Sec. Kennedy must appear before the HELP Committee to explain why his vaccine advisory committee, in strong disagreement with the medical & scientific community, voted to end a decades-long recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine. This vaccine saves lives.

It's weird to me how much HHS is rearranging the deck chairs, with no explanation. Usually reforms are presaged. Options: 1) RFK is tightening control over his fiefdom 2) RFK and lackeys are shit bosses and nobody wants to work with them 3) RFK about to do something very bad and ppl jumping ship

www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop... @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

Not sure who came up with this "not so brilliant", pretty much awful idea. Nurses are already leaving in the nursing profession in droves. Guaranteed this will make it much worse. Thx @drjudystone.bsky.social who highlights why DOE is making a huge mistake. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.

This made up data needs to be public and discussed by experts. It likely nonsense and was released days before ACIP meets to justify whatever RFK has decided new vaccine policy will be. Prob denying COVID vax to kids entirely. ACIP meets on DEC 2-3.

Whopper: RFK Jr. says he’s supported by doctors & scientists. Reality: Thousands of physicians, dozens of institutions, & multiple medical societies oppose his leadership and call for his resignation. #PublicHealth #ScienceFirst #Accountability www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

RFK’s claim that he has the support of reputable scientists would be funny if so much weren’t at stake: www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

The Hague. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/w...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/pe...

With Medicaid cutbacks on the horizon, millions in the U.S. are expected to go uninsured. In the Mississippi Delta region — one of the poorest places in the U.S. — people are stressed and mad.

This week’s outrage: www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic.

And for this week: www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

I know every week - or day-seems to bring a new outrage. But WE CANNOT turn away! These are not abstract harms: www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

Un privilegio haber participado en este libro sobre la actual política económica en Argentina : www.instagram.com/minga.audiov....

The chair of the #ACIP is a #COVID-contrarian, Martin Kulldorff, as are others on the committee (i.e., Robert Malone). COVID-contrarians also have hands on the lever of vaccine policy at #FDA (i.e., Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg), at #NIH (i.e., Jay Bhattacharya). 1/

Good morning America. Happy Monday. And #RFKJr still needs to go. Now. My piece in @thenation.com last week. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

@schumer.senate.gov's DC office number is: (202) 224-6542. His chief of staff is Mike Lynch: [email protected]. His NY state office number is (212) 486-4430. His state director is Martin Brennan: [email protected]. Do not stop. Call. Email. Do it again. Shut. It. Down.

Again let's repeat: "it would take only 4 GOP Senators, or 6 to 7 Representatives, to save the country" Fine, with filibuster/impeachment hurdles, say 30 Why is everyone in the media laser-focused on What Democrats Must Do? Stop giving those 10-30 Republicans free passes: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

#RFKJr has now lost the @nypost.com. His days as HHS Secretary are numbered. Keep up the pressure—let’s get him out the door. nypost.com/2025/09/04/o...

How can we rethink global health architecture to deliver greater health equity? Alicia Yamin (@aliciay.bsky.social), Sakiko Fukuda-Parr & Chair Kelley Lee (@profplum8.bsky.social) discuss the future of multilateralism in global health Online | 3 Sept | 17.30 CEST www.globe.uio.no/english/rese...

The Guardian is covering the rise of @defendpublichealth.bsky.social. #IHAT is evidence-based policy making and grassroots people powered movement building for justice and rights. MAHA is policy-based evidence making rooted in fascist politics and capital-serving eugenic ideas. #IHATnotMAHA

#ICE kidnapped a New Haven high school student. #NewHaven www.newhavenindependent.org/article/ice_...

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

also, this is very Soviet, except that Stalin then arrested and executed the statisticians

Second, an opinion piece written by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, @aliciay.bsky.social & others in @globalpolicy.bsky.social www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/07/07/2... 3/4

The cuts to U.S. #foreignaid have come at a high cost to #globalhealth. What are the costs & consequences? What alternative approaches are possible? Check out this series of papers & discussions @aliciay.bsky.social @jonshaffer.bsky.social @renusingh.bsky.social @scidjournal.bsky.social 1/4

Have you benefited from a medical treatment or know someone who has? This one man wants to shut it all down. It sounds nonsensical and mad. And it is. But Russell Vought is head of the OMB, wants to and can do it. Call your members of Congress. Get rid of Vought, not medical research.

As we see #publichealth being decimated all around us, the time for action is now. Building a resistance to US assaults on public health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... by @aliciay.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social via @thelancet.com

Hot off the presses in The Lancet: Building a resistance to US assaults on public health. With Alicia Ely Yamin and Emma Joanna Lengle. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Say Their Names. stevebrodner.substack.com

"More people need to find their place in the resistance and to foster what Hannah Arendt called “conditions of courage” to allow others to choose defection rather than compliance" @aliciay.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

How much expertise did a key vaccine panel lose this week when RFK Jr. fired its 17 members and appointed 8 new ones? @meredithwadman.bsky.social and I looked at their publication records to find out. www.science.org/content/arti...

Currently, private insurers, Medicare, and Medicaid require no-cost coverage of vaccines, which is connected to recommendations made by ACIP and CDC. If these recommendations are removed, people could face out-of-pocket costs. We explain:

Health care providers in rural communities often rely heavily on funding from Medicaid and other government health programs. About half (52%) of rural residents are worried that Medicaid funding reductions would impact their or their family’s ability to get or pay for care.

Another cruel outrage: www.pih.org/press/pih-st...

Open-access FirstView article: "Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights: Advances and Setbacks" by @azizaahmed.bsky.social, @aliciay.bsky.social, & Sofia Gruskin, reviewing evidence-based policy changes & efforts to undermine them. #GlobalHealth #ReproductiveRights www.cambridge.org/core/journal...