Tim Lahey, MD, MMSc (@timlaheymd) 's Twitter Profile
Tim Lahey, MD, MMSc

@timlaheymd

Infectious diseases doc | Ethicist | Educator | in Vermont | Grateful for 💉💊& 😷 | 🏳️‍🌈🕊 @[email protected] | @timlaheymd on 🧵

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Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 (@celinegounder) 's Twitter Profile Photo

COVID deaths are NOT being overcounted. We're UNDERcounting. Still. My friend/colleague Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician) does a great job of analyzing the data & debunking this claim: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/data-snapsho… The REAL question is whether you/we think those deaths matter. And maybe you/we don't.

Joseph Eron (@joseph_eron) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yesterday in clinic we saw our one of our older patients living with HIV for 30 + years who just had their first great, great grandchild. Seriously, who would have dreamed that up 30 years ago.

Amaka Eneanya, MD, MPH (@amakaemd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

**New Kidney Transplant Policy Alert** As of January 5, 2023 all US kidney transplant centers are REQUIRED to review which Black patients have had a race-based #eGFR equation used for #kidney waitlisting. If used, their waitlist times will be modified. bit.ly/3iS6DHn

Tim Lahey, MD, MMSc (@timlaheymd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Given that each COVID booster has been associated w/ ⬇️ severe dz in high risk recipients, transitioning to yearly boosters makes sense 👉🏽For now 👉🏽For that group 👉🏽W/ the usual caveats 👉🏽Rolling efficacy studies should inform next steps npr.org/sections/healt…

Tim Lahey, MD, MMSc (@timlaheymd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

These are stories because insurance companies & Pharma run health care: Who gets expensive new therapies? nytimes.com/2023/01/24/hea… Moderna to charge >$100/dose of publicly-funded vaccines thenation.com/article/econom… More hospital layoffs beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/memo…

Andrew Stokes (@astokespop) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A recent The Washington Post opinion piece speculated that COVID-19 deaths are over-counted. Our new The Conversation U.S. article explains why this piece is flawed. COVID-19 deaths are not overcounted; most evidence indicates they are undercounted. Thread 1/6 theconversation.com/covid-19-death…

Alastair McAlpine, MD (@alastairmca30) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We’ve all wondered why scientists or MDs “turn”. How respected folk can find themselves deep in the anti-vax community. It’s a decidedly simple (but dangerous and malicious) process. Below is a thread on how people become “red pilled.” 🧵

Tim Lahey, MD, MMSc (@timlaheymd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“holding these government contractors accountable would save more than 7,000 lives a year — translating to $1 billion saved in foregone dialysis” nytimes.com/2023/01/28/opi…

Tim Lahey, MD, MMSc (@timlaheymd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We will never find a better balance between legit corporate profit & public health if we can’t grow our civic conversation beyond the false dichotomy of capitalism vs socialism nytimes.com/2023/01/28/bus…

Adam Gaffney (@awgaffney) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our article in Health Affairs examining community health, healthcare access, and COVID-19 booster uptake in Massachusetts through April 2022 just published. A few of our main findings: healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hl…

Our article in <a href="/Health_Affairs/">Health Affairs</a> examining community health, healthcare access, and COVID-19 booster uptake in Massachusetts through April 2022 just published.

A few of our main findings: 

healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hl…
Julia Belluz (@juliaoftoronto) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ozempic, and other GLP1 meds, have been unleashed on the market in a contentious moment: Health at Every Size has gained traction, with acolytes saying obesity is not a disease in need of treatment, nor should weight loss be medically prescribed. 1/5🧵 vox.com/science-and-he…

Andrew Pavia (@andrewpaviamd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nice explainer on the consequences of ending the public health emergency. Importantly it looks at the patient perspective. What ending the emergency actually means, by Katelyn Jetelina open.substack.com/pub/yourlocale…

Jessica Lahey is on Threads as teacherlahey (@jesslahey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A table of contents with links to all 148 (!) of the daily videos I have posted (90s each) on preventing substance use in kids: jessicalahey.com/comingofageint…

A table of contents with links to all 148 (!) of the daily videos I have posted (90s each) on preventing substance use in kids:

jessicalahey.com/comingofageint…
Tim Lahey, MD, MMSc (@timlaheymd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Took a break from the trolls and the dysfunctional landlord To see how it felt I missed the good conversations - and enjoyed my days more without the misinformation and amorphous rage Off to find a better party. Hope to see good friends there