I propose that Sen* Bill* Cassidy* be forever written in this fashion.

If there was any doubt at all that the CDC is fully destroyed, this page on autism and vaccines on its website confirms it. It's now just another vessel of dangerous health misinformation. I have no words. This is beyond sad.

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

I’m sure he knows that ACA insurance plans are sold through a marketplace. He knows this just like he knew RFK Jr would destroy our measles eradication status — then voted for him anyway.

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"Charlotte's Web" is a story about a tiny and nearly invisible creature using the only skills she has to protect a friend and neighbor who's about to be butchered to make the farmer some money, and he returns the favor by caring for her children. Just in case you needed the reminder.

Close your eyes, imagine being paralyzed… unable to breathe Imagine being stuck in a claustrophobic iron lung, to breathe Maybe we all need to time travel, to appreciate how science & public health save us, every single day?

Great piece on the FDA and menopause hormone therapy in @motherjones.com it is the most medically accurate coverage I have read from the press! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yes, we did👇🏻 Hundreds of public health workers & their allies marched from the National Mall toward HHS headquarters at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building on Wednesday. Their mission: Demand HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s resignation.

Those of us who worked with USAID and in global health more broadly warned of this- shouting, screaming into the void. The administration- at every level- understood this would happen. It’s unconscionable.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

A massive study of 18,000+ births found babies exposed to COVID in the womb had higher odds of autism & developmental delays. Scientists say it doesn’t prove causation —but it’s yet another reason RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine advice for pregnant women is dangerously wrong. #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #ObSky

Happy bday physician Jonas Salk b.1914, NYC, developed first safe and effective vaccine for polio. “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”

NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months. That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will be publishing regular public health alerts to replace the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which has been paused due to the federal government shutdown.

It does somehow sum everything up neatly. Trashy vulgarian unilaterally decides to tear up an iconic American building as though it’s one of his tacky private clubs, rather than a national monument he has very temporarily (and foolishly) been permitted to inhabit.

Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

Deeply weird

Good turnout in Spartanburg

MAGA doctors rise to power warning that measures to limit COVID deaths might lead to a “biomedical security state” and the next Hitler. Today, they are fine working for a police state. My latest, quoting @eric-reinhart.com sciencebasedmedicine.org/doctors-who-...

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today. The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly. We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

The Trump administration and its allies have taken several steps to ensure that medical schools in the US dismantle all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. It is patients who will be the victims of this, write @gavinyamey.bsky.social and @michaeldgreen.com www.bmj.com/content/391/...

This type of acute heart syndrome needs a name and ICD-10 code. I propose: “Kavanaugh attack.”

“Kennedy is very effective at using obviously untrue, pseudoscientific garbage to justify wildly irresponsible and dangerous health policies. Lying about monovalent MMR will be one more feather in his cap, with the next generation of Americans paying the price.”

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

I thought this was The Onion at first. But no, it’s MedPage quoting our ableist fat-shaming CMS administrator.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Is Charles Foster Kane running CNN now?

Opening ceremonies at #AAFPFMX in Anaheim

It baffles me why South Carolinians continue to vote against their own interests.

#AAFP #COD #FMX in Anaheim — food trucks on every corner

This guy is a “professor of operations management” who is making decisions about COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy. #VaccinesSaveLives

In Anaheim for the #AAFP Congress of Delegates and FMX

Lancet: Offline: Those one should not forgive (Makary and Bhattacharya) by Richard Horton bit.ly/3IPC0PD

“In her complaint, the scientist, Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who had directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, objected to Trump administration actions, alleging that they had endangered research subjects, defied court orders and undermined vaccine research.”

Study in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025.  #Medsky www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

No prescription needed for COVID-19 vaccine in South Carolina, experts confirm www.wistv.com/2025/09/30/n...

Great to see: The Vaccine integrity Project rolls out this week www.wsj.com/health/healt... @mtosterholm.bsky.social

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

Do NOT allow them to rewrite history with disinformation. #COVID vaccines worked remarkably well and allowed us to come out of a global pandemic. A picture is worth a thousand words.

If you're a reporter, please stop referring to RFK Jr and his cronies as "vaccine skeptics." They're not skeptical. Skepticism would be fine. Skeptics look at evidence and can be persuaded. These people are extremist anti-vaccine cranks, and that's how news organizations should describe them.

Child mortality used to be 50%. As recently as 1950, 25% of children died globally. Now it’s 4% globally, and 0.3% in some rich countries. A large part of that is better public health and vaccines. Republicans are trying to take us back to the past. ourworldindata.org/child-mortal...

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

RFK Jr.’s apparent new appointees to ACIP: Joseph Fraiman, MD, who thinks COVID19 vaccines are bad and that higher rates of obesity have been caused by medical care allowing for overweight patients to survive childbirth. This paper is absolutely chilling, vile, and scientifically unsound.

After the chaos at the CDC this past week, Oregon, Washington and California say they are going to form their own "Western Health Alliance," particularly around vaccines.

More insanity www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Vaccinations Save Lives!