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This is beyond heartbreaking

Like seriously. Wtaf

New from Drs. Nada Fadul, @estohs.bsky.social, @m-salman-ashraf.bsky.social and a fantastic collaborative team in JMIR Research Protocols: "Providing Education and Training to Health Care Professionals to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities" #IDSky www.researchprotocols.org/2025/1/e60901/

Description of our response to a large community TB exposure involving young kids. We hope this helps other academic centers be able to partner with public health more easily- costs included to help convince your C suite that it’s a good idea! @claytonmowrer.bsky.social #PedSky #IDSky #PedsID

New moment of “WTF”: -pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity) -nl times: reach out to CDC for testing -now: “they confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serology…they suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Center” 😳😳😳

“appears to contradict a pledge he made” Such generous editors you have, @washingtonpost.com - It DIRECTLY contradicts a pledge he made. Use your words. It’s all you have 🤬🤦🏻‍♂️

#IDSky #MedSky IDSA speaks out on RFK jr's unilateral, unscientific. and destructive changes to COVID vaccine recommendations. We have a robust, transparent and thoughtful process that can and would have addressed any changes that might be appropriate. www.idsociety.org/news--public...

Wonder how NEJM must feel right now, allowing that garbage commentary (by certain "officials"), followed by RFK Jr now hoping to bar NIH scientists from publishing there... Karma huh?

Americans are living in a Renaissance, not of sculpture and painting but of food. We decided to do a bonfire of the vanities about it.

Costco is along my favorite companies, in large part because of the founders

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

RFK Jr. is holding an emergency press briefing at #HHS HQ tomorrow at 11am ET on the "autism epidemic." There has not been such a briefing on the measles epidemic. #CDC #politics #science #MedSky #IDSky #PsychSky #PedSky

Just tought you might all need this (from "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers").

THIS is how you do it. Cheers, Harvard.

For what it’s worth, Jeanne Marrazzo is a national treasure. RFK Jr is a national embarrassment.

Woah. This is a powerful piece. Please take the time to read.

This is an incredible list. There's so much amazing work here. I've read a few, but still have so much more reading to do

Completely predictable first move

“However, it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Marks wrote.

A reminder that illegally closing USAID & shuttering its programs will kill or harm millions. One example: "the loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result"

Such an important overview here. This MAHA movement is bogus: they are gutting even our ability to combat chronic illnesses as well.

This is terrifying

Max Frankel, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy and became a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times and later its executive editor, died on Sunday. He was 94.

Things look very grim for tuberculosis services due to abrupt cuts by the US government Join us on Monday, on World TB Day as we discuss the latest crisis Date: Monday, March 24, 2025 Time: 12 p.m. EDT / 9 a.m. PDT RSVP: bit.ly/3XO86iQ

Who funds biomedical research? @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

While studies on vaccine hesitancy are crucial, this headline buried the fact that they're gathering info re studies on mRNA vaccines and ANY international collaborations. That's insanity and will have absolutely devastating impacts. Please, rest of the world: take us back when we get through this

Yeah second this

How bad is it that I breathed an audible sigh of relief when I read the emphasis on vaccination spread throughout this entire HAN...?

This take ftw

I love STAT News. But I do wish they'd remove the paywall for things as important as this.. Not many outside of industry can afford the really $$$ subscription, but we appreciate and would love to review such analyses and updates.

Aaaand there it is. Before giving this man any credit for anything sensible-adjacent, give him 5min to open his mouth again.

A flicker of light in pitch darkness. www.yahoo.com/news/supreme...

Lots of talk re RFK Jr's op-ed - many noting his shift in seeming to be encouraging vaccination. The reality is that he sidestepped truly endorsing vaccines and focused (as per usual) on a lot of disinformation. We cannot praise these words - they're empty. Paul Offit said it much more eloquently:

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Sobering thread on the recent USAID changes... Heartbreaking, but a must read. Quite literally criminal (not to mention ethically horrendous). And yet it continues...

don't mind me, i'll just be sobbing at the muppet movie script

Executive Summary: State-of-the-Art Review: Data and Trust to Improve Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients #MedSky #IDSky academic.oup.com/cid/article/...

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... “The silence with which many of us and our institutions are meeting this moment must be challenged.”

This 👇 While life has taken me on a different path, I once dreamed of becoming EIS officer. They're amazing, selfless humans, occasionally literally putting their lives on the line. I'm so angry. I'm so heartbroken. Our health is being sacrificed

These doctors and all who enabled them own the next 4 years. It’s our job to remind them of that.

Yay! @ukhsa.bsky.social is an amazing resource! Welcome!

“I am afraid for our country because I know what happens when science denialism comes into power …” @gregggonsalves.bsky.social But this is not a time for defeatism. “Yes, sometimes you persist and you fight ‘the long defeat’ … you don’t turn your back on those who have the most to lose.”

And here it is. We all knew it was coming... Yet it hurts more than I thought it would. We have a very long, very difficult road ahead of us. But resist at every step, we must. We owe it to our patients and our communities and all those neglected by our systems

This is how you do it.

This was so powerful

This is the **** who allowed RFK Jr nomination to proceed.

This moment is the "hill that IDSA should die on."

More than what most of those born here will ever have done. (Here's looking at you, rising syphilis rates)