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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it (or post it) and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain (seems relevant most days on this app… especially with medical news)
Brett Daniel, MD MHA retweeted
Statement by @mtosterholm @CIDRAP today in response to the White House Executive Order on childhood vaccines
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Aug. 10, 2026
Statement from Dr. Michael Osterholm, Executive Director, Vaccine Integrity Project, In Response to Today’s White House Executive Order on Vaccines
Parents should continue to rely on the evidence-based immunization recommendations developed by trusted medical and public health experts, including the American Academy of Pediatrics. Today's Executive Order does not change the underlying scientific evidence supporting childhood immunization. That data has been built over decades - through large clinical trials, real-world effectiveness studies and continuous safety monitoring involving millions of children.
Parents deserve clear, evidence-based guidance about how to protect their children, not competing recommendations issued through political processes. When families receive conflicting messages, confidence in vaccination suffers, and children ultimately bear the consequences.
Today's Executive Order does not substitute the longstanding process through which vaccine recommendations have historically been developed - an independent, transparent evaluation of safety, effectiveness and disease burden by scientific experts.
We encourage parents to discuss questions about vaccination with their pediatrician or other trusted healthcare provider and to continue following the evidence-based recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics and other leading medical societies.
Brett Daniel, MD MHA retweeted
It’s hard to explain and fathom the potential risks of AI designing and then building entirely new viruses
In this new work, scientists created brand new viruses using AI. They say it’s ok bc they “only infect bacteria”
Let’s be clear *IF* a new virus is released that could broadly destroy bacteria and IF it could spread well while doing so, the potential catastrophes to our ecosystems could be large.
Viruses don’t need to directly infect humans to potentially destroy humans…though of course the new work shows how relatively well and relatively easy it will be to create new human viruses.
The future is increasingly playing with fire.
nytimes.com/2026/08/06/scien…
Brett Daniel, MD MHA retweeted
Sudden cardiac arrest in athletes may be attributable to cardiac and noncardiac causes. With diagnosis and treatment, a return to play may be reasonable. Prevention, emergency planning, and shared decision making are key.
Learn more in the Review Article “Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Athletes” by Rachel Lampert, MD, and Kimberly G. Harmon, MD (@DrKimHarmon), from @yalemed and the University of Washington (@UW): nej.md/3ZaAxI7
Brett Daniel, MD MHA retweeted
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy carries some risk of sudden death but it is hard to predict who is at high-risk for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). Enter multimodal A.I.
nature.com/articles/s44161-0…
Brett Daniel, MD MHA retweeted
No more dark afternoons in the winter.
No more losing an hour of sleep every spring.
RT if you agree that we should end the painfully inconvenient ritual of changing our clocks twice a year and make Daylight Saving Time permanent.
Brett Daniel, MD MHA retweeted
If you could come up with a new name for chatGPT, what name would you choose?!
Retweeting this message is appreciated, I want to hear as many names as possible.
Best name gets eternal fame! 🏆
#chatgpt
#DamarHamlin has a lot of good left to do in this world. CPR and early defibrillation hopefully saved him from his cardiac arrest. You can save a life, too. Sign up for a local CPR class. I would not have survived my arrest while on a jog without my wife’s early CPR.
Seeing/hearing this as well. Much still to learn about this virus, our immune response, the variants, and our tests. If someone in your family is positive and you have same sx but a neg test… play it safe. nytimes.com/2022/06/02/well/…
Testing is confusing for all of us. Omicron has a different timeline. I found this extremely helpful. Few nuggets: Rapid antigen is the best test for post-infection “clearance”. Might take a few days to be positive, symptoms might start before you are +.
Are at-home antigen tests the same as the rapid antigen tests you get at CVS? Are all the rapid tests equally reliable? @ASlavitt meets with @michaelmina_lab to answer your biggest testing questions.
Listen: link.chtbl.com/InTheBubble?s…
Eye-opening thread and breakdown from one of our most trusted experts. 1% of US population likely being infected every day right now. Wow!
Man, this is such an interesting debate about moving away from routine testing of asymptomatic players that are vaccinated. I am not convinced Omicron is less severe, just that now we have antibodies to fight it to some degree. Hope they are right. washingtonpost.com/sports/20…
Healthcare colleagues, if you have not listened to @trvrb breakdown Omicron and the immunogenicity of COVID, please take the time to listen to this educational hour. I feel much more aware and informed locally and globally.
Is two doses "good enough" against #Omicron? Short answer: no. Find out why with @trvrb and @ASlavitt.
Listen: link.chtbl.com/InTheBubble?s…
#GetBoosted
Brett Daniel, MD MHA retweeted
Mental health is no less important than physical health. I encourage you to read the advisory, share it with friends and colleagues, and consider what you can do to create a world where young people can thrive. #YouthMentalHealth. surgeongeneral.gov/ymh [7/7]
Health-care workers aren't quitting because they can’t handle their jobs… before Covid-19 many of them struggled to bridge the gap between the noble ideals of their profession and the realities of its business. The pandemic simply pushed them past the limits of that compromise.
🚨During surges, much is written about healthcare workers burning out. But they often get by on adrenaline only to find, once ICUs are empty, that so are they.
In the US, 1/5 have left. More plan too. I wrote about the hemorrhage happening right now. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archi…
Some of my favorite graphs highlighting the duality of our healthcare finance reality. Docs get caught in the middle of the tug-of-war between productivity (ops/finance) and panel management (pop health) in most places these days with mixed environments. Things I ponder.
Brett Daniel, MD MHA retweeted
Five CIOs, a COO and a CMIO chart a course for the complex demands of data exchange, and discuss the technologies and strategies they plan to focus on in the next five years. #Interoperability
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This is amazing (if your sense of humor aligns). Well done @FamilyGuyonFOX
Watch the new #FamilyGuy Short! Stewie and Brian travel inside Peter’s body to explain how vaccines work.
Have questions about the COVID-19 vaccines? Visit GetVaccineAnswers.org for the most accurate and timely facts so we can all get back to the moments we love and miss most.
Brett Daniel, MD MHA retweeted
As health care workers continue to serve on the front lines of this crisis and the Delta surge, the #COVID19 vaccine has never been more important. Patients are encouraged to read the FDA announcement and speak with their providers about the vaccines. blog.swedish.org/swe-covid-v…
“A huge amount of this suffering is preventable.” Powerful video from the frontlines of this wave.
Powerful video from our friend at @ProvHealth in Oregon. Thx for showing what it's like in ICUs:
Exhausted health care workers call delta surge ‘hardest time’ of the pan... youtu.be/Rb_JyvM6idQ via @YouTube @Swedish