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Jo Hofmann

@birdcmp

Birder, woodworker, recovering servant of public health, exFed, ID doc

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The Lancet
“The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.”

The Lancet “The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.”

The cover says it all:

27.02.2026 12:00 👍 173 🔁 84 💬 5 📌 9

Kill me now.

26.02.2026 23:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Replace color range. You can pick the color, then replace w/ whatever color you want.

26.02.2026 23:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I mean they inarguably got the better deal than the men's team, didn't they. On a food level and a personal level.

26.02.2026 22:13 👍 353 🔁 45 💬 4 📌 1

Fav line: “Won’t anyone rid me of these meddlesome queers”

26.02.2026 00:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Learning From HIV, Building Better Infrastructure to Tackle STIs: Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH | AJMC Doxy-PEP reshapes STI prevention, while congenital syphilis surges; experts urge scaling HIV and STI care infrastructure to improve testing and treatment access.

AJMC: Learning From HIV, Building Better Infrastructure to Tackle STIs: Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH

bit.ly/4aKxCLB @drjeannem.bsky.social

24.02.2026 15:29 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Can’t wait for the next multi-state outbreak of E. coli 0157.

25.02.2026 11:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Guinea-Bissau Stops Trump-Backed Hepatitis B Vaccine Study Guinea-Bissau Stops Trump-Backed Hepatitis B Vaccine Study. Guinea-Bissau has terminated a contentious hepatitis B vaccine trial bankrolled by the Trump administration following a sharp ethical rebuke...

menafn.com/1110772965/G...

Ding, dong, the witch is dead!

24.02.2026 17:03 👍 79 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 3

Apparently the denser tissue results in a peculiar pointed head shape.

24.02.2026 11:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good morning! We’re feeling silly and this had us cracking up over the weekend, so let’s have some fun.

What’s the name of their band?

Our favorite? “Rage Against the Vaccine”. “Killing in the Name Of” still works.

23.02.2026 13:01 👍 167 🔁 31 💬 27 📌 2

Be glad you don’t have Italian Greyhounds.

23.02.2026 11:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Crispy Cheetos. Till my nails turn orange.

22.02.2026 15:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks to Gregg Gonsalves for a great roundup of articles about the current state of retribution public health.

21.02.2026 11:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center to Cease Gender-Affirming Surgeries Patients received surprise messages Friday saying health care system will no longer offer gender-affirming surgeries

VUMC patients received surprise messages Friday saying the health care system will no longer offer gender-affirming surgeries.

20.02.2026 21:47 👍 4 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 3

Embarrassed being from the same state.

20.02.2026 22:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

20.02.2026 20:00 👍 6677 🔁 1426 💬 83 📌 49
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Exhibits on slavery restored at President’s House in Philadelphia ahead of court deadline • Pennsylvania Capital-Star Nearly a month after they were taken down, the federal government re-installed dozens of signs commemorating the slaves that once resided at the President’s House in Philadelphia Thursday, before a co...

Excellent! Slavery exhibits restored.

penncapital-star.com/civil-rights...

20.02.2026 15:01 👍 745 🔁 179 💬 8 📌 10
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What is bombogenesis? Bombogenesis, a term used by meteorologists, occurs when a midlatitude cyclone rapidly intensifies, or strengthens, over a 24 hour period. This intensification is represented by a drop in millibars, a...

Sounds like the creation of bumblebees to me.
oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/bombog...

20.02.2026 13:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I want one!

20.02.2026 01:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That is really unbelievable as vaccine before college is the current standard of care.

20.02.2026 00:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh, and he’s an anesthesiologist. How nice for all his patients.

20.02.2026 00:49 👍 50 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
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Why Is Trump Dumping East Wing Rubble in a Public Park?

Really good blog here. It's obviously not the worst thing the administration has done but the extent to which Trump is dedicated getting his personal grease all over every public thing in DC, and making them more expensive, exclusive, and worse, is really infuriating. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

19.02.2026 20:43 👍 394 🔁 122 💬 9 📌 9
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BREAKING: Taylor Rehmet was just sworn in as the first rank-and-file union member to serve in the Texas Senate.

Senator Rehmet is a beacon of hope not just for Texas, but for every union member and worker in the state. This is a huge win for Texas workers!

19.02.2026 21:33 👍 119 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 2
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Exclusive: US CDC cancels February vaccine adviser meeting; no new one set yet A U.S. vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for later this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will not be held, with no new dates announced, according to a spokesman for t...

YES.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...

19.02.2026 23:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That is child abuse.

19.02.2026 22:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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JAMA Investigation: 26% of Trans and Gender Diverse Youth Have Attempted Suicide The highest attempt rates came out of North America amidst the United States’ war on trans kids.

The latest review from JAMA Pediatrics has uncovered that 26% of trans youth have attempted suicide. That's actual attempts, ideation was even higher.

The trend was most pronounced in North America, where anti-trans laws have been common.

The latest from our writer S. Baum.

19.02.2026 00:59 👍 1066 🔁 314 💬 15 📌 29

This just gets curiouser and curiouser. The highlight of Jim O’Neill’s life was probably being a marching band Captain

19.02.2026 01:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Vaccines are critical to protecting pregnant women and their infants. ACOG’s newly updated guidance urges ob-gyns to review patients’ immunization status, recommend needed vaccines, and address barriers such as misinformation. Read the full press release for more: https://bit.ly/4ro56GZ

17.02.2026 23:00 👍 29 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 3
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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya will take over leadership of CDC temporarily The transition is the latest in a monthslong series of leadership shake-ups across federal health agencies.

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya is now also the temporary head of the CDC, a role in which he is expected to continue to do nothing but appear on right-wing podcasts and further cement the complete lack of respect of his colleagues.

18.02.2026 19:19 👍 298 🔁 113 💬 23 📌 11

Double the damage.

18.02.2026 20:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0