Here in Maryland, within hours, the Dept of Health issued standing orders for all qualified health practitioners to provide hepatitis B vaccination. We will not condemn our newborns to a life of chronic infection and liver cancer.

Proud to be a Marylander today, received a physician letter "reaffirm our commitment to ensuring widespread access" fr MD Dept of Health, including standing orders for all qualified health practitioners to provide HepB vaccine. The email came within hours of the RFKjr's ACIP vote.

“The reason all of those 383 trials were funded is because people believe they have novel solutions to important public health questions,” Professor Amy Nunn said of the studies cut by the Trump administration earlier this year. “The knowledge that we would have had...will be lost.”

So wonderful to see good news from my home town, and so proud of my spouse @revddt.bsky.social whose grant writing and organizing skills played a key role in the start of ROCA in Chelsey MA 40 years ago.

Incredible honor to received the Susanne V. Hering award this year at @americanaerosol.bsky.social meeting!!

If Kennedy is so concerned about teens' future fertility, he should know that mumps & many other vaccine-preventable infections cause sterility. Instead of inventing weird shit about minor childrens' fertility, he should recommend that they all get the MMR, HPV, HBV, flu, & COVID-19 vaccines.

I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “[Bowie] #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day” - sign up now to join me! #aftvotes www.mobilize.us/aft/event/82...

This anti-vacs lunatic was just appointed head of the CDC www.citizen.org/article/jim-...

The Ministry of Truth to control vaccine policy

@local6741.bsky.social I want to find a Labor Day rally but the map is unusable on my phone. Can you add a zip code lookup?

We are hiring a Virology Laboratory Technician to work on research projects about airborne transmission of flu, covid, and other respiratory viruses and improved ways to stop airborne transmission. umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...

@cos.io I cannot reach osf.io. I get a 503 error. I am now getting a message that it is down for everyone from downforeveryoneorjustme.com/osf.io

It's hot out there! Good thing Maryland has a heat illness prevention standard. Too bad for workers in surrounding areas like Washington DC (as well as Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware) who have no heat protections.

Raise your hand if you are going out tomorrow for No Kings Protest...we all need to speak up. Don't worry about signs or messaging--just get bodies and voices out there!!!

I tried to submit comments on the OPM #ScheduleF doc today. I thought we could submit today. But, OPM_FRDOC_0001-4477 seems to have disappeared. However, opm_frdoc_0001-4478 and opm_frdoc_0001-4468 exist, and others where comments are closed also are there. Is anyone else seeing this? #civilservice

Stanley Perlman’s talk on long covid at the CEIRR meeting points to the need for #longcovid registries to facilitate, as members age and die, autopsy and brain pathology studies. #medsky #publichealth

All of this is avoidable "more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same... millions of infections are possible if rates drop" www.wired.com/story/scient...

With a big coalition of UMD groups we're demanding UMD President Pines provide more communication and more support for our international students who are under attack by the government. Please sign on: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...

First Trump and MAGA fought mask mandates bec they infringed freedom of healthy people. Now Trump mandates that universities ban masks infringing freedom of people with health concerns. Freedom? Doublespeak? Glad to see that the rest of the world agreed on a pandemic control treaty today.

Globalization Explained (in plain language) Version 1.0 (before WWII), 2.0 (1944-1974), and 3.0 (1974-2024). Vers 1.0 and 3.0 were managed for the benefit of Wall St. Ver 2.0 was managed for benefit of working people. Biden tried to get back to 2.0. Trump seems to be just burning down the house.

US terminated worker protection research “Reusable Elastomeric Respirators in Healthcare Settings - Assessment, Best Practices and Preferred Uses” on April 4. Nevermind economical and effective protection for future pandemics. #PulbicHealthSky #MedSky

@ryanlcooper.com @pkrugman.bsky.social Is there any evidence that the Labor or Commerce Dept is starting to cook the books? Can we still believe the numbers, such as jobs reports, that come out. Are there independent sources that validate them?

I'm completing my annual RPPR report while reading that the NIAD director has just been reassigned to the Indian Health Service???!!!

Heard that #CDC #RIFed a scientist colleague in Env Health in an early morning a email today. @apoorvanyt.bsky.social @carlzimmer.com

What I don’t understand about media coverage of Trump’s assault on the law and the legal profession is this. He is a convicted felon, why isn’t always put front and center?

This suggestion by @raskin.house.gov to submit a DOGE Privacy Act request seems like a good idea. jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

@chrislhayes.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov House Republicans need to come back to the office and get to work - their job is to negotiate a bill that will pass, not throw a tantrum and go home.

Fitting the pieces together. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

#Givingdayumd is here. Please support our research on prevention of airborne infection transmission. givingday.umd.edu/campaigns/ai...

Pretty clear one of the main purposes of DOGE is to privatize as much of the federal government as possible

@kprather.bsky.social I agree it is a wonderful book with well written accounts of important work. There are also many other important stories that didn’t make it into the book - the first culture of TB from breath by Kevin Fennelly & showing airborne transmission of rhinovirus by Elliot Dick

This is a potentially disastrous decision, making it more difficult to mount an effective response when the next pandemic starts.

Yup, this would have brought together experts to share the latest findings on respiratory virus transmission. The meeting is canceled, but the continuing spread and evolution of H5N1 and other respiratory pathogens is not. In the middle of the game, the defense is walking off the field.

NIH just canceled the Respiratory Virus Transmission Meeting scheduled for early April - Great timing as H5N1 may be only one mutation away from rapid spread between humans. @carlzimmer.com @carlbergstrom.com @publichealthumd.bsky.social @linseymarr.bsky.social #public-health #h5n1

@donmilton.bsky.social explains how NIH cuts would damage critical research on virus transmission.

"It would be really bad for our work because it would slow us down. It may prevent us from continuing the work in the longer run." UMD's Dr @donmilton.bsky.social on @npr.org on possible NIH cuts to indirect costs of his research on flu, Covid, other airborne respiratory diseases. brnw.ch/21wQURO

I just saw this too.

He's talking about people like Gregg:

Musk has been taking his orders going back at least as far as November and now he’s more in a more powerful position than ever. Michelle, Greg, and Joe are just three people. He’s doing this to thousands more like them. Let’s tell their stories. Thank them. Not rest until their jobs are restored.

Good to see hopeful signs of resistance from some of our Democratic Governors, esp Janet Mills of Maine: “We are the federal law,” Trump said ... Mills answered: “We’ll see you in court.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The major public health achievements were the results of clean air, clean water, good housing and nutrition, and mass vaccination to eliminate smallpox and control other diseases. All required prosperity, huge coordinated efforts and government funding. All very political.

Boggles my mind that this kind of stuff is happening in 2025!

HT @ryanlcooper.com FDR said in 1936: The rich “had begun to consider the government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.” Now we have Musk-Trump + Proudboys?