Learning from the mistakes made during the COVID-19 pandemic. We cannot destroy people’s livelihoods to stop the spread of a virus. That’s not public health. Glad to see this move.

Proactive rather than reactive

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a looming pandemic and poor health outcomes will not be borne equitably argue Majd Alsoubani, MD, Maya L. Nadimpalli, PhD, MS, and Shira Doron MD: spr.ly/6019wA0St

@shiradoronmd; Stefan Baral; Daniel Halperin ;@monicagandhi9; @jeannenoble18: Scientific evidence has failed to support the effectiveness of masks & mask mandates in ⬇️ transmission. Unless that changes, mandates are not warranted for future epidemics bit.ly/4bgVHch

Turn to ID doctors to help with pathogens of pandemic potential like Shira Doron MD because ID doctors are trained for this. No evidence of efficient human to human transmission of H5N1 so panic unnecessary; preparation needed.

With avian flu, it’s time to prepare, not panic.

My piece in Boston Globe Opinion today.

bostonglobe.com/2024/04/30/opi…

With Carlos del Rio and Andrew Pavia, I represented IDSA on this symposium on #H5N1 hosted by ASTHO in which CDC, Dept. of Agriculture, U.S. FDA, HHS ASPR and NIH provided a comprehensive update on the current state of #HPAI .

youtu.be/aTizSNagjFI?si…

This was one of the most innovative posters I saw at ⁦SHEA⁩. What’s the carbon impact of unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions in the US? ⁦Emily Sydnor Spivak 🇺🇦⁩

It’s been 2 weeks since MA adopted CDC guidance on isolation after COVID, and the numbers look very good.

Westyn Branch-Elliman, M.D., MMSc., FSHEA and I write in CommonWealth Beacon: it was high time to make this change. The old way wasn’t working anyway.

commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/moving…

ICYMI:
The American Jewish Medical Association is a newly formed 501(c)(3) nonprofit combatting antisemitism in medicine.

Yael Halaas MD articulates its ultimate goal:

“Medicine free from hate”

Join at theajma.org

combatantisemitism.org/interview/medi…

Commissioner Riley fought hard around the clock for all of the children of Massachusetts through very tough times. A true pandemic hero. We are so grateful for your leadership and advocacy. You will be missed!

Massachusetts K-12 Charlie Baker Shira Doron MD FreckleDoc

Today’s hospitalized COVID patients are very different from those we saw in 2020 and 2021.

I spoke with Keren Landman Vox to explain.

We discussed how I think testing guidelines need to change along with the planned isolation update.

vox.com/2024/2/14/2407…

yes, Shira Doron MD -interesting the media in 2024 is coming around to thinking about ways public health could have increased trust during the pandemic that ID MDs thought about in 2022. I do think pandemic expertise from Infectious Diseases physicians could help next time around.