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Hospital Epidemiologist and Transplant ID doc first and foremost. Many other things after that

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UTHealth Houston UTHealth Houston is a comprehensive academic health university in Texas, uniting schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, public health, biomedical sciences and biomedical informatics.

Is your uth.tmc.edu ok? Have that one still from a long time ago

05.02.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@grthompsonmd.bsky.social @drluiso.bsky.social @jmsteinbrink.bsky.social

05.02.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone have experience with fosmanogepix expanded access or high dose ibrexafungerp for refractory esophageal candidiasis?

05.02.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is such a farce, honestly.

04.12.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

I don’t think people understand how great it is to have Bobby Mukumala at the helm of AMA in this moment. Met him in med school, and knew he was going to be a leader, but also knew advocacy and public health well for someone not directly performing those tasks.

19.09.2025 17:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We diagnose trisomy 21 and other defects in the first trimester. This is just nonsensical. The chair of the ACIP is making things up, and which is unsurprising to say the least…..

19.09.2025 17:12 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

^^^^^^

13.08.2025 02:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Better yet, just don’t use vancomycin

03.08.2025 14:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Social Darwinism/soft eugenics theories of MAHA become unsettlingly clear when you start looking closely

25.06.2025 19:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kulldorff points out that low rates of COVID-19 vaccination are a reflection of a lack of trust in vaccination, as though this is a tragic accident he spectated rather than something he played an active role in

25.06.2025 17:51 πŸ‘ 174 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5

My midwestern and professional upbringings make outright statements difficult for me when talking about other people. But yes. Hacks.

25.06.2025 17:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

cardiovascular morbimortality later in life and raises the issue of subclinical myocarditis (i.e., myocarditis develops but you don't experience any symptoms).

This is something that is being actively followed- the long-term significance of these imaging changes cannot be known in advance.

25.06.2025 17:21 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely not. This is the opposite of what should be happening and 100% uptake should be the target. You hate to call them hacks, but you don’t ask this question unless this is what you want

25.06.2025 17:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Meissner asks if public uptake ought to influence ACIP recommendations.

This is the game right there. The vaccines are safe and effective and a benefit to all ages. But these contrarians have sowed doubt in them and are using that to kill them.

25.06.2025 17:21 πŸ‘ 129 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4
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Hepatitis B can be passed from parent to baby at birth - and when that happens, the consequences can be deadly. It is unscientific and dangerous to intentionally ignore the success of U.S. vaccination programs or argue that the U.S. should not vaccinate babies for hepatitis B at birth.

25.06.2025 16:43 πŸ‘ 183 πŸ” 88 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

I’m a hospital infection control person, this is an exceedingly dumb question.

25.06.2025 16:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Maybe vaccination is making you more vulnerable to more viruses. Perhaps they vaccine efficacy really means vaccine less efficacy" (WTF)

25.06.2025 16:08 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

It’s apparent these ACIP members have never attended a previous ACIP meeting as the format and breadth of data presented by the CDC is exactly the same as provided at every single meeting I’ve watched since 2020.

25.06.2025 15:51 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Kuldorff made a nonsensical comment about test-negative designs not being reflective of the general population in their control group.

The control group is literally community members who happen to have a different infection that resembles COVID-19.

25.06.2025 16:01 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Just makes earlier this year announcement to remove approval even more unconscionable.

25.06.2025 15:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Malone, who is part of several anti-vax orgs, says he has no conflicts.

This is ridiculous.

25.06.2025 14:21 πŸ‘ 240 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4

#IDsky

25.06.2025 15:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

>90% chance of becoming chronic infection if acquired in infancy (under 1 year old) which risks fibrosis
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with 20-25% chance of hepatocellular carcinoma

It's an anti-cancer vaccine in babies

25.06.2025 15:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Hepatitis B Facts and Figures Hepatitis B is a global public health threat. Here are current statistics about hepatitis B around the world. Up to 80,000 Americans will become newly infected with hepatitis B each year therefore it ...

Kulldorff also recycles anti-vaccine propaganda about the birth dose of hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine. This is not universally done across the world- mainly in those countries where there is a low rate of chronic infection. The US, however, has millions of chronically infected carriers.

25.06.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

No. Absolutely not. This is a stupendously dumb idea. It is entirely preventable because there are people who don’t know they have Hep B. It needs <20 particles to infect, which is stupidly low numbers.

25.06.2025 14:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society has elected not to have our liaisons to ACIP participate in today's meeting. We believe the politicization of the committee renders it incapable of an independent, credible, data-driven process to review and recommend vaccines for the American public.

25.06.2025 13:50 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

It’s rich to complain of β€œfalse statements” about new β€œACIP” members by people using non-existent references in their statements about vaccines

#RFKLies #ACIP

25.06.2025 14:09 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting β€” firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect.

Many folks didn’t see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didn’t work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.

01.04.2025 13:11 πŸ‘ 4148 πŸ” 2220 πŸ’¬ 202 πŸ“Œ 233

Vandalism is too mild. This is arson, with millions trapped in the building.

01.04.2025 13:31 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0