Find out what's really happening at the NIH. Fact check of Jay Bhattacharya at the March House Appropriations committee hearing from @27unihted.bsky.social by NIH staff (in their personal capacities). www.27unihted.org/jay-fact-che...

Jay Bhattacharya gives high praise to CDC hantavirus responders from his perspective as "someone who has spent my entire career in public health" bit.ly/48TwPIe

Journalists writing about Marty Makary. Don’t describe him as someone who pushed back against Covid restrictions. Link to videos like this. Let your readers know what he actually said. Don’t sanitize his words.

Nothing says “restoring trust in public health” more than having a right-wing economist who has never practiced medicine in charge of the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control. You can really tell he has literally never treated a single patient or a single infectious disease.

Atlantic: I Remember America Before the Measles Vaccine / And I wish Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did too. by Fran Moreland Johns @theatlantic.com bit.ly/4nmyDzr

Boston Globe: The system didn’t catch the hantavirus threat. Biology saved us. By Nikki Romanik and Ashish Jha @bostonglobe.com @nikkiromanik.bsky.social @ashishkjha.bsky.social bit.ly/4nnoe6s 💥

NYT: Kennedy Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into Vaccines, Despite His Public Silence By Christina Jewett and Sheryl Gay Stolberg @nytimes.com @by-cjewett.bsky.social @sherylnyt.bsky.social nyti.ms/3RyVFal 💥 gift link

Our Outbreak Observatory team the @pandemiccenter.bsky.social created a page to track the hantavirus outbreak. Trying to pull all the updates into one single situation report: www.outbreakobservatory.org/hantavirus

Inside Medicine: The first US case of Andes hantavirus is confirmed. Here are answers to the next questions By Jeremy Faust @jeremyfaust.bsky.social bit.ly/42t45lZ 💥

The one other thing I would say: I’ve never seen a better example of how NOT to do public health & infectious disease communications Bhattacharya broke literally every single rule of Comms 101 & we’re going to be using this interview for teaching purposes for generations Utter train wreck 🤦‍♂️

this is what happens when you fire a bunch of the comms people at federal agencies: the principals get no prep & faceplant in interviews where they have to do anything other than whinge about how amazing Trump is

NYT: A Single Infusion Could Suppress H.I.V. for Years, Study Suggests by Apoorva Mandivilli @nytimes.com @apoorvanyt.bsky.social nyti.ms/4eF89XM

WSJ: The Next Frontier for Hantavirus: Finding Vaccines and Treatments by Peter Loftus @loftus.bsky.social @wsj.com on.wsj.com/48WHuC6 gift link

CNN: Former CDC director on his concerns about the Hantavirus outbreak @cnn.com @drtomfrieden.bsky.social cnn.it/4nozfob

“Mildly” positive? Is that like being “mildly” pregnant? We are so fortunate that there are many, many excellent health professionals across the country doing their jobs well. But the ongoing incompetence at the top from HHS is embarrassing and dangerous.

New York Times story about NASEM National Science Board letter. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u... 1/2

UKHSA update on the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak May 11, 2026 bit.ly/4depEvp @ukhsa.bsky.social

NYT: This Is What Happened When Trump Abandoned the World’s Poorest Children by Nicholas Kristof @nytimes.com @nickkristof.bsky.social nyti.ms/4uFjjjJ -- gift link

Bulwark: But Seriously, How Nervous Should We Be About Hantavirus? / by Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social @thebulwark.com Jonathan interviewed lots of smart people for this bit.ly/42s0oNq

N Engl J Med 2020 : "Super-Spreaders" and Person-to-Person Transmission of Andes Virus in Argentina Valeria P Martínez, Gustavo Palacios et al hantavirus bit.ly/4d3uDAy

MS Now: “Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor Joseph Allen says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science h-h transmission may sometimes occur even w-o super-close contact for prolonged periods of time still overall risk to public is low @msnownews.bsky.social bit.ly/4trXnb6

ABC This Week -- Dr. Osterholm: 'No question' hantavirus is 'on the end of its run' bit.ly/4eAdDD7 @cidrap.bsky.social @mtosterholm.bsky.social

WHO: Management of contacts of Andes virus (ANDV) cases from the MV Hondius cruise ship hantavirus @who.int bit.ly/4eyq1Dz 💥

CNN: Acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya on hantavirus outbreak full clip 11:14 one for the public health textbooks cnn.it/4d3Nb3G

UKHSA update on the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak bit.ly/4depEvp @ukhsa.bsky.social

BMJ: Hantavirus: What you need to know nice explainer by Katharine Lang @bmj.com bit.ly/4tvyZFx

ECDC publishes guidance for the management of passengers linked to the Andes hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship bit.ly/49mLKLa @ecdc.europa.eu

ScienceInsider: After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school By Jeffrey Mervis bit.ly/3PgopUL

Dr. Céline Gounder: Hantavirus Isn't the Next Pandemic. The Crisis Is Who's Left to Say So. bit.ly/4uHXnEY @celinegounder.com

AP: Experts wonder ‘Where is the CDC?’ as a hantavirus outbreak unfolds on a cruise ship bit.ly/4dg5gu3

Fox: NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya discusses hantavirus outbreak, cruise ship quarantine, hantavirus transmission fxn.ws/4ddVFDR

Jay Bhattacharya talks hantavirus on Fox and Friends Hopefully an official briefing for a broader audience is imminent bit.ly/4uACqvg bit.ly/3QVAkYE

Wpost editorial board: The hantavirus outbreak underscores the need for mRNA vaccines wapo.st/4tWmQu5 @washingtonpost.com

NYT: Festus Mogae, Botswana President Who Tackled H.I.V., Dies at 86 By Yvonne Mooka and John Eligon nyti.ms/3QY8CdS

bioRxiv: Variable transmission efficiency of mammalian origin HPAI D1.1 H5N1 strains in ferrets Grace E. Quirk Seema S. Lakdawala et al bit.ly/3PwbuOz

Intercept: Dodging FOIA Could Now Mean Arrest and Strip Search, Depending on Who’s Asking The DOJ is now treating evading a records request as a crime, a stunning act of hypocrisy from the Trump administration. by Lauren Harper @theintercept.com bit.ly/4uxWYVh

CDC HAN: 2026 Multi-country Hantavirus Cluster Linked to Cruise Ship May 8, 2026 bit.ly/4tsf4ay

Nature: There is no vaccine for deadly hantavirus: what that means for future outbreaks interview with hanta vaccine developer Jay Hooper By Mohana Basu @nature.com @mohanabasu.bsky.social bit.ly/4cZ4Ucn 💥

CDC Provides Update on Hantavirus Outbreak Linked to M/V Hondius Cruise Ship bit.ly/4nlfq16

Virological.org: Complete sequence of Orthohantavirus andesense virus: Swiss resident 2026 Florian Laubscher et al 💥 virological.org/t/complete-s...

USA Today: Experts worry 'we are not prepared' for pandemic under Trump, RFK Jr. bit.ly/49EzC8q

Statement from the International Hantavirus Society and members of the international hantavirus research and clinical community regarding Andes virus transmission and the current outbreak investigation bit.ly/4tn7FZK

Hot off the press. A well referenced high quality statement from the International Hantavirus Society. High level: - Andes strain is different - some spread will occur - pandemic potential is tremendously low - lots to learn - what happens next is up to us zenodo.org/records/2007...

Listen to Dr. Smith. She was telling us to avoid cruise ships in 2019 even before COVID. www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...

ScienceInsider: Trump administration cuts CDC’s key role in global program to stop HIV / The Trump administration has struck what some see as the final blow to PEPFAR by Jon Cohen @cohenjon.bsky.social @science.org 👉 bit.ly/3P7iKjS

Yesterday a judge voided cuts to NEH, noting DOGE's classification of 'DEI' was incoherent One example: DOGE flagged a grant to a whaling museum, which wanted $$ to house a full whale skeleton DOGE called this DEI bc it'd “create an inclusive and impactful experience, which is aligned with DEI”

 CDC teams will meet Americans on hantavirus-stricken ship in Canary Islands and at Nebraska quarantine unit Glad our experts are in the mix. Still waiting for HAN for clinicians and a public briefing @cnn.com cnn.it/4wjjUtc 💥

Interim CDC head Jay Bhattacharya has invented a new “gold standard” to stop publication of studies showing COVID-19 vaccines had major benefits with minimal risk, @gooznews.bsky.social reports.

Attn: @hhsofficial.bsky.social Can you please update your CDC website saying that aluminum adjuvants are correlated with autism? 59 studies, including 11 randomized clinical trials, disagree.