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 👉 bit.ly/47NRXhH @medpagetoday.com @kristinafiore.bsky.social

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 bit.ly/3JNLdbB

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. 👉 on.wsj.com/43W1ylj gift link

Lancet HIV: Functional cure of HIV-1 infection in an exceptional elite controller: a case report José M Benito, PhD et al bit.ly/47Dlg6w

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: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Long COVID and the development of new-onset uveitis: a large database study Qais A Dihan et al bit.ly/3JhkO60

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 bit.ly/47pSDed h5n1 etc

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

CBS: Is COVID-19 during pregnancy linked to autism? What a new study shows, and what it doesn't by @celinegounder.com cbsn.ws/47FvZxo

Inside Medicine: Exclusive: The Trump administration dismantled the CDC’s peer review system. Staffers scrambled to salvage it. by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/4oP7fcX

Vaccine: Preventive effect of vaccination on long COVID in adolescents with SARS-CoV-2 infection Tanayott Thaweethai et al bit.ly/4oTydQF

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.

CIDRAP: New coronavirus subspecies with SARS-CoV-2–like mutation discovered in Brazilian bat by Mary Van Beusekom @cidrap.bsky.social bit.ly/4hHRfam

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Vaccine effectiveness and safety: What the numbers truly mean in 2025 by @jakescottmd.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social ➡️ bit.ly/4qEMNxc

NIH Alzheimer’s Research Funding Is Back — for 49% Fewer Projects beingpatient.com/alzheimers-r... by @spichaksimon.bsky.social @beingpatient.bsky.social #Alzheimers #dementia #NIH #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence

CIDRAP and CEPI launch resources to track development of coronavirus vaccines ▶️ bit.ly/48XfwqI @cidrap.bsky.social COVID

COVID-19 during pregnancy linked to higher risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children bit.ly/4oepybr

HHS Nixes Another USPSTF Meeting — Preventive services group hasn't met since March by Kristina Fiore bit.ly/3WvUibT

CIDRAP: Meta-analysis of COVID, RSV, flu vaccines for fall provides 'sea of data' showing efficacy, safety bit.ly/3X1EH3U @cidrap.bsky.social

JAMA Netw Open: Asymptomatic Influenza A(H5N1) Infections and Sustained Surveillance—Sustaining Surveillance Beyond the Crisis by Rick Bright and Nicole Lurie #h5n1 bit.ly/4qzttRL

NEJM : Updated Evidence for Covid-19, RSV, and Influenza Vaccines for 2025–2026 by @jakescottmd.bsky.social bit.ly/4opPmBF @nejm.org

MSNBC : Meet the anti-vaccine activist who could lead the response to the next pandemic by @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social on.msnbc.com/47vzXsl

Video replay: Senate HELP Committee hearing -- The Future of Biotech: Maintaining U.S. Competitiveness and Delivering Lifesaving Cures to Patients bit.ly/47JU0Vb

CIDRAP -- Analysis: Last year's COVID vaccines protected well against severe illness bit.ly/4nxaoNs @cidrap.bsky.social

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... 1/3

AVAC: Transforming HIV Prevention in 2025: Advocates’ Critical Questions bit.ly/48S3kaK @avac.org lenacapavir PrEP

STAT / Seth Berkley: Global security is impossible without sufficient support for global health bit.ly/4hFpVJW

CNN: Canada is poised to lose its measles elimination status — and the US could, too bit.ly/4qv6Rlq

It's been > 1 month since the last CDC MMWR weekly, and 25 days since the last MMWR R+R MMWR becoming irrelevant. ☹️

Nature: This ‘minor’ bird flu strain has potential to spark human pandemic Experiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells but cases of person-to-person transmission haven’t been reported yet. go.nature.com/4nsnbR7 by Rachel Fieldhouse

Bhekisisa/ Mia Malan: SA becomes first African country to register twice-a-year anti-HIV jab... at record speed bit.ly/4oDtpyE lenacapavir PrEP

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.

TAG’s Recommendations to NIAID on the Future of the HIV Clinical Trials Networks ▶️ bit.ly/4qo4KQB @niaidnews.bsky.social @taghivscience.bsky.social

TAG video replay and photos: Research in Action Awards 2025 @taghivscience.bsky.social ➡️ bit.ly/4npVZmh

Lancet HIV: Reducing HIV incidence and mortality: two sides of the same coin in the approach to ending AIDS Joseph N Jarvis et al bit.ly/47jGkid

CIDRAP: Quality of decisions made by CDC vaccine advisers has nose-dived, former voting members say bit.ly/47aABwx

MAHA’s 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.

In the Pipeline/Derek Lowe: mRNA Vaccines and Immuno-oncology: Good News ▶️https://bit.ly/4o17QZ3◀️ by @dereklowe.bsky.social

ECDC: Local transmission of clade 1b mpox cases detected in EU/EEA, ECDC urges renewed vigilance bit.ly/4ogD0vB

Inside Medicine: An award that belongs to this community... bit.ly/3Jp4rEi Congrats to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social

Nature Med: How HIV research drives health innovation in multiple diseases Lawrence Corey et al ▶️https://go.nature.com/4qpu9cx

JID: Resistance Analyses of Lenacapavir, Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Alafenamide and Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate in the PURPOSE 1 and 2 Studies Stephanie Cox et al bit.ly/478e5V4

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 story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social 1/4 🧪

AVAC: PxWire is out! See where LEN arrives first + updates on trials for 1x month PrEP pill and more bit.ly/475Z8Tq @avac.org

People being treated for certain deadly cancers lived longer if they had received an mRNA-based vaccine against COVID-19 than if they hadn’t go.nature.com/4hkqZma

A follow-up to yesterday's email to Director Bhattacharya... 1/12

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 bit.ly/3WiXUOk

Milbank Quarterly/L Gostin: You Serve at the Pleasure of the President: As Such You are No Longer Wanted or Needed Jay Bhattacharya: “...you serve at the pleasure of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. As such your appointment has been rescinded effective immediately.” bit.ly/4njT9iD

Inside Climate News: Close Friend of JD Vance Skirts Normal Channels to Take Over NIH Environmental Health Institute by Liza Gross bit.ly/3L08l78

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