NEW: Will everyone need a prescription to get a Covid vaccine? Kennedy's newly-formed vaccine committee is going to vote on this very soon. About 90% of people got those shots at a pharmacy -- with no vaccine. This is very likely to limit access. Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/_9ChY9S...

SCOOP: FDA sent a warning letter to obesity drug seller Hims & Hers, saying that their website made "false or misleading" claims about its compounded drugs. w/ @rebecca robbins & @dani blum www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/s...

NEW: The F.D.A. is reviewing about two dozen reports of deaths in young people after vaccination to present to an influential CDC panel that could limit access to the shots. Through '23, about 1,800 children died from the virus. w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/h...

@SecKennedy is due to testify before Senate Finance now. As @sherylnyt.bsky.social writes: "Trump memorably said he would let Kennedy “go wild on health.” Now the secretary is expected to face questions from lawmakers who suggest he may have gone a little too wild." Follow LIVE updates here:

A top House committee released more than 33,000 pages of records on Tuesday that the Justice Department had turned over last month in connection with its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, as Republican leaders toiled to tamp down pressure in their ranks for more transparency.

A key member of Trump 1.0 Covid team re: the CDC news: “I think this is quite a negative and potentially catastrophic step for the country,” said Adm. Brett Giroir. “I don’t know who’s in charge, honestly, and that’s frightening because the No. 1 thing you need is somebody in charge,” he added.

BREAKING (AGAIN): The White House said it has fired CDC director Susan Monarez, who clashed with @seckennedy.govpeeps.us over vaccine policy. Confirmed by the Senate, she had refused to resign unless the WH fired her. GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

BREAKING: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08... The director of the CDC, Susan Monarez, is refusing to leave her post, despite demands from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that she quit or be fired, per her lawyers. via @sherylnyt.bsky.social + @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

NEW: He called Covid vaccines "the most failing medical product in the history of medical products." Now he's running a C.D.C. task force reviewing them. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/h...

The only place industry COI does *not* pervade medicine, it would seem, is on vaccine advisory panels! New in @jama.com today, great work by @profgenkanter.bsky.social cc @mdaware.org @by-cjewett.bsky.social @charlesornstein.bsky.social @joho.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

A 33-year-old ex-Marine police officer was shot at the CDC by someone who believed he was hurt by the Covid vaccine. The policeman was a father of two with another baby on the way ---> www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...

ICYMI: A pressure campaign by Laura Loomer + Rick Santorum leaning on the White House = the ouster of Dr. Vinay Prasad at the FDA. Santorum reposted articles complaining that he was anti-innovation because he rejected some drugs (that he/his team deemed subpar) . www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/h...

After a pressure campaign by Laura Loomer, Dr. Vinay Prasad is out at FDA. Sec. Kennedy tried to defend him -- based in part on his work on vaccines -- but it wasn't enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/h...

Smart work (as always) by @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social: "According to meeting recordings, internal communications reviewed by MSNBC and three sources familiar with the situation, Burns has become a central figure in subverting vaccine policy under Kennedy." www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

NEW: F.D.A. asked a company to stop shipping a drug to some patients today after the deaths of two teens and a 51-year-old patient with rare muscle diseases. The company refused. GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h...

I’m afraid to read this 😢😥🫣😥

NEW: We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

"Kansans created Food for Peace, for 70 years a font of rural income and pride. Now at least one grain broker is trying to sell grain that once fed the world as dog food." GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

Congress Throws More Money at Removing Immigrants than Most Countries Spend on Their Armies talkingpointsmemo.com/news/congres...

...Dr. Prasad filed a “center director override memo,” a document signed on rare instances... Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for HHS, disputed the account. “The idea that Dr. Prasad ‘overruled’ F.D.A. scientists is a distortion of the facts,” Mr. Nixon wrote in an email.

NEW: The FDA's new top vaccine official overrode the decision of staff on the approval of two new Covid vaccines. Staff signed off on approval for all 12+. Dr. Vinay Prasad changed it to 65+ and under 65 w/medical condition, citing "known and unknown" risks. GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...

ICYMI: CDC expert resigns over the firing of an expert vaccine panel, which was replaced with some people who have aired anti-vaccine views. via @apoorvanyt.bsky.social GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

Full story on this news:

The vaccine experts fired by RFK Jr.: "We are deeply concerned that these .. decisions, made w/o clear rationale, may roll back the achievements of US immunization policy, impact people’s access to lifesaving vaccines, and ultimately put US families at risk.." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

NEW: Kennedy cited historical conflicts of interest when firing the entire CDC vaccine panel. We found a pattern of casting doubt on vaccines - sometimes in a legal setting - among the new advisors. w @sherylnyt.bsky.social GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

US Senator Alex Padilla was wrestled to ground after raising questions during US Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem's press conference, in a dramatic escalation of tensions in California. www.ft.com/content/93f1...

The EPA recently withdrew a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major Trump donor that has more than $1 billion in contracts with the administration to run private prisons and ICE facilities. By @fastlerner.bsky.social‬ and @lisalsong.bsky.social‬

Kennedy fired all 17 expert members of the C.D.C.'s influential vaccine panel and replaced them with others, inc. an ivermectin booster, a Great Barrington co-author and an RN who believes vaccines caused her kid's health problems: via @sherylnyt.bsky.social GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

BREAKING: RFK Jr. names Martin Kulldorff and Robert Malone and six others to ACIP. x.com/SecKennedy/s...

A must-see window into ICE deciding that every undocumented person is a criminal who should be deported: www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

RFK Jr. wants to Make America Healthy Again. But he's ignoring the country's leading cause of preventable deaths: smoking.

“Across federal agencies in Kansas City, call times are rising, benefits are delayed, and workers are walking out the door due to job cuts coming out of Washington.” The President's reckless cuts to the federal workforce in KC are already creating chaos. www.axios.com/local/kansas...

Amazing. Respect the lede.

Trump can threaten SpaceX and Musk. But US government needs SpaceX almost more than SpaceX needs US government. DOD is addicted to SpaceX, as is NASA. Starlink is surging in profits anyway faster than SpaceX launch. Yes, Musk gets massive fed contracts. But DOD needs to get to space. So does NASA

I can't .. quite .. look ... away ... GIFT: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Blow by blow coverage here, from The NYT (Free link) www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

My latest: Kennedy said he has to go to Antigua to get stem cells for his vocal condition. He'd like such treatments to come to the U.S., despite the scams and bad outcomes they might bring. (why? he basically says pharma is just as bad) GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/h...

Amazing @nytimes project on NIH cuts and grant freezes to cancer, alzheimer's, diabetes and other research: “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” GIFT: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance. Story by @aglantz.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There is an old saying that "when public health works, it's invisible." This has a lot of truth, but I think there is more going on than just a lack of appreciation for what public health does. apnews.com/article/publ...

"In the past 4 years, there have been numerous publications and meta-analyses about the benefits of COVID vaccination for pregnant women...The data are overwhelmingly clear that COVID vaccines have been highly protective of pregnant women and infants alike." @kevinault.bsky.social

NEW details on the federal budget plan (out late Friday) to slash $163 bn in federal spending. Pell grants, cancer research and HUD housing help take a big hit. Needy mothers who rely on WIC food assistance will see a $54 benefit fall to $13 per month. GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

SPACENEWS: NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands (But sets aside nearly $2 billion effectively earmarked for SpaceX) spacenews.com/nasa-budget-...

Friday night news dump: Full budget w/ billions in cuts to programs the poor and working class rely on: HUD housing assistance, Pell grants for college, energy bill assistance, WIC food aid for young mothers/toddlers and also cancer research. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...

HHS backtracked on some Covid #vaccine limits, leaving the shot for kids on the schedule under "shared decision-making." Barriers remain for pregnant women, who face elevated risks of preterm birth, still birth, hospitalization and death: GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...

A major investigation into HHS advisor Calley Means by @katherineeban.bsky.social is out. She interviewed 60 people and raises big questions about his biography and whether he stands to benefit personally from the MAHA agenda: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...