Anna Sick-Samuels
asicksamuels.bsky.social
Anna Sick-Samuels
@asicksamuels.bsky.social
Pediatric ID doctor trying to prevent infections in children, conduct diagnostic stewardship and respond to emerging/re-emerging infections.
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Today is Grandparents Day, and a new group, Grandparents for vaccines, has launched. Many grandparents have seen what vaccines can do, & suffered the infections that can now be prevented. They don't want us to go back to the age when measles & polio were rampant.
Grandparent For Vaccines
For Grandparents and the Allies of their Grandchildren
grandparentsforvaccines.com
September 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
NIH: The quiet engine of science is being dismantled
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
NIH: The quiet engine of science is being dismantled
And what you can do
open.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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The #Pediatric #InfectiousDisease Society has released a statement on the mass removal of all ACIP members.

"Removing vaccine experts from developing thoughtful policy will harm all Americans, particularly our children."
PIDS Deeply Troubled By Disregard for Science in ACIP Firings – Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
pids.org
June 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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"The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society is deeply troubled by the disregard for proven science and the push to limit access and development of vaccines. This will lead to the unnecessary harm of many children. We strongly urge the reinstatement of the dismissed ACIP members."
June 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Since the CDC guidelines for COVID vaccines are now just misinformation here is what the NHS (UK) says about COVID in pregnancy and the recommendation for vaccination.
www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/ke...
May 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Happy Hand Hygiene Day! Thanks to everyone diligently washing their hands to prevent infections in the hospital! #infectionprevention #handhygiene #idsky
May 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A website of research grants terminated because they do not align with current federal priorities- includes physician & specialists training, Alzheimer's, basic science to understand how infections occur, cancer screening, assessing vaccines and much more. airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJ...
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March 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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HIVMA Board Member, Dr. Allison Agwu, MD, SCM, FIDSA speaking at the #StandUpForScience rally in Washington, D.C:
"Science is a beautiful art built on a canvas of data. The best science comes from diverse ideas, from diverse people with diverse perspectives."
March 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Caroline Kennedy's letter to the Senate on her cousin RFKJr. is devastating. It is an absolute condemnation of his fitness for office, his lack of character as a human being and must have been deeply painful to write. Any Senator who reads this and votes for this man should be run out of office.
January 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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This is literally forbidding public health workers to do the work of increasing public health and it is one of many troubling signs of where the US is heading...

www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots
An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.
www.npr.org
December 20, 2024 at 1:31 PM
BrighTSTAR is on Bluesky! We study and implement diagnostic stewardship for pediatric patients and want to share what we learn with you! @brightstarlhc.bsky.social @aaronmilstone.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Excited to see the educational banter continue on bluesky! Several of my favorites are here! @sheaepi.bsky.social @ichejournal.bsky.social @ashejournal.bsky.social @pidsociety.bsky.social #infectionprevention #infectiousdiseases #pediatrics
November 26, 2024 at 1:54 PM