Kelsey Rowe, MD MBA

She/her. @TarushMD wifey. Dog Mom. Vax-Force author. Believes in #HealthcareForAll #LGBTQ+Rights, #BLM, #NoHumanIsIllegal, #ProRoe. Opinions my own.

[Dr. Annie Andrews @AnnieAndrewsMD]

Today RFK Jr. fired every member of ACIP, the CDC committee that makes vaccine recommendations. Children will die. This is not ok. Lindsey Graham enabled this.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

RFK Jr.’s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process.

So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel.

Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

[Dr. Tom Frieden @DrTomFrieden]

17 dedicated doctors, pediatricians, scientists, and parents who served on the Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices (ACIP) were just fired by Secretary Kennedy based on false claims of conflicts of interest – a dangerous and unprecedented action that makes our families less safe.

[Kelsey Rowe, MD MBA @VaxForce]

@acgme @schoenex @UCincyIM @CincyMedPeds @CincyPedsRes Congrats Dr. Schoenberger! 🎉👏🏼

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

In 1900, 30% of deaths in the US occurred in children <5 years old. Now it’s about 1.4%. Vaccines played a big role in reducing childhood mortality.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Reminder: RFK Jr caused a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly children.

RFK Jr and his non-profit visited Samoa to lobby the government and spread misinformation that reduced measles vaccination rates.

He may now lead the top US health agency.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Vaccines are one of the most important inventions humans have ever made. Period.

[Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD @kmpanthagani]

I would love to tell you about the times vaccines prevented me from getting sick, but every time it happens, I don’t notice. I just keep feeling well.

Neither do you.

Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.

[Wendy Hasson MD @WendyHassonMD]

Have you ever watched a baby die of pertussis? I have. Several.

This is what it looks like:
A newborn baby can’t stop coughing. They can’t catch their breath and they can’t eat. They get dehydrated and stop peeing. They sometimes have pauses in their breathing. Parents are terrified so they come to the ER.

In the ER, labs show they have a dangerously high white blood cell count. Their blood has become thick from the white blood cells and doesn’t travel through organs like it should. Less oxygen gets delivered to vital organs. They start to seize. Imaging reveals they had a stroke. They can’t pump blood to their lungs and body.

A breathing tube gets placed in their trachea. They get put on a ventilator. A plastic catheter is placed in their veins and arteries to give them medicine and measure blood pressure.

If they are lucky, they can make it to a #PedsICU that provides #ECMO, or full heart lung bypass. They are attached to machines that take over all their body functions.

But it’s too late. Their hands and feet turn black because they can’t perfuse their bodies. Their faces turn grey/green. They won’t stop seizing from the brain injury.

They are attached to too many machines to hold while alive and parents lay their bodies on top of them and cry until they fall asleep then cry again.

There is nothing to do but stop the machines. Antibiotics to treat pertussis were given but were no match for the infections effects on a newborn baby.

Parents finally hold their baby after the machines have turned off and their baby is cold and lifeless.

Is this what you want? This is what RFK Jr will bring to American families.

[Kelsey Rowe, MD MBA @VaxForce]

@AndyVanThomasMD The Lime scooters with no helmet 😰

[Nicole Damari @NicoleDamari]

So excited to have this beautiful selection of LGBTQ affirming children’s books available in our clinic!

[Kelsey Rowe, MD MBA @VaxForce]

@DrChi89 Congrats!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[JAMA Internal Medicine @JAMAInternalMed]

COVID-19-associated hospitalization rates were 10.5 times higher in unvaccinated persons and 2.5 times higher in vaccinated persons with no booster dose, respectively, compared with those who had received a booster dose. #Research https://t.co/3GHrzcfQz7

[Kelsey Rowe, MD MBA @VaxForce]

@madweber023 Fire alarm probably went off because you’re a HOT commodity that all fellowships are competing for 🔥🔥🔥

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

Gender affirming care saves lives.

Gender affirming care decreases suicidality.

Gender affirming doctors deserve to live without receiving death threats.

Being gender affirming doesn’t harm anyone.

Being respectful of someone’s gender identity costs you nothing.

[Dr. Annie Andrews @AnnieAndrewsMD]

You know what school choice I would like to make?

I would like my kindergartner to be able to learn to write her ABCs without also learning how to hide from a shooter.

[Kelsey Rowe, MD MBA @VaxForce]

@DoctorKevo

[Kelsey Rowe, MD MBA @VaxForce]

LOVE seeing the ads for this event all over my work at @CincyChildrens. So excited!

@andygrammer any chance you remember seeing 2 very excited fans camped outside your small show in Topeka, Kansas in 2011? If so, hi! One of them was me!🤣

Thanks for 11 years of positive vibes!

[Andy Grammer @andygrammer]

Looking forward to sharing the love about all the amazing work @cincychildrens is doing to support children and teens with mental health conditions on 10/7! https://t.co/OK0gR6DPDh

[Dr. Annie Andrews @AnnieAndrewsMD]

Kansas rejected extremism.

South Carolina will do the same in November.

Nancy Mace, an author of our 6 week abortion ban, is an extremist who is fighting to take away our individual freedoms.

[Dr. Jaime Friedman @DrJaimeFriedman]

Can someone explain how an insurance company can get away with not having any epinephrine injectors on their formulary? I mean this is the only treatment for anaphylaxis and they’re just gonna say too bad? WTF is that?