Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎🇺🇸🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇭🇰

@NewsHour This is why they defunded the PBS. They don't want these to get out.

The Social Security Administration now says members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the agency last year accessed and shared sensitive data. The disclosure seemed to confirm some key concerns first raised in a whistleblower complaint last summer filed by the agency’s chief data officer, Chuck Borges. @IAmAmnaNawaz spoke to Borges and his lawyer, Debra Katz.

Washington State @GovBobFerguson needs a law that prevents current ICE agents from ever working in our state's law enforcement, or hell, outright in public services.

in early childhood. Eat cooked food, especially since Trump has cut food inspectors at the USDA and CDC. It is up to us now. Link below: cell.com/trends/microbi…

Science Monday: Certain strains of E. coli can contribute to colon cancer by producing a toxin called colibactin, which can damage DNA and disrupt cell cycles. This is not a cause-and-effect link for all cases, but a significant risk factor, particularly when exposure occurs 1/2

Public Health investigated a foodborne illness outbreak associated with Taste of Yemen in Kent. kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dph/he…

@KING5Seattle Couldn't have happened without the gun.

Elderly man says he shot, killed neighbor because he 'deserved it' king5.com/article/news/c…

@olsonplanner I discovered very late, too late, that my interest is in medicine.

@SeattleiteLeo 🤔 curious…why do you feel that way?

I’m not a doctor, though in many ways I wish I could be.

@RWPUSA @GOP Indeed. Democrats have standards. He needs to go.

It looks like Democrats, unlike @GOP defenders of George Santos and Donald Trump, are not going to play the "colleagues covering for colleagues" game with Bob Menendez. The sooner this is over, and this man is out of the Senate, the better. axios.com/2023/09/24/bob…

@jsm2334 We need yearly COVID vaccines because we have an unequal and highly inaccessible "healthcare" system, unlike the countries in EU. We have to reduce infection.

CHOP and Penn colleague Paul Offit, a member of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunology Practices (ACIP), discusses his nuanced opinions on why should get a yearly COVID booster. He mentions many places in Europe have only recommended for older and those with comorbidities, and Paul's recommendations focus on those groups as well.

@Conortmccartne1 This is not the case with the automakers. CEO pay went up 40%, no one said a word. Stock buyback which adds ZERO value to a company/innovation went through the roof. Those money could have been used to pay workers. Workers pay actually went down 30% when adjusted for inflation.

@SeattleiteLeo today.com/money/hostess-… That was the final death knell for hostess Union was offered a contract, union leadership said no So the company was liquidated and 18 500 lost their jobs

@tammy_wright61 @lawofruby Yes.

In deciding tonight that the GA case against Mark Meadows should remain in state court, Judge Steve Jones is putting a lot of stock in the word act and how it fits into the statute’s text. 1/

@washingtonpost The Court's ruling actually limited the lower court's ruling, if it isn't clear. Still, this ruling has implications on how misinformation spreads. Regardless, with Musk owning Twitter, it's already a moot point. Misinformation already rules here.

The judges’ decision modifies a lower court’s injunction, barring some government officials in the White House and FBI from coercing social media platforms to take down or otherwise limit posts on their website. wapo.st/44KxHtJ

The 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the Biden White House, top government health officials and the FBI likely violated the First Amendment by improperly influencing tech companies’ decisions to remove or suppress posts on covid-19. wapo.st/45K83Xl

@nickmmark It sure is.

@SeattleiteLeo It’s a low bar…

Not thrilled tbh. Then again the typical Seattle driver ain’t great so this might not be a big difference… geekwire.com/2023/gm-backed…

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@MattLRobison @TheRickWilson The bar for public office cannot be this low. It was not a debate. It was entertainment television without hardly any fact or substance. The GOP candidates are not serious people.

@TheRickWilson Crawled over the lowest bar in history was my formulation!🤣youtu.be/3jBL4y_w6jE?si…

Expectations for DeSantis were so unbelievably low in the debate last night and he still couldn’t clear the bar. Shouty, screechy, pissy, and a bully.

@runforsomething Good. Excellent work, young people. I am sorry we still fail to hold our own generations accountable, we are trying.

Young people are not playing. We're coming for our rights at every angle.

@NewsHour It's the gun. Again.

A man was charged with first-degree murder Monday after witnesses said a 9-year-old Chicago girl riding a scooter was fatally shot by someone upset over noise. to.pbs.org/45hecd0

@gorskon Prime candidate for retraction...

Here's a hint when doing meta-analyses: Don't misrepresent what the studies included in the meta-analysis conclude.

@MarchandSurgery @GidMK @kilojoule_ @tylerblack32 @DrSusanOliver1 @gorskon "A" typographical error? 8 out of 12 data points wrongly cited can never be attributed to typographical errors. You must think we are stupid.

This study that's going around is a fantastic example of an awful meta-analysis that adds no new data but makes a surprising and unfounded claim. /1

@DrZedZha Don't worry about it. You are the doctor. She's not. I'm sorry it happened...

I’m a professional woman in my mid 30s and I just got laughed at by a woman in first class on a plane for wearing a mask. I’ve worn a mask intermittently since I was 12, depending on the weather and my health status. This was a first for me. 👀🦭🤯