Is the acting CDC director going to sign off on the ACIP recommendations for COVID vaccines? As it stands right now, states order their VFC vaccines from the CDC, and the CDC isn't allowing orders until the director signs off, and he hasn't, so no kids with Medicaid can get vaccinated against COVID.

Out of fucking control and if I were an elected Dem or running for office I’d be in front of every camera I could find telling America your prescriptions just got twice as expensive, your health insurance premiums are about to skyrocket from ACA subsidy cancellation, and oh the gov shuts down Wed.

Idk it feels like something is shifting. This tweet was also the language of the AP push alert, and just now the Times chimed in:

And terrifyingly, that's their goal. They're eugenicists who want to cull the herd.

One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback. When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?

Thank you @aetiology.bsky.social for suffering through this on our behalf

The last 48 hours really cemented Righteous Gemstones as one of the most essential pieces of modern satire

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

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Seattle Children's serves Washington, Alaska, Montana.

This guy just walked around the Charlie Kirk vigil in Boston, yelling Kirk quotes through a bullhorn

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

Props to the CDC staff who presented the science at yesterday’s #ACIP meeting. Key points relating to #CovidVaccination in #pregnancy… 1. No increased risk of any problems in pregnancy, at birth, or for infants 1/ www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

It is frustrating that protection of the newborn was not considered in the ACIP analysis. Though given that the effects seem to be similar between newborns and over 65, we might make an argument that any recommendation applying to >65 should also apply to pregnancy. 8/

Defend Public Health’s Press Release on RFK Jr.’s ACIP. “I have never personally witnessed more dangerous misinformation presented at a putative scientific meeting in my entire life”. -Me

"over 600 statutes and regulation are bound to ACIP across the country. So, encouragingly, there exists over 600 opportunities for healthcare professionals to advocate for change" and align with other professional organizations instead.

Someone points out 30% of Americans don't have access to a PCP. Worse in rural areas. Can't believe this did not come up yet. So far 4 have indicated no. Levi now saying the conservative classic "lets leave it to the states to sort it out".

Levi says “well how do they get antibiotics?” Do I have news for you about the state of health care access in America…

Retsef Levi does not understand public health. He is pushing for a prescription to be required for EVERY COVID19 vaccine. He says everyone has a doctor because how else can they get a prescription for antibiotics? This is so logically incorrect that it is an offense to scientific reason.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Vaccines don't cause birth defects and that includes COVID vaccines. And thanks to Carol Hayes of American College of Nurse Midwives for speaking up at the ACIP meeting vikilovesfacs.bsky.social feel free to add more - #IDSky + #MedSky. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/no-...

Dr. El-Deiry just presented at RFK Jr.’s ACIP goat rodeo. I condemned his presentation to the fires of hell, but I was not aware that 75 of his pubs were flagged for data irregularities. This tracks.

My thought on why the ACIP HepB vote was postponed. The scientific evidence that was presented by career CDC scientists as well as from the numerous expert public commenters inarguably demonstrated why the birth dose is NECESSARY. RFK Jr.’s ACIP couldn’t come up with a way to deny it in time.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Oh ok we're back to adjudicating if people have COVID, great #acip

They still don't have today's vote language up on the web #acip

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

Dr Kulldorf won’t answer Dr Goldman’s (ACP) request to share what process is going to be used to make recommendations since not using the EtR framework and grading process anymore. Absolutely ridiculous. We deserve answers. #ACIP

Open mic picked up someone saying “You’re an idiot!” as ACIP member Retsef Levi was speaking. So things are going great in vaccine policy.

Today, #ACIP will be voting on #CovidVaccination. I will be examining a PhD viva at the time and won't be able to follow live. So, to anticipate some of the claims that may be made on COVID vaccination in #pregnancy... 🧵 www.cidrap.umn.edu/sites/defaul...

Do other people put their kids to bed with tales of Citizens United?

These ACIP votes are a total goat rodeo. This committee is completely and utterly incompetent.

Tell me you aren’t an expert without telling me: “Some members seemed confused about the data they were being presented. After their vote on the program that provides free vaccines for children, some members asked what they just voted on.”🤬🤦‍♀️🤬🤦‍♀️

Our story is UPDATED: - Hep B vote pushed until tomorrow - confusing, split vote on mmrv (see below) More tomorrow 👋

I screamed in actual pain when a member asked what statistical confidence means

They need to discuss topics for multiple meetings before voting. These topics are new to them, they're asking questions that aren't answered before they vote, they don't understand what they're doing. #acip

Does anyone know the name of the VFC rep who presented today? I'm concerned about the ≤ 6 weeks in the hep B language when combined vaccines that include hep B are approved for use starting at 6 weeks. #acip

Oooh now they're having to reckon with the fact that their votes have consequences -- they want to change the recommendation language but not change the VFC language. #acip

MMRV vote- 3 NOs, Blackburn (who wanted to amend the language to what it already is), Hibbeln, Meissner. Malone had to abstain because he was an expert witness in a case re MMR, which is a conflict of interest, which he did not disclose as a COI in the introductions (or in previous mtgs). #acip

the VFC language says only single antigen vaccine at less than **OR EQUAL TO** 6 weeks, which is problematic, since the combo vaccines can be given starting at 6 weeks #acip

Why is ACIP positing a vote on testing people for hep B in pregnancy? That's not their purview. It's already the recommendation of every OB and midwifery group to test. It's not happening because of systematic problems including our fractured healthcare system and coverage problems. #acip

Malone calls the repeated questions of "why?" disingenuous -- but his claim that this was prompted because of parental hesitancy is disingenuous in itself. Then couches it in mandates -- there is no mandate for hep B birth dose, there is a recommendation.

Flor Muñoz MD transplant hepatologist - also wants to know why this question is even on the table, calls out that this disease could be potentially eliminated through immunization, and that prior risk-based approaches didn't work, and that's how we ended up with our current approach. #acip

Levi wants to know why we don't have evidence of no harm. Because you can't prove a negative? #acip

Love Amy Middleman MD calling out the lack of knowledge and that liaison members would have this information to share with working group members #acip

More lack of subject knowledge: they don't know that hep B vaccine is only given to neonates over 2000 grams. They don't know that immunizations are based on chronologic age, not adjusted age. #acip

Damn I thought girls loved living under constant threat of the most alcoholic parent in the district demanding they prove they have a vagina

Martin Kulldorff, whom RFK Jr. chose to lead ACIP in order to push through his anti-vaccine agenda, has demanded a debate with former CDC scientists. Kulldorff begins his demand with a lie: “The fact is that we are honest vaccine scientists…” Most of them are not “vaccine scientists” at all.