Patrick Hickey, MD
@pwhickey.bsky.social
Pediatrician. Infectious Diseases. Once a Soldier. Wishing we could all be a little more kind to each other. 2 AmazingDaughters™️ and a BadAssWife™️ My own opinions, typos, and blurry photos. Potty mouth. Needs an edit function; wouldn’t use it.
🤯🤯🤯 “Steven Quay, a pharma executive known for his books making the case Covid came from a Chinese lab, is on the verge of getting Anthony Fauci’s old job” A Big Pharma executive & lab leaker, what could possibly go wrong? www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
A lab-leak proponent is in line for Fauci’s old job
Steven Quay is in final vetting to run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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I would like to ask my fellow pulmonologists, both pediatric and Adult if they have any real world experience with the Mini box plus for pulmonary function testing. Thanks
I’d immediately promote the specialist for giving a shit and doing something constructive about it
Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · 2d agoAfter specialist contacts congressman, Army admits soldiers got ‘sub-optimal’ food trib.al/R27Sn7b
Ladies, if you’re due for your annual health screenings make sure to get them scheduled. I was a little bit overdue but I’m on the books for my doctors now. Men too- you have different health screenings to attend to, but it’s important to get those done as well. Best to stay well, all of us.
Caitlin Clark about to have a real reckoning about where she stands with wnba fans and in history with the need to take a vocal stand one way or the other with the transgender bigotry of Sophie Cunningham
I felt like there was definitely a strong military medicine community at the time… But like I said th military and the Medicine poles also blended. Some people felt more in tune with one side or the other. But this interface was and is a thing of beauty in my opinion.
Thinking to myself… That military physicians largely dodged the bullet, because at the time we had a culture that emphasized community protection, high uptake, if not required use of vaccine, and universal access to high-quality healthcare at baseline.
Patrick Hickey, MD@pwhickey.bsky.social · 3d agoSummer 2020 I posted on twitter that the reason MedTwitter and MilTwitter were converging in the most wonderful of ways was because of shared PTSD. The military folks got it immediately. The medical folks are (largely) just realizing their first go around in what “post” really really means.
Summer 2020 I posted on twitter that the reason MedTwitter and MilTwitter were converging in the most wonderful of ways was because of shared PTSD. The military folks got it immediately. The medical folks are (largely) just realizing their first go around in what “post” really really means.
The only thing I have to add to the COVID discourse: By a series of quirks I was given the job of writing the DoD's official guidance on how to triage ventilators and life sustaining devices for children. It never got published (thank god) since the wave ebbed before it was needed
The Catholic Church does not have “doctrine” per se on vaccines. What relevant papal statements statements do exist is that when weighing the proximal benefits of vaccines versus the “remote” use of fetal cell lines to help make some vaccines, it is still right & just to be vaccinated with those 💉.
Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines (21 December 2020)
Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines, 21 December 2020
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Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 4d agoNEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, facing ethics inquiries for misconduct, has threatened to strip state scholarships from Catholic schools unless the Church rewrites its vaccine doctrine. It is an unprecedented attack by an American state on the religious liberty of the Catholic Church.
How it started: Focaccia on the left and ravioli on the right.
A lesson in how conspiracies and incompetence converge to harm global health, add to suffering and death, and then take more than a year to make any progress at “fixing” the situation www.healio.com/news/infecti...
US to release $600M in funds for global vaccine alliance
Federal officials said this week that the United States will release $600 million in held-up funding to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance — another sign the relationship between the current administrat...
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Good morning! It’s a cool morning on the porch. Enjoying some country sausage made by a neighbor of BadAssWife’s mom. Served on toasted sourdough, garden tomato, and a splash of pan gravy and Dijon mustard. Using the left over heavy cream in my coffee today 😋
Watching this unfold with intense interest… www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
West Point Declines to Fight Block on Faculty Gag Order
A deadline to appeal a judge’s order overturning sweeping restrictions on civilian faculty at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point passed quietly on Monday without action by the institution, The Wa...
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Recommended thread for Friday afternoon
Peter Lucier@peterlucier.bsky.social · 5d agoAt the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, Mordor had crossed the Anduin, destroyed Gondor’s forward defenses, surrounded Minas Tirith, and breached its Great Gate. Two smaller relief forces were still separated and unable to coordinate. And yet Mordor lost. How? 🧵
👀🤐🤬 “It directs Defense Department officials to conduct a comprehensive, "line-by-line" review of every course taught at the military academies and senior service colleges, measuring each against a single standard: whether it directly advances "tactical operational or strategic warfighting."
Jim LaPorta@jimlaporta.bsky.social · 6d agoLate night scoop - Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says www.cbsnews.com/news/dod-pen...
Somewhere, a RIF’ed USAID public health expert who still knows folks “on the inside” :
OFID has launched a new special section, Notes from the Epidemic Frontlines, offering a rapid platform for ID professionals on the frontlines of outbreaks and epidemics to share timely observations, experiences and critical insights. Browse the articles: https://bit.ly/4htcPRE
Find your nearest farm stand and get yourself some local corn, tomatoes, zucchini, & squash and a little bit of onion. 😋
Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO: -Jared Moskowitz -Gil Cisneros -Dan Meuser -John McGuire -William Timmons -John James Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business. We must ban members of Congress from trading stock.
