Seen on LinkedIn: “Staff at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention across multiple programs being fired tonight, including all current (civilian) Epidemic Intelligence Service, and several people working on the Ebola response.”

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

This is a study I worked on over the last few years with @kinnathakarar.bsky.social and others that shows the power of education on changing mindsets regarding stigmatized conditions!

Awesome work by @mmadaio.bsky.social & team including @drelleneaton.bsky.social @monsikka.bsky.social. ✨

Calling implementation scientists! Job alert: www.careersatmainehealth.org/jobs/1676915...

I'm having this surreal realization that standing up for evidence and data has become a politically polarizing position, and I don't know what to do about that.

this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

STAT digging into HAIs, NHSN reporting, and avoidance Great piece on the debacle of penalties driving undertesting and underreporting Brings me back to my days as an IP, knowing that CDC NHSN manual like the back of my hand #IDSky via @tarabannow.bsky.social ⤵️ www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/h...

Secretary Kennedy presents a clear and present danger to the American people and their families. This week, even more of our colleagues in the fields of medicine, public health and patient advocacy join us in calling for his resignation. Our full statement: https://bit.ly/42zItEV

David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage

Dutch late night TV has its take

The chair of the #ACIP is a #COVID-contrarian, Martin Kulldorff, as are others on the committee (i.e., Robert Malone). COVID-contrarians also have hands on the lever of vaccine policy at #FDA (i.e., Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg), at #NIH (i.e., Jay Bhattacharya). 1/

Special thanks to the @CDC scientists for great presentations, excellent scientific reviews, and enormous patience in the face of an enormously challenging and upsetting day at what used to be the ACIP

Stated at ACIP: MMRV isn’t acceptable for kids <4 to prevent measles, mumps, rubella & varicella. ❌ False. MMRV/MMR vaccines are safe & highly effective. Studies show only a very small increase in febrile seizure risk after the 1st dose.

"America’s entire power structure has been taken over by the very same sort of dumbasses who have been yelling at all of us on the internet for years." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

Read ASHE's conversation with SHEA's Executive Director Kristy Weinshel about the behind-the-scenes work at SHEA and leading by “The Golden Rule.” 🔗: bit.ly/3KgIZRS

@mirandayaver.bsky.social and I have an op-ed out today in The Hill on why cutting AHRQ is a dangerous move. From its work in patient safety and HAIs to funding research grants and to its support of the USPSTF - AHRQ has repeatedly shown its value thehill.com/opinion/heal...

Look: I can’t stand's RFK Jr. But if you come into my replies suggesting the problem is his former heroin use, please leave. Stigmatizing drug users is not OK with me. He’s a terrible person. Opioids have nothing to do with that.

New high of Americans saying immigration is good for the US

RFK Jr’s HHS endorsed personal belief vaccine exemptions. We’ve been here before: 2015, California. School vaccine “requirements” let parents opt out for any personal belief. In some counties, kindergarten MMR rates dropped to 50%. A measles outbreak starts at Disneyland. 1/

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, until recently head of NIAID and Dr. Kathy Neuzil (incredible public servants and scientists!) document the extent of political interference with science at NIAID. Whistle-Blower Complaints Detail Tension Over Vaccines at N.I.H. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h...

The medical community understands that vaccines are safe, effective & have led to the elimination of polio, measles & small pox. Secretary Kennedy does not. President Trump must ask for his resignation.

Jay Bhattacharya is now one of the most powerful people in the scientific world and is still bitching about a court finding he wasn't censored. What a deeply sad man.

All clinical, public health, nursing, surgical and other health-related professional organizations and members should boycott the state of Florida for conferences and meetings due to their anti-science and rejection of evidence based practices.

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi

Thanks SHEA, IDSA, et al! www.idsociety.org/news--public...

What happens when vaccine coverage collapses in Florida because they are ending vaccine requirements for school entry? 1. Disease outbreaks that end up hospitalizing and killing infants too young to be vaccinated by responsible parents, the elderly whose immunity wanes, and the immunocompromised.

RFK Jr. must resign.

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here

As the trump administration dials back surveillance for and prevention of infectious diseases guess what the biggest threat to our health systems is right now? That's right, infectious diseases.

My uncontroversial opinion is that the head of the country's top public health agency should be a physician or a scientist or both not a former presidential speech writer and investor but here we are. Sadly I think this is the end of the CDC as we once knew it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

American Public Health Association: “Legislators and officials at all levels of government who are interested in protecting their constituents should demand Kennedy’s removal.” That’s what I call leadership 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.apha.org/news-and-med...

REMINDER: in this moment, the thing you want your Congressperson to do is (1) demand resignations and (2) threaten endless hearings. Impeachment isn't going to work. Read the article if you don't want to take my word for it - Larry is the most respected health law expert in America.

I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.

Bill Cassidy, you could stopped this months ago if you had a shred of integrity.

Is the CDC, the greatest public health agency in history… history? As of June, CDC had lost nearly a quarter of its staff. Then came the shooting. And now this. “CDC is gone,” said one public health expert. “It’s utter chaos,” said a CDC employee. I am so sorry. You all deserve so much better.

PIDS has released the linked statement in response to the FDA's change to the COVID-19 label. It is not supported by scientific evidence and places children at risk of severe disease and hospitalization from COVID-19. #IDSky pids.org/2025/08/27/f...

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

After American Academy of Pediatrics, it’s great to see American College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology release science based guidelines on vaccines 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.

There is no solace for NIH funded researchers in this Supreme Court decision. Grants that were ripped away on dubious grounds, restored by a reasonable judge are now again terminated by an out-of-control Supreme Court. Labs will shutter, people will lose jobs. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?

Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH Director, thinks that if science isn’t popular it should be abandoned. “No matter how elegant the science, a platform that lacks credibility among the people it seeks to protect cannot fulfill its public health mission”. He is unfit for his job in every imaginable way.

Step 1: work actively to undermine public trust in vaccines for years Step 2: lament that public trust for vaccines is super low Step 3: bombard vaccine programmes with the argument of your step 2 www.statnews.com/2025/08/11/m...

All of this. Kennedy is fanning hatred and misinformation, and that is harming not only the greater public, but also directly targets everyone who works in healthcare advocating for evidence-based vaccination

"We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted..." Words really don't mean anything anymore, do they? The incompetence is staggering, the political motives, clear as day. www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

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