Jason Cohen, MD

State-level progress in reducing cervical cancer incidence among US young women between the pre- and post-human papillomavirus vaccination eras AbstractBackground. Despite well-documented national declines in cervical cancer incidence among young women following human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine i

“Nationwide, cervical cancer incidence rates declined by 27% (RR = 0.73, 95%CI:0.70 to 0.75) during the vaccination era, from 5.1 to 3.7 per 100,000… Every 10% increase in vaccination rates was associated with an 11.5% (95%CI : -17.2% to -5.4%) reduction in RRs, adjusted for screening rates.”

This morning’s new snow is ridiculous, uncalled for, and if I may say so, personally offensive.

Poster: Black ice wrecks your car (pic of car skidding). White ICE wrecks your country (pic of SS)

#De-ICE NY
#NoKings

Due process, not goon squads
Immigrants supporting their families and the economy, not hiding in fear

We deserve better and demand better

Is cocaine included within "rich white men" or is that a separate line?

Today’s CBO report says US consumers pay 95% of tariffs. 🤡

@brendanvduke.bsky.social
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Risk reduction doesn't have to mean taking medications or supplements

Hyperbole. I'm not making the Olympics either.

Risk reduction doesn't have to mean taking medications or supplements.

This could be a longer-term public health goal: normalize masking up before that ___ [vacation, graduation, final exams week, visit w higher risk relative, etc]. Lower the burden of disease on ppl's lives. Sadly, I highly doubt this would ever happen at scale.

It amazes me that athletes don't take serious infection precautions - against norovirus, flu, Covid, even regular colds - before the Olympics & similar.

If I dedicated 20-30 years of my life to win in an event decided by 0.01%? I'd be in a biohazard suit for 2 weeks leading up to showtime 😷

It amazes me that athletes don't take serious infection precautions - against norovirus, flu, Covid, even regular colds - before the Olympics & similar.

If I dedicated 20-30 years of my life to win in an event decided by 0.01%? I'd be in a biohazard suit for 2 weeks leading up to showtime 😷

This is not the most important thing, but a really good reason to educate your kid in math early is you end up finding pieces of paper with equations written in little girl handwriting, with hearts and cats drawn around them.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

On improving research methods:
(Not actually about masks)

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

2026 Guideline for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Guideline From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association | Stroke AIM: The “2026 Guideline for the Early Management of Patients With AIS” replaces the “2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With AIS” and the 2019 update to reflect recent advances in e...

It's here it's here it's here it's here 🎁

"2026 Guideline for the Early Mgmt of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Guideline From AHA/ASA" !

www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

<Starts reading 10 billion page article>
😵‍💫
Wait, I don't take stroke codes anymore!
😂
<Reads highlights>
🙂📑🍺

Good advice from an ophthalmologist Dr Glaucoflecken (I know - still not sure it's a real name) on what to do if you get tear-gassed.

Looking at you, #Minnesota Warriors for Democracy & Justice!

Also #Minneapolis. Y'all know we always got you, right?

Peace & love!

Spoken like someone with a recent 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ and hopefully education of the offending party

Much more amusing is mixing up Vestibulitis and Vestibular Neuritis

More kids have long-covid than asthma, which used to be the #1 chronic illness in kids.

In life, people go to great lengths to give their kids even a slight advantage: SAT classes, sports coaching, Baby Beethoven, etc. What would you do to prevent brain & heart damage in your kid? Vax? Mask? Other?

Having acute coffee-penia.
Trying PO repletion first but I've got an IV ready.

Translation: 🫩! ☕. (☕💉)?

Does anyone remember how to calculate the slope of a line that is straight up?

Translation: lots and lots of people will get sick, lots will get very sick, and some will die or have their brains rot out after they think they've recovered ("SSPE") and then die

US maternal syphilis rate rises 28% in 2 years, marking continued surge in national epidemic

“Twenty-five years ago, syphilis was nearly eradicated in the United States.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/sexually-tra...

YouTube video by peaceandfreedom2011 Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Music And Song Courtesy:Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

Tin soldiers and fascists coming.
We're finally on our own
This winter I hear the drumming
Two dead in Minnesota.

Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been gone long ago

What if you knew them and found them dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional, Rejecting Decades of Science Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person’s right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.

Breaking News: Rejecting decades of science, the chair of the federal panel that recommends vaccines for Americans said that shots against polio and measles — and perhaps all diseases — should be optional. The vaccines are credited with preventing disability and millions of deaths worldwide.

Screenshot from STAT article that says "What we're going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles," he said. "What is the new incidence of hospitalization? What's the incidence of death?"

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

Poor dental hygiene also increases your chances of getting dementia.

This is not medical advice, but probably safer to listen to this than anything from the actual CDC

Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities.

“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.”

A profile in absolute courage.

The latest from YouGov: It's America vs MAGA on military deployment.

Military deployment to MN: -17
Invoking Insurrection Act: -16
Military deployment to "your local area:" -27

Terrible numbers for the former party of national security.

today.yougov.com/topics/overv...

Medical groups will ask court to block new CDC vaccine recommendations | CNN Six prominent medical associations say they will ask the courts to reverse the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new recommendations for what vaccines children should get.

IDSA and other prominent medical associations are calling on courts to reverse CDC’s new recommendations for what vaccines children should get.

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