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jamieweisman.bsky.social
Immunodeficient medical dermatologist, clinical trialist, evidence based medicine, vaccines save lives, climate change is real.
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Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

I am a Covid alarmist. It brings me no joy to be right. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/o...

Breaking it, then profiting off the *fix* The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc… They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Hope this holds up for influenza

Indirect costs support our entire research infrastructure. Without indirect costs, we wouldn’t have been able to develop this vaccine against H5N1 bird flu. If indirect costs are cut, we won’t be able to prepare and respond to our next pandemic threat. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This seems important

If Elon Musk wants to find Medicare fraud he can start with Rick Scott and Bill Frist.

Thank you for writing thid @danielleofri - would add that I exhort EVERY medical professional ti tell patients that they can decline to answer about citizenship and EVERY patient to decline. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...

Act two. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

A tragedy in two acts. Intubated bird flu patients in Louisiana. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/h...

When you don’t know how anything works, everything is a conspiracy

@alastairmca30.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2024/12/03/r...

I know there’s a lot of news happening right now, but I really don’t want to lose sight of the fact that in a few months—if he gets his way—Donald Trump will stack our critical public health agencies with unqualified cranks.

100% this

A government run by billionaires will never be for the people.

There is very little more satisfying than learning something at a conference, then seeing it IRL and using your new knowledge to make a patient better.

The red hot hatred I have for these people who tapped out lies while I, a profoundly immunocompromised doctor, worked through the pandemic to pay my bills will never stop burning in my heart.

ADHD is often an excess of attention than a deficit. Autism is often an excess of empathy rather than a lack of.

600,000 people would go on to die of Covid in the United States after this video was made.

im on every app. im in your city, in your neighborhood. the sales associate who handed you a large when you asked for a medium? that was me. i am now behind you.

how about just don't teach women to fear? is that too much to ask?

Dismantling protections against political disinformation is not becoming "less political". By using that framing, @sheeraf.bsky.social parrots Zuckerberg's PR instead of telling the truth. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/t...

Timely reminder that in the U.S., covid vaccines prevented: * 3.2M add’l deaths * 19.5M add’l hospitalizations * 120M add’l infections * $1.5 trillion in add’l medical costs

Some thoughts: 1. Many, many Secs of HHS (including Biden’s) are lawyers 1a. But almost all have had executive experience, including most w/experience overseeing some aspect of a state health system 2. No secretaries of HHS are perfect 2b. But to my knowledge none have been labeled as …