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Folks, if you are Big Mad about Platner’s racist, sexist nonsense… but want a younger candidate than Mills… congratulations! Jordan Wood is right in front of you. 🎉 Progressive, not in Schumer’s pocket, and seems to have zero Nazi tattoos. You’re welcome.

Don’t hate me, but… there’s still time. 😬 Vibrio incubation period is like 12-96 hours. (Epidemiology: an entire career of being the fun police.) But hopefully you dodged a bullet! 🤞🏻

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

We’re actually very blue! We have a Dem trifecta & all our federal elected reps are Dems. We have free college, free school lunches, now free childcare, no restrictions on abortion, and pretty LGBTQ+ friendly. We’re bad on some metrics (like gun violence) but we’re working on turning it around. 😊

The issue is that the birthday book is from 2003 and as a society we were not informed about the dangers of taking notes on criminal conspiracies until that episode of The Wire aired in 2004.

love the ravens tactic of fleeing. more teams should consider fleeing.

Bats, skunks, and foxes are our primary concerns here, although we weirdly had a bunch of bobcats in ‘24. It’s common enough in bats here that if you wake up to a bat in the house, either we need to test the bat or you need PEP. And we have plague, so if you see any dead prairie dogs, Do Not Touch!

Yep, if you had contact with a bat or coyote and we couldn’t test the animal, you would 💯 get PEP. They should not have been dismissive of your concerns at all! But we would likely not have recommended PEP for that dog bite here either. 😊 Bad bedside manner but probably a medically sound choice.

Yes, exactly! Here we evaluate based on behavior and county. If you’re on the east coast and you get bitten by a dog/cat that they can’t monitor, the risk is high it has been in contact with a raccoon so you get PEP. Always a big “culture shock” for MD’s trained on the EC when we’re like, “Welllll…”

Basically, dogs/cats in the west have such a low risk of getting exposed to rabies that we rarely recommend shots after a dog/cat bite. But if you get bitten by a bat, skunk, fox, bobcat, or mountain lion… do not pass go, do not collect $200, go straight to the ER for rabies prophylaxis.

Image showing testing for rabies across the US with a heavy east coast bias for rabid raccoons and cats

I work at NMDOH! We decide on a case by case basis, but the reason it’s rarely given for pet bites in the West is not bc of vaccine status of pets, it’s bc we don’t have raccoon rabies here, so unvaxed animals have low risk of exposure. East coast raccoons have tons of rabies, so high risk to pets.

Each owlet can have his own door to play on! (I don't believe the owls are here for my entertainment, but if I can amuse them, cool!)🪶

Doomers: The 2026 election doesn't matter, Republicans are just going to rig the whole thing anyway

Various red state republican incumbents: I'm just going to quit now because if I run in 2026 I'm going to get absolutely killed

My heart. Members of the US Public Health Service (the uniformed service branch no one has ever heard of, who serve at the CDC and elsewhere in the US), massed within the CDC property, saluting their departing uniformed leaders who were escorted out by security today after resigning on principle.

If folks in NM need help finding a PCP to establish care so they can discuss a COVID vaccine script, call NMDOH (833-796-8773). Depending on where you are in the state, we can usually get people in within 2-3 weeks. We can help find specialists too.

Me too. This didn’t have to be this way.

If people need help finding a PCP w/ upcoming appts, call the NMDOH hotline (833-SWNURSE). Depending on city, we can usually find an appt within 2-3 weeks. Might be helpful if pharmacies decide to insist on prescriptions. Past that… I have absolutely no idea. Just so indescribably frustrating.

CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States

Update to my update is that CVS has apparently now decided to wait on ACIP in sixteen states. NM is one of them. Which was not what we were hearing this afternoon. 🙃 In conclusion, everything is fucked.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

We’ve still got blue state health departments. I work at one, and I can say that we are full throttle fighting the good fight.

This is like if “the female orgasm is a myth” were a photo.

I miss the old brand #CDC

My guess is things are going to change pretty rapidly. Board of pharmacy and office of the superintendent of insurance will likely give some sort of direction here, hopefully soon, but we’re in a bit of a weird position without ACIP recommendations… which should have come out in June.

Update from what I’m hearing from DOH leadership: CVS appears to be allowing self-attestation of qualifying health issues. Walgreens and Albertsons are requiring scripts, at least at the moment. Also: I hate this timeline.

I can tell you this directive is NOT coming from the state. 🫠 We’re having a great time over here at the health department.

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.

They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.

(🎥 AP)

Of all the many many ways I imagined Trump would ruin this country, I have to admit “sealing us off from outside mail” wasn’t in the mix.

It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu
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No, you're not ineligible for the vaccine. Let me introduce you to the concept of lying.

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