Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH
@claytonmowrer.bsky.social
Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Infectious Diseases at UNMC/Children's Nebraska | Epi nerd | Emerging and high-consequence pathogens and pandemic preparedness | Biosecurity | LEAP grad ('23)
#IDSky #PedsIDSky #EpiSky
#IDSky #PedsIDSky #EpiSky
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Hi all!
Been a while since I’ve been active on social media, so I figured it’s time for a proper intro. 👋
I’m an internal medicine/pediatrics ID doc at UNMC, focused on emerging and high-consequence pathogens—think epidemiology, surveillance, therapeutics, and especially operational guidance. 🦠
Been a while since I’ve been active on social media, so I figured it’s time for a proper intro. 👋
I’m an internal medicine/pediatrics ID doc at UNMC, focused on emerging and high-consequence pathogens—think epidemiology, surveillance, therapeutics, and especially operational guidance. 🦠
This is beyond heartbreaking
This case emphasizes the importance of herd immunity in protecting those who cannot be vaccinated, as this child was infected with measles before being old enough to receive the MMR vaccine.
#vaccination #measles #publichealth
apnews.com/article/meas...
#vaccination #measles #publichealth
apnews.com/article/meas...
Child dies from complication of measles contracted years earlier
A school-age child in California has died from a rare complication of measles contracted as an infant. Los Angeles County health officials announced the death Thursday.
apnews.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This is beyond heartbreaking
Like seriously. Wtaf
Who in the real world would actually say out loud that they were an untrustworthy person? Did he confuse the CDC head with Littlefinger from Game of Thrones?!
WARREN: Did you tell the head of the CDC that if she refused to sign off on your changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, that she had to resign?
RFK Jr: No. I told her she had to resign because I asked her 'are you a trustworthy person?" and she said no
WARREN: This is not what she has said
RFK Jr: No. I told her she had to resign because I asked her 'are you a trustworthy person?" and she said no
WARREN: This is not what she has said
September 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Like seriously. Wtaf
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New from Drs. Nada Fadul, @estohs.bsky.social, @m-salman-ashraf.bsky.social and a fantastic collaborative team in JMIR Research Protocols:
"Providing Education and Training to Health Care Professionals to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities"
#IDSky
www.researchprotocols.org/2025/1/e60901/
"Providing Education and Training to Health Care Professionals to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities"
#IDSky
www.researchprotocols.org/2025/1/e60901/
Providing Education and Training to Health Care Professionals to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities: Protocol for Implementation Project Using Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Main...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for targeted interventions to address health care disparities among specific health care professionals and mitigate the impact of the virus. ...
www.researchprotocols.org
June 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New from Drs. Nada Fadul, @estohs.bsky.social, @m-salman-ashraf.bsky.social and a fantastic collaborative team in JMIR Research Protocols:
"Providing Education and Training to Health Care Professionals to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities"
#IDSky
www.researchprotocols.org/2025/1/e60901/
"Providing Education and Training to Health Care Professionals to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities"
#IDSky
www.researchprotocols.org/2025/1/e60901/
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Description of our response to a large community TB exposure involving young kids.
We hope this helps other academic centers be able to partner with public health more easily- costs included to help convince your C suite that it’s a good idea!
@claytonmowrer.bsky.social #PedSky #IDSky #PedsID
We hope this helps other academic centers be able to partner with public health more easily- costs included to help convince your C suite that it’s a good idea!
@claytonmowrer.bsky.social #PedSky #IDSky #PedsID
A health department identified a large pediatric TB exposure at a drop-in daycare. An academic medical center partnered with public health to establish a rapid-response TB Exposure Clinic. This article detailed the experience and challenges. (@asato4kids.bsky.social et al)
doi.org/10.1017/ash....
doi.org/10.1017/ash....
June 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Description of our response to a large community TB exposure involving young kids.
We hope this helps other academic centers be able to partner with public health more easily- costs included to help convince your C suite that it’s a good idea!
@claytonmowrer.bsky.social #PedSky #IDSky #PedsID
We hope this helps other academic centers be able to partner with public health more easily- costs included to help convince your C suite that it’s a good idea!
@claytonmowrer.bsky.social #PedSky #IDSky #PedsID
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New moment of “WTF”:
-pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity)
-nl times: reach out to CDC for testing
-now: “they confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serology…they suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Center”
😳😳😳
-pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity)
-nl times: reach out to CDC for testing
-now: “they confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serology…they suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Center”
😳😳😳
June 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
New moment of “WTF”:
-pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity)
-nl times: reach out to CDC for testing
-now: “they confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serology…they suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Center”
😳😳😳
-pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity)
-nl times: reach out to CDC for testing
-now: “they confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serology…they suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Center”
😳😳😳
Reposted by Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH
“appears to contradict a pledge he made”
Such generous editors you have, @washingtonpost.com - It DIRECTLY contradicts a pledge he made.
Use your words. It’s all you have 🤬🤦🏻♂️
Such generous editors you have, @washingtonpost.com - It DIRECTLY contradicts a pledge he made.
Use your words. It’s all you have 🤬🤦🏻♂️
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ousting all members of a key CDC vaccination advisory committee and replacing them with his own picks.
The move appears to contradict a pledge he made during his confirmation process.
The move appears to contradict a pledge he made during his confirmation process.
RFK Jr. ousts all members of CDC vaccine advisory panel
Kennedy said the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a group of experts who recommend vaccines, has been "plagued with persistent conflicts of interest."
www.washingtonpost.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
“appears to contradict a pledge he made”
Such generous editors you have, @washingtonpost.com - It DIRECTLY contradicts a pledge he made.
Use your words. It’s all you have 🤬🤦🏻♂️
Such generous editors you have, @washingtonpost.com - It DIRECTLY contradicts a pledge he made.
Use your words. It’s all you have 🤬🤦🏻♂️
Reposted by Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH
#IDSky #MedSky
IDSA speaks out on RFK jr's unilateral, unscientific. and destructive changes to COVID vaccine recommendations. We have a robust, transparent and thoughtful process that can and would have addressed any changes that might be appropriate. www.idsociety.org/news--public...
IDSA speaks out on RFK jr's unilateral, unscientific. and destructive changes to COVID vaccine recommendations. We have a robust, transparent and thoughtful process that can and would have addressed any changes that might be appropriate. www.idsociety.org/news--public...
New COVID vaccine recommendations threaten access, undermine choice and will negatively impact health
www.idsociety.org
May 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
#IDSky #MedSky
IDSA speaks out on RFK jr's unilateral, unscientific. and destructive changes to COVID vaccine recommendations. We have a robust, transparent and thoughtful process that can and would have addressed any changes that might be appropriate. www.idsociety.org/news--public...
IDSA speaks out on RFK jr's unilateral, unscientific. and destructive changes to COVID vaccine recommendations. We have a robust, transparent and thoughtful process that can and would have addressed any changes that might be appropriate. www.idsociety.org/news--public...
Wonder how NEJM must feel right now, allowing that garbage commentary (by certain "officials"), followed by RFK Jr now hoping to bar NIH scientists from publishing there... Karma huh?
May 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Wonder how NEJM must feel right now, allowing that garbage commentary (by certain "officials"), followed by RFK Jr now hoping to bar NIH scientists from publishing there... Karma huh?
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Americans are living in a Renaissance, not of sculpture and painting but of food. We decided to do a bonfire of the vanities about it.
A LOT of people do not want to hear it but in the United States at least, food has never been safer to eat, not to mention tastier
We are living in one of the few times in human history where you can buy a loaf of bread and if it says it’s made with wheat flour and salt and yeast and water and nothing else, it’s probably made from just those ingredients, and some people want to END this.
May 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Americans are living in a Renaissance, not of sculpture and painting but of food. We decided to do a bonfire of the vanities about it.
Costco is along my favorite companies, in large part because of the founders
Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick
“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco
April 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Costco is along my favorite companies, in large part because of the founders
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“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.”
— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
April 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.”
— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
Reposted by Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH
Just tought you might all need this (from "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers").
April 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Just tought you might all need this (from "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers").
THIS is how you do it. Cheers, Harvard.
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
www.harvard.edu
April 15, 2025 at 3:06 AM
THIS is how you do it. Cheers, Harvard.
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For what it’s worth, Jeanne Marrazzo is a national treasure.
RFK Jr is a national embarrassment.
RFK Jr is a national embarrassment.
April 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
For what it’s worth, Jeanne Marrazzo is a national treasure.
RFK Jr is a national embarrassment.
RFK Jr is a national embarrassment.
Woah. This is a powerful piece. Please take the time to read.
Hillary Clinton: How Much Dumber Will This Get?
"The Trump approach is dumb power. Instead of a strong America using all our strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Trump's America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and friendless." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
"The Trump approach is dumb power. Instead of a strong America using all our strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Trump's America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and friendless." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb
The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Woah. This is a powerful piece. Please take the time to read.
This is an incredible list. There's so much amazing work here. I've read a few, but still have so much more reading to do
I've updated this list of terrific global health books!
New books by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, @adamjkucharski.bsky.social, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, @carlzimmer.com & Bill Foege are included
communities.springernature.com/posts/if-you...
New books by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, @adamjkucharski.bsky.social, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, @carlzimmer.com & Bill Foege are included
communities.springernature.com/posts/if-you...
If you had to read one book on global health...
If there is 1 book that you would like all global health students to read, it would be.....? Here is an impressive list of over 430 books generated by this question on Twitter!
communities.springernature.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is an incredible list. There's so much amazing work here. I've read a few, but still have so much more reading to do
Completely predictable first move
Hours after NIH director confirmed, the agency tackles one of his priorities — ending ‘censorship’ in science
Hours after Jay Bhattacharya was confirmed as NIH director, the agency directed staff to identify contracts related to “fighting misinformation or disinformation”
www.statnews.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Completely predictable first move
“However, it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Marks wrote.
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist wapo.st/4hQn8fm via @ddiamond.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”
wapo.st
March 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
“However, it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Marks wrote.
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A reminder that illegally closing USAID & shuttering its programs will kill or harm millions.
One example: "the loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result"
One example: "the loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result"
March 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A reminder that illegally closing USAID & shuttering its programs will kill or harm millions.
One example: "the loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result"
One example: "the loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result"
Such an important overview here. This MAHA movement is bogus: they are gutting even our ability to combat chronic illnesses as well.
Threats to public health at every angle
Covid anniversary, pandemic revisionism, chronic diseases, and a boulder going down the hill
open.substack.com
March 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Such an important overview here. This MAHA movement is bogus: they are gutting even our ability to combat chronic illnesses as well.
This is terrifying
At NIH, new fudging opportunities (NOFO) will need to be approved by DOGE. That should be a NOGO.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials will screen NIH funding opportunities
Staff at biomedical agency worry about political interference in setting priorities
www.science.org
March 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is terrifying
Reposted by Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH
Max Frankel, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy and became a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times and later its executive editor, died on Sunday. He was 94.
Max Frankel, Top Times Editor Who Led a Newspaper in Transition, Dies at 94
As executive editor from 1986 to 1994, he oversaw a period of financial, technological and journalistic change while lifting newsroom morale and diversifying the staff.
www.nytimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Max Frankel, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy and became a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times and later its executive editor, died on Sunday. He was 94.
Reposted by Clayton Mowrer, DO, MBA, MPH
Things look very grim for tuberculosis services due to abrupt cuts by the US government
Join us on Monday, on World TB Day as we discuss the latest crisis
Date: Monday, March 24, 2025
Time: 12 p.m. EDT / 9 a.m. PDT
RSVP: bit.ly/3XO86iQ
Join us on Monday, on World TB Day as we discuss the latest crisis
Date: Monday, March 24, 2025
Time: 12 p.m. EDT / 9 a.m. PDT
RSVP: bit.ly/3XO86iQ
March 22, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Things look very grim for tuberculosis services due to abrupt cuts by the US government
Join us on Monday, on World TB Day as we discuss the latest crisis
Date: Monday, March 24, 2025
Time: 12 p.m. EDT / 9 a.m. PDT
RSVP: bit.ly/3XO86iQ
Join us on Monday, on World TB Day as we discuss the latest crisis
Date: Monday, March 24, 2025
Time: 12 p.m. EDT / 9 a.m. PDT
RSVP: bit.ly/3XO86iQ