Faith Crittenden MD MPH
@faithdaniellemd.medsky.social
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Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
Evidence-based child vaccine recommendations are about more than individual decisions
A baby too young to be vaccinated contracted measles & recently died in childhood of a complication
Vaccines protect kids who receive them — & babies & others in their communities
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
A baby too young to be vaccinated contracted measles & recently died in childhood of a complication
Vaccines protect kids who receive them — & babies & others in their communities
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
L.A. child dies from complication of measles infection contracted in infancy
The child died from subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a fatal progressive brain disorder that strikes roughly 1 in 10,000 people infected with measles.
www.latimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Evidence-based child vaccine recommendations are about more than individual decisions
A baby too young to be vaccinated contracted measles & recently died in childhood of a complication
Vaccines protect kids who receive them — & babies & others in their communities
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
A baby too young to be vaccinated contracted measles & recently died in childhood of a complication
Vaccines protect kids who receive them — & babies & others in their communities
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
Donald Trump has announced a deal to slash the cost of obesity drugs—but the biggest winners might be just a small number of patients, @nicholasflorko.bsky.social argues.
Trump’s Ozempic Deal Has a Major Flaw
Obesity drugs are still too expensive.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Donald Trump has announced a deal to slash the cost of obesity drugs—but the biggest winners might be just a small number of patients, @nicholasflorko.bsky.social argues.
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
“For all the hype over GLP-1s, Americans have struggled to access these weekly injections.” @nicholasflorko.bsky.social on why some insurance companies aren’t covering them: https://theatln.tc/dl0vFIWo
November 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“For all the hype over GLP-1s, Americans have struggled to access these weekly injections.” @nicholasflorko.bsky.social on why some insurance companies aren’t covering them: https://theatln.tc/dl0vFIWo
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
Measles is back
Whooping cough is back
Now, diphtheria is staging a return with large outbreaks now in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Chad — countries with civil wars or large populations of refugees where vaccination coverage is low...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social
Whooping cough is back
Now, diphtheria is staging a return with large outbreaks now in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Chad — countries with civil wars or large populations of refugees where vaccination coverage is low...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social
Diphtheria, a Once Vanquished Killer of Children, Is Resurgent
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Measles is back
Whooping cough is back
Now, diphtheria is staging a return with large outbreaks now in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Chad — countries with civil wars or large populations of refugees where vaccination coverage is low...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social
Whooping cough is back
Now, diphtheria is staging a return with large outbreaks now in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Chad — countries with civil wars or large populations of refugees where vaccination coverage is low...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
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The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow
'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'
'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'
As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void
The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.
www.whatimreading.net
October 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
For those asking how to support, here’s how: www.greenbootsgardens.com/get-involved
It’s not giving up it’s more that people outside of black people need more time to wake up.
And while they are taking the time we will be at home.
And while they are taking the time we will be at home.
October 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It’s not giving up it’s more that people outside of black people need more time to wake up.
And while they are taking the time we will be at home.
And while they are taking the time we will be at home.
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
@sspadafore.bsky.social @faithdaniellemd.medsky.social be bold with your beliefs. Taking a stand on policy can close some doors, but those are likely doors you don’t want to walk through anyway.
October 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
@sspadafore.bsky.social @faithdaniellemd.medsky.social be bold with your beliefs. Taking a stand on policy can close some doors, but those are likely doors you don’t want to walk through anyway.
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
@sspadafore.bsky.social @faithdaniellemd.medsky.social @rutgershealth.org @eagletonpoll.bsky.social OpEd workshop at RutgersNJMS.
October 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
@sspadafore.bsky.social @faithdaniellemd.medsky.social @rutgershealth.org @eagletonpoll.bsky.social OpEd workshop at RutgersNJMS.
People really gonna feel the impact of this in healthcare next year!
Keep playing with the system.
I’m telling you it’s not built the way you think it is.
The medical workforce will be impacted #medsky
Keep playing with the system.
I’m telling you it’s not built the way you think it is.
The medical workforce will be impacted #medsky
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
September 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
People really gonna feel the impact of this in healthcare next year!
Keep playing with the system.
I’m telling you it’s not built the way you think it is.
The medical workforce will be impacted #medsky
Keep playing with the system.
I’m telling you it’s not built the way you think it is.
The medical workforce will be impacted #medsky
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Though I am not a bioethicist, I often ask if medicine, public health and wellness know how to heal themselves once the arbiters of dis and misinformation are destroyed, or will the deeper ethical wound remain despite destruction? #publichealth #medsky #healthpolicy
Early Sun morning thoughts.
Early Sun morning thoughts.
September 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Though I am not a bioethicist, I often ask if medicine, public health and wellness know how to heal themselves once the arbiters of dis and misinformation are destroyed, or will the deeper ethical wound remain despite destruction? #publichealth #medsky #healthpolicy
Early Sun morning thoughts.
Early Sun morning thoughts.
Seeing wellness, public health and medicine as separate but equal rather than holistic is why patients feel disconnected from care and why physicians feel like armless soldiers in the fight against misinformation.
#publichealth #medsky
#publichealth #medsky
September 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Seeing wellness, public health and medicine as separate but equal rather than holistic is why patients feel disconnected from care and why physicians feel like armless soldiers in the fight against misinformation.
#publichealth #medsky
#publichealth #medsky
We need to address the root of healthcare’s problems by repairing the divide between wellness, public health and medicine. Ignoring their overlap wins battles but loses the larger fight for America’s health.
#publichealth #medsky
#publichealth #medsky
September 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
We need to address the root of healthcare’s problems by repairing the divide between wellness, public health and medicine. Ignoring their overlap wins battles but loses the larger fight for America’s health.
#publichealth #medsky
#publichealth #medsky
Even if RFK steps down, the deeper issue in public health, medicine, and wellness remains. The mentality fueling this problem is broader and more dangerous than one man, and dismantling it will take far more than his resignation.
#publichealthsky #medsky #pedsky
#publichealthsky #medsky #pedsky
September 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Even if RFK steps down, the deeper issue in public health, medicine, and wellness remains. The mentality fueling this problem is broader and more dangerous than one man, and dismantling it will take far more than his resignation.
#publichealthsky #medsky #pedsky
#publichealthsky #medsky #pedsky
We did our jobs too well.
To the point even people in medicine think pediatrics doesn’t have challenging pathophysiology.
We prevented disease too well.
That’s our problem
To the point even people in medicine think pediatrics doesn’t have challenging pathophysiology.
We prevented disease too well.
That’s our problem
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We did our jobs too well.
To the point even people in medicine think pediatrics doesn’t have challenging pathophysiology.
We prevented disease too well.
That’s our problem
To the point even people in medicine think pediatrics doesn’t have challenging pathophysiology.
We prevented disease too well.
That’s our problem
What’s happening at the CDC is very sad to watch. I know the everyday people in the organization are just so disappointed in their leadership right now.
But this won’t and will not last forever.
But this won’t and will not last forever.
August 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
What’s happening at the CDC is very sad to watch. I know the everyday people in the organization are just so disappointed in their leadership right now.
But this won’t and will not last forever.
But this won’t and will not last forever.
In his defense not that I care about either of these individuals like seriously could not care … he did win several super bowls. Which is equivalent to winning like a grammy in the sport arena
August 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
In his defense not that I care about either of these individuals like seriously could not care … he did win several super bowls. Which is equivalent to winning like a grammy in the sport arena
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
@ameracadpeds.bsky.social President Susan J. Kressly, MD, called the new proposal to limit the availability of COVID vaccines in children and young adults "deeply troubling."
August 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
@ameracadpeds.bsky.social President Susan J. Kressly, MD, called the new proposal to limit the availability of COVID vaccines in children and young adults "deeply troubling."
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
Being a a US based pediatrician is like alternating days between groin kicks and throat punches.
Trump on autism: "I think we maybe know the reason, and I look forward to that press conference."
August 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Being a a US based pediatrician is like alternating days between groin kicks and throat punches.
Do pediatricians even wear wedding rings ? heard that’s a 1/3 of their Medicaid dependent salaries that was cut with the BB bill
August 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Do pediatricians even wear wedding rings ? heard that’s a 1/3 of their Medicaid dependent salaries that was cut with the BB bill
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
US pediatric group breaks with federal policy, recommends COVID vaccines for young children…
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US pediatric group breaks with federal policy, recommends COVID vaccines for young children
The American Academy of Pediatrics on Tuesday recommended that all young children get vaccinated against COVID-19, differing from federal policy that no longer recommends routine vaccination for healthy children.
www.reuters.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
US pediatric group breaks with federal policy, recommends COVID vaccines for young children…
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
One, thing I always love about Adam Sandler movies is that it’s so New England coded.
And it’s awesome.
And it’s awesome.
August 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
One, thing I always love about Adam Sandler movies is that it’s so New England coded.
And it’s awesome.
And it’s awesome.
People don’t understand how hard it is to be a pediatrician these days but so glad AAP took a stand!
The American Academy of Pediatrics released its updated recommendations for vaccines on Tuesday, including Covid-19 shots for infants and young children – a break from the current US for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
In break with current CDC recommendations, leading pediatrics group recommends Covid-19 shots for young children | CNN
The American Academy of Pediatrics released its updated recommendations for vaccines on Tuesday, including Covid-19 shots for infants and young children – a break from the current US for Centers for D...
www.cnn.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
People don’t understand how hard it is to be a pediatrician these days but so glad AAP took a stand!
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
The reason why this matters:
We need the support of our professional orgs if we are going to be making recommendations beyond the FDA and CDC. There is always a risk of side effects so having institutional backing is appreciated.
We need the support of our professional orgs if we are going to be making recommendations beyond the FDA and CDC. There is always a risk of side effects so having institutional backing is appreciated.
The American Academy of Pediatrics released its updated recommendations for vaccines on Tuesday, including Covid-19 shots for infants and young children – a break from the current US for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
In break with current CDC recommendations, leading pediatrics group recommends Covid-19 shots for young children | CNN
The American Academy of Pediatrics released its updated recommendations for vaccines on Tuesday, including Covid-19 shots for infants and young children – a break from the current US for Centers for D...
www.cnn.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The reason why this matters:
We need the support of our professional orgs if we are going to be making recommendations beyond the FDA and CDC. There is always a risk of side effects so having institutional backing is appreciated.
We need the support of our professional orgs if we are going to be making recommendations beyond the FDA and CDC. There is always a risk of side effects so having institutional backing is appreciated.