Institutions aren’t coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. This has been proven over and over and over again.

We should celebrate @asm.org for doing the right thing here. Yes, the text is disappointing, but the headline is enough for them to get harassed by the current Luddite-in-Chief. All that said, where are the Academies? Where are the other societies? Why are we letting this happen to ourselves?

His legacy is making us more vulnerable to dangerous viruses.

NIH is being further gutted. Call your reps. Raise awareness. Thank you @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social for speaking out!

Late in the afternoon on Friday (yesterday), HHS/NIH did 2 things: 1) They RIFd more employees (despite the extreme staffing shortages). 2) They sent announcements to supervisors letting them know people in their chain of command will be moved to the career/policy “at will” status. 🧵1/3

The GOP has never been in a stronger position in terms of systemic power. Not cultural power or political capital. But in the ability to impose its agenda, the GOP is at its peak right now. It took them winning over 50 years to get to this point. And by extension, it took a losing opposition.

NEW from Important Context: @origgio.bsky.social reports how right-wing and anti-vaccine groups and talking heads are using the hantavirus outbreak to undermine public health. Peddling conspiracy theories and stoking fears of COVID-era mitigations. www.importantcontext.news/p/public-hea...

We knew hantavirus conspiracies were bad, but Marjorie Taylor Greene, The Brownstone gang.. what a sorry bunch! @origgio.bsky.social: “Color me skeptical” says one Brownstone conspiracist, before pointing to convenient coincidences that mean this is all a hoax... open.substack.com/pub/importan...

Fox News: Richard Ebright’s level headed expert analysis on COVID-19 origins was suppressed in early 2020 Ebright in early 2020: Non-stop tweeting that everyone is a murderer (POTUS, cruise lines, President of Brown, etc)

Not often I get to report good news!

Mr. Anti-lockdown Jay Bhattacharya authorized the quarantine of a hantavirus patient. I can’t. I’m done. Like, L-O-fucking-L TWF reality gets in the way of your dumb ideology. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

27 UNIHTED Fact Check: NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya at the March 17, 2026 House Appropriations Committee Hearing / Published May 11, 2026 bit.ly/4eVO1AQ 💥 @27unihted.bsky.social

Lockdown Jay www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

Finally this harmful gang of miscreants is falling apart. @walkerbragman.bsky.social lays out all the reasons why this may actually make people healthy again! Good for us, but for them? Not so much @joho.bsky.social "They are not off the hook for what comes next”. open.substack.com/pub/importan...

We're now in the flying blind, dismantling the aircraft as we go along phase of pandemic preparedness. Must read article from @benjaminmateus.bsky.social. Last week Andes hantavirus, this week Bundibugyo Ebola. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Pete Buttigieg to CNN just now.. about Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's controversial road trip reality show "I love road trips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded road trip lasting about seven months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different"

Here lies the problem: Dana Bash saying how "nice it is to see policy debates like this" She is bothsidesing RFK Jr's deadly measles outbreak & his refusal to say that the MMR vaccine is safe & effective & his refusal to boldly, loudly, & unequivocally recommend the vaccine There aren't 2 sides!

It started as a nongovernmental institution and could be one again. What's the point of kowtowinig and compromising your mission just to get defunded anyways?

Remember when the President of the National Academies tried to appease the republicans by going bipartisan? Look how well that's going. bsky.app/profile/jere...

Ivermectin is already being pushed as a cure for hantavirus and now Ebola. Every new outbreak becomes a gift to health disinformation spreaders who create fear, then monetize it.

Bill Cassidy, the physician who knew RFK Jr was an antivax grifter and charlatan and chose to advance him anyway for a vote to confirm him on the Senate floor, has been successfully primaried. He’ll go down to the political oblivion he deserves.

I feel so much safer now that utterly-unqualified COVID lab leak Twitterati have switched to tracking Hantavirus & are "just asking questions". Don't kid yourself folks, you know exactly where this is headed...

Very sad to see a good woman driven of social media just because an angry man lost his court case and lashed other more disturbing methods. archive.org/details/topi...

You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts. #BelieveTheScience What he said 💯 👇 👇 👇

He clearly “doth protest too much, methinks”..

"Mr. Wonderful" turns out to be just another China-obsessed conspiracy-monger aggressively harassing two Utah-based women democrat campaigners who support nature & fight climate change. Kevin O'Leary openly called for Trump to take over his own country, Canada. I believe there's a T-word for that!

Amen to that comment from the honorable Dr. Hotez! @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Review of Hantaviruses & wildlife reservoirs in @naturehealthglobal.bsky.social's journal "EcoHealth" published by @springernature.com. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

One for @adapalmer.bsky.social’s #ShareGoodNewsToo list “About 250 Craspedia argentea seedlings are this week being planted at Mahaka Katia Scientific Reserve in Central Otago following years of painstaking hand-pollination, propagation and care by conservationists and botanists.”

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

The craziest part is Brian C has been the Assistant Secretary of Health at HHS started in November 2025. Let that sink in. From your friendly, illegally fired CDC staff and our allies.

Election conspiracies or erection conspiracies?

State of US commitment to health & science summed up in one CNN headline...!

The indictment of David Morens and the threat posed by the hantavirus: A discussion with @peterdaszak.bsky.social www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Dear Joe MacKinnnon of Blaze News. Thanks for your email asking if EcoHealth Alliance worked on Hantaviruses at Wuhan Inst. Virol. So you're aware, MV Hondius didn't stop in Wuhan on the way from Argentina where the rats live. Also, Wuhan is landlocked so you're likely barking up the wrong tree.

"the implication is that the Deep State or Big Pharma fears their powerful knowledge" Credit to @peterdaszak.bsky.social for reminding us how crazy & stupid all this is. But our politicians in office embracing stupidity that would be just tabloid nonsense is a reminder how bad things really are.

I made this list many years and i obviously have left out people unintentionally, but for anyone interested, here it is . Will try and update soon. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Two things are true & not in contradiction: 1. This witch hunt is inexcusable, partisan & intended to erode trust in science & public health. 2. Baric decided early on to try to lay low & let colleagues get raked over the coals instead of fighting back believing he could ride this out. Fight back

Transparent lack of understanding. China's been pumping money into renewables for >2 decades - wind farms, electric vehicles. They aren't looking to the US for this, they're actively growing the US as a customer for their products. This administration is frittering away opportunity.

I am not overly confident in IC assessments on COVID-19 origins since any time anything comes to light what people were actually thinking inside those agencies, it's scientifically easy to discard as non-sense. And not only the loonies seem to be having this issue.

This is the way an article like this, taking down Bhattacharya to his natural height of an ant, should be written. Kudos to the fearless and eloquent author @davidsanderssci.bsky.social.

Reading not too hard between the lines, MAHA is fracturing because Trump is realizing that the anti-vax movement, which helped him on the margins, is not broadly popular and never will be.

Breaking News! @peterdaszak.bsky.social speaks out about "vindictive political prosecution" of @davidmmorens.bsky.social MAGA's continuing anti-science witch hunt, & their mishandling of outbreak response in the face of Hantavirus h-2-h spread @benjaminmateus.bsky.social www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The lunatic lab leakers need to stop. There's no evidence, mkay? No logic. No epidemiology. No virological evidence. Nothing. Just stubbornness and paranoia. That's it.

These are the same people who would allow the planet to burn because going green would disrupt the fossil fuel industry; same people who would allow indoor smoking and tobacco ads for kids. They’re just shills for big business and billionaires—the funders of their whole movement.

They want to ultimately discredit public health as an institution so that the next time there is a major public health crisis, we cannot disrupt big business. It’s extreme villainy.

The right-wing campaign to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci stems from his unwillingness to embrace Donald Trump’s national reopening plans in the spring of 2020 as COVID was overwhelming hospitals. It’s actually insane. These people have no concern for the danger they’re putting Fauci in with their BS

Contrary to the claims by Robert Kennedy Jr.’s former anti-vax group, there is zero evidence that COVID came from a lab. Zero.