NYT: C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines
Economist Jay Bhattacharya, who has never worked as a physician or biomedical scientist, overrules CDC experts. Axe=ground.
by Apoorva Mandavilli @nytimes.com @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
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Breaking; The President says that thing that’s happening is not happening.
Child: I know your name. Mamdani.
Obama: What’s his first name?
Child: Mayor.
Just a few beautiful recent moments from the lives of our three baby goats. Janey, Cornelius, and Floyd were all rescued from the meat/dairy industry and they will live out their lives in peace in safety here! 🐐
Christina Koch being greeted by her dog after returning from space is the dose of Monday hopium we all needed 💕
"I thought it was me as a doctor."
Greatest. Correction. Ever.
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.
#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #publichealth @sciam.bsky.social Infections of the BA.3.2 variant of the #COVID-causing virus are still at very low levels, but experts are concerned it may be resistant to immunity from vaccines or prior infection
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...
Should ID provide primary care to patients with HIV?
Point and counter point in @cidjournal.bsky.social
Work with primary care for PLWH: doi.org/10.1093/cid/...
Work as primary care for PLWH: doi.org/10.1093/cid/...
#IDSky
"Kennedy has continued to spread misinformation and push politicised agendas at the expense of the country's most vulnerable...the destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair."
Bold,factual and somber editorial in @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Love that hat!!! You look so stylish!!
"Tech companies like Palantir now stock vending machines with nicotine pouches in the hopes of boosting their workers’ productivity."
Agree w everyone, so well written! I have experienced this myself before w patients, and this piece really helped me reframe my own frustrations…. Thank you!
Wife and I in tears reading this…
A most sinister year for US public health has left us with:
- Shattered vaccine policy
- A fractured CDC and less robust disease surveillance
- return of vaccine preventable infections
- Roll back of pandemic preparedness
Etc.
We are more vulnerable to public health threats than ever.
The idea that a U.S. president would threaten to invade Greenland because Norway didn’t give him a Nobel Prize is pathetic.
This has nothing to do with foreign policy. It’s a president acting like a narcissistic spoiled child because his feelings got hurt. Unacceptable.
For the first time, a map has been created that allows people to type in their ZIP code and see an estimated percentage of their neighbors who have been vaccinated against measles, which can help determine the risk of the disease in their area.
abcnews.go.com/Health/new-m...
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“This is tyranny,” Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s attorney general, told our columnist Lydia Polgreen as she was reporting from Minneapolis. “We now don’t have to speculate as to what American fascism looks like. It’s right outside the door.”
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“A.I. doesn’t have to be perfect to be better. It just has to be better,” writes Robert Wachter.
OK, I just googled it. You learn something new every day!
I have never heard of a urethral vibrator! That is a new one! Is that really a thing?
I'm an Infectious Diseases Doctor. Our Pipeline of Experts Is in Distress.
Had the opportunity to share my reflections on the challenges the ID specialty is facing on.
@medpagetoday.com
#IDSky
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
🚨 >50% of ID fellowships went unfilled—just as the need is surging.
Currently on ID consults and seeing unprecedented volumes and an increasingly immunocompromised population at risk for life-threatening infections.
I’m worried we’re heading toward fewer specialists when we need them most.
Do you support #vaccines? Do you hate that people are going hungry?
Me too!
Join team #mealioidosis during the #HCWvsHunger challenge. It's simple.
Give to an organization. Log your donation at www.hcwvshunger.org.
Food banks. Pantries. NGOs. They all count.
How did you treat this patient? Assuming it was an abdominal infection?
Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
