Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.

Don’t tell me you care about children’s health when you dissolve the CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING PREVENTION branch at the #CDC.

Sadly too true…

On Feb 24, I gave a lecture at UW explaining what my team's decade-plus research on online rumors during crises reveals about the right wing "bullshit machine." Fittingly, a lightning strike impacted the original audio. Here's a fixed version w/ the full transcript: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjiG...

The whole economic and political system from left to right is geared towards economic growth based on the total annihilation of the natural world And this is called progress And anyone who says otherwise is mocked as a freak and a clown but we all know who the real clowns are

The first measles death in the US since 2015. In a school-aged child who was not vaccinated. Senseless tragedy. Measles is no joke. And there are many outcomes from measles infection other than death that we should also care about and try to prevent. Everything about this was entirely preventable.

Interested in why people who think that vaccines are harmful vote to support RFK jr but also vote to support the below? No vaccines, but yes to formaldehyde+other unrestricted toxins? She Lobbied for a Carcinogen. Now She’s at the E.P.A., Approving New Chemicals. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/c...

We should send newly confirmed expert, RFK Jr. to Wuhan so he can expose himself to this new virus and let us know if everything is ok. If he looks good after a few months they can send him back home! 😜 I’m sure he wouldn’t want to endanger anyone with vaccines! www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

The breadth and scope of cowardice amongst our scientific leadership is staggering.

This is unbelievable—the chaos occurring in our country right now is impossible to put into words. Firing officials working on #H5N1 bird flu ‘by accident’ as it continues to spread isn’t just incompetence, it’s putting lives at stake for politics. We can’t afford this kind of recklessness.

Here’s some positive H5N1 news for a change: conditional approval for poultry vaccines made by Zoetis for chickens. Why didn’t we do this sooner? The answer is more complex than you might think. www.science.org/content/arti...

Listen to legendary, brilliant political science professor Stathis Kalyvas, of Oxford University today, previously of Yale University, NYU, and OSU. He gets it. Read my previous posts to see the larger news context.

“When I hear about us leaving WHO . . . , we’re cutting out the EIS — a chill goes up my spine. Because I realize that we’re dealing with people who are in a different reality. They don’t understand public health. They don’t understand what it was like to encounter the dangers of the past.”

We're expediting sex designation change requests on birth certificates. People born in WA who want to change the sex designation on their birth certificate can do so by filing a request with us. . doh.wa.gov/DesignationC...

Young scientists are worried for their future and careers. Some people are reveling on n that. They seem to be really enjoying the moment. They have “no sympathy”. Imagine saying that to many people who are rightly worried about their jobs and income. They dream of firing more people.

I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment. Humor me?

This change will accomplish one thing - kill medical research in US academic institutions. That's not hyperbole and the best way I can explain this to the lay public. Slashing indirect costs to 15% is a move to destroy the academic enterprise. Pass it on. www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

From @walkerbragman.bsky.social, more on the RealClear journal of COVID contrarians. www.importantcontext.news/p/a-new-acad...

Editorial from the @thelancet.bsky.social "The health, medical, and scientific communities have a vital role in advocating for their patients, defending programmes, and lobbying for policies and institutions that are good for health and wellbeing." #GoodTrouble

Oh, hell yeah www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The loss of research and clinical funding (USAID, PEPFAR, NIH, CDC, etc) directly impacts human beings in trials, who are being treated for HIV/TB/malaria, and who are now at greater risk of dying. The halt of funding is unethical and violates our commitments to study participants and to patients.

Ty @emilymullin.bsky.social @mattreynolds.bsky.social. The @carlbergstrom.com and @angierasmussen.bsky.social quotes sum it up. It's LARPing until they make it seem normal/mainstream.

Trump’s nominees to lead NIH and FDA, Jay Bhattacharya and Marty Makary, are among the editorial board members of a new journal that includes scientists who promoted herd immunity and opposed public health measures during Covid. My story with @mattreynolds.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

We have given up on public health. It is difficult to imagine a more perfect situation for the looming pandemic than now. We are actively working to make our food less safe and more capable of harming us.

Moving defense of childhood #vaccines by Vanderbilt vaccine expert Kathy Edwards in JAMA. Stunning that so many people fear the tools that prevent children from dying and being maimed, rather than the pathogens that resurge when vaccine use declines. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

White House budget proposal may slash NSF funding from 9 billion to 3 billion a year.

MMWR is back online! Let’s hope public health agency comms are fully restored 🤞 www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...

You may wonder why altCDC is so political. Public health is as much about the disease as it is about the society in which that disease occurs. We are battling an admin that wants to dismantle US public health, sow misinformation, devalue science, and cripple our ability to respond to health threats.

RE LARPing fake and bad science into existence. It mimics a bigger pattern/approach.

Thank you for this reporting @wstonereports.bsky.social With quotes from me, @meganranney.bsky.social, Perry Halkitis, Nirav Shah and others. These data keep everyone safe! www.npr.org/sections/sho...

The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying. pepfarimpact.vercel.app

LARPing a "journal" into existence.

Let's go @idsainfo.bsky.social, time to get rolling given the stakes

Thank you @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social for publishing my Op-Ed today. RFK Jr.’s “confirmation would undermine public health and betray hardworking health care professionals and researchers who work relentlessly to keep our patients safe and healthy” www.seattletimes.com/opinion/a-nu...

#HealthForAll For everyone. Everywhere.

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This is inconceivable. We are entering a dark phase of American public health in which many, many people suffer unnecessarily from vaccine-preventable illnesses. We need to keep fighting, sharing stories of harm from the front lines & disseminating data. #MedSky www.npr.org/sections/sho...

My frequent collaborator @jevinwest.bsky.social worked with an exceptional team to develop an NRC report on the challenges of misinformation about science. That report is now available for free today. nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2789...

Awesome new IPC medical director position at UW Medical Center just posted!

Doctors who gushed over RFK Jr. are trying to absurdly blame those who warned about him for his rise. Too bad. They’ll be tied to him for the rest of their careers. It’s all they’ll be known for. My latest for Science Based Medicine. sciencebasedmedicine.org/notsatire/

I hope the folks nominated for health or public health positions are asked about H5N1 during confirmation hearings. Most of us who think about this stuff think an influenza pandemic will be far worse than 2020 was #IDSky

Sarah McBride: "It is an attempt to distract ... Every single time we hear them say the word 'trans,' look what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare."

My latest for Science Based Medicine. Any doctor who enabled RFK Jr. in any way, is antivaccine, no matter how much they say they love vaccines. Featuring some new arrivals here to bluesky. sciencebasedmedicine.org/antivaxxdocs/

“Local #publichealth is here to do everything in our power, with our teams, to serve every single person in our community who needs us. But that should be the case for every single person who lives in our country.” Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County Health Officer www.kqed.org/news/1201538...

Warning to all: Dr. Peter Hotez is not on BSKY. This is a fake. (Repeating Dr. Hotez’ warning on Twitter).

In 2023, I wrote a paper for the BMJ debunking a paper Marty Makary wrote where he (and team) manipulated irrelevant data to create the illusion that the COVID-19 vaccines presented more risks than benefits to young adults. He is not qualified to be the head of the FDA. jme.bmj.com/content/50/2...

I’m at a loss to understand how a pandemic denier could be nominated for leading health RFK Jr. Says His Health Org. Funded Covid Conspiracy Film 'Plandemic' www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...