This is why we need trusted folk already in these places, before outbreaks like Ebola hit--& why funding cuts to WHO and USAID forced many of those people who were working there to leave. Trust of the community is critical when you're asking them to do things like change funeral/burial rituals.

When we say medical misogyny kills people, this is the shit we mean.

I was really not worried about the hantavirus until this administration started saying more and more forcefully everything is fine

I'm receiving more of these AI-generated queries. Here's one asking me about a pulmonology paper. I've never published in the space. Oh, and no such paper exists by any author. (My reponses that generated the second and third emails were, in total, "yes?" and "which paper"?)

THIS is the issue This current hantavirus outbreak has extremely low epidemic or pandemic potential (it’s NOT COVID—which was the deadliest pandemic in a century) But the outbreak exposes how Trump, RFK Jr & Bhattacharya have decimated US pandemic preparedness & response in so many different ways

The @fda.gov withdrew its scientists’ COVID and shingles vaccine studies from publication last fall. My new @cidrap.bsky.social piece walks through what those studies actually found, and why their suppression matters. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cid...

As someone who has cared for children with cancer in their last days, surrounded by those they love, relishing final moments together, I cannot even put into words the terribleness that those responsible for this deserve.

Tbh the wording of “mildly pcr positive” is low key the most concerning part of this. It tells me that these people in charge are downplaying what’s happening and are 1. fucking panicking or 2. So fucking ignorant and inexperienced that they don’t even understand PCR testing

Look, even this level of idiocy is not reason to panic. It just reemphasizes the point here:

"Mildly positive" for hantavirus. Yeah. Like the time my girlfriend got a little bit pregnant.

Bravo to all the scientists who use AI preparing their papers without spending the time to check *everything*, despite all the warnings not to. The rate of fake references in scientific papers increased 13-fold (1325%) in just 18 months. Quite an achievement. 😫

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

It’s Mother’s Day, not in the UK, but nearly everywhere else in the world, and #RecipeOfTheDay is this Strawberry Meringue Layer Cake! www.nigella.com/recipes/stra...

Just as dangerous and often a comorbid condition

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I saw @ianbennett.bsky.social being famous today and it was very exciting!

Okay friends. Going for a surprise lap chole/gallbladder removal in the morning. Has anyone had one before? any postop tips other than the obvious general postop care? I’m glad I’ll be out with anesthesia for a few hours because I don’t think I’m gonna be sleeping tonight

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Well that sucks!! Crikey 😬

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket after the latest instance where groups of anonymous traders made strategic, well-timed bets on a major geopolitical event hours before it occurred. n.pr/41Zphja

Trump using foreign steel he took as part of an obvious bribe to build the White House ballroom is the perfect metaphor for this administration. No notes.

In a just society there would be no billionaires But, in our current society, replete with billionaires, they should all take a leaf out of Scott’s book and give away their wealth in ways that improve society (in 2022, she gave $22 million to Durham Public Schools, no strings attached)

UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Leo shelved plans to visit America. Some officials saw their reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: “The threat of destroying a whole civilization and the intentional targeting of civilian infrastructure cannot be morally justified.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/ar...

It’s bad. It’s really bad.

They should all be flying or driving to DC right fucking now. Hold a giant press conference on the Capitol steps. Make this LOOK like the emergency it is

Make America Beholden to Snake Oil Again

Yes they will, just as they did all that rescue propaganda for him 😢

Read it and weep. (gift article) www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

For many decades, RFK Jr worked tirelessly to derail vaccination & drive the spread of deadly infectious diseases Then last year he became the most powerful person in the US federal health system—leading HHS—so he could turbocharge his extreme anti-vaccine campaign He's getting all he ever wanted

If you have an opportunity to be kind to someone today, please take it.

Imagine being this bad of a person. Granted, it’s probably a requirement for being married to Stephen Miller, but what a shit-tier human being you have to be in order to say something like this.

You’ll see bad actors trying to incite riots or violence because it confirms their narrative.

This!!

Pediatric ID Physician here. I‘ll never forget the young adult who lost her limbs to disseminated meningococcal ds, I‘ll never forget the healthy children who did not get the flu vaccine and were well one day, and dead the next. The HHS is the biggest threat to children’s health.

Shorter RFK Jr: “we’re ok with more dead kids” 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

For five years, Trump has whitewashed the Jan. 6 insurrection, culminating with him freeing roughly 1,500 criminals. But make no mistake: it was a devastating extremist attack on our republic—and it was led by him. The deep evidence, plus a thread on his lies 👉 www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1x

Six years ago, if you asked me what would happen after COVID, I would not have said HHS will be run by the most famous anti-vaxxer in America and he’s gonna deschedule the US into Danish-inspired preventable disease outbreak hell

Thirty people, including one child, in Massachusetts have died from flu-related illness this season. The percent of hospitalizations associated with the flu has spiked in the last couple of weeks — a full month before last year's surge.

1). The US is in the middle of the worst flu season in a decade. 2). Pertussis cases are the highest they have been in 20 years. 3). Measles has rebounded and elimination status has been lost. RFK.Jr. has not recommended vaccination, instead he is aggressively rolling back vaccine policy.

Bill Cassidy MD owns the child sickness, suffering & deaths that will result from RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine policies Dr Cassidy cast the deciding vote in the Senate Finance Committee to confirm RFK Jr as HHS Sec—yet he knew full well that RFK Jr is the world’s most extreme, dangerous anti-vaxx activist

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