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“There’s nothing [we can] do at this moment to resist the breaking of CDC. But what we can do is turn to local jurisdictions, states, & other professional organizations outside the federal government. They’re going to…be the renaissance that will follow after the dark ages” @drdemetre.bsky.social

Helpful tips from @cmyeaton.bsky.social and @andrewpaviamd.bsky.social on how (and when) to get the latest flu and COVID vaccines 👇 Gift link: wapo.st/4ndf3nK

CDC has been a global leader in public health & played a key role in smallpox eradication. Health depts in red states & blue states rely on CDC expertise & support. The CDC EIS program trains the next generation of public health leaders & disease detectives. They are burning it to the ground.

RIFed Civilians in Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)-CDC’s Disease Detectives Read about this rigorous training program 👇 "They are not household names but over the years they were first to confront the outbreaks that became known as hantavirus, Ebola & AIDS." This decision will haunt our future

illegal and dangerous

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.”

Correction: The measles monovalent vax (Attenuvax) is licensed in the US but not currently manufactured here.

CDCs demand to break up MMR vax into separate monovalent shots is public health malpractice. These vax are widely used worldwide. The 2 manufacturers (Merck & GSK) could easily decide to abandon the US market rather than take a big financial risk on clinical development & licensure of separate shots

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

CDC is being run by politicians now. "there are few experienced leaders left at the CDC; some 80% of..center leaders were laid off or terminated, or have [left]. Houry was the only permanent career official in CDC's office of the director... there were 10 political appointees remaining, she said."

PubMed is in trouble This is beyond bad for medical research pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

No training in stats or climate models is needed to understand this is bad news for the planet 👇

“If you add the conspicuous absence of pro-vaccination messages to the glut of misleading statements from top health officials about vaccine safety and effectiveness, the federal government’s effort this year looks more like a proactive campaign to discourage vaccination.” 👇

281 US children died from the flu in the 2024-25 season. Vaccination saves lives. 👇

Great 🧵 and published review on COVID and flu vax effectiveness & evidence supporting a policy of universal flu & COVID-19 vaccination. 👇👇

"So ACIP will say the risk of febrile seizures [after MMR] is intolerably high, it cannot be reduced without the supposedly dangerous autism pill, & the only solution is to withhold a vaccine that has...protected America’s children..." @angierasmussen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

👇 Timely 🧵 on public health news from @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social

statement by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

This large Swedish study found no association between acetaminophen & autism using matched sibling controls. Also no dose-response effect. Ppl who use acetaminophen while pregnant differ in many ways from those who do not, & using sibling controls was a great way to reduce unmeasured confounding

🚨🚨 If I could just summarize 1 sentence from the new National Academy of Sciences study on climate, boldface, flashing red, it would be: "the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused GHGs is beyond scientific dispute." BEYOND SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE 🚨🚨

4) COVID vaccine was made “shared clinical decision making” (SCDM). Which means different barriers in different states. Some will require a prescription. Some won’t… ACIP had been moving away from SCDM because of the barriers. Doublespeak jargon about individual choice means nothing.

Well worth the read. Reiss calmly & unemotionally lays out the case as to how & why RFK is a serious threat to our children’s health. He’s “paring down public health agencies” by firing staff, replacing w/ “political appointees judged more by loyalty than expertise”. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

"No vaccine was tested more extensively than the RNA vaccines, and no vaccine was given to more people than the mRNA vaccines, & they were found to be incredibly safe...and effective. They saved 20 million lives, & they stopped a pandemic that was shutting down the world." -Drew Weissman

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if you wouldn’t let random weirdos from the comments section make healthcare decisions for your child, then you shouldn’t be okay with what’s happening here

My family had a pharmacist and a pharm tech (in 2 different states) go to great lengths to dissuade them from getting their Covid shot, even with a Rx in hand. They stood their ground and got their shots, but lots of people won't. There are going to be a lot of personal beliefs thrown around.

At least Dr. Kulldorff realizes that they cannot make decisions on prescriptions, that their only practical vote - the only one within their authority - is 4. Note: they are making it shared clinical decision making for everyone.

Re-upping this in light of the dumpster fire at ACIP today.

It was a good informed consent document. It's part of the process. Putting misinformation into the document undermines informed consent. Misleading people does not go with informed consent. 2/2

Listening to Malone is absolutely WILD "I worked in this field so I know quite a bit about correlates of protection and you're lying if you claim we have one for SARS-CoV-2" You would think as someone who worked in this field, he would understand the difference between CoP and absolute correlates.

Excellent ACIP presentation by Dr. Su on the robust vaccine safety monitoring system, using ischemic stroke signal evaluation as an example.

A brilliant response to ACIP policy-making by anecdote 👇

ACIP is in chaos, they don't understand the policy implications, and it is only going to get worse.

"[ACIP] made its choice about MMRV at breakneck speed. In advance of meetings, ACIP...work groups...would evaluate the evidence on vaccines... Major decisions would not be made without an assessment of the benefits & risks... All of that has gone out the window." www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

As critical as I am of the CDC right now, I know many dedicated experts are still there. If we could hear their voices—not just political appointees—I’d feel differently. But the current messaging isn’t science-based, so I can’t trust the CDC or FDA at this time.

“It’s a real concern that someone so unqualified, [who] so clearly has an agenda…is apparently…trying to get access to the VSD data to try and persuade the public that they have evidence that there’s an association with vaccines and autism. When, in fact, there’s not.” - Dr. Edward Belongia

HHS abruptly cancels CDC meeting with RFK Jr., anti-vaccine activist as scrutiny mounts www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/r... via @statnews.com

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

Rumor says that RFKJ's NayCIP wants to delay the Hepatitis B (HepB) vaccine dose we give to newborns. What's the worst that could happen? 🤷‍♂️ Turns out that the earlier you get HepB, the more likely you are to deal with lifelong problems like cancer and permanent liver damage. Awful, right? 🧵👇

“Allowing [access to vaccines] to be limited based on anecdote, whim, or flawed research is reckless and irresponsible.” That’s exactly what the CDC's ACIP risks doing. This isn’t just policy—it’s people’s lives.

“Americans expect their government to be ready, to tell the truth even when the evidence is uncomfortable, and to keep partisan fights out of the doctor’s office. The current leadership of HHS is failing those expectations” - @drdebhoury.bsky.social in her written testimony for tomorrow’s hearing

Some good news for Wisconsin residents.

Good advice 👇

We will be in deep, deep trouble when the next pandemic hits or we face some other public health crisis. And it will happen—we just don’t know when.

One of the saddest things is when children have cancer, immune deficiency or need bone marrow or organ transplants. And to add insult to injury, they’re unable to receive vaccines. But YOU can do your part to help protect them by immunizing yourself & your family. We are ALL in this together.

I'm a Former Surgeon General. Here's Why I'm Getting the COVID Shot This Year. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

VAERS data are being weaponized for anti-vax propaganda. It’s a biased data source that is helpful for early detection of potential safety issues, but it can’t prove an adverse event was caused by a vaccine. VAERS signals must be confirmed in a population cohort such as Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)

She has an account here too it's @formerantivax.bsky.social