Shira Doron MD
@ShiraDoronMD
Chief Infection Control Officer at Tufts Medicine health system. Boy mom. Lead singer of band Off Label.
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Turn to ID doctors to help with pathogens of pandemic potential like Shira Doron MD because ID doctors are trained for this. No evidence of efficient human to human transmission of H5N1 so panic unnecessary; preparation needed.
With avian flu, it’s time to prepare, not panic.
My piece in Boston Globe Opinion today.
bostonglobe.com/2024/04/30/opi…
With Carlos del Rio and Andrew Pavia, I represented IDSA on this symposium on #H5N1 hosted by ASTHO in which CDC, Dept. of Agriculture, U.S. FDA, HHS ASPR and NIH provided a comprehensive update on the current state of #HPAI .
youtu.be/aTizSNagjFI?si…
It’s been 2 weeks since MA adopted CDC guidance on isolation after COVID, and the numbers look very good.
Westyn Branch-Elliman, M.D., MMSc., FSHEA and I write in CommonWealth Beacon: it was high time to make this change. The old way wasn’t working anyway.
commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/moving…
ICYMI:
The American Jewish Medical Association is a newly formed 501(c)(3) nonprofit combatting antisemitism in medicine.
Yael Halaas MD articulates its ultimate goal:
“Medicine free from hate”
Join at theajma.org
combatantisemitism.org/interview/medi…
Commissioner Riley fought hard around the clock for all of the children of Massachusetts through very tough times. A true pandemic hero. We are so grateful for your leadership and advocacy. You will be missed!
Massachusetts K-12 Charlie Baker Shira Doron MD FreckleDoc
yes, Shira Doron MD -interesting the media in 2024 is coming around to thinking about ways public health could have increased trust during the pandemic that ID MDs thought about in 2022. I do think pandemic expertise from Infectious Diseases physicians could help next time around.
Walid Gellad Will also add- a big reason why antivirals weren’t offered was due to isolation policies- patients received lots of counseling about how not to transmit to others and not about how they might benefit from antivirals themselves.
This week, Center Director Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH will join two panels at SHEA's Strategic Communication workshop. Speakers incl. Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦, Shira Doron MD, Arjun Srinvasan CDC, & Brad Spellberg.
More information about the workshop is available here: learningce.shea-online.org/content/strate…
“The question is, is the juice worth the squeeze?” said Shira Doron MD , chief infection control officer for Tufts Medicine in Massachusetts. “We’re not achieving containment of the virus. So what are we getting from this policy?” @NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/01/21/us/…