The share of counties where 95% or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles has dropped from 50% before the pandemic to 28%, according to our analysis of public records from 44 states and the District of Columbia. At least 19,000 schools are now more vulnerable to outbreaks.

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

The right wing media ecosystem works by amplifiying "evidence" that aligns with their prevailing, strategic frames. Shirley has tapped into these same dynamics before, with a video in Winter 2024 that bolstered the border crisis and election fraud frames. www.cip.uw.edu/2024/03/14/v...

The rumors about daycare centers are extremely "fit" for virality: having both novelty & familiarity (drawing on anti-immigrant tropes of criminality & exploitation); making emotional/identity appeals; are *participatory* in that ppl can create their own “evidence” by investigating local centers.

Upon seeing this, I read the Wikipedia page for Palmer Luckey--mostly because I admit that I thought his name was made up. His bio reads like a caricature though, right down to the preferred Hawaiian shirt and barefoot/sandals "uniform."

And yet "Wheel of Fortune" endures... 🙄

Arizona state health officials are going to continue recommending a hepatitis B shot for all newborns within 24 hours of birth despite..." ACIP's new recommendation to the contrary. 🛟🧪😷 Medsky policy

A nice "cliff's notes" summary on a horrendous (not yet a) year with this guy in office... "Upended" is a rather tame verb.

Take a bow RFK Jr He’s been working towards this moment for years abcnews.go.com/Health/us-me...

The richest man on earth, the richest man in human history, personally obliterated the US agency that had been preventing these horrors. He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on. Inhuman.

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Fox News contributor Leslie Marshall pushed back on the narrative surrounding Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the alleged billions of dollars taken by fraudsters in the state that many on the right blame on Somali immigrants.

While pardoning serious, convicted fraudsters who bribe Trump bsky.app/profile/ronf...

This is monstrous. He wants to turn the residents of the state against Walz and against the Somali-American population.

Nice debunking of the Trump admin's low birth panic, by demographer Karen Benjamin Guzzo. "If we were really worried abt...too few Americans, we wldn’t want to get rid of birthright citizenship...we wldn’t be trying to get rid of immigrants. It’s a...specific type of fam. that we’re worried abt."🛟

"The U.S. (child vaccination) schedule is not a historical accident or the result of bureaucratic overreach. It is the product of decades of rigorous, U.S.-specific epidemiology, modeling and real-world data... Replacing it with Denmark’s schedule is not simplification. It is negligence." 🛟😷 Policy

Vaccine liability and shared clinical decision making. How RFK Jr. meddling w/ the US vaccine court & liability is bad for everyone: plaintiffs, vaccine manufacturers, lawyers, and all Americans who rely on vaccines; while also perpetuating mistruths abt what the court does and the good it serves.

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TIL: Brigitte Bardot was a hatemonger. In 1992 she married Bernard d’Ormale, adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen of France’s Nat'l Front. She made waves w/public letters & statements against various grps "from homosexuals to #MeToo activists to kosher butchers." Convicted 5x's for inciting racial hatred.

Community Does Jack Shit To Make Christmas Better For Town’s Second-Poorest Family — theonion.com/community-do...

“The anti-vaccine movement is not a spontaneous expression of grassroots concern. It’s an industry.The Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), one of the most prominent groups, grew from $1.4 million in annual revenue in 2017 to $23 million by 2023.”

Nice explainer of the hypocrisy of antivax activists/profiteers calling sci/med folk "pharma shills" despite the extent of req'd reporting/transparency & low profit incentives from vaccinations. Yet, check out the antivax world. "the accusation flows one way while the transparency flows the other."

As I detailed in ONE NATION UNDER GOD, the religious nationalism of the Cold War era was deliberately broadly drawn. Invocations of a broadly drawn "God" were fine, but references to Jesus Christ were understood to be far beyond the pale.

Ronald Reagan: “We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people, our strength, from every country and every corner of the world, and we continuously renew and enrich our nation.” Jay Nordlinger: “This ‘Heritage American’ business is a scam.” open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...

I've tried and failed a couple times to write a post explaining how serious this would be. NCAR is globally essential to our climate change response. This can't just be replaced. Every scientist in the world will be doing climate research with one hand tied behind their back for at least a decade

Quite a story: "A South Park writer anticipated President Donald Trump would rename the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts after himself, so he bought domain names connected to the Trump-Kennedy Center."

Kind of weird that there are numerous health care policy experts on here but I only ever see Mark arguing with random socialists on posts. Host a frigging conference or something man

Christian Nationalist without the boring nice Jesus parts.

This reminded me of the Jordan Peterson blurbs. bsky.app/profile/robe...

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And yet, In Covid’s Wake quotes me as saying that “the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands” — literally the opposite of what I argue — to buttress their claim that the government was too busy censoring speech to adequately deal with the pandemic.

One such refutation appears in my paper under the heading “The FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands.” I spend several hundred words explaining that that didn’t happen.

The authors quote from an article I wrote in 2023, refuting false claims about government jawboning of social media platforms. One of the claims I directly push back against is the persistent lie that the FBI demanded Twitter censor online speech. knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...

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This commentary offers policy alternatives to implementing state medical-exemption-only school vaccination mandates (e.g., CA, NY, CT) a la Am Acad of Pediatric's rec's, given political realities. Good to discuss, but I have difficulty seeing how most ideas here are any more feasible to implement. 🛟

Preprint cost-benefit analysis estimates the potential impact of changes to the Hepatitis B child vaccination policy. Nothing good but not terribly surprising given what we know with past history, US disparities in risk & access to care, etc. 🛟 Medsky 😷📈 sociology demography health policy

WTF is this? I did not write or submit this paper. Are journals now run entirely by AIs who hallucinate entire publications? Knowledge Of Pregnant Women About The Benefits Of Pregnancy Books In Ottawa | International Journal of Health Engineering and Technology share.google/ArcgxhUDfSY9...

3/ call the patient ombudsman at your area hospital and tell them this isn't proper infection control for vulnerable patients during surges of community illness. People who get flu or covid as in-patients are far more likely to die than are folks who get sick out in the community.

2/ including coughing, fever, chills, headache, vomiting, sore throat, muscle aches or diarrhea" to stay home - as if adults symptomatic with airborne viruses should *ever* be visiting folks in the hospital (& breathing on staff & patients' roommates, too). If you live in Dayton, you may wanna...

This is shameful. Dayton, Ohio hospitals are implementing "visitor restrictions" due to high levels of flu, covid, & other seasonal viruses - but they aren't requiring masking. They're just saying no kids, & are asking adults "with any respiratory symptoms... 🧵1/3 share.google/7NV1VilYfwiS...

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Lol! SMH. This book was rightfully and extensively panned by the scientific community... 🤦🤦🤦🤦

Podcast Jay is launching devastating takedowns of journalists who accurately quote him.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.