ID Chief @ UMich

Nice work from Marisa Miceli in the Division.

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Way to go MDHSS (Michigan Department of Health and Human Services! COVID-19 vaccine recommendations remain unchanged.

If you have been affected by the removal of federal public health data, @academyhealth.bsky.social wants to hear from you! They are suing to restore access to these data and need concrete examples for their case.

Link to submit is at the bottom of this post:

academyhealth.org/blog/2025-05...

My biggest, loudest job application advice:

WHY do you want this job? This SPECIFIC job? What about it interests you? What do you think of it? What can you bring to it?

I know this sounds obvious but a generic cover letter isn't doing you favours - really. *Show me you know the job!*

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photo of hank hill during the episode when he was at the dmv talking to a representative with a completely unrelated capture that reads: I do not want to save to one drive. I want to save to the documents folder… On my computer… That I own… In my house.

me, every work week battling with the cloud.

And if you like:
- world-renowned pharmacists
- field-leading microbiologists
- top-notch, innovative stewardship (join my track! 🤗)
- mind-blowing tx ID cases
- brilliant IPE
- fun colleagues
- dedicated allergy service for PCN allergy!!! (🥇, the real draw)

It’s not too late to apply at U-M :-)

Great to work with the always awesome Terry Dermody on this chapter in PPID 10th edition and retire my 5th edition from fellowship.

Target Trial Emulation of Empiric Antibiotics on Clinical Outcomes in Moderately Immunocompromised Patients Hospitalized with Pneumonia Empiric broad-spectrum antibiotic use for moderately immunocompromised patients without risk factors for multidrug-resistant organisms was associated with

Here’s link to Louis’ paper

academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

Super proud of our fellows. Three talks at IDweek this year. Marc Trubin on education work with Emily Abdoler, Matt Steinberger on stewardship work with with Tejal Gandhi and Lindsay Petty. Recent fellow and current faculty Louis Saravolatz on his recent paper in CID!

To be clear, people on Medicaid don’t receive “handouts”. The “benefit” they receive is that their healthcare providers and hospitals get reimbursed when they take care of them.

Excellent post on vaccine safety by @jakescottmd.bsky.social
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Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.

Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency

Fewer vaccines for kids in LMICs means more diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and other entirely preventable diseases.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

Dad joke meets ID joke

Gold “just make a decision”

Regulators Approve a Twice-Yearly Shot to Prevent H.I.V. Infection

BREAKING: The FDA has approved a twice-yearly injection that provided a near-perfect shield against H.I.V. infection in clinical trials. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries
(Gift article)

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

Good thread on thimerosal and vaccines, which really isn’t “a thing” and has been extensively evaluated. Nevertheless, sigh, on the “ACIP” agenda next meeting.

Great to see this out with contributions from our own antifungal guru, Marisa Miceli!

Video: What Happens if Vaccines Aren’t Recommended? In recent extraordinary moves, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired and replaced a team that makes vaccine recommendations for the country. Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health ...

I’m not sure many people in the media and therefore the general public realize how changing the ACIP can affect ACCESS to vaccines. Nice explainer by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/video/health...

RFK, Jr. demanding to be allowed to see Kristi Noem in the ER so he can check her humors.

Termination of a Federal Infection Prevention Advisory Committee This Viewpoint discusses the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and how its termination could affect infection prevention standar...

#IDSky #MedSky
Less visible than ACIP, and less of a gross violation of promises made and statements under oath, the disbanding of HICPAC, the committee that advises on patient safety and infection control is damaging to transparency and trust @trtalbot.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

RFK Jr. fires ‘Washingtonian of the year’ from CDC vaccine panel A Seattle infectious disease doctor, whose work was pivotal early in the COVID pandemic, shares more on her experience with the country's top vaccine advisory group. “We look at the data and we make d...

Losing the cumulative experience on vaccines of the recently removed ACIP leaders will only make America less safe.

We are losing clinical experience, scientific integrity, and expertise at a time when it is most desperately needed.

#vacicnessavelives

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads In this Viewpoint, former members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) caution that the sudden change in the ACIP may reverse the achievements of US immunization policy, includin...

The 17 recently dismissed members of ACIP have written a letter do JAMA expressing their concerns about the abrupt dismissal and replacement 2 days later of 8 individuals.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he'...

I finally read this. And it just caused me pain.

Don't try to sanewash crackpots please.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Pretty awesome Father’s Day card from Kid2

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

No way. You’re getting it ahead of schedule!

This was number two.

Thanks to the ACIP and its evidence based recommendations, the biggest barrier to getting my shingles vax today was admitting to myself that I am over 50 and overdue. Walked right in to pharmacy, no doctor note or Rx, insurance paid. Who knows what this will be like in the future! #IDsky #medsky