It’s going to turn out the MAHA gang killed or badly maimed Trump either by: 1) convincing him not to take a well-proven medicine (statin, blood thinner, beta-blocker) 2) causing an interaction between a supplement and one of the meds 3) directly poisoning him with an unproven supplement

My 10th peer-reviewed article was published online! Ironically this was also my first non-ID related article

At the @ltgovflanagan.mn.gov rally, hoping to see @warren.senate.gov. First rally. Lot of people talking about their problems

Me spotting RFK in the gym: “Zero. Zero. Zero. come on, full range of motion bud. zero. Still Zero. Zero - should I go grab my extra sweat pants for you?”

European navigator in the southern hemisphere trying to find Polaris: Shit.

Tl;dr: 250,000 more Minnesotans at risk of devastating medical bills, higher energy prices, rural hospital closures, and longer ambulance wait times. None of this is worth a tax cut for billionaires. Congress needs to reject this bill.

Last day, seeing patient until 5, notes until 6. It was great to cap out my fellowship at Mayo with old and new friends! #IDSky

The #OBBB is so infuriating. $4.5 TRILLION added to deficit for the the “public good” of “rich people have more money”

Chaos at the CDC’s vaccine meeting. One member resigned. Some scientific materials weren’t vetted. The American Academy of Pediatrics is boycotting. So yeah, it’s going great! Here's a bunch of information and analysis, including some breaking news 🧵 1/

The news about Rep Hortman made me physically ill. I can’t stop feeling anger about how this could happen, but for now I just want to say she was a very down-to-earth, personable person. The couple times I got to talk with her, she seemed motivated to find consensus and serve the state of MN

JD Vance, excited: is that the one where the out of work factory workers have to put on a strip show??? Usha Vance: what? JD, disappointed: never mind…

HHS in 6 weeks, probably

They let me give a little speech at my ID fellowship graduation. In addition to gratitude, my messages were

We thank the reviewers for their suggestions. Unfortunately, we do not believe we would be able to fit the 3 different additional studies they asked us to perform into our 700 word letter. Best

From The Archives: I Don’t Vaccinate My Child Because It’s My Right To Decide What Eliminated Diseases Come Roaring Back theonion.com/i-don-t...

Today was my last day of inpatient service at the Great Mayo Clinic. I still have a weekend call, and handful of clinic days, and some blessed research time to finish manuscripts. But time is waning and I’m feeling SO nostalgic for the long nights in med school, residency, and as a junior fellow

Good morning. Please take the word “briefly” out of your note. I can already see the history is short or it isn’t and you’re lying to me

Important area of study. Need more information to make sure we aren’t under-dosing or over-correcting and are over-dosing

Excited to share our antibiotic guide for the hospice setting, now published online: liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jp… Thanks Mayo ID and Mayo Palliative care for the support#idskyky

📢 PSA: 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️Primary care doctors and internists: ‼️Please 🛑 telling patients “it’s just fatty liver” Common, yes. But not benign! ✅ Take 🍺🍸history, perform brief intervention ✅ Manage metabolic risk factors 🧐Fibrosis (FIB-4) ☎️ Your friendly hepatologist if you need help! #liversky #medsky

The people putting aquarium cleaner into their drinks want to talk to you about placebo-controlled trials

How I imagine things go at the top journals when I send another paper #idsky

The autism registry is really smart because it 1) discourages people from reporting their diagnosis, making it look like numbers go down 2) gives them more data for p-hacking 3) provides a list of people RFK can sell to supplement companies to harass It won’t HELP anybody, but that’s not the plan

[Pope dies] Cradle Catholics: I KNOW it wasn’t because I had a soup with chicken broth on Good Friday, but…. Adult converts: Hopefully the next one isn’t a COMMUNIST

Tech CEOs: thanks to the magic of AI and Citizens United, we will finally be able to recreate the working conditions of Total Recall!

I will pay $2.37 to the first journalist to ask RFK if he has been screened for autism

In MN we had ~$200 million of committed funding pulled back. This doesn’t save money. It just leads fewer vaccinations, more cases of measles, more hospitalizations, and more lost productivity. Public health degradation now will linger for years 😢

Very excited to share our research work at the upcoming @escmid.bsky.social conference. Lots other research from Mayo Clinic as well! #ESCMIDGlobal #IDsky

House Republicans voted to overturn the CFPB's cap on excessive overdraft fees — which was expected to save consumers $5 billion annually. The House also struck down CFPB oversight over payment apps run by Big Tech companies. The GOP is the party of letting you get ripped off.

🚫Inhaled corticosteroids treat or cure measles. 🚫Clarithromycin (an antibiotic) can treat measles. With so much information out there, it can be hard to know what’s true. Learn the facts: www.idsociety.org/public-healt...

Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great

Im not good with economics, but -if you have the world reserve currency, countries and people need those 💵 - to get them, they need to give you something you want, which probably ain’t the local currency - so you give them goods and take 💵 - this is a TRADE DEFICIT

Ban direct-to-consumer supplement advertisements

It is an honor to receive this award 🙏 Teaching is a true privilege.

You: Oh my god the house is on fire! Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore,

“After the state banned abortion, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals than had in pre-pandemic years.” www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Check it out- @idsainfo.bsky.social Complicated UTI draft guidelines are up for public comment! www.idsociety.org/practice-gui...

Seeing a friend who is an exceptional physician cut from the CDC is infuriating on so many levels… EIS is a highly sought after fellowship where you learn the tools to be leaders in public health & help inprove the lives of people in the US & abroad. #IDSky www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cdc...

Day 2 of vaccine preventable disease education. Don’t forget that we don’t need these to come back… #vaccineswork #MedSky #PedSky

Tales from the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) were what drove me to medical school and into ID fellowship. Whatever you think about government waste, I assure you it is not in this department made of bright, underpaid epidemic-investigating legends. @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov #IDSky

On RFK Jr being appointed: 52 senators, all of them Republican, defied their duty to protect and serve the people of the US and appointed a man who will strive to make our water, our food, our medicine more toxic and dangerous

Published! My main fellowship research project was accepted. Want to know whether a Hospice enrollee is likely to get abx? Take a look. #IDSky Determinants of Antibiotic Prescription in Outpatient Hospice: A Regional Observational Study journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Rewatched Mandalorian s1. Favorite part is that it is written like a video game and Carl Weathers 100% understands the assignment

Save me, standardized review checklist. #IDSky

Article accepted in @ofidjournal.bsky.social Identification of the Skip Phenomenon Among Patients with Staphylococcus lugdunensis Infective Endocarditis: A Retrospective Review Brief 🧵 🔗 bit.ly/40KJY2Q

🆕💫Retrospective Review Identification of the Skip Phenomenon(SP)Among Patients with Staphylococcus lugdunensis IE One-third of patients with Staphylococcus lugdunensis IE experienced the SP SP: Higher 1yr mortality/LOS/Duration of bactremia #idsky academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...

What?!? Not communicating about communicable diseases is the exact OPPOSITE way to try to control them. apnews.com/article/cdc-...

Unconscionable

Decided to read the official Presidential Actions and rate them