“They’re drunk on their apparent power, because they have one of their own sitting in the secretarial office of H.H.S.,” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

“The new diagnoses bring the total number of measles cases in the United States this year to 910, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas...

“Severe obesity was associated with increased risks of diarrhea and GERD, potentially reflecting obesity-driven changes in gut motility, microbiota composition, and intestinal barrier function,” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/hig...

““These actions will severely harm IDPH programs that provide critical support to local health departments, decrease HIV rates..” www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

“Six more US children died of influenza last week, for a total of 66 pediatric deaths this respiratory illness season, as flu rates remained moderate to very high in different regions of the country” www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...

“You know this, but it’s very risky to try and bring forward a medicine. And so we were investing almost a billion dollars in that Phase 3” www.statnews.com/2026/02/12/m...

In this TV interview with @connellmcshane.bsky.social discuss the latest on measles and vaccine policy (full video here: youtu.be/RqzJRNbWPJk?...)

“subset of people have a mutation in their antibody-producing immune cells in which a positively charged amino acid known as lysine (K) is swapped out for a negatively charged 1 known as glutamic acid (E)..reshapes the antibody so that it binds to PF4 instead of pVII” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“The person diagnosed with measles in Maine was infectious from Jan. 28 through Feb. 5, DHHS previously said. In those eight days, the infected person was at St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor on Feb. 3 and a shed and barn business in Etna on Jan. 28 and 29” www.bangordailynews.com/2026/02/13/b...

“low-income countries have to maintain a cold chain and they just don’t have the refrigerator space to be able to store the single-dose vials.” www.medicalbrief.co.za/us-threatens...

"This week's renewed call for measles vaccination from..Dr. Mehmet Oz, feels like too little too late..We need our leaders to more proactively, strongly and consistently endorse childhood vaccines, which have been repeatedly proven to be safe and effective." www.dw.com/en/mehmet-oz...

Moderna's flu shot dilemma muddies 2028 break-even guidance - endpoints.news/modernas-flu...

At about 11 AM eastern I’ll be participating in a webinar on antivirals for respiratory viruses. Register here www.eventbrite.com/e/leveraging...

“Murphy in a ruling last month allowing the case to proceed said those allegations were "sufficient to plausibly suggest the committee is neither fairly balanced nor free of inappropriate influence,"” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

"This is a security problem, not just a global health problem, not just a development problem," www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“conducted through a rigorous scientific process in an NIH clinical trials network, demonstrates reassuring findings regarding the long-term health of children whose mothers received COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy,” www.healio.com/news/womens-...

“Health workers in developing countries know that isolating tuberculosis patients is an outdated and potentially harmful practice, but lack the resources to move away from it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/h...

“We haven’t changed. The environment has..Our advocacy has become more vocal out of necessity.” www.statnews.com/2026/02/13/a...

“Epic, Cerner, and other major EHR vendors serve hospitals covering most Americans. These systems already flag reportable diseases. The..aggregate anonymized trend data across their networks and make it publicly available.“ www.statnews.com/2026/02/13/c...

“The FDA’s decision could mean that people in other countries would get the first mRNA flu shots before Americans do.” - mRNA vaccine technology may flourish more outside the US free from the nihilistically irrational animus the government has to it apple.news/AyInpOZbVRYS...

In this video I discuss tetanus and tetanus immunizations

Evocative concretization of how measles can turn deadly, a trait evaded by those who see no value in the vaccine www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“Companies need predictability if they are going to invest a billion dollars to develop a new product. If the regulatory pathway is subject to arbitrary changes, they will no longer be willing to make such investments.” - @ameshaa.bsky.social #IDSky #MedSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

“Although the observed dynamics may correspond to expected epidemiological patterns in contexts where the vector is present, the reappearance of cases in certain territories reinforces the need for sensitive surveillance and a timely response,” www.cidrap.umn.edu/chikungunya/...

“Among men..COVID infection is associated with reductions in semen quality, including lower semen volume and concentration, and total sperm count, viability, and motility..also associated with elevated levels of the hormones estradiol & prolactin in men” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

“MDH says the first case in Minnesota was confirmed in July 2025 in a Twin Cities resident who sought treatment for a genital rash. Since then, the state has identified 13 confirmed cases and 27 suspected cases, all within the Twin Cities metropolitan area” www.cidrap.umn.edu/sexually-tra...

“By modifying or removing this specific adenovirus protein, future vaccines can avoid this extremely rare reaction while continuing to provide strong protection against disease,” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/res...

“Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, reported more detections of avian influenza in commercial flocks this week, affecting more than 160,000 birds” www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

“It is the 18th county in the state to detect the fatal neurodegenerative disease” www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wast...

At about 4:50 pm eastern I’ll be discussing the latest on measles and vaccine policy on @newsnation.bsky.social with @connellmcshane.bsky.social

“If you’re a manufacturer, now you’re saying, ‘do we know what the rules are?’ Because they changed the goalposts here after a very, very large clinical trial, to all of a sudden say they’re not going to even look at it.” www.statnews.com/2026/02/12/f...

In this piece I’m quoted about how the FDA’s stance towards Moderna’s mRNA influenza vaccine reveals government animosity towards this vaccine platform and will, predictably, disincentivize investment making us all worse off www.axios.com/2026/02/12/m...

“the CDC’s vaccine review process has “effectively collapsed”” www.healthday.com/health-news/...

“Oz's vaccine plea is in contrast to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has provided contradictory stances on the MMR shot during his term.” www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

“The affected programs include those supporting HIV prevention and surveillance.” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“there are "very few facilities in the country able to actively diagnose and treat" kala-azar” medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02...

“While cases have reduced, the conditions that led to the resurgence of this deadly disease in recent years remain and must be addressed,” news.un.org/en/story/202...

“They discovered that the recombinant VITT antibodies attached to an adenovirus protein named protein VII (pVII).” www.science.org/content/arti...

“The intervention's protective efficacy after 3 months was 71%, reaching 72% at 6 months and settling at 71% 12 months and later” www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

“nirsevimab administration 12 months or more before RSV testing did not affect the likelihood of positivity” www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com/news/prevent...

“Mexico has 28 million measles vaccines to distribute, which President Claudia Sheinbaum said ‘are sufficient, and there will even be some left over’" www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“It has been unclear how much the country would work with the WHO following the departure, and the collaboration on flu vaccines is a sign of an ongoing link” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“We are going to receive visitors who are probably not vaccinated..And if they go to a stadium, they’re going to find thousands of people susceptible to the disease. And then those numbers become significant. It’s exponential.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/w...

“Guinea-Bissau does not currently give infants a birth dose, but had previously announced plans to adopt the policy in 2027. It has been reported the country has pushed back the start date to 2028.” www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/h...

“adenovirus-based vaccines could be made safer if they can be designed without the protein region that triggered the dangerous antibodies in VITT. ‘Instead of abandoning an entire vaccine platform because of a rare problem, we can engineer around’” www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

“adenovirus-based vaccines could be made safer if they can be designed without the protein region that triggered the dangerous antibodies in VITT. ‘Instead of abandoning an entire vaccine platform because of a rare problem, we can engineer around” www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

In this video I discuss how an unpredictable FDA, as exemplified by their recent statements regarding Moderna and mRNA influenza vaccines, disincentives companies to develop vaccines

In this piece I’m quoted about the apparent arbitary and unpredictable nature of government decision making around Moderna’s influenza vaccine. This is inimical to pharma/biotech wanting to develop new vaccines. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

“Person notes that many grants under scrutiny expand access to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis” www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

“two new H9N2 avian flu cases with symptom onsets in December and January, and an H10N3 patient whose illness began on December 29.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...