I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

Supporting @mdoughertyco.bsky.social who's running for Attorney General in Colorado. He has courtroom experience & management experience to help stand legally against Trump & ICE. Campaign info: www.michaelforag.com And join me in donating: secure.actblue.com/donate/micha... Every dollar counts!!

LOS ANGELES: ICE is in Echo Park today - reportedly staging at the Vons on Montana Street.

I took care of numerous kids with fulminant hepatitis B in the 90s before the switch to getting the first vaccine at birth. I don’t recall having one since. I do not miss caring for that disease.

The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children. Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT

Reposting so I can always keep coming back to this pure joy lololololololololololololol

Halloween is such a perfect holiday to reground yourself in your community. Just throngs of different people wandering the neighborhood with their kids appreciating strangers for helping create something magical. This is what most of us crave.

@talsmith.bsky.social Since you're apparently not old enough to remember: One of the many reasons we enacted Obamacare is because insurance companies were routinely kicking women off their insurance coverage once they were diagnosed with breast cancer. www.reuters.com/article/worl...

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

"[When] the CDC recommended the vaccine for high-risk newborns... The number of perinatal infections stayed stubbornly high. But hepatitis B infections plummeted after the CDC began recommending a universal dose of hepatitis B vaccine at birth in 1991."

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

Pandemic preparedness in the US has been leveled a crippling blow with the cancellation of multiple #BARDA contracts to help develop mRNA vaccines. No other vaccine platform produces vaccine so quickly; without mRNA, Americans will have a long wait for pandemic vax. www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

The price of 1 lb of ground beef is now higher than the federal minimum hourly wage…

Be safe with those fireworks y'all

“Immunizations work, they are very effective and safe, and they save lives. Vaccines are among the most rigorously studied and effective tools in public health.” Kudos to AAFP, AAP, ACOG, ACP, IDSA for this. www.statnews.com/2025/06/26/v...

Each child death is an immense tragedy. This year, more children died of flu than in 15 years. Child flu vaccines are essential. “There are likely several contributors to this season’s severity, but a big one is that fewer children get flu shots” - Dr. Sean O’Leary of @ameracadpeds.bsky.social

You and your children will breathe more air pollution because of this action. People will have more asthma attacks. People will have more heart attacks. All while climate impacts accelerate.

The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues. But the report, from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

While eating lunch I remembered that a guy in Germany who was <65yo got 217 covid vaccines with no ill effects www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Imagine where society might be if we took all the energy devoted to framing vaccines as the cause of our health problems and instead used it to actually solve those problems. Utopia.

We are living in one of the few times in human history where you can buy a loaf of bread and if it says it’s made with wheat flour and salt and yeast and water and nothing else, it’s probably made from just those ingredients, and some people want to END this.

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

Waymo, welcome to the resistance #HandsOff #LAProtests

It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.

⚠️MEASLES SPIKING ⬆️60%—In just 2 weeks, measles outbreak has surged over 60% from 301 confirmed cases in 15 states (March 13th) to now 483 in 20 states (March 27th). 75% of cases are in children. 📌97% unvaccinated or unknown status. This epidemic is only accelerating. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

When my sister was fighting cancer, we kept hope alive by knowing a breakthrough could be just around the corner. Trump’s attacks on science and the NIH aren’t saving money. Trump’s cuts aren’t helping us buy eggs. These cuts are taking away your hopes, your cures, YOUR breakthroughs. Devastating.

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

mRNA vaccines show promise in pancreatic cancer in early trial. Small trial, but the data is very good. Note that there is currently a GOP bill in Congress that would effectively ban ALL mRNA vaccines. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today's @usatoday.com front page First US death from measles in 10 years First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US All of this fully preventable

going through perifascism

now’s as good a time as any for us to at least think hard about letting giant battery storage systems get built in high wildfire risk areas near LA without any special regulation or even study heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

Post election, I've been trying to report more on the decline of trust in institutions. Obviously the media's crisis is part of this. Last week, I came across a paper from @juliaangwin.com that looks at how creators build trust w/ their audiences & I called her up. Lots of good lessons here, imo

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx

Me: Dr. Salk your vaccine will save so many children! Salk: Well thank God Me: Of course they will grow up Salk: Well I hope so Me: And get old Salk: I guess? Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine Salk: what now Me: And leave NATO Salk: shit

How insurance companies degrade the patient-doctor relationship, by Helen Ouyang, my friend and exceptional physician-author gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o... @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Decades of consolidating pediatric hospital care have resulted in an increasingly concentrated system. This dynamic accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, with an additional loss of one-sixth of the nation’s remaining pediatric inpatient services.” 1/2 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Nearly every kid we saw in the ICU with COVID, once the vaccine was available, were kids who hadn’t gotten vaccinated. The vaccine was the difference between life and death, or at best a normal life and a devastated one.

#pedsky #medsky The American Academy of Pediatrics is collecting stories from physicians about patients we have cared for with vaccine preventable diseases to help in their advocacy against RFK’s confirmation. Please share your stories to [email protected]

Can’t believe it. I had a tiny account, was never on Twitter for likes or follows- I was there to have incredible, immediate access to the world. What a resource it was. What an absolute waste.

So is this where we’re all meeting up when the next LA earthquake hits??