Kathryn Kinzel

@kkinzel.bsky.social

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Infectious disease epidemiologist, specializing in vaccines. A personal account where I yell into the void. Excessive gif user. she/they 🏳️‍🌈

A screenshot of the Misfits Market app showing a purported 20% discount on Taylor Farms Classic Caesar Salad kit
A tall jade plant in a mauve pot in front of a window
Approximately 50 red, pink, and white roses in a glass vase on a table
A picture of a PowerPoint slide with the header “IS A HOT DOG A SANDWICH” and an image of four hot dogs with squiggles of mustard on them
An excerpt from an email reading “Welcome to ChatGPT! You’ve been selected to use ChatGPT because your leadership role can benefit from an AI-powered assistant. Let ChatGPT assist you with saving time”
An iced coffee from Starbucks with a cardboard sleeve, which has “❤️ FUCK RFK Jr. ❤️” written with a black marker
Harry Enten points out a poll results showing a net favorability of -38 points of Benedict Arnold, someone who has been dead for quite some time.
Headline: In Britain, July 4 Is Mostly Just a Saturday Sub headline: Independence Day does not loom large in Britain’s public imagination, though cultural institutions did note the day and King Charles III issued a statement.
The cover art for Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
A picture of Fallen Leaf Lake, with a very blue sky above with some wispy clouds. Green hills rise on either side.
A NYT notification reading “Flu Spreads at Texas Base” and “Nearly 160 troops have fallen ill at an Air Force base after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lifted a flu vaccine mandate.”
Scoreline for FIFA World Cup, Group E, showing a final score of Germany 7, Curaçao 1
A headline reading “Cambridge Bluebike rider swarmed by turkeys had no idea the birds were capable of violence”
A picture of the Massachusetts Democratic Convention with a full convention center and large stage with large American flag as a backdrop.
The office thermostat reading 81.4 F at 10:12am
An email that says “Hi Kathryn, SIR0259186 has been marked complete and was closed with the below close notes. Close notes: Nice catch! This is a phishing message.”
A white thermostat on a white office wall showing the room at 80.5 F at 8:45 in the morning.
A rabbit loafing on the floor, back legs extended behind it and ears up
A bag stuck on the baggage claim.
A portion of the id badge showing she/they pronouns and a title of “Acting Director”
A collection of stickers and pins on a red tablecloth, reading “Public Health is HOME”, “50 Years, One Mission. For the health of all.” and “Think. Teach. Do.”, all from the Boston University School of Public Health.
A Facebook comment from “ProductiveLizard8925” that reads “This is about as stupid as your hair cut.”
Cover art for Man with a Plan, featuring Fred Tuttle, an old dairy farmer, dressed like Uncle Sam with his hand on his heart and the US Congress building in the background.
A blue sky post with an image of another blue sky post, stating “is because of people like this piece of shit with over 30K followers telling people “it’s OK if you question vaccines“ that we have children dying of preventable diseases“
A social media post from Vaccinate Your Family over a winter scene with the text “Did someone say, ‘Quad God?’” and an image of a syringe on the Olympic ice rink with the caption “MenACWY quadrivalent vaccine”
A text message preview that reads “BEFORE TRUMP’S SPEECH ENDS: Dems get 700% MATCHED donation (highest”
Tintin and Snowy walk through a blizzard, with Tintin saying “Only one thing to do…go on.”
What appears to be at least 7” of snow over the driveway and landscape, with blowing snow.
A picture of a driveway with a coating of snow. Some snowflakes are visible falling from the sky.
Binks, a medium brown bunny, gets the top of his head petted while he sniffs his nose.
A text message from an international number that starts “Hi Dad! I hope everything’s going great with you. My phone stopped working, so I’m messaging you from a friend’s phone. Could you please text me at my new number, +1—“
A brown rabbit flopped over, hind legs jutting out behind it
Marge, Patty, and Selma at the kitchen table, with Patty saying “There goes the last lingering thread of my heterosexuality.”
A standing desk with two monitors attached, which are above a laptop on the left and a Surface on the right, with a keyboard and mouse in the middle.
A moving pet bed with blue and white clouds, indicative of a bunny underneath
The rear of a rabbit with a small white tail
A brown rabbit with ears up looking through an xpen on a blanket with clouds
The author discusses the new vaccine schedule in a small office.
A screenshot reading “Product details: HARTFORD - The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection and Standards Division (DCP) is warning the public that Willie Pete’s Chocolate Company of Harwinton is recalling their Almond Despair chocolate bar due to undeclared almonds on the label’s ingredient statement. The ingredients statement incorrectly identifies macadamia nuts as present in the product.
A screenshot of ESPN for the Ole Miss/Georgia game showing Georgia scoring a field goal to bring them to 37-34, when in actuality it was Ole Miss scoring that goal.
A collage of four pictures, the top left showing a tied up roasted leg of lamb, the top right showing glazed carrots, the bottom left showing asparagus with gremolata, and the bottom right showing Parmesan risotto
The Delta flight monitor for the in-seat entertainment showing SLC->BOS and current time at destination 1:13am
A series of text messages sent by the author, reading “I just had dinner, now I’m walking the length of the Salt Lake City airport to get some pretzels”, a picture of the Utah Jazz store, “Get you a present lololol”, and “FUCK the pretzel place is closed lolol”
The author and Demetre Daskalakis posing for a photo together
An image of a hotel pool and bar, surrounded by palm trees, with the sky orange and yellow from the sunset
A view of mountains out an airplane window with the wing in view.
Sitting in an airline seat with knees basically touching the seat in front.
A view out the window at the airport, looking at the Boston airport tower with a Delta plane just in the foreground.
The silver line platform at South Station with an announcement that green line service is halted in the downtown section between Kenmore and North Station
A train pulling into a station from the viewpoint of the platform.
A chart showing the list of vaccines and time between licensure and recommendation.
1983 v. 2025 US Vaccine Schedules showing an infant, on the left side above 1983 given three shots and two oral vaccines, to 25 shots and three oral vaccines above 2025
Figure 8.47 from an immunology textbook showing antibody amounts and affinities increasing with subsequent immunization
A large margarita on a wooden table, black straw sticking out
A screenshot of the ACIP agenda from Dec 3 showing “2:30 PM Votes Hepatitis B Vaccine Hepatitis B Vaccine - VFC 3:15 PM Coverage Implications VFC Comments CMS Comments”
Figure 2 from the linked article that shows an overall Relative Risk of 14.82 for SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with 1.95 for Vaccination.