Dr Kat, Epidemiologist
Epidemiologist at University of Illinois Chicago, misinformation debunker, data nerd, Chicagoan, scientist for the resistance
- I spoke to @huffpost about potential shenanigans with the Covid vaccine this fall www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-...
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- 🤣🤣🤣
- Hating on “Big Pharma”? Cool, it’s a $1.6 trillion regulated industry. But hang on…the $6.3 trillion wellness industry sells you mushroom tea, dewormers, crash diets, and alkaline water—no regulations, no oversight. But hey, it’s ‘natural,’ right?
- In today’s WTF - antivaxxers are claiming the measles outbreak in Texas is a “bioweapon” targeting Mennonites. www.wired.com/story/antiva...
- THIS IS NOT NORMAL. Children should not die of preventable illness. The children AND the parents are victims of disinformation www.cnn.com/2025/04/06/h...
- Bad news for us, but good for him for speaking out www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/h...
- Also, Dr. Marks was head of CBER, the part of FDA that regulates all biologic products, so not just vaccines. Many cancer drugs too. this is a huge loss of institutional knowledge.
- Utah bans fluoridated water. Dentists - here’s a market for you to open practices www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...
- The administration says COVID is over, and they are priotizing “making America healthy again”. Um ok. Hundreds of people still die every week from Covid, and long Covid symptoms continue to cause debilitating medical problems www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
- So the antivax nonprofit previously (?) run by our current HHS secretary has created a fake CDC clone website full of vaccine misinformation infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone-...
- The future of American public health is at risk www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...
- Dark days www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...
- I don’t even know what to say anymore because everything is so far beyond the pale www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
- We need a reminder of what the pre-vaccine era was like www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Well, here’s some good news, but I’m also scared of what nomination is coming next www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/h...
- Someone let all the cancer patients who were born before 1957 know that they didn’t really have cancer because RFK said measles prevents cancer 😵💫 www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
- The studies have been done. All the published papers are in my linktree. Honestly, spending money to reexamine this is “waste, fraud and abuse”. Should I report to DOGE? www.reuters.com/business/hea... 
- Don’t have “measles parties” - this is dangerous and profoundly stupid. Get your children vaccinated to protect them AND others who are immune compromised or too young to be vaccinated. Measles parties will only further exacerbate this outbreak arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
- Vitamin A does not prevent measles!! Get your kids vaccinated.
- When asked about the child who died of measles the secretary of the HHS says “it’s not unusual” to have measles outbreaks. This is a disease that was eradicated in 2000 thanks to vaccines. www.nbcnews.com/now/video/-i...
- This is serious. PLEASE vaccinate your kids. Measles is NOT a “normal childhood illness” and people telling you it is are either 1) lying or 2) uninformed because they are too young to remember dire complications from vaccine-preventable illnesses. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
- Hydroxychloroquine doesn’t prevent bird flu. This is why we don’t listen to Dr “Demon Sperm” Immanuel of any of “America’s Frontline Doctors” for real medical advice
- 💉POLIO VACCINE SUCCESS💉 The use of the polio vaccine has prevented millions of cases of paralysis and death worldwide.
- Welp. Get caught up on all your vaccines, folks.
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- God he’s such a pick me
- 🚨These are the childhood, adolescent and adult vaccine recommendations from CDC. Creating this post for you to bookmark just in case this information gets removed from their website #ᴠᴀᴄᴄɪɴᴇssᴀᴠᴇʟɪᴠᴇs
- It’s called arguing in bad faith. RFK repeatedly asks for people to show data on the safety of vaccines (which was his responsibility to review as an applicant for HHS secretary) but when presented with reams of data, he dismisses it apnews.com/article/rfk-...
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- I wish haha
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- I would love to come 🏃🏻♀️
- "The U.S. cannot wall itself off from transnational health threats” latest piece by the extremely awesome @amymaxmen.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-w...
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- Some of us will not forget that he convinced millions of people not to get the Covid vaccine, a decision that probably had dire consequences for many. Little podcast man is completely disingenuous.
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- We got an email telling us to please be patient with our grants coordinator
- These people never stop 🤣🤣
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- Hi hi hi
- Bernie Sanders hosted a great, all-star, evidence-based panel on vaccines today www.youtube.com/live/0gwDLB6...
- 🧵1/5 - As reported yesterday, the HHS has been ordered by the Trump administration to stop updating their websites and information. This is an unprecedented move, and I can only hope that it’s temporary. But this might be my last US data post for a while.
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View full thread🦠4/5 - Nationally, influenza caused more people to seek emergency care than COVID-19, but both are definitely still circulating 🦠influenza test positivity increased to 18.8%. COVID-19 test positivity remained stable at 6.6% and RSV test positivity decreased to 8.9%.
- 🦠5/5 - Nationally, wastewater viral activity levels for COVID-19 and influenza A are at high levels. National RSV wastewater viral activity levels are moderate. 🦠Overall respiratory illness activity is expected to remain elevated for several more weeks.
- 🦠2/5 - As I promised, here is a thread with the latest Activity Levels Update. All data in this post was reported by CDC on Friday, January 17, 2025.
- 🦠 3/5 -The amount of acute respiratory illness causing people to seek healthcare remains high, especially influenza
- Well this is…not good. I will make a mega post tomorrow with all the latest virus data but that will be the last one for a while. This is just dumb - no reason to cut off access to data while they are conducting the “review” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
- Timeline cleanse
- The WHO has released a statement on hMPV in China. The bottom line: 1) it is not a “mysterious illness” (like the daily mail was saying) 2) Chinese health care system is not overwhelmed 3) China is experiencing NORMAL seasonal viruses like the rest of the N.hemisphere ⬇️ www.who.int/emergencies/...
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- Microchips for everyone!
- Meta started flagging my public health content about HIV and safe sex as “objectionable activity”
- Respiratory viruses are on the rise in most areas. This is CDC data that was posted on Dec 19 ❄️ If you are sick, please stay home (esp if there are older family members at your gatherings) ❄️ masks reduce the risk of all respiratory viruses ❄️covid tests DO work on the new variants HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
- Happy friday - your daily WTF www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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- And this is what happened in 2022 when an area of NY was under vaccinated www.cnbc.com/2022/10/04/h...
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- And a reminder that this just happened in an under vaccinated area of New York State www.cnbc.com/2022/10/04/h...
