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Account of Adam Lauring, MD, PhD. Professor and Chief of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. News and tidbits from the Division and about ID.
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RFK, Jr. demanding to be allowed to see Kristi Noem in the ER so he can check her humors.

submitted 11 hours ago • 38 comments

#IDSky #MedSky Less visible than ACIP, and less of a gross violation of promises made and statements under oath, the disbanding of HICPAC, the committee that advises on patient safety and infection control is damaging to transparency and trust @trtalbot.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Losing the cumulative experience on vaccines of the recently removed ACIP leaders will only make America less safe. We are losing clinical experience, scientific integrity, and expertise at a time when it is most desperately needed. #vacicnessavelives www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

The 17 recently dismissed members of ACIP have written a letter do JAMA expressing their concerns about the abrupt dismissal and replacement 2 days later of 8 individuals. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I finally read this. And it just caused me pain. Don't try to sanewash crackpots please. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Pretty awesome Father’s Day card from Kid2

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

submitted 3 days ago • 183 comments

Thanks to the ACIP and its evidence based recommendations, the biggest barrier to getting my shingles vax today was admitting to myself that I am over 50 and overdue. Walked right in to pharmacy, no doctor note or Rx, insurance paid. Who knows what this will be like in the future! #IDsky #medsky

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Here's a write-up from the Michigan Engineering! cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/clin...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

One of the great things about ID at UMich is there are hundreds of people doing ID research across campus, which allows for great interdisciplinary collaborations like this one from Krishna Rao (ID) and Jenna Wiens (Engineering) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

A great night celebrating our talented and hardworking ID fellows, including 3 who are graduating and the winner of the coveted “Green Tapeworm” Award (yes there is one in the trophy in fixative)! #IDsky

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

One Hundred Days, Incalculable Losses url:https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiaf317/8160840

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Appointment of ACIP members is usually a lengthy, rigorous process to ensure adequate expertise to minimize bias. There is no way the newly announced members have gone through the usual levels of scrutiny to minimize conflicts. A slapdash process will not be seen as legitimate.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: "It turns out, when you automatically exclude researchers whose work has shown vaccines to be safe and effective, the pool of vaccine experts from which to draw to staff your vaccine-policy commission gets very shallow very fast." www.thebulwark.com/p/department...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Feeling a lot like I did in early days of the pandemic these days. It is so clear what’s coming: The people that will die because of cuts in global health, because of cuts to research, because of the concerted anti-vaccine push. It’s clear what’s coming, but we will have to wait to count the dead.🧪

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

Can you identify a specific conflict of interest issue involving each of the 17 individuals who you removed from the ACIP? These are important charges and should be well documented.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Do you believe there are any safety issues with drinking raw milk? If so, what is your Department doing about it?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This! These people are the best of the best and volunteered their expertise in service to all of us.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Proud to have helped get this @umich.edu Experts Advisory out to media today - thanks @adamlauring.bsky.social and colleagues for being willing to contribute a quote on deadline about the ACIP vaccine panel debacle: www.newswise.com/articles/sud... #publichealth #idsky

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Or more like a summary of what we still don't know about dosing TMP/SMX for Steno. Who will discover the animal model to allow us to finally understand this bug/drug combo? Delivered by Sam Aitken #idsky #medsky #amssky

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Good interview. “Talk to your doctor” is major dodge. Journalists, please ask 3 ?s: 1. Without FDA license/authorization would vaccine be off label Rx? That’s a major barrier. 2. Without CDC recommendation, will insurance companies cover it? Barrier. 3. Is a randomized trial ethical given data.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Nice piece from one of the best health/science reporters out there. @citizencohn.bsky.social at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/rkf-jr-ken...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

@um-ihpi.bsky.social

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

New work out from Elizabeth Scruggs-Wodkowski in the Division on ID care in the face of human conflicts. Something to read about, sadly, given the state of the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

New @jama.com patient page on Hantavirus by Emily Abdoler and @preetimalani.bsky.social. Dr. Abdoler is known around these parts for picking up on a Hantavirus case in Michigan! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

New work from Sarah Arcos in the lab. For the genetics geeks - are mutations Poisson distributed or not? For clinicians - how can we understand the risks of drugging mutation rates with antivirals like molnupiravir? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Any predictions for what will happen to hospital staffing when every healthcare worker under 65yo is unvaccinated this winter? Hopefully someone is modeling that quickly.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

I have a lot of thoughts about the FDA announcement on COVID vaccines. One thing that I really don’t understand is why the @nejm.org didn’t accompany the “Sounding Board” from FDA with an editorial stating all of the evidence dismissed by Prasad and Makary.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

LVAD infections! Important work from the interdisciplinary team here, including @preetimalani.bsky.social from the Division www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Nice work from the ID Division (Snitkin) and folks from the Michigan Infectious Disease Genomics Center (Snitkin, Bachman) journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I have a NYT essay out this morning. There is very little that Americans can agree on these days. Not religion, not sports, and certainly not politics. But there is one thing nearly everyone agrees on: Vaccines are good. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...

submitted 121 days ago • 17 comments

If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while. So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet? Story here, 🧵 to come: 🧪#IDSky

submitted 193 days ago • 66 comments

Great write-up about Owen Albin in our ID Division and research on antibiotic use - and stewardship - in the ICU. medschool.umich.edu/departments/...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

This is a really nice summary of the history of this vaccine epiellie.substack.com/p/the-diphth...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 35 days ago • 34 comments

More on the super cool banana lectin story from David Markovitz in the Division. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Nice JAMA patient page piece on Typhoid Fever by @lcahuaymemd.bsky.social and @runwithskizzers.bsky.social. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Surveillance of RSV from vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in the US showed little evidence of antigenic drift in the F protein during the first season after the introduction of RSV vaccines. https://ja.ma/43eHbzP

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr has already shown that he considers autistic Americans to be much less worthy of existence. Now he is planning a big database of autistic individuals in the US, never mind that this is a gross violation of privacy laws. Recall that a similar effort was carried out in 1930’s Germany.

submitted 39 days ago • 7 comments

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about what it really means for a vaccine trial to be “placebo-controlled” - and how that differs from other control groups. It’s a great question, and clarity here really matters. Let’s break it down. @bradspellberg.bsky.social @adamlauring.bsky.social #IDsky

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

SHEA strongly urges CDC through HHS to reinstate HICPAC to preserve a resilient, coordinated, and science-driven public health infrastructure. Read our full statement: 🔗 shea-online.org/importance-o...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Republicans have eliminated HICPAC, the national committee of experts providing recommendations to prevent infections in hospitals. We have known since the 1970s that infection prevention programs reduce infection rates substantially. Use @sheaepi.bsky.social & APIC as trusted sources of info.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments