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Dan Diekema
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Infectious diseases physician, epidemiologist, and clinical microbiologist. University of Iowa to Maine Medical Center-MaineHealth. Views are my own
April 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
jd vance chastises EU leaders for "running in fear of their voters", which is an amazing bit of projection.

No political party in the world is more fearful of voters than the US republican party (petrified even of their own base!).

Keep calling, keep showing up, it is working. #IDSky #EpiSky
February 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
February 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Recruiting trainees into ID, microbiology and public health as we enter 2025…

…but seriously, we need you! Now more than ever. #IDSky #EpiSky
December 29, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Priority one for misinformation purveyors over the next 4 years: to convince these unfortunate voters that their worsening immiseration is the fault of anyone other than the person they voted for…

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...
December 26, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Happy Boxing Day to all!

Just noticed that ABIM/Santa was up early Christmas morning giving me MOC points. Good thing I left out cookies, milk and a check for $220.

Starting on New Year's resolutions; first is to ask senators to block a trio of awful appointments (HHS, CDC, CMS).

#IDSky
December 26, 2024 at 1:47 PM
If your oysters are from a farm with a name that includes the word "fanny", do not consume.
December 20, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Ran around Roosevelt Island this morning, past the ruins of a smallpox hospital (now on the National Register of Historic Places).

Vaccines work. #idsky #episky
December 14, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Our plan to prevent deaths from vaccine-preventable disease is slowly taking shape: now we just need to connect the 77 Nobel laureates with Iowa corn growers, AMD and the corn syrup lobby, Oscar Meyer, and whoever makes lunchables...
December 10, 2024 at 1:18 PM