Vicki Allen Crabb

The Hepatitis B vaccine was expected to prevent 9.5 million infections, 2.4 million chronic cases, and save 600,000 lives in the US by 2050.

The federal vaccine committee has blood on their hands.

Childhood Vaccinations Fact Sheet | Yale School of Public Health Explore essential information about childhood vaccinations through a comprehensive fact sheet, offering public health insights on safety, effectiveness, and the impact of childhood vaccinations. Learn...

You can find our full answers to 12 childhood vaccination questions (that you may have been afraid to ask) at m.yale.edu/cyy8.

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Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk?

Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.

Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️

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Sec. Kennedy must appear before the HELP Committee to explain why his vaccine advisory committee, in strong disagreement with the medical & scientific community, voted to end a decades-long recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine.

This vaccine saves lives.

Removing the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose recommendation because cases are low is like canceling your car insurance because you haven’t crashed today.

“ACIP has recommended a universal birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine since 1991, after realizing a risk-based strategy wasn’t working. Annual hepatitis B infections among infants and children have dropped 99% from 16,000 to less than 20.”

Opinion | Why RFK Jr. Is Dangerous to Public Health He’s made millions from referring clients to trial lawyers, and he advocates mass tort litigation that would ruin the vaccine industry.

Why RFK Jr. Is Dangerous to Public Health

He’s made millions from referring clients to trial lawyers who have sued vaccine makers & he advocates mass tort litigation that would ruin the vaccine industry—@WSJ Editorial Board.
www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
#politics #BlueSky #MedSky #nurseSKy #EMSKy

Time to put this post on blast to the entire Twitterverse.
The real face of RFK - narrated by science communicator @thereal_truther .

When you enable this man, you enable him bringing more dishonesty to the United States Government (typically dishonesty is not an American value).

Me too!

The thread was pretty wonky the last time I checked. I heard there was a data limit glitch. You can’t see replies.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

My parents were able to put food on the table because of foodstamps. The fact that 42 million people are about to lose SNAP benefits breaks my heart.

Causal Machine Learning Methods and Use of Cross‐Fitting in Settings With High‐Dimensional Confounding Observational epidemiological studies commonly seek to estimate the causal effect of an exposure on an outcome. Adjustment for potential confounding bias in modern studies is challenging due to the p...

NEW PAPER!!! "Causal Machine Learning Methods and Use of Cross‐Fitting in Settings With High‐Dimensional Confounding"

led by Susie Ellul, with Stijn Vansteelandt & John Carlin
Published in Stats in Med

Check it out 👇
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#EpiSky #CausalSky

The ideal trial: defining causal estimands that balance relevance and feasibility in target trial emulations and actual randomized trials Causal inference is the goal of randomized trials and many observational studies. The first step in a formal causal inference framework is to define the causal estimand, and in both types of study thi...

NEW PAPER! (in press in EPIDEMIOLOGY)

Have you wondered:
- How to specify a target trial: as an ideal trial or something else?
- What biases do target trial emulations and actual RCTs share?
- How does it all relate to potential outcomes?

Read here! 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2405.10026
#EpiSky #CausalSky

You are a lovely friend! I wish we lived closer!

Me neither!

general arsehole put in his place

@/jamie2426.bsky.social is #Blockable

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Happy birthday!

1:1 ratio this morning of follower loss on Threads and follower gains on Bluesky, so, welcome, former Threaders, this place isn't perfect but at least it doesn't have a craven billionaire owner enthusiastically tonguing the lint out of a felon's bellybutton

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We were talking about this at our last Zoom.

Excited for this upcoming book publication by the great @charlespiller.bsky.social, about fraud in Alzheimer's research.

I was fortunate to read the preprint, and it is SOOOO good!

There will be several events in Washington DC and San Francisco, where Charles will introduce his book.
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Quotation from Project 2025: "Woke Policies. Under Francis Collins, NIH became so focused on the #MeToo movement that it refused to sponsor scientific conferences unless there were a cer- tain number of women panelists, which violates federal civil rights law against sex discrimination. This quota practice should be ended, and the NIH Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, which pushes such unlawful actions, should be abolished."

If you want an idea of what RFK Jr & Jay Bhattacharya will do to the NIH, the chapter of Project 2025 on the NIH gives you a decent idea

They will "END WOKE AT NIH"!

NO MORE GENDER EQUITY ON SCIENCE PANELS!

BRING BACK MANELS!

Yes, this is from the actual document (tinyurl.com/2tertwfe)

We’re on the cusp of the world’s most extreme & notorious anti-vaccine activist leading the nation’s health—and childhood vaccinations will no longer be guaranteed 👇

Suggested questions for Donald Trump’s health nominees during confirmation hearings | Science-Based Medicine Soon, Trump's health nominees will face Senate confirmation hearings. That's why I'm suggesting some questions for Senators to ask all of Trump's health picks.

Suggested questions from @gorskon.bsky.social for Donald Trump’s health nominees during confirmation hearings | #sciencebasedmedicine | sciencebasedmedicine.org/suggested-qu...

Lion talking to ostrich with head in sand. Lion says: "Two pieces of bad news: one, I can still see you; and two, that's my litter box."

Comic relief.

0/ 🚨 The science of stroke prevention just got clearer.

A 10-year study reveals how 8️⃣ key health factors work together to protect your brain 🧠

But what are Life's Essential 8? How can you minimize your risk of stroke? 🤔

Check out this #strokeawareness Bskytorial…🧵

#346: How To Reduce The Risk Of Getting A Stroke | Dr. Braydon Dymm Podcast Episode · The Neuro Experience · 06/11/2024 · 43m

Excited to share my episode of “The Neuro Experience” where I join Louisa Nicola to discuss strokes and how to prevent them:

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🍞 🧠 While >90% of ischemic strokes fall into traditional TOAST categories, the “Other” category hides critical diagnoses we can't afford to miss.

Let's explore the fascinating world of unusual ischemic stroke etiologies 🦓 every neurologist should know!👇