Dr Kat, Epidemiologist

15/06/2025

in Chicago 6/14/2025. Diversity + unity = strength ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

02/06/2025

There is still no such thing as turbo cancer

27/05/2025

I guess forgot about this data when making recommendations

30/04/2025

Hating on “Big Pharma”? Cool, it’s only 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?

06/04/2025

THIS IS NOT NORMAL. Children should not die of preventable illness. The children AND the parents are victims of disinformation

A school-aged child died at a Texas hospital where they were receiving treatment for measles, marking the second death of a minor in the state linked to the ongoing outbreak.

30/03/2025

Update (as of 3/27/2025) on the 2025 US measles outbreak. Please note that these are CONFIRMED cases only. There are likely many cases that have been undetected and thus not recorded.

Please get your children vaccinated on schedule with the MMR vaccine. Two doses of MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles, so it will prevent measles in your child and also provide herd immunity for the community (to protect others who are too young or too sick / immunocompromised to be vaccinated)

30/03/2025

Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

In an aborted plan to roll out the news, the agency would have emphasized the importance of vaccinating people against the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease that has spread to 19 states, the records show.

A CDC spokesperson told ProPublica in a written statement that the agency decided against releasing the assessment “because it does not say anything that the public doesn’t already know.” She added that the CDC continues to recommend vaccines as “the best way to protect against measles.”

But what the nation’s top public health agency said next shows a shift in its long-standing messaging about vaccines, a sign that it may be falling in line under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines:

“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” the statement said, echoing a line from a column Kennedy wrote for the Fox News website. “People should consult with their healthcare provider to understand their options to get a vaccine and should be informed about the potential risks and benefits associated with vaccines.”

THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

28/03/2025

Utah bans fluoridated water. Dentists - here’s a market for you to open practices. Link to gift article in flouride highlight.

23/03/2025

So the antivax nonprofit previously (?) run by our current HHS secretary has created a fake CDC clone website full of vaccine misinformation

https://infoepi.substack.com

19/03/2025

The future of American public health is at risk

Trump’s appointees don’t believe in the concept of a public in the first place.

10/03/2025

concerning dysentery (shigellosis) infection currently spreading in Multnomah County, Oregon.

In the Portland area, health officials said 56% of cases were among people experiencing homelessness and 55% of cases reported methamphetamine and/or op**te usage.

Lacking housing creates a context that can increase the risk of multiple kinds of infectious disease. When you are unhoused, it is more difficult to prevent infectious disease and harder to access care to treat disease.

07/03/2025

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?

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-plans-study-into-vaccines-autism-sources-say-2025-03-07/ 

The CDC’s move comes amid one of the largest measles outbreaks the U.S. has seen in the past decade. Extensive scientific research has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.