Can we crowd source to buy #acip a copy of Robert’s Rules of Order or something? If people have to abstain because they cannot tell what the proposed vote is, and the motions overlap, promised transparency is, well, not going well.

🦠What happens when you say you will only protect babies of infected moms, but you are bad at detecting infected moms❓ 🚫You miss a lot of babies who needed protection. This is exactly why in 1991 we went from only vaccinating babies of Hepatitis B positive moms to vaccinating all babies.

New episode: “School Vaccine Requirements: Are We Even Talking About This The Right Way?” With sociologist @jenniferreich.bsky.social we dig into school-vaccine mandates and what we might be missing. #PublicHealth #Vaccines #Mandates podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

"The staff supporting ... (ACIP) were let go earlier this month in a sweeping round of layoffs that gutted entire departments of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)." via @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No matter your views on #immigration or your politics, we should all agree that a federal campaign that aims to terrorize children is unacceptable. And to name it after a #Disney movie is horrific @filmandseries.bsky.social

Very astute essay by @jenniferreich.bsky.social explaining vaccine hesitancy as part of a broader individualistic approach to health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

I wanted to remind everyone about the "Save AIDS Research" livestream that will go live on YouTube this Tuesday (9/16) at 11:00am EDT. We have an amazing program of 70+ speakers who will be sharing their latest research. Get all the details at www.saveaidsresearch.org.

I am excited to join so many amazing scholars around the world to speak out about the importance of research. Join us.

A no-bid research contract is unheard of and this one is opposed by more than 250 autism scientists. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

When I say these nominees are entirely unqualified for #acip, I can offer that the one I know personally told his wife to pray for a spontaneous vasectomy reversal instead of surgery. That’s the level of scientific expertise we are talking about. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

We tell high school and college students to remember before they post that the internet is everywhere and forever. Perhaps they should discuss this in med school too? Or in the executive branch?

Maybe football can be what unites us toward a shared belief that young people dying unnecessarily is bad?

Six amazing books in the @nyupress.bsky.social series, Health, Society, and Inequality are out! And more are coming soon. So proud to be a part of this work. @ralmeling.bsky.social @katemasonsociology.bsky.social @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social @ilenekalish.bsky.social nyupress.org/series/healt...

I am excited to share that vol 51 of the Annual Review of Sociology is now open access. It includes my article on the politics of healthcare and so many great reviews. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

So maybe hating pedophiles and the hiding of them is the thing that unites the country? A low bar but I’ll take it.

Where is all that "health freedom" these guys promised? Cause all I've seen is decreasing choices for my family and myself when it comes to vaccination.

Remember how we were promised transparency? New idea. Let's Make America Qualified and Ethical Again. (I admit, the acronym needs work.) www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/k...

Thanks to a federal judge appointed by Trump, medical debt can now go back on your credit report. We great yet?

When the cruelty is the point.

I really thought not selling federal lands off might be the thing that united us. I mean, right after not letting children die.

“Immunization policy decisions must be guided by science. The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) is gravely concerned with the flawed process that occurred during the recent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting on June 25-26, 2025.” www.nfid.org/statement-on...

I have been studying vaccine policy and politics for 20 years. This moment is so much worse than I ever imagined. And I am pretty imaginative.

No one on Kennedy's vaccine advisory committee is an expert in immunology and BOY does it show

Destroying healthcare systems and lives brick by brick. The Trump administration projects as many as 1.8 million people, including many DACA recipients, could lose coverage.

This is clearly not how to increase trust. Imagine any other industry where people with no training or qualification get to tell experts how to do their job or tell families how to protect themselves and their children. Informed consent requires informed decisions.

If you’re thinking, “wait a second, they have completely politicized this process and done so with zero transparency—how is that supposed to increase trust in vaccines?” You are correct. This is absurd. We are through the looking glass. This would be farcical if lives weren’t at stake.

The process for ACIP membership usually takes years of vetting, particularly for conflicts of interest. Have these people undergone the same level of scrutiny? I'm pretty sure Malone has made money from saying falsely that mRNA vaccines are unsafe.

🧵 The anatomy of misinformation: 🧠🐛's inflammatory weekend thread attacking CDC's vaccine safety data (VSD) and defending the controversial David Geier Was it just weekend noise? Or groundwork for firing all 17 members of ACIP today? Let’s break it down. #SaveCDC #SaveACIP #FireRFKJr

If people are interested in learning about the ACIP and its decades of contributions to US vaccine policy successes, here’s a short 2014 piece I wrote in NEJM with Adel Mahmoud (timed with its 50th anniversary) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

#ACIP started in 1964 to ensure equitable access to #vaccines and monitor safety and efficacy. They have removed recommendations when supported by data and have hard public discussions about resources and needs of those at risk. RFK’s decision to fire these highly vetted experts is a threat to all

4 members of #CDC's vaccine expert panel have received termination notices — their special gov't employee contracts have expired. Not clear if job cutting has hamstrung the bureaucracy or if more is at play here. But unless they get new SGEs they can't serve on #ACIP www.statnews.com/2025/06/08/c...

Dismantling the institutions that saves lives.

Quick Listen: ASA member Jennifer Reich ‪@jenniferreich.bsky.social‬, University of Colorado-Denver, was featured on today's Morning Edition ‪@npr.org‬ discussing some of the reasons using beef tallow cosmetically may be trending.

A master class in why privatization of public programs is a bad idea.

It’s almost like it was never about being pro-life (post birth anyway). www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

There is no director of #CDC, no acting director of CDC, no one to sign off on expert panel recommendations like those made by #ACIP, and no one to make decisions for the country’s health.

In Star Wars. those who have embraced the Dark Side of the Force wield red lightsabers. So, in other words, perfect.

My first pediatrics academic conference and I will never complain about 8 am sessions in sociology ever again.

I recently stayed somewhere with 24 hour Love Boat reruns. And I now understand so much of our current mess. Gopher becoming a member of Congress was just a harbinger. So many problems but this story line…

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Note that these inspectors were not funded with tax dollars. So saving money might not have been the point. Related. Buy more hand sanitizer. Or stay on solid ground.

It’s like it was never about pro-life beliefs or making America healthy. Newborn screens are game-changers in identifying rare diseases that can benefit from early interventions. Shame on them. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

How about: 1. Don’t name children or reveal health information about them 2. Don’t promote unproven nonsense remedies 3. Don’t pretend 3 weeks in the ICU paid for itself while trying to cut healthcare to half of American children.

480 cases. Two dead children. To reject medical advice for a proven safe and effective vaccine against #measles and then blame medical providers for not being able to save infected children so sick they require hospitalization is a new kind of 2025 insanity. So sad for this family and all of us.

Everyone should take a moment and explain to someone outside academe how these grants have led to almost all medications and care guidelines.

The ACA was cool because before the ACA EVERY SINGLE CHILD WITH CANCER hit their annual and lifetime limits almost immediately and were denied insurance for the rest of their lives and after the ACA that’s illegal.

It is notable that the distribution of where there are pediatricians working mirrors the 2020 electoral map. Almost like having access to care and voting are related www.abp.org/dashboards/g...