Look….. I know I’m an adult so it’s different…… but I feel like this year’s Christmas is the least Christmas-y I’ve ever experienced. Personally, because of all of the horror we’ve had this year. But also commercially, I feel like even companies are phoning it in or not even acknowledging it.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

A sad sad story and your reminder that rabies can have a very very long incubation period up to over a year. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/h...

New measles case in SW Colorado in unvaccinated child with no known exposure, because, of course. 1) people are infectious before the know they have measles 2) measles persists for up to 2 hours in the air space after an infected person leaves. #vaccinessavelives coloradosun.com/2025/12/05/m...

The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools. n.pr/48udkF5

🎙️ PASCV: Gone Viral salutes our Public Health Heros ! Dr. Nina Gao interviews the 1 and only Dr. Tony Tran, current Director of the State Public Health Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Center for Laboratory Sciences at the CA Dept of Public Health. buff.ly/dhyYyaO

👻 + 🦟 = NAILED IT! Most of you nailed it! For our October Diagnostic Dilemma, WNV PCR of CSF was the top pick — and the best diagnostic test for this case. New month, new mystery coming soon! www.pascv.org/page/PastCases #PASCV #DiagnosticDilemma #Virology #WestNileVirus

#PAHO 's regional verification commission for #measles elimination meets this week. The likely outcome: Canada will lose its measles-free status, due to its large & long-running outbreak. If so, the Americas region will also lose elimination status. www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/m...

The good, the bad and the ugly on the current measles situation in Canada. Measles outbreak in Ontario finally declared over. New cases are slowing down in all provinces, with only a handful of new cases in Alberta and BC in the last month.

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

In addition to the officials, staff and editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report also received notices of their terminations. thehill.com/policy/healt...

Two people on opposite coasts tested positive for locally acquired malaria this summer. Rare in the US, these cases raise big questions: What’s behind them, and how are labs detecting malaria? #ThanksPHLabs #publichealth #malaria Read more: buff.ly/2PqJ4Z4

Johns Hopkins has created a measles outbreak tracker, similar to the one they operated during the initial stages of COVID-19. #TXID #InfectiousDiseases publichealth.jhu.edu/ivac/resourc... @pidsociety.bsky.social @idsainfo.bsky.social @ast-idcop.bsky.social

For generations doctors have understood that germs — like bacteria or viruses — cause infectious diseases.   Yet we now have an HHS Secretary casting doubt on the germ theory — the foundation of modern medicine. That’s not only unacceptable, it is dangerous. RFK Jr. must resign.

Please vaccinate your kiddos - herd immunity protects those who cannot be vaccinated 🥺 #IDSky apple.news/AoZq7LRInSAC...

We previously reported that the number of people receiving treatment at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center - known as America's research hospital - declined from February-April. Since then, I obtained newer data through mid-August. And it's gotten worse. youtube.com/shorts/yT5Vc...

1/ It’s been a struggle to process what happened at the CDC just a few days ago. The facts are coming in: one officer died, 500 rounds fired, 200 bullets made contact with 6 CDC buildings, hundreds of staff sheltered in place for hours. The intention is undeniable: this was an attempted massacre.

Sunday morning 📰 @science.org The recent attack on #science in 🇺🇸 is not only undermining knowledge; it is also undermining #democracy… www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

With spending cuts poised to hit medical providers, Medicaid recipients and Affordable Care Act enrollees, here's how the bill will affect health care access for millions in the U.S.

The $50 billion that NIH spends every year does more for Americans than Jeff Bezos could hope to dream of. Bezos is a smart guy, in the right place at the right time who built a delivery business. NIH and NSF are THE engines of American discovery and innovation. GTFO

From Jeopardy last night... 1/n

All right, I’m signing off of ACIP to go about my day. My brief summary is that as expected, fACIP members are unqualified to carefully and knowledgeably review vaccine data. They don’t understand the epidemiological studies. Each of them should wave this flag.

Both my patience and the Commerce Committee hearing with RFK Jr. have come to an end. Summary: RFK Jr. said Bill Cassidy lied when Cassidy asserted that RFK Jr. wouldn’t change the membership of ACIP (RFK Jr. fired all members). RFK Jr. doesn’t believe that HHS-funded HIV work saved any lives

wgntv.com/news/chicago.... For reference.

In the latest video in our partnership with @glaucomflecken.bsky.social, the BALANCE trial comparing 7 days of antibiotic treatment with 14 days of treatment in patients with bloodstream infection is explained. Access the article for free: nej.md/DrG19

Anyone else bringing #Measles #MeV testing in-house? As far as I can tell, this is the current best MeV test, but it isn’t multiplexed yet to differentiate Measles Vaccine strain #MeVA pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38994600/

Two new variants are competing for dominance: NB.1.8.1 and XFG. We recently nicknamed NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus", and it's pretty clear that XFG deserves a nickname as well. Keeping with the meteorological theme, XFG = "Stratus". Here's some more info about Nimbus and Stratus. (Thread) 1/

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week. They include a scientist who became a conservative darling for his criticisms of COVID-19 vaccines and a critic of pandemic-era lockdowns.

BREAKING: The enforcement chief at America’s consumer watchdog is quitting, ProPublica has learned. Cara Petersen writes in her sign-off letter that it’s “clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” 🧵 1/

I thought this was an Onion satire at first, but no, it's real. The FDA has removed its warning against drinking bleach from its web site. www.wired.com/story/chlori...

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

Congratulations to Molecular Biology student Natasia Paukovich of Beat Vögeli's lab for successfully defending her PhD!

It’s wild just how little we know about #CysticFibrosis disease modifiers www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Colorado measles outbreak: 3 more cases tied to Turkish Airlines flight that landed at DIA

Two bots have liked one of my posts! I think this is what the kids refer to as “going viral!”

My interview on NPR All Things Considered this afternoon www.npr.org/2025/05/28/n...

ACOG is deeply disappointed by HHS’s move to drop COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in pregnancy. The science is clear: COVID-19 remains dangerous in pregnancy and vaccination protects both patients and newborns. The vaccine is safe and protects families. Read our full statement: buff.ly/OGue7sO

The effects of Covid in pregnancy are devastating and preventable by vaccination; now we have strong data from Penn Medicine that vaccines protect children and adolescents from long Covid

Chayito has been harvesting radishes in Ventura County for the last 15 years. She has a lot of experience and is very fast. She's on her knees for up to 10 hours a day. #WeFeedYou

Why should microbiologists working on #CysticFibrosis study Haemophilus influenzae? @phoebesilva.bsky.social explains all for @amiposts.bsky.social www.the-microbiologist.com/features/the... #MicroSky

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn’t warning the public like it was months ago www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

Makary and Prasad have a sounding board piece written in NEJM about the future of COVID-19 vaccine regulation at the FDA. Some thoughts:

Good God, vaccine hesitancy has gone from 12% to 26% among Republican parents in the last four years. www.kff.org/health-infor...

The NIH Director continues to misunderstand (or mischaracterize) the extent to which research is being gutted. I appreciate this program officer for speaking up.

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Y’all missed a great Grand Rounds. The standing ovation was well deserved!

After the end of emergency allotments, there were increases in food insecurity and poor physical health days among SNAP participants. ja.ma/43dp8ZN @rkwadhera.bsky.social

Reminder for VA employees: A gift from a private source (not the VA or a contractor) can be accepted if it's worth $20 or less per occasion, and the total value from that same source within a calendar year doesn't exceed $50

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has laid off thousands of workers since January. Current and former CDC staff are grappling with uncertainty about both their futures and public health.