Headline says it all

Oprah-style: You get a disease! And you get a disease!

This year’s flu has caused the most doctors’ visits in almost 30 years. It’s not too late to get vaccinated.

And today, Bobby Brainworm unilaterally decided to take the flu vaccine off the schedule. Bobby Brainworm may like dead kids but we do not. Vaccinate your kids. Enjoy the fruits of modern medicine.

Cruelty is the goal and It’s happening. “The Trump administration plans to freeze $10 billion in funding for child care subsidies, social services and cash support for low-income families in five states controlled by Democrats.”

DPH statement on the changes to the US vaccine schedule - its a tragic mistake. Read more 👉https://www.defendpublichealth.org/press-release/denmarks-vaccine-schedule-makes-no-sense-us-defend-public-health-says

This is a five alarm fire. If you dont think this impacts you, think again. Public health is in grave danger www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

For those who have been led to believe that this year’s flu vaccine doesn’t work, this isn’t the case. ER visits and hospital admissions are reduced by 72–75% in children and adolescents, and by 32–39% in adults. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Peace out 2025. Can’t say I’ll miss you and fingers crossed 2026 is a little better

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

They took the wrong Kennedy today.

“The U.S. vaccine schedule is a jet engine. Denmark’s is a toy plane. Replacing the U.S. vaccine schedule with one like Denmark’s would be negligence….we must use complex networks to compensate for a fragmented health care system.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“I came away with more than I offered: the simple but profound truth that vaccination is, at its core, an act of community.” Yes! It’s the very core of public health!

“Addiction alters the brain/body to become disastrously, even fatally, sick if the substance is withdrawn. It’s a condition nobody has ever asked for. Like any other disease, it can be treated medically, &also, importantly, with compassion. Where sympathy is withheld, resources for care do not flow”

"Of those infected, 145 were unvaccinated, three were partially vaccinated with one of the recommended two-dose measles-mumps-rubella vaccines, one was fully vaccinated and four had unknown vaccination status." www.reuters.com/business/hea...

The Role of Doctors Is Changing Forever. Some patients don’t trust us. Others say they don’t need us. It’s time for us to think of ourselves not as the high priests of health care but as what we have always been: healer, by @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/culture/2025... @newyorker.com

No no no. I won’t stand for being called old. Try Gen X.

We live in the dumbest timeline. It's like a story from the Old Testament. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Huzzah! There are rational people at HHS!

This is beyond the pale. RFK Jr is putting the public health of this nation at grave risk.

Essential Lancet editorial on how Trump, RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya and the rest of the MAHA/MAGA/Great Barrington Declaration crew are tearing apart US healthcare www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

✨ Public Health Success Story ✨ 1/3 🧵 Brazil achieves crucial WHO certification: elimination of vertical transmission of HIV. 🏆 👶 Babies born HIV free 💪 Most populous country in the Americas to achieve this. 📉 Only 19 countries and territories worldwide have achieved this certification.

@gregggonsalves.bsky.social on how we can remain hopeful these days as well as the people, institutions, and groups that give him hope

Here are the people and institutions that gave me hope in 2025. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I cannot emphasize how serious an assault on democracy this is. Any effort by the Trump administration to engage in false claims of fraud or mass voter suppression relies on this as a building block. As importantly, there is no legitimate reason DOJ would want this information.

This is beyond unethical for human subjects research. Not only was it an unsolicited grant, the study in Guinea-Bissau would involve deliberately withholding the hepatitis B vaccine from hundreds of newborn infants, putting them at great risk of death. Tuskegee 2.0.

Vindictive RFK Jr cuts grants to #Pediatrics academy. He's truly made a shambles of #PublicHealth www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The GOP and RFK are a plague of stupidity and fascist fuckery.

I'm in complete agreement! He MUST BE STOPPED.

Facts. An important piece from @katherinejwu.com “Matthew Memoli knows just enough about the agency—and, in particular, its approach to infectious disease—to help destroy it.” apple.news/AWuO8xvNsQ7S...

It’s good to know that being vindictive is more important to this HHS & administration than actual improvements in health. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Super proud of @defendpublichealth.bsky.social filing an amicus brief in support of the lawsuit against RFK Jr. by five medical and public health organizations, including @apha.org, for his dismantling of science-based vaccine policy. This man must be stopped.

Rising anti-science rhetoric "...has made routine preventive care feel like walking into an ideological minefield. Increasingly, it is making it harder and sometimes nearly impossible to protect patients’ health." (excerpt from @statnews.com article) See also: theconversation.com/winning-with...

Thank you, @meganranney.bsky.social "...we know that there are strategies that have worked on an individual & community level [to prevent gun deaths]...this is the essence of the public-health approach to this epidemic. Everyone agrees that this has to stop..."

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

“An FDA commissioner should not attend an event like this for a single company subject to FDA regulation,” said Richard Painter, President George W. Bush’s former chief ethics lawyer. “It creates the appearance of favoritism. And perhaps the reality of favoritism as well.”

Now xylazine is fading from Philadelphia, replaced by medetomidine, a 30-year-old veterinary sedative and anesthetic that is up to 200 times as potent. 🚨🚨

Happy night 2! May our light shine bright!

This will absolutely certainly cause some primary care folks to be unwilling to prescribe SSRIs to pregnant people. There aren’t enough psychiatrists to take over all that prescribing. This is terrible for mothers and babies.

SSRIs are lifelines particularly during pregnancy and postpartum. Women will die if these medications aren’t recommended. This is astounding.

I saw the initial headlines of the attack and had no idea those murdered were Jews. This is pertinent information. This was a hate crime on the first night of Chanukah. Don’t tell me antisemitism is dead. It’s the oldest form of hate.

A quiet career lesson: not every mentor meets the moment. Often the disappointment isn’t bad intent, but absence — less curiosity, follow-through, or advocacy than you hoped for. I’ve learned to treat those moments as clarifying. They sharpen what I value in leadership and I try to offer others

ICYMI: Last night @jeremyfaust.bsky.social revealed that Drs. Makary and Prasad of the FDA have lied to all of us with their claims that COVID19 vaccines “killed 10 children”. The scientists that did the work found that there were ZERO deaths that they could be certain were caused by the vaccines.

“science and anti-vaccine rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between clinicians and patients. It has made routine preventive care feel like walking into an ideological minefield. Increasingly, it is making it harder and sometimes nearly impossible to protect patients’ health.”

Call your reps; it’s not futile to demand accountability: “Rep. Haley Stevens of Michigan, a Democrat running for Senate, filed articles of impeachment on Wednesday against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., making an all but certainly futile bid to charge him with undermining public health”

RFK Jr. keeps pushing the conspiracy that SSRIs cause mass shootings. The evidence? Doesn’t exist. Data show mass shooters are less likely to have taken antidepressants than the general public. Gun laws, not medicines, explain the uniquely American scale of gun violence. #WhopperOfTheWeek

The Save America Movement’s Science & Health Committee, led by Dr. @angelarasmussen.bsky.social , unites experts from Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Yale & more to expose how Trump’s plan to rewrite the childhood vaccine schedule endangers families and public health.

YES!!!