There is no evidence COVID started because of a lab leak.
1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography
There will be lots of data by which history will judge Donald Trump and Elon Musk, but their needless, devastating cuts in foreign aid will likely leave the most indelible stain on their legacies. Gift link to this vital @nickkristof.bsky.social piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...
Opinion | This Is What Happened When Trump Abandoned the World’s Poorest Children
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Meanwhile
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya says it is "ridiculous slander" that Trump is against science
YouTube video by Jonathan Howard
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe title is fitting. A patient was being treated for Stage IV colorectal cancer. She had qualified for clinical trial, a her last-chance to slow the spread of her cancer. Her trial was about to start when NIH funding was pulled overnight, & it was canceled. She died. Many more stories. 🧪
Vaccines, the most impressive public health intervention in medical history, and where we could be headed if there was not efforts to negate truth, facts, and evidence A great, open-access, review and perspective by @scientificdiscovery.dev
Extremely important study, with very concerning implications for the future. The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure
In historical viral epidemics, such as the H1N1 influenza and Zika viruses, prenatal exposures were correlated with risk for neuropsychiatric conditio…
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"Universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth exists precisely because screening systems fail." - @jakescottmd.bsky.social on what we're losing. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
CIDRAP Op-Ed: Here's what removal of the hepatitis B birth dose will look like
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RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
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In case you’re still wondering why they’re pulling this shit:
1/ Aaron Siri is presenting to ACIP right now. He's not a vaccine scientist. He's a plaintiff's attorney whose firm profits from vaccine-injury litigation, RFK Jr.'s personal lawyer, and someone who helped vet HHS leadership. He's now advising the committee that sets U.S. vaccine policy.
lots of misinformation in the comments now. For example the "only a few days" myth is debunked here by @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social vaxopedia.org/2019/10/02/a...
Are Vaccines Only Tested for 4 or 5 Days?
It is a common anti-vax myth that vaccines are only tested for four or five days before they are approved.
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Vaccinating newborns against hepatitis B saves lives. Why might a CDC panel stop recommending it? The universal HBV birth dose has prevented more than 90,000 childhood deaths since 1991, but a federal vaccine advisory group may vote to end the practice. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
I’ve added an Excess Deaths Comparison page to my analysis on that topic. Here I’m comparing the UK, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, to June 2025. My method projects "Expected Deaths" using a linear regression on the weekly deaths (4-week average) from a baseline of 2015-2019 deaths. 🧵
"Vaccines do not cause autism despite RFK Jr’s change to CDC site" www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... #MedSky
Vaccines do not cause autism despite RFK Jr's change to CDC site
RFK Jr forced the CDC to claim that vaccines cause autism. Published scientific research refutes this claim.
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www.youtube.com/live/-6uBNXs... Arjun Srinivasan, MD from the CDC notes that measles caused 48,000 hospitalizations and 400-500 deaths a year before the vaccine.
Arjun Srinivasan, MD from the CDC shows the dramatic drop in disease after vaccines were introduced.
This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.
Trump already committed crimes against humanity by sabotaging public health (while profiteering & collecting political favors) in 2020, resulting in 40% more Covid deaths than our wealthy/medically advanced nation shoild have had. He will keep killing us until he is stopped.
Damning analysis of Trump's pandemic response suggested 40% of US COVID-19 deaths could have been avoided
A medical journal compared the number of US COVID-19 deaths — the highest in the world — with the deaths in similarly wealthy countries.
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1. 'SARS-CoV-2 is linked to “an unusually high level of ‘indiscriminate’ killing of T cells,” says Leitner, adding that this observation is “reminiscent of” measles, which can cause immune amnesia by depleting memory B cells... www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...
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Just read this. Solid I agree, and courageous. Just like you! In a response to the Makary/Prasad power grab regarding this fall's covid shots, and the NEJM allowing them to use their platform, I tried to keep the discourse above the belt. Maybe some more uppercuts next time?
Here's what's up with the fall Covid shot *fail*
Two guys and a power grab
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Vaccinate your kids. “COVID-19 vaccines cut the risk of long COVID by between 57–73 percent in kids and teens, according to a study published today in JAMA Network Open.” arstechnica.com/science/2025...
COVID shots protect kids from long COVID—and don’t cause sudden death
Researchers recommend kids stay up to date on the COVID vaccines.
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Extremely important study: 'Results demonstrate that air purifiers reduced indoor air pollution by 28%, corresponding to an 11% reduction in student absences'. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...
Abstract EGU25-20302
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Look at all the lives saved by vaccines (right column) — 97, 99, 100% decrease in all these preventable diseases. Yet RFK Jr anti vax nonsense threatens them all.
Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years alone. Someone tell RFK Jr.
