REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

New polling finds that 90% of U.S. adults say they at least sometimes come across news they think is inaccurate, and about half (51%) say they generally find it difficult to determine what’s true and what’s not when they get news. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

🧵People like to characterize MAHA as "stupid," but the people running it aren't stupid - they're talented, successful pitchmen; folks working for "food brands, investment banks, supplement sellers and other companies." 🔹️"Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling apnews.com/article/maha...

ANTIFA was at the New York City #NoKingsDay protest! #NYC

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

Oh my god, the baby is IN her placenta?!? She better get that checked out!!

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

“research suggests that this approach to vaccines is entirely logical in a culture that insists that health is the result of hard work and informed consumer decisions and too often sees illness as a personal failure.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Oh hey Tenpenny's back! Here's some background on her particular fusion of anti-vax sentiment and Christian nationalism: religionnews.com/2021/09/14/t...

I really appreciate how Dr. Glaucomflecken has become all of medicine and public health's emotional support ophthalmologist. I sat through 16 hours of ACIP meetings last week. If I do not laugh, I will cry.

RFK Jr. and Friends keep repeating that “we need to listen to the mothers” on the topic of vaccines and autism. But they don’t want to listen to mothers who advocate for gun control or want vaccines to remain accessible to all.

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

There are fewer than 300 children’s hospitals in the United States. If your child (or most neonates) needs any form of intensive, specialized, or prolonged care, these are all there are. Would you want your child at a hospital that just fired 150 staff and is no longer hiring for unfilled positions?

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Precisely why having our public health leaders be cranks and charlatans is so dangerous - very few Americans endorse myths about vaccines, but many aren't sure what is true www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Almost every single person who was/is attacking the public health community from 2020-2022 got every single prediction wrong, and got it wrong directionally in a way that would have cost actual human lives by the tens/hundreds of thousands. And now those people are in charge of our federal agencies.

the leading organization fighting gun violence now offering training for how to shoot a gun seems like…a pretty noteworthy pivot. (in the video the executive director calls this a NEW program, separate from past “gun safety” efforts.)

The fact that you can have all of these organizations calling for Kennedy's resignation (or the NYTimes op-ed by 9 former CDC directors) and it having so little discernible impact is a sign of how far the US has moved from valuing scientific advice and expertise and how big a challenge it faces...

Psych 🧵: This is good news in that it could be worse, but remember that US vaccine beliefs are in flux, & hesitancy is rising dramatically. To date, a lot of that has been due to misinformation & increased mistrust of health officials, pitched by RFK & his pals. But once vaccines become harder...

Every time anyone asks RFK Jr a question he doesn't want to answer he always says "i'D LiKe tO sEe tHe dATa" and the only thing I can imagine him doing with data is eating it

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

RFK Jr on his way to help Rudy Giuliani

Demetre Daskalakis is an absolute GOAT of modern US public health, he should be the next head of the CDC and subsequently a US senator

Pro tip: don’t take medical advice from a guy referring to kidneys in a live human person’s body as being “unused.”

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight. In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well. Here are from two of the resignations:

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

Some bonus content on how Baltimore is taking a public health approach to gun violence, modeled after the approach epidemiologists use to stop outbreaks www.forceofinfection.com/baltimores-p...

A must-read, must-share piece - clearly deconstructing the shoddy science of the Geiers (who are inexplicably in charge of studies at HHS). Consider this an early warning for what lies ahead. 🛟🩺🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

You can't make this up: Kennedy's anti-vax goons say the old ACIP members were biased because they think vaccines are a good public health tool—something they call "ideological uniformity" but what most other people call settled truth. publichealthpolicyjournal.com/was-firing-a...

the eugenicists are fightingggg

If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is:

If this weren’t so effed up, it would be funny. I think my biggest fear whenever I’m on the Mall is that one of the squirrels will get too comfortable and steal my snack 🙄 Also, where were these guys on January 6? Because that’s the most crime I’ve ever seen on the National Mall.

Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each: - person who reposts this post - new follower @51st.news ws gets - new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets - new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets - new follower I get And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.

For shame.

Vaccines made using whole viruses require growing large amounts of virus in eggs or cell culture. This means they take months longer to produce than mRNA vaccines. RFK Jr acknowledges that rapid viral evolution is a problem, but is killing our speediest, most effective platform for dealing with it.

I honestly don't understand why anyone would want to go backwards and roll back progress. "Dr. Paul Offit said whole-virus vaccines have been around since the late 1800s, noting that “we make safer, better vaccines” today due to technological advances." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

He must love infections and cancer. A short list of what’s been achieved or is in active development with this tech: – Seasonal flu (Phase 3) – RSV (FDA-approved, 2024) – CMV (Phase 3) – HIV (early trials) – Rapid-response design for emerging pathogens www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Eighty years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima’s survivors and their descendants describe how health problems and stigma have echoed down the generations. www.wired.com/story/life-a...

Influenza, not Tamiflu, may raise risk of neuropsychiatric events in kids Treatment with oseltamivir was associated with an approximately 50% reduction in the incidence of serious neuropsychiatric events. www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...

Pandemic preparedness in the US has been leveled a crippling blow with the cancellation of multiple #BARDA contracts to help develop mRNA vaccines. No other vaccine platform produces vaccine so quickly; without mRNA, Americans will have a long wait for pandemic vax. www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

Here's Why Kids Get More Vaccines Today Than in the 1980s: Technology makes vaccines more refined and safer, and combination vaccines help reduce shots. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi... via @medpagetoday.com

10/10, no notes @vinnythomas.bsky.social

Just to be clear - the MAGA freaks are celebrating sugary cola (39g/12oz!) as a “health” victory while they are bringing back asbestos, paraquat (one of the most toxic pesticides to exist), eliminating clean water and air protections, and more than 10 million Americans are losing healthcare coverage

Oh my god they found a way to make Dulles worse

"For years, studies have pointed to one especially powerful influence over whether a person will get a vaccine: a clear recommendation from their doctor." Now that influence is imperiled, & even folks who still trust their pediatricians may lose vax access: 1/8 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...