Possible measles exposure at two major US airports: Boston and Denver. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... via @nbcnews.com

Doctors aren’t ”hurt or offended” offended by people who choose not to vaccinate. Most of us understand the science and the contents of the #vaccines and how herd immunity works, so we get frustrated at all the disinformation from people in gov who will dictate how we may care for patients.

"Officials are urging doctors to vaccinate their patients and provide flu antivirals after deaths among children reached record highs and as a concerning mutation of the virus circulates in the US." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... via @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com

Feeling that we’ve reached “everyone loves access to toilets” as the only common denominator everyone can agree upon.

This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Kind of wild that leadership so interested in “America first!” “America is the best!” wants so desperately to copy other countries. Can we follow their gun laws too? www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/h...

How Unethical Research Seeds Medical Mistrust: the proposed new trial in Guinea-Bissau will cause harm and is not justified, open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj... by Dr. BK Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social

I’ll say it again, Oprah owes us all a big apology

Would love for him to provide data on how often these procedures are happening in children. (Spoiler: it’s zero)

“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Oh. Oh wow. If this non-competitive grant for a placebo controlled single blind RCT really is going directly to Christine Stabell Benn (and/or her research partner & husband Peter Aaby, i.e., the Bandim Health Project, Guinea-Bissau), this would be yet another rather huge red flag.

💬 Viewpoint: The newly constituted Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has departed from established, evidence-based guideline development standards, raising concerns about transparency and credibility. ja.ma/4915WBg

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

I teach scientists to work with the media. Lesson 1: the mic is always on and there is no true off the record. Mind boggling that senior government officials would try to pass this off as a legitimate excuse.

We are closing out tonight with a link to enjoy the legendary table read of The Princess Bride. As long as we stick together we will find our way out of The Pit of Despair. 🖤RIP Rob and Michelle

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

I shouldn’t have to share this article as much as I do. Sending condolences to all friends and family and loved ones from the Brown Shooting today. www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...

And yet in RFK Jr’s recent MAHA report, published by the White House, called “Make Our Children Healthy Again,” there was not a single mention of guns Not one mention of the top cause of child death in America It’s almost as if they don’t actually want to do anything to improve children‘s lives

As she should have

Oil of wintergreen safety alert

In case anyone still had hope, the US’s measles elimination status is essentially gone.

Sure buddy here goes: Flu shot $28 Level 4 ED visit for influenza $1700

Though, as vaccination rates drop and meningitis causing illnesses return, we probably won’t be able to use this.

Thank you

Now’s the time, if you never have, to watch the movie The Stepford Wives, the 1975 version (or read the book). I’m not saying we’re there yet, but guessing at least one person in the administration asked if it was possible.

So the vaccine schedule isn’t a federal mandate other than it outlines what the vaccines for children (VFD) program must cover. States decide on school attendance rules. Reducing the schedule will create confusion, but we’ve heard from many insurance companies that they will still cover them.

Perfect chyron placement so it looks like it says: Robert F Kennedy Jr, Friendly Again. People, this is anything but friendly. This is a full on attack on moms.

Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯

NY DOH already has responded to the #ACIP nonsense

Denmark is lovely, but it’s not the US.

How many times do we need to hear the phrase “I know we don’t have any data, but…” during this meeting?

Current ACIP Member Evelyn Griffin, MD blaming illegal immigration for patients having hepatitis B. This is racist. The ACIP does not have any standing to affect domestic immigration policy or procedures.

What the anti-vax members of ACIP seem to saying is: “We have no evidence of harm with the birth dose of HBV vaccine. We have no data demonstrating any harm, so we can’t show it. But this is suspicious so we need to keep looking until we confirm our unsupported belief that it causes harm”.

When asked on Wednesday why the panel would target the Hep B vaccine, Cassidy said of Kennedy’s HHS: “The best I can tell is that they have a prejudice against science. That’s the best I can tell.” Umm...thanks, Bill. Any thoughts on why we are in this mess? rollcall.com/2025/12/04/c...

Reminder: ACIP doesn’t have the authority to tell insurers to cover the multiple later blood draws they’re recommending. That’s aside from them not understanding that you have a series to get lasting immunity, not just temporary antibodies, so should complete it.

Dr Jason Goldman just rocked it! Awesome comments at ACIP! Further showing that they don’t care about process, facts, science.

We need about a dozen people live posting this mtg as statement after statement is false. The facts on Hep B vaccine are pretty simple: -we tried universal screening and it didn’t work -Hep b vaccination of newborns has safely prevented disease -ACIP is operating on vibes, not facts

For those interested in following along but don't have the capacity to watch it in real time it will be live blogged by both @enirenberg.bsky.social and @doritreiss.bsky.social .

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Officially entered the kangaroo court phase of public health destruction. More on Mr Siri if you are’t familiar: www.sirillp.com/vaccine-inju...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Radical transparency was never the goal

Holiday travel season is upon us! Here’s some tips to hopefully help make things a little easier.

I’ve been waiting for an article like this for some time, and while it’s not what I was hoping for — which, on reflection, would be kind of a supervillain’s monologue, which don’t actually happen — it may be the best we’ll ever get. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Infant formula recall: ByHeart infant formula Lot: 206VABP/251261P2 ("Use by 01 Dec 2026") Lot: 206VABP/251131P2 ("Use by 01 Dec 2026")

It’s still early but the #RSV hospitalizations are staying flat!

Our VFC COVID vaccines arrived on Friday a full 23 days after our private insurance ones. A meaningless delay that is 100% the result of RFK Jr and Jim O'Neill's incompetence.

I’m not an OB, but I’ve been to a lot of deliveries and I’m sure 100 people have said this already but, our head of HHS doesn’t know where babies come from.