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👀 Hot off the press: A scathing open letter co-authored by all 17 former ACIP members. It's a frank look at ACIP history and the hard truths America will grapple with in the upcoming months. Turns out the former ACIP members have more spine than CDC leadership 🙄 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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🧵💉Should pregnant people get COVID-19 vaccine? 🤰 TL;DR: YES. Pregnant people, especially those with certain conditions are at increased risk of severe COVID, miscarriage, and pre-term labor. Babies < 6mo also have increased risk of severe COVID. Vaccination protects mom and baby More below 👇

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

"HHS is streamlining operations without compromising mission-critical work." The doge disruptions literally compromised the CDC. www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/c...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

The weird sang-froid with which @NPR states this is a problem. This is as if RFK Jr. was talking about little green men on Mars. "Ancient miasma theory" isn't another viewpoint my dear NPR editors. It's the sun-revolves-around-the-earth stuff. What are you doing?

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Another reason to go get your vaccines/boosters ASAP. Get your titers drawn if you need to. This list is the worst of the worst. No new vaccines seems likely, and we'll see how many of the ones we have get revoked. If we get H5N1, we're cooked. BAD.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

The process for ACIP membership usually takes years of vetting, particularly for conflicts of interest. Have these people undergone the same level of scrutiny? I'm pretty sure Malone has made money from saying falsely that mRNA vaccines are unsafe.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

The media is going to BOTH SIDES us right into martial law

submitted 7 days ago • 567 comments

Conference organizers planning where there next conference should be

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone who has ever downplayed the threat of the anti-vaccine movement has either not been paying attention or has been bamboozled.

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

Here’s RFK Jr in June 2023 saying he’s going to blackball any scientist who is on ACIP and block them from ever sitting on a committee again, and from receiving federal funding for 8 years. Today, he fired all 17 experts on that committee, which advises the nation on vaccines.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time

submitted 7 days ago • 425 comments

I'm on the receiving end of a terminated NIH grant that had no actual appeals process

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Democrats should introduce articles of impeachment for RFK jr Even if it doesn’t work, which it probably won’t, democrats need to make clear that he’s not gonna get away with it

submitted 7 days ago • 337 comments

To remove vaccines from ACIP guidelines, which seems to be the end goal here, is effectively a ban. If a vaccine is not recommended, Medicare/Medicaid and private insurance can refuse to cover it. Few people can afford to pay for the cost out of pocket. RFK Jr's end game is to ban vaccines!!!

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

Why should everyone be concerned that all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices were fired at the same time? Because it's a slippery slope to losing our choice to protect our children and our families 💉 are one of the best tools to prevent disease. We need them available

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

submitted 8 days ago • 1440 comments

The media needs to stop referring to RFK Jr. as a "vaccine skeptic." He is a conspiracy theorist and a vaccine denier.

submitted 8 days ago • 49 comments

When Senator Bill Cassidy announced he would vote to confirm RFK Jr, he included this in his statement: “If confirmed, he will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes.” WITHOUT CHANGES.

submitted 8 days ago • 105 comments

Bill Cassidy was soooo confident in 🧠🪱's assurances that vaccines wouldn't be touched. Where is Bill Cassidy now? #WheresBill #SaveCDC #SaveACIP

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Fuck

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Reporters, looking for actual CDC employee reactions to this news? You can quote us: "What the actual 🤬?"

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

My main surprise is that this move took this long to do but this is about as grave a situation as you can get when it comes to vaccine regulation in the US: archive.ph/Y5WCM

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Sorry, used the archive link to get around the paywall so you can't see what it's about- HHS Secretary Kennedy just fired every member of ACIP.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

RFK Jr disbands the ACIP. The science continues ("and yet it moves!") but the recommendations may no longer be scientific. www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Seeing some reactions to this calling it a strongly worded letter. While true in a literal sense that this is a letter, it’s unprecedented—and an escalation of a growing trend of unrest inside NIH. This took bravery. Each of the signers put their career on the line. We should acknowledge that.

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

I see some discourse about ditching the former Twitter, and so I'll remind folks that the best reason to there is that it's a fucking Nazi bar and we all deserve better. I'm on social media to enjoy conversation with cool folks. Bluesky does a bang-up job of that. The former Twitter doesn't.

submitted 8 days ago • 46 comments

This really cannot be said enough. The only two major internal crisis's in the US are combatting climate change and affording healthcare.

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

submitted 9 days ago • 1154 comments

Babies can’t be vaccinated but the folks around them sure can.

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths. research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

submitted 11 days ago • 86 comments

Pretty sure this should tell you all you need to know about the veracity of the DOJ's charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 11 days ago • 292 comments

In 2019, NIAID proposed an ambitious scientific network focused on pandemic preparedness, research, and response - the "CREID Network". Ten centers kicked off just as the pandemic was taking off, playing critical roles throughout. We were just notified the whole network is terminated. Reason? 👇

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

remember, this guy ran illegal medical experiments on autistic children using castration drugs and lost his medical license because of it

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 12 days ago • 644 comments

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

submitted 13 days ago • 96 comments

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

submitted 13 days ago • 66 comments

Kind of jars you, hearing someone speaking truth so plainly after what we’ve been conditioned to accept as “news”

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

"If you’re among the vast sea of Americans who remain enthusiastically grateful for vaccines, the time for pushing back against Kennedy isn’t later, when he’ll likely be ratcheting up his program to 'reevaluate' longstanding pediatric vaccines."

submitted 16 days ago • 78 comments

“It’s why every time an incremental vaccine restriction results in a public shrug, he feels emboldened to go a bit further.” This is important. First he takes away something people don’t care much about—Covid boosters—so that later it seems more normal when he takes away polio vaccines.

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Heavy stuff. The Regime desires to completely eliminate the Forest Service’s R&D division. Shocking. R&D is statutorily mandated. R&D is part and parcel to management of the forests. It’s how we keep communities & firefighters safe. How we plan for the future. This is wrong. And unlawful.

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments