“If H5N1 does make the jump in the US, we will likely not know about it until it is already a pandemic.” open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

BREAKING: A Hamas official just confirmed to AFP that the hostage release will take place on Monday morning.

I can't get over how the CDC layoffs are coming less than two months after the attempted mass shooting. The agency is being taken apart brick by brick. The public servants there do not deserve this.

What we die from vs. what we hear in the news. Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.

BREAKING: Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star of "Annie Hall" and "The Godfather" series, has died at 79, People magazine reports.

Very please to say that for the first time in nearly a year, I have a new Substack post coming on Monday! Looking at the successes and tribulations of novel therapeutics to protect infants from RSV Looking forward to sharing ✍️ open.substack.com/pub/alasdair...

The parents of those 270 kids could get them vaccinated so the can return to school 🤷🏽‍♀️. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

400,000 Israelis took to the streets tonight to mark the last Saturday rally at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. When we say our people are one family, this is what we mean.

Diane Keaton, who starred in Annie Hall, The Godfather, and many other movies, has died at 79

Antivaxxers are faced with an overwhelming amount of data, evidence, that shows their claims are very wrong. So they have to claim conspiracy and government involvement. Covid19 doomers are similar. They use the same arguments, can't read papers, cherry-pick, twist data, and 1/8

Both Marty Makary and Jay Bhattacharya have amplified this bonkers conspiracy theory:

The United States has never been more vulnerable to a biological attack. Our adversaries know no one is tending the store.

“In interviews, federal judges called the Supreme Court’s emergency orders “mystical,” “overly blunt,” “incredibly demoralizing and troubling” and “a slap in the face to the district courts.” …Another said the courts were in the midst of a “judicial crisis.”” #giftarticle

Not enough news outlets are making it absolutely clear that last night’s RIFs are unlawful

I'd love to hear from anyone who has been at agencies protecting public health this year (eg CDC, HHS, HRSA, HUD, NIH, OSHA). Privacy respected. Signal is AmyMaxmen.25 🧵Here's a thread of some of my stories this year on the impact of the Trump administration on America's public health.

Everytime the same accounts that post nonsense, but pretend it is science. They vastly exagerate data, don´t have the knowledge to place it into context, or twist it to make it something very different. Read the paper, and the authors conclusions.

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health. Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

More People Suffer From 'Chemophobia' — And MAHA Is Partly To Blame www.huffpost.com/entry/chemop... @drandrealove.bsky.social: "everything is chemicals. Your body is a sack of chemicals." Me: "it all just becomes slogans & wellness nonsense." MAHA noise distracts us from helpful health actions.

Calley Means is a wellness grifter who doesn’t know science. Chimps DO get cancer. Chimps have different expression of genes like p53, that play a role. MOSTLY: Chimps die of other things before they’d get cancer. Captive chimps that live longer? They sure do. Watch ⬇️ youtu.be/TtB3OyuRqs4?...

Germinal center–mediated broadening of B cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 booster immunization Original antigenic sin? No, memory B cells are predominantly recruited to the germinal center, where they undergo further selection and affinity maturation. www.science.org/doi/... 1/4

Interesting study that looks at dynamics of B cell responses in the lymph nodes to vaccination against SarsCov2 (COVID). This shows that B cell responses are broadened in the node germinal centres enabling wider responses to variants 🧪 #ImmunoSky

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone. Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market Much is made of this, the "COVID kills us all" crowd is up in arms agatin. What does the paper actually show? jamanetwork.com/jour... 1/8

Huh.

Comparative risk of post-acute sequelae among adults following SARS-CoV-2 or influenza virus infection: A retrospective cohort study among United States adults The year after the pandemic: 2022-2023 journals.plos.org/pl... 1/7

Maritime Stratocumulus Wolken verschwinden, das ist schlecht, denn sie wirken kühlend. Ist der Ozean wärmer lösen sich die Wolken weiter auf und der Ozean erwärmt sich. Eine gefährliche Kettenreaktion, die sich global auswirkt. Details im Video. #globaleErhitzung #Klimakatastrophe

From January to 8 October 2025, France (n = 700) and Italy (n = 353) have reported CHIKV cases widely across their territories. The increase in clusters coincides with global outbreaks and temperature anomalies in Europe. Active clusters shown here: gis.ecdc.europa.eu/portal/apps/...

The cruelty is the point. They are using this as an excuse to fire even more of our best, most dedicated scientists, researchers, and civil servants. They do this because they do not believe in science, and they do not genuinely care about the health of America.

Great piece from @brucearthur.bsky.social @thestar.com about the bird flu ostrich circus. The economic and scientific issues concern me a lot, but for me, it all comes back to this: the US is where it is now because public health was politicized & exploited to undermine democracy & the rule of law.

Continuing my tour of states. This is an unpopular opinion, but PDF reports are my favorite. They are by far the fastest to review and analyze. Dashboard makers, chill with the dropdown menus.

This is a problem of social media. Some science illiterates who pretend to know about science, amplyfing eachothers misinterpretations and overinterpretations. Worse, some are MDs, but not with relevant knowledge in infection and immunity. This makes their disinformation worse. It harms societies.

Post-COVID-19 condition in individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 in autumn 2023 in the Netherlands: a prospective cohort study with pre- and post-infection data Risk of LongCovid is not noticable above background after 2023. www.sciencedirect.co... 1/6

RFK Jr. is HARKing in human form. “hypothesizing after results are known,” is a tactic to “fit” a narrative to data. It’s how he’s going to “make proof” for false health claims. RFK Jr isn’t a scientist. He doesn’t know how to do science. He HAS profited off health disinformation for decades.

Reminder: the President may be allowing his secretary to undermine access to vaccines for others and promote anti vaccine misinformation, but he himself is fully vaccinated, including this year’s flu and Covid vaccine. In this, do as the president does, not as his secretary ‘s ACIP minions say.

Seen on LinkedIn: “Staff at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention across multiple programs being fired tonight, including all current (civilian) Epidemic Intelligence Service, and several people working on the Ebola response.”

UPDATE‼️The Hill reports at least 4,100 employees fired today as Russell Vought and Trump devastate our government agencies and slash the federal workforce. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

We have breaking news in Inside Medicine. We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC. But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency. Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

„Papst Leo zitierte in diesem Kontext die Philosophin Hannah Arendt(…): „Der ideale Untertan totalitärer Herrschaft ist nicht der überzeugte Nazi oder engagierte Kommunist, sondern Menschen, für die der Unterschied zwischen Fakten und Fiktion, zwischen wahr und falsch, nicht länger existiert.“

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers ‘These bottlenecks have gotten so bad that some labs have had to ration gloves and paper towels.’ Ian Morgan for TheScientist www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials “Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs. #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

🧵 Primero fueron las vax, luego el paracetamol en el embarazo, ahora la causa del autismo está en el prepucio. Pensaba que no era posible superarlo, pero me equivoqué. Ha sido posible. Ahora es el PARACETAMOL, tomado por la circuncisión, el responsable. 1/15

Thousands of Israelis gathered in Hostages Square this morning to pray for the safe return of the hostages. All of Israel is holding our breath 💜

Attention, Germany! Russian propagandists threaten that "in the event of any aggressive actions against Russia, Germany will experience a fourth entry of Russian troops into Berlin."

Looks seasonal - same in Austria viro.meduniwien.ac.at/forschung/vi...

I’ve been saying this many times: challenge what they claim, what the words they’re using mean. Ask them to define them, to provide evidence from good primary literature, and let them explain what is good, why, and what it means. Antivax and Zerocovid use the same tactics 1/2

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen for a while. Congrats @deutschebahn.com ! And yes Germans do a sense of humour as well. I guess things need to go to shit before you discover it. 😉

This is starting to look like a seasonal pattern ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-...

die spd kämpft härter für die würde von verbrenner-autos als für menschen im bürgergeld