THIS MOTHERFUCKER HELD A GREAT GATSBY PARTY WHILE 43 MILLION PEOPLE GO HUNGRY AND HEALTHCARE COSTS KEEP RISING.

In an interview on Fox News, anchor Jesse Watters mocks Dr. Anthony Fauci, Kid Rock mocks the public health tool of masking, then both devolve into fits of laughter at Kid’s gleeful use of the disability slur “retard.” Here’s one way to think about it: mccormickmd.substack.com/p/how-to-und...

We should be drawing up plans now for how to retrofit the grotesque White House Billionaires’ Ballroom. In the future it needs to be repurposed as a National Civic Center. Galas honoring teachers, first responders, military, scientists, etc. Town halls. The people’s house returned to the people.

At the end of your primary care visit, Dr. Strong thinks it’s funny as he jokes about dumping liquid feces on you and your family. Sound familiar? mccormickmd.substack.com/p/the-fascis...

This was my favorite canine protester of the day at No Kings in Philly. Absolutely no American hate from anyone on display. Just a plea for more Americans, especially some Republicans, to say “no kings” to the people who twist their values, take away their affordable healthcare (continued) #nokings

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Do you find this propaganda art inspiring? Did you know our President just got his Covid and flu shots? mccormickmd.substack.com/p/learning-f...

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Let me know your experience in your state if you have one! In PA CVS pharmacists cannot give Covid shots/flu shots, which they have in stock now, without a doctor’s prescription. For anyone! Never dreamed this would happen for flu shots. Without ACIP meeting, many states can’t dispense shots.

Here’s a new logo for the institution formerly known as CDC, now rebranded as the CFD. Dropped “prevention”, because that takes work, expertise, scientists. Used a Cracker Barrel style that harkens back to the good old days of unchecked polio, measles, and other diseases. What do y’all think?

An apparently healthy child born today WILL NEED TO WAIT UNTIL AGE 65 for their first COVID shot (if you listen to the captured CDC). Fortunately the AAP is lead by actual pediatricians. They remind us that “Infants and children 6 through 23 months of age are at the highest risk for severe COVID

Breaking news on the updated COVID shots for this year. It’s not great, but it could have been worse. Here’s a table I made with the goods, click through for bigger version and details of who can and can’t get the COVID shots, according to the gatekeepers: mccormickmd.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

The next time you’re feeling defeated by fascism, climate apocalypse, anti-science capture of our instituitons,and Sydney Sweeney jeans… just think of how this blue monkey’s got your back. You’re welcome 😂

Our medical establishment, Vinay Prasad and Marty Makary have devoted most of their energy to limiting an MRI abnormality in 1 in 61,500 young men. Is this a good use of their time? The latest episode with @wendyorent.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Outrage and anger drive engagement and attention. But we need a break, and a construct that allows us to feel joy, happiness, and connection even as the world is being shredded. Let me know if this essay helps you for today! mccormickmd.substack.com/p/granting-o...

The next time someone parrots something about: “Current vaccines haven’t been tested in randomized controlled trials.” Tell them here are 276 studies and counting, as compiled by a few real doctors: www.bradspellberg.com/vaccine-rcts Expanded note about this below: substack.com/@mccormickmd...

Trump’s $45 million birthday parade with its tanks and helicopters is an authoritarian ego trip. But the real show of force this weekend won't take place in D.C., it’ll happen in the streets as protesters gather nationwide to declare "No Kings in America!"

Know your rights. Go to your local No Kings protest this Saturday. Especially as a US Senator is on his stomach in handcuffs. There are 343 million Americans with rights. They can’t take these away all at once: aclu.org/know-your-righ… Stay strong. American. Peaceful. Duty and honor. nokings.org

Going out the way he came in (high off his ass)

I just watched this video and love this brave woman. My wife is ok with that 😂. We are going to send her campaign $100 today.

WTF FDA. We don’t approve of your disapproval of Covid vaccines for people who want/need them this fall and beyond. I know, it’s Drs. Prasad/Makary, not really you. This is better: Everyone can get one, but high-risk groups should. Then insurance still covers shots, and we keep studying them.

Anyone else pissed about the narrowing of eligibility for the next round of Covid shots?! If you want to stock up on good quality studies showing that staying up to date with Covid shots, even when healthy, continues to provide net benefits, here’s a timely deep dive:

This is why I think doctors, scientists, public health and other good people should be sad about the passing of Pope Francis. I am. And I’m thankful he tried, too. #popefrancis

Anyone else getting in some “good trouble” this Saturday? Joining up to say hands off our health care, our data, our jobs, our services, our science… our sacred democracy? Local: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve... National: handsoff2025.com I am. Here’s why: mccormickmd.substack.com/p/heres-why-...

Absolutely horrendous. Fellow human beings. Cruelty is the point. Does the spectacle of others’ suffering make our collective sufferings more bearable? Maybe those progressive ideas which aim to lessen suffering were the right answer after all. Thanks for highlighting JVL, great live talk today!

Strong crowd here in Philly standing up for Science, medicine, research, patients, truth.💪❤️ I became a doctor to help patients and fight diseases, not to obey sick agendas and fight politicians. #standupforscience2025

I’m going to the ‘Stand Up for Science’ rally next Friday 3/7/25. Stand up for the researchers fired, the public health institutions undermined, the science communication stifled, the research funding cut, the vaccines soon denied, the WHO/CDC/NIH/HHS/EPA disrespected standupforscience2025.org

"Either way, it’s as if Franklin Delano Roosevelt had showered slurs on Winston Churchill during the Blitz and praised Adolf Hitler" -- The Philadelphia Inquirer's great foreign-affairs columnist Trudy Rubin, on what the hell just happened here www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

SO MANY CHILDREN WILL BE HARMED BY THIS

Want a look into the crystal ball of what happens to your healthcare in an America with increasingly cruel, nihilistic, authoritarian rule? It’s not good. But it can be resisted:

Much love and respect to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Here's their courageous commitment to stand up to misinformation, replete with resources and facts. If only the leadership of this country were so faithfully American... or even just decent towards women's health.

Sick, sick mindsets. Go to the Holocaust Museum in DC, remind yourself of the absolute depravity and horrors of starving families being tortured, killed, hair and teeth extracted, dumped in mass graves… we (Democrats, Republican, independents) MUST RALLY AGAINST anti-American would-be Nazis.

And the ironic thing is that according to this logic, we could also dismiss an RFK Jr death from Covid because he has at least four chronic diseases, including atrial fibrillation, brain worms, mercury poisoning, and spastic dysphonia (previous public domain disclosures).

Thanks @sarah-todd.bsky.social for an excellent read about MAHA and the "cooking with seed oil" profitable panic right now. A really good video, too! I feel better informed, and less likely to freak out and buy a "Make Frying oil Tallow Again" hat.

The legendary Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) gone, just like that. Since 1951, these disease detectives have hit the pavement and secured vital information needed to face emerging threats to our lives.

Heinous—Trump WH/HHS is planning to likely destroy $500 million worth of stockpiled COVID tests. They could give it out for free, but then Trump and RFK Jr would have to admit COVID is serious. And minimizers don’t have the guts to admit millions died. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Every state should press charges-

For those outside of metro Philly, the Inquirer is one of the few remaining major city papers owned by a nonprofit foundation, not by a billionaire.

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

@corybooker.com Hi Senator! Family doc and Substack writer here. Would love to help promote and highlight your NO SHT legislation. Any hope of this passing? Keep the gloves off in general, like your Kash questioning. The horrified resistance will flock to that.

Here’s my take on the more deadly variant H5N1 showing up in cows last week. It’s not good. But it’s worth mooing like hell (and raising it) with your senator NOW:

"Life is a jungle" misses how real jungles thrive through cooperation - trees share nutrients via fungi, birds spread seeds, species help each other survive. Success comes through symbiosis, not just competition. USAID is a cooperative approach.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Welcome to the jungle. Welcome!

Maybe you need an emetic to induce vomiting? Try reading this post about how conservatives are baselessly blaming mass shootings on trans people in their rightwing echo chambers. I had no idea. "Easy targets" of violence lead to easy escalation of violence against us all, too:

Welcome to Covidlandia, a forgotten realm between pandemic beginning and end — where truth is spoken to power and patient: mccormickmd.substack.com/p/covidlandi...

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

It's a real shame and waste of time that we have to pretend nominees like RFK Jr. have any qualifications or stature being where they are. I called Senator and Dr. Bill Cassidy (R), who is at least flinching with this nomination. Tell him to uphold both his oaths to medicine and to country:

How's your shitty public health weekend going? Communications freezes, vaccine information sheet deletions, research and meetings cancelled, WHO withdrawal and disrespect, hiring freezes, remote work attrition, gag rules reinstated, RFK Jr. making a mockery of qualifications. Resist, my friends:

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

An important read as clinicians may be pressed into becoming immigration agents, something we did not sign up for: