Jennifer Reich
@jenniferreich.bsky.social
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sociologist, parent, writer, book series editor, usually adequately caffeinated
Can we crowd source to buy
#acip
a copy of Robertās 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.
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š¦ What happens when you say you will only protect babies of infected moms, but you are bad at detecting infected momsā š«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.
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Why Should I Trust You? Podcast
about 1 month ago
New episode: āSchool Vaccine Requirements: Are We Even Talking About This The Right Way?ā 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...
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School Vaccine Requirements: Are We Even Talking About This The Right Way? A Conversation w Sociologist Jennifer Reich
Podcast Episode Ā· Why Should I Trust You? Ā· 11/06/2025 Ā· 1h 7m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/school-vaccine-requirements-are-we-even-talking-about/id1788335471?i=1000735539036
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Dorit Reiss
about 1 month ago
"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...
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Threat to US vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off
Critics say scientists āheld hostageā by RFK Jr as changes mean vaccine development and guidance in peril
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/27/vaccines-rfk-jr-cdc-acip-panel
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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
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2 months ago
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Kip Kosek
2 months ago
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...
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Opinion | What Really Drives Vaccine Hesitancy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/opinion/vaccine-hesitancy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Gregg Gonsalves
3 months ago
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
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24 Hours to Save AIDS Research
https://www.saveaidsresearch.org
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I am excited to join so many amazing scholars around the world to speak out about the importance of research. Join us.
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3 months ago
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A no-bid research contract is unheard of and this one is opposed by more than 250 autism scientists.
www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...
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CDC's No-Bid Contract on Vaccine-Autism Study Raises Alarm
Award to Rensselaer to investigate link is 'unprecedented,' says expert
https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/117475
3 months ago
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When I say these nominees are entirely unqualified for
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, I can offer that the one I know personally told his wife to pray for a spontaneous vasectomy reversal instead of surgery. Thatās the level of scientific expertise we are talking about.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Kennedy picks seven new members for US CDC vaccine panel, document shows
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has chosen seven new members for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's panel of vaccine experts, an internal CDC document showed on Wednesday.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/kennedy-picks-seven-new-members-us-cdc-vaccine-panel-document-shows-2025-09-04/
3 months ago
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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?
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3 months ago
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Maybe football can be what unites us toward a shared belief that young people dying unnecessarily is bad?
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3 months ago
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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...
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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...
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The Cultural, Definitional, and Institutional Politics of Healthcare | Annual Reviews
This review article examines how politics shape healthcare. In addition to formal law and policy, the politics of healthcare include the larger cultural frameworks that politicize health and illness, ...
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-soc-090324-034627
4 months ago
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So maybe hating pedophiles and the hiding of them is the thing that unites the country? A low bar but Iāll take it.
4 months ago
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Tara C. Smith
5 months ago
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.
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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...
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HHS backtracks on pledge to disclose new vaccine advisersā conflicts of interest
RFK Jr. has pledged radical transparency, but his vaccine advisers' financial disclosures aren't public.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/kennedy-conflict-of-interest-radical-transparency-acip-vaccine-experts/
5 months ago
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Lesley Abravanelš„šŖ©
5 months ago
Thanks to a federal judge appointed by Trump, medical debt can now go back on your credit report. We great yet?
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When the cruelty is the point.
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5 months ago
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I really thought not selling federal lands off might be the thing that united us. I mean, right after not letting children die.
5 months ago
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Jeff Duchin
5 months ago
āImmunization 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.ā
www.nfid.org/statement-on...
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Statement on June 2025 Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Meeting
NFID strongly supports the use of evidence-based guidance reviewed by qualified experts, within CDC and externally, to inform public health policy, and will work to protect the health of people across...
https://www.nfid.org/statement-on-june-2025-advisory-committee-on-immunization-practices-meeting/
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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.
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5 months ago
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Edward Nirenberg
5 months ago
No one on Kennedy's vaccine advisory committee is an expert in immunology and BOY does it show
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Jason L. Schwartz
5 months ago
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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.
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RFK Jr. is making it more difficult to enroll in Obamacare
The Trump administration projects as many as 1.8 million people, including many DACA recipients, could lose coverage.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/20/obamacare-rfk-health-insurance-daca-transgender-00416278
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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.
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6 months ago
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Kathleen Bachynski
6 months ago
If youāre thinking, āwait a second, they have completely politicized this process and done so with zero transparencyāhow is that supposed to increase trust in vaccines?ā You are correct. This is absurd. We are through the looking glass. This would be farcical if lives werenāt at stake.
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Angie Rasmussen
6 months ago
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.
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Alt CDC (they/them)
6 months ago
š§µ The anatomy of misinformation: š§ š'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? Letās break it down.
#SaveCDC
#SaveACIP
#FireRFKJr
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Jason L. Schwartz
10 months ago
If people are interested in learning about the ACIP and its decades of contributions to US vaccine policy successes, hereās a short 2014 piece I wrote in NEJM with Adel Mahmoud (timed with its 50th anniversary)
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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A Half-Century of Prevention ā The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices | NEJM
In 1964, after a vaccination program against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis began, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was created to advise the U.S. government on vaccinati...
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1410049
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#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. RFKās decision to fire these highly vetted experts is a threat to all
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Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel ā STAT
This is a breaking story. It will be updated
https://apple.news/AvGqZ592LQQi1YgNdvkbwQw
6 months ago
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Helen Branswell šØš¦
6 months ago
4 members of
#CDC's
vaccine expert panel have received termination notices ā 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...
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With U.S. vaccine policy in flux, four members of CDC advisory panel receive termination notices
Four members of the ACIP, which advises the CDC on vaccination policy, have had their status as special government employees terminated
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/08/cdc-vaccine-advisory-panel-acip-four-members-notified-of-termination/
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Dismantling the institutions that saves lives.
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American Sociological Association
6 months ago
Quick Listen: ASA member Jennifer Reich āŖ
@jenniferreich.bsky.social
ā¬, University of Colorado-Denver, was featured on today's Morning Edition āŖ
@npr.org
⬠discussing some of the reasons using beef tallow cosmetically may be trending.
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Miracle balm or cow pie? What's behind the beef tallow skincare trend
Rendered beef fat is having a moment as a viral skincare trend. TikTok influencers claim this 'natural' product is a complexion panacea. But is it? We asked skincare experts.
https://bit.ly/4dGnzs1
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A master class in why privatization of public programs is a bad idea.
6 months ago
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Itās almost like it was never about being pro-life (post birth anyway).
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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āTerrifyingā: Trump cuts CDCās drowning-prevention team
The loss of the CDC's drowning-prevention unit is one that water safety advocates fear will have a direct impact on childrenās safety.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/26/the-pools-open-trumps-laid-off-the-team-that-helps-protect-swimmers-00363426
6 months ago
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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 countryās health.
7 months ago
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
7 months ago
In Star Wars. those who have embraced the Dark Side of the Force wield red lightsabers. So, in other words, perfect.
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My first pediatrics academic conference and I will never complain about 8 am sessions in sociology ever again.
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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 lineā¦
8 months ago
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American Sociological Association
8 months ago
DC area sociologists! Register for this conversation on what the future holds for workers, employers, & policymakers @JHUBloombergCtr April 29 w/ Anna Branch
@rutgersuniversity.bsky.social
and Elisabeth Jacobs Work Rise Network
@urbaninstitute.bsky.social
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https://bit.ly/4j1CYof
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American Sociological Association
8 months ago
Register for next weekās webinar! Sociologist & scholar-activist Sara Goldrick-Rab
@saragoldrickrab.bsky.social
#RealCollege
Movement will share insights on students' struggles w/ food, housing, childcare, careers, & more. April 24, 4-5 p.m. Eastern. Free for ASA members! bit.ly/3FUSww2
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Please share this opportunity to apply for funding to attend the ASA annual meeting.
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8 months ago
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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.
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Itās 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.
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HHS Scraps Advisory Committee on Newborn Screening
Cut comes as new conditions could have been added to a national screening panel
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/115070
8 months ago
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How about: 1. Donāt name children or reveal health information about them 2. Donāt promote unproven nonsense remedies 3. Donāt pretend 3 weeks in the ICU paid for itself while trying to cut healthcare to half of American children.
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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.
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A Second Child Dies of Measles in Texas
It is the second confirmed measles death in the U.S. in a decade. If the outbreak continues at the current pace, the nation may lose its elimination status.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/health/measles-death-texas.html
8 months ago
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Everyone should take a moment and explain to someone outside academe how these grants have led to almost all medications and care guidelines.
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9 months ago
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Shematologist, MD
9 months ago
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 thatās illegal.
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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
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