Study of over twenty five million people over almost four years finds that COVID vaccines reduced COVID deaths by 74% and increased all-cause deaths by zero. I don’t know how much clearer it can get than that. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Fuck every representative who voted to hurt trans people and fuck anyone minimizing how awful the House vote was. It’s really not hard to listen to trans people about the importance of gender-affirming care and the harm these laws will cause.

A Research Agenda to Mitigate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Critical Care Medicine: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement @hauschildt.bsky.social @ohsunews.bsky.social @atscritcare.bsky.social 🔓 Open Access 🔗 tinyurl.com/ykb56y2b

Drs. @ginapiscitello.bsky.social and @hauschildt.bsky.social discuss their research on hospital policies influencing clinician approaches to decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment among patients admitted to an #ICU: www.chestnet.org/guidelines-a... @gretchemaben.bsky.social

Yeah. And before this, half of reviewers were submitting trivial, short reviews that either said "looks good to me" or "this is excrement". This is why reviews should be part of the public record for any paper. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As someone who has heard, felt, and also echoed this maxim, I greatly appreciated a more responsible but also less pessimistic version of "the institution will never love you back." 1fullyhuman.substack.com/p/finding-hu...

The Blue Journal thanks Katrina Hauschildt for her contribution to the December issue A Research Agenda to Mitigate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Critical Care Medicine: An Official ATS Research Statement @hauschildt.bsky.social @ohsunews.bsky.social www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10....

"Publishing health equity research will also require support from editorial boards. ... Although external priorities may be dynamic, journals must make and remain steadfast in their public commitments to health equity (272–276) and match these commitments with editorial decision making"

"PHCR praxis requires thinking critically about our research narratives as well. How we conceptualize disparities, investigate potential mechanisms, and direct valuable resources for intervention should reflect our prioritization of structural and systemic opportunities to address inequity. ...

...Building datasets for health equity research Notably, nearly all data-related topics were believed to have high potential impact but were limited by feasibility barriers, suggesting an urgent need for improved data resources."

... Where implementation of evidence-based care can be improved, use of best practice alerts has increased uptake of guideline-concordant care and decreased disparities among racial groups (223, 224)."

"Outcomes from critical illness are complex and often heavily influenced both by events before and after a patient’s ICU stay. However, there is strong evidence that delivery of guideline-concordant ICU care remains uneven (218, 219) and disparate (32, 220–222). ...

an impact feasibility matrix!

"Notably, no studies were found that evaluated differences in in-ICU processes of care and subsequent disparities in post-ICU physical, cognitive, or mental health."

Summary of @atscommunity.bsky.social research priorities in health equity

... Indeed, many studies instead focus on patient-level factors, wrongly suggesting that biological differences between racial groups may exist (39) or misrepresenting causal mechanisms (e.g., patient mistrust vs. health system untrustworthiness [39–41]). "

... few studies have endeavored to identify underlying mechanisms of disparities, such as biased ICU care processes or policies. Even fewer have sought to intervene on culprit mechanisms (38)...

...Despite knowledge of racial and ethnic disparities in critical illness outcomes in the United States for more than 30 years (27) and advances in ICU care, disparities have persisted (28)." (is a heck of an opener from @hauschildt.bsky.social et al)

Good morning, friends I'm reading "A Research Agenda to Mitigate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Critical Care Medicine: An Official American Thoracic Society ( @atscommunity.bsky.social ) Research Statement" www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/... Want to read along together?

great thread!

When i lived in IA, it was a purple state. In the last 20 years, IA took a hard right turn and its politics are indistinguishable from Alabama's, complete with abortion ban and regressive taxes. Now they have horrible brain drain and credulously wonder what caused it. tinyurl.com/2fyah23c

🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402

Hey #Portland I’ll be here, alongside my infinitely more talented studio mates — please stop by and do some of your holiday shopping! (Seriously, they are so talented, my favorite thing to do when I get to the studio is look at the kiln shelves to see all the amazing things they’ve made.) #pdxart

Oregon's Attorney General and Portland area DAs just told the feds they'll prosecute excessive force by federal agents in the state—citing evidence from the trial that shut down Trump's National Guard plan for Portland.

A health insurance banger? music.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBH...

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

"Let that sink in: Two-thirds of people who develop the deadliest cancer in the country would never have been offered the one test proven to save their lives." www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/l...

These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws. Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired. They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.

Controversial take, I guess: You can be considerate of others when in PJs. People in PJs is not what makes flying miserable, for me. There's the insufficient leg room, uncomfortable seats, delays... If you are miserable on a plane because other people are in sweat pants... that's a you problem.

Devastating. We are telling women: You can have bodily autonomy only when you are sick enough you know you will die. Maybe not even then. (It’s not just OBs. Docs of all stripes treat pregnant patients or those for whom pregnancy is risky. Our research shows many are afraid to discuss abortion.)

Video for my @mit.edu IDSS Distinguished Speaker seminar "Networks untangle gender differences in productivity and prominence among scientists" on 4 Nov, with a lovely audience (see thread below for slides) #scienceofscience www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPXl...

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Just as reproductive health advocates warned for years Abortion Bans Can Hinder Life-Saving Care for Pregnant Patients with Lung Disease or Medical Crises rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/31/a... by @allisonburtka.bsky.social @rewirenewsgroup.com CC @hauschildt.bsky.social @lauraandreson4tn.bsky.social

It seems crucial (and long overdue) that our national political discourse has finally shifted from an obsession with "the economy" to what actually matters: whether people can afford the basic things they need to live.

New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers. hellgatenyc.com/ccrb-whitewa...

It is always fascinating teaching in the same seminar room as Prof @yipingong.bsky.social My agenda for Week 11 of Death & Daring in the Modern ICU using @victorerikray.bsky.social and @hauschildt.bsky.social was surprisingly well paired with her on Viktor Frankl

A reminder that what conservatives have wrought didn’t happen overnight - but neither did this. Real organizing takes time and effort, but it does work, so don’t give up. Keep organizing, keep resisting, keep going.

Damnit. Damnit.

I wrote this because abortion bans are harming health care in widespread ways, and this research shows how these bans are getting in the way of pulmonary and critical care medicine. Patients are dying because of these bans.

A reminder that literally any billionaire could apparently step up and fund SNAP and many millions of Americans wouldn’t lose access to groceries tomorrow. Imagine if you could do this and it would literally be nothing to you, would not affect the way you live your life AT ALL, and not doing it.

I just got a dozen letters from the #BCBS Federal Employees Program regarding health care services I never submitted to them. These were services I received in late 2022 and 2023, after I left the VA, so I gave providers my new insurance information, with CareFirst.

Excellent reporting from @rewirenewsgroup.com on the impacts of abortion bans across medicine, including covering our research examining the effects in pulmonary and critical care medicine. rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/31/a...

A list of local proprietors who are offering support for folks affected by the whole SNAP situation docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Someone has put together a VERY thorough list of resources for people in the Portland area who need food. For those who have enough to share, please consider putting your time and/or money somewhere. For those who need help, here are places to get it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Fascist says what?

“Chicago is the future.“ @joseolivarez.bsky.social for @chicagomag.com

Israel never ceases fire. And even if it did, it would still be carrying out military occupation, apartheid, mass arrests, land theft & more. Boycott Israel. Divest from Israel. Sanction Israel. Genocide is an active project & we are complicit. Action is the only way forward

If this man fell into a hole filled with “real work” he would die there from confusion.