American Academy of Family Physicians said on Monday that it recommends all adults over the age of 18, children and pregnant women to receive COVID-19 vaccines, a contrast to the U.S. government's narrowed approvals. reuters.com/business/healthc…

As an immigrant myself, yes. 💯

Under new leadership — who spread misinformation throughout the pandemic — the FDA announced it will limit Covid vaccines to adults over 65 & those with certain medical conditions. Covid continues to spread & cause harm. This an anti-science move that will kill more Americans.

This person really came and told us we're better off reading the AI Cliff Notes 😭 So unserious

I can't believe they've just cancelled the Epidemic Intelligence Service program at CDC. My father was an EIS officer: epimonitor.net/PrintVersion/… @Farzad_MD's thread below gives you a sense of the kind of people in this elite program to train the best & brightest epidemiologists.

I feel like people do not realize that when you have norovirus, it will be coming out of both ends. You will be sitting on the toilet and vomiting into a trashcan at the same time. For hours. You do not want norovirus 🥴 Stay safe out there!

Not picking on any of the people in this thread because this is the default attitude I've encountered, but it's still bonkers. It's fairly easy to convince people that all our selection processes (hiring, grad school etc.) have ~0 predictive power. But then they insist that we should nevertheless put on an elaborate, costly, and harmful ritual of pretending to identify superior candidates, because they find the alternative of switching to a partial lottery to be simply unthinkable. What?! Explicitly randomized admissions are vastly preferable to processes that ultimately result in arbitrary decisions (at best). This is a key point we make in the AI Snake Oil book — the demand for predictive AI in areas like hiring arises because of our deep, seemingly hardwired discomfort with randomness. When I'm asked about the impact I hope our work will have, moving the needle even an iota on our attitudes towards prediction and randomization is at the top of my list.

Stanford researchers' flu vaccine breakthrough could help US fight bird flu sfgate.com/bayarea/article/s… via @SFGate

Flu shot done! 💉🥳

Oh no. The penguin cookie at Starbucks is actually super yummy. 🥲

My 5yo likes little advent calendars (nice way to build up anticipation for the holidays) and this year I picked a gemstone one for him. Was nervous that he wouldn't like it as much as the chocolate advent calendars of previous years but he is LOVING this one 🥹

I'm giving that other place a try. Same handle: @ stefjacinto. bsky. social 💙🌌

Did not expect to be insulted while shopping for a new laptop skin today 🥲