January 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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BREAKING NEWS
At last, in the UK, we now have official guidance on the use of respirators (FFP3) vs Fluid Resistant Surgical Masks (FRSM) which has been prepared SPECIFICALLY FOR THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR.
🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷
BREAKING NEWS
At last, in the UK, we now have official guidance on the use of respirators (FFP3) vs Fluid Resistant Surgical Masks (FRSM) which has been prepared SPECIFICALLY FOR THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR.
🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷
August 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
HURRAH! #episky
Excellent news as Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister has said his government has STOPPED a study funded by the Trump administration that aimed to evaluate possible side effects of the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine like autism or dermatitis despite NO research evidence suggesting it does this 🧵 #HepB
February 25, 2026 at 8:16 AM
HURRAH! #episky
🧵🧪 idsky episky microsky public health
TIL that one reason raw milk is having a comeback is a lot of people don't know what pasteurization is. They think it's adding "chemicals" not a rapid heat treatment
November 16, 2024 at 9:47 PM
🧵🧪 idsky episky microsky public health
Hoo boy. 🧪 #episky
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🚨RFK Jr's DANGEROUS AUTISM CLAIMS🚨
Health Secretary RFK Jr. made false claims that autism is "preventable" and caused by "environmental toxins," directly contradicting researchers within his own agency and drawing immediate criticism from medical experts.
#RFKJr #AutismMisinformation
🚨RFK Jr's DANGEROUS AUTISM CLAIMS🚨
Health Secretary RFK Jr. made false claims that autism is "preventable" and caused by "environmental toxins," directly contradicting researchers within his own agency and drawing immediate criticism from medical experts.
#RFKJr #AutismMisinformation
April 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Hoo boy. 🧪 #episky
If you are ready to advocate to your representatives (or friends and families) about the economic value of NIH funded research, you can check your state at www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
January 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
My first post on BlueSky, I could not access the same handle as my X (someone hacked into that one):
So it's @peterhotez for X and @peterhotezmdphd for BlueSky
I'm a pediatric-vaccine scientist based in Houston TX at our Texas Medical Center
So it's @peterhotez for X and @peterhotezmdphd for BlueSky
I'm a pediatric-vaccine scientist based in Houston TX at our Texas Medical Center
April 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Welcome to newbies transferring from toxic sites. Which of you should I be following? #academicsky #episky 🧪 #healthpolicy #medsky
November 8, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Welcome to newbies transferring from toxic sites. Which of you should I be following? #academicsky #episky 🧪 #healthpolicy #medsky
It shouldn’t be this heavy… EpiSky StatsSky Academia
March 5, 2024 at 11:52 AM
It shouldn’t be this heavy… EpiSky StatsSky Academia
Woooooooo ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Someone’s done it - archived the entire datasets of the US CDC before the orange toddler could destroy them.
#episky #medsky #academicsky
Someone’s done it - archived the entire datasets of the US CDC before the orange toddler could destroy them.
#episky #medsky #academicsky
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
February 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Woooooooo ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Someone’s done it - archived the entire datasets of the US CDC before the orange toddler could destroy them.
#episky #medsky #academicsky
Someone’s done it - archived the entire datasets of the US CDC before the orange toddler could destroy them.
#episky #medsky #academicsky
The great pilgrimage.
#EpiSky
#EpiSky
When an epidemiologists visits London, they must, by rule, go to Broad Street, see the pump, & have a pint or two at John Snow Pub.
A BS in microbiology, MPH in epidemiology, PhD in health policy, & postdoc in occupational epidemiology have all led up to this moment.
A BS in microbiology, MPH in epidemiology, PhD in health policy, & postdoc in occupational epidemiology have all led up to this moment.
November 30, 2024 at 4:27 PM
The great pilgrimage.
#EpiSky
#EpiSky
Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
PRAMS Shuttered for Good
In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Was suppressing COVID-19 such a crazy idea? Anthony Costello says no. 🧪 #episky
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
www.bmj.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Was suppressing COVID-19 such a crazy idea? Anthony Costello says no. 🧪 #episky
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
February 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Here's my take on #COVID-19 (the disease not the pandemic).
It's not what you think it is ...
A thread 👇
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It's not what you think it is ...
A thread 👇
1/23
November 22, 2024 at 8:48 PM
This is horrific. Official report from Canadian public health group contains made-up science. #medsky #episky
‘Potentially dangerous’: health experts call Alberta covid report ‘an attempt to rewrite history’ | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1097837...
Global News | Breaking, Latest News and Video for Canada
Globalnews.ca – Watch and read Canada’s Breaking news plus Business, Health, Politics and World News
Globalnews.ca
January 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Fabulous article! #episky
This is a war on science: Trump and Smith!
"It is an ideological war on the accumulated sum of social knowledge itself—on science, on expertise, on the concept of objective truth as a social inheritance. Fascism and dictatorial rule do not simply defund public health."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
"It is an ideological war on the accumulated sum of social knowledge itself—on science, on expertise, on the concept of objective truth as a social inheritance. Fascism and dictatorial rule do not simply defund public health."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Science is not neutral: The rubella vaccine and the attack on public health
Stanley Plotkin, the virologist whose RA 27/3 rubella vaccine has immunized hundreds of millions of children worldwide, has reacted to the ongoing dismantling of public health with undisguised despair...
www.wsws.org
April 5, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Fabulous article! #episky
Phasing out NIH’s HIV clinical guidelines is flat-out immoral and unethical.
These guidelines drive early diagnosis, ART initiation, and viral suppression—82% linked to care within 30 days, 69% virally suppressed by 6 months.
Removing them puts millions of lives at risk.
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These guidelines drive early diagnosis, ART initiation, and viral suppression—82% linked to care within 30 days, 69% virally suppressed by 6 months.
Removing them puts millions of lives at risk.
wapo.st/3FQovhf
Administration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines
The National Institutes of Health will phase out its support of the clinical practice guidelines that advise doctors how to diagnose and treat HIV.
wapo.st
June 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
hell yeah my first peer-reviewed first-author manuscript finally published*
*still going thru the proofing/typesetting process
tl;dr - lead exposure is bad, environmental injustice (marginalized groups getting exposed to higher amounts of things like lead we already know are bad) is bad
*still going thru the proofing/typesetting process
tl;dr - lead exposure is bad, environmental injustice (marginalized groups getting exposed to higher amounts of things like lead we already know are bad) is bad
Racialized experience, biomarkers of lead exposure, and later-life cognition: a mediation analysis
Abstract. We evaluated the role of the neurotoxicant lead (Pb) in mediating racial disparities in later-life cognition in 1,085 non-Hispanic Black and 2,83
academic.oup.com
July 21, 2024 at 3:25 AM
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November 11, 2023 at 1:58 PM
This is why you can’t use science to “make the proof”. #episky
This is what used to be called ‘testing into compliance’ and it would get your company fined, shut down, and in court when the FDA was run by competent people.
pharmadigests.com/why-is-testi...
pharmadigests.com/why-is-testi...
Why is Testing into Compliance Prohibited? - Pharma Digests
“Testing into Compliance” — A Red Flag for FDA Inspectors In pharmaceutical manufacturing, data integrity is non-negotiable. Yet some companies still engage in the risky practice of testing into compl...
pharmadigests.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
This is why you can’t use science to “make the proof”. #episky