Jeffrey Jones
@jeffreycjones.bsky.social
Infectious Diseases MD in San Antonio, TX
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Sometimes you run across an old quote that stops you cold. From a Jayson Stark article in January 2000:
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Sometimes you run across an old quote that stops you cold. From a Jayson Stark article in January 2000:
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The role of perturbation of our circadian clock plays in promoting the fibrosis (scarring) of organs
www.jci.org/articles/vie...
www.jci.org/articles/vie...
October 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The role of perturbation of our circadian clock plays in promoting the fibrosis (scarring) of organs
www.jci.org/articles/vie...
www.jci.org/articles/vie...
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Donor-derived infections with Rickettsia typhi (agent of murine typhus) in 2 kidney transplant recipients (1 fatal)
Teaching points
- 🐭 typhus transmitted by fleas (& transplant)
- Cases 📈 in Texas
- Death of diffuse 🫁 , 🧠 edema w/o dx=👎 tx
- cfDNA MGS (Karius) can dx
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
Teaching points
- 🐭 typhus transmitted by fleas (& transplant)
- Cases 📈 in Texas
- Death of diffuse 🫁 , 🧠 edema w/o dx=👎 tx
- cfDNA MGS (Karius) can dx
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
September 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Donor-derived infections with Rickettsia typhi (agent of murine typhus) in 2 kidney transplant recipients (1 fatal)
Teaching points
- 🐭 typhus transmitted by fleas (& transplant)
- Cases 📈 in Texas
- Death of diffuse 🫁 , 🧠 edema w/o dx=👎 tx
- cfDNA MGS (Karius) can dx
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
Teaching points
- 🐭 typhus transmitted by fleas (& transplant)
- Cases 📈 in Texas
- Death of diffuse 🫁 , 🧠 edema w/o dx=👎 tx
- cfDNA MGS (Karius) can dx
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
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"Politics is not the nursery."
www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it
www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it
This Is It
Obedience and Support are the Same
www.unpopularfront.news
September 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"Politics is not the nursery."
www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it
www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it
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Once almost eradicated from Texas, flea borne typhus is making a comeback in the United States. Texas has one of the highest rates of typhus in the country.
Read More👉 www.tpr.org/bioscience-medi...
Read More👉 www.tpr.org/bioscience-medi...
September 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Once almost eradicated from Texas, flea borne typhus is making a comeback in the United States. Texas has one of the highest rates of typhus in the country.
Read More👉 www.tpr.org/bioscience-medi...
Read More👉 www.tpr.org/bioscience-medi...
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For us ID doctors, the CDC has been a rock. Data, guidelines, surveillance, travel advice -- all there, vetted by experts, referenced, reliable. Perfect? No. But watching its dismantling now breaks my heart. Some thoughts: blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Watching the Chaos at the CDC -- with Sadness and Alarm
Throughout my career as an infectious diseases doctor, the CDC has been a rock-solid source. Need reliable data on an outbreak? The CDC. Need thoughtful, evidence-based guidelines? The CDC. Need an au...
blogs.jwatch.org
August 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
For us ID doctors, the CDC has been a rock. Data, guidelines, surveillance, travel advice -- all there, vetted by experts, referenced, reliable. Perfect? No. But watching its dismantling now breaks my heart. Some thoughts: blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
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MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
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RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
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JUST IN: HHS shuts down BARDA mRNA vaccine program
Scrapping the fastest platform we have is a reckless move rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of vaccinology. No respiratory vaccine blocks all infections. mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
Scrapping the fastest platform we have is a reckless move rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of vaccinology. No respiratory vaccine blocks all infections. mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
August 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
JUST IN: HHS shuts down BARDA mRNA vaccine program
Scrapping the fastest platform we have is a reckless move rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of vaccinology. No respiratory vaccine blocks all infections. mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
Scrapping the fastest platform we have is a reckless move rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of vaccinology. No respiratory vaccine blocks all infections. mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
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For decades, fairness has been the guiding principle of the American organ transplant system. But today, nearly 20% of the time, officials ignore strict rules meant to ensure that donated organs are offered to the patients who need them most, a New York Times investigation found. nyti.ms/3XlqVK1
February 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
For decades, fairness has been the guiding principle of the American organ transplant system. But today, nearly 20% of the time, officials ignore strict rules meant to ensure that donated organs are offered to the patients who need them most, a New York Times investigation found. nyti.ms/3XlqVK1
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Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.
February 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.
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Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?
February 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?
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This is, by far, the best and most complete description of what is currently happening to biomedical research in the United States. Derek Lowe normally writes an incredibly level-headed column on drug discovery in academia and the private sector. www.science.org/content/blog...
Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
www.science.org
February 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is, by far, the best and most complete description of what is currently happening to biomedical research in the United States. Derek Lowe normally writes an incredibly level-headed column on drug discovery in academia and the private sector. www.science.org/content/blog...
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Everyone seems to be framing Trump's freeze on federal grants as a Constitutional fight over powers of the purse & whether presidents can disregard Congressional appropriations. It is that. But also at stake is the fundamental validity of government contracts! I see much less discussion on this... 🧵
January 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Everyone seems to be framing Trump's freeze on federal grants as a Constitutional fight over powers of the purse & whether presidents can disregard Congressional appropriations. It is that. But also at stake is the fundamental validity of government contracts! I see much less discussion on this... 🧵
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Love that it’s normal to analyze our president like he’s a raccoon
I can see the fear.
He is afraid, with good reason, that he’ll be blamed.
Trump is actually very easily spooked. And when he reacts this bizarrely, and falls back on the low-hanging fruit of racism as cover, it’s because he’s scared.
He is afraid, with good reason, that he’ll be blamed.
Trump is actually very easily spooked. And when he reacts this bizarrely, and falls back on the low-hanging fruit of racism as cover, it’s because he’s scared.
REPORTER: I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash.
TRUMP: Because I have common sense, ok? And unfortunately a lot of people don't
TRUMP: Because I have common sense, ok? And unfortunately a lot of people don't
January 31, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Love that it’s normal to analyze our president like he’s a raccoon
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Had never seen this before I'm crying. How does it just keep getting worse. Bro cooking nothing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=59NV...
RZA unironically creates a terrible beat for a Guitar Center promo
YouTube video by Nicholas Wilson
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January 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Had never seen this before I'm crying. How does it just keep getting worse. Bro cooking nothing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=59NV...
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Call the Capitol Switchboard. Tell your friends to do the same. Speak to your Senator. VOTE NO. (202) 224-3121 www.cbsnews.com/news/doctors...
Over 17,000 doctors sign letter urging Senate to reject RFK Jr. as health secretary
Thousands of doctors are calling on the Senate to reject Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., saying he is "actively dangerous."
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January 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Call the Capitol Switchboard. Tell your friends to do the same. Speak to your Senator. VOTE NO. (202) 224-3121 www.cbsnews.com/news/doctors...
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Nice story about a great camp near Duluth founded for kids with HIV is for sale. Because there aren't enough kids who need it anymore.
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why.
Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.
www.startribune.com
December 27, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Nice story about a great camp near Duluth founded for kids with HIV is for sale. Because there aren't enough kids who need it anymore.
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
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Infectious diseases is not only about the latest trials and big cohort studies.
So, here is a list of my favourite pieces that you might missed from The Lancet Infectious Diseases in 2024 that reflect on the field at large, in no specific order.
#IDSky
So, here is a list of my favourite pieces that you might missed from The Lancet Infectious Diseases in 2024 that reflect on the field at large, in no specific order.
#IDSky
December 20, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Infectious diseases is not only about the latest trials and big cohort studies.
So, here is a list of my favourite pieces that you might missed from The Lancet Infectious Diseases in 2024 that reflect on the field at large, in no specific order.
#IDSky
So, here is a list of my favourite pieces that you might missed from The Lancet Infectious Diseases in 2024 that reflect on the field at large, in no specific order.
#IDSky
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A bill to break up UnitedHealth, CVS, Cigna and more has been introduced by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators and representatives.
The legislation would force insurers to sell their pharmacy businesses.
It aims to combat PBMs, pharma middlemen who drive up costs.
The legislation would force insurers to sell their pharmacy businesses.
It aims to combat PBMs, pharma middlemen who drive up costs.
December 12, 2024 at 3:44 PM
A bill to break up UnitedHealth, CVS, Cigna and more has been introduced by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators and representatives.
The legislation would force insurers to sell their pharmacy businesses.
It aims to combat PBMs, pharma middlemen who drive up costs.
The legislation would force insurers to sell their pharmacy businesses.
It aims to combat PBMs, pharma middlemen who drive up costs.
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/