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Catherine Rahilly-Tierney

@polimed.bsky.social

Doctor, epidemiologist, data nerd, mom of teenagers, truth teller, animal lover

Catherine Rahilly-Tierney @polimed.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Your federal tax dollar at work. Talk about fraud, abuse and corruption! Me, working on the COVID ward at the VA, January 2021. This week: like all federal employees, we have received multiple confusing emails about the "Delayed Resignation Program". 🤦‍♀️

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Catherine Rahilly-Tierney @polimed.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This is what I found today when navigated to where CDC health surveillance datasets are *supposed* to be. Apparently surveillance of drug deaths, youth health, and other topics does not "Comply with President Trump's Executive Orders".

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Catherine Rahilly-Tierney @polimed.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Soundtrack for today: Bob Dylan - Blowin in the Wind Public Enemy - Fight the power Ani Difranco - Every State Line We shall overcome- Joan Baez John Lennon - give peace a chance Bad Bunny - El Apagon Thank you Callie Crossley of NPR for your great program

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Catherine Rahilly-Tierney @polimed.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

In honor of Trump's pick for HHS secretary, here is just one of the studies showing that vaccines DO NOT cause autism. In >2 mil. Danish children, >100k of which were unvaccinated, there was NO ASSOCIATION between MMR and autism spectrum disorders. (If the CI crosses 1.00, there's no relationship).

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Catherine Rahilly-Tierney @polimed.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Someone told me recently that "COVID didn't even increase the death rate." Using CDC WONDER data, I created the graph below. As you can see, the any-cause death rate increased by about 20% by 2021, with the excess mortality attributable to COVID.

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