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To be clear: Assaulting police officers and destroying property on January 6? Totally fine. Pardon them all. Showing up at an ICE Facility to demand due process? Criminal. The Republican Party is irrevocably broken. Vote all these idiots out.

⚠️ The CDC's HICPAC website has been archived. I heard from colleagues today HICPAC would be disbanded. #IDSky #PublicHealth #MedSky

#publichealth USDA has withdrawn a proposed rule aimed at reducing #Salmonella infection linked to raw poultry products. The withdrawal of the Salmonella Framework for Raw Poultry Products (proposed by previous admini in aug 2024 post by FSIS @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/foodborne-di...

Bad news for the Novavax COVID vaccine: FDA wants Novavax "...to show its vaccine is effective w/ another randomized study after appointees under (HHS Sec. RFK Jr.) intervened in the approval process... The additional step goes beyond what other Covid-19 vaccine makers had to do to win approval..."🛟

Just a reminder: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lacks formal education or professional credentials in critical scientific fields such as biology, neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, immunology, virology, epidemiology, genetics, pharmacology, or medicine.

Terrifying News: A hepatitis C outbreak strikes Florida, and the U.S. government shuts down the only CDC lab capable of testing the samples. This isn’t a mistake it’s political negligence putting lives at risk. We need leaders who act now and prioritize health. We need accountability and answers.

BREAKING: FDA Planning to End Routine Food Safety Inspections, Sources Reveal Federal officials say the move is still under discussion and may require congressional approval to implement fully.

Just spoke with my CDC sources. They were in tears. Budgets cut. RFJK has ordered them not to publicize bird flu symptoms in exposed workers. Not to test them. Not to speak. They know people are getting sick. And they’re being forced to stay silent. This is not just a cover-up. It's cruelty.

A sudden $30–40B cut in U.S. global health aid has left a vacuum no one’s able to fill. Philanthropies, Europe, and China are stepping in, but the scale of need far exceeds their reach. 🩺🛟

Funding cuts to US vax pipeline; mucosal Covid vaxes advance globally: - Inhaled vax in phase 2 in Canada - Human challenge trial in Singapore - Trial results for intranasal vax in kids in China & more in my latest nextgen Covid vax update online @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/03/31/m...

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

It is very easy to see whether these pts have spike persistence from the vaccine or from an undiagnosed infection: do mass spec/proteomics on the antigens of pts: if all pts have the same signature which is the same as the one in the vaxx, you answered the question unequivocally

🚨🚨🚨 Mexico will take Google to court if maps shown to US-based users continue to label the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America across the entire body of water, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday. www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/a...

Vaccinate your children! I have seen children suffer from measles and I would never want another family to watch a child suffer that way.

RFK Jr wasted no time in bringing a wrecking ball to US public health & health research, just as everyone knew he would

ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.

Nearly half of the CDC’s epidemiologists were dismissed despite growing bird flu concerns. The cuts, affecting around 1,300 CDC employees, align with Health Secretary RFK Jr.'s push to overhaul health agencies and shift focus away from infectious disease research. uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-admin-...

Discontinuing a program before establishing an alternative is a worrying approach. The U.S. administration declares an end to support for schools with COVID-19 vaccine mandates—while only now directing the Secretary of Education to develop a replacement plan. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

BREAKING: Nurse in Uganda’s capital tests positive for Ebola, health ministry says. The 32-year-old man went to multiple hospitals before being tested. It’s unknown how he got infected.

Weekly U.S. COVID update: - New cases: 172,771 est. - Admissions: 12,094 (-8%) - In hospital: 10,648 (-4%) - In ICU: 1,471 (-12%) - New deaths: 852 - Average: 903 (+13%)

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

Using the tragic plane collision over the Potomac that cost 67 human souls as an occasion to slam DEI hiring was obscene. There’s zero evidence at this point that an underqualified air traffic controller or pilot had any role in this crash.

Did you know HHS already focuses on how food and nutrition affect your health? odphp.health.gov/our-work/nut...

RFK Jr is a zealot. His zeal may be attractive to those who share his views, but by definition it means he is uncompromising, cherry picking, and dismissive of good data and science that is contrary to his views. That’s not someone you put in charge of a scientific agency.

The most important questions so far have come from Bill Cassidy and Mark Warner on the way we deliver healthcare to folks at HHS though Medicare, Medicaid and Federally Qualified Health Centers. It is also clear that RFK has no idea how those programs operate.

Chronic disease is devastating America. And RFK Jr has no idea what the job of HHS Secretary is- and he has no interest in the daily rigor of the job. He is a rubber stamp the Project 2025 healthcare agenda. Time to read it. static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...

When I was at HHS I had to sell almost all my stocks including Meta and Apple because of the appearance of a conflict. But RFK will continue to get paid millions in referral fees for lawsuits against entities HHS regulates. Make it make sense.

Life in a Dictatorship: He just ended funding for clinical trials that are often the last hope for cancer patients whose regular therapies aren't working. #cansky #medsky #oncsky www.oncology-central.com/what-do-trum...

As doctors and nurses, it is our moral duty to care for every person who walks through the door & needs medical help. Allowing ICE to raid hospitals & clinics is immoral and will lead to needless suffering & death. Reading this made me cry...what nation have we become? #medsky

@edmarkey.bsky.social GOP has a proposal to eliminate non-profit hospitals - please vote against it. We need to protect non-profit status to protect healthcare and patient safety. bsky.app/profile/wyde...

From skydiving to Long COVID, humans struggle to understand and assess risk effectively. In this article, @arijitchakrav (twitter handle) and I use the simple analogy of coin tosses to make comparing and understanding risks more intuitive. www.peertopublic.com/posts/theres...

About half of the country did not want to go back. This photo is instantly iconic, isn’t it? Prophetic?

Apparently written outside Trump Tower -

Here's our final Christmas Day forecast. If nobody is testing/isolating... 🔹1 in 8 chance of an exposure in a family gathering of 10 people 🔹1 in 3 chance of exposure in a restaurant near 30 people 🔹3 out of 4 chance on a plane of >100 people