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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It's a beautiful day to speak with a senator about Lyme Disease in kids! 🕷Thank you to Senator Collins' staff for taking the time to hear about the need for awareness, more access to specialty care and research funding for Lyme in this underappreciated population. #tickseason #kidsarentsmalladults

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Literally what I just said to my husband. Please dear God let him be next.

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Great read! I basically had this same discussion with residents at noon conference this week.

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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Gender affirming care for me, but not for thee.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 05/12/2025

Good Morning! New shocking discovery: ACIP and Real Housewives of Atlanta share the same plot structure. • Filmed in Atlanta • Chaos • Wild claims • Cast members powered by “I don’t need evidence, I have vibes.” Tune in today to watch the continued erosion of public health, sponsored by RFK.

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a man in a suit holds his hand to his forehead in front of a microphone with the words brain worm intensifies below him

ALT: a man in a suit holds his hand to his forehead in front of a microphone with the words brain worm intensifies below him

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

ACIP has officially just become the worst, trashiest reality show of all time. And I know that me talking about it right now is literally the only thing that the Trump administration wants #attentionwhores but I cannot emphasize enough what a farce this entire committee has become.

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Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

At this point, people on the ACIP just want to hear themselves talk because evidence, data, and science have left the building. They want us to believe them because they say it is true- but we are smarter than that. We know how to look at decades of literature and have the ability to reason.

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Wtf is Tracy Beth talking about? The WHO recommends Hepatitis B immunization for all infants, ideally with 24 hours of birth, which is the policy in 117 countries worldwide, including most of the Americas, Eastern Europe, Asia, Australia and North Africa. Europe is the outlier...

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Also, respectfully, you would have more time to hear comments or questions if you didnt defensively respond to every comment, Dr. Malone. Look to your past, pre-2025, ACIP chairs as an example...

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Even the "set change" that ACIP has undertaken (getting rid of the round table and going with a "head of the class/lecture" set up) speaks volumes about their mindset and how much they care about any input from anyone in the scientific and medical community that isn't in their "clique".

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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

RFK Jr, Makary, and Prassad prepping for the ACIP meeting like…

A medieval church carving showing The Massacre of the Innocents in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. The carving shows Herod on a throne and 2 minions are putting infants to the sword and pulling them from the arms of their mothers

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

You just GOTTA make it to the 8am session when Dr. Hamdy is sharing the latest, practice-changing papers on BSI and UTI treatment duration and adjunctive steroids in meningitis for the pediatric population! #IDWeek2025 #PIDS

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Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Indiana University @iuidfellowship.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

#idweek2025 @drdemetre.bsky.social #hivma award 🎉 standing ovation 👏 #weareid @hivma.bsky.social we need to lead with moral courage & fidelity to science #advocacy

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Not one of our Med-Peds ID fellows winning the IDWeek/PIDS best abstract award 🔥🔥🔥

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16/10/2025

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.” It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.

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Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation

Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/10/2025

Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long Covid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found.

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Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds

The new research provides evidence that Covid reinfections can increase the risk of long-term health consequences.

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Starting off 2025-2026 GWIDS strong in our new home with presentations from the NIH, including a case of thrice-baked malaria from crit care/ID/Peds ID triple threat Ian Drobish! @dcpedsid.bsky.social

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It was my absolute pleasure to raise awareness and provide some clinical strategies for managing pediatric Long COVID Pediatric Grand Rounds at USUHS this week #longcovid #iaccs

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I need every single journalist covering vaccine stuff at the FDA to be explicit about this. Thank you @katherinejwu.com. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... There is a genuine open question regarding the degree of benefit for otherwise healthy kids to get seasonal COVID-19 boosters.

When describing this shift in an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine, as well as in a livestreamed FDA press conference, Prasad and Makary—neither of whom has formal training in infectious disease or vaccinology—focused primarily on the implications for COVID boosters for young, healthy adults.

In the past, the U.S. government has seen fit to restrict or pull vaccines only under extraordinary circumstances: major new safety concerns, a better immunization option, eradication of disease. And those decisions have generally come only after political leaders consulted multiple scientific experts in the field, which Prasad and Makary chose not to do through their agency’s typical channels. (The FDA’s panel of independent vaccine experts is scheduled to meet tomorrow.) Rather, political appointees with preexisting opinions on COVID vaccines appear to have enacted policy unilaterally. Prasad and Makary publicly went after COVID boosters. But kids’ first defenses against the virus are likely to be that attack’s collateral damage.

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Booooo, this guy? Of course the Trump administration would replace a well respected scientist and public health hero with a money and attention grubbing Twitter "celebrity"https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/06/vinay-prasad-fda-center-for-biologics-evaluation-and-research-peter-marks-hhs-rfk-jr-makary/

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Vinay Prasad tapped to run FDA center that regulates vaccines, gene therapies

Vinay Prasad will be the next director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, after Peter Marks was forced out.

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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Several of the previously healthy children with severe life threatening infections that I cared for this past week, and their families, might like a word here….

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I'd love to know at what point an illness becomes chronic. 10 years? 15 years? When, RFK Jr, when? Bc apparently 5 years of disabling fatigue, brain fog, dizziness, pain, nausea, isn't long enough... The callousness and hypocrisy of this administration is staggering 💔 😥🤬 cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

What horrors await us at 5pm on a Friday this week?

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Helping fight chronic disease, you say? Bull$hit. Long COVID IS a chronic disease. Getting rid of the AC before we've even had a chance to begin our work is a travesty and a slap in the face to Americans with Long COVID and other infection associated chronic conditions.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/02/2025

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Workers in DC are fighting to block Musk's minions. "About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors." dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...

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Federal Workers Block Doors of Admin Building Over Elon Musk Data Breach - DCMediaGroup

Nearly 100 Federal employees took part in a protest now into its second day of a takeover by Elon Musk surrogates of the high administration arm of the Federal government. Photo: DCMediaGroup Washingt...

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is 1930s Germany ish. Go download, save and print all national public health guidelines ASAP, before they too disappear. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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CDC Data Is Disappearing

The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Nigeria the most populous country in Africa has launched its Malaria vaccine initiative.The initial rollout will be targeted to highest incidence areas. They are using the R21 vaccine which in clinical trials was 75% effective in reducing Malaria cases in infants msmeafricaonline.com/nigeria-laun...

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Nigeria Launches Malaria Vaccination Program For Children - MSME Africa

The Nigerian federal government has officially commenced its malaria vaccination program, with Kebbi and

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Alex Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Hi #IDSky and former #IDTwitter. I am making the transition from Elon to Ilan🤫...thanks @germhuntermd.bsky.social for the starter packs! Has anyone made one for Peds ID yet??

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