Infectious diseases doc, ethicist, and medical educator in Vermont ❤️🏳️🌈🕊️
More progress toward intermittent patient-directed ART www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Phase 3 Trial of Weekly Oral Islatravir–Lenacapavir for HIV-1 Treatment | NEJMOnce-daily, single-tablet regimens have transformed care for persons living with human
immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1); however, challenges to adherence continue to
limit effective treatment....www.nejm.org🎯 Thank you @kkjetelina.bsky.social & @kmpanthagani.bsky.social yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/does-publi...
Does public health *need* MAHA?It’s a little more complicated than thatyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.comTheir business model is,”Gosh I guess AI is gonna ruin things for you while we get rich and there’s nothing we can do” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/t...
Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 OrganizationsThe disclosure followed OpenAI’s report last week that its own artificial intelligence had hacked into the network of an online library.www.nytimes.com“It’s sending signals to ... our scientists, our doctors, our healthcare professionals, our researchers, trying to show to them that if you don’t get in line with the politics, that you will also potentially be subject to attacks" www.statnews.com/2026/07/29/f...
Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment in declining to answer questions before Senate panelAt a highly anticipated Senate hearing, Anthony Fauci evoked his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions about the Covid-19 pandemic and its origins.www.statnews.com
Gift link to read what the “Fauci Diary” actually said The money quote: “The far right is really amazing in their distortion of reality”. And they persecute anyone who challenges their delusions, which is why the 2nd-rate eye doctor senator is holding yet another kangaroo court. wapo.st/44O4jFB
Fauci’s diary reveals his thoughts on a ‘rambling’ Trump and his own fameDiary entries written by the National Institutes of Health scientist who helped lead the U.S. response to the coronavirus, released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), reveal a contentious internal battle...wapo.stShould we avoid using ertapenem in patients with low albumin? academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
Absence of Significant Interaction Between Serum Albumin Level and Carbapenem Type on 30-Day Mortality in ESBL-positive E. coli and K. pneumoniae Bacteremia: A Multicenter Cohort Study with Inverse Pr...In this multicenter study, IPTW analysis revealed no significant interaction between serum albumin and carbapenem type regarding 14-day and 30-day mortalitacademic.oup.com
🔥🔥Just published 🔥🔥 IDSA AMR Guidance 2026 IDSA 2026 Guidance on the Treatment of Antimicrobial Resistant Gram-Negative Infections 🔺ESBL , AmpC Enterobacterales 🔺CRE 🔺DTR P. aeruginosa 🔺CRAB 🔺Stenotrophomonas maltophilia #idsky www.idsociety.org/practice-gui...
Such tough cases. I cringe when politicians get involved. It’s like bringing gasoline to a forest fire #bioethics www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
A 2-Year-Old’s Drowning and a Fight Over the Line Between Life and DeathA Texas family sued to stop a hospital from testing whether their child was brain-dead. Opposition to the test has been gaining support from anti-abortion activists.www.nytimes.comAncestral plague killed mid-Holocene humans long before big cities formed www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago - NatureAnalyses of ancient DNA from hunter-gatherers near Lake Baikal in southeast Siberia around 5,500 years ago indicate that highly virulent Yersinia pestis emerged earlier than previously estimated, far&...www.nature.comAmen, @dereklowe.bsky.social www.science.org/content/blog...
"It is very rare to see this level of uptake for any TB technology that has only recently been endorsed by WHO." communities.springernature.com/posts/tuberc...
Tuberculosis testing gets a massive boostAt a recent Global Implementation Workshop on Near Point of Care (NPOC) TB Diagnostics in Bangkok, several country leaders presented impressive plans for implementing these new, affordable and decentr...communities.springernature.com“Optimism in infectious diseases is not naive; it is practical.”
Angela HuttnerSo proud of our @cmicomms.bsky.social editorial fellow Victor Dahl for his gorgeous essay in @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social The Optimism in Front of Us. #IDSky #clinmicro @hoferu.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The MAGA/MAHA Administration’s extreme violence & cruelty takes an even more sickening turn
Joel S.The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.
Simultaneously, public health leaders DO need to reach ordinary people who have been led astray by MAHA That far larger population of parents etc are caught in fact deserts & rightly dismayed by corporate influence on healthcare We should focus on them, not fracture in #PublicHealth dialog
Office Fist BumpALT: Office Fist Bumpstatic.klipy.comMAHA leaders and their army of social influencers are grifters who mislead and hurt people for private gain There is nothing to be gained by building coalition with charlatans. (2/3)
Chicago Fire Lyla NovakALT: Chicago Fire Lyla Novakstatic.klipy.comThe MAHA article by @craigspencer.bsky.social generates controversy in the #PublicHealth community because we often see MAHA as monolithic when instead it’s heterogenous (1/3) @colincarlson.bsky.social @annesosin.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social apple.news/AKlPLBe1oRFC...
Public Health Needs MAHA — The AtlanticThe field must swallow its pride and admit where the insurgent movement is right.apple.news
NYT: A Thin Rope Holds the Line Against Ebola on Uganda’s Border By Matthew Mpoke Bigg nyti.ms/4fiux9e
20 Years After Its Own Outbreak, an Ugandan Town Beats Back EbolaThe Bundibugyo Ebola virus takes its name from this small town, where it was first discovered in 2007. Now, the species has returned to eastern Congo, halting life on a busy border.nyti.ms
