Combination flu/COVID shot approved in Europe www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mod...

Why it’s (mostly) good news Paxlovid struck out open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Oh good, more anti-science chaos www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

🚨 Great analysis of 21 harmful LIES by RFK Jr makingsciencemakesense.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-ask... by @jessicamalaty.bsky.social @drjessicaknurick.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social SUM: LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE!

Colossal moral failure www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Important essay: why are we letting our eminence-based habit of using IV antibiotics outweigh the multi-study evidence that PO antibiotics work just as well for most serious infections?

🆕💥🟢Multisite Retrospective Cohort Study with @timlaheymd.bsky.social Do C-Reactive Protein (CRP) Measurements Predict Treatment Failure in Native Vertebral Osteomyelitis? #idsky academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...

Fox will not commit to protecting henhouse www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

"Other companies may take the lesson that they can bypass federal safety standards, and they may race into the market to ensure they are not left behind" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“What these data show us is the deliberate unraveling of the elements of H.I.V. prevention and treatment service delivery that are essential to actually finish the job and defeat this pandemic” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

Cool idea www.statnews.com/2026/04/17/o...

💉 Where can you find accurate information on vaccines❓ ✅ American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-... ✅ Medical societies: cmss.org/programs-and... ✅ CIDRAP for in-depth evidence review: vaxintegrity.cidrap.umn.edu/evidence-rev...

Multiple AI scribes inferior to human note writers "Although ambient AI scribes hold promise for reducing clinician burden, independent, vendor-neutral evaluations of note quality are essential before large-scale clinical deployment." #bioethics www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

It’s news that this administration chose someone qualified www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/h...

I don’t know much about ethics, and I’ve never spoken to an ethicist, but here’s a long piece saying ethics isn’t useful #bioethics aeon.co/essays/why-b...

1/ You may have seen headlines that CDC paused #rabiestesting. It sounds alarming, but I want to assure you that the immediate risk is low. This is a temporary pause for a quality review, with testing expected to resume in a few weeks. But there’s a bigger issue underneath this I want to talk about🧵

U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year. For example👇 1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year). 2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants. 🧪🪦 www.idsociety.org/globalassets...

Shocking story: Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters

📣 Our NEW study on AI chatbots & medical misinformation: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4... cc @ualberta.bsky.social "...chatbots performed poorly when answering questions in misinformation-prone health and medical fields."

"even marginal reductions in MMR vaccine uptake can result in disproportionately large health and economic burdens"

Boys should also get the HPV vaccine, not only to help eliminate cervical cancer through building herd immunity but also because in this latest study it cancer risk in men by about half (in 10 years of follow up; the reduction may be larger with longer follow up) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Scary story of the incompetent surgeon who hacked out a Florida man's liver AND -- a fantastic metaphor for what goes down when grifters run US public health www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

There is good reason to research additional benefits if GLP’1’s… … without being overly credulous, since improved patient wellbeing on surveys can stem from the polymorphous benefits of known disease improvements rather than some miraculous new biochemical impact www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

Disappointing but important news in TB vaccine research. A large phase 3 trial (~12,700 participants, 38 months follow-up) testing VPM1002 and Immuvac in household contacts of TB cases did not show meaningful protection against pulmonary TB, the form that drives transmission. #IDSky #MedSky

Candida glabrata emerges as the most common cause of candidemia: analysis of a large hospital-based database, United States, 2016–2024 academic.oup.com/cid/advance-... Jeremy Gold & colleagues at CDC Mycotic Diseases Branch, @jessicalittlemd.bsky.social and @drluiso.bsky.social

“Detaining physicians who are here legally and serving communities in need of vital emergency care is not targeted enforcement. It is a threat to the health of the American people, and it must stop.” insidemedicine.substack.com/p/emergency-...

A researcher knowingly preprinted misinformation in order to run an "experiment" of whether LLMs would resurface it as medical knowledge. Academia has finally invented its own version of the classic meme. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Expertise is no longer the goal www.statnews.com/2026/04/09/n...

Better not share that positive COVID vaccine study or else people might get vaccinated www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Always be grifting www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/h...

Awful, awful. Idaho Cut Services for People With Schizophrenia. Then the Deaths Began. Eliminating outreach to people with severe mental illness set off such a cascade of bad outcomes that Idaho has scrambled to reverse the cuts.

How the media should cover a deranged president. The press, because of its own conventions and time-honored practices, sane-washes Trump, and thus fails to get across the extreme nature of his behavior, by @sulliview.bsky.social margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/how-the-me... #journalism

rebuilding our institutional, intellectual, & aspirational capital — to which American science contributes significantly — must be a priority in the post-Trump Reconstruction

What could possibly go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/h...

Which hospital near you is likely to cut services because of the Republican Big Beautiful Bill? www.citizen.org/article/big-...

If FDA does this, which is likely succumbing to pressure from RFK Jr, it crosses a new red line and, as far as I know, unprecedented. Lifting a ban on drugs that are injected into the bloodstream without data for safety or efficacy, so they can be compounded and further promoted to Americans.

"Five Reasons Why It Still Wasn't a Lab Leak" by the esteemed @angierasmussen.bsky.social To summarize: rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/five-reaso...

Seems crazy that one would need to even model scenarios like this 👇🏾 Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available projects.propublica.org/childhood-va...

"Breast ironing is gender-based violence. It is an act performed on girls’ bodies without their consent, causing lasting physical harm, because those girls’ bodies were considered dangerous. Because their developing breasts were read as invitations to assault" bktitanji.substack.com/p/the-girls-...

Criminalizing peeing is extraordinarily damaging to public health—in 5️⃣ main ways A 🧵, based on NC’s experience (its HB2 bill) & on published literature 1/n www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

It's something. "Because the law provides funding for the program only through June 30, its future remains uncertain."

That's good.

Woman researcher here whose grant was terminated. It me.

Surviving Sepsis 2026 is here & it's even more loony tunes than I was expecting. They're promoting pre-hospital ABX & preemptive broad-spectrum IV antibiotics for intubated patients. This insane fever dream is an antimicrobial stewardship nightmare. Embarrassment for SCCM. #EMIMCC

My favorite quote: “Public health is to protect everybody by the participation of everybody in preventing disease from spreading,” Plotkin said. “And that principle has been abandoned. And the principle now is ‘I will accept what I’m willing to accept and to hell with everybody else.’”

Totally support continued development of a much-needed vaccine that had great secondary outcomes but missed its primary efficacy endpoint due to low study power. But straight to market? That is a stretch www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/l...

This is now the LOST generation for all doctoral research, from engineering to public health, from literature to psychology, from religion to economics. Some programs will suffer more than others, but this is a tremendous loss to the future. This is ALL on #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #JDVance.

“Surely, the next thing people want after waiting hours in long TSA lines is to get wrongfully detained by ICE” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/u...