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I commend every parent who is choosing to do the right thing by vaccinating their child as the measles outbreak spreads. There's no shame in changing your mind on a stance you were wrong about. Especially when it concerns protecting children from disease. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

It's as important right now to affirm the positive as it is to sanction the negative. If someone or a group or an organization refuse to comply, let them know you appreciate them.

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

This is a great idea. I won't buy ANYTHING on Feb. 28. Anyone else in? 👇

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 10 days ago • 382 comments

Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace. If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...

submitted 40 days ago • 22 comments

If you're worried about vaccine availability moving forward talk to your pediatricians. While there is a routine schedule, there is flexibility. For example Gardasil is usually given at 11 but can be dosed as early as 9. MMR is given at 12 and 48 months but dose 2 can be given earlier.

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

NEW: DOGE has access to sensitive health systems and has laid off thousands of health agency employees. Here’s what that means for threats like bird flu — my latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

submitted 11 days ago • 835 comments

That this is happening is horrifying enough, but that this is happening shortly after more than 1 million Americans died of a novel pandemic virus is so unfathomable and irresponsible and dangerous that I am struggling to find the words. They are gutting public health and risking our lives.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

A late Fri update on HHS cuts today... #1 Confirmed reports by Jeremy Faust & others of 950 cut at already-understaffed IHS. A Biden-era advisor said: "very definition of government inefficiency and shows a disregard for Native American lives" tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

🚨 RFK Jr. Confirmed as HHS Secretary 🚨 We knew this was coming, but let’s be clear—we’re not backing down. LFV is ready to fight back against policies that threaten vaccine access, funding, & public health protections. This is just the beginning. Now, more than ever, we need YOU. 1/2

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I called Senator McCormick‘s Allentown office one more time to oppose the nomination of RFKJ. I said that because we are leaving the WHO and have decided to address public health threats like the flu completely on our own, an anti-vax conspiracy profiteer in charge of HHS is even more dangerous.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

On the left, CDC’s page of vaccine-specific recommendations from its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) On the right, that page tonight

submitted 25 days ago • 44 comments

I know that Trans Youth Emergency Project could use donations. Perhaps they even need some volunteers. southernequality.org/tyep/

submitted 27 days ago • 11 comments

A LOT (a LOT) of dictators in the past grabbed power with something claiming to be "temporary."

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

I’m reflecting on all that has happened this week. It is a mixture of sadness, paranoia, scared, mad, disappointed, and overall a sense of grief. It is a prevalent sense of grief of the inevitable dismantling of our diverse scientific and academic institutions.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

“the immediate halting of funding to the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), including a stop-work order for existing grants and contracts, places millions of lives in jeopardy”, @iasociety.bsky.social writes in a statement. #IDsky 🧪

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

this is how you do it!!

submitted 32 days ago • 38 comments

if you’re a grant-supported researcher* and your grant funding is “paused” there’s a good chance you’re out of a job and have to switch gears in various ways and a lot of people will be committed to other work even if that “paused” resumes however long from now…

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

I think this CNN update is really important and helps give people a better sense of what is going on.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

@ashishkjha.bsky.social is a textbook case of Tim Snyder’s “obeying on advance”—in a quest to be seen as a very serious, reasonable person, he is giving cover to the Trump administration. Except it’s just capitulation. And if you want to talk about bungling the Covid response, look in the mirror.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

FDA just sent out a drug safety communication to add a boxed warning to a drug so some comms are getting out. #healthpolicy

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

"Jha fails to acknowledge that all countries, including high-income countries, struggled to save lives during the pandemic, and continue to count on WHO for support with other health challenges within and outside their borders." www.statnews.com/2025/01/21/l...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

The crazy thing about this lie is how brazen it is. He says “we need way more funding than we thought” and then immediately turns around and says “also we will this year have the capability to replace your employees”. This is Elisabeth Holmes talk. It’s Adam Neumann talk. He’s just a con man

submitted 50 days ago • 33 comments

I do not need a climate-destroying plagiarism panopticon to tell me to buy the wrong number of ladyfingers.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

this urge to launder rfk jr. as “just a guy who is right about a few things” is such a perfect example of how liberals are people who won’t take their own side in a fight

submitted 55 days ago • 1033 comments

If you let a zoonotic virus outbreak unfold unchecked for months in livestock, with sporadic human cases, you basically give the virus an elite training course to win gold in the epidemic/pandemic Olympics. This is not a good trend. This could have been avoided! The US needs to do more to ✋️ birdflu.

submitted 61 days ago • 6 comments

“Rwanda’s rapid response,with implementation of strict infection prevention & control, isolation & containment of cases, prompt initiation of aggressive supportive care, delivery of investigational therapeutics & vaccines,& tracing & monitoring of contacts quickly brought the outbreak under control”

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

The mystery illness in the #DRC was revealed to be #Malaria. The world will move on and the epidemics of poverty and inequity to healthcare access will persist. We cannot address the threat of pandemics by ignoring poverty. Check out my latest #substack on this open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj...

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

“As I write this, I’m lying in a hospital bed next to the smallest, mightiest person I’ve ever met. I can’t take on her pain. Only a change in our country’s healthcare policies will prevent other babies from reaching this point.”

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

I repeat. Please don’t drink raw milk and definitely don’t give it to the babies.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

And human flu season beginning, with so many potential reassortment events. Hopefully we'll get lucky but damn, stakes are high if we're not.

submitted 82 days ago • 5 comments

Pediatric Covid vaccines and Novavax’s shot are more vulnerable under an anti-vax HHS due to their EUA status. insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/v...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

“The dissonance of having, essentially, the future of technology powered by fossil fuels just leaves me speechless, honestly.”

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Started the madness and loving all the scenes of Philly. Breathless detective work unfolding in the reading terminal tunnel

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Been looking for an opportunity to see this since I missed it at full frame. Check it out! 👇🏻

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

One vegetarian (me) at family meal. I made this, serves about 8. Appreciated all around! With leftovers for the neighbors cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1013...

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

[email protected] reports finding #H5N1 #birdflu virus in raw milk. The producer, Raw Farm LLC of Fresno County, has agreed to recall a batch of a whole milk product called "cream top." Milk from infected cows contains staggering levels of virus. www.statnews.com/2024/04/29/b...

submitted 93 days ago • 43 comments

This phenomenal and engaging talk by @edyong209.bsky.social is the best I’ve seen in a while. Check it out below

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

You’ll take your smart toaster and like it. Or not. Doesn’t matter. www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

submitted 95 days ago • 5 comments

An H5N1 pandemic under RFK Jr.’s DHHS could be catastrophic. Here’s what it might look like a 🧵👇

submitted 100 days ago • 24 comments

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submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments