This National Gun Violence Awareness Day, #WearOrange to honor the thousands of children and families in this country whose lives are affected by gun violence every year. #EndGunViolence

If you think 24h shifts in medical training are good b/c they give you insight into what being an attending in a given speciality is like, you should also ask why are attendings working 24 hour (& longer) shifts?

Stopping routine hospital admission Covid testing was associated with significant increases in hospital-onset #SARSCoV2 infections JAMA Internal Medicine jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

“Seniors and immunocompromised patients remain susceptible to harm from Covid-19 and continue to have limited treatment options.” Jerome Adams on the need for new antivirals for Covid - STAT statnews.com/2023/06/22/cov…

An inhaled Covid vaccine booster was more than 5-fold effective for inducing neutralizing antibodies at 28-days, and more durable at 1-year, than shots, vs Omicron BA.5 in a randomized trial thelancet.com/journals/lanin… The Lancet Infectious Diseases

You can now follow me on TikTok…just kidding. I am giving Threads a try.

You know who is rightfully terrified of private equity? New residency/fellowship graduates. Right now, independent, physician-owned practices have a massive recruiting advantage. You should be shouting your hatred of private equity from the rooftops.

“Public-health …ignores other considerations, including enjoyment.” Non-smoking areas. Speed limits. Seatbelts. Safe gun storage. Those all technically take away individual-level enjoyment too. Pitting enjoyment against public health is the wrong brand. And just makes me sad

Intentional dissemination of vaccine disinformation is the antithesis of child advocacy, intended to score political points, at the cost of children’s lives. It isn’t so much ignorant as callous and irresponsible. msnbc.com/mehdi-on-msnbc…

Every physician in the United States since the dawn of time.

I wrote 3 different responses and erased them all. I'm too upset to appropriately put my thoughts into words. But I will, because the employees of in-n-out burger deserve our support. forbes.com/sites/judyston…

1/Please share this thread on behalf of my physician colleague, Eunice Stallman, who is facing the nightmare of her 9mo daughter, Zoey, being diagnosed with brain cancer several weeks ago. @BlueCrossIdaho has added to their anguish by obstructing access to vital treatment.

See if your community's wastewater data is available through this link. Look at the section titled, "Covid-19 Wastewater Monitoring by County and U.S. Territory" and put in your state and then look for your county. biobot.io/data/

Kids have been getting the short end of the stick with COVID vaccines from the beginning. Really hoping they don't leave kids behind this time. "It's unclear if the Covid boosters will be recommended for everyone in the U.S.” nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna9…

Co-sign Schools start this week in many areas of the South. This also coincides with extreme heat that has been driving everyone indoors. We are setting ourselves up for failure if there are delays getting these new COVID vaccines out.

Some public health experts have recently said most Americans can ignore Covid, yet see my thoughts in ⁦Boston Globe Opinion⁩. Because in my humble opinion, Ignoring COVID-19 is still not an option for most Americans👇🏽 bostonglobe.com/2023/08/07/opi…

What does it say about our society that the stock prices for drug companies with weight-loss drugs are skyrocketing, but stock prices for drug companies with COVID vaccines are tanking?

With school starting in the South amid increasing COVID transmission, I would love to see some reminders from the CDC and American Academy of Pediatrics about COVID guidance.

"Use masks and tests if you wish" is not public health guidance. That is how you talk about sprinkles on your sundae.

New clinical update for RSV: AAP recommends that all infants, especially those at high risk, receive the new preventative antibody nirsevimab to protect against severe disease caused by RSV. Read the full recommendations here: bit.ly/44qBFb3