Interestingly, an ACIP member just contradicted the CDC's claim from today that "There have been 3 confirmed deaths from measles." Strange times.

How is it possible that in the year 2025 a clinical trial is NOT publicly registered?

The doctors who broke from the consensus to prescribe ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine accessed a cash-pay economy with 500% revenue premiums. The organizations that fundraise on vaccine injury have professional staffs, 8-figure budgets, and executives earning more than most hospital administrators

Year measles was declared eliminated from the US: 2000. Measles deaths in the US, 2000-2024: 3. Measles deaths in the US, 2025 alone: 3. Deaths from the MMR vaccine in healthy people: 0

Many thanks @nytimes.com for highlighting our recent @jama.com paper led by @nathanlo.bsky.social @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social Trump’s War on Public Health Is a Battle to the Death www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/o...

The "pharma shill" charge persists not because it's true but because it's useful. It discredits doctors while shielding those who actually profit from vaccine doubt. I examined the economics here: open.substack.com/pub/jakescot...

Why Denmark’s vaccine schedule works for Denmark — but not for the United States: "...the two countries have fundamentally different health care systems, disease burdens, and policy priorities." www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d... via @statnews.com @jakescottmd.bsky.social

"'In the face of the US canceling all this funding for vulnerable countries, and then it’s still going to pay for this research to be done – that is really worrying,' @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social said..." 1/2 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This is a reminder of how much it matters that pediatricians, public health specialists, scientists and members of the public who care about vaccines and science based recommendations continue to speak up. Many voices break through. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

It would seem that the anti-vaccine movement's focus on autism is just a way to reduce vaccines, period. They don't actually care about autism.

1/ Great question, @jeisinger.bsky.social. My understanding is that Danish autism rates look lower, but it's largely a measurement difference. I don't think that's actually why Denmark attracted the vaccine-skeptic crowd.

Excellent piece that explains why Denmark’s childhood vaccine schedule isn’t right for the United States. Every major publication should run a piece like this. @jakescottmd.bsky.social: www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...

RSV season is here. A reminder that we can now prevent most severe disease—one of the biggest respiratory virus advances in decades. @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/respiratory-...

Should the US adopt Denmark's vaccine schedule for children? @jakescottmd.bsky.social argues no in a piece that points out the risks such a move would pose for American kids. www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...

Not recommending vaccines on a national level will harm children. Deferring all decision making to doctors while also systematicslly undermining everything that doctors recommend harms children. This is a deadly policy change. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Thank you so much for writing this! As a pediatric nurse for more almost 40 years, I’ve seen what many of those diseases can do. I’ve seen the better outcomes for children. I cannot understand wanting to go back to children dying from vaccine preventable illness!

Denmark’s vaccine schedule is the most minimalist in the developed world. So why is HHS trying to adopt it? My new piece in @statnews.com. Huge thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social for the lightning-fast turnaround and sharp editing.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...

HHS appoints anti-vaccine activists to IACC. Reminder: HHS also cut disability services and rescinded an AAP grant for early identification of autism. It's no friend to autistics and their families. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025... via @politico.com @laurengardner.bsky.social

If only we could try to emulate Denmark’s gun laws instead of its vaccine schedule

The simplistic claims by the anti-vaccine cadre at HHS misrepresents the true comparison of vaccines between the U.S. and Denmark and ignores the real differences between the countries. It's deceptive. Dr. @jakescottmd.bsky.social has the details and receipts. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

There's a lot of very misleading information coming from HHS & ACIP about RSV immunization. It's very concerning. RSV immunization is extremely effective and safe and these tools should not be undermined by people in positions of power who are flat out wrong. 1/2 www.cnn.com/2025/12/09/h...

My latest: Last month, RFK Jr.'s dep. sec. staged something of a coup against FDA boss Marty Makary. The White House waved it off. But what a year: 4,000 staff out, a drop in foreign inspections and $$ restrictions that left lab staff sitting idle. GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...

RFK Jr. promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t change the vaccine schedule and wouldn’t mess with the CDC website’s statement that vaccines don’t cause autism etc. Anyone who cared enough to look beneath the surface would have seen why so many of us opposed and oppose him.

HHS is reportedly planning to adopt Denmark’s vaccine schedule. The comparison driving this policy is totally misguided, and the consequences for American children would be severe. open.substack.com/pub/jakescot...

“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

The US government has started modifying a childhood vaccine schedule built on decades of rigorous testing. Vaccinations have succeeded in making the targeted diseases so rare that many parents have never seen them, explains an infectious disease physician. buff.ly/Jd6B167

I'm Danish-American and I think Denmark is a model country of a great welfare state. When it comes to healthcare, however -even if universal - it is very far from perfect. As for vaccines, there are many deficiencies in Denmark with the US having significantly better (current..) recommendations.

On the same day he stripped AAP of millions in grant funding in retaliation, RFK Jr awarded $1.6M to Tracy Høeg's Danish friends for a grossly unethical study that will expose African babies to hep B for no reason than it's politically expedient. Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.

“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing, researchers are being laid off. But they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years... The money exists. It’s the priorities that have changed.”

NEW: I wrote a brief history of the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule for @ConversationUS - how it was built, why it works, and what's now at stake. theconversation.com/rfk-jr-wants...

One of the anti-vaccine movement’s most persistent claims is that “not a single study” compares vaccinated to unvaccinated kids. Del Bigtree, one of the movement’s most influential voices, repeats this constantly. But the evidence exists.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ open.substack.com/pub/jakescot...

CDC awards $1.6 million for new hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau. Although the award recipients aren't named, the grant seems tailored to Danish researchers whose work is championed by anti-vaxxers but challenged by mainstream scientists. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

@kevinault.bsky.social sums it up: they’re withholding a vaccine we know works from infants in a country where 1 in 6 adults has hepatitis B. This is what policy-driven research looks like.

Someone is impersonating our director, Karen Ernst. Her only Bluesky handle is @stpkernst.bsky.social. Please block and report impersonators. Ain't our first rodeo with internet trolls.

This is what weaponizing public health agencies looks like.

HHS just terminated 7 AAP grants - SIDS prevention, early autism detection, fetal alcohol research, adolescent mental health, rural healthcare access. Important piece by @lenasun.bsky.social 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"Universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth exists precisely because screening systems fail." - @jakescottmd.bsky.social on what we're losing. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Yesterday CDC adopted the hep B birth dose rollback. Today a grant hit the Federal Register: $1.6M to U of Southern Denmark for an RCT in Guinea-Bissau on birth dose "timing." They're funding research to generate evidence after making the policy change - the opposite of evidence-based medicine. 🧵

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...

Another great piece from @jakescottMD ! CIDRAP Op-Ed: Here's what removal of the hepatitis B birth dose will look like At-risk infants, like those with spotty prenatal care or inadequate insurance, are most likely to fall through screening gaps www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

Worth posting this @theatlantic.com piece by @katherinejwu.com again, which dismantles the Denmark comparison argument that Kennedy, Høeg, Kulldorff, and others have been using to argue for a pared down US vaccine schedule. Key points...🧵 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Aaron Siri Says No One Has Identified Errors in His ACIP Presentation. Here Are Several. Mr. Siri is not looking at the total data and misunderstands or misrepresents much of what he does address. open.substack.com/pub/jakescot... via @jakescottmd.bsky.social

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-...

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

A man who was a frequent sperm donor in Denmark was also the carrier of a gene mutation that causes cancers. The man fathered nearly 200 children in Europe, a portion of whom are at significantly elevated risk of developing cancer, @drewqjoseph.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/2...

This week infectious disease physician Jake Scott (@jakescottmd.bsky.social ) returns TWiV to discuss the dangerous anti-vaccine policies being established in the US. Here, Jake walks us through his own background and how his clinical experience led him into this work.

Aaron Siri says no one has identified errors in his ACIP presentation claiming childhood vaccines lack placebo-controlled safety data. Here are several. open.substack.com/pub/jakescot...