Standing in solidarity with colleagues at the CDC who were fired as part of yet another RIF wave. We are all less safe without their expertise and dedication.

In the State of Georgia, it is now easier to buy a gun than it is to get a COVID booster vaccine. Pretty crazy stuff.

wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

🆕In their Comment, @emilyevs.bsky.social ‬and @boghuma.bsky.social discuss the new Article published by Ned Latham and Colleagues on fully vaccinated individuals with mpox in NSW, Australia Read here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The spread of measles in the Southwest now constitutes the largest single outbreak since the U.S. declared the disease eliminated in 2000, federal scientists told state officials in a meeting on Monday.

Even when we’re cast as villains, those of us working in infectious diseases still have a vital role to play. In this reflection, I share how I’m continuing to show up for patients, for public health, and for the next generation even when it’s hard. open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj...

What a great piece by @arstechnica.com: "This moment calls out for moral clarity and resolve. It asks universities to take their mission in society seriously and to resist being co-opted by government forces." arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..

Beside measles outbreaks, we are likely to see resurgence of: - HIV - Tuberculosis - STIs (Syphilis, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea) - A worse flu season - other vaccine preventable diseases. Because that's what happens when you gut public health, defund research and promote vaccine misinformation.

he did this just *after* going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl. he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

RFK Jr. Guts Teams That Share Health Information With the Public. The health secretary had promised “radical transparency,” but fired communications teams in the Health and Human Services Department, by @maggieastor.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/w... via @nytimes.com #infodemic #journalism

We expected hundreds of thousands of people yesterday. Instead, millions of Americans flooded the streets to demand an end to Trump’s authoritarian power grab. Trump and Musk have spent their first 75 days in office trying to overwhelm us and make us feel powerless, but we’re not going anywhere.

Atlanta showed up in a big way yesterday. Love this city 💜

PEPFAR accomplishments to date

News from #CROI2025: Two more people appear to be free of HIV after stem cell transplants for cancer treatment. If these men remain in remission, they will be the 8th & 9th known cases of a functional cure after the procedure. www.poz.com/article/two-...

At the Save Our Sciences Rally for HIV Research! Past HIVMA Chair, Carlos del Rio @docdelrio.bsky.social , applauded the role of NIH in making the U.S. a leader in biomedical research and a major driver of economies and the importance of reauthorizing the lifesaving PEPFAR program.

Global Toll of US Tuberculosis Funding Cuts Grim results of a modeling study on what US funding cuts to TB projects might mean TB deaths are projected to increase by 99,800 (minimal impact scenario), 268,600 (moderate impact), and 2,243,700 (worst case scenario) www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Stand Up For Science rallies are tomorrow! With the attacks on science, this seems more important than ever. See how you can participate: standupforscience2025.org

The global fund will roll out twice yearly Lenacapavir for prevention of HIV with or without #PEPFAR. Now the US contributes 30% of the global fund donations which is likely to disappear. Still important the fund is not backing away from this commitment 👏🏼. bhekisisa.org/health-news-...

🌍 "Early impacts of the #PEPFAR stop-work order: a rapid assessment" 📰 Check out these new field notes in the Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) and join the call to #SavePEPFAR!

This is remarkable. The last of 8 patients who tested positive for Ebola Sudan has been discharged. Now the 42 day count down to this outbreak being officially declared over is on. Only 1 fatality is a remarkable feat.🤞 Kudos to front line responders in #Uganda www.independent.co.uk/news/ebola-u...

The global South is leading in keeping us all safe. 1.Rwanda &Tanzania contained marburg outbreaks 2.Uganda is fighting Ebola 3. DRC is fighting #mpox Knowledge can flow from the global South to North. With CDC EIS gutted, consider Africa CDC's AES www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2025/02/17/a...

The Trump administration’s sweeping actions—withdrawal from WHO, halting USAID, freezing Medicaid funds, and crippling the NIH & CDC—are an assault on global & public health Read The Lancet's Editorial @thelancet.bsky.social #health #who #us #nih #cdc #globalhealth #publichealth #usaid #trump

While there is general concern, WHO has stepped up in the interim to fill the gap left by US abandoning biodefense role that US has historically supported. Realizing that we live in an interconnected world. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/som...

"Don't give in to cynicism or apathy. That's what the people promulgating these horrible policies want - a bored, indifferent public who figures that who cares, nothing matters any more, it's gonna happen no matter what...Never forget that: it doesn't have to happen" www.science.org/content/blog...

Imagine going to your doctor and being told the treatment plan for whatever ails you has to align with an executive order of the President.This is where we are headed. The banner now adorning the CDC website pages on various treatment guidelines is most sinister.

Censor CDC scientists and ask them to withdraw papers from medical journals? This is not how it works, Mr President. Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words" www.bmj.com/content/388/...

1. The #WHO does immense good in global public health. 2. The #WHO needs reform 3. US Support of the #WHO is essential and withdrawal of its support and membership from the organization is detrimental 4. The #WHO will survive without the US as will global health. All of these statements are true.

The richest man in the world wants us to stop feeding the poorest in the world.

While our public health institutions are muted by the people who are supposed to protect us and as we pull out of international organizations dedicated to preventing deadly outbreaks- diseases themselves play by their own rules… www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/u...

@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling. It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks. Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

Data sets relating to issues like diversity, reproductive health, climate are disappearing from the CDC website. #IDSky www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

ID folks don't forget to register for the Member's Advocacy Program through IDSA and "Take Action" with letters to representatives and of course... call! (even for us phone shy girlies I promise it's not that bad) idsociety.quorum.us/home_page/

Measles outbreak in Atlanta while current HHS nominee has propagated vaccine hesitancy - a lethal ideology and health institutions such as CDC/NIH are on a communication freeze. Just because politics ignore public health threats doesn't mean they stop happening.... dph.georgia.gov/press-releas...

Keep speaking up because it matters. Call out inhumane policies that will kill people. PEPFAR funded HIV drug distribution resumes...for now. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/h...

In 1993 HIV was the leading cause of death in the United States of people aged 25-44. It took: 📌Funding research 📌Fighting stigma 📌Promoting equity for access to testing and treatment to reverse the tide. Anti-science & anti public health policies could reverse this www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...

The risk of bird flu continues to rise as it spreads in herds &flock around the country. This is the absolute worst time for health communications the CDC to be muzzled. If we have another pandemic we will be even more vulnerable than the last time around. #h5n1 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“This is a matter of life or death. #PEPFAR provides lifesaving antiretrovirals for more than 20 million people — and stopping its funding essentially stops their #HIV treatment. If that happens, people are going to die and HIV will resurge.” - IAS President Beatriz Grinsztejn, via @cnn.com

Please read this thread from Dr. Atul Gawande who previously led USAID global health under president Biden's administration. Every day that goes by with USAID activities paused is impacting millions around the globe negatively. Many will die as a direct result.

- Halt of all US foreign aid for 90 days - A stop-work order worldwide even for existing and appropriated assistance. All effective immediately! US foreign aid is just as important for America as it is for the countries that receive the aid. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Breaking News: Colombia’s president said the country wouldn’t allow deportation flights from the U.S. until President Trump provides a process that treats migrants with “dignity and respect.”

If RFK Jr. were to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), his dangerous views could undermine decades of public health progress. Here’s why his beliefs are harmful. His confirmation hearing is this week. Let your senators know he cannot lead HHS His beliefs are dangerous 🧵

Inaugural post on Bluesky: my first time attending on our Special Immunology Service for PWH at Grady with star ID fellow @emilyevs.bsky.social and stellar IM residents!

An outbreak of avian yet unknown cause has been flagged in the #DRC. So far 143 people have died. Symptoms are flu like symptoms and severe headaches ( basically most viral infections can present like this). Hoping we get confirmation of the etiology quickly. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

PURPOSE-2 results are now published. It demonstrates high level effectiveness of twice a year Lenacapavir for HIV prevention in Men and gender diverse persons. An important milestone for long acting injectables for PrEP. Now we need to address the issue of access. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....