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Please comment, folks! And thank you to those who have! Reading through the submitted comments, I’m seeing a lot conveying disinformation against the vaccines. From a random selection, it seems disproportionate to the number of anti-vaxxers in the US, although it was an unscientific sampling.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Please comment, folks! And thank you to those who have! Reading through the submitted comments, I’m seeing a lot conveying disinformation against the vaccines. From a random selection, it seems disproportionate to the number of anti-vaxxers in the US, although it was an unscientific sampling.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Plus the destruction of infrastructure for distributing that lifesaving food and medicine.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Women led 58% of canceled NSF grants, but represented 34% of total active grants 17% of the canceled grants had Black PIs – they made up 4% of the total pool Hispanic PIs and PIs with disabilities had grants cancelled at about twice their percentage in the total pool www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Europe also has paid sick leave, so people with covid can afford to take time off, recover, and not infect others.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Well said.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Excellent point, updated to include the additional restrictions on covid boosters announced today.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

As you follow news from #WHA78, read @craigspencer.bsky.social's essay (from March) on the effects of US withdrawal from global health. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Watch out, y’all. We may be the closest thing the CDC has to a Comms team right now. 🙀 Have some good work you want to highlight? Know something that needs to get out? Contact us on Signal at altcdc.99 www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

submitted 13 hours ago • 14 comments

Does losing health insurance, going bankrupt over medical bills, or trying to survive without medical care sound like the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The FDA’s proposal to restrict covid vaccine boosters and the requirement for further study is phrased in such a way as to undermine trust in the vaccines and their earlier approval, and by extension other vaccines, scientific expertise, and government authorization and recommendation of vaccines.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Good morning ppl! The Spam in the Gears below is so fucking important!!!

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

“Here we show that children and adolescents with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection are at a statistically significant increased risk of various cardiovascular outcomes, including hypertension, ventricular arrhythmias, myocarditis, heart failure, …” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

We now have a growing cohort of unvaccinated/ wild-type naïve children. Prasad & Makary & RFK Jr and their ilk are the catalyst for the next spike of MIS-C and long-COVID in kids that will follow this decision

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Another article on the damage being done. A 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Kicking millions off their health insurance and restricting their access to covid vaccines on the same day. What could go wrong? Seriously, though, you have to look at the probable outcomes: increases in sickness and death.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Republicans are spreading lies about the Medicaid work requirements in their budget bill. Here are the facts: -The majority of Medicaid recipients who can work are already working -Work requirements do not increase employment -Access to affordable healthcare, like Medicaid, does Know the truth.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

Without Medicaid many rural hospitals will close. We owe it to rural communities to reject Medicaid cuts. #AmericansNeedMedicaid

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Republicans have managed to find rock bottom's basement. They're so ashamed of their tax scam that they decided to hold a vote in the dead of the night. They're hoping Americans will not pay attention to their pro-billionaire scheme. I will be watching. I hope you will, too.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

No boosters for kids is one thing. No first shots - such that first exposure to SARS-CoV-2 comes via infection rather than vaccination - would take kids back to 2020. I can't tell from the NEJM piece what they intend for kids. Old (approved) but not updated vaccines? No boosters? No vaccines at all?

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Kicking millions off their health insurance and restricting their access to covid vaccines on the same day. What could go wrong? Seriously, though, you have to look at the probable outcomes: increases in sickness and death.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Don't miss the scariest committee hearing of the year.

submitted 1 day ago • 322 comments

Caregivers to disabled people and aging adults (who do not have certain health conditions) will not be able to get the Covid booster in the future under new rules, putting people they care for at risk. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Just so many questions raised today and few clear answers from HHS/FDA. Can healthy adults get existing boosters this fall? Will Covid shots for kids and babies authorized under emergency use still be allowed? When will this all take place? Is any of this legal? www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The FDA’s proposal to restrict covid vaccine boosters and the requirement for further study is phrased in such a way as to undermine trust in the vaccines and their earlier approval, and by extension other vaccines, scientific expertise, and government authorization and recommendation of vaccines.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

🗣️📣Let the administration know how you feel about them restricting COVID-19 vaccine access under the false pretense that the vaccine may not be safe. Comment period ends in 3 days. www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Excellent point, updated to include the additional restrictions on covid boosters announced today.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it. I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

submitted 1 day ago • 1234 comments

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Gather around kids!! Tell these fuckers that you want “Updated Sub-Lineage Covid Vaccines” or “Updated Covid Vaccines” or That it’s patriotic to vaxx & be heathy. We have till Friday at 11:59 to make comments on the shit they dropped today. This is on purpose. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

Europe also has paid sick leave, so people with covid can afford to take time off, recover, and not infect others.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

🚨 💉The FDA will no longer approve COVID vaccines for people 6mo–64yrs who don't have a risk factor for severe COVID-19. People 65 years and older and those under 65 with risk factors can still get vaccinated. There's so much to unpack here. See a few thoughts below 👇

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 WHO Pandemic Agreement adopted unanimously by the World Health Assembly A small win for global solidarity, in a world full of nationalistic and isolationist leaders

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

yep, again: my wife's entire team was recently fired from her nonprofit hospital a month ago because the Trump administration ceased all Medicaid reimbursements at the beginning of the year 95% of the stories I read never mentioned Medicaid once

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Tuesday morning in Geneva, history will be made. It's the first World Health Assembly in over 75 years without the US. That is tragic. But it is a triumph of global solidarity with the adoption of the Pandemic Agreement. International cooperation is vital www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

How many times a week am I going to have to post that this administration’s new plan will kill people? Because this will kill people. www.statnews.com/2025/05/15/c...

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Exactly.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The two pediatric patients under my care who were admitted to the ICU for MISC with heart failure had no medical conditions. Having a pulse is a risk factor for COVID complications.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Does losing health insurance, going bankrupt over medical bills, or trying to survive without medical care sound like the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

“In all, lawmakers had less than 72 hours to digest, debate, and vote on deep Medicaid cuts that—according to CBO’s preliminary, partial estimate—will cause more than 7 million Americans to lose health insurance and millions more to face higher medical costs.”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is an excellent piece.

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

They are creating policies that will result in the deaths of people they consider “unfit.”

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"Internal proposals to release the food remain on hold, awaiting sign-off from the Office of Foreign Assistance, now headed by 28-year-old Elon Musk appointee, Jeremy Lewin." Call your representatives.

submitted 4 days ago • 53 comments

Pulling fluoride will undermine kids’ health and it will also be a test case for pulling vaccines. It will set a precedent for overriding medical expertise and parents’ choices for their kids.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Hours after the first Russia-Ukraine peace talks in 3 years, Russian forces attacked a civilian bus, killing 9 people and injuring 4 more, Ukrainian National Police report. Hardly a signal that Moscow is seeking an end to its war.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments