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Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in searing-hot Djibouti, where they face the constant threat of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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A top covid vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after federal health officials rescinded long-standing recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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I spent time in Seminole, Texas, after a deadly measles outbreak tore through. I came back with a story about anti-vaccine activists who exploited the crisis, outmatched doctors and public health officials working to contain it — and a community left to bear the cost. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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In case you needed a smile this Tuesday: 10-month-old baby KJ, who received a bespoke gene-editing therapy after a six month scientific sprint - "graduated" from the hospital @childrensphila.bsky.social today and went HOME! YAY SCIENCE! Here's his story: wapo.st/451ZQjT

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Republicans failed to repeal Obamacare in 2017. But the big budget bill making its way through Congress comes close, Paige Winfield Cunningham reports www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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professional update: I'm taking a break from writing this summer to help edit our health stories. Basically I'm just going to walk around the newsroom telling reporters to highlight the Dickensian aspect.

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Americans are losing programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. State and local health departments that inspect restaurants, respond to outbreaks and do other critical work are being hollowed out because of huge cuts by the Trump administration - my latest w/ Laura Ungar at @apnews.com

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A pledge to restore “gold-standard science” accompanies much of Trump’s health policies challenging mainstream science. Many scientists say the opposite is happening, @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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Step by step on how to detect AI shaped papers!

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The Trump administration is contradicting itself on covid vaccines. Shots are still recommended for kids w/ a caveat to consult your doctor. Trump officials say pregnant women should also consult their doctors, but that's not what their revised schedule does www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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The GOP claim that 4.8 million Medicaid recipients are able bodied and refuse to work is specious and contradicts existing research about why people don’t work, @glennkessler.bsky.social found www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use -- we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead links w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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How a hospital’s refusal to bill another state’s Medicaid plan left a man with a $78k bill for a heart attack www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

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The MAHA report released by the White House is rife with citation errors — including seven sources that don’t seem to exist at all. Great reporting by @emilykennard.bsky.social & @margaretmanto.bsky.social www.notus.org/health-scien...

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HHS cancels funding for Moderna to develop vaccines to combat bird flu. The company was using mRNA — the same technology hailed as a major medical achievement during the first Trump administration. with @lenasun.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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The FDA commissioner says that the decision of whether a pregnant woman should get a Covid vaccine should come down to a conversation with their doctor — not a recommendation by the federal government.

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HHS cancelled millions in funding to Moderna to develop a bird flu vaccine, calling mRNA technology also used for covid vaccines “under tested” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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New reporting from @lenasun.bsky.social reveals how RFK Jr. blindsided the CDC in scrapping the recommendation for coronavirus vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Government scientists may no longer be able to publish in leading medical journals because RFK Jr. calls them corrupt

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Before RFK Jr. announced healthy children no longer need coronavirus vaccines, the CDC’s data showed more than half of young children admitted to the ICU for covid had no underlying conditions wapo.st/4kk4DlE

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RFK Jr. removed the coronavirus vaccine from the immunization schedule for otherwise healthy children and pregnant women. This is a rare move that bypasses the traditional system for vaccine recommendations with expert review www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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This is wonderfully written

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The FDA’s moves to limit updated coronavirus vaccines to those considered high risk worries those who would be left behind: People who regularly visit elderly parents. Caregivers to the medically vulnerable. People who want to reduce the risk of long covid wapo.st/45q9pJu

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What a lede www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/w...

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We reported on the last-minute add to the Trump agenda bill in Congress that bans Medicaid funding for gender transition care for adults, not just children. Here’s what a transgender man on Medicaid told @caseyparks.bsky.social wapo.st/4k3HsvD

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The new White House report on "Making Our Children Healthy Again" does not mention gun violence, which in recent years became the leading cause of death for children and teens wapo.st/4mq3YQO

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New White House MAHA report echoes anti-vaccine rhetoric about childhood immunization schedule “We are seeing a very familiar playbook, but we are now seeing it from the highest levels of our government’s health agencies rather than the margins of the anti-vaccine conversation" wapo.st/4mq3YQO

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“Several sections of the report offer misleading representations of findings in scientific papers.”

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I'm featured on today's Post Reports episode all about the Medicaid cuts advancing in Congress. For your evening commute/cooking listen consideration: www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...

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I'm a health reporter at The Washington Post looking to talk to people who do not qualify under these narrowed criteria about why coronavirus vaccination matters to you If you're comfortable sharing your experiences for an article, please email me at [email protected]

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The era of annual coronavirus vaccination may be ending. The FDA unveiled plans to limit approval to older adults and people with underlying conditions, @rachelroubein.bsky.social & @lenasun.bsky.social report www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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An IT worker for the nat'l parks drove to a bridge & called a friend to talk him down. A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family. A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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My colleagues and I who cover health, science and RFK Jr. are taking questions for a live chat for the next hour www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Five years since the pandemic began, millions of people are still grappling with long covid. Some trials are focusing on drugs that target the immune system, which is affected by different pathways to long covid.

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House Republicans are mobilizing to impose work requirements for low income adults to receive Medicaid. We looked at how this played out in Georgia, which researchers say presents a cautionary tale for the rest of America wapo.st/3ZglNYI

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NEW: During the pandemic, this CDC doctor jumped out of a helicopter. No big deal, she told me. “That’s the nature of public health.” She agreed to talk to me because of spotlight on budget cuts and layoffs at CDC. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

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The FDA is about to unveil a new framework detailing what companies must do to seek approval of vaccine as the future of coronavirus shots is uncertain, @rachelroubein.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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RFK Jr. to Congress today: “I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me” From me and @rachelroubein.bsky.social for @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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As Medicaid faces steep cuts, this quiz is a good way to challenge your assumptions and learn more about it www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

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My colleagues and I on the Post's Health & Science team are fielding questions about public health under Trump and RFK Jr. Submit them here ahead of our Friday live chat www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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So RFK Jr. just repeated a litany of false claims about the measles vaccine and said he wouldn't tell Americans "everything is safe and effective" with vaccines. Fascinating exchange here with @chrismurphyct.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Asked if he'd vaccinate his child for measles today, Kennedy paused before answering and said, “Probably.” He went on to say, “I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me." He wouldn't answer the question for chickenpox and polio www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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NEW: Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to build, manage and market Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program. Yet only 3% of eligible residents have enrolled. By @savmargaret.bsky.social

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