Greg Folkers
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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 š
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@medpagetoday.com
@kristinafiore.bsky.social
about 9 hours ago
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Eurosurveillance: Post-authorisation experience and reported adverse events following use of a virus-like particle chikungunya vaccine, United States and Germany, up to August 2025
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about 17 hours ago
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WSJ: Operation Warp Speed Aimed at Covid and Hit Cancer Melanoma patients who got an mRNA vaccine for the virus saw median survival times double. š
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about 19 hours ago
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Lancet HIV: Functional cure of HIV-1 infection in an exceptional elite controller: a case report JosƩ M Benito, PhD et al
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about 19 hours ago
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Jason "Red5" Lyall
1 day ago
By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source:
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Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/tracking-anticipated-deaths-from-usaid-funding-cuts/
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Long COVID and the development of new-onset uveitis: a large database study Qais A Dihan et al
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1 day ago
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J Virol: Recent advances in lateral flow devices and point-of-care diagnostics for highly pathogenic avian influenza A viruses Meng-Wei Lin et al
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h5n1 etc
2 days ago
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
3 days ago
I could not disagree more. There are many reasons that MMR is given as one shot. Separating it out means: -Babies more vulnerable to preventable disease for no reason -Three times as many doc visits -Three times more shitty days for baby -Three times more copays -Three times more work absences
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CBS: Is COVID-19 during pregnancy linked to autism? What a new study shows, and what it doesn't by
@celinegounder.com
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3 days ago
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Inside Medicine: Exclusive: The Trump administration dismantled the CDCās peer review system. Staffers scrambled to salvage it. by
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3 days ago
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Vaccine: Preventive effect of vaccination on long COVID in adolescents with SARS-CoV-2 infection Tanayott Thaweethai et al
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4 days ago
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Gregg Gonsalves
5 days ago
Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
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CIDRAP: New coronavirus subspecies with SARS-CoV-2ālike mutation discovered in Brazilian bat by Mary Van Beusekom
@cidrap.bsky.social
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6 days ago
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CIDRAP Op-Ed: Vaccine effectiveness and safety: What the numbers truly mean in 2025 by
@jakescottmd.bsky.social
@cidrap.bsky.social
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6 days ago
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Ian Kremer
9 days ago
NIH Alzheimerās Research Funding Is Back ā for 49% Fewer Projects
beingpatient.com/alzheimers-r...
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@spichaksimon.bsky.social
@beingpatient.bsky.social
#Alzheimers
#dementia
#NIH
#science
#neuroscience
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NIH Alzheimerās Research Funding Is Back ā for 49% Fewer Projects
Though the NIH director is calling for $187 million more in funding for Alzheimerās, the NIH is funding fewer new projects.
https://beingpatient.com/alzheimers-research-funding-restored/
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CIDRAP and CEPI launch resources to track development of coronavirus vaccines ā¶ļø
bit.ly/48XfwqI
@cidrap.bsky.social
COVID
7 days ago
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COVID-19 during pregnancy linked to higher risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children
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7 days ago
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HHS Nixes Another USPSTF Meeting ā Preventive services group hasn't met since March by Kristina Fiore
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8 days ago
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CIDRAP: Meta-analysis of COVID, RSV, flu vaccines for fall provides 'sea of data' showing efficacy, safety
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@cidrap.bsky.social
8 days ago
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JAMA Netw Open: Asymptomatic Influenza A(H5N1) Infections and Sustained SurveillanceāSustaining Surveillance Beyond the Crisis by Rick Bright and Nicole Lurie
#h5n1
bit.ly/4qzttRL
8 days ago
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NEJM : Updated Evidence for Covid-19, RSV, and Influenza Vaccines for 2025ā2026 by
@jakescottmd.bsky.social
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@nejm.org
8 days ago
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MSNBC : Meet the anti-vaccine activist who could lead the response to the next pandemic by
@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
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Meet the anti-vaccine activist who could lead the response to the next pandemic
Former firefighter John Knox's ties to RFK Jr. have landed him atop the agency that helped bring Covid-19 under control. People in the know are worried.
https://on.msnbc.com/47vzXsl
8 days ago
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Video replay: Senate HELP Committee hearing -- The Future of Biotech: Maintaining U.S. Competitiveness and Delivering Lifesaving Cures to Patients
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8 days ago
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CIDRAP -- Analysis: Last year's COVID vaccines protected well against severe illness
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@cidrap.bsky.social
9 days ago
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Jeremy Berg
9 days ago
New story up on the non-existent banned words from NIH grants (based on my grant title, word cloud analysis)
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
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Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear whatās next
The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/nih-banned-words-analysis-grant-title-changes/
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AVAC: Transforming HIV Prevention in 2025: Advocatesā Critical Questions
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@avac.org
lenacapavir PrEP
10 days ago
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STAT / Seth Berkley: Global security is impossible without sufficient support for global health
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Global security is impossible without sufficient support for global health
Strong, well-functioning health systems are as vital as advanced weaponry, military strategy, and intelligence for global security, writes former CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
https://bit.ly/4hFpVJW
10 days ago
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CNN: Canada is poised to lose its measles elimination status ā and the US could, too
bit.ly/4qv6Rlq
11 days ago
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It's been > 1 month since the last CDC MMWR weekly, and 25 days since the last MMWR R+R MMWR becoming irrelevant. ā¹ļø
11 days ago
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Nature: This āminorā bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic Experiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells but cases of person-to-person transmission havenāt been reported yet.
go.nature.com/4nsnbR7
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This āminorā bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic
Experiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells but cases of person-to-person transmission havenāt been reported yet.
https://go.nature.com/4nsnbR7
11 days ago
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Bhekisisa/ Mia Malan: SA becomes first African country to register twice-a-year anti-HIV jab... at record speed
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lenacapavir PrEP
11 days ago
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Tara C. Smith
11 days ago
Please don't take medical advice from someone who still can't spell "hepatitis" and who doesn't know there are not individual M,M,R shots available.
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TAGās Recommendations to NIAID on the Future of the HIV Clinical Trials Networks ā¶ļø
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@niaidnews.bsky.social
@taghivscience.bsky.social
13 days ago
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TAG video replay and photos: Research in Action Awards 2025
@taghivscience.bsky.social
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13 days ago
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Lancet HIV: Reducing HIV incidence and mortality: two sides of the same coin in the approach to ending AIDS Joseph N Jarvis et al
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13 days ago
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CIDRAP: Quality of decisions made by CDC vaccine advisers has nose-dived, former voting members say
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Quality of decisions made by CDC vaccine advisers has nose-dived, former voting members say
https://bit.ly/47aABwx
13 days ago
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
13 days ago
MAHAās out here all smug with their lies about vaccines and sat fats while the same administration cuts nutrition benefits for children. Talk to me about removing food dyes when every kid in the U.S. has enough to eat. We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.
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In the Pipeline/Derek Lowe: mRNA Vaccines and Immuno-oncology: Good News ā¶ļøhttps://bit.ly/4o17QZ3āļø by
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14 days ago
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ECDC: Local transmission of clade 1b mpox cases detected in EU/EEA, ECDC urges renewed vigilance
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Local transmission of clade 1b mpox cases detected in EU/EEA, ECDC urges renewed vigilance
Following the first detections of locally acquired mpox clade Ib cases within the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is c...
https://bit.ly/4ogD0vB
14 days ago
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Inside Medicine: An award that belongs to this community...
bit.ly/3Jp4rEi
Congrats to
@jeremyfaust.bsky.social
14 days ago
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Nature Med: How HIV research drives health innovation in multiple diseases Lawrence Corey et al ā¶ļøhttps://go.nature.com/4qpu9cx
14 days ago
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JID: Resistance Analyses of Lenacapavir, Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Alafenamide and Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate in the PURPOSE 1 and 2 Studies Stephanie Cox et al
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14 days ago
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Mark Histed
15 days ago
The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad. I made a video explainer about why. Stay for last post, w link to
@science.org
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AVAC: PxWire is out! See where LEN arrives first + updates on trials for 1x month PrEP pill and more
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@avac.org
15 days ago
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Nature
16 days ago
People being treated for certain deadly cancers lived longer if they had received an mRNA-based vaccine against COVID-19 than if they hadnāt
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People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine
mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ā in an unexpected way.
https://go.nature.com/4hkqZma
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Jeremy Berg
16 days ago
A follow-up to yesterday's email to Director Bhattacharya... 1/12
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POZ: Weekly Oral HIV Treatment Looks Good at Two Years /A once-weekly combination of lenacapavir and islatravir pills maintained viral suppression for 96 weeks. By Liz Highleyman
@pozmagazine.bsky.social
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16 days ago
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Milbank Quarterly/L Gostin: You Serve at the Pleasure of the President: As Such You are No Longer Wanted or Needed Jay Bhattacharya: ā...you serve at the pleasure of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. As such your appointment has been rescinded effective immediately.ā
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16 days ago
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Inside Climate News: Close Friend of JD Vance Skirts Normal Channels to Take Over NIH Environmental Health Institute by Liza Gross
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16 days ago
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Jeremy Berg
16 days ago
My quote of the day I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling. Larry Kramer
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