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Amy RL Rule MD MPH

@amyrebecca.bsky.social
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Pediatrician | Mom | Partner | Disabled | Global Health Equity | BLM | Books | Coffee | Optimist | Emory Global Peds | Views are my own.

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Dr. Lauren Hughes @drlaurenhughes.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This is why we are worried. Not because we don’t want rigorous safety standards (which already exist), but because we don’t want kids to needlessly die from preventable diseases. Kids used to regularly die from meningitis and pneumonia, but that drastically declined thanks to PCV.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked Donald Trump's executive order pausing the US Refugee Admissions Program saying it appeared to "cross the line" into "nullification of congressional will."
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Amy RL Rule MD MPH @amyrebecca.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I’m a physician because of the IDEA and 504 made possible by the Dept of Education. And NO it won't work if we put it back to the states, it is the universal, federal protection and accountability that makes special education work and FUNDS special education. It funds kids like me. 1/
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
What was a suspected outbreak of #marburg in Tanzania has now been confirmed by laboratory diagnostic testing. We saw #Rwanda respond promptly and crush its own outbreak just weeks ago. I'm rooting for responders in Tanzania to do the same. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Tanzania confirms outbreak of Marburg virus
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the northwest of the country, with one confirmed case so far.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
To overcome vaccine hesistancy, we must do a better job of explaining the risks of illness vs vaccine side effects Really important & timely @plosglobalpublichealth.org commentary by Dr Peter Hotez journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Breastfeeding: A Low-Tech Way to Save Babies’ Lives Trisha Mukherjee www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/o...
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Opinion | How Optimal Breastfeeding Can Save Babies’ Lives (Gift Article)
Researchers say hundreds of thousands of babies’ lives could be saved each year in developing countries with exclusive breastfeeding.
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Amy RL Rule MD MPH @amyrebecca.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Happy Holidays from the newborn team!! #PedsSky
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Amy RL Rule MD MPH @amyrebecca.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Happy Holidays Blue Sky !
Felt snowman with blue hat, scarf and buttons next to a felt pine tree in the snow. The words “happy holidays “ are in the corner in cursive font.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Lots to learn from Rwanda www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Rwanda’s Marburg response is a masterclass in how to prevent pandemics
Today marks the official end of the outbreak. Swift action saved many lives and helped protect the rest of the world from potential disaster
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 14/12/2024
I’ve cared for infants who stopped breathing w/ pertussis. School aged kids who died of flu or COVID. And many of my patients can’t be vaccinated because they’re on chemotherapy or are immune compromised. Vaccinations save lives of those who get them & those who cannot. It’s that simple.
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 14/12/2024
Pretty sure the next four years is going to be a lot of feeling really awful for being right and hoping beyond hope that we were wrong about literally any of it.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Vaccination significantly reduced #LongCovid in children and adolescents among ~300,000 kids and teens www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
Effect during Delta and Omicron
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I don’t always have good news to share first thing in the morning BUT… IT’S BOOKS WE LOVE DAY!!!!! apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
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Books We Love
Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
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Dr. Ian Copeland @driancopeland.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is what can happen when infants are not vaccinated against Tetanus. The bacteria that causes it is everywhere, you cannot avoid it. Without treatment, it's virtually 100% fatal, even with treatment 10-60% will die... youtu.be/2Us-dzkUM28?...
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Tetanus spasms in a newborn
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Amy RL Rule MD MPH @amyrebecca.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I’ve sent babies with pertussis to the ICU. They develop episodes of apnea (stop breathing).Babies are too young to be vaccinated or fully vaccinated. Herd immunity protects babies, when others don’t vaccinate, babies get sick. Vaccines are a group project, lives depend on your participation.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Anyone who is anti-vax is pro-death. Period. The science and data do not lie. And they don’t care about your podcast.
Post showing precipitous decline of share of deaths in Massachusetts from diseases for which vaccines are now available, from 70% in 1840 to low digits % by 1950-60 where it is stayed. 

Caption: There are not many places on earth where we have detailed cause-of-death data from before the era of widespread vaccination.

Massachusetts is one of those places.

From 1842-1877, 70% of all deaths were from diseases which we today have vaccines to prevent.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
"Children are viewed as vulnerable, precious, in need of protection, yet ultimately—even in democracies—we continue to raise and educate children in ways that normalise oppressive power dynamics and keep them in positions of vulnerability" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The world in 2024 was not all right for children
The guiding principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) include non-discrimination, the primary consideration of the best interests of the child in all actions conce...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa. I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
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RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdi’s deep dive
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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Humanity’s history is a battle against infectious diseases. And for most of our history we were losing very decisively. From my article about vaccines: ourworldindata.org/microbes-bat...
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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Very bad news late last week from CDC about maternal mortality in the USA - it continues to go up. The leading cause of death for #pregnant people in 2020 and 2021 was infectious diseases, especially #COVID. #MedSky + #ObGynSky www.cdc.gov/maternal-mor....
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Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System
Surveillance to learn more on the causes and risk factors associated with pregnancy-related deaths.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 19/11/2024
#MEDSKY Put kids first.
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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Key references on vaccine safety👇👇👇 www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...
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Vaccine Safety: Examine the Evidence
Vaccines for kids are studied closely before the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends them. Safety evidence is gathered when a new vaccine is made and after it is authorized.
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Amy RL Rule MD MPH @amyrebecca.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Excited to have migrated over to Bluesky
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