undermining trust in current sources of authority www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

Should we view clinical AI as specially inevitable even amid safety signals that would ordinarily send new technologies back to the drawing board? #bioethics

What RFK Jr.’s CDC Doesn’t Want You to Know open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr.'s CDC is hiding information about outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.

This is what we may loose: “The task force is made up of volunteer experts who review evidence & provide evidence-based recommendations on screening & other preventive care. By law, recommendations that garner an A or B grade must be covered by insurers without any cost sharing for patients.”

Welcome to yesteryear www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Every single step that the anti-science, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist RFK Jr takes to dismantle the US medical, public health, & health research systems is incredibly painful & distressing This one would hit so hard Without the USPSTF, evidence-based screening & prevention would crumble 😢

“Early in his career, Dr. William Schaffner, a professor at Vanderbilt University…worked with the CDC to implement the measles vaccine. When he tells medical students today that in the 1960s, before the measles vaccine, 400 to 500 kids died of measles & its complications each year, “They’re stunned”

Seven countries are losing all U.S. humanitarian aid: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Somalia, and Zimbabwe. these projects are being canceled because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests.” www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

Waning prevalence of post-COVID symptoms as immunity became ubiquitous

Universities face stiff headwinds amid anti-science, equity-allergic, free speech purge giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“Relentless and all-encompassing” attacks on American science and public health www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

This will be in bioethics classes for the next few decades 😳

Nothing to see here, just some completely responsible people with unquestionable dedication to the science simply just rescheduling things, again www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/h...

WaPo: "After leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate it" www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.” Winston Churchill www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/c...

Glad everybody put their big boy pants on and agreed to talk www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/f...

An evenhanded, nuanced take on the FDA's (now overturned) decision not to review Moderna's new flu vaccine. Imagine if this, rather that political posturing, were the substance of federal vaccine review!

Harbinger www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I did nazi that coming | Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts. The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on ICE, officials and tech workers said. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

See, if we don't talk about things, and if we stop funding the talking about them, then the things just go away.

I see transgender healthcare is in the news in Britain again One thing I find truly & genuinely stunning is that some people cite the Cass Review as if it was “impartial” and “evidence-based” How can folks be so gullible & not realize the ideological biases? 👇👇👇 bsky.app/profile/timl...

Antimicrobial resistance is very real. We get these reminders way to often in clinical practice these days. This nasty E coli Grew from a blood culture 😬

FDA's decision not to accept Moderna's flu vaccine filing has sent shock waves through pharma. "When there’s uncertainty about the path to approval & the reliability of the process, that really has pretty serious consequences,” one player told @jasonmast.bsky.social. www.statnews.com/2026/02/12/f...

How long can the courts stave off Trump vs U.S.? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

It’s hard to recall a regulator who has done as much damage to medical innovation in as little time as Vinay Prasad” www.wsj.com/opinion/vina...

Perhaps they should just rename the agency What Vinay Says instead? www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

Glad to see this, even though it reflects the "collapse" of trust in CDC's ACIP www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

This is absurd. Prasad's FDA is simply refusing to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine, which seems to work pretty well. He says it wasn't compared to the right vaccine but per the article it was so...