Excited to welcome our new ID Fellows!! Such an important time in medicine and you are all integral to keeping our communities thriving! #WeAreID @idsainfo.bsky.social www.idsociety.org/news--public...

The federal vaccine advisory panel, appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted against adding a combined measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox vaccine to a federal program that covers vaccination costs. The decision reversed a vote taken the previous day,

🎉🎉🎉Shout out to Kaiser Permanente - they recently updated their website to say that they WILL be covering COVID-19 vaccines all of their members 6 months old and up!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thank you KP - let's hope their announcement kicks off more like it kp.org/covidvaccine

RFK pressured her to *pre approve* panel recommendations for a panel that had not actually met! "Once trusted experts are removed and advisory bodies are stacked, the results are predetermined. That isn’t reform. It is sabotage."

For our health as a Nation, he must go.

🚨BREAKING: IDSA, along with AAP, APHA, ACP and others, has filed a lawsuit against HHS/Secretary Kennedy to stop unlawful changes to vaccine policy and defend public health. We refuse to stand by while America’s public health safeguards are torn apart. bit.ly/4lm7UkW

Multiple medical organizations have sued RFK Jr., alleging the withdrawal of vaccine recommendations have harmed public health.

BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...

**BREAKING** Top Medical Societies sue HHS @idsainfo.bsky.social #IDSky #ScienceMatters #VaccinesSaveLives #WeAreID #StrongerTogether www.idsociety.org/news--public...

“The United States has reached its highest annual measles case tally in 33 years, hitting at least 1,277 confirmed cases across 38 states and the District of Columbia.
The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious….”

Subject matter experts (SMEs) and the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP): Why do SMEs matter? RFKJoker claims vaccine SMEs are corrupt because they're vaccine experts in bed with Big Pharma (most aren't) But the truth is, we need SMEs on ACIP And we need SMEs presenting to ACIP

Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

"Liberate this city from socialists and burdensome leadership." If that's not regime change, I don't know what to tell you. The inflection point is now.

As an infectious diseases doctor, I can officially say this is bad bad not good very bad!! #IDSky

"Unilaterally removing an entire panel of experts is reckless, shortsighted and severely harmful." www.idsociety.org/news--public... @idsainfo.bsky.social #ACIP #VaccinesSaveLives #ScienceMatters

How many people will die because of the rank stupidity, arrogance and folly of these three men?

RFK Jr just disbanded ACIP, the CDC's independent advisers on vaccines. www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

For reference, Kennedy ordered an audit of all the conflicts of interest for ACIP members- it didn't show anything of substance, so this is him simply lying to people's faces (not new ground for him). He explicitly says this is so that the Trump admin can appoint its own 17 ACIP members before 2028.

OMFG. If there's any agency that is NOT top-heavy, it's NSF. Over 95% of the money flowing through NSF goes to awards.

New panic gripping newsrooms 🌍 💥"Deadly Fungus Could Kill Millions In Asia, Europe And The Americas, Study Warns" 💥"Fatal Fungus Similar to “The Last of Us” Disease Could Spread Worldwide" 💥"Dangerous fungus could spread to parts of US" They're talking about...<checks notes> Aspergillus

Despite taking an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution, President Trump says he’s not sure he has to protect due process rights for everyone. buff.ly/TIgLEXG

Nearly all of remaining staff at CDC's NIOSH received lay off notices today, we're told This is an org chart shared with us illustrating eliminated divisions to date Cuts had already upended approvals of new N95 respirators and probes of firefighter injuries www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...

Since 1963, IDSA has been advancing the field of infectious diseases. Today, we’re entering a bold new era — with a new look, a refreshed strategic plan, and a renewed commitment to solving the toughest ID challenges. 🔎 Explore what’s new: buff.ly/BNTaG71

NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.

Eliminating Head Start. Laying off all the CDC employs who work on lead poisoning. Discrediting childhood vaccines during a measles outbreak. Cutting funds for school lunches. A look at some of the under-the-radar ways the Trump administration is waging war on America's children: wapo.st/4jcUg2f

Well this seems like a fantastic plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

Sweeping job cuts and reorganizations taking place at the US Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leave the United States “weaker as a nation,” Dr. Peter Marks told CNN.

Title X clinic funding is frozen, as a person who works in a title X clinic, this removes our ability to provide essential sexual and reproductive health services, including STI testing and birth control, for no cost. This is an all out attack on sexual health

NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.

🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/

This country will not recover for a long time from what has happened to our public health and scientific infrastructure over the last few weeks. Decades of experience has been gutted.

It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.

#IDsky This level of destruction will cause generational damage "The elimination of large swaths of highly trained and dedicated employees at HHS..and other offices responsible for protecting America’s health, is counter to the goal of keeping America healthy." www.idsociety.org/news--public...

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

3/21/25 CDC Measles Update buff.ly/898HL8Q 🔴378 Measles cases total (incl. international travel) 🔴95% unvaccinated 🔴17% hospitalized with Measles (64 of 378) 🔴2 deaths 🔴Texas: 309 cases, 40 hospitalized, 1 child death 🔴NM: 42 cases ✨MMR vaccine protects against Measles✨ #medsky #pedsky #IDsky 🛟😷

Sexual health research grants (HIV and STIs) are dropping like flies. HIV research is especially being targeted. The field is being decimated and I can't begin to explain how bleak the mood is, and the fear of what comes next after this #IDSky #HIVSky #SaveHIVFunding

The spread of meningitis in the Northern state of Kebbi began late January with over two hundred suspected cases recorded. www.voaafrica.com/a/8006827.html

US Education Department will fire 50% of its workforce.

Hey everyone, loosely based on postcardstovoters.com it’s my own thing. Use Google maps & find a fed office in a state. Mail them a postcard that says you support them & you’re thinking about them. I do this every night. Use #HoldTheLine for its defense, communication, & lifeline connotations

What’s the deal with Vitamin A and Measles?? Fantastic blog post by @idsainfo.bsky.social President-elect Dr. Nahass 🔥 #IDSky www.idsociety.org/science-spea...

IDSA and HIVMA are deeply concerned by the abrupt cancellation of 92% of USAID foreign assistance awards and the impact the action will have on many. Our statement: buff.ly/b2czy4r

ID physicians stand up for science to protect our patients. #IDStandsUpForScience In honor of tomorrow's #StandUpForScience rallies, share the reason why you stand up for science with the hashtag #IDStandsUpForScience.

Urge your members of Congress to enact final FY 2025 spending legislation that provides full funding for and averts cuts to vital, lifesaving domestic and global ID and HIV programs: buff.ly/cCGYVD3 #IDStandsUpForScience

#StandUpForScience all year long. Join IDSA’s and HIVMA’s Member Advocate Program (MAP) and advocate on issues that impact the ID and HIV landscape: buff.ly/JAImGxo #IDStandsUpForScience

Spread knowledge, not diseases. 📚 IDSA and @hivma.bsky.social staff attend today’s StandUpForScience rally in Washington DC.

Exquisite response by Georgetown Dean to interim USA Ed Martin On Martin's threat letter not to hire grads until Martin approves of law school curriculum: "The constitutional violation behind this threat is clear, as is the attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution."

“Use cod liver oil” for #measles is this administration’s version of “drink bleach” for #COVID-19. Same reckless misinformation, same dangerous consequences.

We are working on launching an ALT DOGE website. It will soon feature a team page listing all of Elon’s staffers, our own wall of receipts (tracking the money he’s taking from America), and a section to help Americans keep tabs on the false claims on Doge’s website—which now exceed 52%.

Crockett: We had an opportunity to have a woman lead this country and I promise you, she would have led us to the promised land. But instead we got somebody that seems like he wants to take to us hell

Yep, measles is preventable