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Dr. Katie Foss @ktafoss.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

AEJMC ballots will be emailed today. Consider me for Vice President. My bio and platform: lnkd.in/erRCF8wm

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Dr. Katie Foss @ktafoss.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It's been 5 years since the #WHO declared #COVID a pandemic. How did the world find out about the "mystery pneumonia" out of Wuhan? I trace the diffusion of news and social media in chapter 2 of my book: www.umasspress.com/978162534828...

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When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation vessel ...

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Dr. Katie Foss @ktafoss.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Let’s have more leaders like this:

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Dr. Katie Foss @ktafoss.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We've got outbreaks of measles in Texas, TB in Kansas, and so many cases of flu here in TN that entire school districts are closed. Way to demonstrate the need for public health, Universe.

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Dr. Katie Foss @ktafoss.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

And I have never played so much pickleball.

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Pauly Walnuts @paulywalnuts.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I have filed a criminal complaint with the Colorado State Attorney General against Elon Musk and DOGE for illegally accessing private data through the Treasury Department. I suggest every American citizen do the same in their State. DOGE and Elon Musk are not government agents #Resist

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.

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Dr. Katie Foss @ktafoss.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

It's official! My book, Capturing COVID: Media and the Pandemic in the Digital Era is out. Save 20% if you order directly from the University of Massachusetts Press site with code UMASS20. www.umasspress.com/978162534828...

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When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation vessel ...

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Dr. Katie Foss @ktafoss.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

In modern or recorded history, yes, which is a big deal. Definitely not in American history though.

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Dr. Katie Foss @ktafoss.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Thanks for sharing. I will use this article in my health communication class.

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Dr. Katie Foss @ktafoss.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Hate this, like that @philinvestigates.com is keeping on top of things.

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Dr. Katie Foss @ktafoss.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

My new book! Links in a future post.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

SCOOP: The Trump administration has ordered the National Institutes of Health to impose an "immediate and indefinite" ban on all travel, domestic and international. Internal emails reviewed by The Handbasket outline what employees know so far. Read more here: