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This is a terrible idea

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Vaccinating is “a personal choice” but your child getting lead poisoning from your municipal water supply is mandatory

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

This is literally eugenics

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

More Americans have died from measles in the last 6 weeks than in the last 30 years combined, and multiple children near the Texas outbreak have been hospitalized for liver failure after taking the baseless supplements that RFK pushed.

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

This is eugenics

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

a proper investment in healthcare would look like doctors seeing 10 to 12 patients a day instead of 20-40. People don’t trust doctors for many reasons but one common factor is they do not feel like the doctor is listening, which is extremely hard to do in such short visits. AI won’t help.

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

I’m old enough to remember when a political appointee telling a subordinate expert group to reach a specific policy decision would be a weeks’ long scandal

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

US cuts to #HIV programs in Africa threaten to set progress back to 'dark ages,' experts say If PEPFAR funding is cut, nearly 500,000 children in Africa may die of AIDS-related causes and 1 million may be infected with HIV in the next 5 years. www.cidrap.umn.edu/h...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

So far there have been three measles deaths in under six weeks in the ongoing US measles outbreak. Prior to this year there had only been three measles deaths in the United States in total in the entire last thirty years.

submitted 29 days ago • 23 comments

No child should ever die of an infection we can successfully prevent with vaccines

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

I generally think I’m a pretty laid back attending, but I do have 1 pet peeve that makes me feel like an old man yelling at the youths to get off my lawn: Fever is a noun, not a verb

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

“Much of the government's efforts to buoy lagging childhood vaccination rates nationwide have been run through OIDP”. The harm that’s coming is on purpose.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Sigh. We could have emerged with the lesson of: “what we each do can impact lots of others, let’s be cautious when ill” Instead we took: “screw everyone else. No public health nerd can tell me to change any part of my life” 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

CDC ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging. “The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote

submitted 39 days ago • 33 comments

As the U.S. revokes hundreds of visas to suppress activism, Kaveh Akbar writes beautifully and the pervasive fear--and the need to protect the rights of the most vulnerable. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

submitted 39 days ago • 24 comments

Great thread👇 This program is responsible for vaccinating HALF of the entire world’s children. In under 25 years they’ve vaccinated over a billion children so far. The free market literally can never replace this program (the program exists to address market gaps). Now it’s all getting canceled.

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

“Gavi is estimated to have saved the lives of 19 million children since it was set up 25 years ago. The United States contributes 13 percent of its budget” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I found the sick adults inappropriately messing with children’s sex hormones and it’s not healthcare providers or trans people

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

Stephanie Nolen reporting that 1,200,000 children will die because of this decision. Unconscionable.

submitted 41 days ago • 12 comments

This is devastating for the future of pediatric research

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

This was entirely predictable

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

🧵

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like a lot of people do not understand that it costs so much more for everyone to just let people die preventable deaths than it does to pay for basic healthcare services

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

Tennessee confirms first measles case of the year Kansas now has 10 measles cases so far this year. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m... Photo: Mike Blyth / Wikimedia Commons

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

CDC #foodborne illness snapshot highlights heavy burden, successes The seven major pathogens included in the update caused roughly 9.9 million domestically acquired foodborne illnesses in 2019. www.cidrap.umn.edu/f... Photo: Mary Anne Enriquez / Flickr cc

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Hearing from Community Partners International, which works from Myanmar to Bangladesh, that USAID cuts mean 14,000 people with HIV losing access to lifesaving meds and a total stop in all HIV and TB screening. So many people will die due to these chaotic, sudden, horrifically implemented cuts.

submitted 67 days ago • 27 comments

“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

submitted 67 days ago • 34 comments

I would like to keep getting a yearly flu shot

submitted 67 days ago • 7 comments

People always say: "if libraries didn't already exist, you could never create them today." Well, lots of the stuff MAGA nihilists are destroying right now is like that. We're not just going to put it all back in place when this if over. It's going to take generations to repair this shit.

submitted 68 days ago • 52 comments

Read the whole thread and please call your representatives

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

This is devastating. Not only for the mothers and children losing funding for those currently on lifesaving treatment, but also the many infants that will likely become HIV infected that otherwise would have been prevented through the availability of standard perinatal HIV prevention

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

One of the defining insanities of our time is people with access to the most advanced information resources in human history—billionaires who could hire whole research teams, presidents with access to all classified intel—just falling for the most obvious bullshit imaginable

submitted 68 days ago • 73 comments

Actually…measles outbreaks are HIGHLY unusual 😡 MOST CLINICIANS HAVE NEVER SEEN MEASLES Do not fall for normalization of preventable disease #vaccineswork #MedSky #PedsSky www.bbc.com/news/live/c1...

submitted 69 days ago • 15 comments

The first measles death in the US since 2015. In a school-aged child who was not vaccinated. Senseless tragedy. Measles is no joke. And there are many outcomes from measles infection other than death that we should also care about and try to prevent. Everything about this was entirely preventable.

submitted 69 days ago • 22 comments

The thing about antivaxxers is that they’re all vaccinated. Even their most fundamental beliefs are stolen valor. They don’t take on any risk, they just put other people - often infants and children - at risk to try to make some point. And the point they want to make has been disproven so many times

submitted 69 days ago • 14 comments

"I tell you what, let's forget the fact that you're coming a little late to the party and embrace the fact that you showed up at all." -S. Seaborn

submitted 69 days ago • 10 comments

This is excellent

submitted 73 days ago • 7 comments

That has clearly been the long term plan. He promised Sen. Cassidy he would do no such thing, but we know what his promises are worth.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

thanks senator cassidy for bravely swinging at Lucy’s football

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

What’s happening with the US government reminds me of this story (great book btw): Libertarians took over a town in NH in 2004 and gutted its services, cut taxes, etc. Less than 8 yrs later things had gotten so bad that black bears were breaking into homes and killing people for the first time ever.

submitted 76 days ago • 42 comments

Not only were all childhood vaccines studied more rigorously than nearly any other medical therapeutic before ending up on the vaccine schedule, we also have years of data on BILLIONS of administrations since. No other medical interventions have been tested as rigorously as childhood vaccines have.

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

Every single vaccine in the childhood schedule has been subjected to the highest level of scrutiny for any medical product. Because vaccines are given to an otherwise healthy population, safety and effectiveness are essential.

submitted 77 days ago • 4 comments

🧵

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

“if anything” is a polite understatement the lack of a link between vaccines and autism arguably makes it arguably one comprehensively disproven things ever

submitted 76 days ago • 4 comments