Alex Yonts
@pidringer.bsky.social
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician, Pediatric Long COVID care provider, wife, toddler mom, handbell ringer and newly minted Swiftie. Lover of baking, pickles, music, Nebraska and Cleveland sports and the Washington Spirit. Opinions are my own.
You just GOTTA make it to the 8am session when Dr. Hamdy is sharing the latest, practice-changing papers on BSI and UTI treatment duration and adjunctive steroids in meningitis for the pediatric population! #IDWeek2025 #PIDS
October 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
You just GOTTA make it to the 8am session when Dr. Hamdy is sharing the latest, practice-changing papers on BSI and UTI treatment duration and adjunctive steroids in meningitis for the pediatric population! #IDWeek2025 #PIDS
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#idweek2025 @drdemetre.bsky.social #hivma award 🎉 standing ovation 👏 #weareid @hivma.bsky.social we need to lead with moral courage & fidelity to science #advocacy
October 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
#idweek2025 @drdemetre.bsky.social #hivma award 🎉 standing ovation 👏 #weareid @hivma.bsky.social we need to lead with moral courage & fidelity to science #advocacy
Not one of our Med-Peds ID fellows winning the IDWeek/PIDS best abstract award 🔥🔥🔥
October 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Not one of our Med-Peds ID fellows winning the IDWeek/PIDS best abstract award 🔥🔥🔥
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“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.”
It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.
It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.
Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation
Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.
www.rollingstone.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.”
It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.
It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.
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Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long Covid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found.
Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds
The new research provides evidence that Covid reinfections can increase the risk of long-term health consequences.
nyti.ms
October 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long Covid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found.
Starting off 2025-2026 GWIDS strong in our new home with presentations from the NIH, including a case of thrice-baked malaria from crit care/ID/Peds ID triple threat Ian Drobish! @dcpedsid.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Starting off 2025-2026 GWIDS strong in our new home with presentations from the NIH, including a case of thrice-baked malaria from crit care/ID/Peds ID triple threat Ian Drobish! @dcpedsid.bsky.social
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COVID vaccine ✅️ Flu vaccine ✅️ #vaccineswork #trustyourdoctornotrfkjr
September 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
COVID vaccine ✅️ Flu vaccine ✅️ #vaccineswork #trustyourdoctornotrfkjr
It was my absolute pleasure to raise awareness and provide some clinical strategies for managing pediatric Long COVID Pediatric Grand Rounds at USUHS this week #longcovid #iaccs
Grateful to Dr Alexandra Yonts @pidringer.bsky.social from Children’s National and George Washington University for joining us at Uniformed Services University Pediatric Grand Rounds today to speak on the topic of Pediatric Long Covid
September 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
It was my absolute pleasure to raise awareness and provide some clinical strategies for managing pediatric Long COVID Pediatric Grand Rounds at USUHS this week #longcovid #iaccs
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I just left a comment. It doesn't have to be long or detailed. Some nice information here: peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...
May 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I just left a comment. It doesn't have to be long or detailed. Some nice information here: peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...
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I need every single journalist covering vaccine stuff at the FDA to be explicit about this. Thank you @katherinejwu.com.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
There is a genuine open question regarding the degree of benefit for otherwise healthy kids to get seasonal COVID-19 boosters.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
There is a genuine open question regarding the degree of benefit for otherwise healthy kids to get seasonal COVID-19 boosters.
May 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I need every single journalist covering vaccine stuff at the FDA to be explicit about this. Thank you @katherinejwu.com.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
There is a genuine open question regarding the degree of benefit for otherwise healthy kids to get seasonal COVID-19 boosters.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
There is a genuine open question regarding the degree of benefit for otherwise healthy kids to get seasonal COVID-19 boosters.
Booooo, this guy? Of course the Trump administration would replace a well respected scientist and public health hero with a money and attention grubbing Twitter "celebrity"https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/06/vinay-prasad-fda-center-for-biologics-evaluation-and-research-peter-marks-hhs-rfk-jr-makary/
Vinay Prasad tapped to run FDA center that regulates vaccines, gene therapies
Vinay Prasad will be the next director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, after Peter Marks was forced out.
www.statnews.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Booooo, this guy? Of course the Trump administration would replace a well respected scientist and public health hero with a money and attention grubbing Twitter "celebrity"https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/06/vinay-prasad-fda-center-for-biologics-evaluation-and-research-peter-marks-hhs-rfk-jr-makary/
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Several of the previously healthy children with severe life threatening infections that I cared for this past week, and their families, might like a word here….
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments
The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
www.medscape.com
April 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Several of the previously healthy children with severe life threatening infections that I cared for this past week, and their families, might like a word here….
I'd love to know at what point an illness becomes chronic. 10 years? 15 years? When, RFK Jr, when? Bc apparently 5 years of disabling fatigue, brain fog, dizziness, pain, nausea, isn't long enough...
The callousness and hypocrisy of this administration is staggering 💔 😥🤬
cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
The callousness and hypocrisy of this administration is staggering 💔 😥🤬
cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
March 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I'd love to know at what point an illness becomes chronic. 10 years? 15 years? When, RFK Jr, when? Bc apparently 5 years of disabling fatigue, brain fog, dizziness, pain, nausea, isn't long enough...
The callousness and hypocrisy of this administration is staggering 💔 😥🤬
cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
The callousness and hypocrisy of this administration is staggering 💔 😥🤬
cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
Standing UP for science!
March 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Standing UP for science!
What horrors await us at 5pm on a Friday this week?
February 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
What horrors await us at 5pm on a Friday this week?
Helping fight chronic disease, you say? Bull$hit. Long COVID IS a chronic disease. Getting rid of the AC before we've even had a chance to begin our work is a travesty and a slap in the face to Americans with Long COVID and other infection associated chronic conditions.
February 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Helping fight chronic disease, you say? Bull$hit. Long COVID IS a chronic disease. Getting rid of the AC before we've even had a chance to begin our work is a travesty and a slap in the face to Americans with Long COVID and other infection associated chronic conditions.
Preventing 👏infectious 👏 disease 👏 IS 👏 preventing 👏 chronic 👏 disease
www.cdc.gov/chronic-symp...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK836...
www.cdc.gov/chronic-symp...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK836...
OVERVIEW
Chronic diseases cause 70 percent of all deaths in the United States. Yet the factors that cause many of these conditions have been poorly understood until recently. Advances in numerous detection and...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
February 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Preventing 👏infectious 👏 disease 👏 IS 👏 preventing 👏 chronic 👏 disease
www.cdc.gov/chronic-symp...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK836...
www.cdc.gov/chronic-symp...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK836...
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REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
February 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
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REQUIRED READING FOR DOCTORS, NURSES, HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATORS, & LEADERS OF MEDICAL ORGANIZATIONS
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration?
This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.
jamanetwork.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
REQUIRED READING FOR DOCTORS, NURSES, HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATORS, & LEADERS OF MEDICAL ORGANIZATIONS
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Workers in DC are fighting to block Musk's minions.
"About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors." dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...
"About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors." dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...
Federal Workers Block Doors of Admin Building Over Elon Musk Data Breach - DCMediaGroup
Nearly 100 Federal employees took part in a protest now into its second day of a takeover by Elon Musk surrogates of the high administration arm of the Federal government. Photo: DCMediaGroup Washingt...
dcmediagroup.us
February 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Workers in DC are fighting to block Musk's minions.
"About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors." dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...
"About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors." dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...
This is 1930s Germany ish. Go download, save and print all national public health guidelines ASAP, before they too disappear.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
CDC Data Is Disappearing
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
www.theatlantic.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is 1930s Germany ish. Go download, save and print all national public health guidelines ASAP, before they too disappear.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Nigeria the most populous country in Africa has launched its Malaria vaccine initiative.The initial rollout will be targeted to highest incidence areas. They are using the R21 vaccine which in clinical trials was 75% effective in reducing Malaria cases in infants
msmeafricaonline.com/nigeria-laun...
msmeafricaonline.com/nigeria-laun...
Nigeria Launches Malaria Vaccination Program For Children - MSME Africa
The Nigerian federal government has officially commenced its malaria vaccination program, with Kebbi and
msmeafricaonline.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Nigeria the most populous country in Africa has launched its Malaria vaccine initiative.The initial rollout will be targeted to highest incidence areas. They are using the R21 vaccine which in clinical trials was 75% effective in reducing Malaria cases in infants
msmeafricaonline.com/nigeria-laun...
msmeafricaonline.com/nigeria-laun...
Hi #IDSky and former #IDTwitter. I am making the transition from Elon to Ilan🤫...thanks @germhuntermd.bsky.social for the starter packs! Has anyone made one for Peds ID yet??
November 23, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Hi #IDSky and former #IDTwitter. I am making the transition from Elon to Ilan🤫...thanks @germhuntermd.bsky.social for the starter packs! Has anyone made one for Peds ID yet??