📈ALL TIME RECORD—New York State Department of Health announced that NY is experiencing the highest number of flu cases ever recorded in a single week (since recording started 2004). Hospitalizations due to influenza surged by ⬆️63% in one week. health.ny.gov/press/releas...

The Grinch Who Stole Your Shots…. RFK Jr. spent 2025 laying the groundwork to destabilize the US vaccine system. The Trump govt has embraced anti-vax ideology and has begun dismantling the childhood vaccine schedule. We need to be prepared for 2026. Read more: drericding.substack.com/p/the-grinch...

Joe Rogan confuses chickenpox with measles—also doesn’t know that measles wipes out your immune system’s memory to fight other germs: ❌"Measles was what everyone got when I was a kid…“❌ WRONG.

The Grinch Who Stole Your Shots…. RFK Jr. spent 2025 laying the groundwork to destabilize the US vaccine system. The Trump govt has embraced anti-vax ideology and has begun dismantling the childhood vaccine schedule. We need to be prepared for 2026. Read more: drericding.substack.com/p/the-grinch...

FIXED BULLSHIT HEADLINE—by the “CDC” we mean a political speechwriter with zero public health training/experience who RFK Jr appointed as Acting CDC Director to do his bidding and stopped recommending Hepatitis B vaccine for newborns.

Uncontrolled measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving gatherings and low vaccination rates. Some unvaccinated kids sick and in isolation / quarantine for a second 21-day period. Preventable. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

U.S. manufacturing jobs have plummeted, despite promises to bring manufacturing back to US. The latest manufactural drop is the 5th monthly decrease this year, according to ADP. (Chart from Bloomberg)

Voting for more hepatitis B, which is a leading cause of cancer worldwide is peak MAHA / MAGA self own right now.

⚠️RFK Jr appoints anti-vaxxer to head FDA drug research center—"Putting Tracy Beth in charge [of FDA’s CDER] is like dropping an atom bomb," says an agency source, & multiple top-level officials preparing FDA resignations. "It's an extinction level event." www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-tra...

Recession looming—U.S. job cuts reach -1.17 million this year, most since 2020.

I predict Fed has to cut rates this month now. Worst job numbers (ADP) in 2.5 years. -32,000 loss vs +10,000 expected gain.

📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.

Dear MAHA—you’ve been conned by Trump and RFK Jr… food safety laws now decimated by industry lobbyists for their profits and your future diarrhea. Fun fact— food borne illness already surging since EFK Jr slashed CDC tracking system for food borne outbreaks. www.levernews.com/shutdown-dea...

Whisper: it’s not JFK.

Trump WH truly don’t want to feed the poor and starving. Trump administration appeals order to pay full November SNAP food benefits www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

RFK Jr had slashed the CDC’s program to monitor and track food-borne outbreaks back in August. Fast forward to now… deadly listeria outbreak across the U.S. has now caused 25 hospitalizations and 6 deaths across 18 states, one of the largest outbreaks. These events are linked.

This is the pretty damn powerful speech that @rdmorris.bsky.social gave in front of the Capitol bldg yesterday: drbobmorris.substack.com/p/the-house-...

Hey hey, ho ho, RFK Jr has got to go!

📢It's time. Stand Up. Speak Out. 📍Join the 911 March for Health and Science. November 5th, 4 PM. National Mall, at 7th Street SW. www.911forhealthandscience.org

It's time. Stand Up Speak Out Join the 911 March for Health and Science Tomorrow, 4 PM. www.911forhealthandscience.org

💡Key findings: 📍vaccines for COVID KP.2 variant had 68% effectiveness 📍Maternal RSV vaccine & RSV vaccines in adults >=60 had effectiveness of >=68% against hospitalization 📍Flu shot had effectiveness of 48% in adults ages 18-64 & 67% in kids against hospitalization www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

BREAKING—40 million set to lose food aid next week after Trump USDA says it refuses use emergency funds for food stamps. www.axios.com/2025/10/24/g...

INSANE INFLATION: Average ACA premiums will rise ⬆️ 30% next year. The higher premiums, along with the likely expiration of subsidies, mean millions of people will see their health insurance payments double or even triple in 2026. Gift 🎁 link 🔗 wapo.st/477rixd

$172 million can fund a lot of medical research. Or 2 fancy private jets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too. Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

BREAKING—New Trump White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay. (Read: possible mass- airport sickouts if TSA & air traffic controllers refuse to work without pay during shutdown) www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...

Shutdown fight—to save the average American family $13k in Obamacare health insurance subsidies. GOP want to dissolve this and then allow rates to rise to any amount.

TYLENOL—“Why hasn’t the CDC refuted it? Well, RFK Jr. fired CDC director Monarez....and the acting director has no medical background is a speechwriter for Bush. So if you’re a speechwriter, you too can become a CDC director someday if you really believe in yourself” www.pennlive.com/politics/202...

Donald Trump Becomes Dr. Death & Declares War on Tylenol Trump, an ignorant man without any medical experience, repeats dangerous, unfounded, & reckless claims about Tylenol & autism in another step advancing MAGA's pro-death march. W/ @drericding.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr & Trump are wrong—the largest best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol/Tylenol). A crude analysis found only a tiny 5% risk, but once you adjust via sibling controls, the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0%📉

Breaking—RFK Jr’s self appointed vaccine committee voted Friday to end the CDC’s universal recommendation that people of all ages get Covid shots, moving the decision from individuals to one made in coordination with doctors instead—read: more difficult to get COVID shots.

⚠️DUMBEST ERA OF HUMANITY. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s handpicked slate of vaccine advisers voted to no longer recommend a combined shot for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chickenpox) for children under age 4. Some committee members said there was no evidence to support the move.

BREAKING—in rebuke to RFK Jr—the West Coast Health Alliance—health officials in California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii—recommended every resident 6 months & older receive the flu vaccine, most get Covid-19 shot, including pregnant women and all kids 0.5-2 yrs Gift 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/h...

Dooming our dogs—A new study has found that US dog owners who harbor mistrust in the safety and efficacy of childhood and adult vaccines are also more likely to hold negative views about vaccinating their four-legged friends. www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Across the NIH and NSF, billions in research grants have been frozen or cancelled. The National Cancer Institute faces a $4 billion slash - a 37% cut. Those aren’t abstract numbers. Those are cancelled Alzheimer’s trials. Stalled cancer studies. Dead-end cures. open.substack.com/pub/drericdi...

Because of RFK Jr., “CDC scientists were blocked from using clinical data to make decisions, public communications about vaccines were halted, Covid and flu preparedness programs were scaled back,” former CDC staff tell Congress. www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

ONLY MASS VACCINATION WILL SAVE KIDS—Cases of Hepatitis B in kids and teens dropped 99% in the 1990s only after the CDC recommended universal vaccination at birth. Trump/RFK Jr now wants to reverse that, despite hard lessons from 1980s that casual vax wasn’t enough. www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/n...

📍RFK Jr. has crossed the Rubicon. The war on science isn’t looming - it’s here. I had hoped that after the darkest days of the pandemic, we could start rebuilding a stronger science world. I was wrong. So, starting today, I’m back. And I want you to join me. drericding.substack.com/p/im-back-be...

⚠️Lies, damn lies, and…. RFK Jr testified to Congress that ANYONE can get a new updated coronavirus vaccine... ➡️ total bullshit lie. Many people now have to go out-of-state to get a shot, or even get off label prescriptions from their doctor! Gift 🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4nbXgO6

⚠️DEFYING RFK Jr’s CDC—The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) reaffirmed its support for COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant women, breaking from flawed advice in the most recent CDC immunization schedule set by RFK Jr. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

MUZZLED CANCER REPORT—For past 3 years, the alcohol industry, aided by its allies in Congress & Trump WH, sought to discredit and bury a major analysis linking alcohol and getting sick and dying, including cancer. They succeeded. Author says says Trump WH blocked it. www.vox.com/health/46008...

We are in big trouble and entering dark times.

BREAKING—new CDC director being booted—Susan Monarez, the newly installed director of the CDC, is being ousted weeks after she was confirmed to lead the public health agency, according to multiple WH/HHS sources. Unclear why yet. She’s been CDC 1 month. 🎁link wapo.st/4n7Dkfm

📍FDA has approved new variant-adapted COVID vaccine formulation (Novavax too)— but now only for those age 65+ or those “higher risk”, which is vague. Still needs CDC’s clearance—but now controlled by RFK Jr’s new dubious ACIP vaccine committee. Gift🎁 🔗 wapo.st/45RvyPx

PRO DEATH WHITE HOUSE—The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” says one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

JOB LOSSES—Worst monthly payroll drop off (layoffs) in recorded U.S. history since 1979… with exception of April 2020 (when that pesky virus “would just disappear”). ➡️Worse than even 2008 recession!

⚠️DARK DARK DARK—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines and mandates what preventive measures insurers must cover. Removal of USPSTF means we are about to enter a very dark era. ➡️Mega insurers like United Healthcare are gleeful right now.

RFK Jr Rescinds Endorsements for Some Flu Vaccines—HHS guidelines no longer endorses flu vaccines with thimerosal, a preservative that anti-vaxxers FALSELY linked to autism. This came after a presentation by the former leader of an anti-vaccine group. Gift 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/h...

YOUR DAD SAYS NOT TO TALK ABOUT THIS