An analysis finds that New Mexico's measles outbreak cost $5.4 million last year. NM had 100 cases. AZ outbreak is more than 3x larger; Utah's is more than 7x larger. TX and SC are each 10x larger. Welcoming back measles is going to be very expensive. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Economic Impact of the 2025 New Mexico Measles Outbreak: Highlighting the Cost of Efforts to Prevent Future Outbreaks | Annals of Internal Medicine

Background: In 2025, the United States experienced its highest measles case count since 1992. In New Mexico, 100 confirmed measles cases (99 outbreak-related cases), including 1 death, occurred across...

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Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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In the wake of Covid, a wave of research assessed masks, school closures, trust & more. Critical work for future emergencies. Sad to see much of it being ignored or, worse, twisted to suit a narrative. @tombollyky.bsky.social corrects the record on his own research: www.statnews.com/2026/07/31/l...

And how many "AI agents" for every PR person?

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 2d ago

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This is it, the entire conspiracy: In early 2020, Fauci and a bunch of scientists thought the virus could be engineered. Then they did more research and found that it didn't show any evidence of that. Nothing we've learned since has overturned this finding.

ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests

ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests

A Johns Hopkins public health researcher and former Fulbright scholar was detained by immigration agents while boarding a domestic flight this week, the university confirmed, as the Trump administration...

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amazing. no notes www.reuters.com/world/africa...

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...

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The US owes the Pan-American Health Organization $135 million in past dues. Trump's budget proposal cuts funding for PAHO entirely, even though our contribution is 0.001% of federal spending. The result will be even weaker defenses agst measles, dengue & more. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/h...

Former Officials Protest U.S. Plan to Defund Pan American Health Organization

The group of former health and national security officials warned that Americans will be more vulnerable to infectious disease threats.

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Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

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The lab theory is v hard to reconcile w/evidence: So, two (2 lineages initially) infected WIV researchers didn't infect anyone in their community or around WIV (invisible masks?). They went to the market to pet (?) mammals, left traces of SARS2, coughed on people. Then put invisible? masks back on.

Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 6d ago

I still don't understand the purpose of this conspiracy theory exactly. Why would everyone be trying to cover up that the virus (which was clearly not bioengineered) was loosed through a lab leak as opposed to spread in wet markets?

Peer review, grant review & the tenure process have plenty of problems. A new plan from Trump's OSTP director solves none of them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

New in PN: The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift "It’s impossible not to wonder whether part of Trump’s loathing for universities is that there's no way for him to corrupt the process and make money off it in the same way he can by giving billions to Silicon Valley types."

Mark this well. A public servant who performed admirably in a crisis is being publicly persecuted, maybe prosecuted. Govt websites are being given over to propaganda. Fake medicines are being praised while lifesaving vaccines are lied about. Slanderous grifters cackle their triumph. Despicable.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Fauci accuses Rand Paul of having an "unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution" and of making "repeated slanderous comments," then says "although it pains me to do so... under advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment to refrain from answering your questions."

Damn, even Fauci was disappointed in NIH RECOVER.

RFK Jr and MAHA's horrific legacy Anne Schuchat, who led the CDC’s immunization and respiratory disease group from 2006 to 2015, says of measles' return: “It’s just so sad, because some people will get brutally ill." Superb piece by @amymaxmen.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

‘The Child Is Terrified’: Doctors on the Front Lines of a Measles Comeback Speak Out - KFF Health News

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah as the U.S. faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous diseas...

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A clip of Dr. Oz's wife is going around: She says she delayed vaccines required for school. And Trump is pressing HHS to cut the # of recommended vaccines. Both say they're not antivax. But delays are putting kids in the hospital. Read what doctors say: kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

When the US deports people with active asylum cases back to their home countries, we are often condemning them to death. "Their 14-month-old daughter, Giovanni, was found crying beside her mother’s body in southern Guatemala."

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · last wk.

Overland, MO, couple killed in Guatemala after being deported by ICE | STLPR www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

Healthcare workers in eastern Congo are protesting. They've been working in dire conditions without protection & pay. More than 1400 people have died of Ebola in just a few months. apnews.com/article/ebol...

More health workers strike as Ebola cases in Congo near 3,000, including over 1,300 deaths

Health workers at an Ebola treatment center in eastern Congo have gone on strike over payment issues, disrupting patient care.

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NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There

A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.

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Hooded, masked and armed men kidnapped & assaulted someone in Oregon. They claimed to be ICE agents. www.oregonlive.com/clackamascou...

Armed men posing as ICE agents detained, assaulted person after fake traffic stop, police say

Oregon State Police officials are seeking information after a person was detained and assault by three men posing as federal agents.

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Doctors in Utah pull back the curtain on what's happening in America. You can read (and listen!) to my piece for WIRED/KFFHN without a paywall, here: kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

‘The Child Is Terrified’: Doctors on the Front Lines of a Measles Comeback Speak Out - KFF Health News

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah as the U.S. faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous diseas...

kffhealthnews.org

Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧵The US no longer meets criteria for measles elimination. Utah's outbreak has lasted for more than a yr. And cases this yr are at a 35-yr high. I talked w/pediatricians treating measles & talking w/parents who don't vaccinate. My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

A trope I hear often is that experts are arrogant, that they bully people with their views. Thanks @amymaxmen.bsky.social for showing how much that is *not* the case. I know so many committed, caring health care and public health workers who are trying all they can to combine expertise with empathy.

Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Doctors in Utah pull back the curtain on what's happening in America. You can read (and listen!) to my piece for WIRED/KFFHN without a paywall, here: kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

I’m grateful for this important reporting. I wish more people would take heed.

Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧵The US no longer meets criteria for measles elimination. Utah's outbreak has lasted for more than a yr. And cases this yr are at a 35-yr high. I talked w/pediatricians treating measles & talking w/parents who don't vaccinate. My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

And the graph of measles cases in the US (ref Johns Hopkins)

boehninglab@boehninglab.com · 2w ago

This is quite the graph (gift link). wapo.st/4gVF8bl

TW ⚠️ In May, Lee & Trump’s MEMPHIS (un)safe task force shot & killed Darrin Pigram serving him a warrant at Burger King, where he worked 3 just-released videos are below👇🏽 “None of the videos capture Pigram reaching for a gun in his waistband, as task force officers alleged…

been in the cards for awhile, but it’s confirmed now: “For the first time in a quarter century, the U.S. no longer meets a main criterion for having eliminated measles as a public health threat.”

Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Doctors in Utah pull back the curtain on what's happening in America. You can read (and listen!) to my piece for WIRED/KFFHN without a paywall, here: kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

Doctors in Utah pull back the curtain on what's happening in America. You can read (and listen!) to my piece for WIRED/KFFHN without a paywall, here: kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

‘The Child Is Terrified’: Doctors on the Front Lines of a Measles Comeback Speak Out - KFF Health News

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah as the U.S. faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous diseas...

kffhealthnews.org

Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧵The US no longer meets criteria for measles elimination. Utah's outbreak has lasted for more than a yr. And cases this yr are at a 35-yr high. I talked w/pediatricians treating measles & talking w/parents who don't vaccinate. My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

“If you come down hard, you’re going to lose people.” Pediatricians on the front line of measles’ comeback are trying to bridge the vaccine divide. @amymaxmen.bsky.social reports ⤵️ https://kffhealthnews.org/public-health/utah-measles-outbreak-vaccines-doctors-pediatricians-speak-out/

‘The Child Is Terrified': Doctors on the Front Lines of a Measles Comeback Speak Out - KFF Health News

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah as the U.S. faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease.

kffhealthnews.org

Excellent piece by @amymaxmen.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease...

wired.com