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tedpak.bsky.social
Infectious Diseases fellow at @mgh-id.bsky.social. Formerly MGH Medicine resident, Sinai MD-PhD, mghwhitebook.app creator. Posts my own. Personal site: tedpak.com
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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 10 days ago • 479 comments

ID - Return to Basics: This was the 1st reported case of an adult immunocompetent host who survived measles complicated by ARDS. A 36 yo female ED nurse, unvaccinated, who was exposed to a patient w active measles in October 1989. Ten days later, she developed measles

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

BOOM: Federal judge orders CDC, NIH & FDA to restore websites & datasets in response to @drsforamerica.bsky.social lawsuit: acasignups.net/25/02/11/boo...

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Your AI can't see gorillas – A comparison of LLMs' ability to perform exploratory data analysis chiraaggohel.com/posts/llms-e...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve unfortunately needed to add more material to my post from yesterday. The re-election of Donald Trump is looking like the biggest act of American self-destruction since the Civil War. Same link, new title and some updates.

submitted 21 days ago • 22 comments

Clever tricks with token sampling can guide a "reasoning" LLM like Deepseek's R1 (and the many new models it is already inspiring) into <think>'ing longer, and thereby producing more accurate output There is a lot more juice to squeeze from these kinds of models. timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF by @dereklowe.bsky.social "This is a long post, and it just keeps getting longer although I keep removing curse words." www.science.org/content/blog... #MedSky #IDSky

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

New paper in JAMA Network Open! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... The IDSA released their guidelines for treatment of uncomplicated UTI back in 2011. We looked at a large claims database formatted into the OMOP common data model to see whether the recommendations still hold tl;dr They do. (1/7)

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

The removal of #HIV- and #LGBTQ-related resources from the websites of CDC and other health agencies is deeply concerning. Access to this information is crucial for ID and HIV health care professionals. Our full statement: https://buff.ly/42AO8LI

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

submitted 27 days ago • 896 comments

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

It appears that the CDC has removed its guidelines for contraception and STIs. www.cdc.gov/contraceptio...

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...

submitted 26 days ago • 44 comments

It's one thing to take down pages talking about diversity in science. It's another thing entirely to take down research databases that are used for observational studies. That is exactly what it seems just happened at the CDC. www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c... www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

🚨If you use public data products from the CDC or other US federal agencies 🚨 Download them NOW [This is how I’m spending my Friday]

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

I'm just here to say for the 2nd week in a row, the CDC has not released its morbidly and mortality weekly report on schedule. Everyone who provides healthcare to patients in the US is less informed and less up to date as a direct result. This impacts negatively at the population level.

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

The communications pause for federal health agencies meant that the CDC couldn't publish the MMWR this week -- the first time in the publication's 60+ year history this has happened. Unhappy about this! Getting good data published on infectious threats is critical, especially as H5N1 looms. #IDSky

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.

submitted 36 days ago • 509 comments

A fantastic oped by Paul Offit on RFK Jr. and vaccines. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Board certified! Glad that I'm now officially qualified to wear sunglasses while ranting about doxycycline, the definition of "FUO," and Streptococcus taxonomy controversies 😎

submitted 69 days ago • 4 comments

New: Universal masking&testing reduce hospital infections, so does staff masking Stopping universal masking&testing led to 25% increase in respiratory viral infections Restarting staff masking led to 33% decrease 8 out of 100 (random sample) died in the hospital jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 86 days ago • 45 comments

short thread on this important paper I reviewed today: www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... Morbidity and Mortality of Hospital-Onset SARS-CoV-2 Infections Due to Omicron Versus Prior Variants 1/

submitted 89 days ago • 3 comments

So, this bloot about my paper blew up. Most common reaction: Duh! You need proof that masking in hospitals works? The reality: Yes, many healthcare epidemiologists, including CDC advisors, have advocated for weaker guidance on masking and testing. Read on... 1/🧵 #IDSky #MedSky

submitted 89 days ago • 13 comments