Shared decision-making, informed consent, and the rhetoric of false empowerment: How HHS misrepresents SCDM, which is used by doctors in a very specific way - it does not mean "let's talk". open.substack.com/pub/yourloca... via @kmpanthagani.bsky.social
Wondering why there's such a fuss about pushing some #vaccine recommendations to "shared clinical decision making"? The term is being conflated with "informed consent," suggesting it's about empowering parents. This isn't that; good take here. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/shared-dec...
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
Tonight you can use this link for one reason and one reason only: you have to say something nice about yourself.
But it’s anonymous so go hog wild. No one will know you were bragging on yourself this hard.
That we're in a place, at a time, when someone has to write this headline, this article — it's almost unfathomable. Please do read @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social's take. www.statnews.com/2026/01/12/m...
The vaccine schedule change is "one of the most opaque & destabilizing public health decisions I’ve seen," says @kkjetelina.bsky.social
"The result is painfully predictable: fewer children will be vaccinated, and children will be harmed"
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-unilater...
As always, women get the job done!
A thing that serves me well: ALWAYS take very seriously anything @kkjetelina.bsky.social says; she's 1 of the most trusted epidemiologists
If FDA thinks risks>benefits, she says, "transparency about their data & reasoning is essential. Closed-door analyses won’t cut it. Americans deserves better.”
"As of December 14, the U.S. has had 391 mass shootings—more than the number of days in the year—for the seventh consecutive year. Seventy-five of these occurred at schools"—
@kkjetelina.bsky.social
Yes it’s very good news :)
Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and one of the nation’s leading scientific communicators, will advise the CA Dept of Public Health on the critical need to maintain public confidence in the institutions that keep Californians safe.
Here we goooo. YLE is live tweeting. Follow Ed below.
I will be doing live coverage of the ACIP meetings tomorrow and Friday on Bluesky.
Here's the agenda:
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
And here is Your Local Epidemiologist and The Evidence Collective's prebunk:
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Should be an interesting time
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
Teamed up with @kkjetelina.bsky.social for a post on the state of US health care—and why the ACA subsidy debate in Washington is too small. 1/x
Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.
School shootings, brace for vaccine headlines this week, Covid-19 vaccine access, another measles death, and more.
by @kkjetelina.bsky.social
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/school-sho...
Physicians need to have a plan if they aren’t going to be offering vaccines to their patients.
We need a public health expert in the United States Senate to hold RFK Jr. accountable.
LIVE NOW: Join "Your Local Epidemiologist" author @kkjetelina.bsky.social for a Reddit AMA. www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...
NEW: The CDC has been in crisis for months. After the firing of its director, resignations of senior leaders, staff + experts are bracing for what could be death knell for public health credibility. Me + @laurenweberhp.bsky.social + @davidovalle.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
The amazing Dr. Deb Houry— former and recently pushed out Deputy and Chief Medical Officer of CDC— is ready to join the public conversation.
Follow her at @drdebhoury.bsky.social !!
This is an extremely widespread view in public health. Daskalakis is one of the most respected health officials we have.
only so many words you can put in a headline but the whole response is loud and proud support for the trans community and worth reading
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else.
#USAnotRFK
Lets gooooo
The most helpful info I've found on the Covid-19 vaccine at this point, from @kkjetelina.bsky.social, particularly point 12, "What should I do right now?" I'm interested to see what our pediatrician, who is extremely pro-vaccine, has to say about this...
"CDC basically imploded yesterday and now it’s truly in shambles,” said @kkjetelina.bsky.social. Also: vaccines? My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...
