Jay Dintaman
@jaydintaman.bsky.social
Physician leader/neonatologist/educator at USUHS. Husband to a rockstar, father to 3 munchkins and 2 fur babies
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A third Kentucky infant has died from whooping cough (also known as pertussis) this year as the state faces its largest spike in cases since 2012. Cases are only expected to continue to rise, highlighting the importance of widespread immunization. Learn more: publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A third Kentucky infant has died from whooping cough (also known as pertussis) this year as the state faces its largest spike in cases since 2012. Cases are only expected to continue to rise, highlighting the importance of widespread immunization. Learn more: publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
We can expect more of this unfortunately as vaccine misinformation floods social media. What a horrific and totally preventable tragedy.
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We can expect more of this unfortunately as vaccine misinformation floods social media. What a horrific and totally preventable tragedy.
One of the great tragedies of our time. Completely foreseeable, preventable, and irreversible. Pure moral cowardice on the part of our political leaders.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
One of the great tragedies of our time. Completely foreseeable, preventable, and irreversible. Pure moral cowardice on the part of our political leaders.
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“Trump tells sailors not to ‘worry about’ paychecks as shutdown continues”
There isn’t a failsafe for military pay this time
1 in 3 “military families has less than $3,000 in savings,
[and]… nearly 1 in 4 service members has trouble putting food on the table.”
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
There isn’t a failsafe for military pay this time
1 in 3 “military families has less than $3,000 in savings,
[and]… nearly 1 in 4 service members has trouble putting food on the table.”
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
Trump tells sailors not to ‘worry about’ paychecks as shutdown continues
All troops will miss a paycheck if Congress does not agree on a deal to reopen the government before Oct. 15, the next pay date for the military.
www.stripes.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
“Trump tells sailors not to ‘worry about’ paychecks as shutdown continues”
There isn’t a failsafe for military pay this time
1 in 3 “military families has less than $3,000 in savings,
[and]… nearly 1 in 4 service members has trouble putting food on the table.”
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
There isn’t a failsafe for military pay this time
1 in 3 “military families has less than $3,000 in savings,
[and]… nearly 1 in 4 service members has trouble putting food on the table.”
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
Absolute madness to take something that all acknowledge has worked incredibly well and break it. And once again it will be the most vulnerable populations who suffer the most from this decision.
RFK Jr.'s hand-picked panel of vaccine advisors is expected to vote to delay the hepatitis B shot for newborns. Doctors warn that could fuel a return of a disease virtually eradicated in U.S. kids.
Kennedy's vaccine panel expected to recommend delaying hepatitis B shot in children
RFK Jr.'s hand-picked panel of vaccine advisors is expected to vote to delay the hepatitis B shot for newborns. Doctors warn that could fuel a return of a disease virtually eradicated in U.S. kids.
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September 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Absolute madness to take something that all acknowledge has worked incredibly well and break it. And once again it will be the most vulnerable populations who suffer the most from this decision.
Very concerning news. Especially related to RSV vaccination which is one of the great technological triumphs in recent years to treat a truly debilitating respiratory disease among vulnerable infants.
“In particular, experts fear that the panel may restrict or roll back a recommendation that it made last meeting in support of a preventive monoclonal antibody to protect babies against RSV. Separately, they believe, members are likely to question hepatitis B shots that are given to infants”
Big shakeups to the childhood vaccination schedule could be nearing
Big shakeups may be coming to the childhood vaccination schedule. Here's a look at some of the shots that could be subject to shifting U.S. recommendations.
www.statnews.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Very concerning news. Especially related to RSV vaccination which is one of the great technological triumphs in recent years to treat a truly debilitating respiratory disease among vulnerable infants.
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1/ THREAD: ACIP, Then and Now
What has changed with the panel that guides vaccine recommendations in the U.S.
What has changed with the panel that guides vaccine recommendations in the U.S.
June 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
1/ THREAD: ACIP, Then and Now
What has changed with the panel that guides vaccine recommendations in the U.S.
What has changed with the panel that guides vaccine recommendations in the U.S.
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“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far.
In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...
In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...
Atul Gawande on Instagram: "“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false.
So far, 190,000 children and 90,000 adults have died due to the dismantling of USAID (even assuming...
9 likes, 0 comments - atul.gawande on May 24, 2025: "“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false.
So far, 190,000 children and 90,000 adults have died due to the dismantlin...
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May 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far.
In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...
In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...
Would like to see this in a peer reviewed publication but I have no doubts that the findings will be replicated. A foreseeable tragedy for pregnant women in TX.
How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
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 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Would like to see this in a peer reviewed publication but I have no doubts that the findings will be replicated. A foreseeable tragedy for pregnant women in TX.
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
February 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
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U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.
It is insanity to abruptly stop these programs. Even if the plan is to ultimately terminate them there is a responsible and ethical method to do so. This is neither and will cause irreparable harm and loss of life.
@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling.
It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.
Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.
Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It is insanity to abruptly stop these programs. Even if the plan is to ultimately terminate them there is a responsible and ethical method to do so. This is neither and will cause irreparable harm and loss of life.
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Head of USAID (an organization that helps to spread democracy around the world) stands up for the rule of law and democracy in America, gets put on leave. via @dylanmatt.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Head of USAID (an organization that helps to spread democracy around the world) stands up for the rule of law and democracy in America, gets put on leave. via @dylanmatt.bsky.social
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💔 “My sister’s death was one hundred percent preventable”
At 18, she got her first vaccine - just to visit her sister in ICU.
"If our father just vaccinated us, I'd still have my sister today." www.voicesforvaccines.org/diphtheria-c...
"If our father just vaccinated us, I'd still have my sister today." www.voicesforvaccines.org/diphtheria-c...
Diphtheria Cost My Sister Her Life
When I was younger, I never thought being unvaccinated was a problem. Until my sister died.
www.voicesforvaccines.org
January 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
💔 “My sister’s death was one hundred percent preventable”
I fear this story will become more frequent among service women who likely have very limited knowledge of the possible limited scope of medical care available to them based on where they are assigned. Our service men and women should always have access to standard of care medicine!
NEW: The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it.
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A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.
U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to save the mother’s life.
propub.li
December 13, 2024 at 12:12 PM
I fear this story will become more frequent among service women who likely have very limited knowledge of the possible limited scope of medical care available to them based on where they are assigned. Our service men and women should always have access to standard of care medicine!
Just logged my #HCWvsHunger donation for the Capital Area Food Bank! Let’s go!
December 4, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Just logged my #HCWvsHunger donation for the Capital Area Food Bank! Let’s go!
This is not how a state should treat evaluation of maternal deaths if the goal is to reduce them.
After @propublica.org reported on the cases of two women — Amber Thurman and Candi Miller — who died after they couldn’t obtain timely reproductive care in Georgia, the state has dismissed the entire maternal mortality board. www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:30 PM
This is not how a state should treat evaluation of maternal deaths if the goal is to reduce them.
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pedsky: to help with your senate letter letter & email writing, or the inevitable questions we will face from patient families the resources below can help. First is an annotated bibliography of key studies
November 18, 2024 at 11:53 AM
pedsky: to help with your senate letter letter & email writing, or the inevitable questions we will face from patient families the resources below can help. First is an annotated bibliography of key studies
Would really like our respective professional physician organizations to endorse this approach. It should be all hands on deck. Maybe they’re waiting to see if the nomination is pulled but it feels like this isn’t the situation for a wait and see approach.
Agreed about a physician constituent being given the most weight. A former staffer is who suggested it.
November 17, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Would really like our respective professional physician organizations to endorse this approach. It should be all hands on deck. Maybe they’re waiting to see if the nomination is pulled but it feels like this isn’t the situation for a wait and see approach.
I am not sure this is at all debatable. In terms of lives saved it has to be at the top of all medical interventions ever.
Arguably, the greatest advance in healthcare in the past 100 years was the widespread vaccination of children.
November 16, 2024 at 1:07 PM
I am not sure this is at all debatable. In terms of lives saved it has to be at the top of all medical interventions ever.
September 21, 2023 at 10:33 AM