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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

One of my patients told me, "the only thing I'm allergic to is Bad Bunny." He meant rabbit anti-thymocte globulin. rATG. "Bad Bunny."

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This is part of a new section in Clinical Infectious Diseases which Hopkins ID doc and ethicist @katesolivia.bsky.social & I started this year. Since you two are well-established rabble-rousers, please let us know if you have ideas for articles!

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josh farkas 💊 @pulmcrit.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Great article on dogma in ID (with parallels to critical care) We have HUGE problems re: guidelines making recommendations & *redefining* entire diseases based on minimal data. Gov't metrics exacerbate this further. @bradspellberg.bsky.social @absteward.bsky.social @drtoddlee.bsky.social #EMIMCC

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

ID-curious ethicists? Ethics-curious ID folks? We're happy to help you find collaborators to develop your idea!

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We are eager to see your stories & ideas about ethical issues in the field of infectious diseases! Ethics Rounds in CID is a new opportunity to share & discover work at the intersection of ethics & ID. Reach out to me & @timlaheymd.bsky.social with any questions. academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

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Welcome to Ethics Rounds

Abstract. Ethics is central to one-on-one and population-level infectious diseases care. To give home and voice to the full scope of infectious diseases et

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

“We hereby inaugurate the Ethics Rounds section of Clinical Infectious Diseases to give home and voice to the full scope of infectious diseases ethics, from grand to granular, from bedside to global.” So proud to work with @katesolivia.bsky.social on this new home for #bioethics dialog #medsky

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Excited to share the updated CDC yellow book chapter on Immunocompromised Host and travel, here is the official updated website from the CDC. Let me know if you have questions or comments. www.cdc.gov/yellow-book/...

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Immunocompromised Travelers

Tailor vaccine and medicine recommendations based on international travelers’ immune systems.

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I believe the term is “Ethicist”

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The Journal of Infectious Diseases @jidjournal.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Comment On: Respiratory Isolation for Tuberculosis: A Historical Perspective ✅ Just Accepted #IDSky

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Comment On: Respiratory Isolation for Tuberculosis: A Historical Perspective

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Michael G. Ison, MD MS @michaelisonmd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Do you have ideas for sessions about infections in immunocompromised hosts for @escmid.bsky.social Global 2026? ESGICH is looking for people to help with session planning and concepts. To participate in the planning: forms.gle/1gAUw3UuBdxk... To submit a concept: forms.gle/SyFjuxnbUuCD...

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ESGICH Planning Committee for 2026 ESCMID Global

This will be a small working group to help develop proposals for ESGICH to propose for the 2026 ESCMID Global Program. If you are interested in help, please complete the form below. This will be o...

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

it is grimly hilarious that, given the immense, decades-long fetishization of "leadership" and "leadership skills" in business-oriented academia and politics, even unto the formation of leadership institutes, there should turn out to be no leaders in any positions of power

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Trust me, you want “To Say Nothing of the Dog.”

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A resistance for ignorance cannot overcome capriciousness. A resistance for capriciousness cannot overcome malice.

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Imagine the 100 minutes it would’ve cost to listen to it.

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Eric Meyerowitz @ericmeyerowitz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

One of todays heroes: James Harrison, R.I.P. “Saving one baby is good,” he said, after his final donation in 2018. “Saving two million is hard to get your head around, but if they claim that’s what it is, I’m glad to have done it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

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James Harrison, Whose Antibodies Helped Millions, Dies at 88 (Gift Article)

James Harrison earned the nickname “The Man With the Golden Arm” because his blood had a rare antibody that may have helped more than two million babies in Australia. He died at 88.

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Hardly. If *this* is indeed the great filter, then the events that led us here are all probable and must have occurred many times throughout the universe.

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Camille Nelson Kotton @kottonnelson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Crucial to recognize where we fall short in getting everyone to transplant so we can do better and enhance equity

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Compare an institution’s response to restricting use of language about (or not even about) diversity, equity, and inclusion in grants, to the same institution’s response to cutting indirect costs. What values are being bent “for the sake of the work?” What values are being staunchly defended?

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 14/02/2025

The 1st year class of Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) fellows is being terminated today. We don't know the fate of 2nd years nor the future of the EIS program. CDC’s 2-yr EIS fellowship recruits talent from across the world and trains MDs, PhDs, nurses, vets, and others in field epidemiology.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Great example of the interpretation of “journalistic objectivity” that sees lobotomizing yourself as preferable to ever drawing any firm conclusions from any amount of evidence

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JAMA @jama.com · 10/02/2025

While immunocompromised individuals had a heterogeneous antibody response to RSV vaccines, those who received the adjuvanted RSVPreF3-AS01 vaccine showed better neutralization. ja.ma/418nvNj #MedSky

Figure. Antibody Responses Among Immunocompromised Adults Following Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccination

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“You’ve got scientists who should be thinking creatively about their next experiment ... and instead are thinking about their car payment or their house payment because a lot of early-career scientists live paycheck to paycheck" www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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Trump policies sow chaos, confusion across scientific community

U.S. scientists, unaccustomed to shock-and-awe political assaults, are reeling from President Donald Trump’s executive orders on DEI, gender and other subjects.

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Does anyone else feel like the planet parade is laughing at us?

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I’m a seasoned global health teacher I’m struggling these days to explain the state of the world to young people, give them hope or answer their inevitable question: “what can we do?” How are other teachers coping??

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

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Joseph Cherabie MD MSc (They/He) @jncherabiemd.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

STI Treatment Guidelines are down, for now go to nnptc.org where our group has housed STI and HIV PrEP guidelines #HIVSky #STISky #IDSky

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

There is no way to "follow the science." Science is descriptive and predictive, but not directive. ETHICS is directive. Let science draw the map, let ethics find the way.

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We can and must do more. We must do what is RIGHT not just because it is supported by data, but ALSO what is RIGHT because it is good, because it is just, because it is kind, because it is brave.

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A good read, but I disagree. The touchstone must be ETHICS. Science & data are not trivial to ethics. Knowing facts and probabilities helps us predict how some of our actions will affect others and the world. But science & data are not tantamount to ethics.

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Sébastien Poulin @sebpoule.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

🆕 AGA Clinical Practice Guideline on the Prevention and Treatment of Hepatitis B Virus Reactivation in At-Risk Individuals @amergastroassn.bsky.social #IDsky #Liversky www.gastrojournal.org/action/showP...

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Hidradenitis Suppurativa is usually a derm run consult but occasionally ID gets involves to help w antibiotic therapy in the setting of a severe acute flare. This seminar in @thelancet.bsky.social is a fantastic update on the condition. I learned a lot. #IDSky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Hidradenitis suppurativa

Hidradenitis suppurativa is a chronic inflammatory disease characterised by painful, deep-seated nodules, abscesses, and draining tunnels in the skin of axillary, inguinal, genitoanal, or inframammary...

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Well, here's hoping we're just floundering, not foundering.

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

An awesome group from the NTCA (including a very lucky ID-ethicist tagalong) created & used this framework for new ethics-informed AND evidence-informed guidelines for TB isolation in community settings, recommending SHORTER isolation than other similar guidance. doi.org/10.1093/infd...

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Integrating ethics in public health guideline development: a case-study of the NTCA guidelines on respiratory isolation for persons with TB in community settings

This article describes a novel process for integrating bioethics during public health guideline development for respiratory isolation for tuberculosis in c

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

If guidelines are supposed to direct us toward the "right" thing to do, and determining, describing, and doing "right" things is the entire purview of ethics, then all guidelines must be ethics guidelines... right?

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

He's cetux-naive thankfully, but has the mammalian meat allergy. Brilliant guy, but I think he didn't get to watch as much discovery channel as I did growing up (thanks Dad!). First couple months I got a LOT of calls about "is this a mammal?"

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

🙋I have a question! Happy New Year, #IDsky, #bioethicssky, and friends! Seeking your vast and varied wisdom to help me make the most of my 2025. ❓What makes you feel like you are growing in your profession?

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Andrew Karaba @akaraba.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Excited to share our article on RSV vaccine responses in immunocompromised patients published today in @jama.com. Many thanks to @williamwerbel.bsky.social and other co-authors for their hard work and support. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam.... #IDsky #TxID.

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Antibody Response to RSV Vaccination in Immunocompromised Persons

This prospective study investigates antibody response following respiratory syncytial virus vaccination in immunocompromised individuals.

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Don't quite feel like you have "power?" Call it "privilege."

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

"Microaggressions" I have a tip for thinking about this word! "-aggression" here does NOT equal hostility. It refers to the demonstration or use of power, regardless of intent. We can commit microaggressions because we have power, even if we believe we harbor NO hostility.

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Olivia Kates, MD, MA @katesolivia.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Hello friends! After allowing my social media skills to atrophy at a former platform, I'm expecting a long rehabilitation period. But happy to be here among you.

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