Laughable as this is, the reality is that many will take it at face value. Many more who are undecided will hesitate further. The upshot being that kids will get ill, disease will spread, and decades of hard-earned public health gains will be lost. It is a shameful, callous act. Heartbreaking.

So the politicisation of health continues in the States and I want to highlight a few key things 🧪🧵

“The UK government should offer discount visas to US cancer scientists who have had their research cancelled by the Trump administration, Sir Ed Davey will say.” Shouldn’t just be restricted to cancer scientists either.

Standby #NHS is always ready to help but without the resources to help YOU & I will be waiting The healthy & wealthy make decisions that limit the ability to of the NHS to work well Sat with my mother as she awaits admission to hospital You never know when you may need the NHS even if healthy

Laughable as this is, the reality is that many will take it at face value. Many more who are undecided will hesitate further. The upshot being that kids will get ill, disease will spread, and decades of hard-earned public health gains will be lost. It is a shameful, callous act. Heartbreaking.

Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."

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Where are the Covid nasal vaccines for the US to block infections and transmission? Here's yet another with a very good profile in people for mucosal immunity and high neutralizing antibodies in all participants (from China) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BREAKING: Chicken Pox caused by Vicks Vap-o-Rub: White House BREAKING: Astigmatism caused by chewable vitamins and parental failure to invest in Trump Coin: NIH BREAKING: Havana Syndrome caused by component of Tito’s: CIA BREAKING: Red hair caused by potato consumption: Marine Corps

This is exactly what a baby trying to convince his doctor not to give him a shot would say.

News Analysis: For President Trump, a wide-ranging crackdown on mainstream media institutions and political opponents is not about hate speech, but about speech that he hates — namely, speech that is critical of him and his administration. nyti.ms/3VsCyO4

“Children today receive roughly 4-5 times as many shots as their 1986 counterparts, yet are exposed to 95% fewer antigens and only modest increases in aluminum. We’ve achieved far more protection with far less immune burden through decades of scientific precision.” www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/t...

Please know that this is Trump scaremongering. There is no good scientific evidence linking paracetamol (Tylenol) to autism. A 2024 Swedish study of 2.4 million births found no relationship whatsoever between exposure to paracetamol in utero & subsequent autism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

RFK Jr: “Research on vaccines and autism has been suppressed.” PubMed: “Here’s over 1200 research papers on vaccines and autism… …including this first one which is a meta-analysis showing that vaccines are not associated with autism.”

Absolutely Esther. Our close friends have a profoundly autistic daughter. When she was only little, under 5, I think, they announced the diagnosis at her birthday party... Like a hair trigger, a supposed friend of theirs asked, both accusingly and snootily, whether they'd had her vaccinated. 💔

“This is based on what I feel” FFS

Despite what Trump says, there is no link between paracetamol (tylenol) and autism.

“Medical experts are raising alarms after Donald Trump warned pregnant women to avoid taking Tylenol, baselessly linking the painkiller – also known as paracetamol - with a rise in autism among children.“

Why did all of us never realise the greatest medical breakthroughs were this easy! Evidence from controlled studies with a sample size of millions falls away in thrall to a ‘feeling’ that it was the mothers’ ‘fault’ all along

Makes you wonder how the pandemic would have panned out if it were just health journalists penning the headlines rather than political journalists.

Fact for the day: paracetamol does not cause autism

Imagine paying the slightest bit of attention to this drivel

A number of labs initially got in touch with PHE, Alice. Initial response was, as expected, supportive. However, after further comms things suddenly fell silent. No local NHS or university labs therefore helped, apart from those with freedom/resource. Then, May. Dysfunctional lighthouse, too late.

The COVID enquiry and last night’s ITV documentary shone light on a dark time - when billions of pounds of public money were shovelled into the pockets of private investors rather than public institutions - wasting existing expertise, wasting money, wasting lives in the process.

Fantastic to see our TrumpActionTracker featured in this @yorkshirebylines.co.uk article! @sandylaping.bsky.social @peteduncanson.bsky.social Do have are read. Tracker is here: www.trumpactiontracker.info

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

New consensus statement on preventing cardiovascular disease in people with COVID-19. #episky #healthpolicy #medsky academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advan...

Dosage too if prescribed will be outrageously hard to monitor. I really fear it’s a spurious correlation that will harm not help families with ASD children.

It’s such a frequently used drug I find it hard to feel confident in any data as will be be used on and off prescription before people knew they were pregnant even making good statistical or correlation analysis exceptionally challenging.

I find the politicisation of autism spectrum disorder extremely troubling. Paracetamol or Tylenol as it is called in States should not be touted as a cause of ASD before anyone has scrutinised the data they allege will show this. 🧪🧵

Whether paracetamol, the Vee word, or any other tenuous 💩 RFK & eejits decide causes #Autism, they have one thing in common. They lay the blame firmly at the parent's door. Just unbelievably cruel. It's a complex, polygenic, largely unpredictable syndrome. Fact. @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

Leaving aside optics of attending at any time an event hosted by industry that does so much to create misery, transferring billions from the poor and desperate to billionaires, Rachel Reeves’ decision to do so ahead of a budget seriously questions her judgment www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

Kennedy’s inexperienced and under-qualified ACIP continues to make a mockery of science based evidence with confusion regarding what they were voting for, actions such as changing votes, pushing other votes down the line, use of anecdotes versus science and ambiguous decisions…🧵

Classic antivax: Overstate adverse events, ignore disease risk. Now rife in official ACIP recs🤦‍♂️💔 Febrile seizure risk (no long-term effects, occur after ANY fever) for MMRV ≈ 1/2K-4K. SSPE risk for unvaxed infants, assuming survived acute measles, ~1/600. UNIVERSALLY FATAL.

Important study (that rather flies in the face of recent vaccine decisions) that considers the risk of Covid (and long Covid) on the cardiovascular system and the need to note and rehabilitation to better manage CV symptoms. Also suggest vaccines are an important tool to prevent such complications

My amazing wife, @lucyprodgers.bsky.social, has both psychological insight and lived experience of severe fatigue - a blight affecting not only folks with #LongCovid and #MECFS, but myriad chronic and unseen illnesses... I know I'm biased, but well worth a listen! embodyingfatigue.podbean.com

Classic antivax: Overstate adverse events, ignore disease risk. Now rife in official ACIP recs🤦‍♂️💔 Febrile seizure risk (no long-term effects, occur after ANY fever) for MMRV ≈ 1/2K-4K. SSPE risk for unvaxed infants, assuming survived acute measles, ~1/600. UNIVERSALLY FATAL.

I personally never like to play virus Top Trumps. It inevitably isn't correct to compare them, it detracts from those suffering from the disease perceived to be "lesser', and at the moment we're comparing a recent pandemic virus with more established endemic ones, so prevalence and immunity differ.

At the moment Steve, sheer prevalence makes it incredibly concerning. I believe the % of cases that develop LC is higher than other viruses, but this may be due to prior cross protective immunity. There are studies comparing severity and % progression, but mainly early, so again immunity confounds.

*unfair question ⚠️ In your opinion: How unusual or more impactful (based on knowledge to date, patterns, concerns) are the long-term consequences of repeat SARS-CoV-2 infection, compared to some other widely circulating viruses? Is my (our) concern about COVID long-term impacts overstated vs others?

My amazing wife, @lucyprodgers.bsky.social, has both psychological insight and lived experience of severe fatigue - a blight affecting not only folks with #LongCovid and #MECFS, but myriad chronic and unseen illnesses... I know I'm biased, but well worth a listen! embodyingfatigue.podbean.com

One thing I would say is that there are some really knowledgeable folks on JCVI nowadays. Important to remember that Govt committees are usually given briefs and evidence sets to base policy on. COVID is less acutely devastating than in 2020, sure, for most. But we're not even matching flu here...

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Disappointed that this BBC news piece about Trump not wanting Mayor Sadiq Khan at the State Banquet doesn't once mention Khan's race or religion. If you leave out that Khan is a brown Muslim man, you gloss over why he's targeted by Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Genomic clues into the spread of deadly mosquitoes | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Americans who care about their health please note.

A welcome, if belated, awakening to the disconnect between Musk's actions and the stated values of the Royal Society?