Jody Lanard MD
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former WHO senior pandemic influenza comms advisor (for better or worse) 2005. WHO & FAO risk com training/webinars 2003-2023; FedSoc member; U. of Penn Med '80
Expat on a beautiful boat.
Joined May 2013
[Angela, I can't resist making this my pinned tweet for awhile! I promise I'll exchange it soon for something more substantive!]
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Not sure how this problematic study could possibly expose more rather than fewer Bissau-Guinean babies to hep B. The country does not yet have a birth hep B dose, according to this WHO child vax schedule chart. Can you please explain?
On same day he stripped @AAP of millions in grants, @SecKennedy awarded $1.6M to Tracy Høeg's Danish friends for a grossly unethical study that will expose African babies to hep B to achieve political goals. Steal from US taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies. https://t.co/qjeu2wVE54
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Unlike Lawrence and Branswell, many reporters covering this story stated that this study would unethically cause some babies to not get the birth dose. But child vax schedules for Guinea Bissau show there currently is no birth dose for hep B. 4/4
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But as Stat suggests, the grant is not likely to deprive any newborn Bissau-Guineans of a hep B birth dose they otherwise would have received. Because Guinea-Bissau does not currently give a birth dose of hep B, as this WHO chart shows. 3/4
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I have nothing good to say about the no-competition grant-awarding process. HHS gave this grant without competition to a group already hugely distrusted by “The Guild.” This is unlikely to build confidence in its results. (And there are many other problems with the grant.) 2/4
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In StatNews, Lawrence and Branswell wrote that this grant will be “comparing a dose at birth to Guinea-Bissau’s current standard of care, giving babies their first hepatitis B vaccine dose at 6 weeks of age.” 1/4 https://t.co/HkKHIvQLoe
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This is the in-person event the trading community deserves.
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An epistemic monopoly for docs? I disagree 100%. Docs should face patients' queries about new meds. No one can force us to write a 'scrip, but our patients can't (& shouldn't have to) depend on us to gatekeep info about new FDA-approved products. Treat people like grownups!
BREAKING 🅱️ RFK Jr is preparing to ban Pharmaceutical Ads on TV.. Thoughts?
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SC measles: ~45000 kids in Spartanburg schools ~89% vax'd ~4950 kids unvax'd ~1200 kids vax'd but not immune (3% of vax'd) Some schools with only 17% vax'd 42 new cases in past week, from >10 schools Makes sense that there are >250+ quarantined. https://t.co/nQY3jbvamR
254 kids in quarantine. For 21 days. For an easily preventable disease. Somehow the same people who want to dismantle the CDC for keeping our kids out of school in 2020… think keeping them out of school in 2025 is just fine… 🤷🏽♂️
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When you wake up and open the curtains and automatically think, "Maybe school will be cancelled!" But you're old, and it's only a couple of inches, and it's Sunday.
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Re talking with patients about vaccines, Dr. Krutika Kuppalli refers to “routine discussions that should take seconds.” “Seconds” is a tell, as gamblers would say. I’d like to ask her how she conceptualizes informed consent. https://t.co/A6Vsg5RT4v
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View of lower Manhattan over a Red Hook warehouse on the East River, near sunset when the sun is nearly as far south as it gets each year.
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I never dreamed that one of my most important risk comm issues would be regarding the 2nd rubella dose - ONLY added because it "comes with" MMR dose 2. The 1st rubella dose was deemed sufficient by WHO and CDC: >95% of kids become immune for life; US CRS was almost eliminated.2/2
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ACIP meeting: I'm always so happy to hear rubella vaccine developer Dr. Stanley Plotkin mentioned! He was one of my most inspiring med school profs. Years later, he reached out to Peter for risk comm advice. 1/2
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Dr. Hibbeln and Dr. Meissner just said they weren't sure exactly what they were being asked to vote for (Vote 2), so they abstained. (This wasn't JUST because of the actual language, though) 2/2
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Everyone's racing to build AI agents. But agents are just as commoditized as the LLMs powering them. The real moat isn't in the engine—it's in the fuel.
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ACIP day 2: I've watched these meetings for many years. Didn't the chairman read aloud the voting language right before the actual vote was taken? I'm not sure. I get the sense that sometimes some of the members may not be clear on the final language of a recommendation.1/2
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How might the US differ from other HICs re: potential exposure of babies to hep b? In the US, ~70% of chronic hep b infections are in immigrants. ( https://t.co/ias761mGV4) In the NYC (e.g.), ~ 40% of childcare workers are immigrants. I do not have comp data for other HICs.
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If you would like to get a sense of the ACIP's new chairman Kirk Milhoan, watch this, starting at 9:20. https://t.co/M2zORhl5tu Milhoan: "So if you get a [Covid] vaccine, you’re in your first trimester, you have an 80% chance of miscarrying. 80%. And they hid that data." Not.
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Jody Lanard,MD and her husband Peter Sandman,PhD are considered among the most authoritative in the world on the subject of risk communications.
@ChaunceyGardner You know you’re old when you remember that the MAIN TOBACCO PROBLEM BY FAR was the smoke from tobacco products. The main current problem is Smoke and Mirrors, conflating risk of combustibles and non-combustibles, leading to justified mistrust of officials and dishonest experts.
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This year's northern hemi flu vax strains were chosen too late to include the recent H3N2 subclade K strain. This is a STRONG argument for increasing production of cell-cultured and recombinant flu vaccine (much faster to produce), & relying less on egg-based (slower) flu vax.
With an absent CDC and mismatched 'subclade K' flu strain, experts face upcoming season with uncertainty Early data from the United Kingdom and Japan show that the H3N2 subclade K was represented in 90% of flu samples. https://t.co/9M3ZUXUBeK Photo: NIAID/ Flickr cc
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Honored to be at the Humphrey building today for @CMSgov's ACCESS model event. ACCESS is the first Medicare payment model purpose-built for technology-enabled chronic care; paying for outcomes, not activities. It covers conditions affecting two-thirds of Medicare beneficiaries,
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I'm a patriot. I belong to the Federalist Society. I'm mildly libertarian. And it is unbearable to see what my beloved country is doing to people. If I were younger, I'd be on the barricades -- trying to help keep peace while protesting.
Some background on the absolute monarchy where the Trump administration is now paying to imprison people deported by ICE
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