Liam Conejo Ramos is not alone. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

A thoughtful piece from NC state senator @graigmeyer.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

Kennedy Overhauls Federal Autism Panel in His Own Image www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/h...

ICE agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain illegal immigrants www.bmj.com/content/392/...

"One year after the #foreignaid freeze, #HIV care in Africa is in retreat.” Great reporting by @theandrewgreen.bsky.social highlights the impacts and voices like Maureen Luba & Kenneth Mwehonge who are living it. A must-read: www.devex.com/news/one-yea...

WHO removing Us Flag

The US withdrawal from #WHO became official today, leaving the world less prepared for dangerous disease outbreaks. “When that will bite us in the ass, it’s impossible to predict. But there is a 100% certainty that it will bite us in the ass,” one expert told me. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/u...

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

Whopper of the Week on Placebo Controlled Safety Studies RFK Jr is demanding vaccines be tested specifically against placebos for safety. He's killing regulatory transparency and trust in the CDC and FDA to get his way. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

A growing measles outbreak in South Carolina has infected more than 600 people since October, with hundreds more being potentially exposed. www.wired.com/story/the-us...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Counterpoint: Yes, actually. Losing elimination status for an eminently preventable and devastating infectious disease would, in fact, be a major public health loss.

Thanks to congressional Republicans, 157,000 North Carolinians will lose healthcare coverage and 888,000 will see premiums double. Double! journalnow.com/news/state-r...

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One Year Post-USAID, Global Health Funding Stuck in Limbo www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/one-...

Via @thehill.com: Approaching 1 year since the dismantling of USAID with devastating consequences: 700K+ deaths, loss of outbreak surveillance systems, and the end of ag. research that benefitted US farmers... all for <1% of the federal budget. @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social | @altusaid.altgov.info

U.S. Cuts Health Aid and Ties it to Funding Pledges by African Governments by the inimitable @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/h...

FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

That we're in a place, at a time, when someone has to write this headline, this article — it's almost unfathomable. Please do read @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social's take. www.statnews.com/2026/01/12/m...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropped its advice that kids get an annual flu shot at a time when flu cases and hospitalizations are surging. n.pr/49SAnLG

The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.

At least 17 states, +200 health organizations have rejected new CDC vaccine guidance that pares the number of universally recommended child immunizations from 17 to 11 www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

Canadian doctors are warning that a new U.S. policy which slashes the number of vaccines universally recommended to all children will have deadly effects in Canada, including increasing disease spread through American travellers visiting north of the border. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

RSV shots are extremely effective at preventing hospitalization, more data shows. So why is the U.S. government restricting them to "high-risk" babies only? My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"If he views the members of previous committees as being sold out to industries, it’s very difficult to understand why the same designation doesn’t apply to these people, except that these people are associated with the meat and dairy industries, and they like that.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...

We don’t know who needs to hear this, but the flu is getting out of hand. And we needed to make a post about it. Here are our pretty direct thoughts, because sometimes our social media manager/infographic designer is tired & can’t think of a way to put it more gently. Please make good choices. (1/2)

This year’s flu has caused the most doctors’ visits in almost 30 years. It’s not too late to get vaccinated.

RFK Jr.’s vibe-based dietary guidelines just dropped, and they ignore a lot of the evidence-based recommendations from the expert scientists who submitted their report last February. Eat less fruits, veggies, and whole grains and more high-fat foods, says Kennedy.

Nearly half of Trump-appointed experts involved in shaping the new dietary guidelines have financial ties to meat and dairy industries. Exclusive with @sarah-todd.bsky.social and @elizabethcooney.bsky.social --> www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/n...

1. New #measles numbers out from #CDC. Confirmed cases for 2025 stand at 2,144, the highest single year count since 1991. A decision was taken in 1989 to make measles vaccination a 2-dose regimen; after it was implemented, it & high vaccination rates brought measles to very low levels. Not now.

HPV vaccine herd effects: "our findings support that high HPV vaccination coverage substantially reduces the incidence of high-grade cervical lesions in both the vaccinated population, through direct protection, & the unvaccinated population, through herd effects" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Once again, I implore media outlets to stop saying these are CDC decisions. These are changes being made unilaterally by RFK Jr. against the expert advice of CDC scientists. I note that RFK Jr. no longer recommends flu vaccine for kids in the midst of a horrible influenza year.

In case you were still wondering, it is indeed a horrible idea to have a militant anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist dictating the healthcare policy of an entire country.

The CDC has bypassed expert guidance and all other procedural norms to unilaterally dismantle the children’s recommended vaccine schedule. Now, young children and adults will see increased exposure to: ➡️ RSV ➡️ Hepatitis A & B ➡️ Dengue ➡️ Meningitis ➡️ Rotavirus ➡️ Covid-19 ➡️ Flu

Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/

1). The US is in the middle of the worst flu season in a decade. 2). Pertussis cases are the highest they have been in 20 years. 3). Measles has rebounded and elimination status has been lost. RFK.Jr. has not recommended vaccination, instead he is aggressively rolling back vaccine policy.

This administration is hellbent on killing people.

DPH statement on the changes to the US vaccine schedule - its a tragic mistake. Read more 👉https://www.defendpublichealth.org/press-release/denmarks-vaccine-schedule-makes-no-sense-us-defend-public-health-says

Canadian officials say US health institutions no longer dependable for accurate information Misinformation from the Trump administration is cited as fuelling Canadians’ concerns over childhood vaccinations

Magical thinking will not prevent future pandemics or improve public health | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

There were 2,012 measles cases reported nationwide as of Dec. 23 2025 – up from 285 confirmed measles cases nationwide in 2024. www.axios.com/2025/12/30/u...

‼️GREAT piece by @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social on how RFK Jr has left our “vaccine policies in disarray & our access to vaccines increasingly imperiled” The relentless norm-shattering isn’t “a byproduct of Mr. Kennedy’s larger plans; it is a central feature” 🎁 Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...

"When federal leadership falters, states can and must lead." The Essential Role of States in Protecting Immunization Access | New England Journal of Medicine by Mandy Cohen, Jennifer Klein, Ellen Montz and Charlene A. Wong www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Bad-faith actors have used a well-worn playbook to undermine public health interventions and institutions to advance their commercial, political, and personal interests. We need to be careful not to conflate "meeting people where they are" with ceding scientific ground to these actors and agendas.

“How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little?” Because they lied about their goals, intentions and actions? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

“President Trump’s attacks on the regulation of toxic chemicals in the air and water, on strong vaccination policies, on rules restricting power plant pollution are part and parcel of what amounts to a killing spree cloaked as deregulation.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/o...

💬 Viewpoint: The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission’s strategy to address chronic diseases in children relies on weak, voluntary, and unsupported initiatives while neglecting proven, evidence-based public health interventions. ja.ma/4qiHfax

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

Whooping cough cases soar as vaccination rates drop www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-... via @nbcnews.com @erikaedwards.bsky.social and too many colleagues for a tweet.