The CDC has lost a third of its work force this year. The Trump administration maintains that the losses are necessary, but critics say that there is no real plan, only animosity. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h...

After a quiet summer, the bird flu virus H5N1 is hitting poultry flocks hard in the run-up to the holidays — and in the midst of a federal government shutdown. w/ @emilyanthes.bsky.social (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/h...

Happy Diwali! May the next year bring light and lightness into all our lives.

Hundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration. Here are four who helped to keep pandemics at bay. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...

“I’m still searching...looking around to see where else I can use these skills" Thank you @apoorvanyt.bsky.social for profiling these amazing US scientists @nytopinion.nytimes.com I hope they all find new careers www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up the top two leaders of the federal measles response team, those working on Ebola and dozens of other infectious disease experts (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

It was yet another rough night for CDC employees: Dozens — possibly hundreds, they are still self-surveying — were let go late at night, including those who worked on the prestigious MMWR reports www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

On a Saturday in 2023, Sam Terblanche, a junior at Columbia University, told friends he felt lousy on the way to a soccer match. On Sunday, he went to the emergency room complaining of headache and chills. On Monday, sicker, he went again. On both visits, Sam was discharged. Days later, he died.

A substantial body of evidence supports the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy, contrary to the suggestions of some members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently reconstituted the committee. www.factcheck.org/2025/10/vacc...

A drug that provides near-perfect protection against HIV with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope for ending the HIV epidemic. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...

Icymi the first time this ran, here’s a refresher: Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...

The federal vaccine committee appointed by RFK Jr. voted unanimously to further limit access to Covid vaccines, recommending that adults 65 and older receive the shots only after discussing the potential benefits and risks with a health care provider. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/h...

The chaos from the first day of a meeting of the federal vaccine committee appointed by RFK Jr. bled into the second day, as the panel reversed one decision and indefinitely postponed a vote on a hepatitis B vaccine they had already deferred once. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/h...

In a meeting that devolved into confusion and near chaos, federal advisers on Thursday voted 8 to 3 against vaccinating children under four years old with a combination shot that protects against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...

Members of a federal vaccine committee, appointed by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., may revise the longstanding recommendation to immunize all newborns against Hepatitis B www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/h...

Breaking: RFK Jr adds five new members to the federal committee that decides which shots Americans should get and when www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/h...

Thought to affect 200 million people globally, schistosomiasis is considered one of the most important parasitic infections worldwide, second only to malaria. Yet it attracts nowhere near the funding or the attention that killers like malaria do. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/h...

At next week’s meeting of the federal vaccine committee, the FDA plans to present data linking birth defects and deaths in children to the Covid vaccine With @by-cjewett.bsky.social (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/h...

On Dec. 18, Olivia Li turned 4. Barely five weeks later, she slipped into unconsciousness, a rare and unexpected consequence of a flu infection. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/h...

Today's show isn't just about vaccines (tho it is!), it's also about whether public health has jumped the shark. Not sure you're gonna like the answer slate.com/podcasts/wha... (🙏 @apoorvanyt.bsky.social )

Hawaii’s health insurers say they will cover COVID vaccinations for anyone older than six months, despite new FDA guidance that says children and healthy adults don’t need the shots.

Pubbed last night: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to nominate seven new advisers to a scientific committee that recommends which vaccines Americans should take and when. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/h...

Being asked about crazy inflated numbers by antivaccine groups regarding how vaccines kids get. ANS: we went from vaccinating vs 8 diseases when I was a resident in the 1980s, to 16 diseases today. But of those 16, 11 diseases are combined into just two shots. Breakdowns below:

New Ebola outbreak in DRC

To everyone who is telling me that I am stupid, fat, evil, should be ashamed etc because of one partial screenshot, I welcome you to look at the three hours of fact checking my colleagues and I did in real time www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Over three loud and contentious hours at his Senate hearing, RFK Jr. was remarkably combative and dismissive with senators, refusing to budge from his stance on vaccines, autism, Medicaid and the CDC. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h...

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

In a post on Truth Social, the president suggested that the CDC was being “ripped apart” over a question that was answered long ago — whether Covid vaccines work. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/h...

NEW: NEW: The Trump administration is barring Palestinian passport holders from getting visitors' visas for now. They can't enter the US for medical treatment, family visits and education. State Dept. ordered it in a global cable on Aug. 18. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

just an incredibly reported story from @samaha.bsky.social and the wapo crew www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

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...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assault may have dealt lasting damage to the CDC, experts fear, with harsh consequences for public health. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...

“At one small group meeting Thursday morning, two people broke down in tears, according to an employee who was present. At another meeting, a senior leader who has always stayed calm under pressure was visibly shaking, another scientist said.”

“We’re scared for ourselves and for the country" CDC staff member www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h... via @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

After six months of turmoil, the loss of the new director and a round of high-profile resignations marks a new low at the CDC (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...

CDC director Susan Monarez declined to fire agency leaders or to accept all recommendations from a vaccine advisory panel made over by Mr. Kennedy, according to people with knowledge of the events. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...

Lawyers for the CDC’s chief, Susan Monarez, insist that the impasse with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can only be resolved by President Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...

BREAKING: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08... The director of the CDC, Susan Monarez, is refusing to leave her post, despite demands from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that she quit or be fired, per her lawyers. via @sherylnyt.bsky.social + @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

Study after study continues to prove that #basicincome programs reduce #poverty and improve health and wellbeing in communities. A New Way to Reduce Children’s Deaths: Cash www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/h... by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social via @nytimes.com CC: @hthirumurthy.bsky.social

Of every 1,000 children born in Kenya, 32 don’t make it to their first birthdays. A new stumbled onto a straightforward solution: Giving $1,000 to poor families lowered infant mortality rates by nearly half, and deaths in children under 5 by 45 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/h...

The dismantling of USAID has disrupted the global supply chain that provides a therapeutic food, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/h...

The FDA may not renew the Pfizer Covid vaccine’s authorization for children under 5. And Moderna’s is approved only for kids with health conditions that increase their risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/h...

The system for compensating people injured by vaccines needs significant reform. But the health secretary could alter it in ways that ultimately reduce vaccine access for everyone. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/h...

A gunman who believed the Covid-19 vaccine had made him ill fired at the CDC’s Atlanta offices, killing a police officer and rattling the public health community. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...

CDC workers were terrified as gunman shot at the agency’s headquarters yesterday. Today they are still reeling from shock, fear — and rage. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...

The shooting at the CDC in Atlanta, which killed a police officer, followed the spread of false information around Covid vaccines and animosity directed at the agency, public health workers say. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...

Many outlets are reporting that there’s an active shooter at Emory U. But some are skipping over the fact that the shooter was directly across from the cdc, and shot at cdc buildings www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

While many officials and scientists embrace other parts of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda, his stance on vaccines is alienating allies who fear a public health crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/h...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has canceled nearly $500 million of grants and contracts for developing mRNA vaccines, the Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...