Sigal Yawetz
@sigal-md.bsky.social
Brigham and Women's Infectious Diseases physician. ID in MFM. HIV. #Celtics fan married to Lakers fan. Opinions my own. #IDSky #MedSky #ScienceSky 🏃🏽♀️🦮
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JD Vance is deciding to take a nice relaxing ski trip this weekend. Many of the staff at the resort (including my coworker's husband) are calling out of work in protest.
I know there's a lot going on right now, but if you can support them, it would help them a lot.
www.gofundme.com/f/sugarbush-...
I know there's a lot going on right now, but if you can support them, it would help them a lot.
www.gofundme.com/f/sugarbush-...
Thank you for donating to Sugarbush Workers Need Your Support to Protest
<div>We are fundraising to support employees who will walk out of work at the Sugarbush Ski Resort on March 1st and 2nd, to protest the politics of JD Vance who plans to ski at the Resort then. Your s...
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March 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
JD Vance is deciding to take a nice relaxing ski trip this weekend. Many of the staff at the resort (including my coworker's husband) are calling out of work in protest.
I know there's a lot going on right now, but if you can support them, it would help them a lot.
www.gofundme.com/f/sugarbush-...
I know there's a lot going on right now, but if you can support them, it would help them a lot.
www.gofundme.com/f/sugarbush-...
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ESCMID has a new study group for urinary tract infections! If you are studying or teaching #UTI, let's put our minds together & go 🚀
www.escmid.org/esguti/
🙏🏼 to M Lafaurie & @merellambregts.bsky.social for getting this going! @escmid.bsky.social
#IDSky #Clinmicro #ImmunoSky #MedSky #EpiSky #UTISky
www.escmid.org/esguti/
🙏🏼 to M Lafaurie & @merellambregts.bsky.social for getting this going! @escmid.bsky.social
#IDSky #Clinmicro #ImmunoSky #MedSky #EpiSky #UTISky
February 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
ESCMID has a new study group for urinary tract infections! If you are studying or teaching #UTI, let's put our minds together & go 🚀
www.escmid.org/esguti/
🙏🏼 to M Lafaurie & @merellambregts.bsky.social for getting this going! @escmid.bsky.social
#IDSky #Clinmicro #ImmunoSky #MedSky #EpiSky #UTISky
www.escmid.org/esguti/
🙏🏼 to M Lafaurie & @merellambregts.bsky.social for getting this going! @escmid.bsky.social
#IDSky #Clinmicro #ImmunoSky #MedSky #EpiSky #UTISky
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If you are one of the #CDC #HHS #FDA #NIH employees who have learned today that your employment is being abruptly ended, we want to hear from you. @altcdc.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...
Are you affected by firings at federal health agencies?
Have you been affected by firings at federal health agencies? @statnews would like to hear from you.
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February 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
If you are one of the #CDC #HHS #FDA #NIH employees who have learned today that your employment is being abruptly ended, we want to hear from you. @altcdc.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...
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A #measles outbreak has infected 24 ppl in TX, most <18yo, all unvax’d & NINE are hosp’d. Measles is very contagious—we will see more cases. This is completely preventable & is a result of misinfo. & anti-vax sentiments that are causing parents to make poor decisions. Vaccines work. #BlueSky #MedSky
February 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
A #measles outbreak has infected 24 ppl in TX, most <18yo, all unvax’d & NINE are hosp’d. Measles is very contagious—we will see more cases. This is completely preventable & is a result of misinfo. & anti-vax sentiments that are causing parents to make poor decisions. Vaccines work. #BlueSky #MedSky
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The one thing that brings me hope on this very dark day for our nation's health is this:
The most important factor in a patient's decision to get vaccinated is a strong recommendation from a health care provider who they trust.
#pedsky #medsky #idsky #pedsidsky
The most important factor in a patient's decision to get vaccinated is a strong recommendation from a health care provider who they trust.
#pedsky #medsky #idsky #pedsidsky
February 14, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The one thing that brings me hope on this very dark day for our nation's health is this:
The most important factor in a patient's decision to get vaccinated is a strong recommendation from a health care provider who they trust.
#pedsky #medsky #idsky #pedsidsky
The most important factor in a patient's decision to get vaccinated is a strong recommendation from a health care provider who they trust.
#pedsky #medsky #idsky #pedsidsky
#HHS: at 10, son chose Louis Pasteur for dress-up project “person changing lives for the better”
10YO explains how thru eliminating germs involved in beer fermentation Pasteur saved generations to come from food-borne illness; then saved boy with 1st rabies #vaccine
♥️ #science #medicine #evidence
10YO explains how thru eliminating germs involved in beer fermentation Pasteur saved generations to come from food-borne illness; then saved boy with 1st rabies #vaccine
♥️ #science #medicine #evidence
February 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
February 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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You can find em at nnptc.org, we saved em
nnptc
nnptc.org
February 1, 2025 at 4:08 AM
You can find em at nnptc.org, we saved em
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Covering Trump's second term and its implications for the fields of public health, science, drug regulation and health care is a hugely important job. @statnews.com's looking for someone to join our team. Great opportunity here! www.statnews.com/careers/wash...
STAT, Washington Correspondent
Location: Washington, D.C. About STAT In November 2015, STAT was launched as a global media company focused on health, medicine, and life sciences. Since
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January 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Covering Trump's second term and its implications for the fields of public health, science, drug regulation and health care is a hugely important job. @statnews.com's looking for someone to join our team. Great opportunity here! www.statnews.com/careers/wash...
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RFK Jr. is thinking about disbanding vaccine advisory groups like NVAC and ACIP altogether. This dovetails with Trump’s cancellation of February’s National Vaccine Advisory Council meeting. These groups constantly monitor and evaluate the safety and efficacy of established and new vaccines.
January 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
RFK Jr. is thinking about disbanding vaccine advisory groups like NVAC and ACIP altogether. This dovetails with Trump’s cancellation of February’s National Vaccine Advisory Council meeting. These groups constantly monitor and evaluate the safety and efficacy of established and new vaccines.
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The suspension of PEPFAR is not acceptable, not even for a moment. You cannot *threaten* taking someone’s HIV meds away, much less actually do it. The HIV medical community cannot stand for it. Shall we protest? @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @idsainfo.bsky.social @paulsaxmd.bsky.social
January 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The suspension of PEPFAR is not acceptable, not even for a moment. You cannot *threaten* taking someone’s HIV meds away, much less actually do it. The HIV medical community cannot stand for it. Shall we protest? @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @idsainfo.bsky.social @paulsaxmd.bsky.social
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NIH is the engine that drives most medical research in the US. Its discoveries are why your relative with cancer is alive. Why HIV is no longer fatal. This is chaos for the sake of chaos.
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
NIH is the engine that drives most medical research in the US. Its discoveries are why your relative with cancer is alive. Why HIV is no longer fatal. This is chaos for the sake of chaos.
To all #IDSky and #MedSky #LACounty area friends and colleagues: we’re watching the [magnitude of the] fires and destruction with disbelief and heartbreak and are thinking of you, your families, neighbors, patients. Hard to comprehend the impact or know how to support/help from afar. Sending 💙
January 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
W/ #brexafemme recall spent last few days trying to get compounded topical antifungal for patient w/resistant genital #Glabrata (failed boric). Futile waste of time. anyone used #Nystatin oint (no vaginal suppositories in 🇺🇸?) vaginally?
I’m close to using much more costly micafungin infusion.
I’m close to using much more costly micafungin infusion.
January 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
W/ #brexafemme recall spent last few days trying to get compounded topical antifungal for patient w/resistant genital #Glabrata (failed boric). Futile waste of time. anyone used #Nystatin oint (no vaginal suppositories in 🇺🇸?) vaginally?
I’m close to using much more costly micafungin infusion.
I’m close to using much more costly micafungin infusion.
No better way to celebrate New Year’s Eve than with a marathon of quarterly #LKA questions (and a survey) knowing so many #IDSky and #MedSky colleagues around the 🇺🇸 are celebrating exactly the same way…
Happy New Year !
🕊️
(I know, I know, but there’s a thrill in last minute races)
Happy New Year !
🕊️
(I know, I know, but there’s a thrill in last minute races)
December 31, 2024 at 5:55 PM
PSA: turns out for a #dog eating even 1 #grape (even at #midnight) can cause irreversible anuria
so we spent last night at doggie ER to barf a large grape (apomorphine) then get zofran for barfing 🤢
Doggie ERs: nice, efficient. Zofran: works. Dog goes to
🛏️ at 2AM & still wakes up early to eat. 🥱😇
so we spent last night at doggie ER to barf a large grape (apomorphine) then get zofran for barfing 🤢
Doggie ERs: nice, efficient. Zofran: works. Dog goes to
🛏️ at 2AM & still wakes up early to eat. 🥱😇
December 22, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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Very thoughtful thread by @angierasmussen.bsky.social on the rarity of severe disease to date. I tend to think the route of infection and quantity of exposure hypothesis makes sense, but it is hard to ignore that the 2 severe cases to day of #H5N1 2.3.4.4b were the same less common genotype
For months now, the CDC has described H5N1 as “mild” compared to prior H5N1 viruses. I disagree—the virus alone doesn’t determine pathogenicity.
I hypothesize that the 2 most critical determinants of H5N1 severity are the host (it’s always the host 🥰) & the route of infection.
I hypothesize that the 2 most critical determinants of H5N1 severity are the host (it’s always the host 🥰) & the route of infection.
December 19, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Very thoughtful thread by @angierasmussen.bsky.social on the rarity of severe disease to date. I tend to think the route of infection and quantity of exposure hypothesis makes sense, but it is hard to ignore that the 2 severe cases to day of #H5N1 2.3.4.4b were the same less common genotype
If #Polio #vaccine is pulled [won’t be], Polio, not eradicated globally, will make a comeback.
Decisions to end #vaccination programs belong in hands of trained public health professionals
Yet damage by #RFK stint already done: it erodes into public trust in #science & vaccine acceptance
#IDSky
Decisions to end #vaccination programs belong in hands of trained public health professionals
Yet damage by #RFK stint already done: it erodes into public trust in #science & vaccine acceptance
#IDSky
I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine
December 14, 2024 at 3:11 PM
#idsky Friday
Is “love you” the new “see you, bye”?
Started getting more and more love at unexpected places from unexpected people
❤️ it but at times a bit awkward (as patients catch themselves casually saying it leaving the room). It’s gratitude, & trust & there’s room for this love in our work
Is “love you” the new “see you, bye”?
Started getting more and more love at unexpected places from unexpected people
❤️ it but at times a bit awkward (as patients catch themselves casually saying it leaving the room). It’s gratitude, & trust & there’s room for this love in our work
December 6, 2024 at 6:09 PM
#idsky Friday
Is “love you” the new “see you, bye”?
Started getting more and more love at unexpected places from unexpected people
❤️ it but at times a bit awkward (as patients catch themselves casually saying it leaving the room). It’s gratitude, & trust & there’s room for this love in our work
Is “love you” the new “see you, bye”?
Started getting more and more love at unexpected places from unexpected people
❤️ it but at times a bit awkward (as patients catch themselves casually saying it leaving the room). It’s gratitude, & trust & there’s room for this love in our work
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🤩 WE ARE SUPER EXCITED to announce our 2025-2027 class of ID Fellows! 🥂
We are thrilled to have matched with such a talented group!
We are thrilled to have matched with such a talented group!
December 4, 2024 at 7:03 PM
🤩 WE ARE SUPER EXCITED to announce our 2025-2027 class of ID Fellows! 🥂
We are thrilled to have matched with such a talented group!
We are thrilled to have matched with such a talented group!