Doctors who care for children’s brains know this: Childhood vaccines save lives. They significantly reduce serious illness and death in children and help protect entire communities. 🔗 Read our full statement: https://ow.ly/qU4O50XSeSm
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Child neurologist & epilepsy fellowship APD at Dell Med. Interests: epilepsy, FND, medical education, history & vaccines. Personal account, views my own.
End Wokeness, who made a false accusation by “just asking questions”, is purportedly Jack Posobiec. Jack had ~60k followers during Pizzagate. How many millions does he have on his main acct now? How many times has he lied since? Keeping score requires shame to work as a moderating norm.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 8mo agoThose who speculated wildly about the Brown shooter without knowing any facts got things wrong—and it is important that they lose their credibility because of it, Graeme Wood argues.
Things pediatricians are scared of: Grapes Hot dogs Lawn mowers Unmounted TVs Babies on laps in cars Riders without helmets Ungated pools Crib bumpers Trampolines Hot tubs Guns Things pediatricians are not scared of: Any/all the vaccines
Glad the UK has come around to this. The US has seen a dramatic decrease in mortality related to chickenpox since vaccination began in 1995. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Children offered chickenpox vaccine on NHS
All young children in England and Wales will be offered a free chickenpox vaccine by the NHS from January 2026.
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open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr. will likely be called to testify before Senator Cassidy's HELP committee on May 14th.
An Open Letter to Senator William Cassidy (R, La)
RFK Jr. is scheduled to testify in front of Senator Cassidy’s HELP Committee on May 14. Here is the letter I sent to him on May 1, 2025.
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New: HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. said he wouldn’t take away childhood vaccines. Then he cut $2 billion from state health programs that helps get them to kids. Clinics canceled. Nurses fired. Immunizations stalled—all amid a measles outbreak. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
How Kennedy is already weakening America's childhood vaccine system
The Department of Health and Human Services cut $2 billion from a program that supports vaccines for vulnerable children, forcing public health departments to lay off staff and cancel clinics.
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open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... "They were small and could not hope for help. And no help came." W.H. Auden
Senator Cassidy: Please Save Our Children!
RFK Jr.’s reign of terror on vaccines is just beginning. The recent death of a six-year-old from measles is a glimpse of what lies ahead.
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Huge loss. Peter Marks' approvals for gene therapy led to a revolution in medicine. Children with a terrible disease called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) used to die of respiratory failure early in life before they could walk. Now these kids live, breathe, & most walk. 1/
NBC News@nbcnews.com · last yr.Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, has resigned, an HHS official says. A person familiar with the matter tells NBC News that Marks was forced out of his position.
Parents of the child who died of measles have joined RFK-founded Children's Health Defense. Anti-vaccine groups excel at swooping in for tragedy, offering parents a cause. “Don’t do the shots,” her mother said, measles is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old's measles death
Anti-vaccine influencers see the child’s death as proof — not of the danger of measles, but of their own debunked theories.
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Sort of bleakly funny that RFK of all people is rumored to have said Weldon “wasn’t ready” www.axios.com/2025/03/13/w...
Scoop: White House pulls CDC director nomination
The nomination will be withdrawn the same day he was scheduled to testify at a confirmation hearing.
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About Weldon: he wasn't just an anti-vaxx sympathizer—he was an important ally to the movement before Kennedy. The most interesting is how he helped anti-vaxx researchers access CDC vaccine data—a move that provided some of the earliest (and sloppiest) anti-vaxx science.
No one: Dave Weldon: The story of me being pushed out of CDC begins with my deep affinity for Andrew Wakefield.
Remembering a lot of people saying stuff like “I don’t agree with RFK Jr. on everything but at least he’s going to do something about the food that’s making us sick”
Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · last yr.USDA has eliminated two food safety advisory committees for microbiological contamination and meat inspection. Most recently, they had been reviewing regulatory approaches in response to the fatal Listeria outbreak from Boar’s Head meats and fatal Cronobacter contamination in powdered infant formula
lol this could’ve been copy from a Vaccinate California social media post circa 2015, following the Disneyland measles outbreak, when this pest of a man showed up in CA to rail ab how MMR was causing autism. Welcome to the team, Bobby! The antivaxxers must be losing their minds. “THEY” got to him!
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · last yr.Full thing www.foxnews.com/opinion/robe...
1. #CDC was finally allowed to issue a statement on the Texas #measles outbreak, though it wasn't sent to the press distribution list or posted on its homepage. They tweeted it in the other place at 8:29 pm EST. Communication by whisper. www.cdc.gov/media/releas...
CDC Statement on Measles Outbreak
CDC is in close communication with Texas health authorities over the recent measles outbreak.
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An unvaccinated NJ traveler who returned to the US infected with #measles went to 3 health facilities earlier this month seeking care before being diagnosed. Not surprisingly, additional cases are now being detected. Measles will spread if we give it the chance. www.nj.com/healthfit/20...
New measles cases tied to N.J. patient who visited 3 health facilities
The New Jersey Department of Health confirmed an initial measles case on Feb. 14 in an unvaccinated individual, and by Feb. 20, two additional cases were identified in people who had close contact wit...
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In contrast to RFK's nonexistent response, his antivaccine nonprofit has claimed that measles is healthy & the vaccine caused this outbreak, despite the overwhelming # of unvaccinated kids that have been infected & genotyping showing the outbreak is caused by a wild type virus
NBC News@nbcnews.com · last yr.HHS Secretary Kennedy has been scarce at headquarters, has not visited a number of HHS agencies and has not sent all-staff emails to the department's workforce, according to one department official. Notably, this person says, Kennedy has not done anything to address the measles outbreak.
As Texas measles outbreak grows, parents are choosing to vaccinate kids www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com @erikaedwards.bsky.social
As Texas measles outbreak grows, parents are choosing to vaccinate kids
At least 124 people, mostly babies, children and teens, have been infected. Eighteen people have been hospitalized.
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On the morning of the first reported measles death in a decade, HHS Secretary Kennedy-founded anti-vaccine org Children's Health Defense hosts disgraced scientist Andrew Wakefield. He's urging parents to let their kids catch measles "naturally."
The Texas measles outbreak has reported its first death. This was completely avoidable and it is infuriating that we choose to allow this disease to persist.
First measles death is reported in the West Texas outbreak that's infected more than 120 people
A person who was hospitalized with measles has died from measles in West Texas. It's the first since the outbreak began late last month.
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After the first measles death of a child HHS Secretary Kennedy seemed to downplay the Texas outbreak saying outbreaks were "not unusual," and the 18 kids hospitalized were "mainly for quarantine." A pediatrician on the ground said they couldn't breathe. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.REPORTER: There's a measles outbreak in Texas at the moment in which a child reportedly died. Do you have concerns about that? RFK Jr: We are following the measles epidemic every day
Texas DOH confirms genomic testing shows no vaccine strain in its collected measles samples. Measles vaccine shedding is an antivaccine lie that has been used for years. The measles vaccine does not cause measles outbreaks. It stops them.
Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · last yr.Update for the purveyors of this most recent conspiracy theory: Texas DOH confirms genomic testing shows no vaccine strain in its collected measles samples. www.nbcnews.com/news/texas-m...
Update for the purveyors of this most recent conspiracy theory: Texas DOH confirms genomic testing shows no vaccine strain in its collected measles samples. www.nbcnews.com/news/texas-m...
Anti-vaccine movement falsely blames measles shots for Texas outbreak
The disproven claims about the Texas measles cases echo misinformation spread by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about a 2019 outbreak in Samoa.
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Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · last yr.New from the fever swamps: The Texas measles outbreak is reviving a classic theory for anti-vaccine activists, one we saw during the Samoa outbreak in 2019 and the 2015 Disneyland outbreak: Blame the vaccines. www.nbcnews.com/news/texas-m...
If you don't follow @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social, you should. She has been covering the antivaccine movement for years and has seen this all before.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · last yr.NEW: As a measles outbreak sweeps through Texas, with at least 124 cases and hospitalizing 18 people, anti-vaccine groups are pushing a familiar and false theory — that the highly contagious virus is being caused by the vaccine itself. @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social reports:
1st: vaccines work 2nd: social media companies developed their OG vaccine policies in response to *outbreaks like this* in Samoa & Bklyn. Not COVID! They boosted good info. They labeled false claims. That got redefined as “censorship” by ppl who profit from lies. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
Measles Outbreak in Texas and New Mexico Sickens Nearly 100 People (Gift Article)
Texas reported 90 cases this week, while New Mexico reported nine. A majority of the cases have been in a Texas county where vaccination rates have lagged behind the rest of the state.
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NEW: RFK Jr. said a new study linked vaccines to autism in his confirmation hearing. We found that the study's author had a hard time getting it published. Then he got help from Andrew Wakefield, who is famous for the first debunked study linking the the two. GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
Behind Kennedy’s Vow to ‘Follow the Science’ on Vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited a disputed study from a close network of fellow vaccine skeptics during his confirmation hearings. His critics say it is part of a pattern that raises concerns about whose ...
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Well that’s interesting www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...
Exclusive: FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings, sources say
U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.
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Seeing many false claims about immigration as the source of measles outbreaks. Here are some facts: 1) the west Texas outbreak started in a county with 1 of the highest vaccine exemption rates in the state 2) the Americas are the only WHO region that is free of endemic measles
The MAHA EO is out. Kennedy’s pet theories are in it, in euphemism form.
