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billcoggin.bsky.social
Health Scientist. U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Division of Global HIV & TB. Newly retired.
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GA Congressman McCormick: During a session where his constituents hooted and booed, he twice suggested that fired C.D.C. employees were doing work “duplicitous” of artificial intelligence.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

American travesty (one of many currently) but that's where we find ourselves. Protesting at CDC today for public health, science and beleaguered public servants. Chaos administration.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

With its anti-science and anti-public health policies, the US is now at risk for outbreaks of tuberculosis As @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social put it, "TB is both a form and expression of injustice" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

CDC's “disease detective" fellows are the first boots on the ground during outbreak responses. They bring a wide range of expertise. They are now threatened with termination. Removing our fellows makes us less efficient at responding to health threats and blocks a major CDC talent pipeline.

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...

submitted 16 days ago • 88 comments

Excellent by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social "If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. The impression of Trump’s power remains; the fact that he keeps stepping on rakes is missed. The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him."

submitted 21 days ago • 38 comments

So much devastation and damage in just 2 weeks @stephanienolen.bsky.social documents the carnage “Many of those interviewed broke down in tears as they described the rapid destruction of decades of work” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

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Freezing international aid weakens the US

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Medical research and public health policy is a prime target paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

submitted 30 days ago • 112 comments

Paul Offit, a pediatrician and vaccine skeptic considers Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a vaccine cynic. “I fear what will happen in America, which is already seeing a rising mistrust of vaccines, if he becomes health secretary,” Offit writes.

submitted 40 days ago • 9 comments

I'm a millennial with a huge aversion to making a phone call when there's email or form I can fill out, but I just called both my Senators' offices to tell them to VOTE NO and to twist the arms of their caucus and colleagues to hold the line. You should, too.

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we are entering a golden age of people being so open-minded their brains leak out

submitted 54 days ago • 169 comments

i would have no problem with this “health freedom” movement — i do not particularly care if these people decide that they want to die at 40 after a bad bout with dysentery — if not for their insistence on foisting this bullshit on children

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