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hwunsch.bsky.social
ICU doc, researcher, writer, aspiring playwright, author of The Autumn Ghost #polio #nonfiction #criticalcare #ventilation
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Oh hey, lookie here RFK Jr—the “CDC estimates that influenza #vaccination prevented 📌9.8 million influenza-related illnesses, 📌4.8 million medical visits, 📌120,000 influenza-related hospitalizations, & 📌7,900 influenza-related deaths” in 2023-2024. ➡️Maybe don’t block flu vaccine production? 🙏

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

This is catastrophic for US public health…so many people are protected by timely planning and rollout of the flu vaccine each year.

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☀️☀️☀️ NEW WEBSITE IS UP! ☀️☀️☀️ www.standupforscience2025.org Read about us, our policy goals, and ways to get involved. This website will also continue to grow as we do, so keep an eye on it!

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

A very very dark day for public health in the US, and because our world is so interconnected, for public health worldwide. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

“This is a blatant attempt to gut the universities and health research that have saved so many lives and given economic opportunity to so many people.” @iwashyna.bsky.social on impact of new NIh order to cut research indirect costs. www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

NIH funded researchers and all who care: This is an excellent call script that you can adapt to your own situation and send to your family and friends to call their reps.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Spotlight on the Shortlist: The Autumn Ghost by @hwunsch.bsky.social. Published by Greystone Books. Join us as we celebrate the best science writing in Canada today! Free to attend, reserve your spot today! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-lane-a...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

We must continue to tell the stories of polio survivors. Reducing uptake of the polio vaccine will have devastating consequences for the entire world. @rotaryclubs.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @endpolionow.bsky.social time.com/7205614/we-n...

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Excited to be a finalist at the Lane Anderson Award Ceremony for the best science writing in Canada on the evening of Wed, Jan 29. The event (at the North York Central Library in Toronto) is open to the public. Please come join me if you are in Toronto and free! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-lane-a...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

I recommend a viewing of Casablanca at the start of every year. So good every time. Happy 2025!

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

No wonder we're in shock . . .

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Great thread on polio! And gives me the opportunity to plug @hwunsch.bsky.social’s excellent book, The Autumn Ghost, on how the Copenhagen #polio epidemic of 1952 shaped modern #ICU!

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

I spent Thanksgiving week reading The Autumn Ghost by @hwunsch.bsky.social and, oh man, what a great book. I knew the outlines of how the Danish polio epidemic led to mass hand-ventilation and on to ventilators but so much more. Thanks @chriscarrollmd.bsky.social (I think) for the rec too.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Naum Shaparin and I did residency together. He has experienced the unthinkable - the death of his son from SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy). He has set up a foundation to help educate people about this conditon that (unlike SIDS) people don’t know about. If at the #pga78 stop by…booth 416

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

A great reminder to stick to your vision… Ken Burns pitched his civil war #documentary and was told “no one will watch this”. 40 million tuned in when it aired on #pbs.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

International Disabilities Day. Rehumanise a group of people who have consistently been dehumanised. 🙏

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Really appreciate the enthusiastic comments about The Autumn Ghost! Makes a great holiday present for any history/book lovers in your life.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Simple question: based on the available data, which med would you choose for your mother? I call it “the mother test” as a check on so many things we do.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Full migration to Bluesky! Looking forward to finding people here.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

"This is what disability advocates have said all along, not that it usually sinks in: The able and the disabled aren’t two different kinds of people but the same people at different times." nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 425 days ago • 1 comment