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Rue Silver, MPH

@rue.fyi
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Once and future vaccine hesitancy researcher. Public health data storyteller; addiction science; quality improvement; service dogs; community medicine.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach
Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 24/08/2026
I don't actually want to read any of Project 2025 a second time. Can anyone quickly summarize for me how it justifies creating food insecurity as a good idea? I opened the file and recoiled.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 13/08/2026
I was actually surprised not to see a @bextraordinary.bsky.social reference anywhere here! A good start on the subject.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 13/08/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
England is on track to become one of the first countries in the world to eliminate hepatitis C, a dangerous virus that attacks the liver, figures show.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 09/06/2026
"That time was not built into my talk." The time for applause! Here's to my father's and my donated tissue, our friends at MSKCC and bringing new hope to the war against the disease that took him too young and, despite my DNA, will NOT be taking me out. apple.news/AusTBXh5vR3K...
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The most hopeful cancer news in years — Vox
In a darkened convention hall in Chicago on May 31, a Harvard oncologist named Brian Wolpin stood at a podium and in a voice that sounded as if he was reading from the phone book, recited a set of num...
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ME/CFS San Diego @mecfssd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We sent an open letter to @wired.com in response to “The Painful Truth About Long Covid.” We are concerned it misrepresents ME/CFS and Long COVID by overemphasizing a few recovery stories and underrepresenting decades of biomedical research and patient impact. www.mecfssandiego.com/mecfs-advoca...
Image of a red Megaphone with the text "ADVOCACY ALERT" and 
An Open Letter
to WIRED magazine
ME/CFS San Diego" written on a protest sign with a ME/CFS San Diego blue ribbon in the upper right
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The COVID pandemic ushered mRNA vaccines into the spotlight, and the technology has even greater potential. Here’s what to know about the way that they work, their safety, and more
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Why you should keep getting mRNA vaccines
The COVID pandemic ushered mRNA vaccines into the spotlight, and the technology has even greater potential. Here’s what to know about the way that they work, their safety, and more
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 27/03/2026
Study shows "...that COVID vaccines did not increase the risk of sudden cardiac death in young adults. Moreover, the study showed that individuals who were vaccinated against COVID had a much lower risk of sudden cardiac death. That pretty much blows up the anti-vax claims about the vaccine." 🛟😷
skepticalraptor.com
No link between COVID vaccines and sudden cardiac death
A comprehensive study reveals that COVID vaccines do not increase the risk of sudden cardiac death among young, healthy adults.
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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
2026 is a big election year - so much is at stake. This is why we created a new series exploring why a strong public health infrastructure is essential to a healthy democracy. Check out the first installment: nationalpublichealthcoalition.substack.com/p/an-attack-...
Blue text on white background says public health and democracy 2026 midterms are here & so much is at stake. So what does public health have to do with democracy? check out our substack to learn more @nationalphc @firedbutfighting
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Woozle & Taffy @woozle-taffy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 19/03/2026
Do we have a vaccine for cancer? Yes! The Human Papillomavirus Vaccine (HPV) HPV prevents infection with Human Papillomavirus. This virus causes cervical, penile, and other cancers, & spreads through intimate contact. Vaccination can prevent viral infection & cancers. www.chop.edu/vaccine-educ...
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Human papillomavirus: The disease and vaccines
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is recommended to all adolescents between 11 and 12 years of age to protect them from genital warts and certain types of cancers.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 19/03/2026
Health tech nerd returns with health tech news links once more. www.popularmechanics.com/science/a707...
popularmechanics.com
Millions of People Suffer from a Mysterious Disease. Doctors Are Finally Learning Its Secrets.
A new simulator module can help clinicians learn to detect painful adhesions caused by deep infiltrating endometriosis.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 16/01/2026
Once again, @mackaracka.bsky.social with the enormously impactful news!
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Maia Szalavitz @maiasz.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
also, modern democracy cannot exist if you can't trust the experts. no one can be an expert in everything; experts aren't always right, but the point of expertise is to be able to be right more often than non experts so that society can work.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 16/01/2026
This is such a hard one, because people over 65 should be lauded for living that long but never made to feel "old," especially since it isn't really, anymore. (Using "retired," similarly, doesn't work.) My first thought is something like "[lower age]+ Engagement Program."
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 29/11/2025
Remember when conversations about Zika were everywhere, and then almost immediately fell by the wayside because Zika predominantly affected Brown women in South America? Ten years later, these mothers are still fighting for justice.
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These Zika mothers went to battle — and their cry was heard
After the Zika outbreak ended in Brazil, many families faced a new reality: a child whose life was irrevocably altered after the mother contracted the virus while pregnant. Here's what happened next.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 29/11/2025
In moments I wish I still TAed statistics for health sciences, this is a real big one
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Exeter have found that getting vaccinated against shingles- a painful and debilitating condition that can flare up years after infection from varicella zoster virus- not only LOWERS the risk of infection, but can also PROTECT against Alzheimer’s disease!
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/11/2025
HHS leaders are doubling down on harm. Their new “report” on gender-affirming care for minors is junk science. Skip it. Check this out instead: sph.washington.edu/news-events/... It links to real evidence-based research Bottom line: Gender-affirming care improves mental health and saves lives 🏳️‍⚧️🫶🏳️‍⚧️
This is the post on X about the junk science HHS report about transgender care for minors. I annotated it to point out how evil and bad it is
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 20/11/2025
know how I've been saying that some in public health will embrace MAHA? treat it like a legitimate public health project instead of the fascist, eugenicist purge to 'MAGA-ify the gene pool' that it is? Others, like JHU, will point out the lies: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evi...
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The Evidence on Vaccines and Autism | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
How a retracted study from the 1990s led to a persistent myth about vaccines.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 19/11/2025
really I just want to be @maiasz.bsky.social when I grow up. How can I reach that career goal?
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Maia Szalavitz (@maiasz.bsky.social)
Contributing Opinion Writer, NY Times. Author: Undoing Drugs, Unbroken Brain, Help At Any Cost; Co-auth: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog & Born for Love (w/ Bruce D. Perry). Addiction, autism, neur...
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Mackaracka @mackaracka.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
New antibiotic www.sciencealert.com/powerful-new...
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Powerful New Antibiotic Was 'Hiding in Plain Sight' For Decades
Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic – in a significant discovery made not by breaking new ground, but by revisiting familiar territory.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 29/10/2025
Holy. Crap. Wow. This is absolutely amazing. @ebergdahl.bsky.social!
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 19/09/2025
I've been highly resistant to adding any kind of ML to my tech skillset, because my work in health technology and data has always been about equity. For the first time, I'm reconsidering learning ML programming—because clinicians ARE adopting it, and someone needs to put the equity IN it. Maybe me
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 04/09/2025
We Need to Double Down on Harm Reduction, Not Walk Away From It www.commondreams.org/opinion/we-n...
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We Need to Double Down on Harm Reduction, Not Walk Away From It | Common Dreams
We have come too far to turn our backs on what works when it comes to sound, life-saving drug policies. Now is the wrong time to politicize practical, proven responses to this medical emergency.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 04/09/2025
ISO: Your favorite/best articles about social determinants of health as factors in Black maternal mortality in the US. #phsky #episky do we have #sdohsky yet
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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Transgender people make up, depending on your source, around 1% of the population. But they make up 0.1% of mass shooters. Meaning that transgender people are far less likely to be mass shooters. If it were proportionate, 42 of the shooters would have been transgender, not just 4.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 31/08/2025
Feeling real rough being unemployed while the "new CDC" hires a bunch of non-experts. Currently I am looking for work as a clinical data analyst, which is the focus of my resume, but I can also sit the CHES exam and do other things in health tech!
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Anyone who wants it, here's a non-paywall link to my 2019 column on tear gas in Nature, the world's most prestigious scientific journal. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Restrict use of riot-control chemicals | Nature
Tear gas and pepper spray put lives at risk. Examine their effects and regulate their deployment, urges Dan Kaszeta. Tear gas and pepper spray put lives at risk. Examine their effects and regulate their deployment, urges Dan Kaszeta.
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Mackaracka @mackaracka.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
MICHIGAN Anyone who visited a medical office building at 3950 S. Rochester Road in Rochester Hills on Tues, June 3, may have been exposed to the measles. The office building is on the corner of Rochester Road and South Boulevard. Anyone who was there between 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m. may have been exposed.
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Measles exposure site confirmed in Oakland County
Measles is a highly contagious disease that is spread by direct person-to-person contact and through the air.
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Mike Ludwig @mludwig.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Experts Credit Harm Reduction, Not Border Cops, for 27% Drop in Overdose Deaths I cover the OD crisis closely cuz I lost so many friends. If anyone gets credit for the decline in death, it's community activists like Tasha in this photo, and drug users themselves. truthout.org/articles/exp...
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Experts Credit Harm Reduction, Not Border Cops, for 27% Drop in Overdose Deaths
Grassroots public health efforts and shifts in drug use have contributed to the sharp decline in overdose deaths.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 23/03/2025
After [mumble] number of years, due to my job search continuing far, wide, and unsuccessfully so far ... I am preparing to take the AHIMA CCS test. My medical coding skills are far beyond entry level but I have no evidence of this.
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ana is tired @koutavi.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
are those WMDs... hold on, let me check my notes, you guys are changing definitions of words so fast over there... here we go! are the WMDs fentanyl patches? their adhesive might fuck up the finish, i see your concern.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 19/03/2025
I value my graduate education very much. I also think a fifth grader could find the trendline and see that it is going up.
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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In epidemiology, we have a special name for the strategy of letting a disease spread unchecked through a population in order to encourage the development of "natural immunity". It's called an epidemic. #episky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...
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RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 07/02/2025
I am looking for employment! Is anyone looking for a clinical data analyst? Ideally who would not ask me to move?
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 04/02/2025
Broadly Epi are an absolutely excellent group of people doing amazing work.
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David Hackney @davidnhackney.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
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ACOG Endorsed
The following documents have ACOG’s endorsement and are listed in order of endorsed date.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 04/02/2025
With a heavy heart I must admit I am currently job searching. But it is a great honor to be able to apply to work with the CDC Foundation at a time like this.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 03/02/2025
This is a bit gumshoe epidemiology but I have an unexpected cluster of weird so let's take it to the people: did anyone else in the NYC metro area experience a severe migraine at 23:00 (11pm) last night (2/2/25)? I've currently got cases in the city and immediately across in NJ.
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
RFK Jr.’s War Against Cancer…Prevention: Robert F. Kennedy misrepresents the data about HPV vaccines while making millions off litigation over the vaccine, by @pauloffit.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...
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RFK Jr.’s War Against Cancer…Prevention
A recent Senate confirmation hearing revealed RFK Jr.’s secret war against cancer prevention.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 02/02/2025
While I've wanted the world to see that the Oxford Center is harming patients for years, and have something to say to legislators about it whenever I'm in the area, the death of a child was not in any way how I wanted that to come to light!
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
NYTimes adding insult to injury in this tragedy. The “treatment” was for autism, which isn’t a thing, and was being done by someone with no medical training who charges cash for expensive bogus therapies. And now a 5-year-old is dead because of the grift.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 02/02/2025
I don't want this to get lost—the discourse is not differentiating between illicit fentanyl and prescription Fentanyl is a safe and effective medication when used under the supervision of a qualified physician. Fentanyl is, for many chronically ill and disabled people, a life saving medication.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 21/01/2025
I just learned about the death of Cecile Richards, who was the keynote speaker and honorary doctoral recipient at my MPH graduation. May her memory be for a blessing. May we find a true way to rid us of the insidious glioblastoma, which has taken so many good people I have known.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 21/01/2025
Goodness gracious, people.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 21/01/2025
Updated my URL a little bit. It's just *slightly* shorter now. :)
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 16/01/2025
@denisesilver.bsky.social this is a great picture of your living room
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Exactly! With every passing year, new documents are unearthed or declassified and it changes the way we see the past. All history is revisionist. Why would we need these 15,000 books about Abraham Lincoln when one “objective” volume should suffice? Because that’s not how history works.
A huge tower comprised of some 15,000 books on Lincoln at Ford’s Theater.
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Rue Silver, MPH @rue.fyi · 16/01/2025
As someone who has been on both ends of having discharge to a lack of support (i have never been homeless, but family has), Bridge to Home is a big deal and a long time coming. Snaps for team Bridge to Home! www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/...
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New $650 million plan to address NYC's mentally ill homeless unveiled by Mayor Eric Adams
Mayor Eric Adams announced a new plan Wednesday to help address the issue of of homeless people with mental illness​.
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