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Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH @zekemd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

7: It's warm today. Probably next month we can start biking a lot! Me: Your sister (13) is actually going biking today. 7: You aren't worried about the roads? Me: Nah. The roads are pretty clear. I'm not worried about snow and ice. 7: You ARE worried about ice. If you know what I mean. 👀 😬

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Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Time to re-up this bad boy. There are many ways to protest. Choose your own adventure. From the nurses' strike, to whistles and human chains, to noise parades and destruction of property, no one way alone is more or less effective. It takes all kinds. See also: beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tactic

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Toolbox - Beautiful Trouble

An interconnected web of the key strategies and tactics that have inspired people-powered victories & upended the status quo. Start anywhere and explore…

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Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH @zekemd.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Yay COVID and flu vaccines! Take care of yourself and others!!

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Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH @zekemd.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Minnesota currently has a statewide air quality alert due to Canadian wildfire smoke. What can you do about it? See this great @mprnews.org story about it! Full disclosure - they quote me from 2023 and I still agree with what I said then 😅 www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

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What to know about air quality alerts and how to protect your health

Wildfires in Canada are impacting the skies over Minnesota. Here’s what to know when an air quality alert is issued and how to stay healthy amid smoky skies and unhealthy air.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

RFK Jr. and his toady Jay Bhattacharya have just dismantled the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director, an outside group of advisors who provide guidance on a range of topics. They will be likely be replaced with another layer of toadies. Toadies all the way down.

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NIH director is replacing his top outside advisory board

Some worry new members of the long-running Advisory Committee to the Director will mirror agency chief Jay Bhattacharya’s views

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Let’s talk about Covid myths!! I’ll provide sources on these so you can look at the info yourself. First big myth: getting the initial vax series gave you permanent immunity! Nnoooooope! Six months out, the protection wanes to 20% jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Evaluation of Waning of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine–Induced Immunity

This systematic review and meta-analysis of studies reporting vaccine effectiveness at different time points since vaccine administration estimates the waning of protection provided by a variety of CO...

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Ann (she/her) @agvbergin.net · 18/06/2025

I keep reading heat preparation materials that don't mention how heat affects air quality. One of the best learning resources I've seen on this is the Met Office's case study of the ozone event that was part of the August 2003 heatwave. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/eab2...

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An Exceptional Ozone Episode in August 2003

A large pollution event in Summer 2003

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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist. To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts! -> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4 #DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2

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A checklist for designing and improving the visualization of scientific data

Nature Cell Biology - Creating clear and engaging scientific figures is crucial to communicate complex data. In this Comment, I condense principles from design, visual perception and data...

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Nathan Chomilo, MD FACP @chomilomd.com · 19/05/2025

"The researchers found that, on average, it costs Medicaid $179,000 to save a year of life ... less than the combined public and private spending on interventions like safety inspections for cars or the removal of asbestos from buildings"

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Nathan Chomilo, MD FACP @chomilomd.com · 19/05/2025

#Medicaid Matters & SAVES LIVES "The expansion of Medicaid has saved more than 27,000 lives since 2010, according to the most definitive study yet on the program’s health effects...deaths fell not only among older enrollees but also among those in their 20s and 30s"

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As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives

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Nathan Chomilo, MD FACP @chomilomd.com · 28/05/2025

Congress is pushing 6-month #Medicaid checks—fueling #churn that cuts coverage for families. It raises costs, worsens health, & hits Black, Indigenous & Latine communities hardest. MN shows what works: continuous coverage. We shouldn’t go backward. #KeepFamiliesCovered #MedSky #StopTheCuts

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The harm of #Medicaid churn & how to help keep people covered & healthy

YouTube video by Nathan Chomilo

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Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH @zekemd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

@qdurandmoreau.bsky.social - I assume you are/were not at #AOHC2025? I thought this might be the year for us to meet in person! Then again, I also cannot fault anyone for hesitating to travel to the US at this point... 😅😭

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Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH @zekemd.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Great opening talk by Dr. John Clarke at #AOHC2025 on implicit bias! He's the Medical Director for Occ. Med. at @astrazeneca.bsky.social. Implicit bias is so critical in medicine, not only in terms of taking care of our patients, but also in how we (esp. Black physicians) present ourselves. 🩺✊🏾

Dr. John Clarke on stage presenting at AOHC 2025. The backs of heads of attendees are seen in the foreground.

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Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH @zekemd.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

First day of #AOHC2025 at the ACOEM House of Delegates meeting! 💚👍🏾

Selfie of Zeke McKinney with many people sitting at tables in the background with an unreadable (at this distance) PowerPoint slide projected on the far side of the room.

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Matt Oliver @sameo416.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

My point of pride for 2025 was finding out one of my articles was used as an example from an Oxford podium, with the question "Can you believe anyone thinks this way?" spoken by an EBM high minister. I can believe it. We're called scientists. This one: www.scientificamerican.com/article/mask...

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Masks Work. Distorting Science to Dispute the Evidence Doesn't

New mask studies relying on a medical paradigm do not erase decades of engineering and occupational science that show they work

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH @zekemd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Yes. This is super weird. We should NOT be using the word "marijuana", which is pejorative, but rather "cannabis", which is the scientific name. Unfortunately "marijuana" is used in legal documents (like legislation) and news (thanks, AP style guide). We need to do better as with language.

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Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH @zekemd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Love when irony writes itself... Though admittedly open access was not a thing in the same way in 1992 (when that article was published)

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JPWeiland @jpweiland.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

🧬 Variant Evolution Rate Since 2020 We witnessed a huge weekly growth advantage in new variants for the first year after Omicron arrived, and then to a lesser extent after Pirola. Now we have 9 months of the lowest growth advantages since 2020. 🧵

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APHA @apha.org · 15/04/2025

Conspiracy theorists aren’t just online anymore — they’re stepping into office, warns infectious disease expert @pauloffit.bsky.social. That could be bad news for vaccines, he tells The Nation's Health Podcast. Listen to the new episode: www.thenationshealth.org/page/podcasts 🎧

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Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD @kmpanthagani.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

A look back at what vaccines have done.

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This Is Our Lane @thisisourlane.org · 14/04/2025

So true! Anxiety about gun violence is in itself, a public health issue. Up to 38% of adults and 25% of teens reported extreme anxiety about gun violence. As providers, we can screen for this—and advocate for evidence-based prevention: safe storage, background checks, ERPOs.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

RFK Jr. is absolutely right here. The MMR vaccine is the best way to prevent the spread of measles and protect yourself, your children and your community. Share this if you agree!

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lyndapole @lyndapole.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Wishing everyone a peaceful evening as we continue to fight for our democracy.

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JAMA @jama.com · 12/04/2025

This 2025 Recommendation Statement from the USPSTF recommends providing interventions or referrals, during pregnancy and after birth, to support breastfeeding. ja.ma/4lsfzhI

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 12/04/2025

Anti-vaxxers are blaming hospitals for medical errors, rather than attributing the deaths to measles itself. And RFK Jr. is also doubling down on the long-discredited link between vaccines and autism — thus contributing to rising rates of vaccine hesitancy. notadoctor.news/2025/04/11/t...

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The measles outbreak is getting worse — and so is the misinformation

Anti-vaccine activists, and the U.S. health secretary, are promoting unproven treatments in place of vaccination. A second child died from measles in Texas this month. Both of the girls, ages 6 and…

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Centre for Epidemic Preparedness & Response, LSHTM @lshtmcepr.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

🚨NEW STARTER PACK🚨 Hear about the latest #PublicHealth and #pandemicpreparedness news, views and research directly from our @lshtm.bsky.social academics. Join the conversation 👉 go.bsky.app/3rCaKBm

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Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH @zekemd.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Honored to talk about advocacy this morning in the 2025 Midwest Regional Education and Research Center Symposium sponsored by #NIOSH with @amira-adawe.bsky.social and Rebecca Reindel of AFL-CIO! Esp. with NIOSH funding and #PublicHealth dangers to worker health/safety right now!! #OccEnvMed

Screenshot of 2025 Midwest Regional Education and Research Center Symposium showing Amira Adawe, Rebecca Reindel, and Zeke McKinney as speakers.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Vaccines don’t cause autism. They never have. They won’t magically start in September.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11/04/2025

If you have a dictionary that you don't show love Oh, yes, son, we're talking to you.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Infectious disease doc here 🙋🏻‍♂️. There are some viruses we can treat very well (most notably HIV and hepatitis C - thanks NIH!). Others (influenza, COVID), we have middling therapies for. Measles: none. But we have literally the BEST vaccine. This is soooooo stupid 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/04/2025

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September

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Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I was a Covid-19 vaccination champion for @acog-org.bsky.social in 2021. Speak with pregnant persons about vaccination in pregnancy all the time. I understand these crucial conversations. #medsky #obskyn #obgynsky #pedssky how to you speak to your pts about vaccination #getvaccinated

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a sign that says v is for vaccinated

Alt: a sign that says v is for vaccinated

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Pearl Freier @pearlf.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

CNN story on lead poisoning & HHS/CDC's inability to act: Wisconsin asked the CDC for help with lead poisoning cases in Milwaukee but CDC had to cancel because HHS Secretary laid off all the CDC lead poisoning experts! Screenshot below of Ex CDC Director Tom Frieden's '09-'17 comments today #medsky

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Free idea: a website where you enter the name of your disease/injury/condition/procedure and get shirts, stickers, signs, etc. with “NIH grant number X saved my life.”

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Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH @zekemd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Gun Violence as a Source of Anxiety and Stress in the US Population In the American Journal of Health Promotion From my colleagues Tom Kottke and Stephanie Hooker of the HealthPartners Institute! (among others) #PublicHealth #medsky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

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Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH @zekemd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

#PublicHealth communication! People have lost trust in public health information sources in the past few years and we need to rebuild that trust while combating the increasing dis/misinformation. Public health is designed to protect the most vulnerable, including vulnerability to bad information.

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Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH @zekemd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Good that media is covering HHS restructuring. Of note, NIOSH is the primary or only source of funding for an entire specialty: Occupational and Environmental Medicine #OccEnvMed Relevant since AFAIK no specialty has been defunded before in medicine, on purpose or by accident 😳 #medsky

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Maxwell Smith, PhD @maxwellsmith.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The US has cut billions of dollars in COVID and pandemic readiness research funding, saying "Americans moved on years ago.” The public health and broader science community MUST stop aiding this shift in research priorities by referring to COVID in the past tense. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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Suggesting the world is “post COVID” contributes to an unwitting shift in research priorities

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

✨Please share! My newsletter is out.✨ In this issue: ⬆️More infections (bacterial, viral, fungal) in year after getting COVID 🔴2nd child dies of Measles in Texas 👧Vitamin A liver damage in kids ⚕️10,000 HHS (CDC, FDA, NIH) employees laid off & much more buff.ly/z23A3Ow #medsky #pedsky #IDsky 🛟😷🧪

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COVID & Health News, 4/6/25

According to the CDC, national respiratory virus levels are low for COVID, Flu A, and RSV with some regional variation.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

🧵1/ With rising STI rates across the U.S., the very programs that protect us were slashed. Cuts to CDC’s Division of STD Prevention gut a system built to stop syphilis, gonorrhea, HIV, and more. Here’s what we’re losing and why it matters to everyone. #IDSky #PublicHealthSky

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We need a centralized system to track deaths caused by disruptions to public health, both in the U.S. and globally. I worry the true toll will be massive. I worry it won’t be counted. And if it’s not counted, will it matter? #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth

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