Amy Dora

Infectious Diseases doctor. Self declared Angeleno and YIMBY. she/her.

[CIR/SEIU @cirseiu]

BREAKING 🚨

We have reached a tentative agreement with Mount Sinai.

More details to come.

#NYCDocsStrike

https://t.co/KjTTyxX4im

[Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener]

FDA says it’s ending ban on gay men donating blood.

But FDA continues to ban anyone on PrEP from donating — a huge # of gay men. So if you take PrEP — ie, very low HIV risk — you’re banned.

FDA’s solution if you want to donate: Stop taking PrEP for 3 months & > your HIV risk.🤯

[UConn ID @UConn_ID]

UCONN Infectious Disease Fellowship Program has an open position starting July 1, 2023 in Farmington, CT. Ours is a well-established 2-year ACGME accredited fellowship program with outstanding faculty at four teaching sites. (1/2) #IDTwitter #idmatch

[Clement Lee, MD, MSc @ClementLeeMD]

With RSV season now formally upon us, let’s learn a little bit about the virus! Here are 10 facts you may not know about RSV…

#PedsTwitter #MedTwitter

[Shematologist, MD @acweyand]

When I was in residency a coworker came to work with very mild cold symptoms (just like 8 million other physicians have done)

Turns out it was RSV.

Two babies in the NICU got it and one ended up on ECMO.

What causes sniffles in an adult can be deadly in little ones.

[Nithya Raman @nithyavraman]

In case you aren’t caught up on everything that’s been going on with LA County’s Sheriff, Alex Villanueva, here’s a summary of his first term.

(thread)

[Shematologist, MD @acweyand]

In case you missed it the US has been subtweeted today by the WHO, Canada, France, Spain, Norway, and Denmark.

[Jennifer Gunter @DrJenGunter]

Don’t try to tell me of all people that 21 weeks is viability.

[Chelsea Byers @Chelsealeebee]

I’m excited to announce that I’m running for West Hollywood City Council.

West Hollywood is home & I love this City. Our campaign is about caring for the community, and cultivating the resources it takes to keep us all thriving. 🤎

https://t.co/3IGq2mDoej

[Carla Cevasco, PhD @Cevasco_Carla]

You may be hearing the argument that before the rise of modern commercial infant formula, babies all ate breastmilk and everything was great. As a historian of infant feeding, let me tell you why that’s not true.

[Lady Glaucomflecken (she/her) @LGlaucomflecken]

That cardiac arrest didn’t happen in my body, but it very much happened to me, too. Patients are not cases. They are people, who love and are loved by other people. Their lives are often intertwined, impossible to try to extricate into separate bins of “patient” & “not patient.”

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Republicans say they didn’t vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson because she is “soft on crime.”

I can’t believe I am saying this but I agree with Republicans.

We CANNOT have have a Supreme Court justice who is soft on crime.

A thread.

[Katelyn Jetelina @dr_kkjetelina]

This rollercoaster that parents under 5 (including me) are forced to ride is an absolute, unacceptable disaster. Pfizer and the FDA need to get it together so the public knows what the f is going on (and why) so we can continue to be confident in this process.

[Dr. Theresa Chapple has moved to bluesky @Theresa_Chapple]

Forget Feb 14th. I'm waiting with baited breath for Feb 15th. I cant wait to listen in to the data presented to the FDA on the Pfizer vaccine for 0-4 year olds.

[Dr. Lisa Iannattone @lisa_iannattone]

LIVING WITH COVID, a 🧵

Since covid isn’t going away (thanks to a series of poor choices over the last 2 years), it’s time to brainstorm what a real exit strategy might look like because “living with covid means accepting more deaths” doesn’t work for me. We can do better.

[Ariela Marshall MD @AMarshallMD]

Just fixed occupation from “unemployed” to “Mother - cares for 14 year old w chronic medical needs” in a new patients’ file.
No one should negate that role.
#MedTwitter