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Old diseases are new again, thanks to RFK,Jr. and changes in vaccine policy...

New docs get schooled in old diseases as vax rates fall

Rush University Medical Center in Chicago is adding a new twist to its curriculum for medical students and residents, using AI tools and learning modules to teach how to more quickly identify measles rashes on different skin tones.

Dr. Paul Offit knows his stuff...I got to hear him speak and met him several years ago when I worked with vaccines. Now we are setting disease prevention back decades.

#vaccines #preventable diseases #medicaltraining

axios.com/2025/06/30/new-docs-

Axios · New docs get schooled in old diseases as vax rates fallBy Tina Reed
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…Some Americans know the reality of these #preventable #diseases all too well. For them, news of #measles outbreaks & rising #WhoopingCough cases brings back terrible memories of lives forever changed – & a longing to spare others from similar pain.

[I can speak to this personally. The Spanish Influenza (which BTWs did not originate in Spain — much like #Trump labeled #COVID “the China virus”) orphaned my grandmother as a toddler killing both her parents & her baby sister.]

Processing the loss of my little cousin, who died Sunday in a traffic 🚦 incident. The tragic thing is that my little cousin was racing with a friend of his without wearing proper motorcycle PPE, category racing. On top of that he was racing on public roads not on a racetrack.

Since the speed was high and proper PPE was not worn, the result was deadly for him

He was only twenty-one

Sigh 😔

@stefano

@Timpostma

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Day 29 ⚕️🚒🏥

“Royal Flying Doctor Service Federation chief executive #EmmaBuchanan said more than 32,000 people across the country did not have access to a #GP within a 60-minute drive.

More than 100,000 people do not have access to #MentalHealth resources.

"We know that people who live in very #RemoteAreas are likely to die 14 years earlier to their urban counterparts and that they're dying from causes that are largely #preventable,"

#AusPol / #medical / #resources / #RFDS / #RuralHealth / #Labor / #LNP / #Liberal / #Coalition <abc.net.au/news/2025-04-28/gp->

ABC News · Towns with no doctors say election health proposals a 'bandaid' approachBy Aisling Brennan

#Preventable

“Measles death of unvaccinated child in Texas outbreak is 1st fatality in US in a decade

LUBBOCK, Texas -- An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first death associated with an outbreak in the western part of the state that has infected more than 100 people.”

abc13.com/post/first-measles-d

abc13.com · First measles death is reported in the West Texas outbreak that's infected more than 120 peopleBy DEVI SHASTRI

The Georgia hospital that failed to save #Amber #Thurman
may have broken a federal law
🔥when doctors there waited 20 hours to perform a procedure criminalized by the state’s abortion ban,
according to Sen. Ron Wyden, chair of the Senate Finance Committee.

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or #EMTALA, requires hospitals to provide emergency care to stabilize patients who need it
— or transfer them to a hospital that can.

Passed nearly four decades ago, the law applies to any hospital with an emergency department and that accepts Medicare funding,
which includes the one Thurman went to, Piedmont Henry in suburban Atlanta.
The finance committee has authority over the regulatory agency that enforces the law.
In a letter sent Monday, Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, cites ProPublica’s investigation into Thurman’s #death,
which was found #preventable by a state committee of maternal health experts.
The senator’s letter asks Piedmont CEO David Kent whether the hospital has delayed or denied emergency care to pregnant patients since Georgia’s abortion ban went into effect. (Kent did not respond to requests for comment.)

“It is my duty to conduct oversight of potential violations of patients’ rights under these laws,” Wyden wrote.
The senator asked for the hospital’s policies covering treatment of patients with emergencies that require abortion care.
He also asked for a list of personnel involved in making those decisions.
He gave the hospital a deadline of Oct. 24 to provide those and other requested records and answers.

Wyden sent the same letter citing ProPublica’s reporting on Thurman to ⚠️seven hospitals in North Carolina, Florida, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas.
♦️One letter seeks information from a Texas hospital where Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick died in 2022 from complications of pregnancy including hypertension, as reported by The New Yorker.
♦️Other letters seek information from hospitals where women have reportedly been turned away or experienced delayed care.
The hospitals’ answers could lead to proposed legislation or executive actions to strengthen compliance.
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services investigates complaints and can take actions including levying fines against hospitals that violate EMTALA.

Wyden’s committee plans to hold a hearingon Tuesday,
saying in a news release it will
💥 “examine how Donald Trump’s successful overturn of Roe v. Wade and subsequent state abortion bans have threatened access to life-saving medical care for women nationwide.”

propublica.org/article/amber-t

ProPublicaDid a Georgia Hospital Break Federal Law When It Failed to Save Amber Thurman? A Senate Committee Chair Wants Answers.Thurman died after waiting 20 hours for emergency care under the state’s abortion ban. Sen. Ron Wyden demanded records his committee could review to determine whether the hospital violated the law. “It’s not even a question,” one expert said.
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Cmtes like the one in #Georgia, set up in each state, often operate w/a 2-yr lag behind the cases they examine, meaning that experts are only now beginning to delve into #deaths that took place after #SCOTUS overturned the federal right to #abortion.

#AmberThurman’s case marks the first time an abortion-related #death, officially deemed “#preventable,” is coming to public light. ProPublica will share the story of the second in the coming days.

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The otherwise healthy 28-year-old medical assistant, who had her sights set on nursing school, should not have died, an official #Georgia state committee recently concluded.

Tasked w/examining #pregnancy-related #deaths to improve #MaternalHealth, the experts, including 10 doctors, deemed hers “#preventable” & said the #hospital’s delay in performing the critical procedure [#abortion] had a “large” impact on her #fatal outcome.

JFC, how hard is it to stop people from infected countries from traveling until they get vaccinated? Fuuuuuuck, this was common practice when I was in highschool. If we're going to bother having borders the least we can do is make them useful. Viruses don't have politics, please take them seriously. #preventable