Ann Steck, MD
@asteckmd.bsky.social
Rural Family Medicine. Mommy. Blue dot in a red state. 🏳️🌈Ally. She/her.
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CDC ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging.
“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote
“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote
SCOOP: The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
www.propublica.org
March 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
CDC ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging.
“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote
“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote
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Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.
March 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.
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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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Joann, the fabrics and crafts retailer that has supplied quilters, seamstresses and school projects for 80 years, announced that it would close down all of its stores in the latest chapter of financial tumult for the company.
Joann, 80-Year-Old Crafts and Fabrics Retailer, Will Close All Stores
The announcement that the chain would close all 800 of its stores in 49 states comes after a period of financial turmoil.
www.nytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Joann, the fabrics and crafts retailer that has supplied quilters, seamstresses and school projects for 80 years, announced that it would close down all of its stores in the latest chapter of financial tumult for the company.
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The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations that determine access to vaccines in the US.
The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week is now delayed.
This is how RFK Jr will administratively destroy vaccination programs.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week is now delayed.
This is how RFK Jr will administratively destroy vaccination programs.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
A CDC vaccine committee meeting, the first of Kennedy's tenure at HHS, gets postponed
An HHS spokesperson didn’t say when the meeting would be rescheduled.
www.nbcnews.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations that determine access to vaccines in the US.
The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week is now delayed.
This is how RFK Jr will administratively destroy vaccination programs.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week is now delayed.
This is how RFK Jr will administratively destroy vaccination programs.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So ProPublica Did #ReproSky 🩺 🛟
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
February 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So ProPublica Did #ReproSky 🩺 🛟
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This is how ‘Dr.’ Death is going destroy vaccine programs and make vaccines unaffordable to most.
“Insurance companies are mandated to cover recommended vaccines; however, if the CDC and ACIP don't make a recommendation for a new vaccine, insurers have the autonomy to decide whether to cover them.”
“Insurance companies are mandated to cover recommended vaccines; however, if the CDC and ACIP don't make a recommendation for a new vaccine, insurers have the autonomy to decide whether to cover them.”
A CDC vaccine committee meeting, the first of Kennedy's tenure at HHS, gets postponed
An HHS spokesperson didn’t say when the meeting would be rescheduled.
www.nbcnews.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is how ‘Dr.’ Death is going destroy vaccine programs and make vaccines unaffordable to most.
“Insurance companies are mandated to cover recommended vaccines; however, if the CDC and ACIP don't make a recommendation for a new vaccine, insurers have the autonomy to decide whether to cover them.”
“Insurance companies are mandated to cover recommended vaccines; however, if the CDC and ACIP don't make a recommendation for a new vaccine, insurers have the autonomy to decide whether to cover them.”
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I've been asked by a number of my #MedSky American friends about moving to Canada.
dialogue.cpso.on.ca/articles/rem...
dialogue.cpso.on.ca/articles/rem...
Reminder: American Board-Certified Doctors Exempt from CFPC/RCPSC Certification | Dialogue - CPSO's Publication for Ontario Doctors
dialogue.cpso.on.ca
February 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I've been asked by a number of my #MedSky American friends about moving to Canada.
dialogue.cpso.on.ca/articles/rem...
dialogue.cpso.on.ca/articles/rem...
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American health workers looking to relocate? Doorway to practice medicine in Canada 🇨🇦
We have job openings nationwide. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...
We have job openings nationwide. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...
Canada announces new immigration stream specific to health workers
Communities across Canada need health workers. The health field is one of several key sectors of Canada’s labour force which is facing unprecedented shortages. To help respond to this challenge, last ...
www.canada.ca
February 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
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Photo of two boys - one vaccinated against smallpox, the other not - published in 1901 by Dr. Allan Warner.
Smallpox killed over half a billion people in the 20th century alone. On 8 May 1980, the WHO announced its eradication, which was achieved through #vaccines, surveillance, and containment.
Smallpox killed over half a billion people in the 20th century alone. On 8 May 1980, the WHO announced its eradication, which was achieved through #vaccines, surveillance, and containment.
February 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Photo of two boys - one vaccinated against smallpox, the other not - published in 1901 by Dr. Allan Warner.
Smallpox killed over half a billion people in the 20th century alone. On 8 May 1980, the WHO announced its eradication, which was achieved through #vaccines, surveillance, and containment.
Smallpox killed over half a billion people in the 20th century alone. On 8 May 1980, the WHO announced its eradication, which was achieved through #vaccines, surveillance, and containment.
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About a million people die every year due to antimicrobial resistance. Causes:
- Excessive and inappropriate use of antibiotics
- 70% of antibiotics are given to livestock
- No financial incentive to develop new antibiotics
- no new antibiotic classes since 1980
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Excessive and inappropriate use of antibiotics
- 70% of antibiotics are given to livestock
- No financial incentive to develop new antibiotics
- no new antibiotic classes since 1980
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Antibiotic emergency ‘could claim 40 million lives in next 25 years’
As superbugs spread across the globe, death rates from antimicrobial resistance are set to double, says England’s former chief medical officer
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
About a million people die every year due to antimicrobial resistance. Causes:
- Excessive and inappropriate use of antibiotics
- 70% of antibiotics are given to livestock
- No financial incentive to develop new antibiotics
- no new antibiotic classes since 1980
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Excessive and inappropriate use of antibiotics
- 70% of antibiotics are given to livestock
- No financial incentive to develop new antibiotics
- no new antibiotic classes since 1980
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
December 25, 2024 at 6:53 PM
I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
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Glenn Miller was the swing era's biggest star. Then, he vanished without a trace.
80 years later, Glenn Miller's sudden disappearance remains unsolved
Glenn Miller was the swing era's biggest star. Then, he vanished without a trace.
www.npr.org
December 14, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Glenn Miller was the swing era's biggest star. Then, he vanished without a trace.
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If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while.
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky
Why hasn’t the bird flu pandemic started?
Some scientists examining mutations found in H5N1 viruses fear major outbreak is imminent but others says pathogen remains unpredictable
www.science.org
December 6, 2024 at 12:54 PM
If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while.
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky
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Talking of Bier, @orthopodreg.bsky.social the story of how he developed spinal anaesthesia is pretty wild
A story of cocaine, cigars, and German army helmets. #AnSky #MedSky #HistoryMedSky
A story of cocaine, cigars, and German army helmets. #AnSky #MedSky #HistoryMedSky
a baby rhino is playing with snow in a zoo enclosure .
Alt: a baby rhino is playing with snow in a zoo enclosure .
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Talking of Bier, @orthopodreg.bsky.social the story of how he developed spinal anaesthesia is pretty wild
A story of cocaine, cigars, and German army helmets. #AnSky #MedSky #HistoryMedSky
A story of cocaine, cigars, and German army helmets. #AnSky #MedSky #HistoryMedSky
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Private insurance defenders, do you really believe that 1/3 of healthcare claims are for unnecessary or fraudulent things?
December 4, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Private insurance defenders, do you really believe that 1/3 of healthcare claims are for unnecessary or fraudulent things?
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The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today about Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for young people. This is not a both-sides story. One side is right and the other is dangerously wrong. Nazis were the first people to try to destroy trans health care. @bschillace.brandyschillace.com (1/n)
The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic
The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology
www.scientificamerican.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:47 PM
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today about Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for young people. This is not a both-sides story. One side is right and the other is dangerously wrong. Nazis were the first people to try to destroy trans health care. @bschillace.brandyschillace.com (1/n)
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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments tomorrow about Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care.
One topic is likely to take center stage: detransition.
The court needs to consider this topic with the nuance it deserves.
The latest via my Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...
One topic is likely to take center stage: detransition.
The court needs to consider this topic with the nuance it deserves.
The latest via my Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...
How The Supreme Court Should Think about Detransition
The court needs to keep in mind that all medical treatments have risks, benefits, and side effects.
open.substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 4:34 PM
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments tomorrow about Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care.
One topic is likely to take center stage: detransition.
The court needs to consider this topic with the nuance it deserves.
The latest via my Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...
One topic is likely to take center stage: detransition.
The court needs to consider this topic with the nuance it deserves.
The latest via my Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...
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Important to understand the well from which these conspiracies have sprung, we are soon be awash in them once again 👇👇👇
Yes, and @aetiology.bsky.social just published an absolutely magnificent—and terrifying—piece on today’s resurgence of HIV denialism
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 1, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Important to understand the well from which these conspiracies have sprung, we are soon be awash in them once again 👇👇👇
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Here's where the primary care crisis is hitting Ontario hardest
Data show millions of Ontarians without family doctors — and many more potentially on the way
www.thetrillium.ca/news/health/...
Data show millions of Ontarians without family doctors — and many more potentially on the way
www.thetrillium.ca/news/health/...
Here's where the primary care crisis is hitting Ontario hardest
Data show millions of Ontarians without family doctors — and many more potentially on the way
www.thetrillium.ca
November 28, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Here's where the primary care crisis is hitting Ontario hardest
Data show millions of Ontarians without family doctors — and many more potentially on the way
www.thetrillium.ca/news/health/...
Data show millions of Ontarians without family doctors — and many more potentially on the way
www.thetrillium.ca/news/health/...
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The HPV vaccine has been recommended in the US since 2006. New study out today shows that cervical cancer deaths in young women in the years that followed have plummeted, decreasing 15% per year from 2013-2015.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cervical Cancer Mortality Among US Women Younger Than 25 Years
This study examines trends in cervical cancer mortality in US women aged younger than 25 years before and after the introduction of human papillomavirus vaccines.
jamanetwork.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:43 AM
The HPV vaccine has been recommended in the US since 2006. New study out today shows that cervical cancer deaths in young women in the years that followed have plummeted, decreasing 15% per year from 2013-2015.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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It’s a wonderful day to be grateful for vaccines! A reminder the HPV vaccine has nearly completely wiped out cervical cancer in Scotland
November 28, 2024 at 4:56 PM
It’s a wonderful day to be grateful for vaccines! A reminder the HPV vaccine has nearly completely wiped out cervical cancer in Scotland