Interviewed in this article on California’s decision to stick with broader availability of #Covid19 vaccines this season. CDC data from last season showed notable reductions in urgent care and ER visits in vaccinated people, even in younger/healthier populations.

The administration could’ve donated surplus contraceptives to groups like the Gates Foundation at zero cost. Instead, they paid an estimated $167,000 to destroy them. nytimes.com/2025/09/11/hea…

Needless tragedy. Totally preventable by keeping up a wall of immunity against measles. No child should get measles in 2025. Child dies from complication of measles contracted years earlier | AP News apnews.com/article/measle…

The Ebola outbreak in the DRC right now is a warning. The White House Officer of Pandemic Preparedness and Response (OPPR) is dismantled. We have stepped back from leadership in the WHO. Our CDC just had several leaders resign or be removed. A reminder: in 2014, Thomas Eric

As someone who is both a clinician (see patients weekly, primarily in urgent care) and a public health professional (worked on covid19 and mpox at state and county health departments), I think public health credibility gets hurt in at least two important ways. 1) 'Skin in the

OpenAI just released the largest-ever report on how consumers are using ChatGPT. It looks at millions of (anonymized) messages over the last 3 years to analyze usage evolution over time. Key takeaways 👇

Insurance trade group says COVID, flu vaccines covered through 2026 AHIP's statement says all ACIP-recommended immunizations as of September 1, 2025 will be covered. cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/insur… Photo: govonortomwolf/ Flickr cc

Interviewed in this piece on California’s new law AB144 which will allow CDPH vaccine guidance to follow medical society recommendations (rather than CDC) & also ensure insurance coverage for vaccinations. I think we will see a trend toward state-led public health efforts for

WHO reports four fatal #Nipah virus infections in Bangladesh One child with an unknown exposure and three adults with a history of consuming raw palm sap, a known risk, died of unrelated infections. cidrap.umn.edu/nipah/who-repo… Photo: Cloudtail the Snow Leopard / Flickr cc

This is really important. Too often, the way numbers are presented to patients conveys benefit/risk incorrectly or at least not consistent with what they are understanding it to be

Important & interesting thread here

H5N1 outbreaks hit more commercial poultry in 3 states Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin reported fresh detections, part of rising activity over the past several weeks. cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenz… Photo: Myles Tan / Flickr cc

While we haven’t seen transmission of bird flu through oral food consumption, this still highlights the risk of this deadly virus being present in our food supply. We documented transmission through milk splashing in people’s eyes last year on dairy farms. #H5N1

The deliberate dismantling of US public health continues. As I have commented before, public health will become even more siloed into state-by-state efforts even over what were previously noncontroversial topics.

Not surprised to see the 'Governors Public Health Alliance' formed by 15 Democratic state governors. Public health fragmentation is underway in the United States because there doesn't seem to be another path forward at this time. We saw this happen already with immunization

Big news if true