Hantavirus update. Still not a five alarm fire, but an escalation. Story broken in @medpagetoday.com by Kristina Fiore. I contributed reporting. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... insidemedicine.substack.com/p/medpage-to... www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

SCOOP: Americans were among people potentially exposed to hantavirus who disembarked the MV Hondius at St. Helena in April. At least 7 are back in the U.S., sources tell me. The extent of surveillance/monitoring isn't clear: www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Andes virus, a hantavirus that has been shown to transmit person-to-person, may be involved in the outbreak aboard the MV Hondius: www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

RFK Jr. and the CDC’s top official, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, don’t want you to read this. Paper shows that 2025-2026 Covid-19 vaccines were effective. They censored it. That’s exactly why we need to read it. So, we published it in Inside Medicine! Take a look... open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

4,049 people gone from NIH compared to 2024, an 18% loss in staff. www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

Broken Promises: RFK Jr.'s First Year at HHS www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w... via @medpagetoday.com

Here's how many jobs HHS and its key subagencies lost since RFK Jr. took the helm, according to OPM's own data: www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has been *cancelled,* I can now report. A senior official with Africa CDC confirmed the cancellation and said GB officials are working to make sure any research is conducted ethically: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Are those #TaylorSwift Eras Tour “joy blackouts” normal? Here’s what psychiatrists told us. ⬇️ @kristinafiore.bsky.social @drjessigold.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/...

MedPage Today: FDA Memo Claims to Link 10 Kid Deaths to COVID Shots Expert calls report without proper scientific review "dangerous and irresponsible" by @kristinafiore.bsky.social @medpagetoday.com bit.ly/4amSjP7

Scoop: The apparent new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Disband CDC Vaccine Panel, Updated Lawsuit Says via @kristinafiore.bsky.social @medpagetoday.com www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

CDC's ACIP will meet Dec 4-5. One the agenda: Hep B vaccines, and the childhood immunization schedule: www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

Attention nurses! ✨⬇️ MedPage Today is looking for nurses working in clinical settings to write posts about their daily challenges and successes for our new discussion board, "The Nurses’ Station." To apply, email [email protected] with a resume and brief letter of interest.

What we heard this week ⬇️ "People can't call or email the traditional group leads and ask what's happening -- because there's nobody there." -- William Schaffner, MD, of Vanderbilt University, on the ongoing chaos among the CDC's ACIP workgroups. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

MedPage Today: Disband CDC Vaccine Panel, Updated Lawsuit Says New appointees lack the credentials and experience to serve on ACIP, groups argue by Kristina Fiore 👉 bit.ly/47NRXhH @medpagetoday.com @kristinafiore.bsky.social

Read the article by @kristinafiore.bsky.social: www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

CDC Mutual Aid, @firedbutfighting.bsky.social, and the CDC Alumni Association were featured in a great @medpagetoday.com article by @kristinafiore.bsky.social last week:

This is us! We will not back down. We will not be dismissed. We will keep volunteering to save public health and protect the health of all Americans. Appreciate you documenting our journey and impact thus far @kristinafiore.bsky.social. Keep in touch!

BioWatch, a bioterrorism surveillance program rolled out in 2003, was paused suddenly on Wednesday. Although this poses no immediate threat to the American public, it is still cause for concern. Here’s what you need to know:

Inside Medicine: What is BioWatch and why is it offline? by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social bit.ly/4qsFIzM

The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), aka the "voice of CDC," isn't publishing during the federal government shutdown. According to sources, this marks a departure from past shutdowns, when MMWR staff were allowed to be exempt from furloughs. ⬇️

MedPage Today: 'Voice of CDC' Goes Silent bit.ly/497Al2y By @kristinafiore.bsky.social

Canada is close to losing its measles elimination status. What happens then? Canada eliminated measles decades ago, but it will lose that status on Oct. 27 – barring a ‘miracle,’ by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

COVID Vaccines and Cancer Risk: Experts Dissect Flawed Study www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi... via @kristinafiore.bsky.social @medpagetoday.com

CNN: RFK Jr.’s HHS killed a research grant to investigate vaccine safety, then asked the researcher to publicly present results by @megtirrell.bsky.social bit.ly/4mMpZbC

A population-based retrospective study from South Korea is being touted as evidence that COVID-19 vaccines may cause cancer... But epidemiologists were quick to highlight the study's numerous flaws and caveats ⬇️ #MedSky

During a Senate hearing earlier this month, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. twice mentioned a "William Thompson" at the CDC. Who is Thompson, and why might RFK Jr. be speaking with him? @cherclarhealth.bsky.social investigates: www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

The CDC's HIV prevention scientists are writing themselves out of the picture: www.medpagetoday.com/hivaids/hiva...

Inside Medicine -- BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down bit.ly/48np8KP by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social The Trump administration's HHS is back to its old habits of targeting public health resources deemed too woke.

Here's what David Geier has been up to at the CDC: www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has chosen seven new members for the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), according to information obtained by MedPage Today's editor-in-chief @jeremyfaust.bsky.social.

After two senators publicly called for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be fired from HHS last week, MedPage Today asked the other 98 senators, four of whom are physicians, where they stand. These are the senators calling for Kennedy's ouster:

Read the full story by @kristinafiore.bsky.social: www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

MedPage Today / Mary Meyer: The Evisceration of CDC Is a Disaster for All of Us If you're not worried, you should be bit.ly/4g2sR2q

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Groups Call for RFK Jr. to Be Impeached. Here's What That Would Take via @medpagetoday.com @kristinafiore.bsky.social Doctors, public health advocates take to social media, launch petitions urging Kennedy's removal @standupforscience.bsky.social bit.ly/45Cc6GA

New: I spent the week looking into the cancelled mRNA contracts. Interviews with HHS officials and MAGA and MAHA influencers reveal an HHS agency plagued by dysfunction as Kennedy chips away at the nation’s public health. www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

"Now is the time for leaders, including RFK Jr., to condemn the violence and the anti-science rhetoric that led to it." www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

Abstracts related to work done by DGAC were retracted from a major nutrition conference, sparking concerns that 2 years of work producing a robust scientific report may be disregarded, sources told us. @cgardnerphd.bsky.social @deirdretobias.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

NJ nonprofits step in after 988 LGBTQ+ option is canceled “We all do better when we can engage with people who share our lived experience. That has always been the case with the LGBTQ+ community especially.” — Beatrice Simpkins @njspotlightnews.org www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/08/nj-n...

There's a Major Publishing Slowdown at CDC's Flagship Journal www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... via @kristinafiore.bsky.social @medpagetoday.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: According to a MedPage Today analysis, the CDC's MMWR published fewer articles in the past 3 months than it did during the same time period for several years prior. @srasmussen7690.bsky.social @kristinafiore.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

FDA has recently held a slew of so-called "expert panels" (on menopause, SSRIs in pregnancy, talc, + baby formula) that sidestep legal procedures + ethics guardrails, raising concern about cherry-picking of experts and evidence. For @medpagetoday.bsky.social 👇🏻 www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

There's a major publishing slowdown at CDC's flagship journal, MMWR. Submissions are down, and there's a new step in the process that's never been required before -- all articles must be cleared by the HHS secretary's office (though an HHS spokesperson said this was "false"). More here:

The dismissal of all 17 members of the CDC's vaccine advisory panel and their quick replacement, along with cuts to CDC staff, have "left the U.S. vaccine program critically weakened," the ousted members wrote in @jama.com. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi... @kristinafiore.bsky.social #ACIP #CDC

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. has said there's been "monkey business" at CDC's Vaccine Safety Datalink. But the experts who built it and used it for decades say it's an essential tool for assessing vaccine safety. Here's everything you ever wanted to know about the VSD:

The individual components of the MMR vaccine were all tested in placebo-controlled trials. I went back through the literature and dug them up: www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Thrilled to share that we have been named a 2025 Finalist for @nihcm.bsky.social's Trade Journalism Award! The nomination recognizes our series, "Are the Novel Weight-Loss Drugs Really a 'Miracle' Fix?" @kristinafiore.bsky.social @cherclarhealth.bsky.social @rachrobertson.bsky.social #NIHCMAwards