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Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellow at Seattle Children’s/University of Washington. Geospatial epidemiologist. Studying geographic patterns of virus transmission and spread at the Fred Hutch #IDSky #PedSky http://www.rhozero.net
Please join us today for our Virtual Clinical Case Conference session 'O Leukocyte, Where Art Thou: Pancytopenia in Setting of Infection', featuring Amin Bemanian, MD, PhD, as presenter and Alpana Waghmare, MD, as attending. Contact us for registration information.
We are on track to Xerxes lashing the sea territory if there is a hurricane next year: claylane.uk/copybook/?ti...
Overall I really hope this paradigm catches on more, because for finding specific studies and case reports to put in consult notes this is way more helpful than a blurb that I have to double check the accuracy of later. Similarly, for research this is a way better way for me to review prior work.
Me prompting Google Scholar's AI search about ESBL-E infections and penicillins. The search returns several different articles with short summaries underneath about how they are relevant.
Here's an example about me asking about using penicillins in ESBL-Es with susceptibility data (i.e. a classic consult question). OpenEvidence does a good job of summarizing guidelines and then putting citations at the bottom but Scholar's approach is definitely more "literature forward".
Instead of trying to answer a question with a summary, it uses AI to breakdown natural language questions into relevant queries, searches them across scholar and then provides the papers/articles with a blurb about why it picked the article.
Google Scholar has released AI search and finally presented a model that I prefer way over ChatGPT and other company's "Deep Research" approaches: scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scho...
How much statistical sleight of hand can you spot in this paragraph on the new CDC website, which is now littered with muddled and flawed claims about vaccines and autism? www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe... 🧵
🧵 #MythBustingTuesday
The CDC reportedly floated separating the MMR into individual shots without any published evidence that doing so improves safety.
Let’s unpack why this myth persists, what the data show, and why countries like Senegal are moving in the opposite direction.
As much as we ❤️ wildlife, admire it from afar… #IDSky
Rabid bat found in Seattle near Washington Park Arboretum
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Newborn lives are on the line. The hepatitis B birth dose is safe, effective, and lifesaving yet it’s under attack at ACIP this week. Weakening this policy would be a grave mistake.
Read why we must defend it.
open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj...
“Hey! You might be wondering how I got caught up in this situation… well it’s a funny story”
Now is the time that I remind you that, while plague has been endemic in the western United States for 70+ years and this is a normal occurrence, our work does seem to strongly suggest climate change is increasing spillover risk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Amer Academy of Pediatrics: “We are witnessing an escalating effort by the administration to silence independent medical expertise and stoke distrust in lifesaving vaccines. Creating confusion around proven vaccines endangers families' health + contributes to the spread of preventable diseases."
Google saying it is not 2025
Googles AI mode saying it is 2025
What’s even weirder is it at first got it wrong for me and then when I clicked “AI mode” it got it right.
It is unclear what this recommendation change will mean for those family members who want to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Insurers typically rely on CDC and ACIP recommendations to decide whether or not they will cover vaccinations. This change could become a barrier for those families.
Healthcare choice is important. One examples is that COVID-19 vaccines are one of the best ways for the families of our patients with cancer and transplants to protect their immunocompromised loved ones who may not be able to get vaccines.
Apparently! It definitely also thought Adams was St Helens at first and thought the photos were taken from Hood…
That being said, it’s definitely not perfect. I gave it photos of Rainier, Adams, and Hood that I took from St Helens and asked it to figure out where I took it from. It got stuck debating if Hood was Jefferson and timed out twice.
New Zealand Mountains
Chat GPT reasoning where I was located
Chat GPT guessing my lens
I tried to test it with some hiking pictures and it’s interesting what you can push it to do. I gave it the first pic which it easily realized was Mt Ruapehlu and then asked it to try to figure out what lens I was using. It’s guess was fairly accurate (really was 50 mm but I cropped the picture)
Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
“…ready-to-use therapeutic foods like Plumpy’Nut are “the singular public-health achievement of the last several decades”—more consequential, experts reiterated to me, than even antibiotics or vaccines.”https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/usaid-doge-children-starvation/682484/
They miswrote the editors name in the Dear line even though they had correct in the address and just struck it out with a pen. Clearly editing is not their strong suit
When I tell people, I’m a Peds ID physician, I often get “oh wow that must be so sad”. But I often care for kids with infections that would’ve easily killed an elderly person who go home in a few days to live healthy, productive lives, & I can’t think of much more rewarding then that.
#WhyPeds
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Mission Control (F3) will be your new best friend if you have a lot of windows open, especially multiple windows of the same application. Cmd-tab doesn’t cycle through different windows of the same program in the same way as alt-tab does and you have to use Cmd + ` instead.
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It’s just an antimicrobial steward and is encouraging us all to use the shortest effective course of antibiotics for each indication.
Poor guy probably thinks using a 64 bit operating system is too woke and is running Excel for Windows 95
Infectious disease has been the central cause of childhood disease for almost all of history. We are fortunate to live in a time with vaccines and antibiotics, but if we destroy the agencies responsible for delivering them, the effects will be disastrous.
