Working from home #wfh

CDC flu data is back! I’m so happy I could cry. H3N2 is predominating, especially the new subclade K. This supports the emerging hypothesis that we will have a big flu season. More to come.

Potential mechanism for EBV causation of lupus found and now awaits epidemiological investigation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"the cruelty and lethality will only grow as the Administration expands its rollback of public-health advances to the homeland... we cannot let the consequences go unaccounted for."

Not sure who won the shutdown but certainly the American people lost and continue to lose. We need national affordable healthcare (like VA healthcare for all)

Eugenics at the US border #bioethics www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This is America

“The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right.” Or, at least, it should be #bioethics

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide. Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

A study with data from ~14 million children shows that COVID19 infection is significantly more harmful to kids’ hearts than the vaccine. Marty Makary falsely alleged that “children died” because from COVID19 vaccine. Whomever told him that failed to account for SARS-CoV-2 infections. Link below.

It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca

What can’t these buffoons break? www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

Judge says stop being ghouls www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

"During my lifetime, there has been a view of the responsibility of the FDA to the public that it practices highly principled corporate management. And this seems to be lacking.” www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/f...

Gotta pay for those tax cuts www.cbsnews.com/news/snap-fo...

“it is beyond argument — that irreparable harm will begin to occur, if it hasn’t already occurred in the terror it has caused some people about the availability of funding for food for their family.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Here’s How Much Obamacare Prices Are Rising Across the Country

Food insecurity is a self-inflicted, manufactured problem in the richest nation in the world

I was asked by @ksjatmit.bsky.social to share my advice for journalists dealing with misinformation. It’s a really important topic so I was happy to oblige. It’s also a topic where we are all trying to navigate a constantly changing landscape, so do let me know what you’ve found works or doesn’t…

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

Spread the word. The Trump Administration can use emergency funds to pay for SNAP benefits during a shutdown. The President and little Mike Johnson are lying to you. How do we know? 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

MASSIVE RCT from Kenya showing that steroids reduce mortality in CAP Mortality benefit easier to demonstrate w/ less resources available to salvage pts Should allay the hype that the negative REMAP-CAP steroid RCT received (despite being woefully underpowered) www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... #EMIMCC

🚨 COVID vaccine prevents death in US veterans www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... 🚨 RSV vaccine prevents hospitalization in older adults jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Retrospective correlations linked to confounding in studies www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

(wh)OOOPS www.npr.org/sections/sho...

The MAHA plan was ALWAYS intended to undermine vaccines. - Rolling back access - Seeding doubt on vaccine effectiveness - Pushing false narratives about vaccine harms - Crippling the infrastructure for vaccine approval and guidelines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months. That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The government shutdown is about to hit home in homes with the least capacity to weather shortfalls. Millions who rely on #SNAP to feed their families are caught in the crosshairs. “We need to remember that #SNAP is the safety net. Below the safety net is concrete.” www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/s...

Well, this is a brilliant #IDSky article that cuts close to the bone! 😬 Reframes #academia as an infection for which the causative organism may be less easy to define, but that can be just as insidious on affected individuals (clinical academics)! #AcademicSky #MedSky 🧪 @cidjournal.bsky.social

Foreshadowing: “Venezuela had a major outbreak, when its once-strong public health system fell apart during years of political instability” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h...

New paper dissects “the combined incompetence, malice, and dishonesty of the new ACIP” open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

The GOP wrecking ball keeps swinging... www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"The real culprits are huge profits for health care investors, a gigantic bureaucracy deployed to extract those profits, and health services skewed to what’s profitable rather than what’s needed" www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/h...

Just updated the IBCC chapter on cholecystitis & cholangitis. These patients are often initially triaged to the ICU. Understanding these diseases can help us direct patients to interventions they need. Let’s talk about four pearls 😁 chapter: emcrit.org/ibcc/biliary... #EMIMCC

A thoughtful piece on the rapidly changing landscape of what defines success & impact in academic medicine. I totally agree with the points made. www.statnews.com/2025/10/17/a... #medicine #academia #research #science

At first seems like comparing apples and oranges: moxifloxacin vs vancomycin?! Results a bit surprising ("narrow spectrum" vancomycin change microbiome more), but this is just helicopter view. More broadly, 👏 to these experimental medicine approaches for discovery science #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR

“There is added concern in parts of Latin America over unequal access to healthcare & The worrying situation in the US, which is facing its worst measles outbreak in decades following a reversal [of leadership on vaccines]” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The countdown to the end of DRC's most recent #Ebola outbreak has begun with the release from hospital of the last known patient. Of 64 cases (53 confirmed, 11 probables), there have been 45 deaths & 19 survivors. +35,000 people were vaccinated in this response. www.afro.who.int/news/last-eb...

Emboldened President reveals domestic policy agenda

Statement: “The State Department will continue its mission to encourage other donors… to come up with sustainable solutions for those most in need” Translation: “Good luck with that starvation stuff - we out” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...

A better title: With the GOP at the helm, the cost of health insurance - like the cost of groceries - steadily grows www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...

Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will: MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR. Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We are at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

Thoughtful point/counterpoint Go team X-odus!

'Voice of CDC' Goes Silent — In departure from the past, MMWR staff not allowed to be exempted from shutdown furlough www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

"It doesn't get more tinfoil hat." The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is preparing to investigate *chemtrails,* according to an internal memo @stephaniearmour.bsky.social obtained. A department spokeswoman notably did not deny it. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Pausing and then reinstating funding for health care across the country ... these people are incompetent www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

Trump blows up access to affordable birth control www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

“It’s a lot of gamesmanship, and the people are like the pawns” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

“at the highest level of leadership in the CDC, there are no public health or medical professionals left to help guide CDC recommendations” www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...