Tim Lahey, MD, MMSc

Took a break from the trolls and the dysfunctional landlord To see how it felt I missed the good conversations - and enjoyed my days more without the misinformation and amorphous rage Off to find a better party. Hope to see good friends there

THIS. I mean, if you care about #kids.

A table of contents with links to all 148 (!) of the daily videos I have posted (90s each) on preventing substance use in kids: jessicalahey.com/comingofageint…

Ozempic, and other GLP1 meds, have been unleashed on the market in a contentious moment: Health at Every Size has gained traction, with acolytes saying obesity is not a disease in need of treatment, nor should weight loss be medically prescribed. 1/5🧵 vox.com/science-and-he…

Our article in @Health_Affairs examining community health, healthcare access, and COVID-19 booster uptake in Massachusetts through April 2022 just published. A few of our main findings: healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hl…

Nice explainer on the consequences of ending the public health emergency. Importantly it looks at the patient perspective. What ending the emergency actually means, by @dr_kkjetelina open.substack.com/pub/yourlocale…

We will never find a better balance between legit corporate profit & public health if we can’t grow our civic conversation beyond the false dichotomy of capitalism vs socialism nytimes.com/2023/01/28/bus…

“holding these government contractors accountable would save more than 7,000 lives a year — translating to $1 billion saved in foregone dialysis” nytimes.com/2023/01/28/opi…

A recent @washingtonpost opinion piece speculated that COVID-19 deaths are over-counted. Our new @ConversationUS article explains why this piece is flawed. COVID-19 deaths are not overcounted; most evidence indicates they are undercounted. Thread 1/6 theconversation.com/covid-19-death…

We’ve all wondered why scientists or MDs “turn”. How respected folk can find themselves deep in the anti-vax community. It’s a decidedly simple (but dangerous and malicious) process. Below is a thread on how people become “red pilled.” 🧵

These are stories because insurance companies & Pharma run health care: Who gets expensive new therapies? nytimes.com/2023/01/24/hea… Moderna to charge >$100/dose of publicly-funded vaccines thenation.com/article/econom… More hospital layoffs beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/memo…

Excellent slide by @adarsh_bhimraj about guidelines on convalescent plasma for trearment of #COVID19 From @CDCgov/@IDSAInfo Clinician Call of 2023 #IDTwitter @DrToddLee @ShohamTxID

Assessment of Efficacy and Safety of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Children Aged 5 to 11 Years ja.ma/3HrtGC6 via @JAMAPediatrics part of @JAMANetwork

**New Kidney Transplant Policy Alert** As of January 5, 2023 all US kidney transplant centers are REQUIRED to review which Black patients have had a race-based #eGFR equation used for #kidney waitlisting. If used, their waitlist times will be modified. bit.ly/3iS6DHn

Given that each COVID booster has been associated w/ ⬇️ severe dz in high risk recipients, transitioning to yearly boosters makes sense 👉🏽For now 👉🏽For that group 👉🏽W/ the usual caveats 👉🏽Rolling efficacy studies should inform next steps npr.org/sections/healt…

COVID deaths are NOT being overcounted. We're UNDERcounting. Still. My friend/colleague @jeremyfaust does a great job of analyzing the data & debunking this claim: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/data-snapsho… The REAL question is whether you/we think those deaths matter. And maybe you/we don't.

Yesterday in clinic we saw our one of our older patients living with HIV for 30 + years who just had their first great, great grandchild. Seriously, who would have dreamed that up 30 years ago.

@LudwigLin This is such an important point Most adults know when it’s time to have a conversation in private, or 1:1, because things are going off the rails Here, the intrinsic superficiality of the medium fuels conflict that we blame too often on folks with whom we could agree in 3D

@TimLaheyMD well, maybe one needs to factor in the need for publicity in some of these thought leaders. discussions that are best had within a professional forum are instead voiced via Twitter, where COVID deniers can latch on to that. So that's a problem

One prominent doc (@DrLeanaWen) says incidental COVID diagnoses cause overestimation of the "still unacceptably high" mortality of COVID-19 Another (@jeremyfaust) says we likely *miss* some deadly COVID consequences How can both be true?

We still don’t know enough about how well the bivalent Covid vaccines are working. My latest for @voxdotcom vox.com/science-and-he…

@schleyman4 yes, agree, that's Faust's point