Feeling a lot like I did in early days of the pandemic these days. It is so clear what’s coming: The people that will die because of cuts in global health, because of cuts to research, because of the concerted anti-vaccine push. It’s clear what’s coming, but we will have to wait to count the dead.🧪

Trump going to see Les Mis in the middle of all this couldn’t be more ironic. It’s like he went to Wicked and came out saying, “Let me tell you, folks — the Wizard, he’s doing a tremendous job. Absolutely incredible. People say, ‘Mr. Trump, have you seen the Emerald City?’ “

A worsening measles outbreak has taken root in Texas, sickening two dozen and hospitalizing nine on the western edge of the state, where childhood vaccination rates have dwindled in recent years.

Yo, doc. So they say the half-life's long.

Again, the World Health Organization is the single most important global entity in preventing, tracking and controlling outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics and is especially important as climate change and deforestation allow pathogens to mutate, become more infectious and spread to new regions

Today is a good day to post my new blog called "Vaccines against misinformation". Hope you like it. letstalkscience.eu/2025/01/20/v...

Want to share your views on the importance of the Secretary of HHS nomination?? Your posts on 🦋 mean little if the key decision makers don’t see them. The Senate Finance Committee membership is now updated. Contact info via the link. www.senate.gov/senators/ind...

A bill to break up UnitedHealth, CVS, Cigna and more has been introduced by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators and representatives. The legislation would force insurers to sell their pharmacy businesses. It aims to combat PBMs, pharma middlemen who drive up costs.

I also decorated my dogs. I have one who loves to be photographed and one that is having an extensional crisis everytime she sees a camera.

One of my other hobbies is holiday decorating. Come by in central Arkansas!

Very excited to dig into this one

"Dr. Jay Bhattacharya made his name by claiming he was censored during the Covid pandemic. But it never happened." Great piece by @mmasnick.bsky.social. Also worth noting... www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna183120

Let’s vaccinate against COVID. It reduces the risk of long COVID. This should be a no-brainer.

Study @AJICJournal reveals 'a direct correlation between inadequate infection prevention and control staffing levels and higher health care-associated infections rates'. Via Tori Whitacre Martonicz, editor, @infectioncontrol www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/study-l...

Antibiotic de-escalation in sepsis patients is uncommon, US study finds Among more than 124,000 US sepsis patients who had no resistant organisms through day 4 of hospitalization, antibiotics were de-escalated in less than 30%. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

“According to The Lancet, at least 68,000 Americans die preventable deaths every year because they are denied care or can’t afford it. That’s 68,000 people—grandparents, children, and loved ones—lost because healthcare in America is treated as a commodity rather than a basic human right.”

Lab results expected soon in DR Congo's mystery outbreak Children younger than 5 are most affected group and account for most of the deaths. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...

California cracks 500: #USDA confirms 11 more #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds in the Golden State. Brings CA's total to 504 herds and the cumulative national total to 718 in 15 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

I’m doing something fun on the ARSAS account. I already have my 12 days picked out (or I’d never get around to finishing and posting it), but share what your days of ID Christmas would be!

Striking: In numerous cases, Republicans or GOP-aligned industries are now admitting that mass deportations and rolling back Biden's climate agenda could prove disastrous in their parts of the country. In my new piece, I've compiled many examples of this: newrepublic.com/article/1890...

It’s my dog’s birthday. She opens present. Enjoy (maybe - the first time it didn’t post the video).

anyone with a minimal understanding of litigation risk expected this after Dobbs. some details in a thread:

The CDC has some good tips about holiday leftovers and thawing and cooking your turkey and other dishes safely! Happy holidays. www.cdc.gov/food-safety/...

Was vancomycin born wicked or was wickedness thrust upon it?

Important read from @sciam.bsky.social now more than ever if you are in the USA 🇺🇸 www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

This is really interesting! #AMR #UTISky

#ICYMI Measles has been vaccine preventable in the US for over 50 years and was (past tense) considered eliminated in the US about 25 years ago. Fun fact: Measles is one of the most (if not THE most) infectious diseases we know. #VaccinesSaveLives

There's a planner company getting a ton of traffic from the BirdApp exodus.

Can I admit that I laughed at myself like a dork when I was trying to think of a cute graphic for resistance and thought, “wouldn’t it be funny if a bacteria was proposing with a plasmid?” Then I had to come up with the others because that’s too fun.

🩺 A: 7-day of active ABX with stepdown to PO therapy may be appropriate for uncomplicated Enterobacterales bacteremia if: 1️⃣ No uncontrolled source 2️⃣ Patient is non-neutropenic (caveat: emerging data) 3️⃣ Clinically improved < 48-72 hours, gut working 🔗 PMID: 30535100, 39565030, 32484534 #IDSky

This isn’t what I was going to post today, but after the 10th person asked me how E. coli was in carrots and I had to answer “it’s poop,” I decided to make this one.

Someone is ready for Thanksgiving! Me too!

Everyone has a role in fighting antimicrobial resistance. #USAAW24 #ItTakesAllOfUs #ARStewardship

And he stands to make more now. They keep saying follow the money but maybe we should follow the science, which also considers sponsorships and such.

I think in the near future, it will be especially important to have effective science communicators. As someone who has been doing this for a while, I thought it might be useful to explain my major principles for science communication that I use in my own work 🧵:

This is a very interesting paper that did genomic analysis to find that rifaximin prophylaxis causes resistance daptomycin.

Anyone you see on your timeline right now praising RFK Jr. is a person you never need to take seriously on anything ever again. It is difficult to overstate just how extreme, conspiratorial, and insane RFK’s views are, on vaccines, microchips & beyond. He’s Alex Jones in a suit.

Happy respiratory season!

#USDA confirms 13 more dairy herds in California have been infected with #H5N1 #birdflu. The cumulative national total is now 505 herds in 15 states. California is posed to crack the 300 herds mark soon. About the burning itself out thing.... www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

Gearing up for #usaaw.

All the cool ID folks and now the official ID folks too? Could this really be replacing Twitter? I hope so.

one of the reasons bluesky works differently is because early users waged a successful fight to get the devs to prioritize safety features to protect communities at risk as a result bluesky now has a suite of controls that i think are unmatched on social media here’s the list, lmk what i’ve missed

Aside from my interests in pharmacy informatics and ID, I also have the cutest doggo of all time. Admire.

My most popular ID post on the other place was when I shared my Hitchhiker's Guide to Antimicrobials, so I'll share it with #IDSky digitalpharmd.com/wp-content/u...