Someone should sit the new members of ACIP down and explain what their job is and is not to them in simple terms, and maybe teach them some basic law. Dr. Malone's claims here have several misunderstandings. 1/n

Great explainer by my colleague @lizszabo.bsky.social on why Kennedy/HHS likely halted, at least temporarily, their attempt to scrap the US childhood immunization schedule and make it more like Denmark's.

Latest from the Vaccine Integrity Project Viewpoint: The myth of an over-vaccinated America: The US DOES follow global consensus An abundance of evidence demonstrates lives saved and hospitalizations avoided because of childhood immunizations www.cidrap.umn.edu/v...

oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/do... Ranking Member Robert Garcia Demands Answers from RFK Jr. After CDC Committee Undermines Hep B Vaccine; American Children to Face Devastating Health Consequences

Can AI wrap my Christmas presents? Because THAT would be a game changer.

And lawyers, who feared the White House would lose a court challenge. There's something called the Administrative Procedures Act, which says you can't make changes that are "arbitrary and capricious." You need evidence and process.

Rick Steves is a real mensch.

Paywalled but... a bit of good news. We'll have to watch what happens next.

Notre Dame fans must be going nuts watching this Miami-Texas A&M game.

HPV vaccines prevent precancerous lesions in vulva and vagina, study finds @LizSzabo For those vaccinated against HPV before age 17, their rate of vaginal or vulvar precancers was 57% lower than for unvaccinated women www.cidrap.umn.edu/h...

This stuff is basically a liquified salt lick, but you can’t beat it when you’re sick.

Good for the student for asking that question.

Racially charged language on mothers, babies taints vaccine advisory meeting by @LizSzabo Throughout the 2-day meeting, speakers and ACIP members singled out immigrants and people from Asia as potential sources of hepatitis B infection www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

Pregnant women vaccinated against #COVID19 less likely to be hospitalized or deliver prematurely, new data show The study confirms the safety and benefits for pregnant women at a time when federal officials raise doubts about the safety of immunizations www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

With strong phase 3 findings, a new antibiotic for gonorrhea is on the horizon Study findings show that a single oral dose of zoliflodacin is noninferior to the standard treatment regimen for uncomplicated gonorrhea www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

In light of the news that the FDA is going investigate the safety of recently approved therapies for RSV, some good perspective on what those therapies have achieved from @jakescottmd.bsky.social in a an op-ed he wrote for @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/respiratory-...

In Ireland we probably averted about 500 newborn RSV hospitalizations once nirsevimab was introduced last year (~75% risk reduction). Uptake was > 80%, and that's what's threatened by these cynical safety concerns from the antivaxxers in the US government. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Doctor groups form united front against RFK Jr’s efforts to limit vaccine access Physicians say a federal advisory panel's proposed restrictions on hepatitis B vaccine are part of a broad assault on vaccine access. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

Recommendations from the #ACIP “were made without any new research suggesting that the current vaccine schedule is flawed in terms of its safety or effectiveness,” Kociolek said. “ We will continue to endorse the pediatric vaccine schedule currently in place." www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B Hospitals and health departments across the country say they're not planning to change their vaccination policy. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

So to be clear: ACIP didn’t vote to remove the hepatitis B birth dose because of new safety concerns. They did it to make a political point about mandates. Thank you for saying so explicitly.

The ACIP is supposed to provide guidance on how vaccines are administered, not to determine school vaccine mandates, which are the purview of the States. Levi is willing to harm children to make a political point, which is morally reprehensible.

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

@doritreiss.bsky.social breaks down the lack of expertise, incompetence, and blatant anti-vaccine bias on full display at ACIP: Via @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/12/06/a...

#ACIP just voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B birth-dose recommendation. There is no new safety signal. No scientific rationale. We are dismantling a 30-year-old, cancer-preventing policy that has nearly eliminated hepatitis B in U.S. children. 1/2

The meeting is over. But you can still read my play-by-play by checking out my threads.

If ACIP chooses to ignore evidence, when it comes to vaccines, parents and clinicians must ignore ACIP and look to those who continue to offer data-based guidance, especially our medical societies.

CDC advisers drop decades-old universal #hepatitis B birth dose recommendation, suggest blood testing after 1 dose The measures, which passed despite protests from several members, drew swift rebuke from the medical community. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...#hepatitis Photo: James Gathany / CDC

Some good context for the #ACIP discussion on aluminum adjuvants in childhood vaccines. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

I can't type fast enough to fact check all of Siri's claims. But the Vaccine Integrity Project has done an authoritative review of vaccine safety just published in the New England Journal of Medicine. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Sen. Bill Cassidy, who cast the deciding vote to confirm RFK Jr. as health and human services secretary, disapproves of what Kennedy's handpicked panel has done to limit access to hep B vaccines.

ACIP has voted 8-3 to change the infant vaccination schedule for hepatitis B. Meissner, Hibbeln, Pollack voted no. Here's the language.

Did you know? 190 countries have infant immunization schedules that include the Hep B vaccine 115 countries recommend a universal birth-dose of the Hep B vaccine, one of the key actions WHO recommends to reduce Hep B prevalence Read more in the WHO Hep B Report ➡️ iris.who.int/server/api/c...

Follow my @cidrap.bsky.social colleague @lizszabo.bsky.social for live coverage of day 2 of the #ACIP meeting.

To all the people saying that hep B only affects "people who do IV drugs and have orgies": www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

During chaotic meeting, CDC advisers handpicked by RFK Jr. postpone vote on changing hepatitis B vaccine recommendations Although the hepatitis B vaccine is widely heralded as a public health success story, Kennedy has long targeted it as dangerous www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

As European IPC nurse I can assure you that early neonatal vaccination is the standard practice in the vast majority of European countries. Therefore, Dr. Beth assertion is demonstrably erroneous and quite surprising coming from a professional occupying a position of such responsibility. #IDsky

Malone repeatedly tries to stop Cody Meissner, MD, an expert in pediatric diseases, from criticizing the presentations so far. #ACIP

Getting started a little late, but I'll be live-tweeting today's ACIP meeting for @cidrap.bsky.social.

Single #HPV vaccine dose matches protection of 2-dose regimen, new trial shows The vaccine was 97% effective, and protection did not wane during the follow-up period. www.cidrap.umn.edu/h...

Journalists! If you’re covering the #ACIP meeting this week, this report is super helpful, with tons of info and stats on the birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine

If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Vaccinating newborns against hepatitis B saves lives. Why might a CDC panel stop recommending it? www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Alex Lee found out he had chronic hepatitis B at age 40. Since then, he’s needed chemotherapy and two surgeries, including a liver transplant. But he says he feels lucky, bc his three children were vaccinated as babies, and they will never have to suffer the way he has.

Vaccinating newborns against hepatitis B saves lives. Why might a CDC panel stop recommending it? The universal HBV birth dose has prevented more than 90,000 childhood deaths since 1991, but a federal vaccine advisory group may vote to end the practice. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

Prasad's memo focuses only on the potential risks of vaccines, without considering their benefits or citing how many lives they have saved, says @angierasmussen.bsky.social. One estimate finds vaccines saved the lives of 299 children from 2020 to 2024. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations by@LizSzabo Vinay Prasad claimed—but provided no evidence—that COVID-19 vaccines caused the death of 10 children www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

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