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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎

@drleolam.bsky.social
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Husband, dog/cat dad, anesthesia researcher, med. device dev, a few medical patents, Humanist, C-PTSD Survivor, Business owner, Angel Investor.

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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Geezus. The CDC has completely lost it's relevance due to this administration. RFK Jr. must go.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Science Monday: Certain strains of E. coli can contribute to colon cancer by producing a toxin called colibactin, which can damage DNA and disrupt cell cycles. This is not a cause-and-effect link for all cases, but a significant risk factor, particularly when exposure occurs in early childhood.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves. Nigeria has natural gas, precious metals and the world's 10th largest oil reserves. It's pretty clear what this administration is doing.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
What a hell hole Seattle is. (Glorious fall is upon us).
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Amazon, which got a huge billion dollar tax break from the Big Ugly Bill, is laying off 30,000 people. No, it doesn't trickle down.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
At this rate of RFK Jr.'s destruction of the CDC and FDA, I once again call upon Governor Ferguson, Newsom and Kotek to form the West Coast equivalent to safeguard our public health. We should have our own Cascadia CDC and Cascadia Drug Administration, ones that practice evidence based medicine.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
After the DoD failed so many audits, Pete Hegseth is worried about the names on Navy ships. These are not serious people.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
At a House testimony, RFK Jr said “I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me.” That's right. Even he knows he is unqualified. He should resign.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Decades of evidence-based, peer-reviewed studies have shown that Mifepristone is safe and effective. Now these people are quoting a non-peer-reviewed "study" coming out of a right-wing "think tank" to try to justify restricting Mifepristone. This is despicable. www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-la...
huffpost.com
GOP Lays Groundwork To Restrict Abortion Pill With New Junk Science Report
Recent comments from Trump’s FDA commissioner, coupled with an anti-abortion study on mifepristone, are setting off alarm bells among reproductive rights groups.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
As expected, the "lower drug cost" Executive Order has no teeth, and it is literally asking drug companies to "voluntarily" lower drug prices and ask the HHS secretary to "facilitate" direct-to-consumer sales of drugs. We know how this administration interprets "facilitate". Good luck with that.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
RFK Jr. terminated the program that promote the flu vaccine, leading to the plummeting of flu vaccination rate among American children. Pediatric flu death this season is now 216, the most in 15 years. He is actively killing children.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The Trump administration’s latest budget proposal kills the whole CDC nutrition division. This is MAHA?
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
NIH may pull all global health funding for foreign researchers, potentially killing 25 million people in the next 15 years. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Exclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy
Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Trump's budget is proposing to cut the Narcan program, the program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives per year from opioid overdose. Are we great yet?
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
RFK Jr. said today about fluoride in water: "The more you get, the stupider you are. We need smart kids. We need healthy kids." Fact: Studies show that there is no correlation between IQ and fluoridation of water at the level approved in this country (0.7 mg/L).
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Trump's budget is proposing to cut the Narcan program, the program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives per year from opioid overdose. Are we great yet?
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry" Salmonella kills 420 people in the US every year. This is Making America Sicker Again. (The rule was adopted during the Biden Administration).
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Tesla profit down 71% and it is still profitable ONLY because of government handout, regulatory credits. Corporate socialism at work. And Musk has the gall to talk about handouts.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
After staff cuts, the FDA is suspending its food quality safety check program, increasing the chance of foodborne illnesses. How does this make America healthier? This literally makes America sick.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Canceling research grants isn’t just a budget cut—it's shutting down projects already deemed valuable by experts. Universities can’t just dip into endowments to cover the loss since those funds are legally restricted.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Currently there is a Hepatitis C outbreak in Florida. They sent blood samples to the CDC. Trump and RFK Jr. shuts down the only CDC lab capable of testing them. This is not efficiency or saving, this is negligence on a national scale.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
HHS shuttered the Division of Viral Hepatitis in the CDC's headquarters, saying that it is duplicative, when it is a unique lab with unique capabilities. Ongoing investigations of current hepatitis outbreaks have been stalled nationwide. Now we don't know where we have an outbreak at all.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Reminder: Signalgate. It was just 20 days ago.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
MAHA should note: Trump is up to date on all required vaccinations.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Last night, arsonist(s) attempted to burn down the PA Governor's residence in Harrisburg in a clear act of domestic terrorism. Governor Shapiro and family was evacuated. DOJ: Silence National media: Silence.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Gift link: The White House is planning to dismantle NOAA and it is as disturbing as their dismantling of NIH. NOAA is a global premier climate/weather science research institute. They are planning to gut: Oceanic/Atmospheric Research office National Marine Fisheries Service National Ocean Service
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I am surprised that the American Medical Association hasn't come out to call for RFK Jr.'s resignation and firing. It's time.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Naval Academy library book purge: Mein Kempf - In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - Out The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail (embraced by white supremacists) - In Memorializing the Holocaust by Janet Jacobs - Out The Bell Curve (argues that Blacks and Women are inferior) - In
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I told my wife not to change her name when she married me. One of the reasons is such that she can keep her white sounding name for her career, and the second reason is the possibility of a SAVE Act. And the SAVE Act is here. The Senate must oppose it.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
RFK Jr. is going to "find the cause in the rise of autism" by September. 4 months? And somehow, he already knows now? Science has never worked like that. It only means that he has already drawn the conclusion and is making up materials to support those conclusions. It's going to be nonsense.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
👋40+ years investor here: What is happening is a large, national-scale market manipulation to benefit a very small billionaire-class, to the detriment of the whole country/world. This "pausing for 90 days" is pre-meditated.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The Cybertruck is so bad that even Tesla would not take it as a trade-in.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Because of Trump's cut to the CDC funding, the Vessel Sanitation Program that helps the cruise ship industry prevent and control the introduction and spread of gastrointestinal illnesses on cruise ships has been terminated. Gross...
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Dunning-Kruger at work.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A third person, a child has died from measles. The MMR vaccines prevent measles. Get vaccinated.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
As an investor for 40+ years, I am beginning to see that this tariff fiasco is intentionally created for large investors (not tiny ones like me) to cash in. He introduces tariffs, market tanks, institutional investors buy up equity on the cheap, then he rescinds the tariff, and the market recovers.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Two infants die of whooping cough in Louisiana. The TDaP vaccine prevents pertussis.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
A second child has died of measles in Texas. It is entirely preventable.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Misinformation kills and costs. New study shows that misinformation caused 14% more COVID infections during the pandemic (47 million people) with an economic cost of over $143 B (Billion with a B).
nature.com
Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media - npj Complexity
npj Complexity - Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The entire staff of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) has been fired today. LIHEAP helps low-income elderly with heating support and air conditioning in hot places like Texas. People will die from this.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
@governorferguson.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov @tinakotek.bsky.social I would like to renew my suggestion that we establish CDC/FDA/NIH Cascadia. The Federal agencies have been gutted and are no longer credible entities. We have the resources and the expertise to safeguard our public health.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Health and Human Services firing 10,000 employees and gutting many FDA departments will not make America healthier. It will make America sicker and more at risk of another pandemic. Even fee-based employees (employees that cost taxpayer nothing) have been laid off, resulting in zero savings.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
About one third of our generic medications comes from India. Trump is going to impose tariff on imported pharmaceuticals. You will pay more.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official, was forced to resign Friday. In his resignation letter, he wrote, "It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies"
cbsnews.com
FDA's top vaccine official forced out, decries RFK Jr.'s "misinformation and lies"
A Department of Health and Human Services official delivered an ultimatum to Dr. Peter Marks: either resign or be fired.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Gift article/No paywall. NIH's reckless cut affects cancer, vaccines, new treatments for infectious diseases and chronic diseases. All gone. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
theatlantic.com
The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet
Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Now we are doing Russia's bidding detaining a Harvard Medical School researcher from Russia who is against the war in Ukraine. Detained without charges. There is no rule of law left in the United States. theins.ru/en/news/280037
theins.ru
Russian scientist from Harvard Medical School detained in U.S., faces deportation and likely arrest upon return due to anti-war stance
A Russian scientist working at Harvard Medical School has been detained in the United States and placed in immigration detention. According to multiple independent Russian media outlets and the scient...
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Senate Republicans just voted to raise overdraft fees to $35. Last year, Democrats passed a law to cap it at $5. Who is working for the working class?
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Gift article/No paywall: The Atlantic publishes the full transcript of the Attack Plans in the Signal group chat.
theatlantic.com
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Gift article/No Paywall Antivaxxer has been appointed to lead the Federal research on vaccine and autism. Dark times.
washingtonpost.com
Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism
A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.
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Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
19% of Tesla failed Sweden's mandatory inspection in 2024, becoming the worst-performing brand on the list behind Dacia (a Romanian car company that is notorious for reliability). Polestar's EV came first with only a 3.3% failure rate. Tesla is junk. alltomelbil.se/polestar-bas...
alltomelbil.se
Polestar bäst av alla på bilbesiktningen, medan Tesla kommer sist – Allt om Elbil
Ynnor som stöttar företag i bilägande och bilval har genom sin tjänst Tjänstebilsfakta presenterat statistik på hur en rad populära bilmärken klarar sig
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