Cameron Wolfe
@aussiedocwolfe.bsky.social
Transplant Infectious Disease & HIV doc Aussie 🇦🇺explanted into the USA🇺🇸 Professor of Medicine, Duke University Lover of respiratory viruses 🦠, Vaccine 💉 research, Geelong football 🏉 and Aussie cricket 🏏
Free to share - great discussion recently hosted by @ishlt.bsky.social and the Infectious Diseases professional community, evaluating risks and management of donor-derived infections. Special thanks to @mady247.bsky.social from duke for organizing and all our speakers 🙏 youtu.be/hKGczPYJea8
ISHLTv Webinar - Difficult Donor Dilemmas in Thoracic Transplant (2 February, 2026)
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Just when you thought we can’t get any more PITIFUL…. 🤬🤯🤬
ProPublica@propublica.org · 9mo agoNEW: Officials at the Indian Health Service have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations for patients.
Pfizer burn. They gave Trump a link, since he doesn't seem able to find the Pfizer covid vax data "that have appeared in over 600 peer-reviewed publications" on his own. www.pfizer.com/news/announc...
Pfizer Responds to Success of Operation Warp Speed and Reaffirms Transparency of COVID Vaccine Data | Pfizer
NEW YORK, Wednesday, September 3, 2025 – Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today reaffirmed its commitment to transparently and consistently disclosing its research findings regarding its COVID-19 vaccine and t...
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💥🆕“How to approach a patient hospitalized for pneumonia who is not responding to treatment?” @intenscaremed.bsky.social 👇Free Access bit.ly/3HdzxNI #IDSky #MedSky #PCCSky #ICUSky #emimcc #Ansky #EMSky #AMSSky #Pharmsky #Pharmed #RXSky #MicroSky #ClinMicro@unmc.bsky.social@unmccom.bsky.social
How to approach a patient hospitalized for pneumonia who is not responding to treatment? - Intensive Care Medicine
Pneumonia is a frequent cause of intensive care unit (ICU) admission and is the most common infection in ICU patients across all geographic regions. It takes 48-72h for most patients to respond to app...
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Evidence of US brain drain? US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad Jan-Mar 2025 than during same period in 2024. US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%. Data from Nature Careers global science jobs platform. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is fantastic step against a horrible disease!! (At least other countries haven’t fallen in the “vaccines are bad” dogma poisoning the US)
Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research@pasteur.fr · last yr.🔬 After 20+ years of research, Institut Pasteur scientists have developed MOPEVAC, a groundbreaking vaccine platform. First target 💉 Lassa fever, a disease that kills thousands annually. #VaccineInnovation #PublicHealth #LassaVirus
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Duke presents their experience transplanting SARS-CoV-2 NAT+ organ donors, in the era of good vaccines, good treatments & Omicron. Great outcomes! 11 D+ vs 192 D- donors @aussiedocwolfe.bsky.social @mady247.bsky.social @ishlt.bsky.social @idsky.bsky.social
Outcomes of lung transplantation from SARS-CoV-2 positive donors during the Omicron wave
Early observations of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission via lung transplantation have led to frequent discard …
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Absolutely real and happening all over the country - National medicine and science global leadership is at risk of being guttered This is YOUR future, your kid’s health. …that includes you, GOP congress… you hold “all the cards” as someone recently said www.usnews.com/news/busines...
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😱🤦♂️ Straight up science censorship….🤬
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials. Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
BREAKING: The Trump administration has announced that it will kill Medicare coverage of most telehealth services on April 1st.
😢 Along with 1300 fired CDC staff, 5000 nih/nci/NIAID / staff…. We’re a laughing stock. A cringing stock. Ashamed 😢
Sheri Fink@sherifink.bsky.social · 2y ago"I feel ashamed because people agreed to work with me and they’ve been screwed,” says Sharon Hillier... “They signed an agreement that we would provide ultrasounds, syphilis testing, and other things, and we would follow their infants for 6 months. And … we have reneged on this contract."
Worried mumblings…. Mumble mumble… but YES, I’ll vote for him #CollinsCopOut
USAID budget is ~10% of Elon Musk worth… Yet he’s willing to close it… (Foreign Aid approx 1% of our budget) Let that sink in…. 🤬
Australia has a sovereign wealth fund supporting national IT infrastructure Qatar has a sovereign wealth fund to support building a city of the future for its people Trump-USA we’ll have a sovereign wealth fund to buy TikTok 🙄
Literally most of the people coordinating efforts to stop food poisoning outbreaks, the TB cluster in Kansas, measles cases… 🤮🤬
Apoorva Mandavilli@apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 2y agoSeparately, a directive prohibiting C.D.C. employees from holding scientific meetings or communicating with other organizations or the public was indefinitely extended on Saturday, when it was expected to lapse, according to another email obtained by The Times.
Starting to get stupid… 🤬🙄 STI guidelines down as well… because who cares about pregnant mums needed syphilis treatment… evidently not the “we care for all life” party 😢
BK. Titanji@boghuma.bsky.social · 2y agoRemember how I keep telling y'all to stay updated on ALL of your vaccines? Well the ACIP specific guidance on individual vaccines has been taken down. Pediatricians and primary care providers use these guidelines EVERYDAY! www.cdc.gov/acip/
@cortes-penfield.bsky.social just a quick note to say “well done” on your IDSA message board comment. Badly needed dry sense of ironic humour! 🤪 No one cares about the bloody g0545 if we stay silent and sell ourselves out…. Well placed jab 🙏
@kalebsiella.bsky.social hahahah oh no, seriously? Another ID doc called Wolfe? 🤣🤣
Merry Christmas, from my blue sky to your BlueSky (Navigating Santa cookies & milk and reindeer cookies when you don’t need a fireplace 😆🎅) #IDSky #Aussiesummer #VerandaSanta
Family time in Australia 💙🙏 Love me a hot Christmas!!
🦠Sigh… back to the drawing board. Or, like most viral illness: Back to (vaccine) prevention is better than cure 💉 Supports African trial results. PS also healthy reminder why good RCT’s are better than using a tonne of drug with limited real time data collection…. www.nih.gov/news-events/...
NIH Study Finds Tecovirimat Was Safe but Did Not Improve Mpox Resolution or Pain
Study Examined Tecovirimat in Countries Affected by Global Clade II Mpox Outbreak.
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Can we REALLY trust the federal government to someone who drinks god-awful coffee?? (I mean… that’s a gas station level cup in his hand… 😱☕️😬)
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti... Some things in nature just scream “DONT touch”… 😰🤦♂️ In NC, our NC Dept of Health has an outstanding 24/7 rabies hotline for any advice if bitten or you simply find a bat in the home. Hotline: 919-733-3419
California teacher dies of rabies after animal bites her in classroom
The teacher died a month after encountering a bat in her Merced County classroom.
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Ultimate Oklahoma Thanksgiving with the In-laws…. Arrive to find this in the garage 😳🫣
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... Well done @chelseagorsline.bsky.social @courtharrismd.bsky.social and other great TID colleagues ! There ARE good basic stewardship principals , even in transplant 🔥 @tidsectiontts.bsky.social
Not Just an Oxymoron: The Utilitarian's Guide to Antimicrobial Stewardship in Transplant Infectious Diseases
Solid organ transplant and hematopoietic cell transplant patients face an increased risk of infectious diseases, greater exposure to antibiotics, and heightened risk of multidrug-resistant organisms...
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