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Dan Kats, MD

@dkatsmd.bsky.social

Pediatrician and clinical informaticist at Boston Children’s Hospital • Working for an equitable world

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Shameful.

13.06.2025 16:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I don't like everything about Harvard but I will support them unequivocally in this situation.

27.05.2025 21:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ACOG is deeply disappointed by HHS’s move to drop COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in pregnancy. The science is clear: COVID-19 remains dangerous in pregnancy and vaccination protects both patients and newborns. The vaccine is safe and protects families. Read our full statement: buff.ly/OGue7sO

27.05.2025 18:34 — 👍 525    🔁 336    💬 13    📌 25

Elected officials should be required to:
1. Stay up to date on current events
2. Not lie

25.05.2025 20:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Shouldn’t he first limit who gets access to classified information on Signal?

25.05.2025 20:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This week I’ll graduate with a masters paid for by a T15 grant…which was just canceled. A devastating loss for scientists, physicians, and patients who won’t benefit from the education I received. 47 and Elon are Making America Worse. Shame on every soul in congress who’s standing idly by.

25.05.2025 20:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

20.05.2025 23:59 — 👍 3771    🔁 3109    💬 146    📌 300
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While the Ivies are doing takesy backsy on degrees, I suggest that Harvard rescind Marty Makary’s MPH.

29.04.2025 23:08 — 👍 171    🔁 18    💬 8    📌 1
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Detained on verge of U.S. citizenship, Mohsen Mahdawi speaks from Vermont prison Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."

Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."

29.04.2025 12:35 — 👍 16248    🔁 4325    💬 315    📌 158

"Sleepy Joe" strikes ag- wait. My bad.

27.04.2025 14:23 — 👍 98    🔁 11    💬 4    📌 0

Just spoke with my CDC sources.

RFK Jr. has reportedly instructed officials to stay silent on bird flu transmission and avoid testing farm workers with symptoms.

This is a direct attempt to suppress vital information.

Pandemics begin with secrecy and cover-ups.

22.04.2025 17:24 — 👍 3508    🔁 1511    💬 149    📌 144
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Let's face it, US universities' world role is done for. No-one on Earth is going to move there for an academic post under these circumstances. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

22.04.2025 13:41 — 👍 87    🔁 38    💬 0    📌 1
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My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music.

Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity

17.04.2025 11:22 — 👍 7776    🔁 1925    💬 159    📌 64

Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!?

Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.

13.04.2025 18:26 — 👍 25604    🔁 6338    💬 588    📌 294
Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. Logo

Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. Logo

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. In just a few short weeks, his actions on vacccines, fluoride and other public health science have shown how wrong he is for the job. Read & share our statement: apha.org/news-and-med...

09.04.2025 15:26 — 👍 932    🔁 421    💬 20    📌 85
Fact Checked Pediatricians weigh in to address the latest misinformation by providing clear, science-backed messaging to support children and families.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP - the legit one) has started a web page to fact check some claims relevant to pediatric health, meant for pediatricians, parents and media seeking the best information.

#PedSky #PedsID

www.aap.org/en/news-room...

04.04.2025 02:44 — 👍 243    🔁 83    💬 9    📌 1

DEI could end the measles outbreak. Scientific messaging works best when it's from people you trust, often people from within your community. If we sought to train people from the impacted community, they would create culturally specific messages to help their community. This is why DEI is important

04.04.2025 16:52 — 👍 368    🔁 57    💬 3    📌 3

Just the other day I was thinking I should read Anne Frank

03.04.2025 15:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This. We are currently in a situation where our national defense against pathogens is on the ropes. I will continue to mask indoors in public, because I can only control my choices and not anyone else’s.

02.04.2025 22:52 — 👍 225    🔁 45    💬 8    📌 1
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We’re shipping off to #Boston!! 🤘Don’t miss the acoustic set by #DropkickMurphys at our April 5th event in Boston, MA.

FIND a local April 5 event: FiftyFifty.one

Washington D.C.: SeeYouInTheStreets.com

#50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #April5 #massachusetts @polrev.bsky.social

01.04.2025 23:06 — 👍 915    🔁 201    💬 35    📌 11
A crowd of protesters.

A crowd of protesters.

Several hundred people gathered at the Federal building in Boston to demand that Rumeysa Ozturk and ALL the prisoners being held illegally be released.

1/?

01.04.2025 22:22 — 👍 182    🔁 48    💬 1    📌 5

John Adams defended the Boston Massacre perpetrators, who were uniformly reviled at the time. We either have due process or we don’t.

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence".

01.04.2025 15:17 — 👍 140    🔁 27    💬 5    📌 0
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Led by Elizabeth Warren, New England lawmakers demand release of detained Tufts University grad student - The Boston Globe Senator Warren is demanding answers about Rumeysa Ozturk's “disturbing” arrest and detainment by ICE officials.

The arrest and detention of Rumeysa Ozturk is deeply disturbing.

The Trump admin is ripping students like Rumeysa out of their communities without due process.

We will not stay silent. @pressley.house.gov, @markey.senate.gov, and I led over 30 of our colleagues in demanding answers.

28.03.2025 17:08 — 👍 2870    🔁 563    💬 130    📌 30

Rümeysa Öztürk was kidnapped because she expressed an opinion that Donald Trump doesn't like.

We're demanding that she be released, her visa restored, and her rights to due process & free speech respected.

28.03.2025 17:00 — 👍 517    🔁 136    💬 15    📌 3

I know it's the millionth thing like this, but abortion experts SAID this would happen. Abortion bans supercharge the already widespread criminalization of miscarriage, amping up criminalization of already targeted groups and expanding the scope of who might get arrested/charged/terrorized.

28.03.2025 16:17 — 👍 146    🔁 76    💬 3    📌 4

<3333 Clinical Informatics

Absolutely 100% convinced that CI is the only reason I can stay a practicing doctor. Has been absolutely incredible for my burn-out and still lets me have high impact on healthcare for patients. 13/10 would recommend (especially training under @techmd4thekids.bsky.social)

18.03.2025 15:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’d run to get the Lyme vaccine!!

17.03.2025 02:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0