Academic Hospitalist in NYC. Health policy, med ed, clinical reasoning, and QI.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined December 2009
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Eric Schultz retweeted
Manipulating VAERS is one of the oldest tricks in the anti-vax book. There was no meaningful analysis here. This decision was already made and VAERS is being used to manufacture justification. That’s not scientific and it will kill people.
SCOOP: Trump health officials plan to link covid vax to deaths of 25 children as they consider limiting which Americans should get the shots. Finding appears to come from safety database not designed to assess causality. W @rachel_roubein @ddiamond
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Eric Schultz retweeted
The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer, by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1863-83, 📸 by @ARIELEphoto
Bah. Leiter did his job. Pen is cooked unfortunately, using Stroman earlier may have been the only way around this scenario.
In the medical world, MAHA (microangiopathic hemolytic anemia) is a life-threatening condition where alterations in blood vessels/flow cause destruction of red blood cells. Perhaps there's a parallel here...
“MAHA” is a late bid to win over voters worried about childhood disease + chronic illness.
It’s also a roadmap for how RFK would try to reshape U.S. health agencies if Trump wins.
More in The Post today, from @rachel_roubein @LaurenWeberHP and me.
washingtonpost.com/health/20…
Eric Schultz retweeted
I want to highlight some new work just published in @JPediatr developing the concept of "pediatric hospital referral regions": jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476…
Most health services researchers know of the Dartmouth Atlas, but I've always wondered if they work for pediatrics.
Remarkable
A 40-50% reduction of opioid overdose or alcohol intoxication with GLP-1 drugs among >1.3 million Americans with history of opioid or alcohol use disorders, respectively
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
