“Jocelyn also echoed Nolen's overall message of reminding people that the best way to protect against measles is the MMR vaccine, which the Utah Department of Health and Human Services said is 97% effective after two doses.”
“The children I am seeing in (the) clinic with measles are very, very ill; and in several cases, their parents and their caregivers get ill as well," she said.
Jocelyn said some of the symptoms she has seen patients develop include high fevers, severe coughing, and pneumonia”
“Amanda Jocelyn, a nurse practitioner in southern Utah, also shared her experience of seeing over a dozen patients with measles. Jocelyn said she was shocked at just how ill some people became and the amount of time it took for them to recover.”
“Nolen said she recently visited one of the communities in Utah seeing high numbers of measles to talk with people who have been infected about their experience with the virus… Nolen said the people she spoke with told her that contracting measles was much worse than they expected.”
Over 120 people have been hospitalized due to measles in Utah alone. "It is, at this time a real threat in our state and something we can do to stop it," said Dr. Leisha Nolen, state epidemiologist… pleading for people to get themselves and their children vaccinated.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
“One of the highest-demand jobs requires little education but pays about as much as fast food work: home health aides. Medicaid and Medicare pay most of their salaries, but rates are low, and could get lower after President Trump signed legislation last year that restricted federal health spending”
“Nursing offers the highest earnings potential without going to medical school, but there are other options — and high demand for workers with more specific skills, like running an EKG machine, sterilizing surgical equipment and analyzing lab samples.”
“Other changes by the Trump administration might also constrict the pipeline of new medical workers, such as its plan to cap student loans for graduate nursing degrees at $100,000… “I want to be a nurse practitioner, but I’m not certain I’ll be able to get the funding I need to get there”
“Their absence could be felt quickly: A 25 percent increase in immigration flows would save 5,000 lives every year in the United States, a paper published recently by the National Bureau of Economic Research found.”
“Filling those vacancies has gotten harder over the past year, Mr. Merchant said, since 35 percent of medical workers in New York State are immigrants. The Trump administration has squeezed avenues for workers to come in from overseas, including doctors on H-1B visas”
“It’s not clear that the supply of workers will keep pace with the ever-growing need for care. Although artificial intelligence may cut down administrative positions in billing and marketing, bedside jobs are not being replaced anytime soon… especially as the existing medical corps nears retirement”
Puts me in mind of this paper about the impact of working with religious leaders to build trust - reading this way back when I was an editorial assistant on the journal made me understand communication is one of the most vital and interesting parts of epidemiology journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...
“The industry, and related professions in the social assistance category, added 693,000 positions last year. Without it, the economy would have lost 512,000 jobs, as business and professional services, retail, the federal government and manufacturing all contracted.”
“It’s not a given Amish — or other religious adherents — will reject vaccines. Successful outreach requires making effort to understand how religious adherents think, acknowledging their concerns, and humbly recognizing that medical knowledge is shaped by more than mere empiricism.”
I cannot tell you how excited we are that Dr. Levine is speaking in Pittsburg!!!!!
“And when he learned that one of his secretaries had two children sickened by lead… Lafayette organized high school students to screen toddlers for lead poisoning by collecting urine samples, and prodded Chicago to help develop the nation’s first mass screening for lead poisoning”
Those two doctors were incorrect. A young boy tragically died from rabies in Texas in 2021. “Although the child had reported the bite to parents, no bite marks were seen, and the risk of rabies from bat contact was not considered; therefore, care was not sought… the patient died on hospital day 16.”
I really encourage everyone to spend some time with the DHS Flickr page, which in one year posted thousands and thousands of glamour shot propaganda photos of Kristi Noem and little else. Our tax dollars! www.flickr.com/photos/dhsgov/
My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.
“This is an embodiment of how much power our federal health officials have,” said Michael Barnett, a study author... “Even when nothing in the evidence base has changed, even for something as ubiquitous and familiar as Tylenol, it can still shift things to a measurable degree within days.”
“The researchers found that orders of the painkiller initially dipped by 16% before leveling off at a 10% decrease in the twelve weeks after U.S. health officials cautioned against use of the drug. There was no statistically significant drop in the medication’s use among non-pregnant women.”
“With Republicans in control of the Senate, Democrats cannot launch a full investigation without their support. Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin and the subcommittee’s chairman, would need to agree to issue any subpoenas.
But Mr. Blumenthal can still hold public forums on the topic”
“Mr. Blumenthal said that he would call for the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate whether Ms. Noem had lied under oath during a Senate hearing on Tuesday… “Her firing doesn’t absolve her or relieve her of potential liability for perjury”
“The CDC recommends that children and adults be up to date on their routine polio vaccines before any international travel. Adults who previously completed the full vaccine series may also receive a single lifetime booster dose if they are traveling to a destination where poliovirus is circulating.”
“The CDC issued a level 2 travel advisory on March 3, warning that poliovirus has been detected in multiple destinations within the past 12 months – including parts of Africa, the Middle East and Europe… In rare cases, the disease can cause permanent paralysis or death” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
“We call for an immediate vote on the four tenure cases… If not, we will boycott the next faculty meeting, thus halting important discussion, planning and voting… We are eager to continue with this work, but cannot proceed until our colleagues’ tenure cases are resolved.”
Empty seats tell the story of Trump's cruelty in Massachusetts. A Framingham kindergarten teacher watched seven of her students disappear this year, their families torn apart by ICE. We're fighting back - in court and everywhere else.
“Dr. Woodcock, a top drug regulator for decades, said that such reversals for a promising therapy send shock waves through the industry.
“The Huntington’s refusal I thought was truly evil,” she said. “I just feel so bad for those people.”
“Ms. Hilliard, of H.H.S., said that agency scientists concluded the trial was not “adequate or well controlled,” F.D.A. nomenclature for an acceptable study. The company had compared people on the gene therapy with a control group described in a large data set gathered over years.”
