Very excited to have graduated from Peds ID fellowship at @seattlechildrens.org @uwpediatrics.bsky.social last week! Hugely appreciate my co-fellows, our program leadership, and the Peds ID division for supporting me these past 3 years and happy to announce I will be staying at SCH/UW next year!

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

Dual booting between Windows and Linux is how I imagine Persephone felt.

Please join us today for our Virtual Clinical Case Conference session 'O Leukocyte, Where Art Thou: Pancytopenia in Setting of Infection', featuring Amin Bemanian, MD, PhD, as presenter and Alpana Waghmare, MD, as attending. Contact us for registration information.

Google Scholar has released AI search and finally presented a model that I prefer way over ChatGPT and other company's "Deep Research" approaches: scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scho...

Scholar Labs: An AI Powered Scholar Search

Research questions are often detailed. Answering them can require looking at a topic from multiple angles. Today, we are introducing Scholar...

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How much statistical sleight of hand can you spot in this paragraph on the new CDC website, which is now littered with muddled and flawed claims about vaccines and autism? www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe... 🧵

🧵 #MythBustingTuesday The CDC reportedly floated separating the MMR into individual shots without any published evidence that doing so improves safety. Let’s unpack why this myth persists, what the data show, and why countries like Senegal are moving in the opposite direction.

As much as we ❤️ wildlife, admire it from afar… #IDSky Rabid bat found in Seattle near Washington Park Arboretum www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Did you give water to a bat near the Arboretum? It had rabies

A rabid bat was found in Seattle near the Washington Park Arboretum. Here's what to know, and what to do if you think you might have been exposed.

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Newborn lives are on the line. The hepatitis B birth dose is safe, effective, and lifesaving yet it’s under attack at ACIP this week. Weakening this policy would be a grave mistake. Read why we must defend it. open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj...

The Hepatitis B Vaccine: Why the Birth Dose Matters and Why We Must Defend It

Defending science, saving newborn lives, and keeping the world on track to end Hepatitis B

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Now is the time that I remind you that, while plague has been endemic in the western United States for 70+ years and this is a normal occurrence, our work does seem to strongly suggest climate change is increasing spillover risk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Plague risk in the western United States over seven decades of environmental change

The impacts of climate change on human and wildlife health remain poorly understood. Carlson and colleagues develop a new method for reconstructing these impacts, and show that since 1950, environmen....

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NBC News@nbcnews.com · last yr.

A person in northern Arizona has died from a case of bubonic plague, local health officials say.

Amer Academy of Pediatrics: “We are witnessing an escalating effort by the administration to silence independent medical expertise and stoke distrust in lifesaving vaccines. Creating confusion around proven vaccines endangers families' health + contributes to the spread of preventable diseases."

Healthcare choice is important. One examples is that COVID-19 vaccines are one of the best ways for the families of our patients with cancer and transplants to protect their immunocompromised loved ones who may not be able to get vaccines.

IDSA@idsainfo.bsky.social · last yr.

Secretary Kennedy's announcement that COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women could reduce vaccine access for millions of Americans. IDSA urges insurers to maintain coverage for COVID-19 vaccines: bit.ly/4jjmwPV

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

“…ready-to-use therapeutic foods like Plumpy’Nut are “the singular public-health achievement of the last several decades”—more consequential, experts reiterated to me, than even antibiotics or vaccines.”https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/usaid-doge-children-starvation/682484/

‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’

Elon Musk promised to preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children. Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.

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When I tell people, I’m a Peds ID physician, I often get “oh wow that must be so sad”. But I often care for kids with infections that would’ve easily killed an elderly person who go home in a few days to live healthy, productive lives, & I can’t think of much more rewarding then that. #WhyPeds

Infectious disease has been the central cause of childhood disease for almost all of history. We are fortunate to live in a time with vaccines and antibiotics, but if we destroy the agencies responsible for delivering them, the effects will be disastrous.

Atul Gawande@agawande.bsky.social · last yr.

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization

Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

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It was great seeing so many people out today in Seattle Center for #StandUpForScience

This decision — & other federal efforts to undermine well-established science about vaccine safety — puts everyone at risk, especially when we are currently experiencing the worst U.S. flu season in more than a decade, says IDSA President Tina Tan, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS, FAAP. Statement: bit.ly/41mfTFE

I commend every parent who is choosing to do the right thing by vaccinating their child as the measles outbreak spreads. There's no shame in changing your mind on a stance you were wrong about. Especially when it concerns protecting children from disease. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

As Texas measles outbreak grows, parents are choosing to vaccinate kids

At least 124 people, mostly babies, children and teens, have been infected. Eighteen people have been hospitalized.

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Death is not the only outcome that matters when it comes to infectious disease. In the TX measles outbreak, 16 people have been hospitalized so far, which can be traumatizing for kids and financially destructive for their parents. Measles can also cause a variety of adverse outcomes such as…

I have used the ACIP vaccine-specific recommendations (and the VIS sheets, which are also gone) countless times to help families with catchup vaccination schedules or for picking vaccines for more complicated cases like immunocompromised kids. It’s terrible that they have been taken down.

Thomas [DARK MODE], DO@tom.medsky.social · 2y ago

I'm freaking out this is horrible.

Excellent study by my Penn-CEIRR colleagues showing that a single HA substitution in H5 (at same exact residue that changed in the British Columbia case!) enables efficient H5N1 binding to receptors in the human upper airway. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors

In 2024, several human infections with highly pathogenic clade 2.3.4.4b bovine influenza H5N1 viruses in the United States raised concerns about their capability for bovine-to-human or even human-to-h...

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