Audrey John MD PhD
@odomjohnlab.bsky.social
Infectious diseases physician, scientist, mentor, mom, Chief @CHOP_ID | lab goals: new ways to diagnose and treat infection | views my own | #PedsIDSky #IDSky #PedsSky
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Tens of thousands of annual cases of chickenpox, rotavirus, and other vaccine preventable diseases a year - in a country of six million people.
Not only will Denmark’s vaccine schedule not work for the US, it already isn’t working for Denmark.
Not only will Denmark’s vaccine schedule not work for the US, it already isn’t working for Denmark.
Should the US adopt Denmark's vaccine schedule for children? @jakescottmd.bsky.social argues no in a piece that points out the risks such a move would pose for American kids. www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...
Why Denmark's vaccine schedule works for Denmark — but not for the United States
With its vaccine schedule, “Denmark has made a values choice to accept preventable hospitalizations and illnesses that other countries have chosen to prevent.”
www.statnews.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Tens of thousands of annual cases of chickenpox, rotavirus, and other vaccine preventable diseases a year - in a country of six million people.
Not only will Denmark’s vaccine schedule not work for the US, it already isn’t working for Denmark.
Not only will Denmark’s vaccine schedule not work for the US, it already isn’t working for Denmark.
A timely offering - Needed now more than ever....
💉 The Comprehensive Vaccine Education Program—From Training to Practice is a combined educational offering to help combat vaccine misinformation and address vaccine hesitancy. Access any of the 19 online modules by visiting:
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December 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
A timely offering - Needed now more than ever....
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$15k stipend to support 9 weeks of full time summer research!
For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in!
I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply!
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For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in!
I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply!
🧪🧠
@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
www.hhmi.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
$15k stipend to support 9 weeks of full time summer research!
For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in!
I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply!
🧪🧠
For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in!
I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply!
🧪🧠
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The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society has issued the following statement on our deep concerns regarding the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices December meeting and its impact on public health in the United States.
pids.org/2025/12/05/p...
pids.org/2025/12/05/p...
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society has issued the following statement on our deep concerns regarding the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices December meeting and its impact on public health in the United States.
pids.org/2025/12/05/p...
pids.org/2025/12/05/p...
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A picture is worth a 1000 words. The birth dose of hepatitis B vaccines in the USA eliminated perinatally acquired hepatitis B infection from over 20,000 cases a year before the vaccine was introduced to <20 cases a year. The gaslighting by the current members ACIP is obscene, unethical and cruel.
December 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A picture is worth a 1000 words. The birth dose of hepatitis B vaccines in the USA eliminated perinatally acquired hepatitis B infection from over 20,000 cases a year before the vaccine was introduced to <20 cases a year. The gaslighting by the current members ACIP is obscene, unethical and cruel.
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The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is meeting today to discuss newborn hepatitis B vaccines. Here's what you need to know.
December 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is meeting today to discuss newborn hepatitis B vaccines. Here's what you need to know.
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💬Viewpoint: Eliminating universal hepatitis B birth dose vaccination risks an estimated 8% increase in annual perinatal #HepatitisB infections in the US, increasing preventable chronic disease burden. ja.ma/3Me0zHh
December 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
💬Viewpoint: Eliminating universal hepatitis B birth dose vaccination risks an estimated 8% increase in annual perinatal #HepatitisB infections in the US, increasing preventable chronic disease burden. ja.ma/3Me0zHh
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Because of the hepatitis B birth dose and completion of the infant series of the vaccine, the U.S. has made significant progress in reducing chronic hepatitis B. Eliminating the birth dose would reverse this progress and put children's health at risk. Read more:
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
December 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Because of the hepatitis B birth dose and completion of the infant series of the vaccine, the U.S. has made significant progress in reducing chronic hepatitis B. Eliminating the birth dose would reverse this progress and put children's health at risk. Read more:
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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No more paylines at the NIH
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Implementing a Unified NIH Funding Strategy to Guide Consistent and Clearer Award Decisions | Grants & Funding
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November 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
No more paylines at the NIH
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grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
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Registration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection, May 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!
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November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Registration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
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"The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure." — @stefanswartpet.bsky.social & @madhupai.bsky.social argue children have the right to be vaccinated. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
www.statnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure." — @stefanswartpet.bsky.social & @madhupai.bsky.social argue children have the right to be vaccinated. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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If you read and watch one thing today it should be this pice accompanying @agawande.bsky.social documentary.
"As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children."
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
"As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children."
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If you read and watch one thing today it should be this pice accompanying @agawande.bsky.social documentary.
"As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children."
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
"As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children."
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Our October member spotlight was Dr. Jeff Gerber. He is the Werner & Gertrude Henle Endowed Chair in Pediatrics in the Div ID @childrensphila.bsky.social & Prof of Peds, Epidemiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the Univ of Pennsylvania. Read our full profile at pids.org/2025/10/29/m...
November 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Our October member spotlight was Dr. Jeff Gerber. He is the Werner & Gertrude Henle Endowed Chair in Pediatrics in the Div ID @childrensphila.bsky.social & Prof of Peds, Epidemiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the Univ of Pennsylvania. Read our full profile at pids.org/2025/10/29/m...
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Missed another parasitology webinar? 😩
I built a page to fix that — a community list of free online seminars anyone can add to!
🧫 Find and share virtual parasitology events here:
www.parasitesrule.com/seminars
I built a page to fix that — a community list of free online seminars anyone can add to!
🧫 Find and share virtual parasitology events here:
www.parasitesrule.com/seminars
October 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Missed another parasitology webinar? 😩
I built a page to fix that — a community list of free online seminars anyone can add to!
🧫 Find and share virtual parasitology events here:
www.parasitesrule.com/seminars
I built a page to fix that — a community list of free online seminars anyone can add to!
🧫 Find and share virtual parasitology events here:
www.parasitesrule.com/seminars
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Mapping Plasmodium transitions and interactions in the Anopheles female.
Now out in Nature by Yan Yan, Lisa H. Verzier, Elaine Cheung, Flaminia Catteruccia and colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Now out in Nature by Yan Yan, Lisa H. Verzier, Elaine Cheung, Flaminia Catteruccia and colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mapping Plasmodium transitions and interactions in the Anopheles female - Nature
Single-cell transcriptomic analyses of Plasmodium falciparum and Anopheles gambiae reveal key developmental stages, processes and factors in parasite–mosquito interactions and identify potential targe...
www.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Mapping Plasmodium transitions and interactions in the Anopheles female.
Now out in Nature by Yan Yan, Lisa H. Verzier, Elaine Cheung, Flaminia Catteruccia and colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Now out in Nature by Yan Yan, Lisa H. Verzier, Elaine Cheung, Flaminia Catteruccia and colleagues.
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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The fiscal year is over.
So how was the NIH appropriation committed?
A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.
So how was the NIH appropriation committed?
A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.
a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .
ALT: a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .
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October 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The fiscal year is over.
So how was the NIH appropriation committed?
A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.
So how was the NIH appropriation committed?
A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.
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Children and teens who had a Covid reinfection had a doubling of #LongCovid risk (PASC) and a significant increase in many other adverse outcomes (Figure) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Children and teens who had a Covid reinfection had a doubling of #LongCovid risk (PASC) and a significant increase in many other adverse outcomes (Figure) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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5-year-old Suza from #DRCongo should still be alive. Malaria is treatable, but medicine wasn't available when she needed it.
Heartbreaking, urgent reporting from @washingtonpost.com shows how even brief interruptions in aid delivery can have dire consequences for vulnerable communities:
Heartbreaking, urgent reporting from @washingtonpost.com shows how even brief interruptions in aid delivery can have dire consequences for vulnerable communities:
Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.
USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...
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September 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
5-year-old Suza from #DRCongo should still be alive. Malaria is treatable, but medicine wasn't available when she needed it.
Heartbreaking, urgent reporting from @washingtonpost.com shows how even brief interruptions in aid delivery can have dire consequences for vulnerable communities:
Heartbreaking, urgent reporting from @washingtonpost.com shows how even brief interruptions in aid delivery can have dire consequences for vulnerable communities:
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I can tell you from personal experience caring for children like this that pertussis in a young infant is one of the most wicked diseases you can imagine.
It’s why we recommend that people get vaccination boosts both if pregnant or living in close proximity to young children.
It’s why we recommend that people get vaccination boosts both if pregnant or living in close proximity to young children.
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012.
The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.
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The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.
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Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.
www.mississippifreepress.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I can tell you from personal experience caring for children like this that pertussis in a young infant is one of the most wicked diseases you can imagine.
It’s why we recommend that people get vaccination boosts both if pregnant or living in close proximity to young children.
It’s why we recommend that people get vaccination boosts both if pregnant or living in close proximity to young children.