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"Our schedule would be full of children with diarrhea and fever." -- Genon Wicina, MD, of @ccmartinhealth, discussing #rotavirus before there was a vaccine. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/spotlight/rota…
What we heard this week at @medpagetoday 🧵 "We are all over it." -- @CDCDirector, speaking of her agency's and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's work to protect the public from #avianflu. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
"The simple question intervention doubled vaccine uptake and the messaging intervention nearly tripled vaccine uptake." -- Robert Rodriguez, MD, of @UCSF, discussing interventions that boosted flu vaccine uptake. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
"I am very disappointed." -- @KottonNelson, of @MassGeneralNews, on the low percentage of #immunocompromised patients who received an updated #COVIDvaccine. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
"We really have a very confusing, complex black box of problems." -- Catherine Diefenbach, MD, of @nyulangone, on the complexities of knowing which immunocompromised patients should get a COVID vaccine booster. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
"I would not expect an additional 1% of a population getting the flu shot to actually show meaningfully clinical outcome differences." -- Mark Fendrick, MD, discussing electronic nudges for #influenza vaccine uptake. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
What we heard this week at @medpagetoday 🧵 "It's not just some little fever or some little rash. It's much more severe, and it's much more dangerous." -- Sarah Lim, MD, of @mnhealth, on the recent rise in #measles cases. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
What we heard this week at @medpagetoday 🧵 "It is important to note that this is an extremely rare phenomenon." -- Apurv Soni, MD, PhD, of @UMassChan, on cases of false-positive rapid COVID tests. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
"Imagine if there were no Zoom, no telework, and the highly paid, politically powerful executives in finance and high-tech were required to come into the office every day." -- @drdavidmichaels, of @GWpublichealth. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
According to a scathing analysis, the U.S. regulatory, political, and legal systems failed to prevent thousands of deaths among the nation's essential workers during the #COVID19 #pandemic. @MedPageID bit.ly/48arbOP
What we heard this week at @medpagetoday 🧵 "Doctors aren't given the tools they need." -- @CMangurian, of @UCSFMedicine, about why some physicians don't prescribe nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (#Paxlovid) for people at high risk for severe COVID-19. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
What we heard this week at @medpagetoday 🧵 "We just ignored them and ignored their plight." -- @zalaly, of the @STLOUISVA, discussing how science ignored other post-viral symptoms before #longCOVID. @MedPageID @jeremyfaust medpagetoday.com/opinion/faustf…
"#Measles itself is not a trivial illness." -- @worenst, from @EmoryVaccineCtr, discussing recent outbreaks. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/special-report…
"It does not take much for people to not get PrEP or stay on PrEP." -- Matthew Adkins, DO, of @GrantFamMed, on findings that even small increases in out-of-pocket cost could lead to patients' abandonment of #HIV #PrEP. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/hivaids/hivaid…
Some #longCOVID symptoms were more likely for persons with multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, or spinal cord injury, a retrospective cohort study found. @MedPageNeuro @MedPageID bit.ly/4aPSHn0
"There's been a lot of speculation on how many kids have symptoms after COVID." -- Elizabeth Schlaudecker, MD, MPH, of @CincyChildrens, commenting on the rate of post-COVID-19 conditions in kids. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
"Our estimate of $70 billion in inpatient costs for 2 years of the pandemic is more than double the U.S. investments made to develop vaccines." -- @kandicekapinos of @RANDCorporation. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
Hospital admission rates were far higher for #RSV than for the Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2 or influenza A/B in children presenting at Swedish EDs from August 2021 to September 2022, @Pontus_Hedberg reported. @MedPageID bit.ly/3veaLHe
"Everybody is a little bit anxious, and they are watching this." -- William Schaffner, MD, of @VUMC_ID, on a study published in February showing mammal-to-mammal transmission of highly pathogenic avian #influenza in Spain. @KristinaMFiore @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/special-report…
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What we heard this week at @medpagetoday 🧵 "We are all over it." -- @CDCDirector, speaking of her agency's and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's work to protect the public from #avianflu. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
"The simple question intervention doubled vaccine uptake and the messaging intervention nearly tripled vaccine uptake." -- Robert Rodriguez, MD, of @UCSF, discussing interventions that boosted flu vaccine uptake. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
"I am very disappointed." -- @KottonNelson, of @MassGeneralNews, on the low percentage of #immunocompromised patients who received an updated #COVIDvaccine. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
"We really have a very confusing, complex black box of problems." -- Catherine Diefenbach, MD, of @nyulangone, on the complexities of knowing which immunocompromised patients should get a COVID vaccine booster. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
"I would not expect an additional 1% of a population getting the flu shot to actually show meaningfully clinical outcome differences." -- Mark Fendrick, MD, discussing electronic nudges for #influenza vaccine uptake. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
What we heard this week at @medpagetoday 🧵 "It's not just some little fever or some little rash. It's much more severe, and it's much more dangerous." -- Sarah Lim, MD, of @mnhealth, on the recent rise in #measles cases. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
What we heard this week at @medpagetoday 🧵 "It is important to note that this is an extremely rare phenomenon." -- Apurv Soni, MD, PhD, of @UMassChan, on cases of false-positive rapid COVID tests. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
"Imagine if there were no Zoom, no telework, and the highly paid, politically powerful executives in finance and high-tech were required to come into the office every day." -- @drdavidmichaels, of @GWpublichealth. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
According to a scathing analysis, the U.S. regulatory, political, and legal systems failed to prevent thousands of deaths among the nation's essential workers during the #COVID19 #pandemic. @MedPageID bit.ly/48arbOP
What we heard this week at @medpagetoday 🧵 "Doctors aren't given the tools they need." -- @CMangurian, of @UCSFMedicine, about why some physicians don't prescribe nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (#Paxlovid) for people at high risk for severe COVID-19. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
What we heard this week at @medpagetoday 🧵 "We just ignored them and ignored their plight." -- @zalaly, of the @STLOUISVA, discussing how science ignored other post-viral symptoms before #longCOVID. @MedPageID @jeremyfaust medpagetoday.com/opinion/faustf…
"#Measles itself is not a trivial illness." -- @worenst, from @EmoryVaccineCtr, discussing recent outbreaks. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/special-report…
"It does not take much for people to not get PrEP or stay on PrEP." -- Matthew Adkins, DO, of @GrantFamMed, on findings that even small increases in out-of-pocket cost could lead to patients' abandonment of #HIV #PrEP. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/hivaids/hivaid…
Some #longCOVID symptoms were more likely for persons with multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, or spinal cord injury, a retrospective cohort study found. @MedPageNeuro @MedPageID bit.ly/4aPSHn0
"There's been a lot of speculation on how many kids have symptoms after COVID." -- Elizabeth Schlaudecker, MD, MPH, of @CincyChildrens, commenting on the rate of post-COVID-19 conditions in kids. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
"Our estimate of $70 billion in inpatient costs for 2 years of the pandemic is more than double the U.S. investments made to develop vaccines." -- @kandicekapinos of @RANDCorporation. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
Hospital admission rates were far higher for #RSV than for the Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2 or influenza A/B in children presenting at Swedish EDs from August 2021 to September 2022, @Pontus_Hedberg reported. @MedPageID bit.ly/3veaLHe
"Everybody is a little bit anxious, and they are watching this." -- William Schaffner, MD, of @VUMC_ID, on a study published in February showing mammal-to-mammal transmission of highly pathogenic avian #influenza in Spain. @KristinaMFiore @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/special-report…
"The main 'aha' moment for me was the realization that the toll of disease and disability is larger in the post-acute phase than the acute phase of illness." -- @zalaly, of @WUSTLmed, comparing #longflu with #longCOVID. @MedPageID medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
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