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Matthew Weidman MD, FAAP

@countrykidsdoc.bsky.social
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Pediatrician practicing in Forgottonia. #PedSky #MedSky

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I did NOT vote for the rapist @sarahgies.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If Mitch McConnell is indeed brain dead.
Then every one of The Senators and Congressmen Who said They Spoke directly To him should be impeached.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
💔 www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.
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US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds
Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
What an incredibly obtuse thing for a writer to say. Whether or not you’re deliberately injecting some overt Message, your worldview suffuses your narrative. It can’t not.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Jetsons lied to us
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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Again: Donald Trump is dying, & he knows it. He is losing the midterms, & he knows it. He’s getting impeached, & he knows it. He is losing his mind, & we all know it. Donald Trump is a man with nothing left to lose. Know that, & recognize the existential threat to the world it presents.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
How Congress can restore the independence of US science Members must go beyond reinstating US government research spending and re-establish decentralized governance at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How Congress can restore the independence of US science
Members must go beyond reinstating US government research spending and re-establish decentralized governance at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
California boy dies of SSPE (measles complication) after being infected at age 7 months, when he was too young to be vaccinated.
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Boy, 7, dies of brain condition caused by world’s most contagious disease — years after he had it as a baby
Even those who make a full recovery from the initial infection face a lurking threat: a deadly disease that remains latent until striking — and killing — years later.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
#Nirsevimab may help prevent severe respiratory illnesses beyond #RSV in infants, young kids The monoclonal antibody was tied to a 62% effectiveness against all-cause lower respiratory tract infection hospitalizations. www.cidrap.umn.edu/r... Photo: Wirestock / iStock
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Ozempic and Zepbound are just the beginning of the expanded medical GI hormone era. A new selective amylin mimetic (pancreatic peptide)) achieved marked weight loss and reduced inflammation without a plateau effect in a randomized trial @thelancet.com thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 07/11/2025
Yes, we did👇🏻 Hundreds of public health workers & their allies marched from the National Mall toward HHS headquarters at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building on Wednesday. Their mission: Demand HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s resignation.
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Public Health Workers March to HHS, Demand RFK Jr.'s Removal
American Public Health Association closes its annual meeting with organized protest
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
“Dozens of scientists are considering leaving the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, where Prasad serves as director, to escape a work environment that eight agency officials described to STAT as rife with mistrust and paranoia. These officials said staffers are terrified of pushing back”
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Under Vinay Prasad, employees at a key FDA center fear speaking out, look for the exits
Exclusive: Vinay Prasad has rattled FDA staff by expanding his power and pushing out senior leaders.
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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
One of my homeless friends and her husband get $200/month from SNAP. They live in a tent. $200. For a whole month. This is pretty standard in Missouri.
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Hepatitis B vaccine can prevent cancer — RFK Jr is wrong again www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social
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Hepatitis B vaccine can prevent cancer — RFK Jr is wrong again
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticizes the hepatitis B vaccine, disregarding its cancer-prevention benefits. Scientific research links HBV to various cancers, highlighting its dangers. The vac...
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
If you're lucky enough to be financially stable and have a few bucks to spare, now would be a really good time to donate to America's food banks. They've already lost a ton of funding this year and with SNAP on the line, more are going to need them in the coming weeks.
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U.S. Hunger Relief Organization | Feeding America
Feeding America is a nonprofit network of 200 food banks leading the fight against hunger in the United States. Learn how you can help end hunger in America.
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B. Whyte, MD☀️ @urbanedoc4kids.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
No, seriously, it’s a death cult.
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Rana Awdish MD @ranaawdish.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Some people truly do change the world. Dr. Bartlett was one of them ❤️‍🩹
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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The butcher’s bill that this man and this administration is enabling & encouraging…
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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
With SNAP benefits ending for millions & the economy shrinking what little resources food banks have, I’m sharing food resource supports & educators/creators. Rebecca Chobat runs the account Dollar Tree Dinners—she educates on how to shop/cook thrifty like $100 budget for 30 days (90 meals) 🧵
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M Puryear,MD,PhD. 💙🐸❌🚫 👑 @mlpuryear.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c... via @statnews.com
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NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication
Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I can’t imagine the stress of immigrant scientists and international students in the United States these days www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org
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As an immigrant scientist in the U.S., travel bans and visa uncertainty are taking a toll
“I began to question whether I truly belonged,” this postdoc writes
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 21/10/2025
A change in guidance on giving peanuts to babies as young as 4 months old has helped roughly 60,000 children avoid potentially serious allergies. That's according to a new report out in the medical journal "Pediatrics."
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National Pediatric Disaster Coalition @npdc-prepthekids.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
In The News: The Infectious Diseases Society of America @idsainfo.bsky.social recommends that adults and children with weakened immune systems (immunocompromised) receive an age-appropriate COVID-19 vaccine dose ASAP for the upcoming respiratory virus season. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/ids...
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IDSA releases COVID vaccine guidance for people with weakened immune systems
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Matthew Weidman MD, FAAP @countrykidsdoc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Soooo … the manufacture of almost 700 drugs requires chemicals solely sourced from China. Given the current tariff situation, that seems … problematic. 😬 #drugsupply #tradewar #tariffs #pharma #medsky
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Concentrated origins, widespread risk: New USP insights on key starting materials | Quality Matters | U.S. Pharmacopeia Blog
Understanding where pharmaceutical KSMs are made can help address vulnerabilities in the medicine supply chain.
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Illinois DHS @ilhumanservices.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
💤 October is Safe Sleep and SIDS Awareness Month. Every parent wants their baby to sleep soundly – and safely. 👶 Place babies on their back. 🛏️ Room share, don’t bed share. 🧸 Keep blankets, pillows, and toys out of the crib. Learn more: dhs.state.il.us/page.aspx?item=146357
Illinois Safe Sleep Support. Help is Here. IDHS – Illinois Department of Human Services. InfantSafeSleep.illinois.gov
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NPR @npr.org · 15/10/2025
Antimicrobial resistance is responsible for some 1.2 million deaths a year a year and contributes to millions more. Data in the new report shows that the problem is growing at an alarming rate. n.pr/3J0HVBC
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Study: We're losing the war against drug-resistant infections faster than we thought
Antimicrobial resistance is responsible for some 1.2 million deaths a year a year and contributes to millions more. Data in the new report shows that the problem is growing at an alarming rate.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Farmers planted in April or May. They have to sell in the next couple months. There isn’t any way they can react to the Trump havoc. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
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China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0.
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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 24/09/2025
“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC
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Bill Hanage @billhanage.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Indeed. @holdenthorp.bsky.social telling it like it is www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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America is ceding the lead in creating the future
The renowned American management consultant and author Peter Drucker is often credited as saying that “the best way to predict the future is to create it”—a view that applies to science as much as to ...
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman feels like one of the most important books to read in the moment. Our autistic brothers and sisters are facing a wave of persecution from RFK Jr. and his Woo Thugs, gotta educate ourselves so we can stand up for them.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"Knowledge is power when it is wisely used to shape public health policy. The measles vaccines have saved around 94 million lives over the past 50 years." @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Public health suffers when those in power dismiss knowledge
“Knowledge is power”—or at least it was when Sir Francis Bacon coined this phrase in the 16th century. In today’s world, we frequently encounter a different variant of this philosophy, perhaps best de...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Specifically the report found "patients that were seen at the gender clinic before the age of 18 had a lower risk of suicide compared to those referred as an adult.”
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
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Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The #misinformation epidemic has killed countless people & will kill more, but you already knew that. So what do we DO about it? We start by understanding it & how to talk to ppl. @lewan.bsky.social literally wrote the book on that. Join @healthjournalism.org to hear from him buff.ly/3QEnISh
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Make facts matter again: Pushing back against misinformation and disinformation
In this webinar, Stephan Lewandowsky will talk about how misinformation spreads, and what he thinks journalists can do about it.
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/02/2025
Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.
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Matthew Weidman MD, FAAP @countrykidsdoc.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 02/02/2025
Our family is not religious but okayest son attends a Jesuit school (long story). Once I asked him to name a Bible verse. Just one. I wanted to see if he actually retained something from his religion classes. The one he picked is a great one to consider for many right now.
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Jeremiah 22:3
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Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
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Seth Weitz @sethaweitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Share if you agree
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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Read. Read books. Reading books is resistance. Buy. Buy books. Buying books is resistance. Share. Share books. Sharing books is resistance. Celebrate Celebrate books. Celebrating books is resistance.
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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is a horribly misguided decision, and the statements that go back and forth each time we have an election are a 50-year old pattern. How do we break the cycle? My column. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Climate déjà vu
As in his earlier term, US President Donald Trump’s misguided announcement that the US will withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate continues a long history of confusion—mostly created intentiona...
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Matthew Weidman MD, FAAP @countrykidsdoc.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Much needed today
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Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca · 20/01/2025
Sending joy, hope and positivity to the world!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/12/2024
Tennessee has one of the highest rates of women killed by men, and most of those homicides are committed with guns. One rural county is taking steps to try to ensure that abusers don’t have access to firearms. (Published Aug.) w/ @wpln.bsky.social
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In Rural Tennessee, Domestic Violence Victims Face Barriers to Getting Justice. One County Has Transformed Its Approach.
Despite being a rural area that’s steeped in gun culture, Scott County has emerged as a model for the state in trying to prevent domestic violence from escalating.
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Mike the Mad Biologist Who Is Raising Serious Questions @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Maybe we need a "get the treatment THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO HAVE" campaign? arstechnica.com/health/2024/...
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Flu surges in Louisiana as health department barred from promoting flu shots
Flu is rising around the country, but Louisiana is well ahead of the curve.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The key takeaway is that the world’s richest man got what he wanted; stripped our cancer funding for kids, killed reforms to bring down drugs prices and caps on investment in China. Trump on the other hand demanded a debt ceiling raise and got nothing.
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